BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T003000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190227T210053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T212604Z UID:10005585-1552609800-1552657500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman DESCRIPTION:World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions \nHow do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot’s behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included to create the best possible robots for children. \nElizabeth Goldman is a fourth year doctoral student in the developmental psychology. She works in the Infant and Child Development Lab. Her current line of research focuses on how children interact with robots. Many robots are being designed and marketed towards children. This research focuses on answering questions about how these robots impact children developmentally/ \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-elizabeth-goldman/ 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:20190315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190213T213428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T213428Z UID:10006711-1552665600-1552665600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen DESCRIPTION:Helene Moglen (March 22\, 1936 – October 18\, 2018) \nPlease join us in the celebration of Helene’s life as friend\, colleague\, teacher\, community activist\, mother\, grandmother\, spouse\, former Provost of Kresge College\, and former Dean of Humanities and Art.\nThe celebration will include invited speakers\, and an open microphone for individuals who want to share their stories of Helene. \nLight refreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebration-life-helene-moglen/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190220T224028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T224652Z UID:10006715-1553331600-1553364000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop: "Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging Part II" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Maghrib Workshop: “Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging Part II” Program:  \nUCSC Humanities 1\, Room 210 \nMorning\n8:30 – Transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.\n9:00 – Coffee and Introduction\n9:15 – Samia Errazouki (UC Davis\, History) “Morocco’s Bloody ‘Golden Age’: Race\, Slavery\, and Capitalism in the 16th Century African Atlantic”\n10:30 – Olivia C. Harrison (USC\, French and Italian and Comparative Literature) “Palestine and the Migrant Question”\n11:45 – Thomas Serres (UCSC\, Politics) “Of Democracies in Algeria: Elections and Popular Agonism (2011-2019)”\n1:00 – Lunch \nAfternoon\n2:00 – Rachel Colwell (UC Berkeley\, Music and Literature) “Tunis al-Maḥrūsa: Tunis the Well-Protected” in “al-Makān: Listening for Place”3:15 – Break\n3:30 – Jessica Marglin (USC\, Religion) “Rights\, Nationality\, and Belonging in a Transnational Context: Léon Elmilik and the Jews of Tunisia\, 1861-1881”\n4:45 – Concluding Remarks\n6:00 – Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House \nSpeaker Bios: \nOlivia C. Harrison: “Palestine and the Migrant Question” \nOlivia C. Harrison is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization (Stanford 2016) and co-editor of Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford 2016). Her manuscript-in-progress\, Banlieue Palestine: Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France\, charts the emergence of the Palestinian question in France\, from the anti-racist movements of the late 1960s to contemporary art and activism. She is currently researching the recuperation of minority discourses by the French far and alt right for a book tentatively titled The White Minority. \nProfessor Harrison will be presenting the last chapter of her current book manuscript\, Banlieue Palestine: Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France\, which examines the central importance of the Palestinian question in French politics\, society\, and culture. It is a testament to the pervasiveness of (post)colonial discourses on migration that the trope of the migrant as stranger-foreigner is ubiquitous even in anti-xenophobic discourses about the migrant “crisis.” What she call instead the migrant question – the production of a dehistoricized discourse of crisis about the “invasion” of France by colonial subjects-turned-foreigners – is a through line in representations of Palestine in postcolonial France\, from Mohamed arfad valiztek to Genet’s unpublished film script\, Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal: Nationalité “Immigré(e)”\, Mohamed Rouabhi’s El menfi / L’exilé\, and the street art of the “Palestine generation.” Already a key concern in the early 1970s when anti-racist activists began invoking Palestine as rallying cry\, the migrant question has taken on even more urgency in recent years. This chapter is devoted to Palestine and the migrant question. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maghrib-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190401 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190321T192351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T210709Z UID:10005592-1553731200-1554076799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Augmented Intelligence Summit: Steering the Future of AI DESCRIPTION:Today many of the concepts\, consequences\, and possibilities involved in a future with advanced AI feel distant\, uncertain\, and abstract. No one has all the answers about how to ensure that powerful AI in the future is beneficial\, either in terms of technical implementation or in terms of transference to the domains of law\, regulations and policy\, industry best practices\, or society at large. There are a number of organizations and initiatives that are working on the issues of AI safety\, ethics\, and governance. \nJoining these efforts with a distinct role that bridges academia and industry\, the Augmented Intelligence Summit offers a unique\, inter-disciplinary approach to learning and creating solutions in this space. We ask: is it possible to develop a collective\, concrete\, realistic vision of a positive AI future that can inform policy\, the development of the industry\, and academic research\, and can it be done inclusively? Our hypothesis is that this is indeed possible\, and we have designed an experiment to test it. \nLearn more: https://futureoflife.org/augmented-intelligence-summit-2019-2/?cn-reloaded=1 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/augmented-intelligence-summit-steering-future-ai/ LOCATION:1440 Multiversity\, Scotts Valley\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T165756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T213513Z UID:10006662-1553886000-1553893200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion DESCRIPTION:Zakir Hussain is appreciated as one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order\, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in India and he is one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father and teacher\, Ustad Allarakha\, he has elevated the status of his instrument both in India and around the world. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity\, founded in formidable knowledge and study. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement\, Hussain’s contribution to world music has been unique\, with many historic collaborations\, including Shakti\, which he founded with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar\, and recordings/performances with artists as diverse as George Harrison\, YoYo Ma\, Joe Henderson\, Van Morrison\, and the Kodo drummers. Hussain presents his Masters of Percussion project on this concert date. Zakir Hussain Website \nAt the Rio Theatre \n1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95062\nDoors at 6:30 PM \nBUY TICKETS \nRegular General Admission: $42/Advance $50/Door\nGold Circle Section (1st 10 rows): $63/Advance $70/Door\n(5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax included\, service charge not included) \nThis event is co-sponsored by Kuumbwa Jazz and The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zakir-hussain/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hussain_Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190123T204317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T174012Z UID:10005565-1554231600-1554231600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson Book Launch: SHOUT DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers\, teens\, and new adults. Combined\, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chainswas short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Join us for a discussion and signing of her new book\, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era. \nLaurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about\, and advocates for\, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999\, her groundbreaking\, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now\, twenty years later\, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing poetic memoir\, SHOUT. \nIn free verse\, Anderson shares reflections\, rants\, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching\, devastating and triumphant\, SHOUT is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp\, whether aloud\, online\, or only in their own hearts. \nModerated by Sabaa Tahir \nSabaa Tahir is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There\, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels\, raiding her brother’s comic book stash\, and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock\, garish socks\, and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Title IX office\, Cowell College\, and UCSC First Gen Initiative \n \nIMPORTANT INFORMATION: \n\nThis event is for mature audiences only; children under 13 will not be admitted.\nAttendees must purchase a copy of SHOUT from Bookshop Santa Cruz either in store or at the event to enter the signing line.\nGet a copy of SHOUT at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at the event\, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laurie-halse-anderson-book-launch-shout/ LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Halse-Anderson-Shout-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T194956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T194849Z UID:10005536-1554897600-1554903000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Elizabeth Marcus: "The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique" DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program for 2017-2019. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French\, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Her research and teaching focus on the francophone and Arab worlds\, with a particular interest in knowledge production\, cultural imperialism\, and the histories of religious and minority groups. In her current book project\, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon\, she uses post-independence Lebanon as a case study of multilingualism and decolonization from below. \nShe is developing a second project on global intellectual history\, international students and radical politics in post-war France. Recovering the history of the Cité internationale universitaire\, an international university campus set on the outskirts of Paris\, she looks at how it became a key physical and symbolic space for students\, writers and intellectuals from the Middle East\, Africa and Europe. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-9/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181019T212401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T201831Z UID:10006672-1554908400-1554915600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\nAn Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project \n \nThis event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript\, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization\, digital cartography\, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform\, empower\, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement\, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data\, narratives\, and maps\, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists\, activists\, oral historians\, cartographers\, muralists\, and more\, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement. \nWhile AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories\, numerous videos and reports\, and even several murals\, light projections\, zines\, and posters\, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists\, activists\, designers\, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps\, graphics\, poems\, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters\, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification\, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter\, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors\, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book\, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material\, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/counterpoints/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mural-smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190402T174943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T175137Z UID:10006727-1554995700-1555002000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Barry Lam - Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice DESCRIPTION:At different stages of the criminal justice system\, from policing\, bail hearings\, and sentencing\, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police\, who to arrest\, who goes to jail\, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work\, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation\, and how the future of criminal justice depends on decisions we make now about the risks we are willing to tolerate for public safety. \nOrganized by the Humanities Institute\, Data and Democracy Initiative\, and Center for Public Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-future-philosophy-predictive-algorithms-criminal-justice/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190403T214707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221040Z UID:10006729-1555003800-1555003800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Roger Reeves  DESCRIPTION:Roger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas\, Austin.Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, and Tin House\, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship\, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008\, two Bread Loaf Scholarships\, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. In 2012\, Reeves received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for his poem “The Field Museum.” He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois\, Chicago\, and a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University. King Me (Copper Canyon Press\, 2013) is Reeves’s first book. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-roger-reeves/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190313T211052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T192402Z UID:10005590-1555057800-1555092000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History\, 1750-2019” DESCRIPTION:The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution\, war\, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration\, borders\, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens\, non-citizens \, subjects\, refugees\, and exiles in world history. We welcome broad definitions of “border\,” “citizenship\,” and “migration”to include boundaries that migrate even when people themselves do not\, citizenships that are defined by entities other than the state\, and migrations that don’t require physical movement (eg. movement among identities that can affect citizenship\, like race or religion). \nGraduate Student Conference hosted by: The UCSC Center for World History Program \nCommittee: Daniel Joesten\, Muiris MacGiollabhui\, Jackie Schultz\, Crystal Smith \n8:30–9:00 Opening Remarks\, Coffee\, and Pastries \n9:00-10:30 Panel One: “Religion\, Migration\, and the Politics of Citizenship” \nChair: Crystal E. Smith \n\nJeffrey Turner (University of Utah) – “Polygamy\, Race\, and Religion in the 1891 Immigration Act”\nRobin Keller (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “‘The Only Foreigners We Felt Sorry For:’ Holocaust Refugees and Border Control in World War II Shanghai”\nShimul Chowdhury (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Stitching Solidarity: Collaborative Craft and the Muslim Identity”\n\n10:45-12:15 Panel Two: “Identity\, Family\, and the State” \nChair: Jaclyn N. Schultz \n\nSelena Moon (Independent Scholar) – “ Sexism and Racism in U.S. and Japanese Citizenship Laws ”\nEmma Bellino (University of Wollongong) – “From Citizen to Alien to Citizen Again: Married Women’s Dependent Nationality in Australia\, 1920-1948 ”\nKarina Ruiz (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Cleavages of the State: Legal geographies in the U.S.”\n\n12:15-1:15 Lunch \n1:15- 2:45 Panel Three: “Exile and Banishment across Borders” \nChair: Muiris MacGiollabhuí \n\nDaisy Munoz (San Francisco State University) – “Viva Reagan: Cuban Republican Partisanship in 1980 & 1984”\nKevan Aguilar (University of California\, San Diego) – “‘Cárdenas was Calling Us:’ Race\, Class\, and Settlement in Mexican & Spanish Exile Imaginaries”\nLily Hindy (University of California\, Los Angeles) – “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees\, Emigrés\, and Exiles Confront a New National Identity”\n\n3:00-4:15 Panel Four: “Culture\, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism” \nChair: Daniel Joesten \n\nHardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) – “‘Popularly Understood ’ : U.S. Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century ”\nAmelia Flood (St. Louis University) – “Marooned on American Shores: Migrating Between Citizen and Subject in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”\nAlberto Ganis (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Sub-State Nationalisms and the Other(s) : The Mediated Identities of Friuli”\n\n4:30-6 Keynote \nHarry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Africa and Atlantic History) – “Edward W. Blyden: The Afropolitan Dreams of an Atlantic Denizen” \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies\, Cowell College\, UCSC History Department\, and our generous donors from UCSC Giving Day! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2nd-annual-grad-student-conference-citizenship-flux-migration-exclusion-world-history-1750-2019/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20180820T221048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031527Z UID:10006652-1555066800-1555072200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum DESCRIPTION:The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum\n with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School\, Bronx\, NY) \nIndependent high schools\, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly\, may be students last experience of a broad-based\, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look like? Adam Casdin\, trained as research scholar\, has spent the last 14 years thinking about teaching and learning\, most recently leading an experiential learning initiative in partnership with Royal Shakespeare Company. That program brings the plays to life in classrooms Nursery through 12th grade\, reimagining the way students’ experience and interpret the works of Shakespeare. \nIn this open forum on education and the humanities in secondary schools\, Casdin will lay out various innovations in teaching\, his experience of bringing his PhD training to a prestigious high school\, and then open the floor for discussion of how UCSC PhD conceive not just their subjects but how their educational approaches. Bring questions about pedagogy as well as about careers in teaching. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-careers-teaching-high-school/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20180727T213923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T201431Z UID:10005504-1555075200-1555081200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung DESCRIPTION:Sandy Chung\, UC Santa Cruz\, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English\, French\, and Italian. These interests have shaped her research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori\, Tongan\, and Samoan (all languages of the South Pacific) as an undergraduate. As a graduate student\, she did fieldwork on Indonesian. Since 1977\, the main empirical focus of her research has been Chamorro\, a language of the Mariana Islands. \nShe is still (slowly) making progress on the Chamorro reference grammar Chung has been writing since 2009. Currently\, she is collaborating with Dr. Elizabeth D. Rechebei\, Manuel F. Borja\, Tita A. Hocog\, and many others in the CNMI on a revision of the Chamorro-English Dictionary. Finally\, since 2011\, Matt Wagers\, Manuel F. Borja\, and Chung have been collaborating on psycholinguistic research on Chamorro in the Mariana Islands. \nFor More information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-sandy-chung/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190114T191807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T173455Z UID:10005559-1555344000-1555351200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bernard Harcourt: "The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nBernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris. \nBernard Harcourt’s writings examine modes of governing in our digital age\, especially in the post 9/11 period. Harcourt is the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books\, 2018)\, where he documents our recent turn to the counterinsurgency warfare paradigm as a way of governing populations at home and abroad. He traces the birth of what he calls our “expository society” in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015). He is the author\, recently as well\, of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011)\, and Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience with Michael Taussig and W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago 2013). Earlier books include Against Prediction: Profiling\, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago 2007)\, Language of the Gun: Youth\, Crime\, and Public Policy(Chicago 2005)\, and Illusion of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing (Harvard 2001). \nBernard Harcourt is also an editor of the works of Michel Foucault. He recently edited the French edition of Michel Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures at the Collège de France\, La Société punitive (Gallimard 2013) and the 1971-1972 lectures\, Theories et institutions pénales (Gallimard 2015). He is also the editor of the new Pléiade edition of Surveiller et punirin the collected works of Foucault at Gallimard (2016). He is co-editor with Fabienne Brion of the lectures Foucault delivered at Louvain in 1981\, in French and English\, Wrong-Doing\, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (Chicago 2014). He is currently working on Foucault’s lectures on Nietzsche for the next series of lecture publications by Gallimard/Le Seuil called Cours et Travaux. \nA passionate advocate for justice\, Bernard Harcourt started his legal career representing death row inmates\, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery\, Alabama. He lived and worked in Montgomery for several years and still today continues to represent pro bono inmates sentenced to death and life imprisonment without parole. He recently resolved the case of death row inmate Doyle Hamm. He also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala\, and actively challenged the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban\, representing pro bono a Syrian medical resident excluded under the executive order\, as well as Moseb Zeiton\, a Columbia SIPA student. \nThis event is part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bernard-hartcourt/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitled-design-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190409T174335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T191250Z UID:10006735-1555427700-1555434000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts\, Print Media\, and the Urgency of the Humanities DESCRIPTION:An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar\, launching a podcast\, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scholarship-public-podcasts-opeds-urgency-humanities/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T195055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T173319Z UID:10005538-1555502400-1555507800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vanessa Ogle: "'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens\, 1950s-1960" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces\, reaching from the Channel Islands\, Monaco\, and Luxembourg to the Bahamas\, Panama\, and Singapore\, among many others. The talk asks why tax havens in particular expanded significantly between ca. 1945 and 1965\, and points to decolonization and colonial systems of taxation as one answer. It thus sheds light on a crucial period during which much of today’s tax avoidance industry got off the ground\, with lasting implications for the rise of inequality in Europe and North America. \nVanessa Ogle received her PhD at Harvard in 2011\, Assistant\, was a Associate Professor in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania\, 2011-2017\,  and is currently an Associate Professor\, modern European history\, UC Berkeley\, 2017-present. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-10/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190402T202054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T202306Z UID:10006728-1555513200-1555520400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Counterpoints Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\nAn Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project \n \nThis event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript\, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization\, digital cartography\, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform\, empower\, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement\, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data\, narratives\, and maps\, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists\, activists\, oral historians\, cartographers\, muralists\, and more\, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement. \nWhile AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories\, numerous videos and reports\, and even several murals\, light projections\, zines\, and posters\, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists\, activists\, designers\, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps\, graphics\, poems\, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters\, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification\, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter\, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors\, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book\, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material\, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/45713/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/mural-smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T195341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T183331Z UID:10005540-1556107200-1556112600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDiscourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects\, PR professionals\, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory\,” a “sci-fi” space\, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses promote imperial and capitalist class power in the Gulf. Through combining this framework with a postcolonial discursive critique and feminist scholarship on social reproduction\, a class struggle perspective both moves us beyond victimization discourses of Gulf labor and highlights global patterns of capitalist accumulation. In turn\, the paper shows how the Gulf is an unexceptional zone of capital accumulation with labor exploitation and social reproduction regimes continuous with\, and shaped by\, similar such regimes in the Global North. \nAhmed Kanna is associate professor of anthropology at University of the Pacific. He is the author of Dubai: The City as Corporation (2011\, University of Minnesota Press)\, De-Exceptionalizing the Field (with Amelie Le Renard and Neha Vora\, forthcoming\, Cornell University Press)\, and articles in Cultural Anthropology\, City\, and Arab Studies Journal among others. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-11/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190125T211443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T182851Z UID:10005571-1556208000-1556208000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susanah Shaw Romney\, "Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nColonization is not a one-time land grab\, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia\, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known\, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There\, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on a simultaneous colonization of intimate space. Women of Batavia\, as wives\, concubines\, and slaves\, played an often unwilling role in the construction of empire at the intimate\, local\, and transoceanic scales. \nSusanah Shaw Romney\, Assistant Professor\, earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University\, where she worked with Prof. Mary Beth Norton. Her book\, New Netherland Connections\, is the winner of the 2014 Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians\, given annually to a first book published by a woman pertaining substantially to the subject of women and gender; the 2013 Jamestown Prize\, given every two years by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; and the 2013 Hendricks Prize\, given annually by the New Netherland Institute. She is now at work on a new project looking at gender\, settlement\, and land claims in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire in North America\, Guyana\, South Africa\, and Java. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unfree-intimacies-gender-taking-terraqueous-space-batavia-seventeenth-century-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitled-design-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190403T215206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221008Z UID:10006730-1556213400-1556213400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco\, California\, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, The American Reader\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was among the Poetry Foundation’s 2016 “Staff Picks\,” and a bilingual edition of the chapbook – Brazilian no es una raza – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. In September 2018\, her first book-length collection of poems Cruel Fiction was published by Commune Editions. In addition\, Cruel Fiction was chosen by Momtaza Mehri for Artforum International’s “Best of 2018.” \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula living in California. They work sometimes with the visual\, sometimes with movement\, sometimes with language\, sometimes all three at once. Along with Elana Chavez\, they’re a founding curator of The Cantíl Reading Series\, and with Chavez and Angel Dominguez\, a member of La Vidx Locx\, a collective of queer Latinx poets. They’ve taught movement and filmmaking to children and adults alike. Work has been exhibited and performed in Los Angeles and the Bay Area: writing has been published in a chapbook\, PDF\, by Solar Luxuriance; appeared in Esferas; and featured on the SBSM album JOY/RAGE. A split poetry cassette with Elaine Kahn is due out from Practical Records in 2017. The Easy Body is their first book. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-wendy-trevino-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190222T192523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T193717Z UID:10006722-1556283600-1556292600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190111T201945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T171717Z UID:10006697-1556284800-1556290800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson DESCRIPTION:Laura McPherson\, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014\, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. Her primary research interests lie in phonology\, morphology\, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar\, A Grammar of Tommo So\, in 2013 based on fieldwork in Mali from 2008-2012. \nMcPherson’s current research projects include developing an automated computational tool for tonal annotation with Emily Grabowski (ATLAS: Automated Tone Level Annotation System)\, analyzing the linguistic underpinnings of a xylophone surrogate language\, and fieldwork on Seenku (Mande\, Burkina Faso) in preparation for her next reference grammar\, supported by NSF Documenting Endangered Languages. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor More Information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laura-mcpherson/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190222T191620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T191738Z UID:10006721-1556294400-1556299800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year’s Graduate Research Symposium. \nLive music\, light refreshments.\nFree and open to the public URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-award-reception/ LOCATION:Mchenry Library Second Level Terrace and South Lawn\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T141500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190222T190737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T191841Z UID:10006720-1556364600-1556374500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel DESCRIPTION:11:30am-12:50pm \nAnnual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni\, one from each academic division.\nThis year’s luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees about their career trajectories after receiving their graduate-level degree from UCSC to their current positions of distinction\, for the benefit of audience members of current and alumni graduate students. \n12:50pm-2:15pm \nCareer Paths Panel of the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees. Currently enrolled UCSC grad students encouraged to attend. \nClick here to Register URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/distinguished-graduate-student-alumni-award-luncheon-career-paths-panel/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190220T230123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T211756Z UID:10006717-1556373600-1556377200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jody Greene: "Radical Learning - The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience" DESCRIPTION:This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception\, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university’s history of active and activist pedagogy; its commitment to an education grounded in social justice; its ahead-of-the-times choice to have no grades and interdisciplinary departments; and its unique status as the only public research university in the country that was also founded as a kind of “alternative school.” The event will include prominent learning scientists as well as undergraduates working on projects related to improving student learning. Participants will give lightning talks on what it takes for students to be outstanding learners in our 21st-century university. \nMore info about Alumni Weekend: https://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jody-greene-radical-learning-heart-uc-santa-cruz-experience/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T195452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T182055Z UID:10005542-1556712000-1556717400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nidhi Mahajan: "Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean\, transporting goods\, and people across South Asia\, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage\, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade\, centered in port cities such as Dubai and Sharjah that have “free trade” policies. I argue that these notions of free trade are entangled with war\, conflict\, and broader geopolitical concerns across the Indian Ocean region. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC and a principal faculty in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Her works examines how vernacular Indian Ocean trade networks articulate with regional and global circuits of capital. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-12/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190204T213802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T230149Z UID:10006702-1556803800-1556809200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paolo Gerbaudo\, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy DESCRIPTION:  \nPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College\, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012)\, The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017)\, and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018).\nFrom the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK\, to the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy\, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France\, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the ‘digital party’. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media\, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers\, Gerbaudo argues that with new structures come worrying changes in political forms\, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralized\, charismatic leaders\, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However\, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins\, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarization created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy. \nPart of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative. Lecture co-sponsored by the Politics Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lecture-paolo-gerbaudo/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sanders_supporters_Miami_ap_img.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190426T204343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T204457Z UID:10005603-1556899200-1556902800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves DESCRIPTION:Carl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC\, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert\, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents\, George and Patricia Deppe\, along with his friends\, established this annual lecture series in his memory as a tribute to his interest in classical antiquity. Each spring a distinguished scholar is invited to give the Carl Mark Deppe lecture. This year’s lecuture will be given by Professor Alex Purves\, UCLA \nIt is customary to begin each annual lecture by reading the essay Carl wrote when he applied for admission to the University of California: you can see that essay here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carl-mark-deppe-memorial-lecture-professor-alex-purves/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190504T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190504T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190227T211502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T174850Z UID:10005586-1556962200-1556998200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:SPOT Research Cluster Workshop DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different languages. SPOT aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between grammatical structures on the one hand\, and how sentences are pronounced on the other\, in a typologically diverse array of natural languages. Following the very successful SPOT 1 workshop on Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017\, which led to successful funding from the NSF in 2018\, we will hold a THI-sponsored SPOT 2 workshop on Saturday\, May 4\, 2019. Besides presenting the developments of the program since SPOT 1\, the SPOT 2 workshop will also feature research talks on the Syntax-Prosody interface and Optimality Theory by invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe\, as well as Bay Area researchers. \nSPOT 2 Program: \n9:30am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee and bagels \n10:00am -12:00pm “SPOT: theory and analyses”\nJenny Bellik¹\, Gorka Elordieta²\, Junko Ito¹\, Nick Kalivoda¹\, Armin Mester¹\n (¹UC Santa Cruz\, ²University of the Basque Country)\nDiscussant: Alan Prince (Rutgers University) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Lunch (catered) \n1:00pm – 2:00pm “Nested Interacting Stress Window Systems”\nNaz Merchant (Eckerd College)\nDiscussant: Arto Anttila (Stanford University) \n2:00pm – 3:00pm “Recursive phonological phrasing in Italian”\nNick Van Handel (UC Santa Cruz)\nDiscussant: Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:30pm “Incorporation in Crow as phonological reduction”\nChris Golston\, CSUFresno\n (with John Boyle\, CSUFresno\, & Lewis Gebhard\, NEIU)\nDiscussant: Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz) \n4:30pm – 5:30pm“Big accent distribution in Stockholm Swedish”\nSara Myrberg (Lund University\, Sweden)\nDiscussant: Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n5:30pm-7:30pm Dinner at the Cowell Provost House URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-research-cluster-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/humanities1_ucsc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T195548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T181432Z UID:10005544-1557316800-1557322200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Banu Bargu: "Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis paper analyzes Althusser’s proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism\, and particularly with Marx on “primitive accumulation.” It identifies two different legacies of Marx’s reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time\, taking both thinkers to task on their approach to colonialism\, and especially settler colonialism\, the paper moves toward decolonizing the aleatory materialist imaginary. \nBanu Bargu is associate professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist\, with a focus on modern and contemporary political thought and critical theory. Bargu is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the editor of Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy\, Violence\, and Resistance (Edinburgh UP\, forthcoming in 2019) and co-editor of Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique (Palgrave\, 2017). Her next book\, Friends of the Earth: Althusser and the Critique of Teleological Reason\, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-13/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190502T184145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T184221Z UID:10005613-1557322200-1557327600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire\, Disease\, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam DESCRIPTION:“The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire\, Disease\, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam” \nThe History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-vann-great-hanoi-rat-hunt-empire-disease-modernity-french-colonial-vietnam/ 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:20190509T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190213T205535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T175344Z UID:10006710-1557417600-1557423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deirdre de la Cruz: "Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal\, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner\, or espiritista\, usually male\, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands\, psychic surgery achieved particular renown in the United States in the 1980s when celebrity practitioners of New Age spirituality like Shirley MacLaine spoke publicly about their experience with Filipino psychic surgeons. This talk first provides a broad historical outline of the esoteric movements in the twentieth-century Philippines that culminated in the convergence of New Age spirituality and Filipino Spiritism seen in psychic surgery\, paying particular attention to the axial shift from Espiritismo (the science of communication with the dead codified by French educator Allan Kardec and introduced to the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century)\, to transpacific New Age movements. It then digs deep into the spectacle of healing that drew thousands of patients from around the world at a time when the Philippines was in the sway of the greatest cheat of all\, Ferdinand Marcos. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deirdre-de-la-cruz-psychic-surgery-philippine-phenomena-global-occult/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Micah-Perks-true-love.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190403T215839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T220757Z UID:10006731-1557423000-1557423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999)\, Human Dark with Sugar (2008)\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, Our Andromeda(2012)\, So Much Synth (2016)\, and The Octopus Museum (2019). Her work has appeared in the Yale Review\, the Boston Review\, McSweeney’s\, and Best American Poetry\, among other places. Shaughnessy’s work is known for its ability to twin opposites: her poems are both playful and erotic\, lyrical and funny\, formal and strange. Reviewing Human Dark with Sugar\, poet Cate Peebles noted that “Shaughnessy draws attention to the contradiction of being made up of so many parts while appearing to be one single body.” In the New Yorker\, Hilton Als said of her book\, Our Andromeda: “it further establishes Shaughnessy’s particular genius\, which is utterly poetic\, but essayistic in scope\, encompassing ideas about astronomy\, illness\, bodies\, the family\, ‘normalcy\,’ home.” Shaughnessy has received numerous honors and awards for her work\, including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute\, where she was a Bunting Fellow\, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission\, and the Howard Foundation of Brown University. She has taught at universities including Columbia\, the New School\, Princeton\, and New York University. Shaughnessy is currently an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. \nPoet and teacher Ellen Bass grew up in New Jersey. She earned an MA in creative writing from Boston University\, where she studied with Anne Sexton. Bass’s style is direct; she has noted\, “I work to speak in a voice that is meaningful communication. Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak from me to myself and then from me to you.” Bass’s collections of poetry include Mules of Love (2002)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award; The Human Line (2007)\, named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Like a Beggar (2014). She helped edit the feminist poetry anthology No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973). \nBass has also written works of nonfiction\, including\, with Laura Davis\, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1988) and Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children (2003\, revised edition 2008). With Kate Kaufman\, she wrote Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian\, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies (1996). Bass’s honors and awards include a Pushcart Prize\, a Pablo Neruda Prize\, a Larry Levis Reading Prize\, and a New Letters Literary Prize. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, and she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. Bass lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-brenda-shaughnessy-ellen-bass/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190108T203108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T174037Z UID:10005555-1557428400-1557435600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Paul Schraub: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAs Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week\, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred\, and the planning of violent terror attacks. \nThis year’s UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these technologies and antisemitism\, asking: Is there something new about antisemitism today or is it just a continuation of old images and fears? How do social media platforms create environments for the viral spread of global antisemitism? \nJoin Nathaniel Deutsch and Rachel Deblinger\, co-directors of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC Santa Cruz\, to discuss these questions and explore how scholars of antisemitism can work closely with members of the tech community to fight against this and related forms of hatred toward others. \n\nRegistration Required \nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the THI at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by May 6\, 2019. \nEvent info: \n\nRegistration is required for entrance into this event.\nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.\nDirections to the Computer History Museum are here.\n\nSecurity: \n\nPlease be aware that all attendees must pass through security to enter the event venue. Make sure to carefully review the below information to ensure your entry to the event.\nThere will be no in and out privileges. Once you have passed through security\, if you leave the venue re-entry will not be permitted.\nAll bags are subject to search. Prohibited items include weapons\, drugs\, and knives of any kind. Anything deemed unsafe by the security team will not be permitted to enter the venue.\nAll bags\, including briefcases\, purses\, luggage and diaper bags\, larger than 14” x 14” x 6” are not permitted. Backpacks and hard-sided bags of any kind are also prohibited. Single-compartment drawstring bags and fashion backpack purses that are smaller than 14” x 14” x 6” are permitted. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anti-semitism-online/ LOCATION:CA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/032819_EventsPage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190510T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190510T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190111T202520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190503T190938Z UID:10006698-1557494400-1557500400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung DESCRIPTION:Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) presents The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-sandy-chung-2/ LOCATION:CA\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T161500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190424T171652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T221946Z UID:10006737-1557759600-1557764100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma DESCRIPTION:Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present: \nA Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies\, UC Irvine): \nALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS\, POLICING\, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press\, 2019) \nCo-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies and the Department of History of Consciousness \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-l-thuma-feminist-cres-book/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-10.15.12-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T195648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T180610Z UID:10006666-1557921600-1557927000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn this paper\, “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán\,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely\, that the dispossessed had prior possession over that which was stolen from them by their dispossessors. Like a number of other such cases I have been examining from the 17th and 18th centuries\, in this case those who were dispossessed do not make claims about prior possession. Rather\, both Juan Patricio and Fabiana Pech seem to have lived dispossession outside the terms of possession as such\, critiquing and countering their dispossession in ways that call for a revision of contemporary understandings of dispossession. I suggest we read the archive of a case like this for alternative theories of dispossession as well as as-yet-unrealized anti-dispossessive politics. \nDavid Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex\, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His areas of specialization are transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century\, Latin American studies (especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico)\, political philosophy\, continental philosophy\, colonial discourse studies\, and Armenian diaspora studies. He is a member of the organizing collectives of the journal Social Text and of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas\, and is co-director of the Tepoztlán Institute from 2017-2019. His the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) and The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke). He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California)\, as well as (with Shay Brawn\, Bonnie Dow\, Lisa Maria Hogeland\, Mary Klages\, Deb Meem\, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers\, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books). He is currently at work on two monographs. The first sets radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide. The second finds anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Feminist Studies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-14/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190403T220342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T220923Z UID:10006732-1558027800-1558027800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series\, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)\, recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions\, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat\, 2015)\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat\, 2011). His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (Co-im-press) won the American Literary Translator’s Association 2017 National Translation Award. He has translated poetry collections by Chilean poets Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches in the English Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-daniel-borzutzky/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190417T184854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190417T185351Z UID:10006736-1558083600-1558116000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium DESCRIPTION:Symposium Program \n9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson\, Mark Amengual\, Kimberly Adilia Helmer \n9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO \n10:00-10:30 – John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness \n10:30-11:00 – Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education \n11:00-11:30 – Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy \n11:30-1:30 – Lunch break \n1:30-2:00 – Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University): Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper \n2:00-2:30 – Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay)\, Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware): The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country \n2:30-3:00 – Avizia Long (San Jose State University): Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish \n3:00-3:30 – Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute): Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2 \n3:30-4:00 – Coffee/Tea break \n4:00-4:30 – Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta (University of California\, Santa Cruz): The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation With Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque. \n4:30-5:00 – Stephen Fafulas (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Cross-linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms \n5:00-5:30 – Don Miller (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability \n5:30-6:00 – Bryan Donaldson (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives
6:00- Closing Business Meeting and visit to Humble Sea Brewery \nSpeaker Bios: \nNetta Avineri is TESOL/TFL Associate Professor andIntercultural Competence Committee Chair atthe Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She is the Middlebury Social Impact Corps Scholars Program Director\, co-founded the MIIS Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project\, and teaches Service Learning and Teacher Education courses at CSU Monterey Bay. Netta is an applied linguist and linguistic anthropologist who teaches education\, intercultural competence\, applied linguistics\, research methods\, and service-learning courses. Her research interests include language and social justice\, critical service-learning\, interculturality\, and heritage and endangered language socialization. Netta’s individual and collaborative research has been published in various media outlets\, academic journals\, and books. Netta’s book Research Methods for Language Teaching: Inquiry\, Process\, and Synthesis was published in 2017 and she is one of the five co-editors of the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice. Netta is also the American Association for Applied Linguistics Public Affairs and Engagement Committee Chair. \nLaura Callahan\, formerly Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The City College and Graduate Center-CUNY\, currently teaches courses in Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. Her areas of interest are: codeswitching; language\, race\, and identity; intercultural communication; heritage language maintenance; and linguistic landscapes. Recent publications have appeared in Spanish in Context\, Heritage Language Journal\, and L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teaching. \nBryan Donaldson (PhD\, Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz\, where he currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on word order and discourse structure in the acquisition of French as a second language (L2) and in Old French and Old Occitan. In second language acquisition\, his work primarily examines the highest levels of L2 attainment and has shown that near- native speakers frequently converge on native speaker performance benchmarks\, for example in their use of pragmatically marked word orders and variable structures. In Old French and Old Occitan\, he has examined the interplay between word order\, discourse structure\, and diachronic change. He has published in venues such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Language Learning\, Lingua\, Applied Psycholinguistics\, Journal of Linguistics\, andCanadian Journal of Linguistics. \nGorka Elordieta (PhD\, University of Southern California\, 1997) is a Linguistics professor in the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). During the 2018-2019 academic year he is a Visiting Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His area of specialization is phonology\, more concretely prosody\, intonation and the interface of phonology with syntax. He has been the principal investigator of a number of research grants in linguistics\, and has published articles in journals such as Phonology\, Language and Speech\, Journal of the International Phonetic Association or The Linguistic Review and in volumes of Oxford University Press\, John Benjamins and Mouton de Gruyter. \nStephen Fafulas is Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and director of the Study of Communities\, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics (SoCIOLing) Laboratory. Currently\, he is conducting research on U.S. Spanish and teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research incorporates work on Spanish\, English\, and Brazilian Portuguese as well as indigenous languages\, such as Yagua\, which is featured in his forthcoming volume Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution. When not in the classroom or lab\, you are likely to find him with his family\, at the martial arts academy\, or at a local coffee shop. \nA Professor of Applied Linguistics\, John Hedgcock currently teaches in the MATESOL and MATFL Programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). His recent research has focused on literacy development\, genre-oriented literacy instruction\, the socialization of foreign- and heritage-language learners in classroom settings\, and language teacher preparation. He is the co-author of Teaching Readers of English and Teaching L2 Composition. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes\, Applied Language Learning\, and a number of edited volumes. \nJason Martel is an Associate Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey\, where he teaches courses on foreign/second language pedagogy and directs the Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP). He is an active member of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\, for which he currently serves as Chair of the Teacher Development Special Interest Group. Along with Francis Troyan and Laurent Cammarata\, he is a co-recipient of the 2017 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article\, conferred by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). His publications can be found Foreign Language Annals\, Journal of Applied Language Learning\, and the French Review. \nAvizia Long (Ph.D. Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at San José State University. Her research interests include variation in second language Spanish\, the acquisition of Spanish by non- English-speaking learners\, second language Spanish pronunciation\, and pronunciation in task-based language learning and teaching. She is co- author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context (Routledge\, 2014)\, and she has published research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics\, Hispania\, and several edited volumes. \nRebecca Pozzi (Ph.D.\, University of California\, Davis) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at California State University\, Monterey Bay\, where she coordinates Lower Division Spanish\, including the Heritage Language Program\, and teaches courses in Spanish language\, linguistics\, and applied linguistics. Her research focuses on second and heritage language development\, sociolinguistics\, study abroad\, language pedagogy\, language policy\, and language technology. She has published in journals including Hispania and The CATESOL Journal and in edited volumes from Routledge and Multilingual Matters. \nAla Simonchykis Assistant Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey\, CA. Her research interests focus on pronunciation instruction\, experimental phonetics\, and second language speech processing\, specifically on how various domains\, such as perception\, production\, lexical encoding and orthography interact with each other in the acquisition of L2 phonologies. \n  \nDon Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he teaches courses on second language acquisition\, L2 teaching\, and research in Applied Linguistics. His research interests focus on corpus- based approaches to examining academic vocabulary in published and learner writing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing\, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes\, and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. \nMagdalena Romera (PhD\, University of Southern California\, 2001) is a professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Public University of Navarre (Spain) and Visiting Research Associate at the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz for the current academic year. She has also been the Director of the Catedra de Patrimonio Inmaterial de Navarra for the past three years. Her research interests include Language Variation\, Language Contact and Discourse Analysis. She has participated in several research grants in her areas of expertise\, and has published articles in prestigious journals such as Linguistics\, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Discourse and Society. \nThor Sawin is an Associate Professor in the Masters of Teaching Foreign Languages/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Middlebury Language Schools. His research and teaching interests focus mainly on technology in language instruction\, grammar pedagogy\, and multilingualism in social impact settings. He also does consultancy on language policy and language acquisition support for several multinational organizations. His recent publications have appeared in Reconsidering Development\, Journal of Language\, Identity and Education\, and the CALICO Journal\, and he has authored chapters in several volumes published by Multilingual Matters and Cambridge\, as well as several field guides and reference articles. \nAbstracts: \nFrom Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO\nThor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nWestern NGOs\, in their trainings and policy documents\, often display language ideologies honed by years of their personnel’s formal language education. These tend to naturalize the so-called Herderian triad (one language\, one people\, one territory) by enforcing clear distinctions between reified language-as-systems supported by the tentpole of official written standards. Such ideologies endure even when NGO workers’ host communities are complexly multi- and translingual. This paper examines what did and did not shift in language ideology of NGO staff working with indigenous and displaced minority populations across the Middle East\, and the process of crafting new language policies. The NGO\, previously committed to rigidly serial language acquisition\, contacted the author for training on translingual practice. The needs of the organization favor a language-as-mobile-resource approach and contact zone orientation (Harrison\, 2007; Blommaert\, 2010; Canagarajah\, 2017). Data from the participant-authored blogposts before and conversations during the five-day training revealed narratives of vision and blindness\, and also of freedom through admitting that the language practices of their hosts were less separable and nameable than their training acknowledged. Resistance centered on felt implausibility of learning “more than one language” –a parallelism refuted by neurological and sociolinguistic research. Unless Western ideologies of language are adapted to the language life ways connecting rural-traditional and urban-migrant spaces\, organizations serving\, multilingual minority populations may ironically risk reinforcing nationalistic views through their policies on language acquisition (Ndhlovu\, 2018). \nObstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness \nJohn Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nIn a connected\, digitized world\, language teacher education must prepare teacher candidates to function in a dynamic world of work and communication. Drawing on critical incidents from a U.S. teacher preparation program\, the presenter will explore three obstacles to building teachers’ language awareness. These challenges include: (1) cultivating understanding of the naturalness of linguistic variation; (2) promoting the uptake of teaching skills; and (3) nurturing the ability to use and transform the language and genres of skilled educators. Reflecting on his work with developing teachers\, the presenter will share field-tested strategies and interventions designed to convert these obstacles into opportunities. \nEnacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education \nJason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nScholars have called for an identity approach to language teacher education\, which involves employing identity as a lens for helping teacher candidates take ownership over their professional development and assert agency in becoming the types of language teachers they aspire to be. Although previous studies have examined specific identity-oriented tools used in language teacher preparation programs\, none has yet addressed a course in which a focus on identity is integrated throughout all assigned activities. The present study thus addresses the experiences of language teacher candidates enrolled in an identity-oriented capstone practicum course as part of a TESOL/TFL master’s degree program. Data were mined from course activities (e.g.\, teaching journals\, post-observation conferences)\, as well as two additional interviews. Findings include ways in which the participants not only processed identity positions they brought to the course\, but also explored new positions related to their experiences during the semester. \nLanguage and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy \nNetta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nHow can applied linguists mobilize their expertise\, experience\, and networks to engage in social justice efforts? This talk focuses on collaborations at the intersection of language\, social justice\, and advocacy\, highlighting how applied linguists’ participation in struggles over language are connected to broader justice struggles. First\, I present my model of “nested interculturality”\, a collective of dispositions and practices for ethical engagement in multilingual and intercultural interactions. Language teacher education and critical service-learning course examples will be shared. Next\, I discuss various collaborations in the AAAL Public Affairs and Engagement Committee around immigration and international exchange. Last\, case studies from the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (Avineri\, Graham\, Johnson\, Riner\, and Rosa\, Eds.) of collaborative advocacy efforts around the “language gap”\, sports team mascot names\, immigration\, and the US Census will be explored. Overall\, the presentation provides applied linguists with multiple avenues for impactful social justice work. \nSymbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper \nLaura Callahan (Santa Clara University)\nThis presentation will examine the use of Spanish in U.S. English-medium films and newspapers\, with data from over the past 20 years. Examples to be seen range from cases in which the objective seems to be a casual demonstration of the speaker’s power\, with Spanish used as a tool to accomplish that purpose\, to other instances in which the use of Spanish seems to function as a language display signaling the speaker’s claim to a Latinx identity. The corpus provides fodder for a discussion of various issues germane to the teaching of Spanish and Spanish linguistics\, such as Mock Spanish\, language and power\, pragmatics and second language users\, as well as codeswitching and other contact phenomena. \nThe Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country \nRebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay)\, Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware)\nAlthough the number of heritage speakers (HSs) studying abroad is projected to grow in the coming years (Shively\, 2018)\, little is known about the pragmatic choices and development of HSs in this context. This study investigates the impact of a 3-week instructional treatment related to requests\, apologies\, and the use of vos among three HSs of Mexican descent during study abroad (SA) in Mendoza\, Argentina. A written elicitation task was used as a pre/post measure of students’ meta- pragmatic awareness and their accommodation ofvoseo. Following explicit instruction\, HSs increased their meta-pragmatic awareness and their use of vos. Nevertheless\, variation was observed due to individual differences and HS identities. Case studies revealed that participants’ pragmatic choices aligned with their identities\, their interactions with Argentines\, and their future goals. These findings suggest that these HSs benefited from explicit pragmatics instruction\, increased their meta- pragmatic awareness\, and made pragmatic choices that reflected their identities. \nIntervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish \nAvizia Long (San Jose State University)\nPrevious research on the second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish rhotics has focused on the tap- trill distinction in production by native English-speaking learners (e.g.\, Face\, 2006; Major\, 1986; Olsen\, 2012; Reeder\, 1998; Rose\, 2010). There is a lack of research on rhotic pronunciation by learners who speak a non-English first language (L1)\, limiting the generalizability of attested findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by investigating the acquisition of Spanish rhotic production by adult learners whose L1 is Korean. Sixty-six adult Korean learners at four instructional levels of Spanish language study (Long\, 2016) completed an oral picture book description task (dePaola\, 1978) from which words containing intervocalic rhotics were extracted for acoustic analysis. This talk will present the findings of this analysis\, specifically the types of productions observed for the alveolar tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/ at each instructional level sampled. \nDown the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2 \nAla Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute)\nPrevious research suggests that accurate realization of L2 phonemes is not necessarily accompanied by learners’ accuracy in other domains of phonological acquisition. The current talk will investigate whether learners who produce a challenging contrast in their L2 store words with this contrast separately in the mental lexicon. Forty American learners of Russian were evaluated on their production and lexical encoding of highly familiar Russian words with palatalization. The results suggest that learners’ ability to accurately differentiate words with the plain/palatalized contrast in production developed independently of their phonolexical representations\, which appear to merge in the mental lexicon. Moreover\, leaners’ performance was strongly affected by the prosodic position of the target consonants. In intervocalic position\, learners made significantly fewer production mistakes than word-finally. However\, they accepted a substantially greater number of nonwords with the target consonants in intervocalic position than in word-final position on a lexical encoding task. \nThe Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation with Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque \nMagdalena Romera and Gorka Elordieta (Public University of Navarre and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)/University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nThe main goal of this paper is to analyse the prosodic features of Spanish varieties that are in contact with Basque in Northern Spain (Basque Country and Navarre) and to observe to what extent social factors\, particularly the speakers’ attitudes towards the other language\, can determine the degree of linguistic convergence (Romera and Elordieta 2013; Elordieta and Romera in press). We recorded semi-directed conversations in Spanish of a total of 36 speakers (monolingual speakers of Spanish\, L1 Spanish-L2 Basque speakers\, and L1 Basque-L2 Spanish speakers)\, in urban and rural areas in the Basque Country and Navarre. In this talk\, we concentrate on information-seeking yes/no questions\, which present different intonation contours in Basque and in Spanish. In Basque\, yes/no questions end in a low or falling contour (cf. Elordieta and Hualde 2014)\, whereas in Castilian Spanish they end in a rising contour (Navarro Tomás 1918; Quilis 1981; Face 2008; Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto 2008\, 2010; Hualde and Prieto 2015\, among others). Preliminary results from 24 speakers show that all of them present a majority of falling final contours in their Spanish\, regardless of their knowledge of Basque. Speakers differed in their frequency of occurrence of falling contours\, ranging from 66% to 100%. Interestingly\, in urban populations (Bilbao and San Sebastian) a correlation was found between attitudes to Basque among monolingual and L1 Spanish speakers and the degree of prosodic convergence towards Basque found in their speech. In other words\, the more positive the attitudes\, the higher the degree of prosodic convergence shown (i.e. the higher the percentage of yes/no questions ending in a falling contour). Prosody is a trait that strongly identifies Basque speakers; it stands as a fundamental identifying feature. The results indicate then that the adoption of the characteristic prosody of Basque allows these speakers to be recognized as members of the Basque community. In smaller towns\, however\, where the degree of contact with Basque is higher\, no correlation between language and ethnolinguistic attitudes and degree of convergence was found. In general\, a higher percentage of final contours in yes/no questions than in the two cities were observed. We conclude that in towns where the presence of Basque in everyday life is stronger\, the higher degree of contact with Basque is the main factor that can account for the higher frequency of Basque intonational features. Although this investigation is still in progress\, the results obtained so far in this study of a particular aspect of Spanish intonation in contact with Basque reveal the influence of social factors in the degree of convergence between the two languages. \nCross-Linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms \nStephen Fafulas (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nAccounts of tense-aspect-mood systems hold that cross-linguistically there is a small set of prototypical functions that have followed similar evolutionary paths. For example\, in languages that mark progressive aspect obligatorily with the present progressive\, the simple present has been edged into habitual territory. However\, there are languages such as Spanish that allow for the use of simple present and present progressive forms to encode “action simultaneous with speech”. Still others\, like English\, show a clearer distinction between progressive and habitual form-function mapping. What is lacking in these accounts is abundant cross-linguistic empirical evidence to substantiate the claims. To address this\, the current study compares the distribution of simple presents and present progressives in an oral corpus of Spanish and English to test whether these languages and forms operate as suggested in the previous literature. \nBeyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability \nDon Miller (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nOver the past two decades\, the greatest efforts in designing and validating corpus-based word frequency lists have gone into three areas: corpus design\, item selection criteria\, and coverage-based demonstrations of list robustness. Corpora are now often much larger and better balanced and\, as a result\, perhaps more representative than ever before; the application of additional distributional statistics allows for better targeting of items with desired distributions (e.g.\, Gardner & Davies\, 2014); and contemporary lexical frequency lists are proving increasingly efficient\, providing ever higher coverage of target texts or achieving such coverage with fewer words (e.g.\, Brezina & Gablasova\, 2015). In this talk\, I argue that researchers should go beyond coverage-based\, indirect evidence of reliability in order to better understand the representativeness of corpora and the generalizability of word lists based on them. \nWord Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives \nBryan Donaldson (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nThis talk examines clitic position in coordinated declaratives in early Old French. Prior to about 1200\, object and adverbial clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal in this context (Simonenko & Hirschbühler 2012)\, as in (1) and (2).\n(1) É li poples ápluvéit de tutes parz é fud é se teneit od Absalon.\n“And people came in large numbers from everywhere and were with and stood with Absalom.” (Li quatre livre des reis\, Curtius\, 1911: 86)\n(2) Or ne fera mes plus; trop a avant alé\, E pesot li que tant en aveit trespassé.\n“From now on\, he will not do more; he went too far\, and he regretted having gone that far.” (Becket\, v.\n1020)\nAn empirical study reveals that the choice of coordinate structure\, and clitic position\, is\nprincipled and reflects discourse structure. In particular\, cases like (1) occur within a single discourse segment\, whereas examples like (2) correspond to separate discourse segments. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/monterey-bay-applied-linguistics-symposium/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-17-at-11.53.15-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20180820T221306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031526Z UID:10006653-1558090800-1558096200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond DESCRIPTION:Workshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State) \nWhy is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly\, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship\, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures\, and our daily and psychological ones\, shape what we mean when we say “writing\,” and we think\, finally\, that writing is for. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-writing-graduate-school-beyond/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190227T211932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T213526Z UID:10005587-1558105200-1558119600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future\, Day 1 DESCRIPTION:A weekend of presentation\, reflection\, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics\, theology to pedagogy\, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly\, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century. \n  \nFriday\, May 17th\n3:00 – 3:30. Opening remarks\n3:30 – 4:45. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition\,” part 1\n4:45 – 5:00. Break / coffee\n5:00 – 6:15. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition\,” part 2\n6:15 – 6:30. Film screening\, Garden\n6:30 – 9:00. Reception and dinner for participants and friends \n* \nThe Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition\npart 1:\nAsad Haider\, moderator\nThomas Marshall\, “Whaddayou Mean “ςπουδαιογελοιον”?: Nabi’s Last Study”\nMartin Devecka\, “Variae inludunt pestes: Learning and Labor in the Georgics”\nBarry Katz\, “Opening Time\, Closing Time: A Journey from Hermes and Hesiod to Vico and Joyce” \npart 2:\nJack Davies\, moderator\nEdmund Burke\, “Prophecy & Apocalypse in the Irano-Semitic Tradition: Norman O. Brown & Marshall Hodgson”\nG.S. Sahota\, “Identifying Khizr: On the Paths of Goethe and Iqbal” \n  \nDay 2 Information \nSponsored by Cowell College\, the Humanities Institute\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the History of Consciousness department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/norman-o-brown-conference-future/ LOCATION:Page Smith Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190424T171845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T192153Z UID:10006738-1558123200-1558123200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX) DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX)\, May 17\, 18\, and 19\, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese\, French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry\, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash\, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright\, Sergio Vodanovic\, El delental blanco (The White Apron)\, with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers\, inspired by a Chinese folktale\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu\, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)\, a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy\, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas)\, by Gocinny and Sempé\, Renée Cailloux\, who adapted the work for the stage\, and Miriam Ellis\, will direct. \nFrench\nOn fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa) \nFrom The Adventures of little Nicholas \nBy Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux \nDirected by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux \nJapanese \nサービス業カタログ (Anything for You\, Dear Customer!)\nBased on vignettes by Japanese comic duos \nDirected by Sakae Fujita and her students \nSpanish \nEl delantal blanco (The White Apron) \nBy Sergio Vodanović \nDirected by Carolina Castillo-Trelles \n Chinese \n梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers) \nInspired by a Chinese folktale \nAdapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students \nDirected by Ting Ting Wu \nOver the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences\, who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie (lmhunter@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/19th-season-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xix/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Scene-from-FANNY-French-MEIP-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190506T183436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T213714Z UID:10006739-1558170000-1558206000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future\, Day 2 DESCRIPTION:Day 1 Information \nA weekend of presentation\, reflection\, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics\, theology to pedagogy\, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly\, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century. \n  \nSaturday\, May 18th\n9:00 – 9:30. Breakfast / coffee\n9:30 – 11:30. “There is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination”\n11:30 – 1:30. Lunch / visit to the Norman O. Brown archival display\n1:30 – 3:30. “Utopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism\, Counterculture\, Arts”\n3:30 – 4:00. Break / coffee\n4:00 – 6:00. “Closing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy”\n7:00 – Onward. Reception and dinner for participants and friends \n* \nThere is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination\nMatthew O’Malley\, moderator\nJay Cantor\, “On Love’s Body”\nMichael Davidson\, “The Double Agent: Norman O. Brown / Robert Duncan”\nAndrew Schelling\, “Nobby\, or Metamorphosis”\nDaniel Tiffany\, “Diction and the Prophetic Voice”\nRob Wilson\, “‘Transfiguration’ as a World-Making Poetics” \nUtopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism\, Counterculture\, Arts\nJohanna Isaacson\, moderator\nRebecca Herzig\, “Alma Mater”\nStuart Kendall\, “Fearless Majesty: Norman O. Brown’s Dionysian Vision”\nJed Rasula\, “Norman O. Brown’s Poetics”\nStephen Carter\, “Politics\, Metapolitics\, and Depoliticization: History and Archetype in the Work of Norman O. Brown”\nJonathan Beecher\, “Exchanges with Nobby: Fourier\, Faust\, Palingenesis”\nGary Miles\, “A Naif’s View from the Trenches” \nClosing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy\nIsaac Blacksin\, moderator\nNor Hall on pedagogy\nJim Clifford on metamorphosis\nBob Meister on chance\nJerome Neu on Freud\nChris Connery on liberation \n* \nSponsored by Cowell College\, the Humanities Institute\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the History of Consciousness department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/norman-o-brown-conference-future-day-2/ LOCATION:Page Smith Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190424T172240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T192751Z UID:10005599-1558209600-1558209600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX) DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX)\, May 17\, 18\, and 19\, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese\, French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry\, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash\, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright\, Sergio Vodanovic\, El delental blanco (The White Apron)\, with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers\, inspired by a Chinese folktale\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu\, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)\, a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy\, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas)\, by Gocinny and Sempé\, Renée Cailloux\, who adapted the work for the stage\, and Miriam Ellis\, will direct. \nFrench\nOn fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa) \nFrom The Adventures of little Nicholas \nBy Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux \nDirected by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux \nJapanese \nサービス業カタログ (Anything for You\, Dear Customer!)\nBased on vignettes by Japanese comic duos \nDirected by Sakae Fujita and her students \nSpanish \nEl delantal blanco (The White Apron) \nBy Sergio Vodanović \nDirected by Carolina Castillo-Trelles \n Chinese \n梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers) \nInspired by a Chinese folktale \nAdapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students \nDirected by Ting Ting Wu \nOver the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences\, who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie (lmhunter@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/19th-season-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xix-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Scene-from-FANNY-French-MEIP-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190506T174253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T222453Z UID:10005615-1558256400-1558285200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza DESCRIPTION:Learn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up\, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos\, featuring food\, music\, dance\, and crafts\, much like a traditional fiesta in Mexico. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-pop-vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza/ LOCATION:San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-06-at-10.41.07-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190424T172544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T192829Z UID:10005601-1558296000-1558296000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX) DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX)\, May 17\, 18\, and 19\, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese\, French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry\, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash\, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright\, Sergio Vodanovic\, El delental blanco (The White Apron)\, with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers\, inspired by a Chinese folktale\, directed by Ting-Ting Wu\, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)\, a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy\, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas)\, by Gocinny and Sempé\, Renée Cailloux\, who adapted the work for the stage\, and Miriam Ellis\, will direct. \nFrench\nOn fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa) \nFrom The Adventures of little Nicholas \nBy Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux \nDirected by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux \nJapanese \nサービス業カタログ (Anything for You\, Dear Customer!)\nBased on vignettes by Japanese comic duos \nDirected by Sakae Fujita and her students \nSpanish \nEl delantal blanco (The White Apron) \nBy Sergio Vodanović \nDirected by Carolina Castillo-Trelles \n Chinese \n梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers) \nInspired by a Chinese folktale \nAdapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students \nDirected by Ting Ting Wu \nOver the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences\, who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie (lmhunter@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/19th-season-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xix-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Scene-from-FANNY-French-MEIP-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190520 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190521 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190227T212453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190508T173936Z UID:10005588-1558310400-1558396799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Ethics Bowl: Ethics and the Far Future DESCRIPTION:What role should thinking about the far future—1\,000 years ahead and more—play in research on campus? Faculty at UC Santa Cruz have widely divergent views on this question and it’s something the administration needs to decide on soon. Some say we should allocate significant resources; others say very little. This will be the focus of UC Santa Cruz’s first Faculty Ethics Bowl. \nBut the key here is the Ethics Bowl format. Ethics Bowl is very different from traditional debate. Teams are not automatically pitted against one another\, and are docked for using rhetoric\, spin\, aggression\, and clever rationalization. Rather\, teams are scored on the basis of active listening\, flexibility\, collaboration\, and analytical rigor–critical ingredients for meaningful discussion on difficult topics. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, no RSVP required. \nTeam 1:                                                                                       Team 2:  \n  \nAnthony Aguirre                                                     Pranav Anand\nPhysics                                                                      Linguistics \n  \n  \n  \nSandra Faber                                                          Sylvanna Falcón \nAstronomy & Astrophysics                       Latin American and Latino Studies \n  \n  \n  \nDavid Haussler                                                     Nico Orlandi\nThe Genomics Institute                                         Philosophy \n  \n  \n  \nLed by Associate Professor of Philosophy Jon Ellis\, in conjunction with the Center for Public Philosophy and The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-public-philosophy-faculty-ethics-bowl/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/EthxBowl_WebBanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20181015T195749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T192155Z UID:10006667-1558526400-1558531800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shadi Rohana: "Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation" DESCRIPTION:The modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography\, historical context\, characters and language\, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605\, and how this presence was later translated into modern Arabic during the 20th century. The talk will also discuss the reception of Don Quixote in varios Arabic speaking contexts. \nShadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator\, translating between Arabic\, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic\, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM)\, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México\, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine\, 2016) was his first novel-length worth \nSpanish: \n“Cervantes y los árabes: Las traducciones del Quijote al árabe” \nShadi Rohana es traductor literario y profesor de tiempo completo en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México. Traduce entre el árabe\, español e inglés. Ha introducido a la lengua árabe a varios escritores latinoamericanos\, así como los comunicados del EZLN en Chiapas. Cursó Estudios Latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos (Swarthmore College) y México (UNAM). Es traductor al árabe de la novela mexicana Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco (Palestina\, 2016). \nAl leer el Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes\, el lector árabe no puede ser indiferente. En esta novela española del siglo XVII existe un sinnúmero de referencias a la presencia árabe-islámica en la Península ibérica: la geografía\, arabismos\, moriscos\, guerra contra los otomanos\, y personajes que hablan en lengua árabe. Dicha presencia es conocida por los árabes como “Al Ándalus”: un territorio y cultura que se extendió\, de forma cambiante\, en la Península ibérica desde el año 711 hasta la caída de Granada/Ghurnaata en 1492. ¿De qué manera en nuestros días los árabes han leído\, interpretado y traducido aquella presencia de Al Ándalus en el Quijote? Abordaré esta cuestión narrando la historia de las traducciones del Quijote al árabe moderno\, así como la recepción de la novela y sus personajes en varios contextos de habla árabe. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-15/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190401T183934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T230501Z UID:10006726-1558533600-1558539000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors DESCRIPTION:  \nAbout the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for our Humanities classrooms. Faculty will come away with a better understanding of how to protect themselves while at the same time lowering textbook cost for their students. \nAll faculty instructors (Senate and non-Senate) are strongly encouraged to attend this workshop. Graduate student teaching fellows and associate-ins are also welcome to attend. \nWorkshop activities will be facilitated by Phillip Longo\, Lecturer in the Writing Program\, and Annette Marines\, Arts and Humanities Librarian at McHenry Library. \nLunch will be served \nThis workshop is part of a series presented by the Humanities Teaching and Learning Now project of The Humanities Institute. HT&L Now is co-facilitated by Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Founding Director of CITL\, Jody Greene\, and by CITL Associate Director for Programs\, Kendra Dority \nThis event is co-hosted by the Humanities Division\,The Humanities Institute\, and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. \nPlease RSVP Judy Plummer: jplummer@ucsc.edu\nAny questions about the workshop can be address to citl@ucsc.edu \n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/balancing-fair-use-student-access-selecting-course-texts-workshop-instructors/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160219 CREATED:20190513T175813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T181416Z UID:10006740-1558540800-1558544400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Coloquio de Spanish Studies: Shadi Rohana DESCRIPTION:Shadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator\, translating between Arabic\, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic\, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM)\, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México\, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine\, 2016) was his first novel-length work. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/coloquio-de-spanish-studies-shadi-rohana/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2019-05-13-at-11.11.51-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190327T205518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190521T224649Z UID:10005594-1558551600-1558558800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:My Own Words: The Law & Legacy of RBG DESCRIPTION:In anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine by composer Kristin Kuster The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Cabrillo Festival\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz have come together to present a panel discussion and Community Read kickoff event. \nUC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor and feminist activist Bettina Aptheker will moderate a conversation with Judge Syda Cogliati\, Attorney Anna M. Penrose-Levig\, and Attorney Jessica Delgado about the significant cases and opinions Justice Ginsburg has championed over the course of her career and the impact she has had on women’s equality\, civil liberties\, and racial justice under the law. \nRead the Santa Cruz Good Times Coverage if this event here. \nBettina Aptheker: A scholar of history with a national reputation for her talents as an instructor\, Bettina Aptheker taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses for nearly three decades at UC Santa Cruz. Starting out in 1980 as the sole lecturer in the Women’s Studies Department\, she became the department’s first ladder-rank faculty member in 1987\, and was honored with the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. Aptheker’s 2006 book\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel\, tells the fascinating story of her life. Described by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a “stunning memoir\,” it traces her role in major historical and political events ranging from her co-leadership of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley\, the movement against the war in Vietnam\, and the trial of Angela Davis\, to the building of the Women’s Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nJudge Syda Cogliati graduated from UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings College of the Law and has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1994. She served as a senior appellate research attorney at the Sixth District Court of Appeal before being elected to the Santa Cruz Superior Court bench in 2018. \n  \nAnna M. Penrose-Levig is an associate attorney at the law firm of Penrose Chun & Gorman LLP in Santa Cruz. Ms. Penrose-Levig has been practicing law since 2003\, is admitted to practice in California and Nevada\, and is currently serving on the Board of the Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County. \n  \nJessica Delgado graduated from UCSC (Merrill\, Politics) and Berkeley Law. She is a career public defender currently assigned to the Homicide Division at the Santa Clara County Alternate Defender where she specializes in capital litigation. \n  \n  \nRead more about the panelists: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/RBG \nThis event is sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Cabrillo Festival. With co-sponsorships from The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation for Feminist Studies\, Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County\, and UC Presidential Chair Craig Haney. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/words-law-legacy-rbg/ LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RBG-750-THI_banner-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190522T205416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T205416Z UID:10006744-1558603800-1558627200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nFriends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m. \nProfessor Sean Keilen Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program \nPanel One: Creative Writing \n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Professor Micah Perks \nMary Miki Arlen\, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) \nRosa Scupine\, How should I remember my grandfather? \nTomas Tedsesco\, You ask\, “who lives in you?” \nAmanda Vong\, Body of Water \nHolly Voorsanger\, Speculative Memoir: Love or Drug? \nPanel Two: Literature and Empire \n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon \nModerator: Professor Martin Devecka \nAspen Adams\, Inescapable Pasts: Screen Memories and Sublimation in the Nuclear Age \nRyan McElroy\, Nuclear Savage’s Questionable Heart: Replicated Genocidal Imagery in a White Savior Narrative \nJessica Parra Moya\, Reclamando y Desmantelando La Figura De La Malinche Con Las Herramientas Del Patrón \nLITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES-12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nProfessor Carla Freccero Chair\, Literature Department \n* FREE * LUNCH BUFFET \nPanel Three: Literature and Other Arts \n12:45 – 1:45 p.m. \nModerator: Professor H. Marshall Leicester\, Jr. \nEmily Caballero\, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner: Guttered White Violence in the Shadows of Death \nZoe Hildebrand\, Theory of The Influencer \nDaniel Sachs\, Rules of the Boys’ Club: Postmodern Horror Films and the Allegory of the Female Director \nPanel Four: Encounters with the Novel \n2:00 – 3:00 p.m. \nModerator: Professor Chris Connery \nLuan Gondim de Alencastro\, Complacency in the Absurd: A Study of Metatextuality in As Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas \nMaxwell Shukuya\, Emptiness and the Contemporary Novel Under Neoliberalism \nEmanuel Trujillo\, Finding Adan \nPanel Five: Shakespeare’s Late Plays \n3:15 – 4:00 p.m. \nModerator: Professor Sean Keilen \nStephanie Bolduc\, Forgiveness and Control in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest \nCynthia Gonzalez\, Anger and Forgiveness in The Tempest and Cymbeline \nConcluding Remarks 4:00 p.m. \n  \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! \nFor more information: literature.ucsc.edu | (831) 459-4778 | litdept@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/twentieth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190515T172458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T172714Z UID:10006742-1558630800-1558636200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania DESCRIPTION:Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk\, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts\, these are stories that could have been\, but never happened…feminist unions\, Eastern European migrants antifascist organizing\, anticapitalist campaigns\, solidarity movements between students and coal miners. \nBased in Bucharest\, Veda Popovici holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Art. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/veda-popovici-history-not-repeat-speculative-histories-post-revolutionary-romania/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SSRC-DPD-UCSC.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190403T221454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221454Z UID:10006734-1558632600-1558632600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Students will be reading from their own work. \nPlease stay tuned for more information. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-readings/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190520T191644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T191737Z UID:10006743-1558701000-1558705500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond DESCRIPTION:The Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma \nAndeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma\, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru\, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is one of very few Indigenous Peruvian voices that exist in the literary record\, and as we have pored over his words and line drawings\, very few of us have focused on color. This paper analyzes the use of the color blue in the Galvin Murúa\, as it diplicts the rocks as animate\, similarly to water\, and exists as a hidden code to Indigenous readers of this work. \nKatie Ligmond is a second year PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her work focuses on the empires of the Andes\, including the Warm. Inka\, and Spanish imperial forces with a focus on their gendered dynamics and the maintenance of  ethic identities. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. \nFor questions email: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-katie-ligmond/ 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:20190529T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20181015T195842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T200241Z UID:10006668-1559131200-1559136600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ashwini Tambe: "Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates" DESCRIPTION:Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. My talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases I discuss —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— I show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices. Ashwini Tambe is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park and affiliate faculty in the History department and Asian American Studies program. She is also the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. Her interests include transnational feminist theory\, modern South Asian history\, and sexuality studies. Her previous books are Codes of Misconduct:Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (2009\, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/New Delhi: Zubaan) and The Limits of Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean (2008\, London: Routledge) coedited with Harald Fischer-Tiné. Her recent articles have spanned topics such as population and age of marriage (Women’s Studies International Forum 2014)\, climatology in scientific racism (Theory\, Culture and Society\, 2011)\, interdisciplinary approaches to feminist state theory (Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East\, 2010)\, economic liberalization and sexual liberalism in contemporary India (Economic and Political Weekly\, 2010)\, and the long record of transnational approaches in feminist scholarship (New Global Studies\, 2010). Her current work\, supported by SSHRC and NEH grants\, examines the legal paradoxes in age standards for sexual consent in India; her forthcoming book on the subject is Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019\, University of Illinois Press). She is also co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory with Millie Thayer titled Transnational Feminist Itineraries. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-16/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190501T172618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T184103Z UID:10005605-1559208600-1559230200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1 DESCRIPTION:Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. \nThe 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice\, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice\,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological\, cultural\, social\, political\, geological\, biological and other forces\, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth.  We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students\, faculty\, staff\, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies\, epistemologies\, and uneven responsibilities.\nMétis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology\, Carleton University\, Canada\nVisiting Professor of History\, Yale University \nKey Note Speakers: \nZoe Todd \nThis talk explores Alberta\, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe\, such as: extinction\, the Anthropocene\, environmental degradation\, climate change\, and energy studies.  Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information\, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity. \nValentin Lopez \nAlfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography\nDeakin University\, Australia \nFor some\, it seems\, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation\, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality\, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors\, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or\, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped? \nTimothy Neale \nTimothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance\, settler-Indigenous relations\, technoscience\, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017). \nKyle Powys Whyte \nTimnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University \nClimate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains\, in part\, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and\, ultimately\, climate justice.\nKyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice\, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning\, policy\, science\, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \nArboretum Tour with Rick Flores\, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nProgram Day 1: \n9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast \n10:00am – Conference Welcome \n10:15am – Valentin Lopez \n15 minute break \n11:15am – Zoe Todd \n12:45pm – Lunch \n2:00pm – Kyle Powys Whyte \n3:30pm – Conclusion \nProgram Day 2 \n  \nFor more information including directions and parking please visit: \nhttps://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-science-studies-conference-indigeneity-climate-justice-day-1/ LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-01-at-10.18.10-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190501T174832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T183144Z UID:10005611-1559229300-1559235600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 - Thi Nguyen: "The Gamification of Public Discourse" DESCRIPTION:The pleasures of games include\, among other things\, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games\, our goals and values are clear\, quantified\, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm – a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends\, for the sake of the pleasure of the experience of play. This is morally acceptable in games\, because the ends in games are temporary and disposable. Instrumentalizing our enduring epistemic ends\, on the other hand\, invites bad faith reasoning. Social media encourages the instrumentalization of our epistemic ends\, by offering highly salient quantified targets: Facebook Likes and Twitter Likes and Retweet numbers. It invites us to shift the ends of public discourse from some more subtle value towards\, say\, maximizing retweet numbers. We would thereby increase the pleasures of value clarity from engaging in discourse. Importantly\, among those pleasures are: the pleasures of the simplified experience of moral outrage\, and the pleasures of being part of a united epistemic community. But changing one’s epistemic aims for the sake of these pleasures is bad faith reasoning. And the form of the pleasures may help us to understand the relationship between social media and the formation of echo chambers. \nThe gamification of public discourse is an example of what I call “value capture”. Value capture occurs when: 1.) our values are naturally rich and subtle; 2.) we are placed in a social or institutional setting with simple\, explicit\, typically quantified representations of those values; 3.) we internalize those simple representations of our values; and 4.) things get worse. Some other examples include being value captured by FitBit’s step counts\, academic citation rates\, and GPA’s. The gamification of public discourse helps us see how we can understand the problem of value capture: it’s the inappropriate instrumentalizatio of an end. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-nguyen-gamification-public-discourse/ 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:20190531T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190501T172915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T184304Z UID:10005607-1559295000-1559316600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2 DESCRIPTION:Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. \nThe 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice\, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice\,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological\, cultural\, social\, political\, geological\, biological and other forces\, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth.  We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students\, faculty\, staff\, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies\, epistemologies\, and uneven responsibilities.\nMétis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology\, Carleton University\, Canada\nVisiting Professor of History\, Yale University \nKey Note Speakers: \nZoe Todd \nThis talk explores Alberta\, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe\, such as: extinction\, the Anthropocene\, environmental degradation\, climate change\, and energy studies.  Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information\, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity. \nValentin Lopez \nAlfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography\nDeakin University\, Australia \nFor some\, it seems\, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation\, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality\, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors\, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or\, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped? \nTimothy Neale \nTimothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance\, settler-Indigenous relations\, technoscience\, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017). \nKyle Powys Whyte \nTimnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University \nClimate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains\, in part\, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and\, ultimately\, climate justice.\nKyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice\, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning\, policy\, science\, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \nArboretum Tour with Rick Flores\, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nProgram Day 1 \nProgram Day 2: \n9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast \n10:00am – Conference Welcome \n10:15am – Timothy Neale \n15 minute break \n12:00pm – Arboretum Tour with Rick Flores \n1:00pm – Lunch \n2:00pm – Final Roundtable with keynotes and grad students \n3:30pm – Conclusion \n  \nFor more information including directions and parking please visit: \nhttps://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/46037/ LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-01-at-10.18.10-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T161500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190529T173135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T173300Z UID:10006747-1559307600-1559319300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) DESCRIPTION:Program: \n1:00 PM- Refreshments \n1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling \nSession 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik \n1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: “Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory” \n1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: “Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level” \n2:10 PM- BREAK \nSession 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley \n2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: “The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation” \n2:45 PM- Jared Crawford-Levis: “Subject Bridging: Exploring a New Construction” \n3:10 PM- Distinguished Alumnus Address: Introduction by Margaret Kroll Marcin Morzycki \n4:05 PM- Closing remarks: Amanda Rysling URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-lurc/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.30.40-AM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190603T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190603T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190529T171915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T171915Z UID:10006746-1559568000-1559581200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana DESCRIPTION:Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity \nA documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai\, based on the forthcoming book\, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. \n1:20PM – 3:00PM Talk\n3:00PM – 5:00PM Screening \nRefreshments will be provided.\nSeating is limited. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hindustani-music-and-performance-of-modernity-a-talk-and-film-screening-by-tejaswini-niranjana/ LOCATION:Music Center Room 131\, 1156 HIGH STREET\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.18.31-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190313T211623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190531T182900Z UID:10005591-1559750400-1559761200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Spring Awards DESCRIPTION:Annual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday\, June 5th\, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements\, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session\, and a celebration of faculty milestones. \nThe Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff\, faculty\, alumni\, students and their families to all come together to recognize and honor excellence and outstanding achievement across the division. \nWednesday\, June 5\, 2019 \nUCSC Cowell Ranch Hay Barn \nFriends and family welcome to attend \n4:00-5:00 pm\nSpring Awards Ceremony\nOpening remarks by Acting Humanities Dean Karen Bassi and EVC Tromp \n5:00-5:30 pm \nUndergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session \n5:30-7:00 pm \nFaculty Milestone Celebration \nADA parking will be available at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.\nGeneral parking will be across Coolidge Drive in Parking Lot 116. \nFor questions\, please contact Rafferty Lincoln at rlincoln@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-spring-awards-2019/ LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-05-31-at-11.23.50-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190605T185921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190606T193806Z UID:10006752-1559757600-1559763000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Keith A. Spencer Book Talk DESCRIPTION:“A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers\, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy” with author Keith A. Spencer \nKeith A Spencer is an editor at salon.com where he writes about science and technology\, the politics of space colonization\, the social and cultural ramifications of the tech industry. http://keithspencer.org/ \nLight refreshments provided with good and brinks at Lupulo after \nCo-sponored by UAW 2865 and the Humanities Institute URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/keith-a-spencer-book-talk/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190403T220715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T220715Z UID:10006733-1559842200-1559842200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, PEN America\, and The Iowa Review\, among others. She recently won the 92Y’s Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open Book Contest. She has also received awards\, scholarships\, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, Key West Literary Seminars\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley\, and Bucknell University. Currently\, she lives in Denver where she is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-diana-khoi-nguyen/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190506T174647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T174817Z UID:10005617-1559842200-1559847600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Clases DESCRIPTION:Nido de Lenguas: Clases will offer regular classes turning native speakers into language teachers to share their linguistic heritage with dedicated community members. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-clases-2/ LOCATION:Branciforte Small Schools Campus\, 840 N Branciforte Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190523T183147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190528T193034Z UID:10006745-1559847600-1559854800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Neal Stephenson: Fall\, or Dodge in Hell DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Neal Stephenson for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated new book\, Fall\, or Dodge in Hell. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Tickets for this event are available through Brown Paper Tickets. \nTwo ticket packages are available: \nGeneral Admission Ticket + 1 Book ($39) = Admission for one person plus one copy of the book\nDouble Admission Ticket + 1 Book ($46) = Admission for two people plus one copy of the book. \n \nThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snowcrash\, Seveneves\, Anathem\, Reamde\, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future\, in parallel worlds. \nIn his youth\, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592\, a gaming company that made him a multibillionarie. Now in his middle years\, Dodge appreciates his comfortable\, unencumbered life\, managing his myriad business interests\, and spending time with beloved niece Zula and her young daughter\, Sophia. \nOne beautiful autumn day\, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure\, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support\, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago\, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will\, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings\, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud\, until it can eventually be revived. \nIn the coming years\, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created\, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. \nBut this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem… \nFall\, or Dodge in Hell is pure\, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital\, man and machine\, angels and demons\, gods and followers\, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic\, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological\, philosophical\, and spiritual in one grand myth\, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. \nNeal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde\, Anathem\, The System of the World\, The Confusion\, Quicksilver\, Cryptonomicon\, The Diamond Age\, Snow Crash\, and Zodiac\, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning…Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle\, Washington. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neal-stephenson-fall-dodge-hell/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Stephenson-Fall-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190607T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190607T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190603T225213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190604T204055Z UID:10006750-1559910600-1559915100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Friday Forum with Aaron Franklin DESCRIPTION:Transcendental Sentimentalism – An Introduction \nBroadly construed\, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgements thereof. With this presentation\, Aaron introduces and sketches a defense of a novel form of more sentimentalism he calls “Transcendental Sentimentalism.” According to transcendental sentimentalism\, being in an emotional state about an object is a necessary condition of the possibility of a subject counting as having non-inferential evaluative knowledge about that object. In unpacking each component of this position\, he argues that it is both distinct from and more explanatorily attractive than the other approaches to explaining the relationship between emotion and moral thought. \nAaron Franklin is a PhD candidate in philosophy. His research concerns the metaphysics of norms and the relationship between emotion and evaluative thought. In addition to writing his dissertation\, Aaron works with the Center for Public Philosophy on a project examining the role that motivated reasoning plays in our public discourse. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. For questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com. \nFriday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-aaron-franklin-transcendental-sentimentalism-an-introduction/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190610T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190610T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20181120T202148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T192627Z UID:10005550-1560191400-1560196800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Prof and A Pint- The 1930s: The Past of Our Present? DESCRIPTION:Marc Matera challenges this image of the decade and draws different lessons for our time by considering the 1930s through examples in which global connections and international organization reached new levels on many fronts\, from struggles for colonial and racial freedom to the spread of populist authoritarianism. \nComparisons between 1930s and our contemporary moment are everywhere. These comparisons rely on a view of the 1930s as a period of retrenchment behind the security of national borders and economic protectionism and a retreat to xenophobic nationalism following decades of globalization and internationalism. \nMarc Matera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in History at UCSC. His numerous publications include three books: “The Global 1930s: The International Decade\,” “Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the 20th Century\,” and ‘The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria.” Professor Matera received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, his M.A from the University of Colorado\, Boulder\, and his Ph.D.\, from Rutgers University\, New Brunswick\, NJ. \n  \n \n  \nA Prof and A Pint\, a monthly series of informal discussions\, served over dinner and drinks\, at Forager Tasting Room and Eatery. Brought to you by UC Santa Cruz Alumni\, and helping to celebrate 2018 as the Year of Alumni\, each talk will engage a UC Santa Cruz faculty member or grad student in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month. Topics include everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras. Self-driving cars to Shakespeare. Audience participation is encouraged. Enjoy a great meal and learn something while you eat! \nEntry is free\, but please consider ordering some food and drinks to support *Forager\, our host. Current students and alumni\, we encourage you to invite your friends\, whether they are Banana Slugs or not\, to be a part of the discussion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prof-pint-gender-race-imperial-britain-british-empire/ LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Prof-A-Pint.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190617T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190529T174227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T174227Z UID:10006748-1560798000-1560798000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong\, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel DESCRIPTION:We welcome award winning author Ocean Vuong (Night Sky with Exit Wounds) for a reading of his highly acclaimed debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, named a best book of summer by The Washington Post\, Publishers Weekly\, Vulture\, Thrillist\, Entertainment Weekly\, Elle\, and more. \n“In this achingly beautiful novel\, a young Vietnamese American writes a letter to his abusive mother about his struggle to find love and a sense of identity. In the process\, he comes to appreciate the struggles of her life\, too.” —The Washington Post \nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he currently lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel. \nOcean Vuong’s poetry collection\, Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, marked the arrival of an incomparable talent. His searing\, intimate poems\, infused with his love of language\, grappled with memories of war and displacement\, coming of age as a young gay man\, and daily life in Vietnam and America. Named a best book of 2016 by dozens of outlets from The New York Times to NPR to The San Francisco Chronicle\, the collection was also the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Whiting Award. Readers and critics alike fell in love with Vuong’s lyricism and the deep humanity that runs through all his work. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by June 15th. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ocean-vuong-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-a-novel/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.34.15-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190713 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190721 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190617T212252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T212334Z UID:10006753-1562976000-1563667199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:39th Annual Dickens Universe DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2019\, the Universe will feature Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens. \nFull event info and registration: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/index.html \nIn this early and seldom studied historical novel\, Dickens tells a powerful story of public violence and private horror. Set in 18th-century London\, the novel is full of mystery and melodrama. Sons struggle against fathers\, servants against masters. Religious controversy erupts into riots. Vivid characters enact their passions in a world deeply divided against itself\, and a pet raven issues oracular statements that none can forget–or understand. \nNow in its 39th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience. \nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common. The range of activities—formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing. The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dickens-universe/ 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:20190808T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190808T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190604T202608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190721T215921Z UID:10006751-1565290800-1565298000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Community Night DESCRIPTION:Community Night is back by popular demand! Last season Cabrillo Festival and Music Director Cristi Măcelaru opened their doors in a whole new way and attracted capacity crowds and wild enthusiasm! This year Cristi and members of the Festival Orchestra have designed another captivating concert of new or recent chamber works showcasing these extraordinary musicians as soloists and in small ensembles. This is an invitation for long time Festival-goers and first-timers alike to get a more intimate perspective on the talented artists who come from across the globe to be a part of this phenomenal orchestra. Bring your neighbors! Bring your friends! All seating is general admission. Tickets are required\, but pricing is on a pay-what-you-can basis to ensure access for all. It’s going to be another high-spirited evening of live music—complete with special surprises. \nTHI is pleased to partner with the Cabrillo Festival to offer a limited number of free tickets to Community Night. Use the code: 2019THI (maximum six per order). \nMEETUP! Stay after the show to sip wine and chat with these remarkable performers! \nCo-sponsored by: The Humanities Institute\, Santa Cruz County Bank\, Eric Hanson CFP URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cabrillo-festival-community-night/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CFCM_2019_Concert_Pages_Banners_CommunityNight_R1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190819 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190325T171652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190903T222206Z UID:10005593-1566000000-1566172799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Weekend with Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nJoin Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures\, discussions\, and demonstrations about the 2019 Season’s main stage productions\, Winter’s Tale and Comedy of Errors. \nWeekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year\, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However\, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website. \n \nWeekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nLecture Series on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: Saturday\, August 17 \n12-12:15PM Intro by Dr. Sean Keilen\, Provost\, Porter College\, UC Santa Cruz.\n12:15-1:15PM Q&A with actors from The Winter’s Tale\, moderated by Artistic Director Mike Ryan.\n1:15-1:30PM Break.\n1:30-2:30PM In conversation with Ariane Helou\, dramaturg of The Winter’s Tale.\n2:30-3PM Break with refreshments.\n3-4PM Conversation with Professor Sandra Logan and SCS actor Tommy Gomez. \nFor those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of The Winter’s Tale:\n7-7:15PM Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Ariane Helou.\n8PM Performance of The Winter’s Tale at The Grove. \nLecture Series on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: Sunday\, August 18 \n12-12:15PM Intro by Dr. Sean Keilen\, Provost\, Porter College\, UC Santa Cruz.\n12:15-1:15PM In conversation with Professor Gina Bloom.\n1:15-1:30PM Break.\n1:30-2:30PM In conversation with Ashley Herum\, dramaturg of The Comedy of Errors\, and Dr. Michael Warren\, Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare.\n2:30-3PM Break with refreshments.\n3-4PM Presentation with Mike Ryan and The Comedy of Errors director Kirsten Brandt on “The opportunities and challenges using one actor to represent twins.” \nFor those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of The Comedy of Errors:\n6-6:15PM Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Professor Gina Bloom.\n7PM Performance of The Comedy of Errors at The Grove. \nFeaturing guest speakers Gina Bloom (UC Davis) and Ariane Helou (UCLA). \nGina Bloom is Professor of English at the University of California\, Davis. Her research and teaching focus on Shakespeare\, gender\, theater history and performance\, digital arts/humanities\, and education. In addition to numerous articles\, she has published two books. Voice in Motion: Staging Gender\, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2007) won the award for best book of the year from The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (University of Michigan Press\, 2018) was named Runner Up for Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and is available open access. With colleagues in the ModLab at UC Davis\, Bloom created the mixed reality Shakespeare game Play the Knave\, which has been exhibited in theaters\, cultural institutions\, libraries and classrooms around the world. Bloom serves on the Executive Committeefor the Shakespeare Forum of the Modern Language Association and has just completed a term as a Trustee for the Shakespeare Association if America. \n  \nAriane Helou teaches in the Department of French & Francophone Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on drama\, music\, and poetry in early modern Italy\, England\, and France. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies; the Huntington Library; UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies\, among others. Ariane is the co-editor (with Julia R. Lupton) of Romeo and Juliet in Diaspora: Shakespeare Among the Arts and in Translation\, forthcoming from The Arden Shakespeare. In addition to publishing scholarship on Shakespeare studies and early modern Italian drama\, Ariane is also a translator; a dramaturg; and a performing artist whose background spans early music\, theater\, and opera. Ariane has been a company member of the Santa Cruz Shakespeare festival since 2012 and is a dramaturg and producing partner of the Los Angeles-based theater company Collaborative Artists Bloc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/weekend-with-shakespeare-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190529T174954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T202438Z UID:10006749-1566586800-1566586800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Téa Obreht - Inland: A Novel DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome Téa Obreht\, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife\, back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel\, INLAND—an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape\, a stunning tale of perseverance and family\, and a love letter to the complicated and glorious American West. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn the lawless\, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893\, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband\, a newspaperman who has gone in search of water for the parched household\, and her elder sons\, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time (and enduring her thirst) with her youngest son\, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home\, and her husband’s seventeen-year-old cousin\, who communes with spirits. \nLurie is an immigrant—a man born under Ottoman rule who comes to America as a child—and a former outlaw who is haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him\, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected companion who inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Nora’s and Lurie’s stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. \nTéa Obreht is the author of The Tiger’s Wife\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. An international bestseller\, it has sold over a million copies worldwide\, with rights sold in 37 countries. Obreht was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and was named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She was the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and was a recipient of the 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was born in Belgrade\, in the former Yugoslavia\, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 21st. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tea-obreht-inland-a-novel/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tea-Obreht-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190514T172156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T193929Z UID:10006741-1568919600-1568919600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead Reading: The Nickel Boys DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBookshop Santa Cruz presents Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Colson Whitehead for a reading of The Nickel Boys\, his highly anticipated followup and companion to The Underground Railroad. This special ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30 and include ONE ticket to the event and ONE copy of The Nickel Boys. Purchase ticket packages at Bookshop Santa Cruz or online\, while supplies last. \n \nFree entry and a book will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend \n(student ID required at the door) \nIn his speech accepting the 2016 National Book Award for The Underground Railroad\, Colson Whitehead summarized the responsibility of writers in our difficult times: Be Kind. Make Art. Fight the Power. With his astonishing new novel\, it’s clear he’s taken his own counsel to heart. \nA perfect follow-up and companion to The Underground Railroad\, in The Nickel Boys\, Colson Whitehead recreates the horrors of segregation and the struggles of the Civil Rights movement as the backdrop for an emotionally charged and compulsively readable novel populated with deeply empathetic characters. \nIn the early 1960s\, as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee\, Florida\, one innocent mistake is all it takes for Elwood Curtis to become sentenced to the Nickel Academy — a grotesque chamber of horrors where sadistic staff abuse the students\, corrupt officials steal food and supplies\, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear “out back.” Elwood takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart. “Throw us in jail and will still love you.” His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naïve — that the world is crooked\, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo for decades. \nHighlighting a story that hasn’t been widely shared before about one of our country’s secret tragedies\, in The Nickel Boys\, not only does Colson Whitehead bring to life vividly the evils of Jim Crow America — he also brings to life the heartbreaking story of two boys and their impossible choices. Elwood and Turner will become known to readers as two of the most indelible characters in modern fiction thanks to Colson Whitehead’s prodigious talent and boundless compassion. \n\nAhead of the event\, read THI’s interview with Tyler Stovall\, who will be introducing Whitehead on the night. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colson-whitehead/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Nickel-Boys-Whitehead-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190921T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190921T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190620T221441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T203410Z UID:10006754-1569092400-1569099600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell - Talking to Strangers DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, are delighted to present an evening with Malcolm Gladwell for the hardcover tour of Talking to Strangers. Join us at San Mateo Performing Arts Center on Saturday\, September 21st at 7:00 p.m. for this very special evening! \nThis event is now sold out. \nAbout the book: In his first new book in six years\, TALKING TO STRANGERS: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know\, Gladwell offers an incisive and powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go so terribly wrong. Probing the headlines around Bernie Madoff\, Amanda Knox\, Sylvia Plath\, Jerry Sandusky\, Sandra Bland and Neville Chamberlain’s interactions with Hitler\, he throws into doubt our conception of these stories and makes the case that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. With the brilliantly engaging storytelling and razor-sharp observations we’ve come to expect from him\, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook that helps make sense of our troubled times. \nAbout the Author: Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five international bestsellers: The Tipping Point\, Blink\, Outliers\, What the Dog Saw\, and David and Goliath. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History\, co-host of the music podcast Broken Record\, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers/ LOCATION:San Mateo Performing Arts Center\, 600 N Delaware St\, San Mateo\, CA\, 94401\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Gladwell_THIBnr_R2B_1024x576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190925T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190718T230617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T173558Z UID:10006755-1569438000-1569445200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jacqueline Woodson: Red at the Bone DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to present an evening with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson to celebrate the release of her newest book\, Red at the Bone. This special book talk\, Q+A\, and book signing is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nTicket options: \nSingle Entry: $30.00 Admission for 1 person. Includes 1 ticket and 1 copy of Red at the Bone  \nDouble Entry: $38.00 Admission for 2 people. Includes 2 tickets and 1 copy of Red at the Bone \n(Red at the Bone publishes September 17th and is $26 retail.) \nAn extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family\, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.
 Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time\, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length\, Jacqueline Woodson’s new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences\, decisions\, and relationships of these families\, and in the life of this child. \n“[A] beautifully imagined novel…Woodson’s nuanced voice evokes the complexities of race\, class\, religion\, and sexuality in fluid prose and a series of telling details. This is a wise\, powerful\, and compassionate novel.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nJacqueline Woodson is the bestselling author of more than two dozen award-winning books including the 2016 New York Times-bestselling National Book Award finalist for adult fiction\, Another Brooklyn. Among her many accolades\, Woodson is a four-time National Book Award finalist\, a four-time Newbery Honor winner\, a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner\, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award Winner. Her New York Times-bestselling memoir\, Brown Girl Dreaming\, received the National Book Award in 2014. Woodson is also the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and recipient of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. In 2015\, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She lives with her family in New York. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jacqueline-woodson-red-at-the-bone/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/woodson-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190821T170316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T200700Z UID:10006762-1570114800-1570122000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Gootenberg: From Teonanácatl to Miami Vice - Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture DESCRIPTION:Long before today’s entanglements with coke\, meth\, and weed\, the Americas were a proving ground of global drug cultures. This millennium of shamanistic and Aztec psychedelics\, colonial and Atlantic stimulants such as coffee and tobacco\, national drug goods like tequila and coca\, preceded the menacing 20th-century explosion of illicit drug trafficking\, and shed light on our changing relationships to mind drugs and their commerce. \n\n  \n \nPaul Gootenberg\, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology at Stony Brook University\, and Chair of History\, is a Latin Americanist and commodity studies specialist and leader in the field of global drug history. He trained at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His books include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC\, 2008) and with Liliana M. Dávalos\, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Routledge\, 2018). He is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History and President-elect of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS). \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for World History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-gootenberg-the-history-of-cocaine-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190912T194956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T194956Z UID:10006773-1570129800-1570134600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart\, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels\, Rolling the R’s (Kaya Press) which he’d adapted for the stage\, and Leche (Coffee House Press)\, as well as four poetry collections\, most recently\, Pop Vérité\, all from Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu\, Hawaii\, and Baguio\, Philippines. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-r-zamora-linmark/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190911T182747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T201222Z UID:10006772-1570469400-1570476600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Eli Yassif’s lecture “Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor” \nJewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Jewish People\, and its history dates back to Biblical times. But is there really “Jewish Humor”\, and if so\, what are its major characteristics? This talk will explore the earliest collections of Jewish jokes\, from early in the 19th century\, and strive to understand\, by analyzing some exemplary jokes\, the place and impact Jewish humor has had in and on Early Modern history and culture. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nEli Yassif is the Berger Professor of Jewish Folk-Culture in the School of Jewish Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He studies the history of Jewish folklore and the Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages\, and published over 100 studies – books and scholarly articles in these fields. \nHis book: The Hebrew Folktale: History\, Genre\, Meaning was published in 1999 by Indiana University Press\, and was elected as the best Jewish scholarly book for that year. It is used as the basic textbook in Israel and in the US in teaching this field. \nHis latest book was published just this year: The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press\, 2019). \nProf. Yassif served as a visiting professor at UCLA and UC Berkeley\, Oxford University\, University of Michigan\, University of Chicago\, Yale University and Stanford. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eli-yassif-before-seinfeld-the-early-modern-roots-of-jewish-humor/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/images.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190722T194451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191004T182228Z UID:10005625-1570622400-1570627800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar DESCRIPTION:“What More Remains: Sexuality\, Slavery\, Historiography” \nThis talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced?  How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit and pleasure\, than in archives of loss and trauma? How do we open a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of area studies and sexuality studies with an eye to understanding how histories of slavery can reshape\, even devastate\, these very field-formations? \nAnjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality\, colonialism and historiography\, with a focus on South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\, Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies\,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016). Her talk is an excerpt from her forthcoming book\, Abundance: On Sexuality and Historiography. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-anjali-arondekar/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190722T185625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T175549Z UID:10006757-1570712400-1570732200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED) DESCRIPTION:Please note: this is a two-day event. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-practices-key-note/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190927T211127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T215209Z UID:10006785-1570719600-1570723200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kresge's Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED) DESCRIPTION:Join Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole\, a photographer\, novelist\, art historian\, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has recently co-authored a book on refugees and displaced people\, titled Human Archipelago\, and several of his recent pieces for the New York Times focus on the visual depiction of human suffering and its purpose (“A Crime Scene at the Border” and “When the Camera was a Weapon of Imperialism (and still is)“). Co-sponsored by Kresge College\, the University Library\, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, EOP\, the office of Student Achievement & Equity Innovation\, Porter\, Merrill\, and Cowell Colleges\, the African American Resource and Cultural Center\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, HAVC\, and SOMeCA. \nClick here for more information and to Register for the event URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kresges-media-and-society-teju-cole-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/teju_fixed.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190722T185434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T175330Z UID:10006756-1570728600-1570734000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the\nBeyond the End of the World series. \n  \nDue to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to reschedule her engagement in Santa Cruz for January 23\, 2020. Click here for updated event information. \n  \nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. She has a forthcoming book titled Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press). Taylor’s writing has been published in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, Boston Review\, Paris Review\, Guardian\, The Nation\, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics\, Culture and Society\, Jacobin\, and beyond. In 2016\, she was designated as one of the one hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by the The Root. Taylor is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Keynote presentations include: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\, award-winning author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Déborah Danowski\, co-author of the speculative analysis of our dystopian present\, The Ends of the World; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro\, Brazilian anthropologist and author of Cannibal Metaphysics; Amitav Ghosh\, award-winning fiction writer and author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable; Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux)\, co-founder of Red Nation and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance; Melanie Yazzie (Bilagáana/Diné)\, Red Nation member and co-editor of Decolonization: Indigeneity\, Education and Society; and artist-activists Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon of MTL/Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement centering Indigenous struggle\, Black liberation\, free Palestine\, global wage workers and de-gentrification. \nFor more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190912T195151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T172824Z UID:10006774-1570734600-1570739400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo DESCRIPTION:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions\, 2018)\, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook\, Dulce (Northwestern University Press\, 2018)\, was chosen by Chris Abani\, Ed Roberson\, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir\, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation\, trauma\, and mobility between borders. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190919T213514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T175743Z UID:10006777-1570786200-1570813200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED) DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/democratic-interpellations-conference/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20191015T192324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T192543Z UID:10006790-1570820400-1570827600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Film Festival: General Magic DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival‘s showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary\, is a tale of how a great vision\, a grave betrayal and an epic failure changed the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the next big thing\, General Magic shipped the first handheld wireless personal communicator in 1994. From the first smartphones to social media\, e-commerce and even emoji\, the ideas that now dominate the tech industry and our day-to-day lives were born at General Magic. \nCombining rare archive footage with contemporary stories of the Magicians today\, this documentary tracks the progress of anytime\, anywhere communication from a thing of sci-fi fiction in 1994 to a reality in our pockets today. This is the story of one of history’s most talented teams and what happens when those who dream big fail\, fail again\, fail better and ultimately succeed. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-film-festival-general-magic/ LOCATION:Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View)\, 1010 River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190919T225534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T214901Z UID:10006778-1571139000-1571144400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner - Intersectionality\, Experience as Deviants\, and the Film "Black Like Me" DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg \nVera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013)\, a pioneer of women’s history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like Me with husband and film director Carl Lerner. The film is based on the highly controversial book by John Howard Griffin\, a white writer who in 1959 darkened his skin and traveled through the Jim Crow-era “deep South” to expose the everyday realities of racism. The film reflects the Lerners’ experience as participants in the civil rights movement and their own experiences of repression as communists in Cold War America and Gerda’s persecution as a Jew in Nazi Europe \nLunch will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/blacklisted-jews-like-us-gerda-carl-lerner-intersectionality-experience-as-deviants-and-the-film-black-like-me/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Blacklisted-Jews-Like-Us_Vera-Kallenberg-10.15.19.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190909T181823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T222755Z UID:10006768-1571155200-1571162400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation - On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans DESCRIPTION:Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book\, Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press\, 2019)\, co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice\, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration\, displacement\, diaspora\, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties\, from depression\, suicide\, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype\, transnational adoption\, parachute children\, colorblind discourses in the United States\, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout\, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena\, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race\, sexuality\, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora. \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies\, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory\, and the Program in Gender\, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. After receiving his B.A. in English from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley\, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway)\, King’s College London\, Harvard University\, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. In 2016\, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American literature\, Asian American studies\, Asian diaspora\, critical race theory\, psychoanalysis\, queer studies\, gender studies\, and visual culture. \nEng is author with Shinhee Han of Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke\, 2019)\, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke\, 2010)\, and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke\, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California\, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple\, 1998\, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award). In addition\, he is co-editor of two special issues of the journal Social Text: with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen\, “China and the Human”  (2011/2012)\, and with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz\, “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (2005). \nCurrently\, he is co-editing with Jasbir Puar a third special issue of Social Text\, “Left of Queer” as well as completing a monograph\, “Reparations and the Human\,” which investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, Literature\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Feminist Studies departments. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190821T170603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191004T035305Z UID:10006763-1571166000-1571173200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lit Quake DESCRIPTION:Funny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird \nIt’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie\, Micah Perks\, Peggy Townsend\, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nIn honor of Litquake’s 20th anniversary in 2019\, the festival is holding 20 events in 20 cities nationwide – including this Santa Cruz event! Read more about Litquake\, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary\, here. \nAbout the writers: \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and others. \nMicah Perks is the author of four books\, most recently a book of linked short stories\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nWallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times\, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness. \nPeggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel\, See Her Run and its follow-up\, The Thin Edge\, both published by Thomas &  Mercer. As a reporter\, she has covered serial killers\, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors\, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. \nLiza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High\, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love\, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the LA Times\, The Washington Post\, O\, Marie Claire\, Jezebel\, Catamaran\, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband\, two tiny humans\, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently\, she is writing her second novel\, a dark comedy of technology and obsession. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lit-quake/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LITQUAKE-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190722T194756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T202156Z UID:10005626-1571227200-1571232600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni DESCRIPTION:Sara Mameni “On the Terracene” \nThis talk considers the Anthropocene from the perspective of artists working within areas devastated by the War on Terror. While the popularization of the concept of the Anthropocene dates to the early 2000s–the very moment of the declaration of the War on Terror–the two modes of imagining the geopolitics of the present have yet to be considered together. Mameni coins the term “Terracene” as an entry point into considering the condition of the planet under terror. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSara Mameni is the director of Aesthetics and Politics program and faculty in the school of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. She received her PhD in Art History from University of California San Diego in 2015 and was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2016/2017. Her specialization is contemporary art in the Arab/Muslim world with a focus on queer of color theory. Her current research explores biopolitics\, racial discourse in the Anthropocene\, post-humanist aesthetics and the geo-ecological age of petroleum. \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-anjali-arondekar-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190925T202638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T203724Z UID:10006780-1571325300-1571331600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence DESCRIPTION:A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute \nThis talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist and transphobic violence and how those intersections are erased or distorted in public discourse. Professor Medina will examine the communicative dysfunctions that exist around gender and racial violence and how sexist\, transphobic\, and racist imaginaries create vulnerabilities that remain unaddressed. He will discuss how we can exercise the imagination in resistant ways and how we can resist those communicative dysfunctions and oppressive imaginaries by imagining otherwise. He  will discuss some specific cases of gender and racial violence and the ways in which they were distorted in the media coverage\, showing how critically engaged publics can resist those distortions and the forms of activism that we can engage in to fight gender and racial violence. \nProfessor José Medina is theWalter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imagining-otherwise-resisting-and-queering-racial-and-gender-violence/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/10-15-19_Phil_event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190822T211200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031525Z UID:10006766-1571396400-1571401800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships DESCRIPTION:Learn about locating fellowship opportunities\, framing your research for different funding organizations\, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polić\, Suraiya Jetha (The Humanities Institute) and Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director at University of California Humanities Research Institute). We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for an important conversation on securing funding for Humanities research. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the fourth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \n  \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/47085/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20191007T214620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T214620Z UID:10006786-1571407200-1571412600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing DESCRIPTION:Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday\, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. Chancellor Larive\, UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey\, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola\, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s four winners and their families. \n \nWe hope to see you at the event as we honor student writing and the legacy of Don Rothman. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/don-rothman-endowed-award-in-first-year-writing/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20191014T224500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T192754Z UID:10006788-1571410800-1571418000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions\, 2018)\, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook\, Dulce (Northwestern University Press\, 2018)\, was chosen by Chris Abani\, Ed Roberson\, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir\, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation\, trauma\, and mobility between borders. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/discussion-with-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/ 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:20191021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191021T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190722T185903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T201330Z UID:10006758-1571684400-1571691600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Original Thinkers Series: A Conversation About Oliver Sacks DESCRIPTION:Please note a recent change to our lineup: Peabody Award-wining journalist and producer Nikki Silva (Porter\, ’73) and Cowell College Provost Alan Christy will engage Ren Weschler in conversation about Oliver Sacks. Robert Krulwich is unable to join us this evening. Please enjoy this recent Kitchen Sisters episode of The Keepers featuring Ren Weschler. \nAnd How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? is a biographical memoir about Oliver Sacks written by Ren Weschler (Cowell ’74). It is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? A question which Ren\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nMonday\, October 21\, 7:00–9:00 p.m. \nMusic Center Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz \n \nQuestions?\nContact the Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003. \nSPEAKERS \n\n\nLawrence (Ren) Weschler \nA graduate of Cowell College (1974)\, Ren Weschler writes in LitHub about his earliest awareness of Sacks. Ren was a staff writer for more than 20 years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker. The director emeritus of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU\, Ren is also the author of more than 20 books\, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n  \n \n \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/original-thinkers-robert-krulwich-and-ren-weschler/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190722T194851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T202519Z UID:10005627-1571832000-1571837400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Marcus DESCRIPTION:“When is a Boycott a Boycott? Lebanon\, Palestine and Hollywood\, and the Arrest of Ziad Doueiri” \nThis paper looks at the arrest and court case of Lebanese film director\, Ziad Doueiri. Doueiri broke the 1955 Boycott Law by shooting a film in Israel\, using Israeli and Palestinian actors. The film was then banned across the all the countries of the Arab League. Marcus argues that his case compelled the law to define the terms around which a cultural object should be subject to a boycott\, and she investigates the intersections between old laws\, new global movements\, and state sovereignty. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nElizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program at Stanford University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French\, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. Her research focuses on the literatures as well as the intellectual and cultural history of the Francophone and Arab world with a particular interest in the relationship between language and cultural politics\, intellectual networks\, and migration in the afterlife of the French Empire. Her current manuscript\, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon\, 1943-1975\, uncovers the response of local actors to the unique period of transition Lebanon at the end of the French mandate to the beginning of the civil war in 1975. During her time as a British Academy Fellow\, she will start her second project\, Paris and the Global University: International Students and Cultural Internationalism at the Cité Universitaire\, 1945-1975\, which looks at how the Cité internationale Universitaire\, a residential campus in the Parisian outskirts\, became a crucible of left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975). \n The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-elizabeth-marcus/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20191011T183200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191011T205335Z UID:10006787-1572031800-1572039000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Riyaaz Qawwali Performance - Sufi Music Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Qawwali is a musical tradition from present-day India\, Pakistan\, and Afghanistan\, dating back 700 years. The group Riyaaz Qawwali brings 13th-century Sufi music to life by overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers\, translating lyrics to unravel the cultural heritage of South Asian devotional music. Trained in Eastern and Western classical music\, the members have been professionally performing qawwali for the past twelve years. \nRiyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia: the ensemble’s musicians\, who are settled in the United States\, hail from India\, Pakistan\, Afghanistan\, and Bangladesh and represent multiple religious and spiritual backgrounds. Click here to learn more about the ensemble. \n \n$10 – General Admission \n$4 – UCSC Students with ID \nDay-of-event ticket window opens at 6:30PM\nDoors open at 7:00PM\nParking permit: $5 (cash or credit via attendant in Arts Lot 126) \n  \nPresented by the Kamil and Talat Hasan Chair in Classical Indian Music\, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Indian Classical Music\, and the UC Santa Cruz Music Department. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/riyaaz-qawwali-performance-sufi-music-ensemble/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/10-25-19_Sufi_Music.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20191023T233548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T163023Z UID:10006793-1572274800-1572282000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Glenn Tiffert: Censorship\, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base - Lessons from China DESCRIPTION:Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge\, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable\, difficult to detect\, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china\, this talk shows how a determined actor can exploit those vulnerabilities to tamper dynamically with the historical record. It furthermore demonstrates that machine learning models can now accurately reproduce the choices made by human censors\, and warns that we are on the cusp of a new\, algorithmic paradigm of information control and censorship that poses an existential threat to the foundations of all empirically-grounded disciplines. At a time of ascendant illiberalism around the world\, robust\, collective safeguards are urgently required to defend the integrity of our source base\, and the knowledge we derive from it. \nGlenn Tiffert is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Tiffert earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California\, Berkeley. From 2015-2017\, he was the Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where he also held faculty appointments in the History Department and Asian Languages & Cultures Department\, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on modern China. He has taught at Berkeley\, Harvard\, and UCLA\, and currently serves on the Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History. \n  \nFor further information\, contact Minghui Hu: mhu@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/glenn-tiffert-censorship-digitalization-and-the-fragility-of-our-knowledge-base-lessons-from-china/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20190927T185513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T193204Z UID:10006784-1572286500-1572292800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Halloween Lecture "The Vampire in Love" (with costume contest) DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series  \nOh yeah\, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual. \nFrom the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in the early nineteenth century\, the vampire has been a figure of both fear and desire\, often represented through the vampire’s longings and the range of social responses they inspire. This talk considers several different examples of “the vampire in love” in order to explore what the vampire might tell us about our most pressing social\, cultural\, and political concerns across the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches courses on contemporary fiction\, vampire narratives\, fairy tales\, and digital culture in relation to feminist and critical race theories. She has published a number of books and articles on a range of topics\, including most recently “Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber” (2015). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/halloween-lecture-the-vampire-in-love-with-costume-contest/ LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T160220 CREATED:20191023T224749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T234414Z UID:10006792-1572354000-1572359400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun - Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance DESCRIPTION:Stevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young: \nMabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of armed resistance and reveals the complex set of struggles between Black men and women about Black self-defense. \n Jasmin A. Young is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies. She is currently developing her manuscript\, Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle. This work rethinks the history of the Black Freedom Movement by placing Black women’s armed activity at the center of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The project explores the extensive practice and advocacy of armed resistance by Black women. \nPresented by Stevenson College in collaboration with UCSC History Department\, CRES\, The Humanities Institute\, and Feminist Studies departments. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasmin-young-she-stood-there-by-him-with-a-gun-mabel-williams-and-the-philosophy-of-armed-resistance/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Website-Event-Banner.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR