Mikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
2014-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 2, Room 259
Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today, this absolutistic view of mathematics has been challenged by a number of different theories. Most noticeably, social constructivists such as David Bloor and Donald MacKenzie have stress the influence social factors have had on the development of mathematics, and Bloor simply describes mathematics as a social institution. Other theorists such as Rafael Núñez and George Lakoff have claimed mathematics to be embodied and fundamentally shaped by sensory-motor experience and certain cognitive strategies. In my talk I will report from a qualitative study of the practice of working mathematicians. The study shows that the production of mathematical knowledge is clearly conditioned both by social factors and by our experience of and ability to actively use the material world. Thus, the study confirms some of the basic ideas of the two approaches mentioned above. However, the study also gives reason to questions the reductionism inherent in both the social constructivistic and the embodiment approach. Mathematics cannot be reduced either to the social or to sensory-motor experience.
ADVANCE READING: Whats in a diagram?
Mikkel Willum Johansen is an assistant professor at the faculty of science, University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in the philosophy of the mathematical sciences and has worked extensively with mathematical cognition and with the different version of naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics. In 2014 he published the book Invitation til matematikkens videnskabsteori (Eng: Invitation to the philosophy of the mathematical sciences).
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Meaghan Morris, "In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters" (seminar)
2014-05-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Noted film and cultural studies critic Meaghan Morris will give a seminar on the theme of “parochial blockbusters”. The seminar will center on a discussion of her essay, “Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia”, which is available for downloading at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Morris-Transnational-Glamour-final.pdf, and which should be read before the seminar. Professor Morris will also discuss examples of other films of this type from elsewhere in the world. For those interested, there will be a screening of Australia on Tuesday night, May 13, at 7:30 PM in Humanities 620 (viewing the film is not a prerequisite for the seminar).
Meaghan Morris is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She works on history in popular culture, especially on popular thinking about social and historical change. Her books include Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. 2005); Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006) and Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies (co-ed. 2012). A former Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies, Professor Morris is currently Chair of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.

This event is sponsored by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster with generous support from the Literature Department.

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages
2014-05-15 - 2014-05-18 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present:
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV
Theater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles
Chinese
Three Pots of Tea
by Ting-Ting Wu & Students
Directed by Ting-Ting Wu
French
Scenes from Marius and Fanny
by Marcel Pagnol
Directed by Miriam Ellis
Hebrew
Songs of Israel
Directed by Gali Rosen & Students
Russian
Cheburashka and Crocodile Ghena
by Edward Uspensky
Directed by Natalya Samokhina & Students
Spanish
Something Very Serious is Going to Happen in this Town
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Directed by Marta Navarro

Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy: 10th Anniversary of Passing
2014-05-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Namaste Lounge – College 9, Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa’s passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of her life through a formal program with speakers, an art exhibit from local artists, an altar, refreshments, and an open mic.
Gloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbiana-feminist poet, theorist, and fiction writer from South Texas. In addition to authoring Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, she was the editor of the critical anthology Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.
She passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association For Chicano Studies Award in 2005. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. A number of scholarships and book awards are awarded in her name every year.
El Centro is committed to continuing her vision of the New Mestiza Consciousness. The borderlands of higher education are real and thus making a program to remember and celebrate all of the gifts she left us is necessary and important.
We look forward to having you and celebrating together the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa.
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Martin Holbraad: "How Myths Make Men in Afro-Cuban Divination"
2014-05-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Martin Holbraad
Professor Social Anthropology, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC)
Martin Holbraad’s main field research is in Cuba, where he focuses on Afro-Cuban religions and revolutionary politics. Author of Truth in Motion: the Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (Chicago, 2012). Holbraad currently directs a major comparative project on the anthropology of revolutions.

Rebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care"
2014-05-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of the day, biometric technologies have become a ubiquitous and naturalized part of most aspects of everyday life. Operating from the premise that “bodies don’t lie,” biometrics promises increased safety, security, accuracy, and reliability in identity recognition and verification. These promises are especially appealing in the health care industry where the verification of patient and provider identities is a necessary security feature for protecting patient data. Despite their promises, however, the fact that biometrics facilitates the coding, analysis, and judgment of embodied information in new, more complex, and more far-reaching ways than were previously possible in health care opens up a host of ethical and political issues for patients, providers, and populations. Long-standing virtues in medicine such as privacy, confidentiality, justice and beneficence are challenged as numerous and often unknown institutions and individuals beyond the clinic can and will have access to this embodied information for security, surveillance, and marketing purposes.
Rebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration, health, and security. She is co-author, with Ronnie Lipschutz, of “We are the Borg! Human Assimilation into Cellular Society,” pp. 366-407, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.), Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey, Penna.: IGI Global, 2014).

These talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS, College Eight, the Politics Department, the Institute for Humanities Research, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences, and the Science and Justice Research Center. The BIOS (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, focused on the surveillance, management, interrogation, discipline and intervention of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu.

Carl Mark Deppe Lecture: Harry Berger Jr.: "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Dialogue, Phaedo"
2014-05-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Plato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo.
Harry Berger Jr. came to Cowell College and UCSC from Yale in 1965 when our campus opened. He was the first appointment in English Literature, and he was largely responsible for hiring the original cadre of English literature faculty. Since that time he’s taught courses ranging from classics to modern poetry for Cowell College, the Literature Department, and History of Consciousness. He retired in 1994 but has taught a lot since then and in general keeps himself too busy to stay out of trouble.
In 2003 he received a Lifetime Award from the International Spenser Society.The proceedings of a 2006 conference in his honor were published with revisions and additions in a volume of essays: A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. David Miller and Nina Levine (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and in 2010 he received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award from the University of California.
Berger has published 13 books and over 100 essays on a wide variety of topics in classics, art history, Renaissance culture, and modern poetry. Many of these deal with Plato, Shakespeare, Spenser, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and theories of literature and art. Three new books are forthcoming from Fordham University Press:
Simonides in Couch City: Studies in Plato’s Republic and Protagoras, 2014.
Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare’s Henriad, 2014.
The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt. 2014.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil
2014-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
During the 1980s, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults.
A typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult sub-genre. In an attempt to raise money for a deposit on an apartment, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) agrees to babysit for the Ulmans (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) on the night of a total lunar eclipse. After admitting that in fact they do not have a child but rather a grandmother who needs tending to, the Ulmans insist that the old woman not be disturbed and that Samantha really ought to order a pizza for dinner on their dime. True to form for West, what ought to scare you here might not be the Satanists but the pizza. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Jean Fox Tree: "Spontaneous Communication"
2014-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Spontaneous communication, both verbal and written, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas, ums and uhs, words like you know and like, and prosodic phenomena such as uptalk. Spontaneous communication also includes other behaviors whose productions might vary across spontaneous and rehearsed settings, such as facial expressions, gestures, laughter, backchannels, and quotation devices. In this talk, I will present some of the research findings coming out of my lab that provide information about why these phenomena are produced and how they are used.
Jean Fox Tree is Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz.

10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2014-05-09 13:30 - 16:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC
Join us at 1:30 pm on Friday, May 9th, for the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers graduate 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.
This year’s event will take place in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. The Symposium will feature up to 30 oral and live presentations, 64 poster presentations and 10 media presentations. The Awards Reception begins at 3:30, with refreshments being provided by the Global Village Café.
For more information, please visit the Graduate Division website: http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/current-students/student-achievements/graduate-research-symposium.html

Ursula K. le Guin
2014-05-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Video
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction, novels, essays, and children’s books.
Donna Haraway the author of When Species Meet.
James Clifford is the author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century.
Tickets Required • Sign up free at www.anthropocene.brownpapertickets.com
More info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu

Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing)
2014-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup:
Ursula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels, children’s books, and short story, poetry and essay collections, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. LeGuin’s work includes the Earthsea and Hainish Cycle novels and short fiction; The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories;Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and The Catwings Collection.
Note: this event will begin at 7:00 p.m., and will be a simulcast of a live talk.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
More info and full conference agenda at: anthropo.ihr.ucsc.edu

Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference
2014-05-08 - 2014-05-10 | UC Santa Cruz
Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing, describing, and imagining, we renuew conversation about life on earth.
Conference schedule: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 7-9 pm
Ursula K. Le Guin
Discussants: James Clifford and Donna Haraway
Tickets no longer available for The Rio Theater. However, there are still two options for attending: 1) A few seats will be available at The Rio Theater on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will be a line outside the theater on the evening of the event for these last-minute seats. 2) The event with be live-casted to the Humanities Lecture Hall (Room 206), and you are welcome to view it there (as seating permits).
Friday, May 9, 2014
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room UCSC campus
No registration, all welcome
9:00am Introduction
Anna Tsing
9:20-10:50am Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies
Donna Haraway (speculative fabulation) and Margaret McFall-Ngai (microbes)
Discussant: Jenny Reardon (Sociology)
11:00am-12:30pm On Damaged Landscapes
Kate Brown (plutonium) and  Deborah Bird Rose (extinction)
Discussants: Eric Porter (History), William Cronon (History)
1:45-3:15pm Caring for Country/Rewilding
Jens-Christian Svenning (future megafaunas) and Jessica Weir (indigenous ecologies)
Discussants: Ingrid Parker (Biology), Chris Connery (Literature)
3:45-5:45pm Memory, History, Place
William Cronon (American landscapes)
Discussants: Andrew Mathews (Anthropology), Jens-Christian Svenning (Biology)
Saturday, May 10, 2014
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UCSC campus
No registration, all welcome
9:30-11:00am Arts of Noticing
Deborah Gordon (ants) and Anne Pringle (lichens)
Discussants: Donna Haraway (Science Studies), Anna Tsing (Anthropology)
11:15am-12:45pm Cross-Species Histories
Carla Freccero (wolf/men) and Marianne Lien (homeless salmon)
Discussants: Thomas Wentzer (Philosophy), Maya Peterson (History)
1:45-2:45pm Gardens and Graves
Lesley Stern (US-Mexico borderlands)
3:00-5:00pm Roundtable Nils Bubandt (anthropology), Margaret Fitzsimmons (environ- mental studies), Peter Funch (zoology), Nora Bateson (film)
For more information, visit the conference website.

The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work Culminating Conference
2014-05-08 - 2014-05-09 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students
May 8
9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register)
10:00 Welcome by David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI
10:15 The Working Life
This two-part conversation with Christine Baker, Director, California Department of Industrial Relations,Ralph Lewin, Director, Cal Humanities, and Alison Mudditt, Director, University of California Press, addresses the evolving nature of work in our contemporary moment and the transformation of the culture and environments of work. The panelists will also reflect upon their own paths from education to careers.
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Continuation of The Working Life…
12:45 PM Lunch
1:45 Front Liners Panel: Demystifying the HR Screen
Ever wonder what happens to your resume after you hit SEND? WestEd Human Resources recruiting managers along with another industry HR department (TBA) provide a look behind the HR curtain at who reads your resume and what they’re looking for.
3:00 The Art of the Informational Interview
What is an informational interview? And why is it important? What do you do in it, and who should you contact for one? Dr. Debra Behrens, PhD Career Counselor, UC Berkeley, presents the art of the informational interview and answers any questions you may have about the process and experience.
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Resume Workshop with The Resume Studio
This interactive, hands-on workshop, geared towards Humanities graduate students, will be preceded by an online workshop to facilitate the creation of a resume that can be workshopped at the conference. Be prepared to walk away with a resume that looks quite different from your CV.
6:30 Hosted Dinner
May 9
Culminating Conference–More Details Coming Soon!
8:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 Welcome and Introductions, Carolyn de la Pena, UC Davis, and David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI
9:30 Session I: Precarious Labor
11:00 Break
11:15 Session 2: University + Public + Labor
1:00 Lunch
1:45 Session 3: The Culture of Labor/Cultural Labor
3:30 Break
3:45 Session 4: The Future of Work and the Humanities
5:30 Reception
Conference grants will be awarded to up to three graduate students from each UC campus (transportation and lodging, if required, covered by UCHN). The deadline for applying for a conference grant is April 7, 2014. Visit humanitiesandwork.org for more information and to register for the workshop.

Lauren Berlant: Sex, or the Unbearable — a faculty-graduate student seminar
2014-05-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press, 2013) is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two leading theorists of sexuality, politics and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don’t propose that sex is unbearable, but that it unleashes unbearable contradictions, which we nonetheless struggle to bear. Through interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such negativity affects politics, theory and intimately felt encounters.
Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cruel Optimism, The Female Complaint, and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, all also published by Duke University Press.
Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of L’impossible Homosexuel; No Future, also published by Duke University Press; and Homographesis.
The book is available at the Literary Guillotine, on the DUP web site, as an e-book and for download at https://anonfiles.com/file/2cdfec2994dea16fa6535d23ce016801.
The seminar aspires for people to have read the entire (short!) book but welcomes readers of the introduction, chapter 3 and the afterword. For more information please contact Carla Freccero, freccero@ucsc.edu and Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu.
Co-sponsored by Oakes College and the Center for Cultural Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Lauren Berlant: "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life"
2014-05-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is located in a shattered, yet intelligible zone defined by being in life without wanting the world–a state traversing misery and detachment that, the talk claims, is well-known to historically structurally subordinated people (people of color, of non-normative sexuality, proletarianized laborers . . .). Reading with Claudia Rankine (Don’t Let Me Be Lonely), the novel and film of A Single Man (Christopher Isherwood, 1964; Tom Ford, 2009), and Harryette Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), it describes life at the limit of optimism in terms of a dissociative poetics.
Lauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her national sentimentality trilogy — The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997) and The Female Complaint (2008) — has morphed into a quartet, with Cruel Optimism (2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary US and Europe. Her interest in affect, aesthetics, and politics is also expressed in the edited volumes Intimacy (2000), Compassion (2004), and On the Case (Critical Inquiry, 2007). Her most recent sexuality books are Desire/Love (2012) and, with Lee Edelman, Sex, or the Unbearable (2014). Her current projects are to do with modes of comic and of recessive affective performance in relation to critical theory, political emotion, and imaginaries of the social.

LASER: Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous
2014-05-06 18:45 - 21:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the final LASER of the academic year Tuesday, May 6! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:

Paul Koch, “Conservation Paleobiology: Mining the Past to Plan for the Future”
Norman Locks, “Photographic Social Landscape Narratives by an Abstract Realist”
Elaine Sullivan, “Old Places & New Technologies: Visualizing an Ancient Egyptian Temple in 4D”
Ronaldo V. Wilson, “Art Digital—Ars Poetica”

Paul Koch is Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC. His research focuses on vertebrate paleoecology and evolution, which he places in environmental context through reconstruction of ancient ecosystems and climates. Koch’s work often includes biogeochemical analysis of animal tissues (teeth, bones, fur, skin, etc.) or environmental samples (soil minerals, fossil plants, etc) to study environmental changes over the Cenozoic (the last 65 million years.) In this talk, Koch will discuss how the study of Paleobiology is used in thinking about, and planning for, the environmental future.
Norman Locks is a photographer and Professor of Art at UCSC. He has exhibited his photographic works widely around the United States, Japan, and the Czech Republic and published numerous essays and photographic portfolios. His talk will discuss current and past projects including “Digital Narratives,” an ongoing series of landscape panoramas designed to pose questions about human, social, environmental concerns. In “Digital Narratives”, Locks makes reference to both the forms within art history and to poetic forms to narrate the past, current, and future entanglements between people and landscapes.
Elaine Sullivan is Assistant Professor of History at UCSC. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her talk will discuss the Digital Karnak Project, a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. Sullivan will show imagery from the model and discuss how geo-temporal exploration of ancient places offers completely new ways to look at archaeological sites.
Ronaldo V. Wilson is a Assistant Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department at UCSC. He is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book is Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2013). This talk/screening will explore the activities between poetry, art, dance, and visual art, exemplified through Wilson’ mixed-media video series TEAR-E-AVATAR, recently completed during his tenure as a 2014 artist-in-residence through the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Wilson will explore the ways that digital technologies (video, audio recordings, movie and music software) complicate and help to render, and ultimately reveal what’s possible as both the poem’s form and its formation.

Christopher Krebs: "What Makes Books Dangerous? The Case of Tacitus' Germania"
2014-05-06 16:30 - 19:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tacitus’ Germania, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author, it ended up as an ideological cornerstone of the National Socialist regime. This talk will trace the influence of the Germania and reflect more generally on what it is that makes books “dangerous.”
Christopher B. Krebs is associate professor of classics at Stanford university. He has also held appointments at Harvard university, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and the University of Oxford. His research interests are in ancient historiography, Latin lexicography, and the classical tradition. His most recent monograph is A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, which won the 2012 Christian Gauss Award. He is currently engaged in studies of Caesar and the intellectual life of the first century BCE. He also enjoys writing for wider audiences to communicate his fascination with the ancient world and its long and lasting reach.
Refreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture.
Lecture presented by UCSC’s Classical Studies, and the Departments of History and Literature. For more information, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

Elisabeth L. Cameron: "A Perfect Colonial Storm: Atinga and Iconoclasm in Southwestern Nigeria"
2014-05-05 17:00 - 18:30 | Porter College, Room D245
Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia, where she has observed, studied, and documented womenʼs visual culture, including initiation rites, art, power and hierarchy, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has concentrated on colonial and missionary architecture and its impact on indigenous visual culture. Professor Cameron is the author of several publications including Reclusive Rebels: An Approach to the Sala Mpasu and their Neighbors (1991); Isnʼt S/He a Doll? (1996); The Art of the Lega (2001); and numerous articles and reviews. At present, Professor Cameron is working on a book-length project on the iconoclastic impact of the Atinga movement in Nigeria on the Yoruba during the early 1950s.

Image Caption: In 2006, a woman reflects back on her experience as a member of Atinga in 1950. Photograph by Elisabeth Cameron.

This event is presented by the Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture.

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club
2014-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
They’re not the enemy.
The film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands, begin to sing, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of an arriving train. The police investigation into their deaths seems to be going nowhere when an alarming number of suicides start to sweep through the country, and a semi-anonymous phone tip directs the detectives to a website keeping count of the suicides, sometimes listing deaths even before the police know about them. Braiding together this police procedural narrative with comedic skewerings of Japanese popular culture (most notably through the appearances of the fictional pre-teen pop band called Dessert) and some serious misgivings about the loss of interpersonal contact due to developments in technology, Suicide Club is a tonally shifty film that evades giving the viewer much in the way of resolution even as it leaves you with a set of images and sequences you won’t soon be forgetting. Not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
2014-05-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs), from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily counterfactual; (iii) the negation does not anti license PPIs; (iv) the negation does not license NPIs. Drawing on work by Schwarz (2006) and Schwarz and Bhatt (2006), I will call the negation that occurs in NCs light negation (LN) and I will argue that (a) LN is a strengthening operator modifying the modal operator and forcing an “iff” interpretation; (b) for interpretability reasons, LN must move close to the modal and it can do that overtly (as in Chinese) or covertly (as in German and English); (c) LN is factive. This analysis will allow us to explain the facts above as well as other interesting properties of NCs such as their incompatibility with the pro form then in the consequent, the impossibility of a “backtracking” NC and the rhetorical flavor of questions formed with NCs.

Michela Ippolito is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto.
Lecture sponsored by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group. Please stay tuned for more information.

South Asia by the Bay: Feminist Interventions on Gender and South Asia (Graduate Conference)
2014-05-02 - 2014-05-03 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Living Writers Series: Meena Alexander (also, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference: Feminist Interventions: On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar)
2014-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Meena Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Birthplace with Buried Stones; an autobiography, Fault Lines; two novels, most recently Manhattan Music; the academic study Women in Romanticism; and Poetics of Dislocation, a collection of essays.
Roshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War, and La china poblana.

The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Film Screening: "Dalip Singh Saund: His Life and Legacy"
2014-05-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dalip Singh Saund: His Life, His Legacy tells the inspiring story of an ethical and passionate man who rose above prejudice and racism to serve as the first Asian, the first Indian, and the first Sikh elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Presented by the Heritage Series, LLC. In association with the U.S. Capital Historical Society and Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Support provided by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.
For more information about this program, please email DSSaundDoc@gmail.com.

Morten Axel Pedersen: "Collaborative Damage: A Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia"
2014-04-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Morten Axel Pedersen
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
Morten Axel Pedersen has conducted fieldwork in Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Western China on topics as diverse as shamanism, political cosmology, post-socialist transition, infrastructure, social networks, and hope. He is currently completing a comparative ethnography of Chinese resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique.

Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles"
2014-04-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Porter College, Room D245
Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor’s Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published three books on this subject Antifacism in American Art, A Taste For Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture, and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s, her most recent book, was awarded the 21st Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. At present, she is researching the apocalyptic imaginary in 1950s and early 1960s art practice.
Image: King Kong, Niki de Sainte Phalle, 1962.

Presented by the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia, with support from the Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture.

"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference
2014-04-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop, as an increasing number of scholars in China are engaged in research on this subject, a result of the cottage industry of individual memoirs, collections of letters, diaries, and archival materials that have been published.
Although all of the conference participants have conducted research on historical aspects of the movement, they share a concern with the legacies of that movement for contemporary China: the large percentage of the current political leadership (including President Xi Jinping) that were sent-down youth; the implications of economic relationships established in the context of the sent-down youth movement for contemporary economic development; and social issues facing the post-sent-down youth generation. Participants from China and the U.S. include historians, sociologists, and political scientists.

9:00-9:15 AM – Opening Remarks
Emily Honig, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
9:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Panel One
Chair: Benjamin Read, Department of Politics, UCSC
Sun Peidong (Department of History, Fudan University)
“Who will marry my daughter? Shanghai Parental Matchmaking Corner and the Zhiqing generation”
Xie Chunhe (Center for Research on Sent-down Youth, Heihe College, Heilongjiang)
“The Quest for Social Identity of Sent-down Youth in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era”
Emily Honig (Department of History, UCSC) and Xiaojian Zhao (Department of Asian American Studies, UCSB)
“Calling the Phoenix Back to its Nest: Economic Legacies of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China”
Discussant: Kevin O’Brien, Department of Politics, University of California, Berkeley
12:15-2:00 PM – Lunch break
2:00-5:00 PM – Panel Two
Chair: Christopher Connery, Department of Literature, UCSC
Tan Shen (Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
“Remembering the Past in the Post Sent-down Youth Era”
Jin Guangyao (Department of History, Fudan University)
“Former Sent-down Youth in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Literature and Scholarship”
Lin Shengbao (Department of History, Fudan University)
“An Analysis of Sent-down Youth Oral Histories”
Discussant: Thomas Gold, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
2014-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
It’s easy to create a victim.
One of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and befriends Anna, another victim of abuse. Fifteen years later Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) and Anna (Morjana Alaoui) break into the house of a seemingly middle-of-the-road bourgeois family whom Lucie proceeds to slaughter with gory abandon because she believes them to be the perpetrators of her yearlong suffering and abuse as a child. These gruesome acts give way to some obvious problems (primarily having to do with how to dispose of the bodies) and the unexpected discovery of a hidden staircase that leads to the more affecting and startling atrocity exhibitions (and almost spiritual ordeals of survival) in the film’s second half. Though it is certainly one of the most graphic films we’ll be showing this quarter, Martyrs is not to be missed!
For the remainder of the quarter, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France, Japan, and the United States each week. Same time, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family, invite your friends.
Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Shakespeare-to-Go: Hamlet
2014-04-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Porter Amphitheater
In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go’s one-hour production of Hamlet.
Starring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy
Original music by Eric Benjamin Parson
Fight choreography by Carla Pantoja
Directed by Kimberly Jannarone

Alumni Weekend
2014-04-25 - 2014-04-27 | UC Santa Cruz
Please stay tuned for more information.

Living Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers, taught by Carolyn Dunn)
2014-04-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears.
The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Dai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War"
2014-04-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24

We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist, a feminist, and an internationalist, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural, gender, political, social, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages, and has been published in journals such as Positions, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation.
Seminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)

Schedule:
I. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference, April 18 and 19
Professor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”, Friday April 18, 2:30 to 5:00 PM, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”, Saturday April 19, 3:45-6:00 PM.
II. Public screening of Still Life
Monday, April 21, at 7PM, in Humanities I, room 210.
There will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome.
III. Seminar on Still Life, directed by Jia Zhangke.
Tuesday, April 22, 4:00-6:00 PM, Humanities I, room 202. Refreshments will be served.
Still Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity, spatiality, and socio-economic change, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay, “Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“, either in the original Chinese or in English translation.
IV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War
Thursday, April 24, 4:00PM, Humanities I, room 210.
Where in time is China, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.

Professor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment , the Department of Literature, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery, Literature; Lisa Rofel, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter, History, Asad Haider, History of Consciousness.

Lunch Discussion with Joy Harjo
2014-04-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Ethnic Resource Lounge, Bay Tree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears.
All are invited.

"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California" Screening and Q&A with Directors
2014-04-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Cowell, Room 131, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Cowell College Provost, History Department, Italian Studies Program, Languages, and Applied Linguistics Department present
A Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien
Followed by Q&A with Directors
Finding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation of the past–one that recalls the ugly along the beautiful and the conflicts and tragedies along with the solidarity and triumphs.
– Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota

Susan Harding: "Secular Trouble: Anthropology, Public Schools, and De/regulating Religion in late 20th Century America"
2014-04-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Susan Harding
Professor of Anthropology, UCSC
Susan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism, Christian revivalism, Civil Rights, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism.

Dai Jinhua: Seminar on Still Life, directed by Jia Zhangke
2014-04-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Google Earth Workshop
2014-04-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Google Earth is an online virtual globe that allows researchers and students to display layered information on modern satellite imagery. In this introductory hands-on tutorial, participants will be taught the basics of the program, including how to navigate and add custom content. We will focus specifically on the use of Google Earth for the Humanities, covering how to import and scale historic maps on top of the satellite imagery, how to add descriptive text and digital imagery to locations on the surface of the earth, and how to use the power of the program to organize one’s data temporally or thematically.
This workshop is especially useful for instructors wishing to add Google Earth mapping assignments to their courses. No prior knowledge required. Please bring laptops with the regular version of Google Earth pre-installed.
Space is limited, pre-registration required. Please check back for registration information

Dai Jinhua Film Screening: Still Life
2014-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Julie Legate: "Noncanonical Passives"
2014-04-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Abstract: In this talk, I investigate the syntactic structure of voice, focusing on noncanonical passives; I build on previous work by myself and others showing that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. I demonstrate that microvariation in the properties of VoiceP explains a wide range of noncanonical passives, including agent-agreeing passives, restricted agent passives, accusative object passives, impersonals, and object voice. The analysis draws on data from a typologically diverse set of languages.
Julie Legate is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania.

"Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism" Conference
2014-04-18 14:30 - 2014-04-19 09:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Over the course of the year, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster has brought together scholars from UCSC and beyond for an interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and future of the capitalist world-system. A few focal points have arisen: the history of separation from the means of subsistence, and the emergence of market dependence and waged labor; the interpretation of the history of economic thought, and its relationship to capitalist development; the political problem of work, as a process generative of capitalist subjectivities, and a horizon of post-capitalist imaginaries; the constitution of family forms, and practices of gendering that reproduce capitalist social relations.
The eponymous conference of the cluster, April 18-19, 2014 will provide a framework for collective discussion of the theoretical questions that have been raised over the course of the cluster’s events. It will also be a space for generating the research questions that the cluster will pursue as it continues its activities.
This conference is free and open to the public.
For more information, including the an agenda and panels, please visit Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference page

Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree
2014-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the 2014 spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture “Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree”
Viewed from a global perspective, the Mediterranean region has enjoyed a common historical experience since 1500. Increasingly semi-peripheral with respect to the world capitalist system, and characterized by weak states, delayed or muffled class formation, agrarian backwardness and the persistence of pastoralism, the coming to modernity of the Mediterranean foreshadowed the historical experience of the Third World in its unity and diversity.
Edmund “Terry” Burke III is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Burke is the author of The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam (forthcoming, California, 2014). He is the co-editor of The Environment and World History (UC Press, 2009) and Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East (Athens OH: Ohio University, 2011), and Genealogies of Orientalism (Nebraska, 2008).

Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival
2014-04-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Annie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry, as well as two poetry collections, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles.

The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt"
2014-04-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marjorie S. Venit is Professor of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on the Greek center and its periphery considered both geographically and temporally. Particularly interested in the intersection of cultures and ethnicities, she has excavated at Tel Anafa, Israel, and Mendes, Egypt and is the author of Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead and Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums. Her book projects have been supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kress Foundation, and the J.P Getty Trust. Among her other national awards are a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship and fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt, the American Association of University Women, and the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Venit has contributed chapters or entries to the The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt, and to other collections of scholarly papers. Her articles on monumental tombs and on Greek vases and sculpture, which consider the social, religious, economic, and political context and implications of the monuments, have appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, Antike Kunst, and the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt and in other periodicals.
She served four years as President of the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and is currently its webmaster. She has delivered over fifty public lectures, many of them as a circuit lecturer for the AIA.

CANCELLED - Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s"
2014-04-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Due to a medical emergency, this event has been cancelled. – April 12, 2014
Kris Alexanderson
“Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s”
Kris Alexanderson’s current work examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and Dutch foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia to control the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas across its colonial borders during the interwar period.
Kris Alexanderson is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.

Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
2014-04-14 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay of colonialism, racial boundaries and citizenship policy. The influx of Filipinos to the United States that followed the annexation of the Philippines confounded American authorities tasked with enforcing traditional racial checkpoints in American society. This talk will illustrate how the geo-political imperatives of U.S. imperial expansion repeatedly collided with domestic practices of racial exclusion forcing American policymakers to recalibrate the administrative boundaries of the national polity to address the status of colonial migrants. Contestation over the socio-legal status of Filipinos in the United States offers important insights into the contingent and contested nature of America’s ascriptive hierarchies and the interlocking politics of immigration, race and U.S. statecraft.
Rick Baldoz is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Oberlin College. He is the author of the award winning book, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946 (NYU Press). He is currently working on a book project about the 1965 Hart Celler Immigration Act, examining this historical legislation against the backdrop of Cold War politics, anti-colonial upheaval, and domestic civil rights mobilization.

Nimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine"
2014-04-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Social Sciences 2, Room 121
The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders, society and the political context. The current talk will present a framework to conceptualize the change process and studies – both qualitative and quantitative – that examine its different aspects during real events within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nimrod Rosler is Visiting Israel Professor of the Jewish Studies Program at the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Kansas.

Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation"
2014-04-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
While Mary Douglas’ oft-quoted maxim states that, “dirt is matter out of place,” it is also the soil in which life takes root. This conference positions landscapes as fertile ground from which to explore the politics of dirt and other matters out of place. Moving away from engagements with landscape as inert background or pristine setting, we consider perspectives on dynamic, dirty landscapes produced by dislocations and emplacements, abandonment and occupation, or human and more-than-human movements.
Matters Out of Place capture the anthropological imagination because they draw attention to the ways social orders are maintained, destabilized and transformed. They are not simply boundary-making sources of cognitive dissonance, as Mary Douglas’ maxim implies, but material presences and absences that lead to unexpected forms of flourishing. This conference puts forth a dirty kind of anthropology, one that works the boundaries of social orders as well as the boundaries of anthropology itself.
For the complete schedule, please visit: http://ucscanthro.tumblr.com/schedule.

"Genomics and Philosophy of Race" Conference
2014-04-12 - 2014-04-13 | Kresge Town Hall
The “Genomics and Philosophy of Race” conference aims to foster a dialogue about race, and, in particular, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of experts and two keynote speakers will consider scientific, historical, sociological, and philosophical questions: Does contemporary genomics inform and shift our classifications, conceptualizations, and consciousness of race? To what extent is race real? Which inferences, if any, about the body, mind, and culture might race and related concepts (e.g., ancestry and ethnicity) ground? We invite students, researchers, and the public at large to join our conversation.
This event is free and open to the public.
AGENDA & PANELISTS:
Saturday, April 12, 2014 • 10am-6pm
10:00am Brief Opening Comments:
William A. Ladusaw, UC Santa Cruz, Humanities Dean
Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC, IHR Director
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC PI “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context”
10:15am Opening Keynote:
Sarah Richardson, Harvard: “Race in the Postgenomic Moment”
11:00am Biology Panel:
Bridget Algee-Hewitt, Stanford: “Forensic Casework and the Clustering of Human Craniofacial Variation”
Doc Edge, Stanford: “Multilocus Classification Accuracy and Polygenic Trait Differences”
Scott Lokey, UCSC: “Pharmacology in the genomic age: targeting drugs to (and keeping them away from) specific subpopulations”
Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley: “On the genomic basis of the biological concept of race”
Noah Rosenberg, Stanford: “Properties of human population-genetic clustering”
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm History Panel:
Nathaniel Deutsch, UCSC: “The ‘Jewish Question’ Revisited: Genomics and Jewish Difference”
Lisa Gannett, St. Mary’s University: “The relevance (or not) of Dobzhansky and the evolutionary synthesis for contemporary population genomics”
Minghui Hu, UCSC: “The Eclipse of Darwinism and Its Chinese Accommodation”
Carlos López Beltrán, National Autonomous Univ of Mexico: “Mestizo Genomics. National, regional and ethnic figurations”
Paula Moya, Stanford: “Racial Realisms, or When Do We Describe, and When Do We ‘Do Race’?”
4:00pm Sociology Panel:
John Brown Childs, UCSC: “Geneologies of the Spirit: Spiraling Strands of Ethical Kinship Across Racialized Spaces”
Guillermo Delgado-P, UCSC: “Genomics and Isolation: the Case of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America”
Hiroshi Fukurai, UCSC: “Genomics and Race: Social, Political, Legal, & “Performative” Construction of Race”
Sandra Harvey, UCSC: “On the “HeLa Bomb”: Race and Gender Passing Narratives in Biotechnology”
Stephanie Montgomery, UCSC: “Nǚfàn: Gender, Criminality and the Prison in 1930s Qingdao”
Sunday, April 13, 2014 • 9am-12pm
9:00am Philosophy Panel:
Josh Glasgow, Sonoma State: “Biological-trait race without biological race”
James Griesemer, UC Davis: “Some Thoughts on Population Studies and the Ethics of Attention”
Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University: “Some Relationships Between Biological and Folk Races”
Roberta Millstein, UC Davis: “Thinking about populations and races in time”
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, UCSC: “Are Races like Constellations?”
11:00am Closing Keynote:
Quayshawn Spencer, University of San Francisco: “Philosophy of Race Meets Population Genetics”
12:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:30pm Student Workshops:
Student workshops will be led by PhD students involved in the Philosophy in a Multicultural Context research cluster. Workshops will be held in Kresge Seminar Room 159.
Sponsors
This event is presented by the Philosophy in a Multicultural Context Research Cluster, and co-organized by the Institute for Humanities Research and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. Generous support provided by UCSC: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, the UC Center for New Racial Studies, the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Kresge College, Cowell College, College Eight, College Nine, Merrill College, Departments of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Sociology. Additional support from: Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics, Stanford University, and Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis.
Directions & Parking
Click here for directions and parking for Kresge Town Hall, which is located in the northwest corner of the UCSC campus. For those driving, we recommend parking in the Core West Parking Structure (FREE parking on weekends). From Highway 17, exit Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) and make a slight right to follow the highway as it becomes Mission Street through town. Travel approximately one mile north to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to UC Santa Cruz. Turn left on High Street (you want the west campus entrance, not the main entrance). Continue onto Empire Grade towards the west entrance. Turn right onto Heller Drive. The Core West Parking Structure entrance is on Heller Drive @ McLaughlin Drive (map). After parking, walk across Heller Drive and take the pedestrian bridge to Kresge College. The Kresge Town Hall will be located on your right, next to the Owl’s Nest Cafe. Accessible parking spaces are available behind the Town Hall in lot 142. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle should get off at the Kresge College bus stop on Heller Drive and walk over the pedestrian bridge.

Sun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences"
2014-04-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sun-Ah Jun is Professor of Linguistics at UC Los Angeles.
Abstract: In a sentence such as Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony, it is ambiguous whether the relative clause (RC) modifies NP1 the servant (i.e., high attachment) or NP2 the actress (low attachment). Although the details of attachment preference are language-specific (Fodor 1998, Fernández 2003), it is known that, crosslinguistically, attachment decisions are sensitive to the sentence’s prosodic characteristics, including the location of a prosodic boundary. This fact has been used to support the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH; Fodor 1998, 2002), which holds that the human sentence parser favors low attachment when the RC forms a single prosodic phrase with NP2, but favors high attachment when a prosodic break directly precedes the RC. In this talk, I will provide new evidence supporting the IPH based on two experiments using the structural priming paradigm. These experiments show that attachment decisions for a target sentence are influenced by an explicit, as well as an implicit, prosodic boundary in a prime sentence. However, I will also show that sensitivity to a prosodic boundary varies across individuals, and is in part predictable based on “autistic”-like traits. A mechanism underlying this variation will be discussed.

Film Screening: Caesar Must Die
2014-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison, where the inmates are preparing to stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. After a competitive casting process, the roles are eventually allocated, and the prisoners begin exploring the text, finding in its tale of fraternity, power and betrayal parallels to their own lives and stories. Hardened criminals, many with links to organised crime, these actors find great motivation in performing the play. As we witness the rehearsals, beautifully photographed in various nooks and crannies within the prison, we see the inmates also work through their own conflicts, both internal and between each other.
Discussion after the film will be led by the UCSC Shakespeare’s Disciplines Research Cluster.

Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine
2014-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv, a collection of short stories.

The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.

Film Screening: After Tiller
2014-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Communications, Studio C, Room 150, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
the film explores the issue of late-term abortion in the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, one of the very few doctors to perform this procedure. We will actually have one of the physicians featured in the film, Dr. Shelley Sella, in attendance at the screening and she will answer questions afterwards.
After Tiller intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana Wilson have created a moving and unique look at one of the most incendiary topics of our time, and they’ve done so in an informative, thought-provoking, and compassionate way.

Space is limited. If you would like to attend, please make a free reservation using this link to Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/608547

Presented by the Complicated Labor Research Cluster with support from Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

Mark Anderson "Franz Boas, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology, Race/Racism, and the Harlem Renaissance"
2014-04-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mark Anderson
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC
Mark Anderson is an anthropologist who works on the politics of race and culture, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled Anthropology and Race/Racism: From The Harlem Renaissance to Decolonizing the Discipline, which traces anthropological approaches to race/racism from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
2014-04-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Since 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters, there has been a concern about the “dual use” of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. The swine flu outbreak in 2009 in which the source of a potential pandemic was traced back to Oaxaca, Mexico led to outcries for a better and stronger cross-border public health infrastructure. This presentation assesses the implications of an increased focus on infectious disease as a biosecurity concern for Latin American origin migrants in Mexico and the United States. The talk shows how Latin American origin populations have particularly been targeted for biosurveillance and have discursively, if never materially, been linked to bioterrorism. The human rights consequences of this discursive link are potentially very grave for cross-border migrants as biological explanations are used to foment xenophobia and policies are implemented to “pre-empt” and “prevent” any and every lethal biological “contaminant” from entering the United States.
Rebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration, health, and security. She is co-author, with Ronnie Lipschutz, of “We are the Borg! Human Assimilation into Cellular Society,” pp. 366-407, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.), Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey, Penna.: IGI Global, 2014).

These talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS, College Eight, the Politics Department, the Institute for Humanities Research, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences, and the Science and Justice Research Center. The BIOS (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, focused on the surveillance, management, interrogation, discipline and intervention of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu.

Morris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
2014-04-07 19:00 - 20:30 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled “A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust,” on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m., at UCSC’s University Center.
Professor Morris Ratner successfully prosecuted Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French entities that profited from Nazi atrocities by retaining dormant bank accounts, failing to pay on life insurance policies, and benefitting from the use of slave labor. Ratner’s litigation resulted in a series of settlements that, together, yielded payments in excess of $8 billion to victims of Nazi persecution. Using Holocaust litigation as a lens, this lecture explores the topics of “what ‘justice’ means for victims of major atrocities like the Holocaust, the role of private litigation in advancing social causes, and the ability of individual advocates to prevail on behalf of victims in seemingly lost causes.” Ratner’s discussion of “social justice lawyering” also addresses the question: “Did it matter whether the lawyers in the Holocaust cases were–like the victims–Jewish, Gay, or Romani?”
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Morris Ratner joined the UC Hastings Faculty in 2012, after teaching at Harvard Law School. An expert in civil procedure, legal ethics, and law practice management, Ratner’s research explores ethical, procedural, and organizational questions that arise in multi-party actions, including class actions and multidistrict litigations. Ratner worked as a litigator at the San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, where he was a partner for 10 years. During that time he prosecuted product liability, mass personal injury, consumer, and human rights actions.
Please join us for this inaugural lecture in the Hastings Social Justice Speakers Series given by Hastings faculty at UCSC. The Series is a product of the UCSC-Hastings collaboration that also features the “3+3 BA/JD” Program which enables UCSC students to complete the BA and JD degrees in six, rather than the usual seven, years by attending both UCSC and Hastings College of the Law.
Admission is free and the public is invited, with pre-registration encouraged to ensure a seat in the event of a sold out event.
Questions: Please call Kristin Palma at 831.459.5075, or e-mail kpalma@ucsc.edu.

Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
2014-04-07 12:30 - 14:00 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jane McAlevey’s first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of the only successful multi-union, multi-year, geographic organizing campaigns for the national AFL-CIO (in Stamford, Connecticut). She has led power structure analyses and strategic planning trainings for a wide range of union and community organizations and has had extensive involvement in globalization and global environmental issues. She worked at the Highlander Research and Education Center as an educator (and as Deputy Director) in her early 20’s. McAlevey is a contributing writer at The Nation Magazine.
Jane will discuss the lessons learned from ten years of building strong local unions that win collective bargaining and political gains based on deep and extensive membership involvement, particularly in the context of the right-to-work state of Nevada and in the face of intensive union-busting efforts of for-profit hospital employers. She will shed light on the ongoing debates over how to rebuild union power in the face of austerity, growing inequality, and Conservative parties’ attacks on the basis of union organizational security.
For a sense of Jane’s take on these matters, see her interview with Laura Flanders or visit janemcalevey.com. Copies of Jane’s book will be available at the talk for $20.
Book talk co-sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies.
For Information about access, please contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu. For information about the Sociology Colloquium Series: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com.

Ned Block: "Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious"
2014-04-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in the light of the close conceptual tie between conscious perception and first person authority.
Advance reading: Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience
Professor Block is the Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science.

VENUE CHANGED Rebecca Jo Plant: "Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth"
2014-04-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Abbey Coffee Shop
Prof.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth, a book project that she and her collaborator, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney, have undertaken. The project traces debates over the use of child soldiers and the relationship between youth and militarism over two centuries in order to illuminate how changing attitudes toward the U.S. as military nation intersected with evolving attitudes toward childhood and youth. The event will take the form of a workshop with precirculated readings.
Rebecca Jo Plant is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego, since 2002, and is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and a co-editor of Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn, 2012). She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has been awarded fellowships by the American Association of University Women, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council for Learned Societies. Plant’s research interests focus on women’s, gender, and family history; the history of therapeutic culture and the psychological professions; and the social and psychological impact of war in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S.
For access to the readings please contact catjones@ucsc.edu.

Shakespeare to Go!
2014-03-21 16:00 - 17:00 | 2nd Stage, Theater Arts, Performing Arts, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for the final dress rehearsal of Shakespeare to Go! This year’s performance is “Hamlet,” directed by Kimberly Jannarone. The final dress rehearsal will be on Friday, March 21st at 4pm in the Theater Art’s Second Stage. The performance is approximately 1 hour. Doors will open at 3:45pm.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Freaks
2014-03-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
March 16th – Freaks (1932, dir. Tod Browning) – a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out
The granddaddy of all the misfit horror films we’ve been exploring this quarter, Freaks is Tod Browning’s empathetic depiction of the physically deformed performers who comprise the circus sideshow of Madame Tetrallini (Rose Dione). A beautiful acrobat marries and poisons a rich midget named Hans (Harry Earles) in order to get his inheritance, for which the “freaks” in the circus enact a gruesome revenge. As this brusque summary suggests, it is the “normal” people in the film who often come across as monstrous and grotesque, though the film does provocatively pose the question of where compassion for these “freaks” stops and the exploitation of them begins. Made the year following his famous adaption of Dracula with Bela Lugosi, Browning’s Freaks is not to be missed!
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

WHAT WOULD ATTICUS DO?
2014-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Join Literature professors Christopher Chen and Micah Perks, poet Danusha Lameris, and attorney Ben Rice on Saturday, March 15, for a benefit screening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Following the movie, Chen, Perks, Lameris and Rice will take part in a panel discussion entitled “Harper Lee’s Book and How it Changed My Life and The World.” This event, in support of The Young Writers Program of Santa Cruz County, will take place on Saturday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street, Santa Cruz). For more information and to purchase tickets, please see http://santacruzwrites.org/.

LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
2014-03-15 09:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ruth Kramer (Ph.D. 2009) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Living Writers Series: Student Readings
2014-03-13 18:00 - 20:00
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Current UCSC creative writing students read from work they produced during winter quarter.

Noriko Aso: "Mitsukoshi at War: Rationalizing Luxury"
2014-03-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Although Mitsukoshi, Japan’s preeminent department store, did its best to rework luxury and play for the total war state through such efforts as a fashion spread on Vichy French style, the state’s demands stripped the retailer bare by 1945. Yet opposing “luxury” and “war” gives Mitsukoshi and unwarranted alibi: collaboration with imperialism had been hither to profitable. Mitsukoshi at war exposes the tangled nature of alliance and opposition between civilian and state institutions, as negotiated in the midst of crisis.
Noriko Aso is Associate Professor of History, and serves as the History Department’s Undergraduate Program Director.

This talk is presented by Stevenson College as a Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Co-sponsored by East Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

RESCHEDULED Karen Bassi - "Fading into the Future: Visibility and Legibility in Thucydides History"
2014-03-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk was originally scheduled for March 5th. It has been rescheduled to take place on March 12th.
Karen Bassi’s current book project, In Search of Lost Things: Classics Between History and Archaeology is a study of visual perception as the source of knowledge about the past in ancient Greek epic, history writing, and drama. The book explores the dominance of vision and visual metaphors in making truth claims, the role of language in distinguishing fiction from fact, and the criteria for establishing the reality of the past.
Karen Bassi is Professor of Literature and Classics, UCSC

Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession
2014-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
March 9th – Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Zulawski) – for those of you who suspect that marriage is intrinsically a horror film
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Minorities in the Mediterranean, A Symposium and Workshop
2014-03-08 09:30 - 17:15 | SFSU Humanities Building
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project and the departments of Comparative and World Literature, History, Jewish Studies, and the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University invite participants to a two-day, two-part event on Medieval and Early Modern Minorities in the Mediterranean, to be held on 7 & 8 March 2014 at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Participants from the broadest range of relevant disciplines are welcome and encouraged to register.
Mediterranean Minorities – Symposium
Friday, 7 March, 10am—5:30pm
San Francisco State University
Humanities Bldg., Room 587
A one-day symposium consisting of three round table discussions:
Opportunity
Assimilation and Exchange
Vulnerability
featuring:
• Fred Astren (Jewish Studies, San Francisco State)
• Jeremy Brown (Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University)
• Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder/ Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Tom Dandelet (History, University of California at Berkeley)
• John Dagenais (Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA)
• Federica Francesconi (Jewish Studies, University of Oregon)
• Paolo Girardelli (History, Boğaziçi University)
• Mike Hammer (Spanish, San Francisco State)
• Joshua Holo (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
• Slobodan Dan Paich (Artship Foundation, San Francisco CA)
• Jonathan Ray (Jewish Studies, Georgetown University)
• Jarbel Rodriguez (History, San Francisco State)
• Stefan Stantchev (History, Arizona State University)
• David Wacks (Romance Languages, University of Oregon)
• Valerie Wilhite (Romance Languages, University of Oregon)
• Megan Williams (History, San Francisco State)

Mediterranean Minorities – Workshop
Saturday, 8 March, 9:30am—5:15pm
San Francisco State University
Humanities Bldg., Room 587
A workshop consisting of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar:
• “Do Mediterranean Studies Speak to Latin American Colonial Studies? A Suspected German Lutheran Conquers A Suspected “Morisco”in the Canaries Before Taking On the New World”
Giovanna Montenegro (Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
• “Alexandria ad Aegyptum”
Dan Selden (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
• “Being Different in the Medieval Middle East? The Poet’s Story”
Jocelyn Sharlet (Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
• Featured scholar:
Stephen Humphreys (History, University of California Santa Barbara):
“Adapting to the Infidel: the Christian Communities of Syria in the Early Islamic Period”
Full program for conference and workshop available here.
All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome. Both events are free but pre-registration is required; attendance is limited so please register soon. UC-and SFSU-affiliated scholars may register immediately, non-UC scholars on or after February 7. Lunch will be provided on both days for attendees who register prior to February 26.
To register for the workshop and/or conference and receive the workshop 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 (contingent on availability and attendance at both events).
The Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum, the aim of which is 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.
To join the Mediterranean Seminar, send your name, professional status, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org.

Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol
2014-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Novelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is forthcoming in February 2014 from W.W. Norton. She is a recipient of the 2013 ‘5 Under 35’ Award from the National Book Foundation and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s This American Life and in many publications, including One Story, Ecotone, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, Esquire and Mississippi Review Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel, The After Party, which will also be published by Norton.

18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu
2014-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Fred Kuwornu an Italian-Ghanaian activist, director, and producer, will be screening his documentary, 18 IUs Soli, is on the denial of citizenship to children born of immigrants in Italy. He will also be participating in a Q&A following, and there will be reception in Stevenson Fireside Lounge.
Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, born and raised in Italy, is an Italian-Ghanaian activist-producer-writer-director. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Mass Media. After college, Fred moved to Rome where he began working as a TV show writer for RAI 1. He has produced several works with his production company, Struggle Filmworks. In 2008, after working with the production crew of Spike Lee’sMiracle at St. Anna (2008), Fred decided to research the unknown story of the 92nd Infantry “Buffalo Soldiers” Division, discovering the journey taken by the real 92nd veterans, the African American segregated combat unit which fought in Europe during WW II. Fred then produced and directed the award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo. Inside Buffalo was awarded “Best Documentary” at the Black Berlin International Cinema Festival, and has been shown at the Pentagon, the Library of Congress, and many other venues including the top U.S. Black Film Festivals. He worked alongside talents such as Derek Luke (Captain America; Notorius; Catch a Fire; Lions for Lambs); Laz Alonso (Jumping the Broom, Avatar, Fast and Furious); Omar Benson Miller (CSI Miami, 8 Miles); Michael Ealy; and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique (Black Swan). Fred Kuwornu founded the non-profit organizatiion Diversity Italia promoting the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in Italy and Europe using film and other arts as tools for building a more inclusive society. His next projects are Paisan Soldiers, a documentary about Italian-Americans in World War II, and ’64, a film about the U.S. Civil Rights

Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
2014-03-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Michael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. Perelman has written 19 books, including Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest project is, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Control Undermines the Economy by Stunting Workers, under contract with Stanford University Press. The basic theme is the way that capitalism is structured to be incapable of efficiently managing the labor process and that capitalism’s efforts to control the labor process create serious social and economic damage.
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Feb 6, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster.Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
2014-03-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of Western Civilization was in fact adapted from the world of Islam in the Middle Ages. The particular historical circumstances of Muslim Spain made this the chief venue for this process. Understanding how this came about deepens our understanding of the world of Islam and complicates our notions of what we consider “Western culture.”
Brian Catlos is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at UCSC, and co-director of the UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project. His The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300 (Cambridge) won two major prizes; two books: The Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, 1050–1614 (Cambridge) and Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Power, Faith and Politics in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) will be published in 2014. He also writes travel books and featured in the PBS documentary Cities of Light. For more see www.brianacatlos.com.

Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
2014-03-05 15:30 - 16:40 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal for Jewish Culture & Identity. He also serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Har Adar.
His main fields of research are: The wisdom of love; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Halakha; Democratic education.
He has published numerous articles and 12 books. His most recent books are: Unity within Diversity: A Common Core Curriculum for Israeli Schoolchildren, (With Libat Avishay), Jerusalem 2012, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Wisdom by the week – the Weekly Torah Portion as an Inspiration for Thought and Creativity, New York 2012: Yeshiva University Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Values and Citizens – Civic Democratic Education, Jerusalem 2011: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Rabbi in the New World: The Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture, Education and Jewish Thought, (with Avinoam Rosenak) Jerusalem 2011: Magnes Hebrew University Press and the VLJI; and The Wisdom of Love—Man, Woman & God in Jewish Canonical Literature, Boston 2009: Academic Studies Press.
Naftali Rothenberg is the 2011 laureate of the Liebhaber Prize for the encouragement of religious tolerance in Israel.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
2014-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
March 2nd – Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) – an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
2014-02-28 15:30 - 16:40 | Social Sciences 2, Room 75, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider
This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close attention to a variety of texts, visual images, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment literature, photographs and films, poetry, novels, and memoirs, art, music, and dance, textbooks, children’s literature and memoirs, etc. By examining how the trope of the Zionist and Israeli hero changed over time, I seek to enhance our understanding of the strong bond between the Jews of America and Israel as well as help to explain the ideational linkages that inform the contemporary U.S.-Israel relationship.
Mark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati and a Research Associate in the University’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture. He is also Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Dr. Raider’s scholarly articles have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal, American Jewish History, Jewish Social Studies, The Journal of Israeli History, and elsewhere. In 2010 he was awarded the American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman prize for the best article published in American Jewish History (“The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership”).
His books include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine–A Critical Edition, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He also wrote a book-length history of the American Jewish experience for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (vol. 20, 2006).
He most recently completed an edited and annotated anthology titled Free Associations: Selected Writings of Hayim Greenberg–A Critical Edition, which is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. An excerpt from this volume appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. He is now working on a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders.
Dr. Raider teaches courses on U.S. history, the American Jewish experience, modern Jewish history, and Zionism and Israel. He is married to Dr. Miriam B. Raider-Roth and they have three children–Jonah, Emma, and Talia.

Living Writers Series: Poets
2014-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Local readings are archived at www.sicklyseason.com. He is collaborates with artist Arturo Romo-Santillano and other writers on the website, www.ELAguide.org. His most recent books are the novel Atomik Aztex and the hybrid text World Ball Notebook.
Angel Dominguez writes things. Originally from Los Angeles, he received his BA in Poetry from UC Santa Cruz. He is currently an MFA candidate at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the founding editor of the Omni Writers Collective Press, the co-founding editor of TRACT / TRACE: an investigative journal, and presently the senior editor for the Bombay Gin literary journal. His work has appeared in The Bombay Gin, Omni Symposium vol.1, and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review. Most recently he completed an interview chapbook TIME-SCAPING with Mary Burger, published by Pinball Press. Now residing in Boulder Colorado, he is exploring the sentence and what it is for.

Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis"
2014-02-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”
This lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king, Croesus. Recent excavation has dramatically changed our ideas about the Lydian city, with the discovery of the monumental city wall, terraces that regularized and organized the rugged natural topography, very probably used as a palatial quarter; houses burned by the Persian sack of the city in 547 BC. It will consider the later history of the city, including the temple of Artemis, the Hellenistic theater, and a temple of the Roman imperial cult.
Nicholas D. Cahill earned his B.A. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1981. After that, Cahill went on to the University of California-Berkeley to earn both his M.A. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1991 in Ancient History and Archaeology. Cahill specializes in Greek and Anatolian archaeology, especially urbanism and housing. He has done field work in Turkey, England and Israel. Professor Cahill has been honored with the National Endowment for the Humanities / American Research Institute in Turkey award for sabbatical year research (2005-2006); the title of UW Humanities Institute Fellow (2000-2001); and the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1995-1996.) Nicholas is currently teaching at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where he has been employed since 1993.
Talk begins at 5:00 pm, refreshments served at 4:30 pm, with a reception following lecture.

Shakespeare in ASL: A Performance and Discussion with Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain
2014-02-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Theater Arts, E100
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.
The Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster, Shakespeare’s Disciplines, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language.
In addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL, Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain will discuss the art of translation, the concept of style in signing, and the relationship between Shakespeare’s poems and his plays.

A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp
2014-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia.
What this book brings to light—through novels, travel narratives, photojournalism, films, news media, and political rhetoric—is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence.

The Introduction and Chapter 4 will be available to read prior to the talk at:
http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/neda-book-2014.html
Please join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.

Neda Atanasoski is an Associate Proressor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of U.S and Eastern European media and cultural studies, with a focus on the politics of religion and sexuality, postsocialism, human rights and humanitarianism, and war and nationalism. Professor Atanasoski’s current research project, in collaboration with Kalindi Vora (UCSD), takes up the relationship between notions of the “network” and “revolution” in the postsocialist era as they assess the ethical frames and moral imperatives undergirding current-day modes of waging war, biomedical modes of extending life, and understanding the politics of dissent and consent that both use and critique the “revolutionary” technologies associated such social and political shifts of our postsocialist era.

Conversation and book reading presented by the Feminist Studies Department.

Matthew Wolf-Meyer - "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots, Pacified Bulls, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"
2014-02-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.

Screening and Panel Discussion - The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture, and the New Left Experience
2014-02-25 19:30 - 22:00 | Communications 150, Studio C
A major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, Studio C. (Communications 150)
The film, 102 minutes, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness), Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC), and Herman Gray (Sociology).
Read reviews of and interviews about the film here and here.
Generously funded by the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Film and Digital Media.

Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
2014-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema.
Both an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing Dynasty and a remake of a Shaw Brothers film entitled The Enchanted Shadow (1960), A Chinese Ghost Story is feverish mix of romance, comedy, and Evil Dead-style supernatural horror. After he fails to collect a debt owed to him, a young scholarly tax collector (Leslie Cheung) is forced to spend the night in an abandoned temple where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Joey Wong), whom he subsequently realizes is a ghost enslaved to a Tree Demon (Siu-Ming Lau). With a Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu) at his side, he sets out to free his beloved spirit from eternal servitude, even if he has to follow the Tree Demon into the underworld to do so. The inspiration for two sequels, an animated film version, a television series, and a remake in 2011, A Chinese Ghost Story is a high point of Hong Kong cinema during what was arguably its most fertile creative period. Not to be missed!
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
2014-02-22 18:00 - 20:30 | St. Francis Yacht Club on the Marina
Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection.
Featuring:
Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History
Facilitated by Bill Ladusaw, UCSC Dean of Humanities
Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching in the liberal arts has changed over the years, and how their course, The Holocaust–taken by hundreds of UCSC students each year–has expanded from the lecture hall to the global electronic stage. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), the class reached nearly 18,000 students worldwide. While student-faculty interaction is still a hallmark of UCSC education, the evening will explore how great teachers can leverage technology to broaden their reach.

RSVP by February 12, 2014 online at http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/books-to-moocs
Questions? (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu

Gender. Region. Slavery.
2014-02-21 09:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media.

For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians, in particular, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at work in the making of ‘regions’ and ‘slavery’ between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. However, such scholarship has minoritized gender relations in the making of such geographies. This colloquium reverses the trend by foregrounding the question: what would regional histories of ‘slavery’ look like if interrogated as formulations of gender? Eschewing the conventional segregation and/or minoritization of regions as spatialities that provide local historical flavor, the colloquium seeks to simultaneously correct regional asymmetries of the past of slavery, as well as highlight the centrality of gender in the making and conceiving of ‘region’ itself. Central to our concerns is an interrogation of race as understood primarily through the history of the transatlantic slave trade, such that this idea of race could be said to constitute the background against which all representations of racial formation take place. Rather, our presenters ask, for example, what would it mean to imagine an analytic of race that would take the transatlantic trade to the Indian Ocean and not produce African subjects in the same trajectory of slavery? What are the different life-forms and histories of slavery that exceed the hegemonic plantation model of slavery?
9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks by Anjali Arondekar, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 AM: Ronaldo V. Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Slave Slips | Life Forms: a poetry performance
10:45 AM: Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas, Austin
Decolonizing the History of Slavery
Respondent: Juned Shaikh, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM: Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley
Unfit for History
Respondent: Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:00 PM: Tea Break
2:15 PM: Jenny Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles
The Degraded Image of Slavery
Respondent: Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sponsored by the Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, with generous contributions from the Departments of Literature, History, Sociology, Anthropology and the Institute for Humanities Research.
For further information, please contact Anjali Arondekar: aarondek@ucsc.edu

Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
2014-02-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not, strictly speaking, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance, figure, magnitude, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure, magnitude, and situation, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment.
Read the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision

Rebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy, Thomas Reid, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Res Philosophica, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind.

Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
2014-02-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what is the relationship of “blackness” to discourse on the animal? Do black humans “die” or “perish”? The prevailing thought in the field of African Americanist scholarship is that “blackness” – through Martin Heidegger and Frantz Fanon in particular – is related to “thingness,” rather than animality. This theoretical project re-thinks that interpretive paradigm. I am particularly invested in how movement away from “the animal,” writ large in the Cartesian framework, does not allow for much discussion of an ethical commitment (Emanuel Levinas) to the animal within African Americanist discourse. My intention is to provide both a critique of the present condition in critical discourse on blackness (especially its gendered assumptions) and a model for how to begin such a conversation within the theoretical language available to us on the human/animal divide.
Sharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1992). She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY (Duke UP, 2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002. She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, UM, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006). Professor Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic, THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007) for publication (2007). She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012), a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theory. She is also at work on the final draft of another book project entitled simply, “little black girl.” You can see her work on food, writing and all things equestrian on her blog, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com//. She is currently at work on a new project, “Perishment” an investigation of the human/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion. She is presently a Professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Presented with generous support from: the Institute for Humanities Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC.

Warren Sack - "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
2014-02-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing.
Warren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC.

Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
2014-02-18 10:00 - 11:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents:
Hedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding”
Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University, was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After her father, his five brothers and their families were rounded up by the Nazi occupiers in 1942, she spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar. She came to the United States in 1947.
A visiting fellow at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (War Document Archives) in Amsterdam in 2008, for past eight years she has been visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she is continuing her research for a book on The Netherlands before and during World War II.

Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
2014-02-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.

Relationships come and go, but plastination is forever!
The only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle involving a young man, a young woman, and an anatomically correct sex doll that looks an awful lot like the young woman. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is a socially maladroit technical writer who pines for a temp typist in his office, Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller), but cannot work up the nerve to ask her out. Shown an internet site selling deluxe sex dolls for thousands of dollars, he designs a life-size rubber doll made to look like Lisa, though he christens the doll Nikki. After developing a comprehensive relationship with Nikki (including sex and nightly tête–à–têtes), Kenneth works up the nerve to approach Lisa, which only makes Nikki more and more violently jealous. In many respects a companion film to Lucky McKee’s May, a much more widely known and respected horror film released the previous year—in his excellent book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman goes so far as to suggest that May and Kenneth “might be soulmates if they weren’t in different films”—Love Object is not to be missed!
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

Living Writers Series: Panel of Journalists
2014-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Martha Mendoza is a Puliter Prize-winning Associated Press National Writer whose reports have won numerous awards and prompted Congressional hearings, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She has reported for the AP since 1997, in Albuquerque, N.M., New York and Mexico City. A UC Santa Cruz graduate, she was a 2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a 2007 Ferris Professor for Humanities at Princeton University.
Nick Miroff is a correspondent for The Washington Post covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. He is also a senior correspondent for GlobalPost and a contributor to National Public Radio. Miroff has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism (2006) and studied Spanish and Latin American literature at UC Santa Cruz (2000). He grew up in Albany, New York.
Michael Scherer is TIME magazine’s Washington D.C. Bureau Chief. He joined TIME in December of 2007 and became the magazine’s White House correspondent following the 2008 campaign. He has written a number of cover stories in recent years, including The Informers, The Gunfighters, The New Sheriffs of Wall Street and Yo Decido: the Rise of the Latino Voter. He won the 2012 National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his series on how the Obama campaign harnessed technology to win the Presidential race. Before coming to TIME, he worked as a Washington Correspondent for both Salon.com and Mother Jones magazine, and as a beat reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Mass.

Gildas Hamel: "Stretching time: emergence of apocalyptics and its uses"
2014-02-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Gildas Hamel’s current work is on the economy, society and religion of ancient Israel and Graeco-Roman Judaea. His research focuses on taxes, forms of labor, the competition of various groups for resources and political power, and the evolution of religious structures, including the appearance of monotheism and new notions of time.
Gildas Hamel is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the History Department at UCSC.

Poetry Santa Cruz presents Michael Hannon and Gary Young
2014-02-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced books, sculptures and numerous gallery and museum shows. Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon’s work: “A very good poet indeed and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty.” Hannon is the author of thirty-five poetry titles, including four full-length poetry collections: A Door in the Water(1975), Poems & Days (1985), Ordinary Messengers (1991), Trusting Oblivion (2002),Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems (2013). Michael is married to Nancy Dahl and lives in Los Osos, California. He has 3 grown sons, Dylan, Jason, and Colin and 3 grandsons, Jadrien, Oliver and Kai.Download a PDF of two poems by Michael Hannon from the Imaginary Burden:Selected Poems.
Read praise for Imaginary Burden from Gary Young and Joseph Stroud.

Gary Young is a poet, artist, printer, and educator. His numerous awards include recognition from the Poetry Society of America—the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013), the Shelley Memorial Award (2009), the William Carlos Williams Award (2003), and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). Gary has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, and his print work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Getty Center for the Arts, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches Creative Writing, and is the Director of the Cowell Press at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Hands, The Dream of a Moral Life, Days, Braver Deeds, No Other Life, and Pleasure. His latest book, Even So: New and Selected Poems, was released in 2012. His most recent poems were written while studying in Japan in 2011. In 2014 White Pine Press will release Precious Mirror, his translations of and the calligraphy of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi and Ninja Press will publish a limited edition of new poems, In Japan.
See Gary Young’s website.

Poetry Santa Cruz is funded, in part, by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County. Some events are supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors, In Celebration of the Muse, and those who donated in memory of Maude Meehan and Kathleen Flowers. The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years. Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café, Cabrillo College, Darling House, and KUSP. Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Robert Sward, Coffee House Press, Copper Canyon Press, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
2014-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
February 9th – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960, dir. Terence Fisher) – perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson’s novella
Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.

For more information, please visit: literature.ucsc.edu

Living Writers Series: Panel of Editors
2014-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni!
Zoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings, Salon, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere.
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl, which was short-listed for the Story Prize, and a novel, MacGregor Tells the World. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review and others, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is currently Managing Editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and Senior Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Daniel Mirk was a staff writer for the satirical website The Onion from 2006 to 2012. He is one of the creators of the Peabody Award winning Onion News Network web series, the IFC television series of the same name, and the Amazon Studios pilot Onion News Empire. Daniel has also written for Comedy Central, Funny Or Die, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2013 Daniel was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the writing staff of the Comedy Central special “Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs” hosted by Jon Stewart.

Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
2014-02-06 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, the critical study of work, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP, 2011) and Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP, 1998), and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell, 2000).
This event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence.
Additional events in this series:
Jan 16, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Mar 6, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.

Aristea Fotopoulou: "‘All these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data': Platform openess, data sharing and visions of democracy"
2014-02-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism, information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing.
Aristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the Science and Justice Research Center, UCSC.

Complicated Labors: Feminism, Maternity, and Creative Practice (Symposium & Gallery Exhibition)
2014-02-05 10:00 - 19:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306
The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, writers, and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. Through film, visual art and photography, performance, writing, and scholarship we will explore the complexities of contemporary motherhood.
This symposium, with keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly, will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. The symposium is on Feb 5th from 10am-5pm at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab and will be followed by a gallery exhibition and reception from 5-7pm at the Sesnon Art Gallery.
Symposium – Feb 5 @ 10:00am-5:00pm
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, UCSC
Free and Open to the Public
Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized and relatively misrecognized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today.
Gallery Reception – Feb 5 @ 5:00-7:00pm
Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC
Complicated Labors Gallery Exhibition runs from February 5 – March 15, 2014
Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork.
Symposium Schedule:

10:00 AM – Welcome (Micah Perks and Irene Lusztig)
10:30 AM – Mary Kelly Keynote (opening remarks)
11AM: Maternal Interventions (artist panel and discussion)
12:30 – LUNCH
2:30 PM – Maternal Secrets (writer panel and discussion)
4:15 PM Closing Remarks by Megan Moodie
5:00 – 7:00 PM Opening reception, Sesnon Gallery (with performance by Alejandra Herrera Silva)
All events are free and open to the public.
Symposium & Gallery Participants:
Keynote:
Mary Kelly is an American conceptual artist, feminist, writer, and professor of art and critical theory in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA.
Writers:
Amra Brooks was born and raised in California. Her novella California was published in 2008 by Teenage Teardrops. Her fiction, critical reviews, essays, interviews, and poems have appeared in such publications as Artforum, Spin Magazine, index, the LA Weekly, The Encyclopedia Project Volume F-K, Ping Pong: the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library, Not Enough Night, Inventory Magazine, and others. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego, Naropa University, and Muhlenberg College. Currently she lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her family and is the Director of the Creative Writing program at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.
Kate Moses is the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath and Cakewalk: A Memoir . Moses is the coeditor, with Camille Peri, of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves and the national bestselling, American Book Award-winning Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. As a senior editor and contributing writer for Salon, Moses cofounded Salon’s groundbreaking, award-winning Mothers Who Think site.
Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time, about growing up on a commune in the Adirondack Wilderness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, and The Rumpus, among many other journals and anthologies. She’s won an NEA Award, a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and several residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. Her most recent publication is the short memoir, Alone In The Woods, an ebook from Shebooks, about motherhood and the wild.
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press.
Michelle Tea is the founder and editor of Mutha Magazine, an alternative parenting site obsessed with all things Mom. Her blog Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea, on xoJane.com, has documented her struggle to get knocked up. Tea is the founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions, a literary non-profit which oversees the annual Sister Spit performance tours; Sister Spit Books, a publishing imprint with City Lights; the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library, and other programs. She is the author of many memoirs and novels, and a collection of poetry.
Artists:
Lenka Clayton is a British conceptual artist whose work exaggerates and reorganizes the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd.
Natalie Loveless is a Canadian artist, curator, writer and professor of contemporary art and theory at the University of Alberta whose work explores feminist embodiment, material entanglement in the everyday, and the frameworks of artistic research.
Irene Lusztig is an American filmmaker, media archeologist, and new media artist whose film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings to reframe, recuperate, or reanimate forgotten and neglected histories.
Jill Miller is an American conceptual artist who works collaboratively with communities, with a focus on on motherhood, feminism and performance art. Faculty in New Genres and Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Mother Art Collective
Alejandra Herrera Silva is a Chilean visual and performance artist living and working in LA. Recent body and action-based pieces have investigated the body as object at the intersection of maternal labour and affect.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Video Program Artists:
Myrel Chernick, Mark and Beth Cooley, Masha Godovanaya, Courtney Kessel, Ellina Kevorkian, Dillon Paul and Lindsay Wolkowitz

This exhibition and symposium are sponsored by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), UCSC Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, Cowell College, Oakes College, Merrill College, Stevenson College, History of Art and Visual Culture, Art, Literature, Film and Digital Media, and Feminist Studies Departments.

For more information visit: arts.ucsc.edu/complicatedlabors

Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
2014-02-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents:
Steven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History”
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks, it intruded on US-Russian relations, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP, and, most likely, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much, and for so long?
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia, Poland, France, and Israel; for six years, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. He is the author and editor of eight books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (2008, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian, Hebrew, and French. He has been awarded the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Jewish Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, and the Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. In spring 2013, he will be the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Zipperstein is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, in New York.
Every year we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune"
2014-02-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 620, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and its relation to ecological theory. The “communal luxury” produced by the Commune’s “working existence” was prolonged and elaborated in the political thought produced in the 1870s and the 1880s, when Communard exiles met up and collaborated with a number of their supporters and fellow travelers, notably Marx, Kropotkin and William Morris.
Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995); and May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002).
This talk is presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster, and the History of Consciousness and Literature Departments.

CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
2014-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Stevenson, Room 150
Misfit Horror
A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.
February 2nd – Arrebato (1980, dir. Iván Zulueta) – think of it as a Spanish Videodrome, only avant la lettre
For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu

Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
2014-01-31 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses, which has been used to argue against bottom-up metrification in serial theories (van der Hulst 1984, 1997, 2009, Bailey 1995). Other languages, however, show a primary stress which is clearly parasitic on secondary stresses, which follows straightforwardly from a bottom-up theory but is incompatible with a top-down one (Hayes 1995). To account for both autonomous and parasitic culminativity in Harmonic Serialism, this talk outlines the following proposals: (1) primary stress assignment can and must happen simultaneously with foot-building, in a basically top-down fashion, and (2) the primary stress must be allowed to move to another foot in the course of a derivation. In other words, the conclusion will be that attested patterns of primary stress assignment provide evidence for limited parallelism in stress, even when general metrification, and the grammar itself, is otherwise serial. Allowing limited parallelism without giving up serialism altogether is also defended, as the predicted typology of culminativity in a serial theory with limited parallelism is shown to be superior to that of theory with unrestricted parallelism.
References
Bailey, Todd Mark (1995). Non-metrical constraints on stress. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.
Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
van der Hulst, Harry (1984). Syllable structure and stress in Dutch. Foris, Dordrecht.
van der Hulst, Harry (1997). Primary accent is non-metrical. Revista di Linguistica 9: 99–127.
van der Hulst, Harry (2009). Brackets and grid marks, or theories of primary accent and rhythm. In Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (eds.), Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory, pp. 225–245. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
McCarthy, John J. (2010). An introduction to Harmonic Serialism. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(10): 1010–1018.
Kathryn Pruitt is at Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University.
