BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20080309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20081102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110131T222845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110131T222845Z UID:10004733-1297962000-1297967400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cameron McNeil: "The Chocolate Tree and Its History among the Ancient Maya" DESCRIPTION:This presentation will explore the use of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) in Mesoamerican communities with a focus on the ancient Maya polity of Copan in Honduras. While the areas where cacao thrived in Mesoamerica were limited\, the seeds were easily transportable and became a valued source of stimulants. By 1900 B.C. cacao was used in feasting rituals as evidenced by chemical residue analysis of vessels from Paso de la Amada\, Mexico. For the pre-Columbian people T. cacao came to be associated with markers of life passage events (such as birth\, marriage\, and death)\, was linked to rulership and power\, and was used as a medium of exchange. Where the cacao grew well\, it was one of several important tree crops which undoubtedly aided populations in preserving forest cover while providing an esteemed comestible and trade good. Today\, traditional cacao consumption and production has been lost in many areas\, and where it remains it is on the wane for both positive and negative reasons. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cameron-mcneil-the-chocolate-tree-and-its-history-among-the-ancient-maya-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110210T193454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110210T193454Z UID:10004747-1297958400-1297962000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kaija Mortensen:"Thought Experiment Intuitions: Rational or Animal?" DESCRIPTION:This talk is presented as part of the Philosophy Graduate Student Works in Progress series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kaija-mortensenthought-experiment-intuitions-rational-or-animal-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110216T005737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110216T005737Z UID:10004752-1297944000-1297949400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Amy Rose Deal: "Case and Caselessness in Nez Perce" DESCRIPTION:Morphological case systems are frequently described in terms of distinctions related to transitivity. To a first approximation\, the case system of Nez Perce nicely fits this bill: one case (ergative) marks transitive subjects\, a distinct case (objective) marks transitive objects\, and intransitive subjects remain in an unmarked (nominative) form. \n\n\n\n(1)\nTransitive: ERG subject\, OBJ object\n\n\n\nCaan-nim\npaa-‘yaX-n-a\n‘inii-ne\n\n\n\nJohn-ERG\n3/3-find-P-REM.PAST\nhouse-OBJ\n\n\n\nJohn found a house.\n\n\n(2)\nIntransitive: NOM subject\n\n\n\nSue\nhi-pay-n-a\n\n\n\nSue\n3SUBJ-arrive-P-REM.PAST\n\n\n\nSue arrived.\n\n\n\nHowever\, Nez Perce also shows us a series of circumstances in which the correlation between transitivity and case-marking breaks down. All transitive verbs allow both the case pattern in (1) (ERG subject\, OBJ object) and the “caseless” version in (3) (NOM subject\, NOM object). Both versions appear to be semantically and syntactically transitive; yet in the caseless version (3)\, the characteristic subject and object cases of the transitive pattern have disappeared. \n\n\n\n(3)\nCaseless transitive: NOM subject\, NOM object\n\n\n\nCaan\nhi-‘yaaX-n-a\n‘iniit\n\n\n\n\nJohn\n3SUBJ-find-P-REM.PAST\nhouse\n\n\n\nJohn found a house.\n\n\n\nWhat controls the choice of case in transitive clauses? I argue that the deciding factor lies in the grammar of object agreement: all and only clauses with successful object agreement show the ergative and objective case. This finding calls for a theory of morphological case which accords a crucial role not to transitivity itself but to the syntax and morphology of agreement. I propose a version of this view according to which case-markers are morphological realizations of agreement features. If this sort of view can be maintained\, case and agreement systems can be handled by grammatical theories which remain relatively featurally sparse. Language does not include related features for case and agreement; these are the same features appearing in distinct morphological environments. \nAmy Rose Deal (Harvard) will give this job talk as a candidate for the Linguistics department’s Syntax faculty position. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amy-rose-deal-case-and-caselessness-in-nez-perce-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110106T204239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110106T204239Z UID:10004528-1297875600-1297882800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: Robert Alter DESCRIPTION: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 on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.  This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr. Robert Alter\, and is entitled “Translating the Bible: The Wisdom Books.”  The lecture will take place on Wednesday\, February 16th from 5-7 pm and will be followed by a reception. \nRobert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1967.   He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Philosophical Society\, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress\, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.   He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow\, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem\, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University.  He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present\, on contemporary American fiction\, and on modern Hebrew literature.   He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible.  His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses.  He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding\, Stendhal\, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into eight different languages.   Among his publications over the past nineteen years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka\, Benjamin\, and Scholem (1991)\, The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel  (1999)\,  Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (2000)\, The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004)\, Imagined Cites  (2005)\,  The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007)\, Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010)\, and The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010).   In 2009 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime contribution to American letters. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-robert-alter-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110131T222718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110131T222718Z UID:10004731-1297875600-1297881000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Enrico Deaglio: "Reporting Italy" DESCRIPTION:Full of mysteries\, theatrical effects\, unexpected violence and unexpected compromises\, recent Italian history is probably difficult to understand\, but surely is not boring. It was 32 years ago when Aldo Moro\, the most prominent Italian politician\, was killed by the Red Brigades in the center of Rome\, after a kidnapping that lasted 55 days. Thirty two years later\, if you look for the truth behind that kidnapping/homicide\, you won’t find it: that story is suspended\, forgotten… Italy is really a country you wouldn’t have imagined. \nEnrico Deaglio is a writer who has worked in journalism\, television\, and publishing for over 30 years. In 1996 he founded the political weekly Diario that he directed until 2008. He has written numerous books including La banalità del bene\, Storia di Giorgio Perlasca and Raccolto Rosso. He co-created several investigative films: Quando c’era Silvio (2006)\, Uccidete la democrazia (2006)\, Gli imbroglioni (2007)\, and Fare un golpe e farla franca (2008). His most recent book is Patria (2010)\, covering Italian politics from 1978-2010. \nHosted by the Language Program and Italian Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enrico-deaglio-reporting-italy-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110214T211328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110214T211328Z UID:10004749-1297857600-1297863000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Jordan: “Voice and Temporality in the Illustrations to Bleak House” DESCRIPTION:Drawing on the narratological theories of Genette (“voice”) and Mieke Bal (“focalization”)\, Professor Jordan’s talk offers a new approach to understanding the illustrations to Dickens’s Bleak House (1852- 53) that emphasizes elements of retrospection\, fantasy\, and multiple temporality. \nJohn Jordan is Professor of Literature\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-jordan-voice-and-temporality-in-the-illustrations-to-bleak-house-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110206T202454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110206T202454Z UID:10004745-1297339200-1297344600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Omer Preminger: "The Nature of Syntactic Computation: Evidence from Agreement" DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I argue for a particular logic by which agreement (in particular\, agreement between a verb or tense/aspect/mood-marker and a noun-phrase) is related to grammaticality\, and show how this conclusion illuminates certain longstanding questions in the theory of syntax. In particular\, I argue that agreement is best captured in terms of an operation. Crucially\, while invocation of this operation is obligatory\, its successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar. Such a theory contrasts sharply with alternatives that enforce agreement through representational devices such as un/interpretable features (Chomsky 2000\, 2001). The argument is based primarily on so-called “omnivorous agreement” effects in the Agent-Focus construction of Kaqchikel and K’ichee’\, with supporting evidence from Basque\, Icelandic\, and Hebrew. I then show how this conclusion leads to: (i) a reexamination of the relations between movement\, agreement\, and grammaticality; (ii) a particular understanding of what it means for a language to allow\, or not allow\, quirky subjects; and ultimately\, (iii) the conclusion that both agreement and morphological case must be part of the syntactic component proper (contra certain recent proposals in the literature). \nOmer Preminger (MIT) will give this job talk as a candidate for the Linguistics department’s Syntax faculty position. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omer-preminger-the-nature-of-syntactic-computation-evidence-from-agreement-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101015T004037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101015T004037Z UID:10004630-1297267200-1297274400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matt Wagers: “Grammar on the Trailing Edge of the Conscious Present: What We Can Learn about Memory from Language Processing” DESCRIPTION:Language comprehension seems fast\, effortless and error-free — at least\, to the extent that we can introspect about it. Underneath this apparently seamless part of our day-to-day experience lies a complex working memory system. To avoid overwhelming our limited processing capacity\, information is constantly being shuffled back and forth between states of accessibility and storage\, between attention and inattention. As a consequence\, linguistic knowledge\, richly detailed and precise\, must be adapted to a working memory which is rapid and error-prone. How this adaptation can be achieved is revealing\, both about how we remember language and about how we forget it. \nCo-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of Linguistics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matt-wagers-title-tba-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110209T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110209T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110111T191751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110111T191751Z UID:10004714-1297253700-1297258200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dorian Bell: "A 'Paradise of Parasites': Hannah Arendt\, Anti-Semitism\, and the Imperial Imagination" DESCRIPTION:Professor Bell’s in-progress Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France explores articulations between anti-Semitism and imperialism that shaped the emergence of European racial thought. Arguing that colonial expansion helped French anti-Semitism adopt its modern racializing guise\, the book also examines how anti-Semitism participated in the ideological elaboration of the imperial project. \nDorian Bell is Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dorian-bell-a-paradise-of-parasites-hannah-arendt-anti-semitism-and-the-imperial-imagination-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110207T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101124T024951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T024951Z UID:10004643-1297105200-1297108800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alon Tal: "War\, Peace and the Environment in the Middle East" DESCRIPTION:The history of the Israeli- Arab wars has had environmental implications which are often overlooked. Some pessimists argue that the next war will in the Middle East will be fought over water resources\, especially with climate change so profoundly changing precipitation patterns in the Mediterranean region. As the conflict drags on past its 60th year\, we will consider how the environment of Israel and in neighboring lands has been affected. How might the environment provide a bridge to bring the parties together? Did past peace agreements do a good job of ensuring environmental cooperation? President Obama is not the first to propose a “peace park” as one way of breaking the impasse on the Golan Heights. Learn about Naharaim – the existing Israeli- Jordan peace park and consider Israel’s environment in a regional context. \nProfessor Tal’s career has been a balance between academia and public interest advocacy. He is presently an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at Ben Gurion University and chairman of Israel’s green party – “the Green Movement”. Tal has held faculty appointments at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities in Israel\, and was a visiting professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Between 1990 and 1998 he was an adjunct faculty member at Harvard University. Dr. Tal was the founding director of Adam Teva V’din\, the Israel Union for Environmental Defense from 1990-1997\, a leading public interest law group and was chairman of Life and Environment\, an umbrella group for eighty environmental organizations in Israel from 1998-2003. In 1996\, Dr. Tal founded the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies\, a graduate studies center in which Israeli\, Jordanian and Palestinian students join environmentalists from around the world in an advanced interdisciplinary research program. He currently is chairman of the committee for land development that oversees forestry and land reclamation on the international board of the Jewish National Fund (KKL) and represents Israel’s Foreign Ministry at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. In 2006 he was awarded the Charles Bronfman humanitarian prize for environmental leadership. In 2008\, in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary the Ministry of Environment granted him a life achievement award at age 48. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alon-tal-environmental-history-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110207T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110131T224303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110131T224303Z UID:10004735-1297049400-1297098000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Lubeck: "The Challenge of Global Islam for American Energy Security: Explaining the Enigma of Radical Islamism in Nigeria" DESCRIPTION:CGIRS and College Nine Faculty Research Seminar Series\nThe CGIRS and College Nine seminar series is an inter-disciplinary venue in which UCSC faculty can present their research to the community of professors and students who are interested in international\, comparative\, transnational and area studies work. Our goal is to promote dialogue and awareness of the types of research we conduct on our campus.  Please join us for our second year on the first Mondays of the month at Social Sciences 1 room 261 from 3:30-5:00 pm. \nAll are welcome   –   Refreshments served \nFebruary 7th:  Paul Lubeck (Sociology) with discussant Terry Burke (History) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-lubeck-the-challenge-of-global-islam-for-american-energy-security-explaining-the-enigma-of-radical-islamism-in-nigeria-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110207 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101013T013217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T013217Z UID:10004625-1296777600-1297036799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Bowles Centennial Festival DESCRIPTION:Bowles at 100: A Celebration of Multi-Artistry\nUCSC’s Paul Bowles Centennial Festival presents an international group of scholars\, writers\, filmmakers\, and performers to celebrate the multi-faceted artistry of Paul Bowles. Festival highlights include: concerts of Bowles’ orchestral and vocal music; an exhibition of images and artifacts from Bowles’ six-decade career; a conference with presentations on Bowles’ activities as a writer\, composer\, translator\, ethnographer\, and traveller. The festival provides a unique opportunity to experience the depth and range of the works of this fascinating American master. \nSponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Porter College\, Cowell College\, Office of Research\, Division of the Arts\, Division of Graduate Studies. \nProgram\nFriday\, February 4\nCONFERENCE: COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM \n9:00–9:15 am   Introductory Remarks\nTyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann \n9:15–10:45 am   Paul Bowles as a Modernist: Making Strange\, Making it New\nAllen Hibbard\, “Paul Bowles and Modernism”\nRob Wilson\, “Bowles\, the Beats\, and ‘Fellaheen Orientalism’”\nJimmy Fazzino\, “Bowles’ World Beats” \n10:45–11:15 am   Coffee Break \n11:15–12:45 pm   Paul Bowles in North Africa\nBrian Edwards\, “Paul Bowles in Moroccan Circulation”\nJeffrey Miller\, “Publishing Paul Bowles: Cross-cultural Complexities”\nMichael Wolfe\, “Layachi\, Mrabet\, and Bowles: Some Memories & Reflections” \n12:45–2:00 pm   Lunch Break \n2:00–3:30 pm   Bowles’ Resistant Biographies\nMillicent Dillon\, “Paul Bowles and the Perils of Biography”\nMargaux Cowden\, “Seriously Queer: Reflections on the Earnest Intimacies of Jane and Paul Bowles”\nIrene Herrmann\, “Notes on Musical Friendship” \n3:30–4:00 pm   Coffee Break \n4:00–5:30 pm   Ten Minutes Walk from Bowles’ Apartment\nKeynote presentation by filmmakers Karim Debbagh and Frieder Schlaich \nCONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL \n6:00-7:30 pm   Manhattan Skyline \nEnsemble Parallèle – Nicole Paiement\, conductor\nMichael McGushin\, spoken word \nThe Dancer (West Coast Premiere)\nRomantic Suite (West Coast Premiere)\nThree Pastoral Songs (West Coast Premiere)\nSelected Songs for Voice and Piano \nSaturday\, February 5\nCONFERENCE: COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM \n9:00–9:10 am   Introductory Remarks \nTyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann \n9:10–10:40 am   Bowles’s Other Personae\nRodrigo Rey Rosa\, “Paul Bowles as Translator”\nTimothy Mangan\, “Paul Bowles as Music Critic”\nPhilip Schuyler\, “The Composer as Collector” \n10:40–11:00 am   Coffee Break \n11:00–12:00 pm   Excavating Paul Bowles\nFilm footage and presentation by Timothy Murray and Francis Poole \n12:00–12:30 pm   You are Not I\nFilm screening with filmmaker Sara Driver \n12:30–1:30 pm   Lunch Break \nEXHIBITION: ELOISE PICKARD SMITH GALLERY\, COWELL COLLEGE \n1:30–3:30 pm “Bowles in Black and White\,” Exhibition Opening and Reception \nKEYNOTE PRESENTATION: HUMANITIES LECTURE HALL \n3:30–5:00 pm   The Desert and Fatality: Learning from Paul Bowles\nEdumund White \nCONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL \n5:30–6:30 pm   A Musical Portrait \nBrian Staufenbiel\, Patrice Maginnis\, voice\nMichael McGushin\, Irene Herrmann\, piano\nJohn Dizikes\, spoken word \nTwo-Piano Sonata\nMexican Dances for Two Pianos (West Coast Premiere)\nBlue Mountain Ballads\nTwo Gertrude Stein songs (West Coast Premiere)\nSongs with Texts by Jane Bowles\, Paul Bowles\nCuatro Canciones de Garcia Lorca\nSelected Readings from Paul Bowles texts \nSunday\, February 6\nCONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL \n11:00–12:00 pm   The Unknown Bowles\nDizikes Music Event\, cosponsored by Cowell College \nAriose Vocal Ensemble – Michael McGushin\, conductor\nRodrigo Rey Rosa\, spoken word \nSonata for Oboe and Clarinet\nFolk Song Settings (arranged by Irene Herrmann)\nTornado Blues (West Coast Premiere)\nThree Choral Settings of Bowles Songs (arranged by Michael McGushin)\nSongs from the Sierras\nReadings about Paul Bowles by his friends \n12:00–1:00 pm   Bowles Festival Closing Remarks\nTyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann \nLight reception to follow. \n\nFor more information visit: http://bowles.ihr.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-bowles-centennial-festival-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110203T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110131T232727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110131T232727Z UID:10004739-1296734400-1296739800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Keir Moulton: "CPs Don't Saturate - Deriving the Distribution of Clausal Complements" DESCRIPTION:A classic puzzle about CPs is that they distribute differently than nominal arguments. This fact is reflected\, among other things\, by the order of complements in English (Stowell 1981) and the right-peripheral position of CPs in many OV languages (Hindi\, Farsi\, German). This distribution has traditionally been seen as a reflex of grammatical function\, most famously encoded by Stowell’s case resistance principle (or modern variants\, Pesetsky and Torrego 2004). \nIn this talk I argue that the syntactic distribution of clausal arguments has its source in the semantic type of CPs. I begin by establishing a puzzle: that clause-taking predicates only form non-event nominals. I argue that the explanation for this puzzle requires that CPs are never able to saturate an argument position (cf. Grimshaw 1990). This also prevents CPs from combining as the internal argument of verbs. The only solution\, I claim\, is to turn the vP into something with the meaning of a one-place\, non-verbal predicate\, with which the ‘complement CP’ can combine. We then show how this motivates a vP raising analysis of the rightward position of CPs (Larson 1988a\,b) as opposed to an anti-symmetry analysis (Zwart 1993\, and following) \nKeir Moulton (McGill University) will give this job talk as a candidate for the Linguistics department’s Syntax faculty position. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/keir-moulton-cps-dont-saturate-deriving-the-distribution-of-clausal-complements-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110202T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110202T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110111T190845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110111T190845Z UID:10004713-1296648900-1296653400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pranav Anand: “Detecting Persuasion and Argument Cross-Culturally” DESCRIPTION:This talk reports on work that detects the kind of rhetorical structures a person uses when attempting to persuade an audience to believe or act in a certain manner. Professor Anand discusses the collection and annotation of 3000 English and 500 Arabic blogs for a variety of rhetorical structures implicated in persuasion by communication theorists and a computational system that tries to learn from these annotations. \nPranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pranav-anand-detecting-persuasion-and-argument-cross-culturally-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110201T174500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101124T024458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T024458Z UID:10004527-1296576000-1296582300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marcelo Dimentstein & Alejandro Dujovne: "A fragmented tradition: Jewish studies in Argentina" DESCRIPTION:Compared with other Jewish Communities in the diaspora\, the Argentine Jewish community presents a remarkable paradox: Although it is the largest\, most plural and probably the most highly institutionalized Jewish community in Latin America\, it has lacked a tradition of academic Jewish studies. Taking this paradox as our point of departure\, in this lecture we will explore the historical conditions that limited this development. The study of this question will allow us not only to approach the understanding of the current trends of Jewish studies in the country\, but also to focus our attention on some cultural aspects of Argentine Jewish history. \nMarcelo Dimentstein coordinates the JDC International Centre for Community Development (JDC-ICCD) based in Paris and Oxford.  He has a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires and is currently enrolled in a PhD program in History. He did research on various aspects of the Jewish Community in Argentina including the Jewish labor Bund and the urban history of the Jewish neighborhood in Buenos Aires. His dissertation is about the role of JDC in Europe between 1989 and 1999. Marcelo is a member and co-founder of the “Núcleo de Estudios Judios” (NEJ)\, a group of young researchers dedicated to Jewish Argentinean History. \nAlejandro Dujovne holds a Ph.D. in social sciences (IDES-Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento). He is a member of the research project “Written culture\, printed word and intellectual field”  at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba\, and founder and member of the Jewish Studies Area of IDES (NEJ).  He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). His doctoral dissertation examined the production and circulation of books in the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the frame of a wider transnational geography of production and circulation of “Jewish books” between 1919 and 1979. His current research focuses on the social trajectories of five Jewish publishers who were key figures in the Argentine cultural modernization process between 1946 and 1970. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcelo-dinnerstein-alejandro-dujovne-jewish-latin-america-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110201T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110201T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110131T230332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110131T230332Z UID:10004737-1296563400-1296567000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eric Porter: Book Reading and Signing DESCRIPTION:Eric Porter\, Professor and Chair of American Studies\, will be reading from his new book The Problem of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury.  \nThe Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out\, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois\, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s and early 1950s has not been thoroughly examined in its historical context\, nor has sufficient attention been paid to the theoretical interventions he made during those years. Porter locates Du Bois’s later work in relation to what he calls “the first postracial moment.” He suggests that Du Bois’s midcentury writings are so distinctive and so relevant for contemporary scholarship because they were attuned to the shape-shifting character of modern racism\, and in particular to the ways that discredited racial taxonomies remained embedded and in force in existing political-economic arrangements at both the local and global levels. Porter moves the conversation about Du Bois and race forward by building on existing work about the theorist\, systematically examining his later writings\, and looking at them from new perspectives\, partly by drawing on recent scholarship on race\, neoliberalism\, and empire. The Problem of the Future World shows how Du Bois’s later writings help to address race and racism as protean\, global phenomena in the present. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-porter-book-reading-and-signing-2/ LOCATION:Baytree Bookstore\, UCSC\, Bay Tree Bookstore 1156 High street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 94064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110128T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110128T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110111T003348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110111T003348Z UID:10004711-1296208800-1296226800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Messing with Haraway": A Celebration in Honor of Professor Donna Haraway DESCRIPTION:Donna Haraway\, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz\, has shaped an entire generation of scholars and scholarship. Her wit\, brilliance\, generosity\, dedication to her students has had and will continue to have immeasurable consequences. A community of scholars attuned to feminist science studies and multi-species flourishing is but one part of her unparalleled legacy. \nThis one day celebration is an opportunity for the UCSC community to express the effect Donna  Haraway has had on the way we research\, teach\, learn with\, think with\, live with\, eat with a variety of multispecies companions.  Our event\, “Messing with Haraway\,” is about eating together\, as messmates and intellectual companions\, while engaging playfully with Haraway’s scholarship and continuing the game of cat’s cradle that she helped us learn how to play.  The UCSC Science Studies Cluster invites you to join us for a day multi-media art\, live performances\, virtual presences\, and a tasty meal\, which is sure to be a feast for the thoughtful body\, hungry mind\, and feminist soul. \nAdmission is free and open to everyone.  But because of limited space\, you must RSVP to receive a ticket to this event. Please RSVP to MessingWithHaraway@gmail.com before January 15th\, 2010 to ensure your place around our table. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/messing-with-haraway-a-celebration-in-honor-of-professor-donna-haraway-2/ LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110110T191021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110110T191021Z UID:10004537-1296151200-1296157500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Emily Carr\, Maureen Foster\, Lindsay Knisely\, and Ingrid Moody DESCRIPTION:Emily Carr’s first book\, directions for flying (Furniture Press\,) is available through SPD. 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2\, chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New Measures Poetry Prize\, is forthcoming early next year. Until then\, you can read Emily’s work in magazines like Prairie Schooner\, Caketrain\, Fourteen Hills\, Isotope\, The Capilano Review\, So To Speak\, ISLE\, dusie\, Versal\, and others. \nMaureen Foster is the author of two novels\, Beginners\, and Sparks\, and her poetry and short fiction have appeared in The Pacific Review and Word River. She currently teaches writing and film at UC Santa Cruz at both Crown and Merrill Colleges. \nLindsay Knisely attended Oberlin College in Ohio\, where she started out as a Neuroscience major and ended up a Creative Writing major with minors in African-American Literature and Psychology. Lindsay received her MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon\, and her work has been included in several journals and anthologies\, including Not A Muse: A World Poetry Anthology. \nIngrid Browning Moody’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, RHINO\, The Texas Review and elsewhere. Her chapbook\, Arriving After Dark\, won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and will be published by Texas Review Press in fall 2011. \nCo-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program\, the Literature Department\, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-emily-carr-maureen-foster-lindsay-knisley-and-ingrid-moody-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101124T023939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T023939Z UID:10004526-1296144000-1296149400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rhacel Parreñas: "Women's Migration as Indentured Mobility: How Gendered Protectionist Laws Leave Filipina Hostesses Dependent on Migrant Brokers and Susceptible to Forced Sexual Labor" DESCRIPTION:Parreñas’ talk describes the migration process of Filipina hostesses to Japan. She explains why they are dependent on middleman brokers and how this dependency leaves them susceptible to forced sexual labor. While acknowledging the indenture and vulnerability of Filipina hostesses to abusive labor conditions\, she questions universal claims of their human trafficking that has been made by the U.S. Department of State and show how the solutions advocated by the United States to their supposed trafficking actually aggravate their susceptibility to forced sexual labor. As an alternative to the idea of “human trafficking\,” Parreñas introduces the concept of indentured mobility.” This concept provides a middle ground between ‘human trafficking’ and ‘independent labor migration.’ This new perspective calls for a different solution to indenture and forced labor from the universal solution of “rescue\, rehabilitation\, and reintegration” that has been posed by the United States. \nRhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She writes on women’s issues in migration and economic globalization. Her latest book\, The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (NYU Press\, 2008)\, examines the constitution of gender in economic globalization. Currently on sabbatical as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, she is writing a book on the labor and migration of Filipina hostesses in Tokyo. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rhacel-parrenas-womens-migration-as-indentured-mobility-how-gendered-protectionist-laws-leave-filipina-hostesses-dependent-on-migrant-brokers-and-susceptible-to-forced-sexual-labor-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110121T184107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110121T184107Z UID:10004718-1296144000-1296147600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Peter Blickle: “New Developments in the Discourse of Heimat” DESCRIPTION:Today\, just as during any other period since the end of the eighteenth century\, the idea of Heimat (home\, homeland) is a central part of German-speaking people’s attempts to make sense of the world they live in. The regressive aspects of the idea are troubling. Any concrete interaction with the idea of Heimat in the political realm has\, historically speaking\, served sooner or later to further exclusions. And all too often the idea of Heimat has assisted in more than mere exclusions. \nStarting with definitions from his book Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (2002)\, Professor Blickle look at examples of such excluding uses of the traditional idea of Heimat. He then goes on to investigate more recent uses. They show the idea of Heimat in a new light – at home in the margins and including the Other rather than excluding it. \nOver the past decade and a half fundamental shifts have occurred in the uses of Heimat. For many\, Heimat has become mobile and unpredictable. Heimat surprises. And the fundamental feminization of the traditional Heimat has given way to more open\, more ambiguous\, more searching\, and sometimes even more playful interactions with the world. \nPeter Blickle received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995. He is the author of two scholarly books\, one in English\, Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (Camden House 2002)\, and one in German\, Maria Beig und die Kunst der scheinbaren Kunstlosigkeit (Maria Beig and the Art of Appearing Primitive\, Edition Isele 1997). His book on Heimat (home\, homeland) has established itself as one of the standard works on this German concept. He is also the author of a novel\, Blaulicht im Nebel (Ambulance in Fog\, Edition Isele 2002)\, and he translated Rosina Lippi’s novel Homestead into German (Im Schatten der Drei Schwestern\, Rowohlt/Wunderlich 2002). Together with Jaimy Gordon\, he translated Maria Beig’s novel Lost Weddings into English (Persea Books 1990). For his creative works in German\, he received the Irseer Pegasus Award (2004)\, the Robert L. Kahn Poetry Award (2007)\, and the Geertje Potash Prose Prize (2009). He is professor of German at Western Michigan University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-blickle-new-developments-in-the-discourse-of-heimat-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110127T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110124T182944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110124T182944Z UID:10004729-1296129600-1296135000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Terje Lohndal: “Domains of Agreement” DESCRIPTION:Current wisdom has it that syntactic agreement between one head and multiple dependents (Multiple Agree) is possible and perhaps empirically required. In this talk\, I will consider data from West Flemish that bear on this issue and argue that such agreement does not exist. I will then address the question of why grammars forbid such multiple agreement. I will scrutinize two hypotheses\, an intervention hypothesis and a cycliclity hypothesis\, and argue that the cyclicity hypothesis is the better one. \nThis lecture is part of the Linguistic Department’s Winter colloquium series as well as their Syntax job search. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/terje-lohndal-domains-of-agreement-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110126T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110126T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110111T185909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110111T185909Z UID:10004712-1296044100-1296048600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Megan C. Thomas: “Secrecy’s Use: Education\, Enlightenment\, and Propaganda” DESCRIPTION:Using Mikhail Bakunin’s theorization of authority as a starting point\, this talk explores secrecy as a strategy for political enlightenment\, and calls attention to earlier conceptions of “propaganda” as education that were lost with the militarization of the term in the twentieth century. \nMegan C. Thomas is Associate Professor of Politics at UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/megan-c-thomas-secrecys-use-education-enlightenment-and-propaganda-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110125T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110106T202452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110106T202452Z UID:10004707-1295982000-1295987400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Community Book Group with Karen Tei Yamashita DESCRIPTION:Dazzling and ambitious\, this hip\, multi-voiced fusion of prose\, playwriting\, graphic art\, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas\, one for each year\, I Hotel begins in 1968\, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated\, students took to the streets\, the Vietnam War raged\, and cities burned. \nAs Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students\, laborers\, artists\, revolutionaries\, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day\, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion\, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience. \nWe invite you to read  I Hotel\, then come to Bookshop Santa Cruz on January 25th for a community discussion of the book facilitated by Julie Minnis. It will be followed by a dialogue with Karen Yamashita. \nFor more information:\nhttp://news.ucsc.edu/2011/01/yamashita-bookshop-appearance.html \nhttp://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/community-book-group-karen-tei-yamashita \nhttp://www.santacruzsentinel.com/education/ci_17008747 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-book-group-with-karen-tei-yamashita-2/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110120T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110110T181323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110110T181323Z UID:10004535-1295546400-1295552700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Micah Perks and Melissa Sanders-Self DESCRIPTION: Micah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here and a memoir\, Pagan Time. She has published short stories in ZYZZYVA\, Massachusetts Review\, The Best Underground Fiction and many others. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and she has been the recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant\, three Blue Mountain Center Residencies and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. \n \nMelissa Sanders-Self has published fiction with New Rivers Press\, New Brighton Books\, and Doubleday. Her first novel\, All That Lives\, was published by Warner Books. She is currently working on a new novel and is a lecturer in creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and at Western Connecticut State University’s MFA program. \nCo-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program\, the Literature Department\, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-michah-perks-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110120T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101215T231015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101215T231015Z UID:10004698-1295524800-1295528400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IHR Workshop: "Essential Humanities Research Tools and Hidden Gems" DESCRIPTION:McHenry Library\, Photo by Lindsay Winblad\nWould you like an opportunity to become (re)acquainted with some of the library’s electronic resources for humanists and also learn about some of the less-known features of these databases? Please join librarians Kerry Scott and Elisabeth Remak-Honnef for an overview of these resources. This session is aimed at faculty\, staff and grad students in the humanities. We welcome your questions! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-workshop-essential-humanities-research-tools-and-hidden-gems-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110119T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110119T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110107T180303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110107T180303Z UID:10004530-1295439300-1295443800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Heather Love: “The Stigma Archive” DESCRIPTION:Professor Love\, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard\, 2007)\, is at the Stanford Humanities Center this year. She is working on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman’s Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963). Stigma serves as a methodological case study for thinking through the challenges and possibilities of comparative studies of social exclusion. \nHeather Love is Associate Professor of English\, University of Pennsylvania. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/heather-love-the-stigma-archive-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101221T211633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101221T211633Z UID:10004702-1294941600-1294947900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Celebration of Karen Tei Yamashita's Novel "I Hotel" DESCRIPTION:As part of the Living Writers Series\, Literature and Creative Writing Professor Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her novel\, I Hotel; Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award\, Fiction. \nThere will also be conversations with:\n• Allan Kornblum\, publisher for Coffee House Press\n• Sina Grace\, illustrator of I Hotel and UCSC Creative Writing alum. \nCopies of I Hotel will be available for purchase at the event\, courtesy of Bay Tree Bookstore. \nSponsored by the Humanities Division\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. \nRead the full article: UC Santa Cruz Literature professor nominated for National Book Award. \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Literature Department and The Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-celebration-of-karen-tei-yamashitas-novel-i-hotel-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101124T020344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T020344Z UID:10004524-1294934400-1294941600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John MacFarlane: "A Puzzle about Modal Necessity" DESCRIPTION:When does it make sense to be uncertain whether it’s possible that p? On many accounts of the semantics of epistemic modals\, including the one favored by Professor MacFarlane\, epistemic modal uncertainty should be appropriate only when one is (a) uncertain about what one knows\, or more generally about what is contained in the body of information relevant to evaluating the modal\, or (b) uncertain about whether the complement of the modal is compatible with that body of information. However\, there are cases in which epistemic modal uncertainty seems natural even though neither of these conditions is met. Professor MacFarlane will consider what should be said about these cases\, and about parallel cases of uncertainty about what ought to be done. \nJohn MacFarlane is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. He grew up in northern New Mexico and attended Harvard University\, graduating in 1991 with an A.B. summa cum laude in Philosophy and an honors thesis on Plato’s Protagoras and Gorgias. After a year working on the Navajo reservation in Arizona\, he went on to the University of Pittsburgh\, earning an M.A. in Classics in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2000. His dissertation\, “What Does It Mean to Say that Logic Is Formal?”\, which he wrote under the supervision of Robert Brandom and Nuel D. Belnap\, sought to illuminate contemporary debates about the demarcation of logic by looking at the genealogy of some key concepts used in those debates. MacFarlane has been teaching at Berkeley since 2000. While he has continued to work and teach in ancient philosophy and the philosophy of logic\, the main focus of his research in the last eight years has been the philosophy of language. He has sought to make intellectually respectable the idea that the contents of our thought and talk can be “assessment-sensitive”–that is\, their truth as assessed from a context can depend on features of that context–and put this idea to use in solving philosophical and semantic problems concerning future contingents\, epistemic and deontic modals\, knowledge attributions\, claims of taste\, and indicative conditionals. He is currently working on a unified\, book-length presentation of this work. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-macfarlane-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101124T020721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T020721Z UID:10004525-1294920000-1294923600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joshua Schreier: "Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria" DESCRIPTION:How did Algerian Jews respond to and appropriate France’s newly conceived “civilizing mission” in the mid-nineteenth century? The mission to civilize may have been rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration\, enlightenment\, and emancipation\, but it developed “on the ground” as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the diverse and unruly populations of Algeria’s cities. This meant weakening the influence of local networks and institutions in Algeria by “uplifting” the supposedly oppressed and corrupt Jews of Algeria and attaching them to the French administration. Central to this gendered\, moralizing campaign was an effort to submit Algerian Jews to French marriage and family law. Taken together\, civilizing’s various policies were intended to help establish a colonial hierarchy by dividing Jews from their Muslim neighbors. Local Algerian Jews\, however\, were not passive recipients of this campaign. While energetically adopting the language of civilization\, they used it to maintain their own rabbis\, synagogues\, and schools\, and to resist policies intended to reshape their marriage customs\, institutional life\, and religious faith. \nJoshua Schreier is an Associate Professor of History at Vassar College. He was raised in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Baltimore\, Maryland. He received is BA from the University of Chicago and his MA and Ph.D. from New York University. He has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Middlebury College. \nSchreier works at the intersection of Middle Eastern\, Algerian\, Jewish\, and French histories. His research focuses on French colonialism in Algeria\, and notably how several deeply-rooted North African Jewish communities responded to French imperial policy in the years before the rise of the “Imperial” (Third) Republic in 1870. He is interested in how French officials deployed the ideology of “civilization” to consolidate colonial rule\, but also how local actors co-opted\, reformulated\, or deflected it. He has also written about how French lawmakers and legal thinkers used Jewish and Muslim religious law\, and specifically those concerning the family\, to deny or confer citizenship to Algerian Muslims and Jews. His forthcoming book is entitled “‘Arabs of the Jewish Faith:’ The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria.” \nProfessor Schreier teaches an introductory course on the modern Middle East\, as well as intermediate courses on the Israel-Palestine conflict and French colonial cultures. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the UC Mediterranean Studies MRP. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joshua-schreier-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110107T235704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110107T235704Z UID:10004531-1294858800-1294864200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series DESCRIPTION:The The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series has been cancelled on 01/12/2011 due to illness. \nChuck Atkinson will be reading poetry. Sarah Rabkin will be reading from her forthcoming book\, What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World. Stephen Sweat will be presenting on the representation of literacy in eighteenth-century engravings.  It promises to be an evening of tremendous fun and relaxation as the quarter begins.  Please join us for a fantastic evening\, and see that we all do far more than teach in the classroom. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-2011-reading-series-5/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110110T205057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110110T205057Z UID:10004710-1294851600-1294855200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: Riddle & Bind & Generators DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort will read from his recent book\, Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010)\, which contains poems that relate to his work in digital media. These include riddles (figuratively describing something that is left for the reader to guess) as well as constrained writing à la Oulipo. Then\, he’ll read some of the output of a few of my concise\, free text generators\, including my just-published collaboration with Stephanie Strickland\, Sea and Spar Between. The words in Sea and Spar Between come from Emily Dickinson’s poems and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The talk will conclude with him taking questions and discussing the poems and systems presented. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montfort-riddle-bind-generators-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101214T212527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101214T212527Z UID:10004696-1294849800-1294857000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bishnupriya Ghosh: "The 'Saint of the Gutters': Mother Teresa as Corporeal Aperture" DESCRIPTION:The customary critique of Mother Teresa reads her image as a compromised mass commodity\, the anointed saint who habitually produces the “third world” as her necessary gutter. While it is certainly the case that global icons of her ilk lure consumers into commodity fetishism\, isolating them from social relations\, we see these recursive images routinely deployed in challenges to hegemonic institutions all over the world; reassembled culturally familiar icons surface in the new negotiations over global modernity\, often making the news when they instigate outbreaks of iconophobia or iconomania. These iconoclashes suggest there is more to the story of mass stupefaction told in the iconoclastic critique. What better way to think beyond this promissory skepticism than to relocate the scholarly gaze to a global region replete with rich cultural histories of icon veneration? Mother Teresa\, then\, provides an exemplary instance of a general social phenomena: the periodic outbreaks of anger\, grief\, even riots\, around highly visible public figures (a Lady Diana\, a Barack Obama\, or an Eva Perón) circulating as icons in mass media. Looking closely at her eruption as popular saint in Kolkata\, the talk argues for a reconstituted theory of the icon properly attentive to the mass commodity’s sudden volatilization into a magical technology of the popular. \nWith a doctorate from Northwestern University\, Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she teaches postcolonial theory\, literature\, and global media studies. She has published essays on literature\, film and visual culture in several anthologies\, as well as journals such as boundary 2\, Journal of Postcolonial Studies\, Public Culture and Screen; a monograph\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP\, 2004); and a co-edited volume\, Interventions (Garland\, 1997). Her current projects include a second monograph\, Global Icons in Public Culture (forthcoming Duke UP) and a web-project on speculative communication in HIV/AIDS prevention media. \nThis event is presented by the Department of Feminist Studies. It was made possible by generous contributions from the Departments of Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, History of Art and Visual Culture and Anthropology. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bishnupriya-ghosh-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110107T175455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110107T175455Z UID:10004529-1294834500-1294839000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vilashini Cooppan: “Disciplining World Literature: History\, Memory\, & the Work of Worlding” DESCRIPTION:Professor Cooppan’s in-progress Race\, Writing\, and the Literary World System combines the economic analysis of world systems theory\, world literature models of global literary movement\, traditional theory and history of the novel\, and psychoanalytic and philosophical studies of political affect. It explores how literary economies have helped to express\, translate\, shape\, and contest the history of modern racial power\, from slavery and empire to apartheid and the war on terror. \nVilashini Cooppan is Associate Professor of Literature\, UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vilashini-cooppan-disciplining-world-literature-history-memory-the-work-of-worlding-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110111T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110106T184811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110106T184811Z UID:10004706-1294761600-1294768800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: "Curveship: Interactive Narrating for Interactive Fiction" DESCRIPTION:Curveship is an interactive fiction (IF) development system that adds support for interactive narrating — automatic narrative variation that is accomplished through text generation. For 30 years\, IF development systems have done very well at allowing us to build and manipulate world models\, which are then encountered by players using text-based interfaces. Curveship aims to do for the *narrative discourse* what IF has already done for the underlying story world\, to allow us to change important things about the narrating as easily as we can move a simulated object from one room to another. The system aims to facilitate research and teaching in AI (and expressive AI particularly)\, computational creativity\, creative NLP\, and narrative theory\, while also allowing allow author/programmers to create new sorts of games with new literary aspects. In my talk\, I will demo the system and\, in theoretical and practical terms\, discuss: \n – Curveship’s representation of actions.\n – Writing string-with-slots templates for description and representation.\n – Generating text using only high-level narrative parameters.\n – Developing different types of “spin” — specifications for narrating. \nCurveship has been tested and used in research by a small group; it is\nbeing prepared for a public release early in 2011. \nNick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry\, develops computer games\, and is a critic\, theorist\, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and is now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.  \nHe collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto\, the sticker novel Implementation\, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems\, text generators\, and interactive fiction. Montfort has co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO\, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press\, 2003) and written Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System\, (with Ian Bogost\, MIT Press\, 2009) and Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montfort-curveship-interactive-narrating-for-interactive-fiction-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110111T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101221T014839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101221T014839Z UID:10004700-1294747200-1294750800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tony Michels: "The Roots of Jewish Socialism: From New York to Russia and Back" DESCRIPTION:In the late nineteenth century\, a socialist workers’ movement burst onto the scene in New York City’s immigrant Jewish “ghetto.” Over subsequent decades and in cities around the country\, hundreds of thousands of men and women participated in this Jewish labor movement. They recast Jewish culture and community\, and made a strong imprint on American politics and social movements. Where did the Jewish labor movement come from? According to an old and widespread misperception\, immigrants transplanted radical traditions from Russia onto American soil. In fact\, the reverse was true. In the 1880s and 1890s\, most immigrants first discovered socialism in New York and other cities. They built the Jewish labor movement from scratch without support from Russia. Indeed\, New Yorkers provided crucial assistance to Russian Jewish revolutionaries\, enabling to start a workers movement of their own. \nTony Michels is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson\, ’89) and is now a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. His book\, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York\, won the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research for the best first book in Jewish Studies. Michels is editor of the forthcoming book Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Judaism: The Modern Era\, to be published in 2013. He is currently writing a history of Jewish Communists and Anti-Communists in the United States. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tony-michels-the-roots-of-jewish-socialism-from-new-york-to-russia-and-back-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110110T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110110T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20110106T183828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110106T183828Z UID:10004704-1294671600-1294678800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: "Line of Inquiry: Many Authors Explore Creative Computing Through a Short Program" DESCRIPTION:The following one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program: \n10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 \ncontinually generates a pleasing random maze pattern. In this talk\, I argue that this tiny program can serve as a Rosetta Stone to help us understand the interconnected cultural and technical aspects of creative computing\, practices of using the computer expressively and recreationally in innovative ways. These began in the late 1950s and include the making of computer games as well as other types of amusing and aesthetic programs. By analyzing this short program from multiple viewpoints\, I\, along with a group of authors who are collaborating with me on this project\, aim to show that there are several specific methods that are useful in reading code deeply and insightfully. In my talk\, I will discuss how different printed variants of this program exist\, how it is written in a particular programming language with a history\, and how it executes on a particular platform with a history. I will describe how writing ports to other platforms and creating other variants of this program has helped us understand which of its qualities are most significant and why. Finally\, I will describe how the program engages randomness\, iteration\, visualization\, and other wider topics\, such as our changing perception of mazes\, helping us to understand computing as it relates to culture. \nNick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry\, develops computer games\, and is a critic\, theorist\, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and is now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.  \nHe collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto\, the sticker novel Implementation\, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems\, text generators\, and interactive fiction. Montfort has co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO\, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press\, 2003) and written Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System\, (with Ian Bogost\, MIT Press\, 2009) and Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montford-line-of-inquiry-many-authors-explore-creative-computing-through-a-short-program-2/ LOCATION:Engineering 2 Room 506\, Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101203T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101013T012426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T012426Z UID:10004623-1291390200-1291395600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Catherine Fortin: In Defense of LF Copying: Some Whys and Hows DESCRIPTION:Abstract: It is well known that the distribution of wh-remnants in sluices\, unlike the distribution of wh-phrases in non-elliptical questions\, is largely immune to island effects\, as illustrated by the contrast below.\n(1) Irv and someone were dancing together\, but I don’t know who. (Ross 1969)\n(2) * Irv and someone were dancing together\, but I don’t know whoj [DP Irv and tj] were dancing together. \nWithin generative syntactic frameworks\, the generation of sluicing uncontroversially involves some type of ellipsis\, but the exact nature of the ellipsis remains an open question. The two primary approaches to sluicing\, ‘PF Deletion’ (Ross 1969\, Merchant 2001\, inter alia) and ‘LF Copying’ (Chung\, Ladusaw\, and McCloskey 1995 (CLM)\, Lobeck 1995\, inter alia)\, differ fundamentally in their account of the above contrast. Under PF Deletion\, sluices are derived identically to non-elliptical questions\, via wh-movement\, and islandhood is a property of PF representations only. Under LF Copying\, in contrast\, wh-remnants are base-generated clause-peripherally. \nIn this talk\, I have three goals. First\, I seek to provide fresh motivation\, assuming a standard Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995\, 2008)\, for LF Copying. Second\, I propose the outline of a Minimalist-minded LF Copying approach. Finally\, I argue that this approach uniquely accounts for the empirical problem posed by languages which subvert the Preposition Stranding Generalization (Merchant 2001)\, which predicts that only languages which allow preposition stranding in non-elliptical questions will allow prepositions to be deleted under sluicing. \nPresented by the Linguistics Research Center\, UCSC. For more information\, please contact Debbie Belville at irc@ling.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/syntax-visitor-series-catherine-fortin-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101119T181028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101119T181028Z UID:10004522-1291309200-1291312800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elaine Sullivan: “The Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak: 2000 Years of Rituals and Renovations” DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sullivan is currently project coordinator for the Project for the Implementation o f an\nUndergraduate Humanities Curriculum in Digital Cultural Mapping at UCLA. She has\nexcavated at the Greco-Roman site of Karanis in the Egyptian Fayoum for the past two\nseasons as part of the UCLA project at the site. \nPoster availablehere. \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elaine-sullivan-the-temple-of-amun-ra-at-karnak-2000-years-of-rituals-and-renovations-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101202T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101119T180456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101119T180456Z UID:10004521-1291298400-1291302000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethan Michaeli: The Holocaust and 'The Defender:' Two Generations of Jewish Reporters at a Black Newspaper DESCRIPTION:Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender\, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century\, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s\, the newspaper’s multi-racial roster of writers\, including a young Jewish editor named Ben Burns\, connected the struggle of African Americans for equal rights to Nazi persecution of Jews. Burns worked closely with poet Langston Hughes and others who placed the Holocaust in the top rank of their concerns. But Burns\, who had started his journalistic career at the Communist publication The Daily Worker\, did not address the Holocaust directly as a Jew. Instead\, he subsumed his Jewish identity and re-cast himself as a “black newspaperman\, black in my orientation and thinking\, in my concerns and outlook\, in my friends and associations\, black in everything but my skin color.” A half-century later\, from 1991-1996\, Ethan Michaeli worked as a copy editor and investigative reporter at The Defender\, during a period in which the newspaper was still one of three dailies in Chicago. For Michaeli\, the child of Holocaust survivors from Hungary\, working at The Defender provided a vantage point to re-evaluate American society\, as well as his own identity. \nBio: Ethan Michaeli is the author of the forthcoming book\, The Defender: How Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America\, from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, forthcoming). In 1991\, Michaeli began working for The Chicago Defender\, the historic African American-owned daily newspaper\, where his investigative reporting on the homeless\, environmental racism\, and police brutality won him awards from the Chicago Association of Black Journalists and the Muhammad Ali Foundation. In 1996\, Ethan launched Residents’ Journal\, an independent news magazine written for and by tenants of Chicago’s low-income public housing developments. He and the staff of Residents’ Journal have won numerous honors\, including the 2006 Studs Terkel Award\, and his writing has appeared in The Nation\, The Chicago Tribune\, In These Times\, and The Forward. Michaeli’s social justice work is inspired by his parents\, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Nazi occupation of their native Budapest before emigrating to Israel in 1949 and the United States in 1963. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethan-michaeli-title-tba-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101013T011825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T011825Z UID:10004622-1291204800-1291212000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Brickhouse: “The Writing of Unsettlement” DESCRIPTION:This talk discusses the narrative of Hernando Fontaneda de Escalante\, a 16th century former captive and a Creole man born in Cartagena de Indias\, who lived for seventeen years among the Calusa Indians of Florida. His account is considered one of the most extensive repositories of information about the Calusa\, yet it has received little sustained attention from literary scholars. The presentation explores how his text engages juridically with Spanish conquest\, resulting in the emergence of a genre we might call a “narrative of unsettlement.” \nAnna Brickhouse is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-brickhouse-the-writing-of-unsettlement-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101122T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101122T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101116T021133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101116T021133Z UID:10004519-1290445200-1290450600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deann Borshay Liem: Film: "IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE" DESCRIPTION:The Asian Diasporas Research Cluster at the Institute of Humanities Research is pleased to present the following film screening: \nIN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE (2010) \npreceded by a documentary short-in-progress on the Korean War\, MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR\, \nand followed by Q & A with filmmaker\, Deann Borshay Liem \nPoster available here. \nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 22\, 2010\, 5 p.m. \nCOMMUNICATIONS 150/STUDIO C \n(building located between Baskin Engineering and College 9/10) \nAbout the film: Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her true identity a secret from her new American family\, this eight-year-old girl quickly forgot she was ever anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee documents the search to find answers. Part mystery\, part personal odyssey\, the film follows acclaimed filmmaker\, Deann Borshay Liem\, as she returns to her native Korea to find her “double\,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. Traversing landscapes of memory\, amnesia\, and identity\, while also uncovering layers of deception in her adoption\, Borshay Liem’s moving and provocative film probes the ethics of international adoption and reveals the costs of living a lie. \nAbout the filmmaker: Deann Borshay Liem has over twenty years experience working in development\, production\, and distribution of independent documentaries. She is producer\, director\, and writer for the Emmy Award-nominated documentary\, First Person Plural (Sundance\, 2000)\, and executive producer for Spencer Nakasako’s Kelly Loves Tony (PBS\, 1998) and AKA Don Bonus (PBS\, 1996\, Emmy Award). She served as co-producer for Special Circumstances (PBS\, 2009)\, which follows Chilean exile\, Hector Salgado\, as he attempts to reconcile with former interrogators and torturers in Chile. She was the former director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) where she supervised the development\, distribution\, and broadcast of new films for public television and worked with Congress to support minority representation in public media. A Sundance Institute Fellow and a recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship\, Borshay Liem is the director\, producer\, and writer of the new feature-length documentary\, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee. \nCo-sponsored by Oakes College\, the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the Department of Film and Digital Media\, the Social Documentation Program\, the Department of History\, and Stevenson College\, this event is free and open to the public. For more information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. For disability-related needs\, please contact AA/PIRC at 459-5349 or aapirc@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deann-borshay-liem-film-in-the-matter-of-cha-jung-hee-2/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101122T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101117T004606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101117T004606Z UID:10004520-1290445200-1290448800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michael Scherer DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Michael Scherer – White House Correspondent for TIME Magazine and UCSC Literature/Creative Writing Alum.\nQuestions? Contact: Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu \nFlyer is available here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michael-scherer-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Seminar Room 159\, Seminar Room Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, University of California Santa Cruz: Kresge College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101119T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101013T011113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T011113Z UID:10004621-1290180600-1290186000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Amy Rose Deal: A-thematic possessor raising\, object shift\, and the grammar of valencet DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Linguistics Research Center\, UCSC. For more information\, please contact Debbie Belville at irc@ling.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/syntax-visitor-series-amy-rose-deal-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101118T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101118T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101013T010627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T010627Z UID:10004620-1290103200-1290106800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Earll Kingston DESCRIPTION:Earll Kingston\, a fourth generation Californian\, has performed with many Bay Area Theatres including the Berkeley Rep\, The Magic Theatre\, The Aurora Theatre\, and Anima Mundi. While living in Hawaii he acted in various episodes of “Hawaii 5-0” and “Magnum P.I.”. From 1990 to 1997 Kingston performed “Down The Great Unknown” at the Grand Canyon and at various venues around the U.S. Since 1994 he has assisted his wife\, the writer Maxine Hong Kingston\, in creating writing and meditation communities for the survivors of war and trauma. \nSponsored by the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC; Sponsorship from the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Poets & Writers\, Inc. with funding from The James Irvine Foundation\, co-sponsorship from the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Literature Department\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Kresge College Writing Center\, and Cowell College Press\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/earll-kingston-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101117T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101013T010015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T010015Z UID:10004609-1289995200-1290002400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dean Mathiowetz: “Haptic Hierarchy: Luxury as Political Affect” DESCRIPTION:This talk explores luxury as one way that hierarchy\, social distance\, and subordination are felt affectively by bodies in consumption-oriented societies. The project seeks to upend a tradition of social thought that interprets luxury consumption as an other-directed\, visually-mediated\, and easily-subverted “language” of hierarchy and class. Professor Mathiowetz is a political theorist and the author of Appeals to Interest: Language\, Contestation\, and Political Agency (Penn State\, 2011). \nDean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics at UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dean-mathiowetz-haptic-hierarchy-luxury-as-political-affect-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101105T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101105T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101027T235902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101027T235902Z UID:10004641-1288971000-1288980000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The University We Are For DESCRIPTION:Please see full posterfor speaker list and complete announcement! \nThe academy has been under considerable pressure recently\, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on\nknowledge formation\, and on pedagogical\, and organizational form. The university as such has come into\nquestion\, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses\namong faculty\, students\, research and administrative staff. At the same time\, there has been much less\nfocus on the university we might be for\, that which we might work together to promote\, whether in the\ntradition of Bishop Newman’s or Jan Pelikan’s reflections on “the idea of the university” or in Jacques\nDerrida’s critical conception of the university without condition. The distinguished panel will lead a\ndiscussion of “the university we are for”. Please join us in the second of a series on what should be a\ndynamic discussion of a set of issues crucial to the contemporary academy. \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-university-we-are-for-2/ LOCATION:Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities\, UC Berkeley\, Townsend Center For Humanitiesmore info‎ 220 Stephens Hall\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101104T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101104T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101102T191631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101102T191631Z UID:10004518-1288886400-1288891800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest" DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series:\nMario Garcia: “Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian’s Quest” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mario-garcia-rediscovering-and-rethinking-the-chicano-movement-a-historians-quest-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101104T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101104T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101027T235354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101027T235354Z UID:10004638-1288873800-1288879200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Workshop on the Future of the Humanities w/ David Theo Goldberg (UCHRI) DESCRIPTION:At this critical time in the history of our university and the academy\, in general\, please join us for a workshop on the future of the Humanities led by David Theo Goldberg\, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nGoldberg\, a professor at UC-Irvine\, is a ground breaking scholar of critical race theory and an award winning film-maker. The UCHRI administers a wide range of programs for scholars\, including Multicampus Research Groups\, President’s Faculty Research Fellowships\, Residential Research Groups\, Community Outreach and Teaching Grants\, Extramural Explorations\, and others.\nPanelists include:\nJim Clifford\nProfessor Emeritus\, History of Consciousness\nNathaniel Deutsch\nProfessor of History and Literature\nDirector\, Institute for Humanities Research\nCo-Director\, Center for Jewish Studies\nGail Hershatter\nProfessor and Chair\, Department of History\nFormer Chair\, Pacific Rim Research Program Executive Committee\nEric Porter\nProfessor and Chair\, Department of American Studies\nUCSC campus representative to UCHRI\nSteering committee member\, UC Center for New Racial Studies \nIf you would like to meet with David Theo Goldberg to talk about a specific UCHRI program after the workshop\, please contact Irena Polić\, ipolic@ucsc.edu \nFor further information and questions please contact: ihr@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-on-the-future-of-the-humanities-w-david-theo-goldberg-uchri-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101103T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101027T234610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101027T234610Z UID:10004636-1288800000-1288805400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Judge: "The Courtesan’s Other: Visibility\, Sexuality\, and the Republican Lady in Early Twentieth Century China" DESCRIPTION:In this richly illustrated lecture\, Joan Judge explores the emergence of “Republican Ladies\,” a new group of women in early twentieth century China\, who were more visible than their talented late imperial forebears and more respectable than their infamously public courtesan contemporaries. She draws upon photographs and texts that appeared in China’s first commercial women’s journal\, Funü shibao 婦女時報 (The women’s eastern times\, Shanghai 1911-1917)\, a journal committed to calling the new Republican woman into being. In her talk\, Judge probes the links between this self-conscious reconstitution of Chinese womanhood and the constitution of early Republican culture and politics. \nPoster available here. \nJoan Judge\, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Division of Humanities\, York University\, Toronto URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-judge-the-courtesans-other-visibility-sexuality-and-the-republican-lady-in-early-twentieth-century-china-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101029T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101029T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101021T151028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101021T151028Z UID:10004632-1288357200-1288360800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pacific Rim Research Program 2011-12 Call for Proposals & INFORMATIONAL MEETING DESCRIPTION:Interested faculty and graduate students are welcome to learn more about the Pacific Rim Research Program grants during this informational meeting. \nThe current Call is now available from the PRRP website at: http://pacrim.ucsc.edu. Here is a snapshot of what is offered this year. \nFACULTY GRANTS \nInitiative: This is a new thematically focused grant in the range of $30-50\,000\, which may be expended over a multi-year period. For the 2011-12 grant competition\, the PRRP invites Faculty Initiative Grant applications on the topic “Responses to Crisis in the Pacific Rim.” (3-5 grants in this category will be awarded for 2011-12). \nResearch/planning: Enable investigators to refine a hypothesis or line of inquiry\, develop a strategy for implementation\, and share or disseminate research findings. The workshop and planning grant program provides up to $25\,000 to UC faculty and graduate students for conferences\, workshops\, and other collaborative research endeavors. (4-6 grants in this category will be awarded for 2011-12). \nGRADUATE STUDENT GRANTS \nAdvanced Graduate Research Fellowship: Research Fellowships support graduate students in a year of dissertation research or its equivalent. Graduate students may apply for a maximum of $20\,000 for a year of dissertation or similar advanced research. (10+ grants in this category will be awarded for 2011-12). \nThe three types of applications above are reviewed and eight are selected by our campus committee (see Call for required documents and procedures). The mandatory UCSC campus review deadline is December 1\, 2010. The eight selected to go to the PRRP Executive Committee will be due by February 18\, 2011. \nFor all deadlines and application guidelines\, please see the Call for Proposals and Guidelines\, available at http://pacrim.ucsc.edu or from your PRRP campus liaison\, Lisa Nishioka\, pacrim@ucsc.edu or 831/459-2833. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-rim-research-program-2011-12-call-for-proposals-informational-meeting-2/ LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101022T163929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101022T163929Z UID:10004633-1288281600-1288285200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CHRISTOPHER DURT: "Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy" DESCRIPTION:Philosophy graduate student Christopher Durt will give the following talk\, “Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy\,” as a Work in Progress. \nCome join us! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-durt-galileo-and-the-emergence-of-modern-philosophy-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101026T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101026T041431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101026T041431Z UID:10004634-1288108800-1288114200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Mraz: "Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments\, Icons\, Documents" DESCRIPTION:John Mraz will examine the photography made during the armed struggle\, 1910-1920\, through a profusely illustrated lecture. He will then place particular emphasis on identifying the commitment of photographers to different groups in Mexico by looking at five Revolutionary icons. \nJohn Mraz is a Research Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Puebla\, Mexico. \nThis series is sponsored by: the UC Santa Cruz Chicano/Latino Research Center; UCSC Departments of History; History of Art and Visual Culture; Latin American and Latino Studies; and by Oakes College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-mraz-photographing-the-mexican-revolution-commitments-icons-documents-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101022T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101022T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101015T213756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101015T213756Z UID:10004631-1287759600-1287770400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Open Access Day at McHenry Library DESCRIPTION:Open Access Week is an annual international event promoting the idea that scholarly research should be freely and openly available. For Open Access Week 2010\, the University Library is sponsoring an afternoon event where about a dozen faculty members representing each of the academic divisions will talk about the ways in which they are making their research\, data and teaching resources freely accessible. Please join us\, starting at 3:00 pm\, for an opportunity to see how UCSC researchers across the disciplines are addressing open access publishing. You are welcome to stay as long as you like. Refreshments will be served. \nSchedule of speakers available here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/open-access-day-at-mchenry-library-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101020T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101020T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20101012T180820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101012T180820Z UID:10004608-1287595800-1287601200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ruth Mueller: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself? Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist” DESCRIPTION:Ruth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. \nShe will present: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself?  Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist\,” at UCSC on Wednesday\, October 20\, 2010. \nDonna Haraway has argued that “the exclusion of the non-independent person” (Haraway 1997) has been constitutive for the social organization of the emerging modern sciences\, practically excluding everyone but the bourgeois white man from participating in scientific knowledge production\, in part because the multiple others were perceived as socially and emotionally bound\, attached and tied. Drawing on recent research work in Austria and the US\, this talk will look into how independence\, tielessness and detachment are essential features of the scientific self in the contemporary socio-epistemic configurations of the academic life sciences. It look at how the ideal scientific person – especially in fast growing\, highly global and increasingly commercialized fields such as the life sciences – is still imagined as being tied to nothing but science itself\, happily subordinating other interests in life to the scientific vocation. \nAgainst a backdrop of rising competition for academic positions\, it seems that in the life sciences and in academia beyond\, increasingly normative ideas are emerging about what a scientist’s life course should look like in order to qualify for a career in science. Central elements of this normative vision include engaging in international mobility and global competition\, as well as submitting to ongoing procedures of evaluation\, application and selection. Together\, these requirements constitute a kind of “blueprint” for measuring the quality of the scientists’ work and the suitability of their lives for careers in research – a blueprint which has become institutionalized in the employment and assessment policies of contemporary academic institutions. \nThese contemporary career rationales both draw on and rework the notion of the detached\, independent\, tieless scientists on a number of levels\, participating in the shaping of a nomadic\, disposable research scientist who is accumulating nothing “but the absence of inhibition\, a sort of free energy prepared to invest itself anywhere.” (Latour 1984) \nHowever\, at any given moment in time\, these scientists are also part of specific local collectives – such as research group\, project teams – in which they work and live. This paper will explore how young scientists make sense of these different forms of collectivity in their local research environments\, given the current career rationales that emphasise individualism\, competition\, mobility and tielessness. I will argue that what we are currently witnessing is a trend towards the institutionalization of highly fragile and exploitative social relations in academic settings and of a “devil-may-care” mentality towards colleagues\, groups and institutions that young scientists increasingly consider an obligatory trait for making a career in the life sciences today. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-mueller-bound-to-nothing-but-science-itself-academic-life-science-careers-and-the-nomadic-disposable-research-scientist-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091101T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20130114T235734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T235734Z UID:10004767-1256979600-1257080400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making DESCRIPTION:Recognizing the Academic\, Activist and Cultural Interventions of a Contemporary Visionary\nFor almost four decades\, Angela Y. Davis’s scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a public intellectual and has radically transformed many sites of knowledge production\, including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a site of intervention and social transformation. Few professors have had such a broad impact in their fields of expertise or on the world in their lifetimes. This gathering of her former students\, in conversation with scholars nationally\, maps the impact of her vision on issues such as democratic theory\, philosophy\, Marxism\, cultural studies/popular culture\, social policy\, race\, class\, and feminisms. Professor Davis has also trained students as activist scholars for almost four decades in both university systems in California. We thus convene this conference to examine the poetics and politics of Professor Davis’s pedagogy in California over the past forty years (1969-2009) and to consider how her role as an activist-scholar-teacher bridges the academy/community divide and dismantles the false dichotomy of theory/praxis. \nOne focus of the event will be to highlight cultural production that has emerged in conversation with the writing and theorizing that Angela Davis has facilitated and inspired. We are inviting Professor Davis’ colleagues\, friends\, and family to provide video messages recognizing her considerable on-going contributions to academic and activist work; these will be compiled into a montage to be screened at the symposium. The event\, as a whole\, will be recorded\, and we plan to liaise with the California Documentary Fund to translate those records into a multi-media resource for education. There will also be an evening of music and poetry in honor of Professor Davis and her contributions to cultural “legacies in the making.” \nSaturday\, October 31\, 2009\nHumanities Lecture Hall \n9:00 am – Breakfast \n9:15 am – Screening The Fire This Time\, a trailer of a film by Blair Doroshwalther \n9:45 am – Welcome \n10:00 am – Panel 1: Voices of Resistance\nFacilitator: Rashad Shabazz\, George Washington Henderson Post Doctoral Fellow\, Geography\, University of Vermont \nW. Mark Cobb\, Theoretical Transmission and Creative Defiance: Angela Davis and Intergenerational Politics \nChe Gossett\, Kiyoshi Kuromiya and the Legacy of Queer and Trans Anti-Prison Activism \nJordan T. Camp\, The Sound Before the Fury of the Oppressed \nAndrea Smith\, The Color of Violence: Angela Davis and the Radicalization of the\nAnti-Violence Movement \n11:30 am – Panel 2: Race\, Gender\, and Politics\nFacilitator: J. Kehaulani Kauanui\, American Studies\, Anthropology\, Wesleyan University \nErik McDuffie \, “I was walking a path… already established by my mother”: Black Left\nFeminism and the Making of Angela Y. Davis’ Black Feminist Scholarship and Activism \nJack Jackson\, Passing Class Notes: How Queer \nMaylei Blackwell\, Multiple Insurgencies: Women of Color Feminisms\, Genealogies of\nResistance \n1 pm- 2:30 pm Lunch\nPublic Secrets: An Interactive Art Installation by Sharon Daniel\, Professor\, Film & Digital Media\, Humanities 210 \n2:30 pm – Panel 3: Cultural Legacies\nFacilitator: Kevin Fellezs\, School of Social Sciences\, Humanities\, and Arts\, UC Merced \nSherrie Tucker\, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism-in-the-Making: Reflections from the\nWomen’s Studies Classrooms of Angela Davis in the 1980s and 1990s \nRoya Rastegar and Susy Zepeda\, To “expand and make more capacious our notion of\nfreedom”: The Women of Color Research Cluster and Film Festival \nSujatha Moni\, When Home becomes a Prison\, does Prison become Home? Reflections on\nViolent Diasporic Displacement in Jag Mundhra’s film\, Provoked \nMichelle F. Erai\, Civilizing Images: Violence and the Visual Interpellation of Maori women \n4-4:15 pm Break \n4:15 pm – Panel 4: Are Prisons Obsolete?\nFacilitator: Sora Han\, Criminology\, Law and Society\, UC Irvine \nElizabeth Alexander\, Reframing the Idea of the Prison-Industrial Complex \nLeslie Patrick\, “Are Prisons Obsolete?”: If Only It Were So–A Tribute to Angela Davis’ Foresight. \nLizbet Simmons\, Angela Davis and the Terrains of Justice: Schools\, Prisons\, and New Orleans \nCassandra Shaylor\, “Lectures on Liberation” to “Lectures on Abolition”: Angela Davis and New Terrains of Struggle \n5:45-7 pm – Reception\, Humanities 202 \n7 pm – Introduction: Maylei Blackwell \nScreening: Mountains that Take Wing – Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life\, Struggles & Liberation\, a film by C. A. Griffith and H. L. T. Quan (QUAD Productions © 2009) \nSunday\, November 1\, 2009\nHumanities Lecture Hall \n9:30 Breakfast \n9:45 Welcome \n10 am-noon Panel: Legacies in the Making Panel\nFacilitator: Bettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies and History\, UC Santa Cruz \nNeferti Tadiar\, Women’s Studies\, Barnard College\, “Lifetimes in Becoming Human” \nSaidiya Hartman\, English\, Columbia University\, “A Little History of Abolition Dream Book” \nJacqui Alexander\, Women’s Studies & Gender Studies\, U of Toronto\, “Working the Conjunctions: Angela Davis & the Radicalization of Oppositional Praxis” \n12-12:15 pm – Break \n12:15-12:30 Piano Performance: Anthony Davis (Kevin Fellezs\, introduction) \n12:30 pm – Screening: Angela Y. Davis and Radical Pedagogy\, a film by Angela N Carroll and Eric Stanley \n1:00 pm – Closing Remarks: Angela Davis \n—–\nPhoto by John Lee and poster design by Arianne Archer. \nEvent Sponsored by: University of California Humanities Research Institute Conference Grant\, The Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment\, the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies\, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC Faculty Against the War\, History of Consciousness Department\, UCSC Vice Chancellor for Research\, UCSC Arts Division\, UCSC Chief Diversity Officer\, Community Studies\, Feminist Studies\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, Merrill College\, Oakes College\, Philosophy\, Porter College\, Literature\, Cowell College\, American Studies\, Languages\, Politics\, Psychology\, and Stevenson College. \nConference Organizing Committee:\nMaylei Blackwell\, Christopher Connery\, Michelle Erai\, Carla Freccero\, Irena Polić\, Shann Ritchie\, Trevor Joy Sangrey\, Eric Stanley\, Gregory Youmans\, with additional assistance from Bettina Aptheker\, Kevin Fellezs\, Sora Han\, J. Kehaulani Kauanui\, Natalie Purcell\, and Rashad Shabazz. \nStaff Assistance provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angela-davis-legacies-in-the-making-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091007T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091007T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160213 CREATED:20130114T235241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130114T235241Z UID:10005318-1254942000-1254947400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Reading by Monique Truong DESCRIPTION:The University of California\, Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies Presents\nIn Collaboration with UCSC’s Living Writers Reading Series:\nA Reading by Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Monique Truong\n  \nMonique Truong is the author of the “poetically rendered and literally savory” 2003 novel\, The Book of Salt\, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who worked for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris during the 1920s and 30s\, and his previous life in Vietnam. Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the U.S. at the age of six. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. The Book of Salt among other honors received the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize\, the Stonewall Book Award-Gittings Literature Award\, and the Young Lions Fiction Award\, and was given an Award of Excellence from the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University. Truong is also the co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose\, with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi\, and numerous essays and works of short fiction. Truong’s new book\, Bitter in the Mouth\, will be published by Random House in 2010. \nThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President\, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities. \nThe UCSC Living Writers Reading Series is hosted by the Creative Writing Program of the Literature Department. In addition to the Miguel Contreras Fund\, this event was generously supported by a Diversity Fund Grant from the UCSC Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor\, and by Poets & Writers\, through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, and co-sponsored by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Studies Program\, the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the Laurie Sain Creative Writing Fund. \nFor more information or accommodations\, contact the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, ihr@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. For maps\, maps.ucsc.edu. \nClick here to view the event poster as a PDF. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-reading-by-monique-truong-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR