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:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111116T203231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203231Z UID:10004922-1328531400-1328536800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julie Sze: "Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World" DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Sze’s current book project which examines flows\, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture\, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan\, a failed eco-city proposal\, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. \nJulie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley. \nSze’s book\, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice\, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize\, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies. \nSze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race\, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer\, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production. \nSze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair\, MELDI\, Newsweek\, Asian Reporter\, and Grist Magazine.\nThe Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event.  Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-sze-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120204T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111123T015140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111123T015140Z UID:10004640-1328344200-1328376600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Labor Across the Food System Conference DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents\n \n\nFRIDAY & SATURDAY\, FEBRUARY 3-4\, 2012\n\n  \nFOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system\, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy\, among them agricultural field work\, food processing\, food distribution\, and restaurants of all kinds. The new food localism privileges questions of “where food comes from” over “how” and “who” questions about the conditions under which food is grown\, shipped\, processed\, cooked\, served\, and sold. Labor Across the Food System will advance research and advocacy by bringing key scholars and advocates to Santa Cruz for discussions of the critical role of labor and social justice in remaking the global food system. \nKeynote Lecture by local historian\, Frank Bardacke\nauthor of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers\nFriday\, February 3\, 2012\, 7pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nConference\nSaturday\, February 4\, 2012\, 8:30am-5:30pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, UCSC \nParticipants Include:\nPatricia Allen\, UC Santa Cruz\nDana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz\nShannon Gleeson\, UC Santa Cruz\nJulie Guthman\, UC Santa Cruz\nDavid Brundage\, UC Santa Cruz\nCarolina Bank Muñoz\, Brooklyn College\nDeborah Barndt\, York University\nLucas Benitez\, Coalition of Immokalee Workers\nChris Bohner\, UNITE HERE\nSandy Brown\, UC Berkeley\nCharlotte Chang\, UC Berkeley\nMaría Teresa Gastón\, University of Nebraska\nEric Holt-Gimenez\, Food First\nDavid Griffith\, East Carolina University\nSaru Jayaraman\, Restaurant Opportunity Center\nJoann Lo\, Food Chain Workers Alliance\nYvonne Yen Liu\, Applied Research Center\nDon Mitchell\, Syracuse University\nMónica Ramírez\, Southern Poverty Law Center\nChris Tilly\, UC Los Angeles \nLabor Across the Food System\, organized and sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies in collaboration with the UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) and the Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy. Major conference sponsors include the Food and the Body Multicampus Research Group\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, Community Studies Department\, Environmental Studies Department\, Sociology Department and Politics Department. Additional financial support generously provided by the Departments of American Studies\, Anthropology\, History\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and Psychology. \nFor further information and updated conference program: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//laboracrossfoodsystem or contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Poster Design: © 2011 Kim Ferrell\, kimferrelldesign.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-across-the-food-system-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111129T223637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111129T223637Z UID:10004644-1328295600-1328302800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq DESCRIPTION:“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) \nComposer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nDror Sinai is an international performer\, educator\, and guest artist\, as well as the Founder of Rhythm Fusion\, Inc. in Santa Cruz. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles\, with other talented artists\, including Yair Dalal\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Yuval Ron\, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures\, clinics\, and workshops to diverse audiences\, including Universities\, schools\, community gatherings\, children\, and adults\, and has taught both professionals and amateurs. He has been a featured instructor for SPECTRA\, a program of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County\, and has given clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). In 2002 he received the Gail Rich Award in Santa Cruz County\, and he is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n__________ \nHall opens at 7:00 pm\nConcert starts at 7:30pm \n$12 general\n$10 seniors 62+\n$8 youth and students w/ ID \nTickets on sale in December at santacruztickets.com and at the UCSC Ticket Office. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-with-dror-sinai-an-evening-of-jewish-music-from-iraq-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20110817T224645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T224645Z UID:10004849-1328284800-1328292000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Masaya Yoshida DESCRIPTION:Masaya Yoshida\nThe focus of Professor Yoshida’s research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real time and mechanisms working behind online sentence processing. \nResearch interests include: \n\nHuman Sentence Processing : Syntactic prediction in online sentence processing\, Processing of Islands\, Processing of Ellipsis.\nSyntax: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Island Constraints\, Ellipsis Phenomena (the syntax of sluicing and gapping)\, P-stranding Parameter\, The syntax of conditional clauses in Japanese.\n\nMasaya Yoshida is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-masaya-yoshida-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120124T203142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T203142Z UID:10005048-1328277600-1328284800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cheryl Higashida: "Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nCheryl Higashida\n“Black Radicalism’s Queer Record: Erna Brodber and the West Indian Jazz Novel” \nCheryl Higashida is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder\, where she has taught since 2002. She earned her PhD at Cornell University (2003) after completing her dissertation as a Fellow with the Five College Program for Minority Scholars. She is the author of Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left\, 1945-1995 (U of Illinois P\, 2011). Her work on African American and Asian American radical culture has also appeared in American Literature\, American Quarterly\, and Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections\, edited by Fred Ho and Bill Mullen. Her current book in progress is “Mao and Cabral/ Mingus and Coltrane”: The Global Jazz Circuits of the Black Arts Movement.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cheryl-higashida-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111207T214853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T214853Z UID:10004963-1328205600-1328211900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Ben Doller and Sandra Doller DESCRIPTION:Ben Doller and Sandra Doller\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nBen Doller and Sandra Doller \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-ben-and-sandra-doller-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120110T210434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T210434Z UID:10004969-1328203800-1328209200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n\nFabian Barba\nIndependent artist\, Belgium\n\nReenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman \nA Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105\, Theater Arts Center) \nFriday\, February 3rd at 2pm \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-barba-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111220T203748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111220T203748Z UID:10004653-1328198400-1328203800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music" DESCRIPTION:Composer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\, the David B. Gold Foundation\, and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-bridge-to-babylon-lecture-on-jewish-middle-eastern-music-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120110T212630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T212630Z UID:10005002-1328184000-1328191200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Jordan\, Supposing Bleak House DESCRIPTION:John O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens’s bicentenary (born Feb 7\, 1812). John will read from his book\, Supposing Bleak House\, and discuss Dickens\, Bleak House\, the Dickens Project\, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). \nThere’s a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johnojordan-3/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111202T003455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003455Z UID:10004648-1328097600-1328104800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alice Yang: “Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAlice Yang\nAlice Yang\nAssociate Professor\, History\, UCSC\nCo-Director\, Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories \n“Can the President be Torturer in Chief? John Yoo\, Executive Authority and Historical Memory” \nProfessor Yang examines the legal reasoning of the former Justice Department lawyer’s “torture memos” and his arguments that Al Qaeda and Taliban members were not entitled to protections under the Geneva Convention. She explores how Yoo and his critics relied on different historical memories during debates about torture and executive authority. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 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 COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-alice-yan-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111207T212011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T212011Z UID:10004957-1327950000-1327957200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leigh Raiford: “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” DESCRIPTION:The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: \nProfessor Leigh Raiford\, African American Studies\, UCB\nAffiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies \n“Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” \nLeigh Raiford\nAll readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. \nCo-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. \nDepartmental sites:\nhttp://film.ucsc.edu/news_events\nhttp://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events \nTo receive readings\, contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-professor-leigh-raiford-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111207T210834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T210834Z UID:10004955-1327937400-1327942800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: David Graeber DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nDavid Graeber\nDavid Graeber\, Goldsmith’s University of London \nMonday\, January 30 / 3:30 – 5:00 pm / 261 Social Science 1 \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acc-avid-graeber-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120125T012424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120125T012424Z UID:10004660-1327672800-1327681800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Erica Edwards: "You've become so...American: The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for\na position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary) \nErica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press\, 2011). Her work on African American literature\, politics\, and gender critique has appeared in Callaloo\, American Quarterly\, American Literary History\, and Women and Performance. She is currently at work on a book project titled The Other Side of Terror: African American Literature after 9/11. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erica-edwards-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120104T203808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120104T203808Z UID:10004657-1327573800-1327600800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"What is a Reader?" Day of Events DESCRIPTION:Alberto Manguel: "Homage to Humpty Dumpty\, or Can We Make Words Say What We Want Them to Say?"The Teagle Fund Working Group\, “What is a Reader?” invites you to attend a day of events to be hosted at the University of California\, Santa Cruz on January 26th\, 2012. \nWhat is a Reader? is a multi-campus project supported by the Teagle Foundation’s Big Questions in the Disciplines initiative. Established in 2009 by faculty members in English and Literature departments from Mills College\, Stanford University\, UC Berkeley\, and UC Santa Cruz\, the group seeks to understand undergraduate literacy today in historical perspective and its implications for the study of literature at the college level. Please see: whatisareader.stanford.edu. \nOur special event will be a public lecture by book historian\, novelist\, and essayist Alberto Manguel at 5 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 210. See poster for details. In addition\, faculty\, staff\, and graduate students are warmly invited to two events earlier the same day.\n \n10:30-12:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. TWO LECTURES.\nElisabeth Remak-Honnef\, McHenry Library Special Collections\n“Ten Weeks with Medieval Books in McHenry Library” \nElisabeth Remak-Honnef is the Rare Books Librarian and bibliographer for Art History\, Art and Classics at McHenry Library. Before coming to UC Santa Cruz in 1995\, she worked for many years at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek cataloging medieval Latin manuscripts. She received her advanced degrees from the University of North Carolina (PhD Comparative Literature) and the Ecole nationale des Chartes in Paris (archiviste-paléographe). \nSince 2001\, she has regularly taught an upper-division class on the history of the medieval book for the Art History and History departments at UC Santa Cruz. The course provides a survey of the evolution of book production and use in medieval Europe. Concentrating primarily on the relationship between text and image in medieval illuminated manuscripts in the art history class and on the power of writing and book collections in the history class\, students examine how and for whom books were made\, how they were decorated and used\, and how they have survived. This talk will explore how students read and think about reading after an introduction to codicology. \nHeidi Brayman Hackell\, University of California\, Riverside Department of English\n“Early Modern Scenes of Reading” \nWhere did early moderns read? What objects conjured up a scene of reading in early modern drama and prose fiction? This talk will explore the materials that ornamented scenes of reading\, the tools readers used\, and the primary objects of readerly attention – books\, broadsides\, letters\, inscriptions\, images – in order to interrogate the category of the “reader” in early modern England. \nHeidi Brayman Hackel is Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Riverside. She is the author of Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print\, Gender\, and Literacy (2005) and co-editor of Reading Women: Literacy\, Authorship\, and Culture in the Atlantic World\, 1500-1800 (2008) and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (forthcoming 2012). Her current book project is titled “Dumb Eloquence: Deafness\, Muteness\, and Gesture in Early Modern England.”\n \n1:30-3:30 UCSC MCHENRY LIBRARY\, SECOND FLOOR. WORKSHOP DISCUSSION OF ESSAYS.\nThe Teagle Workshop group will be discussing a suite of articles related to the topic of our event\, “Spaces of Reading\, Objects of Reading.” These readings follow upon those we shared at previous Teagle Workshops\, which may be found listed on our group’s Website: whatisareader.stanford.edu \nBrayman Hackel\, Heidi. “Reading Women.” The History of British Women’s Writing\, 1500-1610 (Vol. 2). New York: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010. 17-33. \nThis article addresses the challenges of discerning women as readers in the sixteenth century\, examining multiple forms of historical evidence of women’s literacy such as diaries and memoirs while carefully distinguishing different reading practices. Evidence of gendered differences in literacy belies any simple assertion that most women were illiterate and therefore not reading. \nGrafton\, Anthony. “Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google.” Daedalus (Winter 2009): 87-98 \nThis article provides an overview of the logistics of traditional print vs. newer online repositories in libraries\, weighing the costs and benefits of both models. Grafton explains that online media are not replacing print media\, but that both are proliferating at once\, putting dual pressures on university libraries. He explores the changes the Internet has brought to research and reading practices as well as to libraries. \nManguel\, Alberto. “The Library as Power.” The Library at Night. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf\, 2006. 91-104. \nThis chapter explores the totemic power granted books and the power of libraries as monuments and memorials founded by public figures. Though built to consolidate power\, ironically\, public libraries such as the Carnegie Libraries had the effect of empowering the public that used them. \nPoblete\, Juan. “Reading as a Historical Practice in Latin America: The first Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century.” The Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History (Vol. 1: Configurations of Literary Culture). Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2004. Eds. Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir. 178-192. \nThis article argues for an understanding of the social\, collective production of meaning in the interpretation of texts\, rather than a decontextualized discourse analysis. This understanding of the location of reading practices is applied to pre-colonial and colonial situations in the reception and understanding of texts in Latin America. The essay offer suggestive points of departure for discussion of the formation of communities of readers in the new media of today. \nInterested faculty\, staff\, and graduates students are welcome to join us. For pdf copies of these readings\, contact Laurel Peacock.\n \n5:00 HUMANITIES 1\, ROOM 210. ALBERTO MANGUEL: “HOMAGE TO HUMPTY DUMPTY\, OR CAN WE MAKE WORDS SAY WHAT WE WANT THEM TO SAY?” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-is-a-reader-day-of-events-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120119T200838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120119T200838Z UID:10005046-1327500000-1327507200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gerard Passannante: "Little Big World: Disaster and the Materialist Imagination" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare. \nProfessor Passannante looks at the habit of making much of little–shifting between small things (details\, fossilized seashells\, words) and big ideas. Tracing this disaster-courting habit of mind from the writings of Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Othello to Robert Hooke’s discourses on earthquakes and the work of Vico and Boulanger\, he argues that this most familiar operation has deep roots in the ways that early modern readers came to terms with the hidden violence of the materialist imagination. \nGerard Passannante received his B.A. from Yale in 2000 and Ph.D. from Princeton in 2007. He is the author of a number of articles on the history of science and literature in the Renaissance\, and has recently published a book entitled The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition (Chicago). Professor Passannante has been a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome and has had fellowships at The Folger Shakespeare Library and The National Humanities Center.\nAt 4:30 pm\, Professor Passannante will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Carlo Ginzburg’s “Clues” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gerard-passannante-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111202T003011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003011Z UID:10004646-1327492800-1327500000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Neville Hoad: "Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nNeville Hoad\nAssociate Professor\, English and Women’s and Gender Studies\, UT Austin \n“Colonial Erotopolitics: Customary Law and Migrant Labor Sexuality” \nAuthor of African Intimacies: Race\, Homosexuality and Globalization (Minnesota 2007)\, Professor Hoad is working on a book about representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses on A.S. Mopeli-Paulus and Peter Lanham’s Blanket Boy’s Moon to amplify the dissonances between culture and law on the terrain of sexuality. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 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 COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-neville-hoad-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111207T210244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T210244Z UID:10004953-1327332600-1327338000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch DESCRIPTION:LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch\,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday\, January 23rd to Monday\, March 12 / 3:30 pm\, 261 Social Science 1 \nThe Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: \nNathaniel Deutsch\nNathaniel Deutsch\, Professor of History\, UCSC \n\n\n“The Jewish Dark Continent:  Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement”\nOn the eve of World War I\, the Russian Jewish writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement\, the area of the Russian Empire to which a vast majority of its Jews were restricted prior to the Revolution. Over the course of three seasons\, An-sky and his team recorded thousands of tales\, jokes\, and incantations\, took hundreds of photos\, and collected numerous artifacts\, manuscripts\, and other objects. They also designed a massive life-cycle questionnaire consisting of 2087 questions entitled “The Jewish Ethnographic Program” for use in the field. An-sky’s goal was to document the traditional Jewish life of the Pale of Settlement before it disappeared forever and\, in the process\, to create a distinctly Jewish ethnography. \nNathaniel Deutsch is Professor of History and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a professor at Swarthmore College\, a visiting professor at Stanford University\, and the The Workmen’s Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute. Deutsch is the author of five books\, most recently The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement(Harvard University Press\, 2011)\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nContact: Allyson Ramage\, aramage@ucsc.edu for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acc-nathaniel-deutsch-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111207T204936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T204936Z UID:10004951-1327321800-1327327200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring” DESCRIPTION:The Sociology Colloquium Series presents:\nMohammed Bamyeh\nProfessor of Sociology\, University of Pittsburgh \n“Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring” \nMohammed Bamyeh\nCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness\, Politics\, and Colleges 9 & 10 \nFor more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu \nFor accessibility\, contact: Barbara Laurence\, balauren@ucsc.edu \nEvent Contact: Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scc-mohammed-bamyeh-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120120T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120119T195308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120119T195308Z UID:10005045-1327068000-1327075200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Chen: "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey's DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for\na position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): \nChris Chen \n“An Axiomatic Chorus”: Serial Black Identities and Allegories of Improvisation in Nathaniel Mackey’s\nFrom A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. \nChristopher Chen is a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California\, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2011 and an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His dissertation is a comparative study of contemporary African American and Asian American poetry\, which explores how the pervasive use of non-narrative\, serial poetic forms registers intra- and interracial conflict and foregrounds the question of racial comparison as both impossible and unavoidable in the post-civil rights era. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-chen-an-axiomatic-chorus-serial-black-identities-and-allegories-of-improvisation-in-nathaniel-mackeys-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111207T214307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T214307Z UID:10004961-1326996000-1327002300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:R. Zamora Linmark: "Collaborators\, Collectors & Collectives" DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark\nCreative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \nR. Zamora Linmark \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-r-zamora-linmark-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120110T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T205600Z UID:10004658-1326994200-1326999600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012 \n\n \n\nKimberly Jannarone \n Theater Arts\, Digital Arts and New Media\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC \nMemory and Mass Performance \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-jannarone-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111202T001059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T001059Z UID:10004645-1326888000-1326895200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Tsing: "Critical Description After Progress" DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nAnna Tsing\nAnna Tsing\nProfessor\, Anthropology\, UCSC \n“Critical Description After Progress” \nProfessor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life.  The in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural and biological histories of disturbance and precarious survival. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 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 COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-anna-tsing-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120110T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20120103T190600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120103T190600Z UID:10004654-1326193200-1326198600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Mowitt: "Radio Silence" DESCRIPTION:John Mowitt\nThe emergent field of “radio studies” has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically\, as the name suggests\, “radio studies” has fused an older set of disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of “journalism and mass communications” to the engagements\, at once theoretical and political\, of “cultural studies.” What this has enabled is the formulation of a set of problematics that have less to do with issues of audience\, broadcasts\, personalities and the like\, and more to do with the conceptual puzzles raised by the experiences transformed in and through radio. In this paper\, the puzzle at issue is that of “silence.” In what ways does radiophonic transmission expose us to features of silence that call for theoretical attention? What do the silences of radio provoke us to think about radio itself? Although the matter of music is not engaged explicitly\, this line of reflection is meant to remind us that John Cage was interested in both silence and radio. \nJohn Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and English at the University of Minnesota. \nThis event is presented by the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-mowitt-radio-silence-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20110817T155027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T155027Z UID:10004847-1322841600-1322848800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Jesny: "The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition" DESCRIPTION:Karen Jesny\nConsonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness\, sonority\, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first\, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977\, Pater 1997) illustrates how increased segmental markedness can lead to lags in coda cluster acquisition\, with a preference for deletion of the segment that contributes the additional markedness. This basic pattern eludes Optimality Theory\, but can be modeled within Harmonic Grammar (Legendre\, Miyata & Smolensky 1990\, Smolensky & Legendre 2006)\, where weighted constraints interact in a linear fashion. The second case study draws on data from the acquisition of Dutch (Fikkert 1994\, Levelt 1994)\, focusing on cases where sonority and segmental markedness present conflicting demands. Here\, segmental factors provide a better explanation for the accuracy and general repair patterns than the sonority cline of the cluster. At the same time\, however\, the precise simplification patterns observed – specifically the choice of which segment is deleted – are\, to the extent possible\, governed by sonority. These complex patterns extend beyond what can be modeled through the linear interaction of simple constraints in Harmonic Grammar\, and argue in favour of a more articulated series of segmental licensing constraints. \nKaren Jesny is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. Her primary interests are in phonological theory\, phonological acquisition\, and learnability. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-karen-jesny-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111121T232210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111121T232210Z UID:10004639-1322672400-1322679600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove” DESCRIPTION:Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on\n“Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove” \nProfessor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel\, 19th century Venice\, James’s biography\, and some literary themes such as don juanism\, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of aesthetic pleasure. To begin the process\, attached is an image of a detail from mosaics of San Marco\, and one of Whistler’s lagoon paintings. \nAt the reception following her talk\, Professor Cagidemetriou will discuss the benefits of collaboration between the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and UCSC and the possibility of summer courses in Venice. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alide-cagidemetrio-choosing-venice-seduction-henry-james-and-the-wings-of-the-dove-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111123T230813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111123T230813Z UID:10004642-1322656200-1322661600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: "Abstraction\, the Abstract\, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives" DESCRIPTION:Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherConcepts\, models\, and theories; words\, propositions\, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract\, and what is it used for? What are the dangers and limits of both overextending abstractions beyond their appropriate conditions of application\, and separating the abstract too much from the concrete\, the general too much from the specific\, and the universal too much from the particular – i.e.\, of abstractionism? \nThis talk explores a variety of analyses of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism from psychology (e.g.\, Barsalou’s “abstraction in perceptual symbol systems\,” Gopnik’s and Murphy & Medin’s “theory theory\,” and early Kurt Lewin\, F. A. Hayek\, and Ohlsson and Lehtinen’s “primacy of the abstract”) and from philosophy (e.g.\, the pragmatism of James and Dewey\, the neo-Kantianism of Kuhn and Friedman\, and the “kinds of people” analyses of Hacking\, following Foucault). The talk also relates abstraction (and the abstract) to closely related—perhaps even co-constitutive—concepts and processes: (1) analogizing (and analogies)\, (2) mapping (and maps)\, and (3) distinction-making (and distinctions). In short\, a philosophical and psychological anthropology of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism is the aim. \nReading: “The Knife and the One” (PDF) \nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rasmus-gronfeldt-winther-abstraction-the-abstract-and-abstractionism-psychological-and-philosophical-perspectives-3/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 121\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95604\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20110815T212309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T212309Z UID:10004843-1322654400-1322659800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Herman Gray\, "At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism\, Media and African American Visibility" DESCRIPTION:Herman Gray\nWith African Americans as the primary example\, Professor Gray probes the social\, intellectual\, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism\, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation\, recognition and visibility\, he examines what other critical modes and sites of cultural analysis and politics are possible. \nHerman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herman-gray-at-the-limit-of-representation-neoliberalism-media-and-african-american-visibility-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111129T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111129T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111116T204729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T204729Z UID:10004635-1322575200-1322582400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Derr\, Talk title TBA DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nJennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A.\, Georgetown University; Ph.D.\, Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history\, African history\, Ottoman Empire\, early Islamic history. Fellow\, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies\, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo\, University of California at Davis\, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal\, Middle East Report\, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-derr-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111122T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111122T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111116T205037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T205037Z UID:10004637-1321970400-1321977600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joshua White "Catch and Release: Piracy\, Slavery\, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean" DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nBeginning in the 1570s\, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially\, as the conclusion of the war for Cyprus with Venice and the withdrawal of the imperial navies left behind numerous underemployed and unsupervised Ottoman naval irregulars and opened the door to all manner of pirates from further afield\, both Christian and Muslim. The seventeenth century has often been referred to as the “golden age of piracy\,” but one aspect of the spectacular rise in maritime violence in this period that has not received adequate attention is the Ottoman administrative and legal response to illegal slave-raiding in its waters. Unscrupulous Ottoman pirates frequently snatched Ottoman subjects and the subjects of the Ottomans’ treaty-partners from ships and shores in contravention of Islamic and sultanic law. The Ottoman government routinely ordered these captives found and freed and was sometimes willing to go to great lengths to ensure that they were released and sent home. In this talk\, I shift the spotlight away from the pirates and onto the administrators\, jurists\, and victims—those who had to contend most with the consequences of maritime violence. \nJoshua Michael White studies the social\, legal\, and diplomatic history of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean. A doctoral candidate in History at the University of Michigan\, he earned an M.A in History from the same institution in 2007\, a certificate in Arabic from the CASA program at the American University in Cairo in 2005\, and a B.A. in History and Islamic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation examines the impact of piracy and amphibious slave-raiding in the early modern Mediterranean from the Ottoman perspective\, arguing that increasing maritime violence in the Mediterranean after the 1570s had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law\, the conduct of diplomacy\, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law\, and their application in local Ottoman courts. He has conducted dissertation research in Istanbul\, Venice\, London\, and Crete with the support of fellowships and grants from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers\, Fulbright-Hays\, the American Research Institute in Turkey\, and the University of Michigan. His writing is presently supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. He is also the organizer and instructor for the ongoing U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies’ Fall Colloquium Series\, “Pirates of the Mediterranean.”  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joshua-white-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111120T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111116T201608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T201608Z UID:10004909-1321758000-1321808400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan DESCRIPTION:THE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet\, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009)\, one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay Ryan\, Pullitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate (2008-2010). \nFREE ADMISSION. Seating is limited. Parking $6. \nMARCUS POETRY ARCHIVE EXHIBIT. An exhibit feturing the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive will be open for viewing in Special Collections at the UC McHenry Library on Sunday\, November 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. \nDIRECTIONS: Map to UCSC Music Recital Hall. Click Here. \nSPONSORS: Poetry Santa Cruz\, Ow Family Properties\, Cabrillo College English Department\, University of California at Santa Cruz\, Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nFor more information: http://www.mortonmarcus.com/reading_current.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mortonmarcus-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20110817T154003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T154003Z UID:10004846-1321632000-1321639200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn\,"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism" DESCRIPTION:Laurence R. Horn\nOn the Contrary: \nPragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism \n  \nThe dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is illustrated by lexicalization asymmetries (e.g. none ‘all not’ vs. *nall ‘not all’) and the widespread diachronic reanalyses of weaker negatives to contraries (e.g Il ne faut pas partir —literally = ‘one need not leave’ > ‘one must not-leave’). \nOutside the lexical domain\, contrary strengthening typically instantiates the inference schema of disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens): \n  f v j \n  ¬ f \n  j \nThe role of the disjunctive syllogism can be detected in a variety of strengthening shifts in natural language where the disjunctive premise in question is pragmatically presupposed in relevant contexts. It will be shown that a range of apparently quite diverse phenomena—negative strengthening in lexical and clausal contexts (e.g. neg-raising)\, scope adjustments with negated plural definites and bare plurals\, epistemic strengthening of weak implicature in both main and embedded contexts\, conjunctive readings of free choice disjunction\, and children’s word learning strategies\, among others—can be collected under the umbrella of pragmatic strengthening as reflexes of the general preference for contrariety\, the operation of disjunctive syllogism\, or both. \nLaurence R. Horn is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. Professor Horn’s primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic\, lexical semantics\, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. He specializes in pragmatics\, semantics\, syntax\, language & gender. \nThis talk is presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group\, a research center of the Institute for Humanities Research. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-laurence-horn-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20110927T003653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T003653Z UID:10004860-1321552800-1321560000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards\, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007\, California Book Award 2008\, the Prix Medicis 2010\, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island\, Sukkwan Island\, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide.  \nDavid Vann\nDavid Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-van-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111116T203847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203847Z UID:10004943-1321538400-1321545600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giancarlo Casale\, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire" DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nGiancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire\, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography\, global exploration\, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book\, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration\,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal\, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers\, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project\, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity\,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology\, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region\, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giancarlo-casale-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111118 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20111114T191033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111114T191033Z UID:10004907-1321488000-1321574399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Long Bui\, "Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community" DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Long Bui\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\nMs. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community \nThis presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to symbolize ideas about nation\, gender and class\, I investigate a recent public controversy involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against an art exhibit produced by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County\, California. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/long-bui-ms-little-saigon-through-the-looking-glass-of-art-politics-and-community-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161351 CREATED:20110802T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110802T163403Z UID:10004600-1321448400-1321455600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch DESCRIPTION:One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag\, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically\, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews\, as well as from Jews from other places or backgrounds (e.g.\, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi). Significantly\, some Jewish sources went so far as to define minhag as a form of Torah and stressed the importance of maintaining minhagim (the plural form of minhag)\, while other sources cautioned against the dangers of blindly following minhagim. For centuries\, Jews learned minhagim mimetically\, that is\, by imitating other members of their community or family and through oral transmission. In the early modern period\, however\, Jews also began to publish printed collections of minhagim\, eventually creating a literary genre that exists to this day among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. In the twentieth century\, the collection and study of minhagim became one of the central interests of the first ethnographers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. \nIn this public dialogue\, Professor Jean Baumgarten\, a world-renowned expert on Yiddish minhag literature and Professor Nathaniel Deutsch\, whose recently published book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press) explores the groundbreaking ethnographic work of S. An-sky\, will discuss the history and significance of minhag in its many facets. \nJean Baumgarten\, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS)\, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique\, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives\, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, in France. \nGenerous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-baumgarten-and-nathaniel-deutsch-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T212030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T212030Z UID:10004832-1321444800-1321450200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deanna Shemek\, "Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence" DESCRIPTION:Deanna Shemek\nProfessor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy\, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women’s letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the manuscript sources for her edition and visualize the social network of a Renaissance princess. \nDeanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deanna-shemek-digital-princess-toward-an-open-access-online-archive-of-renaissance-correspondence-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111102T205732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111102T205732Z UID:10004899-1321297200-1321304400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture DESCRIPTION:Gershom Gorenberg\nUCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book\, The Unmaking of Israel\, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places. \nGershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements\, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews\, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history\, of major Israeli leaders\, and of Israel-U.S. relations. \nHe is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount\, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin\, Shalom Friend\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award\, and edited Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report. \nAs a commentator on Middle East affairs and the interface of religion and politics\, Gershom has appeared on Sixty Minutes\, Nightline\, Dateline\, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report\, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, Mother Jones and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. \nGershom has been a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism\, and has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Carnegie Council\, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, the Middle East Institute\, the Wexner Graduate Fellowship\, and for universities\, congregations and other organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics\, Mideast affairs and religion. \nGershom was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, he came to Israel in 1977 and earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife\, journalist Myra Noveck\, and their three children\, Yehonatan\, Yasmin and Shir-Raz. He is an active member of Kehillat Yedidya\, the pioneering progressive Orthodox congregation in South Jerusalem. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-distinguished-alumni-lecture-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110919T231930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110919T231930Z UID:10004610-1321297200-1321304400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Caren Kaplan\, "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility DESCRIPTION:Caren KaplanCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California\, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies. \nProfessor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke\, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill\, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke\, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota\, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works\, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. \nThis colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture\, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings\, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caren-kaplan-the-visual-culture-of-stealth-interpretation-deception-in-militarized-aeromobility-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111025T001750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T001750Z UID:10004891-1321273800-1321279200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Scott Saul\, "What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA" DESCRIPTION:Saul Scott\nThe Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul\, “”What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”. This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum)\, examines how the film reframes the meaning of the Watts Riots\, as well as the political/cultural role of the black community in Los Angeles. By doing so\, it addresses persistent questions issues around black aesthetics and representations or urban life. \nScott Saul is an associate professor of American Studies and English at UC-Berkeley. His first book\, Freedom Is\, Freedom Ain’t\, on jazz and the 1960s\, was the winner of the American Book Award. He writes frequently on American culture and politics for publications such as Boston Review\, Harper’s\, and The Nation. He is currently working on “Becoming Richard Pryor” which will be the first critical biography of the comedian-entertainer. The study explores the trajectory of Pryor’s  artistic development in conjunction with a set of larger historical trends: the emergence of the counterculture and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; the debates over the “declining inner city” and the “declining working class” in 1970s culture; and the challenge posed by New Hollywood to the older studio system. \nhttp://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/speakers/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-saul-what-you-see-is-what-you-get-wattstax-richard-pryor-and-the-secret-history-of-the-black-aesthetic-in-1970s-la-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110831T233920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233920Z UID:10004858-1321124400-1321135200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Dinner DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-dinner-2-3/ LOCATION:TBD\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110831T233539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233539Z UID:10004857-1321084800-1321117200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Conference DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-conference-2-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111114 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111020T235117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T235117Z UID:10004887-1321056000-1321228799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting DESCRIPTION:Kant\nThe Philosophy Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13\, 2011. \nSpeaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room. \nFor more information or to register for this conference please contact Professor Daniel Guevara via email at guevara@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3600. \n2011 Meeting Program\nSaturday November 12: \n1:00 pm David Hills (Stanford University)\n“Of the (Kantian) Standard of Taste” \n2:30 pm  Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)\n“The Transcendental Ideality of the Kantian Sublime” \n4:00 pm Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)\n“Kant’s notion of unconditional goodness” \n5:30 pm Business meeting \n  \nSunday\, November 13: \n8:30 am Light Breakfast \n9:00 am Samantha Matherne (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant and the Art of Schematism”\nWinner of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend \n10:30 am Pierre Keller (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Ideas as the Source of Normativity” \n12:00 pm Abe Stone (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Kant on Objects and Things” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-study-group-of-the-north-american-kant-society-2011-meeting-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110831T233148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110831T233148Z UID:10004856-1320951600-1320962400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New Directions Opening Event DESCRIPTION:In this inaugural conference for the Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, leading and emerging scholars will take stock of the state of the field and its future direction\, in the areas of their expertise. Sessions will cover history\, philosophy\, language and literature\, political economy\, musicology and contemporary society. \nThe conference welcomes attendance by scholars and students from all disciplines\, as well as interested members of the general public. \nUC Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area\, with one of the largest concentrations of Sikhs in North America. The conference especially welcomes attendance by community members. \nਜੀ ਆਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ\nWelcome from the heart! \nThe conference will begin with a welcome dinner at the University Center at 7:00 PM on Thursday\, November 10. \nRegistration is required. To register\, please visit: http://community.ucsc.edu/sikhpunjabiconference2011. \nFor further information\, please visit: http://ihr.ucsc.edu//sikhstudiesconference\, or contact Courtney Mahaney at the Institute for Humanities Research\, by phone at (831) 459-3527 or by email at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-achievements-and-new-directions-opening-event-3/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110927T002103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T002103Z UID:10004619-1320948000-1320955200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Susie Bright DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Susie Bright. Susie Bright\, known as a “sexpert\,” is a writer\, performer\, and teacher on the subject of sexuality. A UCSC alum\, she has written several books. including Mommy’s Little Girl and How to Write a Dirty Story. Her latest work is titled Big Sex\, Little Death: A Memoir. Susie Bright has edited several publications and has a weekly program available through audible.com\, called In Bed with Susie Bright. She also founded the first women’s erotica book series\, Herotica\, and acted as editor for serval of its volumes. \nSusie Bright\nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-susie-bright-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111103T220320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111103T220320Z UID:10004901-1320859800-1320865200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Puchner: "Re-Enactment and Site-Specific Performance" DESCRIPTION:Martin Puchner\nWhile re-enactment has long been a popular art\, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or David Levine\, which often explore the history of a place; and the re-enactment of performance art\, as in the recent case of Marina Abramovic. In both cases\, performance art and theater intersect in unexpected ways. I confront these re-enactments with a brief discussion of the New Globe\, where historical reconstruction provides the frame for the established art of theatrical revival. \nMartin Puchner is Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. After studying philosophy\, history\, and literature at the University of Konstanz\, the Università di Bologna\, UC Santa Barbara\, and UC Irvine\, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1998. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University from 1998 until 2010\, before moving to Harvard University in the summer of 2010. \nThis event has been made possible by The Center for Visual and Performance Studies.\nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment \nContact Jenna Purcell at vpsucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-puchner-re-enactment-and-site-specific-performance-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T181500 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111010T233446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T233446Z UID:10004883-1320858000-1320862500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lawrence "Ren" Weschler DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\nLawrence “Ren” Weschler will present a special lecture “Convergences” in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book\, Uncanny Valley.  In his talk Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects\, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation\, fractalization\, influence (forward and backward\, direct and unconscious)\, homage\, apprenticeship\, allusion\, quotation\, appropriation\, cryptonesia (verbatim appropriation without realizing you’re doing so)\, through outright plagiarism. \nA graduate of Cowell College of the University of California\, Santa Cruz (1974)\, Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards—for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992—and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). Beginning in 1999\, his “Convergences” essays appeared regularly in McSweeney’s Quarterly; a collection of these essays\, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences\, was published in 2006 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. \nSince 2001\, Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He taught throughout the 1990s at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. \nIn 2003\, Weschler organized and edited a pilot issue of Omnivore\, a prospective periodical described by Steven Heller as a “biannual (but hoping to be quarterly) magazine of writing and visual culture from The New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University.”[1] As of 2007\, no subsequent issues of Omnivore have been published. \nIn February 2006\, Weschler took on the position of artistic director for the Chicago Humanities Festival. \n  \n\n\nLight refreshments will be served.  Closest parking is OPERS lot. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lawrence-ren-weschler-3/ 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:20111109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T211709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T211709Z UID:10004829-1320840000-1320845400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cary Howie\, "On Transfiguration" DESCRIPTION:Cary Howie\nProfessor Howie thinks about how contemporary American poets re-imagine early Christianity\, using transfiguration to talk about the persistence of figures as they become transformed\, and how poetic and theological concerns speak to gender and sexuality. His books include Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave\, 2007) and the co-authored Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester\, 2010). \nCary Howie is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cary-howie-on-transfiguration-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110817T153207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T153207Z UID:10004845-1320379200-1320429600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer\, "In the Event of a Nominal" DESCRIPTION:Hagit Borer\nThe paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular\, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure\, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex words. In particular\, it can only be accounted for under complete syntactic event decomposition\, which severs not only the external but also the internal argument(s) from the root and which allows the internal structure of complex words\, so-called\, to be syntactically visible. \nTaking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within the generative approach\, Professor Borer’s research for the past 15 years spans three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax\, morphosyntax and language acquisition. Her study of inter-grammatical variation and comparative syntax led to the development of the hypothesis that this variation is reducible to the functional/inflectional component. This hypothesis\, in turn\, served as a starting point for the study of the functional/ inflectional system in general and its interaction with syntax in particular\, therefore leading to the emergence of a morphosyntactic model. From a different perspective\, these hypotheses brought about the investigation of child language and the acquisition of grammatical knowledge. \nIn recent years\, Professor Borer has been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load away from the lexical entry to the syntactic structure\, subscribing to the view that an independent linguistic lexicon includes a minimal amount of structural information\, and that it is structural constraints which determine traditionally lexical properties such as syntactic category type and argument structure. She has pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax\, for language acquisition\, and for the syntax-semantics interface. \nHagit Borer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-hagit-borer-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110927T001138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T001138Z UID:10004618-1320343200-1320350400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe’s love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley\, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road\, In and Out of Dislocation\, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the American Book award for Prairie Style. \nC.S. Giscombe\nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-cs-giscombe-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110926T235234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T235234Z UID:10004617-1320343200-1320350400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir\, Bluets\, and\, recently\, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson’s poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright\, Then Holes. \nMaggie Nelson\nNelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School\, Wesleyan University\, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email atmeperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-maggie-nelson-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111031T012408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T012408Z UID:10004895-1320336000-1320343200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brooke Holmes\, "The Missing Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes\, Princeton University\, ‘The Missíng Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing” \nBrooke Holms\nBrooke Holmes’ paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn’t the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer it\, Professor Holmes argues that the very absence of the physician’s body represents an early phase in the history of disembodied authority in Western medicine and science. \nBrooke Holmes works at the intersections of Greek literature\, science and medicine\, and philosophy\, with particular interests in the history of subjectivity and the body\, materialism\, tragedy\, ethics\, critical theory\, and reception studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton in 2005. She has taught since 2007 at Princeton\, where she is the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship\, Her first book\, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece\, was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brooke-holmes-the-missing-body-authority-immunity-and-objectivity-in-early-greek-medical-writing-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111021T003559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111021T003559Z UID:10004888-1320249600-1320256800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Benjamin Cawthra\, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography\, Race\, and American Music” DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Cawthra\, associate professor of history at \nBenjamin Cawthra\n\nCalifornia State University\, Fullerton and author of\nBlue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz\n(Chicago\, 2011)\, discusses the tradition of jazz\nphotography and its relationship to mid-twentieth\ncentury racial politics. Cawthra will discuss the\nconnections among the photographers\, art directors\,\neditors\, and record producers who crafted a\nlook for jazz that would sell magazines and\nalbums. And on the other side of the lens\, he\nexplores how musicians shaped their public\nimages to further their own nancial and political\ngoals. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-cawthra-envisioning-jazz-considering-photography-race-and-american-music-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111102T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T211318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T211318Z UID:10004827-1320235200-1320240600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steve McKay\, "Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors" DESCRIPTION:Steve McKay\nProfessor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to Sail? Racial Formation\, Masculinity and the Making of Filipino Seafarers. \nSteve McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steve-mckay-masculinities-afloat-the-fragile-gender-projects-of-filipino-migrant-sailors-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111101T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111031T044621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T044621Z UID:10004897-1320163200-1320170400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan\, "Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective" DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\n\n\n\nPropositions from a Critical Play Perspective\nIf games always hold within them cultural beliefs\, norms\, and human values\, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing digital games? In this talk\, Flanagan examines the topics of games and values\, games and art\, the history of technology and games\, and motivation. How does art practice inform designing for values? What pitfalls might designers face when making games for social change? Flanagan takes the audience through a number of propositions that uncover strengths and weakness of games as a medium for social change and revolutionary play.\nKnown for her theories on playculture\, activist design\, and critical play\, Flanagan has achieved international acclaim for her novel interdisciplinary games\, artwork\, and theoretical writing\, her commitment to theory/practice research\, and contributions to social justice design arenas. She is particularly interested in issues of equity and authorship in technological environments\, and reworking commonly understood paradigms to provide collective strategies for social change. This talk draws primarily on her work in the Values at Play project and in her 2009 book\, Critical Play (MIT Press). Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.\nhttp://www.maryflanagan.com/\nhttp://www.tiltfactor.org/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-flanagan-propositions-from-a-critical-play-perspective-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111020T233957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T233957Z UID:10004886-1319828400-1319835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings DESCRIPTION:The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. \nMatt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse\, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books\, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance\, the Zhouli. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-and-exhibition-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110926T234147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T234147Z UID:10004616-1319738400-1319745600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer\, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories\, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives\, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded several honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and the Bard Fiction Prize. \nPeter Orner\nOrner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review\, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses). Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)\, as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2007). A film version of one of Orner’s stories\, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director\, Rob Jones\, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. \nOrner has taught at the University of Montana\, Bard College\, Charles University in Prague\, Washington University\, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He is a currently visiting fiction faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111025T001236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T001236Z UID:10004890-1319733000-1319740200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ella von der Haide\, "Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010" DESCRIPTION:This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide\, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning\, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa\, Argentina\, Germany and North America. Urban community gardening is a phenomenon that is spreading throughout the world.  This film will focus on the North American context. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ella-von-der-haide-another-world-is-plantable-a-documentary-on-community-gardening-and-food-justice-in-north-america-2010-3/ LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111024T234307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111024T234307Z UID:10004889-1319652000-1319659200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wooksik Cheong \, “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju " DESCRIPTION:Today\, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism\, its hardy diving women\, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment\, Jeju is\, however\, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25\, 1950\, the purported start of the Korean War\, Jeju\, deemed a “Red” island\, was a site of counter-revolutionary violence—indiscriminate state-sponsored bloodshed justified in the name of “national defense.”  In long overdue recognition of the civilian massacres it perpetrated under US watch in 1948\, the South Korean government in 2005 designated Jeju an “Island of Peace.” \nYet\, the legacy of unrestrained militarism and the abuse of government authority are far from over.  Since 2007\, the people of Gangjeong village have waged non-violent resistance against the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju.  Due to be operational by 2014\, the naval base\, which will host 20 warships and two Aegis destroyers integrated within the US Missile Defense System\, not only stands to destroy a UNESCO biosphere reserve and government-recognized “absolute preservation area” characterized by rare rock formations\, abundant and fertile farmlands\, pristine fresh and sea waters\, and endangered animal species\, but also\, to displace Gangjeong villagers from their sea- and land-based livelihoods.  Not merely a local struggle\, the democratic resistance of Gangjeong residents and activists against the naval base raises the question of a neo-Cold War US/South Korea/Japan alliance and a looming regional arms race with China.  With growing global attention to the Jeju resistance\, the South Korean government has intensified its crackdown\, recently dispatching more than 1\,000 riot police from the mainland to forcibly remove and arrest protesters to clear the way for construction. \nWooksik Cheong\, a founding member and representative of Peace Network\, a South Korean NGO formed in 1999 that works for peace and disarmament in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula\, will speak on the resistance movement against the militarization of Jeju. \nFree and open to the public.  Event co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies\, the Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Program\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence.   For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wooksik-cheong-peace-island-resisting-the-militarization-of-juju-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111025T003442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T003442Z UID:10004893-1319650200-1319657400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Frame\nThe Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”\, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. \nThe Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco\, 1975\, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera\, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed. \nChip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn  and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac  Ranch sculpture in Amarillo\, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres\, often mixing the two\, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media. \nMargaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/temporalities-of-reenactment-a-speaker-series-the-eternal-frame-an-artists-reenactment-of-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111013T231427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111013T231427Z UID:10004885-1319637600-1319644800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show DESCRIPTION:The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach\, Associate Professor\, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: \nNadja Durbach\nPerforming Race at the Victorian Freak Show \nWhile scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions\, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes\, none have explored in earnest either the preconditions for\, or the ramifications of\, this artifice. This talk interrogates the cultural attitudes that bound ethnic and racial Otherness together\, and the ways in which these relationships were embodied and performed\, in order to explain what made these fake shows not only possible\, but appealing to a broad British public. \nThe widespread use of working-class men\, and the Irish in particular\, to portray Africans or other “savages” at sideshows depended upon and contributed to beliefs about the relationships between class\, ethnicity\, and race. Irishmen were regularly employed to play sideshow savages\, whether American Indians\, Bushmen\, or Zulus\, because of long-standing assumptions about their primitive\, wild and violent natures. Showmen cast them in these roles\, and audiences allowed themselves to be deceived\, because the ruse reinforced widespread beliefs about the racial inferiority of the Irish and conversely the whiteness of other Britons. I argue that most audience members were probably not fooled by these fraudulent acts but were nevertheless entertained and reassured by the messages they conveyed about race and empire\, perhaps even more so than by authentic exhibitions. \nThis event is part of the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. For more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/performing-race-at-the-victorian-freak-show-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T210819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210819Z UID:10004825-1319630400-1319635800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel\, "Monotheism and Empire II" DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel\nProfessor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations\, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires\, or as an episode in the cultural borrowing and translation of religious stories and practices. \nGildas Hamel is a S.O.E. Lecturer in History. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gildas-hamel-monotheism-and-empire-ii-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T213916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T213916Z UID:10004844-1319470200-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nVilashini Cooppan\, “Affective History and Literary Studies”\nAssociate Professor\, Literature\, UCSC \nProfessor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi\, 2011)\, and a book project on affect\, historical violence and world literature.\n \nSharon Daniel\, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary”\nProfessor\, Film and Digital Media and DANM\, UCSC \nProfessor Daniel’s essays have been published in books and professional journals\, including Database Aesthetics\, the Sarai Reader and Leonardo.\n \nDanilyn Rutherford\, “Affect\, Ethics\, and the Empirical in Anthropology”\nProfessor and Chair\, Anthropology\, UCSC \nProfessor Rutherford is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2002) and the forthcoming Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012).\n \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\, “Affective Computational Media”\nAssociate Professor\, Computer Science \nProfessor Wardrip-Fruin has authored or co-edited books on games and digital media\, including The New Media Reader (MIT\, 2003) and Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions\, Computer Games\, and Software Studies (MIT\, 2009).\n \nModerator: Kimberly Lau\nProfessor\, Literature\, American Studies \nProfessor Lau is the author of Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (Temple\, 2011).\n \nFor further information\, please contact Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-affect-working-group-presents-affect-across-the-disciplines-a-faculty-graduate-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Red Room\, Red Restaurant and Bar‎ 200 Locust Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110919T230848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110919T230848Z UID:10004859-1319428800-1319475600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven Miller\, "Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy DESCRIPTION:Steven Miller\nProfessor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. \nThis lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department\, with cosponsorship by the Center for Cultural Studies. For further information\, please contact Michael Holohan\, mholohan@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-miller-violence-against-the-nonliving-the-death-drive-destruction-in-contemporary-philosophy-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111022T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111010T234412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111010T234412Z UID:10004884-1319292000-1319299200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathleen Lynch: “Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World”: \nKathleen Lynch\nProfessor Kathleen Lynch\, University of Cincinnati \n“Sex Sells\, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” \nErotic imagery appears in early Attic black-figure vases but becomes quite popular in red-figure from about 520-475 B.C. The setting of these often-graphic images of heterosexual and homosexual encounters is usually the symposium\, the all-male drinking party. Nearly all studies assume that these images are produced for and about Athenians\, and thus must represent Athenian views on sexuality and morality. Yet a closer look at the archaeological evidence shows that very few vases with graphic sexual images come from Athens itself; instead\, vases with erotic images were sold on the export market\, and more specifically to Etruria. Thus we must re-evaluate the use of these images in assessing Athenian values: we find an Athenian pottery industry with an astute marketing sense that distorts Athenian cultural identity to appeal to foreign perceptions of Greek culture. \nThe lecture will contain vase-painting images of explicit sexual scenes. \nKathleen Lynch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a specialist in Greek pottery\, particularly vase painting and the social aspects of pottery\, and has completed fieldwork in Albania\, Greece\, and Turkey. She has a book forthcoming from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora. \nFree parking for the lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots \nCoffee at 1:30 and more refreshments after the talk \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathleen-lynch-sex-sells-but-whos-buying-erotic-imagery-on-athenian-vases-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111022 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111209T193514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T193514Z UID:10004651-1319155200-1319241540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Founder's Day DESCRIPTION:2011 Founder’s Day \nMore information TBA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-founders-day-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110926T233206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T233206Z UID:10004615-1319133600-1319140800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Martha Mendoza DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza. \nMartha Mendoza\nMartha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-martha-mendoza-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110823T191647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110823T191647Z UID:10004855-1319045400-1319049000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: Lisa Jean Moore\, "Among the Missing: Operations in Recovering Bodies" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Jean Moore\nLisa Jean Moore\, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College\, State University of New York\, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins\, how it responds to illness\, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal\, some bodies clearly count more than others\, and some bodies are not recognized at all. By examining the cultural politics at work in disappearances and inclusions of the physical body Prof. Moore shows how the social\, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. \nRelated Articles:\nPeggy Downes Baskin Profile\nPeggy Downes Baskin Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics\nInaugural Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, November 3\, 2010 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111019T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T210445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210445Z UID:10004607-1319025600-1319031000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eugene Switkes\, "Studies of Visual Perception: A Window into Brain and Behavior" DESCRIPTION:Eugene Switkes\nScientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of spatial and chromatic information sheds light on the neural basis of visual behavioral phenomena. \nEugene Switkes is Professor of Chemistry and Psychobiology at UC Santa Cruz. He is an Affiliate Professor of Vision Sciences and Optometry at UC Berkeley. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eugene-switkes-studies-of-visual-perception-a-window-into-brain-and-behavior-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20111007T194045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111007T194045Z UID:10004864-1318435200-1318438800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present\nFrom Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century \nBridges of Reform\n\nShana Bernstien\nSouthwestern University\nAuthor of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-civil-defense-to-civil-rights-the-growth-of-jewish-american-interracial-activism-in-los-angeles-in-the-20th-century-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T210104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T210104Z UID:10004606-1318420800-1318426200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rei Terada\, "Pasolini’s Acceptance" DESCRIPTION:Rei Terada\nIn his late writings\, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini’s “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern\, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard\, 2001); and Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction (Harvard\, 2009). \nRei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. Cosponsored by the Affect Working Group. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rei-terada-pasolinis-acceptance-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111006T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110926T232123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T232123Z UID:10004614-1317924000-1317931200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Nina Revoyr DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger\, Southland\, The Age of Dreaming\, and Wingshooters\, for which she received the Windwest Bookseller’s Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller’s Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah’s ‘boks to watch out for.’ \nNina Revoyr\nNina is the executive vice president of a large child and family service agency in Los Angeles. She has also been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University\, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University\, Occidental College\, and Pitzer College. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-nina-revoyr-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110927T004710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110927T004710Z UID:10004862-1317830400-1317837600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Recipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. \nDon Rothman\nAdam Beighley\, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) \nAND \nSarah Edelstein\, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) \nHonorable Mentions: \nBriana Bernstein\, for “Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Brij Lunine) \nKerianne Doi\, for “Mackey Versus Pollan: War of Whole Foods” (Robin Somers) \nRosalie Evans\, for “The Graphic Truth” (Carol Gerster) \nJackson Greer\, for “Getting Back to the Farm” (Jude Todd) \nFor information about the ceremony: \nJames A. Wilson\, PhD\, Chair\, Writing Program \nCowell Office 209\, 459-2627\, jawilson@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-humanities-don-rothman-writing-awards-ceremony-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111005T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110815T205243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110815T205243Z UID:10004604-1317816000-1317821400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Juliana Schiesari\, “Rethinking Humanism: Horses\, Honor and Virtue in the Italian Renaissance” DESCRIPTION:Juliana Schiesari\nProfessor Schiesari is working on the relation between humanism and the post-human by rethinking the human and non-human as they are constructed in the Italian Renaissance. Her recent publications include Beasts and Beauties: Animals\, Gender and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance (Toronto\, 2010) and Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets\, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern Writers (UC\, forthcoming). \nJuliana Schiesari is Professor of Italian and Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. This colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juliana-schiesari-rethinking-humanism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110922T224347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110922T224347Z UID:10004612-1317729600-1317736800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clare Hemmings\, "Techniques for Reimagining Feminist Theory: Starting from How We Feel" DESCRIPTION:Clare Hemmings\n“Feminist theory seems caught in its own narratives of progress\, loss and return\, which I argue echo broader conservative agendas that position feminism as over or anachronistic. It does not seem enough to tell different stories\, to simply multiply feminisms. Might we instead tell stories differently? This paper makes the case for two different modes of telling that start from the affective location of the teller with the aim of interrupting these dominant narratives. The first explores the practice of recitation\, a technique to intervene in the histories produced through citation practices; the second starts from affective breakdown by exploring the importance of ‘the unspeakable’ in reimagining recent feminist history and the subject’s role in its narration.” \n  \nClare Hemmings is Reader in Feminist Theory at the Gender Institute\, London School of Economics\, where she has recently completed a period as Director. She is the author of Why Stories Matter: the Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke\, 2011) and Bisexual Spaces (Routledge\, 2002). She is a member of the Feminist Review Collective\, which seeks to create alternative spaces for feminist theory and practice. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/techniques-for-reimagining-feminist-theory-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110930T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110817T155656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110817T155656Z UID:10004848-1317398400-1317405600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Pranav Anand\, "Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature" DESCRIPTION:Pranav Anand\n“There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure\, social norms\, and type of response elicited. However\, these results provide only a few points in a vast space of potential task parameters\, thereby limiting our ability to systematically model the interaction between linguistic forms\, context and pragmatic inference. This talk reports ongoing work to systematically investigate the parametric space of task design. We find that implicature calculation rates are sensitive to both the structure of the response elicited (e.g.\, scalar vs. unordered) as well as the task prompt (whether the participant judges “accuracy”\, “informativity”\, or “goodness”)\, and discuss the methodological lessons of this kind of work.” \nPranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Anand’s research focuses largely on two matters: how context intrudes into or guides the interpretive process and how perspective is grammatically represented. These are manifested by my interest in the de re/de se/de dicto contrasts\, the nature of subjectivity in evaluative and epistemic predication\, and the structure of indexical shift. \nHis current projects include the fine lexical semantics of attitude verbs; real-time processing of implicatures and plurality; computational modeling of multi-party discourse; and computational modeling of high-level discourse plans\, especially those involved in argumentation and persuasion. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-pranav-anand-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110929T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110929T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110926T160624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110926T160624Z UID:10004613-1317319200-1317324600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Jaimy Gordon DESCRIPTION:Jaimy GordonThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon’s “fantasy” novel\, Shamp of the City-Solo\, gathered an underground following\, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the last fifty years. Her most recent book\, Lord of Misrule\, won the National Book Award for fiction. \nJaimy Gordon is Professor of English at Western Michigan University. For further information about Professor Gordon\, please visit her webpage at WMU: http://www.wmich.edu/english/directory/faculty/gordon.html. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-jaimy-gordon-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110928 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110802T163619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110802T163619Z UID:10004602-1317081600-1317167940@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Every Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement DESCRIPTION:Debra Olin: Images and Nathaniel Deutsch: Text\n\nSeptember 27 – October 11\, 2011\nOpening reception: Tuesday\, September 27\, 4-7pm\n \nEloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, UC Santa Cruz\n \n \nUntil 1917\, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement\, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer\, socialist revolutionary\, and ethnographer\, Sh. An-sky\, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to document this culture\, including many questions concerning Jewish customs and beliefs connected to pregnancy and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press)\, UCSC professor Nathaniel Deutsch has translated An-sky’s questionnaire into English for the first time\, placing it within a rich historical context. Collaborating with Deutsch and inspired by her deep interest in Jewish women’s folk traditions\, Debra Olin has created illuminating artworks that represent and explore the dangerous\, magical\, and\, above all\, powerful experience of pregnancy and childbirth in the Pale of Settlement. \nDebra Olin is a printmaker\, living and working in Somerville\, Massachusetts. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1980. Olin has shown in exhibitions across the U.S.\, South Africa and Cuba. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library; Temple Israel\, Brookline\, Mass.; YIVO Institute\, NYC; The DeCordova Museum\, Lincoln\, Mass.; and the Fogg Art Museum\, Harvard University. In 2004 Debra was awarded the Rappaport Prize\, the largest public annual award to an individual artist in New England. For more information\, visit the artist’s website: http://debraolin.com/.\n \nGallery hours: 11am – 4pm\, Tuesday – Sunday. For more information call: (831) 459-2953. Gallery is fully accessible. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/every-protection-exploring-pregnancy-and-childbirth-in-the-jewish-pale-of-settlement-2/ LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110924T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110924T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110921T204225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110921T204225Z UID:10004611-1316885400-1316892600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Karan Singh\, "Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation." DESCRIPTION:Dr. Karan Singh\nDistinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday\, September 24\, at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. \nCurrently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi\, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir\, and served as its governor for 18 years. \nHe was a member of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet when she was prime minister\, and has also served as Indian ambassador to the United States. \nRecognized as one of India’s outstanding thinkers and leaders\, Singh is the author of numerous books and has lectured widely—both in India and abroad–on political science\, philosophy\, education\, religion and culture. \nSingh will speak on the topic: “Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation.” \nThe lecture will be preceded by a screening of renowned Indian Director Satyajit Ray’s last movie: Agantuk (The Stranger) at 3 p.m. in the UCSC Media Theater. \nThe New York Times has described the film as “a gentle\, exquisitely realized comedy\, beautifully observed\, sweet\, and enriching\,” and the New Yorker called it “ a graceful comedy made in a serene\, leisurely classical style.” \nThe London Times noted: “Ray’s eye for detail and the old magic of his genius can’t let go of The Stranger\, a tour-de-force. The camera is wielded like a conductor’s baton as it strikes chords deep in the mind.” \nThe lecture and film screening are presented by The Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center (Ray FASC)–a research center in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The center is dedicated to the preservation of Satyajit Ray’s cinematic\, literary and artistic work. \nUnder the direction of founding director Dilip Basu\, Ray FASC has a collection of 32 of Ray’s 36 films\, including 22 fully restored prints. \nThe restoration work is conducted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles—the same academy that honored Ray with a special Oscar in 2002 for his lifetime achievements as a filmmaker. \nBasu noted that film prints from Ray FASC are now screened at major museums and film festivals around the world. \n“During the past year\, we have curated complete retrospectives at film museums in Munich\, Zurich\, Basel\, London\, Paris\, Singapore and at the Lincoln Center in New York\,” said Basu. “We expect to continue to have similar global reach in the foreseeable future.” \nBasu noted that Ray FASC also hosts scholars\, students\, and film makers who visit its facility for research and study. \nA professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, Basu also teaches an annual upper division class titled  “Cinema and History: Film Author Satyajit Ray.” \nFor tickets and/or more information about the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection\, go to:  http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu\, call 831-459-4012 or e-mail satyajit@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-karan-singh-nava-vedanta-ancient-indian-philosophy-of-non-dualism-its-modern-transformation-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110606T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110606T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110528T153640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110528T153640Z UID:10004594-1307374200-1307381400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-2011-reading-series-4-2/ LOCATION:Porter Hall Gallery\, UCSC\, Porter College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110604T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110604T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110528T193141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110528T193141Z UID:10004596-1307178000-1307214000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Between the Disciplines DESCRIPTION:Please join us on June 4th in Humanities I\, room 210 as we take the opportunity presented by the current state of crisis to evaluate and re-imagine interdisciplinary work as both a project and an enterprise. Now that interdisciplinarity has itself become something of a philosopher’s stone\, a general panacea for the woes and wiles of University research\, what is it that those of us engaged in interdisciplinary research are doing and how does that fit in the remaking of University research and education? As the disciplines themselves seek to dissolve their disciplinary boundaries\, what sort of work could justify the continued existence of a space and a program that aims to investigate what is left out or discouraged in disciplinary work? And\, further\, what is the status of disciplinary work itself? As cuts to public higher education and shifting administrative priorities threaten to sink Interdisciplinary programs across the country\, we might use this occasion as an opportunity to grasp the foundations and delicate lineaments of the Interdisciplinary project. \n9-10: breakfast \n10-11:30 – Questioning Crisis: Adam Dylan Hefty (Valences of Discipline in the Times of Imperiled Institutions)\, Surya Parekh (Graduate Work)\, and Mario Diaz-Perez (Max Weber and the Crises of the Sciences) \n11:45-1:15 – Articulating Histories: Todd Chretien (Listening to the Subaltern Speak: Methods for Recovering History)\, Joshua Brahinsky (Tentative Musings on the Friction Between Disciplines when Making Resistances from Speaking Tongues)\, and Fritzie de Mata (Dead Bodies and the Balikbayan Boxes: Unpacking Spatial Linkages in the Subaltern Pacific) \n2:15-3:45 – Perceiving Violence: Maya Gonzalez (On Primitive Accumulation)\, Steve Carter (Military Reading as Interdisciplinary Approach)\, Aaron Reed (What If I’m the Bad Guy) \n4-5:30 – Thinking With/Partaking in the World: Madeline McDonald (On the Problem of Utopias: Toward an Edge-Topology of ‘Post-Sixties Narratives’)\, Erin Ellison (The Girls are Alright: Addressing Gendered Power Dynamics Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Setting)\, Joshua LaBare (The Ecology of Everyday Life) \n5:45-6:45 – Symposium of HistCon Alumni \n6:45-following – refreshments URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/between-the-disciplines-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110601T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110601T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110313T195908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195908Z UID:10004568-1306930500-1306935000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Erik Butler: "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present: \nErik Butler\, German Studies\, Emory University\n“The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister’s Soviet Symbolism” \nProfessor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House\, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (Ashgate\, 2010). His translation of Der Nister’s Regrowth (Vidervuks) is forthcoming (Northwestern\, 2011). The current book\, Cruelty and Mystification\, explores violence and ruse in modernist fiction. \nErik Butler is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erik-butler-the-ruse-of-faith-spiritual-politics-in-der-nisters-soviet-symbolism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110602 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110602T152930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110602T152930Z UID:10004598-1306886400-1306972799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Teach-In on Islamaphobia: Between the War on Terror and Arab Revolution DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nSnehal Shingavi\, English and South Asian Studies\, UT Austin\nZahra Billoo\, Council on American-Islamic Relations \nWednesday\, June 1\n6 p.m.\nKresge Town Hall \nSnehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas\, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of social justice campaigns. He was a shop steward for the Association of Graduate Student Employees (AGSE/UAW local 2865)\, a participant in the 1999 strike for Ethnic Studies organized by the third world Liberation Front (twLF)\, a member of the International Socialist Organization\, a member of the Campaign to the End Death Penalty (CEDP)\, an organizer against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia\, a former member of the coordinating committee of the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)\, a participant in the 2000 antiglobalization protests and the protest at the Democratic National Convention in LA\, a founding member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)\, a founding member of the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition (BSTW) which organized against the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq\, a member of Friends of South Asia (FOSA)\, a member of the Students for Nader campaign in 2000\, campaign manager for Aimee Allison – Green Party candidate for Oakland City Council in 2006\, a member of the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU CWA local 6186)\, and the Stop the Cuts Coalition at the University of Texas. He has published pieces in The Nation\, Counterpunch\, Z Magazine\, and the International Socialist Review\, and has appeared on Democracy Now\, Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein\, the Real News Network\, as well as on MSNBC\, CNN\, and Fox News. \nA community organizer and labor and civil rights advocate committed to promoting justice and understanding at local and national levels\, Zahra Billoo is Executive Director for the CAIR San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) chapter. She frequently provides trainings at local mosques and universities as part of CAIR’s efforts to empower the community\, while building bridges with allies on key civil rights issues. At her direction\, CAIR-SFBA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice challenging their warrantless use of GPS tracking devices to target American Muslims. Her work with CAIR-SFBA has been highlighted in local and national media outlets. Most notably\, she made waves when she appeared on FOX O’Reilly Factor to discuss invasive TSA practices. As an undergraduate\, she worked with the California Faculty Association on issues including faculty salaries and the defunding of public higher education. A 2010 recipient of the San Francisco Minority Bar Coalition’s Unity Award\, she earned her J.D. from UC Hastings. \nCo-sponsored by Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, UC Center for New Racial Studies\, Ethnic Resource Centers\, Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Muslim Student Association\, Olive Tree Initiative\, Committee for Justice in Palestine\, Resource Center for Nonviolence\, Palestine-Israel Action Committee. \nThis event is free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-in-on-islamaphobia-between-the-war-on-terror-and-arab-revolution-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110531T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110531T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110310T183944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T183944Z UID:10004563-1306836000-1306846800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations DESCRIPTION:Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!\n  \nIn 1996\, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects.   This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a unique blend of projects ranging from historical narratives to linguistic experimentations. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-undergraduate-research-award-presentations-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110530 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20101013T030030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T030030Z UID:10004628-1306540800-1306713540@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Music and Greek Drama: History\, Theory\, and Practice DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz Presents:\nMusic and Greek Drama: History\, Theory\, and Practice\nAn International Conference\n \nIn connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist\,\na new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel\,\nMainstage Theater\, UCSC\, May 20-29\n \nMay 28-29\, 2011\nCollege 8\, Room 240\n \nScholars and theater practitioners will discuss how music affects the meaning and impact of dramatic performance ancient and modern. How do scholars and musicians reconstruct the likely sounds and styles of ancient Greek music and dance? How did the music of the Athenian theater respond to\, and in turn shape\, the socio-cultural trends and political controversies of the day? What can and should be the role of music in modern productions of Greek drama? The use of music in the theatrical production of Orestes Terrorist will serve as a case study.\n \nKeynote Address by Peter Kivy\, Rutgers University\n \nSpeakers\nAmy R. Cohen\, Randolph College\nPhilip Collins\, New Music Works\, Santa Cruz\nMichael Ewans\, University of Newcastle\nJohn C. Franklin\, University of Vermont\nMary-Kay Gamel\, UC Santa Cruz\nMark Griffith\, UC Berkeley\nStefan Hagel\, Austrian Academy of Sciences\nRobert Ketterer\, University of Iowa\nPauline Le Van\, Yale University\nFiona Macintosh\, University of Oxford\nC.W. Marshall\, University of British Columbia\nDonald Mastronarde\, UC Berkeley\nLucia Prauscello\, University of Cambridge\nDanny Scheie\, UC Santa Cruz\nAndrew Simpson\, Catholic University of America\n \nThis conference is presented by University of California Humanities Research Institute\, with generous support from the Klio Distinguished Professorship\, UC Berkeley; Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC; Committee on Research\, UCSC.\nFor further information\, including disabled access\, contact Courtney Mahaney at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, cmahaney@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-3527; web: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. Staffing provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-in-greek-tragedy-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110516T173849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110516T173849Z UID:10004590-1306512000-1306522800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Under the Sign of War: U.S. Militarism and Asian Americanist Critique DESCRIPTION:This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war\, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular\, this year’s Pacific Seminar workshop\, led by Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State) and Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs (St. Olaf College)\, highlights and historicizes the emergence of mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies as simultaneously origin-animating and field-transforming directions within Asian American studies.  Inquiring into the centrality of U.S. wars in Asia to mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, this year’s workshop approaches Asian American studies not as a rigid crystallized academic tradition but rather as a critical intellectual formation whose shifting contours are shaped and renewed by engagement with the political.  In other words\, not simply reducible to new identitarian directions in an academic field whose expansion (and incoherence)\, as critics have argued\, reflect demographic changes brought on by immigration\, mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, by raising the question of geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and necropolitics relative to U.S. wars and militarism in the Asia Pacific region\, pose fundamental challenges to an identity-based approach to Asian American studies.   As with the inaugural formation of Asian American studies\, these emergent areas of activism and socially engaged scholarship\, as this year’s workshop will explore\, cannot be theorized outside a framework of U.S. imperialism and war. \nWei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies\, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature\, Arts\, and Culture. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Hapa Issues Forum\, the Asian American Theater Company\, and iPride\, and on the Advisory Boards of Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Women Artists Association.  Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up\,Too Mixed Up\, 580 Split\, and Yellow as Turmeric\, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. Her academic essays have been published in Mixed Race Literature (2002)\, Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian American Activists (2004)\, Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2007)\, The Influence of Star Trek on Television\, Film and Culture (2007)\, and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (2009).  Her current project is War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art\, co-curated and co-edited with Laura Kina\, an art exhibit (Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle and the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago\, 2013)\, and a book (under formal review at University of Washington Press). \nJennifer Kwon Dobbs is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of American Race and Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf College.  She is former core staff for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and a current fellow with the Korea Policy Institute.  Jennifer’s debut collection\, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007)\, received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award\, and her chapbook\, Song of a Mirror\, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award.  Columns and new stories about Jennifer’s present research on Korean adoptee birth searches and unwed mothers have appeared in Chosun Ilbo\, Conducive Magazine\, Gyeonghyang News\, Hankyoreh\, Korea Herald\, Korea Times\, Pressian\, and Yonhap News.  Currently she is writing a book of essays about unwed moms’ realities with the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association and a second book of poetry. \nParticipation: Please note that this is a reading workshop.  To take part in the workshop and to obtain readings in advance\, please RSVP to Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/under-the-sign-of-war-u-s-militarism-and-asian-americanist-critique-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110401T191731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110401T191731Z UID:10004575-1306510200-1306515600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roumyana Pancheva DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: \nRoumyana Pancheva (USC) \nStay tuned for more details! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roumyana-pancheva-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110404T061238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110404T061238Z UID:10004792-1306432800-1306439100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Neo Benshi DESCRIPTION:Neo Benshi\, Roxi Power Hamilton\, Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner present a new take on the Japanese tradition of “benshi”—a writer or actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside films. The neo-benshi concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes from well-known narrative features or TV shows\, mute the soundtrack\, and re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-neo-benshi-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110526T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110505T182404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T182404Z UID:10004588-1306425600-1306431000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jin-hua: "In Vogue: Politics and National Ethnicity in Lust\, Caution and the Lust\, Caution Phenomenon in China" DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua is Founder and Director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Film Studies at Peking University\, where she is also Professor of Chinese Literature and Language.  She is a prominent cultural scholar of literature\, film\, and popular culture. With Meng Yue\, she wrote the 1989 Emerging on the Horizon of History\, one of the first works of feminist scholarship published in reform-era China.  Her work as a film scholar and media critic questions the social legitimacy of consumer culture in China\, while problematizing the elitist lineage of Western Marxism and reflecting on Chinese modes of intellectual endeavor during the last three decades. Dai Jinhua’s publications include Film Theory and Criticism\, Gendering China\, Cinema and Desire\, and Scenery in the Fog: Chinese Cinema Culture 1978-1988.   The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture comments of her work\, “Her innovative experiments with different critical approaches and the feminist perspective with which she re-examined dominant theories of literature\, film and popular culture introduced a new way of critical analysis far beyond her field in China. The development of her own dynamic cultural critique also addressed a growing audience in Taiwan\, Hong Kong and the West.” \nSponsored by the Department of History with Generous Support from the Nee Fun URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jin-hua-in-vogue-politics-and-national-ethnicity-in-lust-caution-and-the-lust-caution-phenomenon-in-china-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110505T184817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T184817Z UID:10004810-1306350000-1306355400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Retallack: Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:\n \nA talk and workshop with Joan Retallack\, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. \n \nJoan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo\, 2004)\, How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics\, 1998)\, Afterrimages (Wesleyan\, 1995)\, and Errata 5uite (Edge Books\, 1993)\, chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work\,  and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006\, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996\, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award\, two Gertrude Stein awards\, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d\, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new\, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation\, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this\nevent. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-retallack-poetry-reading-2/ LOCATION:Felix Kulpa Gallery\, 107 Elm Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110514T180455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110514T180455Z UID:10004823-1306343700-1306350000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nancy Hornberger: "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties (Grounded in Indigenous Experience)" DESCRIPTION:Ethnic diversity and inequality\, intercultural communication and contact\, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education\, too\, is a fact of life\, and though there are a great variety of contexts\, models\, contents\, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice\, it is possible to discern continuities that characterize successful multilingual education wherever it is found. My emphasis here is on what we know and are sure of\, analytically formulated as ten certainties and illustrated by empirical research.\nThis talk is presented by the Language Program Colloquium Series.\n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-hornberger-multilingual-education-policy-and-practice-ten-certainties-grounded-in-indigenous-experience-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110505T184340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110505T184340Z UID:10004809-1306339200-1306344600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Retallack: "Reciprocal Alterities\, Questions of Poethics for Difficult Times" DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:\n \nA talk and workshop with Joan Retallack\, followed by a poetry reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. \n \nJoan Retallack’s most recent publication Procedural Elegies  / Western Civ Cont’d / (Roof Books) was the poetry volume named by Artforum as a best book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir (Post-Apollo\, 2004)\, How To Do Things With Words (Sun & Moon Classics\, 1998)\, Afterrimages (Wesleyan\, 1995)\, and Errata 5uite (Edge Books\, 1993)\, chosen by Robert Creeley for the Columbia Book Award of that year. Her critical books include Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) for which she wrote an extensive introduction to Stein’s work\,  and The Poethical Wager (2004)—both from University of California Press. Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (2006\, Palgrave MacMillan) is co-edited with Juliana Spahr; MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack (1996\, Wesleyan University Press) won the America Award for Belles-Lettres. She is a recipient of a Lannan Poetry Award\, two Gertrude Stein awards\, and National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Westorn Civ Cont’d\, An Open Book. She has recently written the introduction for a new\, corrected edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation\, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Her current projects are “The Reinvention of Truth” and “The Bosch Bookshelf.” Retallack lives in the Hudson Valley where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. \nPoetry and Politics is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this\nevent. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-retallack-reciprocal-alterities-questions-of-poethics-for-difficult-times-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110313T195643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110313T195643Z UID:10004787-1306325700-1306330200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tamara Spira: "Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nTamara Spira\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies\, UC Davis\n“Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison and the Low Intensity Form” \nDoctor Spira works at the intersections of feminist\, comparative ethnic and hemispheric American studies\, and is completing Movements of Feeling: Neoliberalism\, Affect and (Post) Revolutionary Memory in the Americas. The talk provides a reading of (the now converted) Pisagua prison in northern Chile\, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and “sexual dissidents” throughout the 20th century. \nTamara Spira is the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tamara-spira-neoliberal-captivities-pisagua-prison-and-the-low-intensity-form-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110525 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110311T213227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T213227Z UID:10004774-1306022400-1306281599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Women\, Jews and Venetians Conference DESCRIPTION:“L’Italie\, Laboratoire de la modernite juive\,” — Workshop of Jewish Modernity –  a group of scholars recently characterized Venice and the Ghetto and thereby focused discussion on how this laboratory shaped Jewish modernity.  Carrying forward a recently emerging scholarly view about early modern Jewish communities\, these essays emphasize the interaction of the Jews in the Ghetto with the larger Venetian populace and polity\, reminding us that the Ghetto came to be named “La Citta degli ebrei.” An island set apart from and yet part of the city on the lagoon\, the Ghetto became a political\, social\, and cultural locus of historical and symbolic status. \nYet the roles women played in this forging of modern Jewish identity are often absent from the conversation. Notable women such as Dona Gracia Nasi and Sarra Copia Sulam appear here and there. However\, there is little sustained attentiveness to the ways in which Jewish and Venetian women across the social spectrum responded to emerging modern habits and processes. Their contribution to the “workshop of Jewish modernity” has not been charted – and thus we know little as to how and to what extent women were able to express and take agency in many spheres\, from cultural practices and financial activities to intellectual pursuits. \nOur gathering is directed to bringing women into the Venetian historical account. We will focus on the ways in which Jewish women\, in part through their connections to other Venetian and Italian women\, helped to articulate what it was to be modern\, and thus participated in the forging of modern Venetian\, Italian\, and Jewish identities. We anticipate that there also will be discussion of the contributions of non-Jewish women in shaping the image and understanding of contemporary Venice and Venetian Jewish life. We envision that this objective might be approached through multiple disciplines\, literature\, history\, and art history among them. \nThis conference seeks to help open new lines of scholarly inquiry\, which we might continue to build at subsequent gatherings\, with the eventual aim of organizing a larger conference in Venice in the near future. In keeping with the exploratory purpose of this gathering\, featured lectures are followed by panels\, — whose participants will take the conversation forward. \nSchedule (View Program) \nSUNDAY\, MAY 22 \n7:00–8:30 pm \nShaul Bassi\, Ca’ Foscari\, University of Venice\, “From Shakespeare to Erica Jong: Jewish Women and Cultural Politics” \n8:30 pm \nReception \nMONDAY\, MAY 23 \n9:00–11:00 am \nPANEL: Venice\, Portal to Jewish Modernity \nLisa Calevi\, University of Oregon\, “Jewish Childhoods” \nDr. Leonard Rothman\, MD OBGYN retired\, Independent Scholar formerly of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, “Venetian Midwives\, and Modern Medicine” \nMonique Balbuena\, University of Oregon\,  “The Languages of the Conversas” \nRespondent: Lisa Pon\, Southern Methodist University \n11:15 am – 12:15 pm \nCynthia Baker\, Bates College\, “The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: An Ancient Trope in Modern Europe” \n12:15–2:00 pm \nLunch \nMurray Baumgarten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\,  “Ghetto Matters\, the Venice Center\, and Planning for 2016: Suggestions and Discussion” \n2:00–3:30 pm \nPANEL: Women and the Arts \nJill Fields\, California State University Fresno\, “The Writing of Peggy Guggenheim: Narrating Gender\, Jewish Identity\, and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Venice” \nDr. Joanna Harris\, dance historian\, Osher Lifelong Learning\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “Two Historic Italian Women And Their Contribution To The Arts: Isabella Andreini — Commedia Dell’arte—and Catherine De Medici– Classical Ballet” \nRespondent: Deanna Shemek\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n3:30–4:00 pm \nRefreshments \n4:00–5:15 pm \nGretchen-Starr-Lebeau\, University of Kentucky\, “Judging by Gender: Venetian Jewish Women Before the Inquisition” \n5:15–6:15 pm \nDinner \n6:15–7:15 pm             \nHoward Adelman\, Queen’s University\, Kingston\, Ontario\, “What Jews on the Rialto?  The Venetian Adventures of Beatrice and Reyna de Luna” \n7:30–8:45 pm \nPANEL: Representations of Venetian Jewish Women \nMiriam Shein\, Independent Scholar\, “Reflection from the Ghetto: Creating a Venetian Jewish Heroine” \nYael Chaver\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “20th Century Jewish Translations of Jessica.”   \nRespondent: Robin Russin\, University of California\, Riverside \n 8:45–9: 15 pm \nRefreshments \nTUESDAY\, MAY 24 \n9:00–10:15 am \nDon Harrán\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, “Sarra Copia Sulam\, A Seventeenth-Century Jewish Poet in Search of Immortality” \n10:15–10:30 \nCoffee \n10:30–12:30 \nPANEL: Jewish Women and the Public World \nDr. Ariella Lang\, Barnard College\, “Margherita Sarfatti\, Mussolini\, and 20th Century Public Life” \n Michael Shapiro\, University of Illinois/Loyola University\, “Women and Hidden Jews under Nazi Occupation: Roberto Bassi’s Evidence” \nWill Wells \, Dean\, Rhodes State College\, “Translating the Poems of Sarra Copia Sulam” \nRespondent: Paul Michelson\, Huntington University \n12:30 pm \nLunch & a riverderci \nThis conference sponsored by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies\, the Museo Italo-Americano of San Francisco\, and the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies. Major support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the Department of Literature\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research. \nThe Santa Cruz Conference is free and open to the public. Please let us know if you plan to attend by calling (831) 459–5655 or (831) 459-2566. \nFor further information\, including disabled access\, contact Shann Ritchie at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. \n*San Francisco Preview Panel at the Museo Italo-Americano in Fort Mason\, Sunday morning\, May 22\, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm in conjunction with exhibited materials from Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/women-jews-and-venetians-conference-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110425T214359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110425T214359Z UID:10004585-1305905400-1305910800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Scott AnderBois: "What is a Question? An Answer from Yucatec Maya" DESCRIPTION:The act of questioning is central to human conversation\, but how do we know if a given sentence is a question in the first place? Looking at English\, there are two reasonable accounts we might give. First\, questions are defined by their semantics: i.e. questions have a particular kind of meaning which is distinct from that of other sentences\, and\, in particular\, from assertions. Alternatively\, questions might be defined by their syntax: i.e. the form of questions make use of particular elements (e.g. question words like `who’\, `what’\, and `why’) which distinguish them from assertions. \nThis talk addresses the title question from the perspective of Yucatec Maya\, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by roughly 800\,000 people. Questions in Yucatec Maya often have no single element in their form which distinguishes them from assertions. Rather\, they consist of particular combinations of elements\, each of which occurs on its own in sentences which are clearly not questions. To understand why such sentences are questions\, then\, requires a particular understanding of the meaning of these elements individually\, and of how these meanings interact in a given sentence. In so doing\, we not only shed light on the nature of questions across languages\, but also on the nature of the elements from which questions are built. \nScott AnderBois is a fifth year grad student in Linguistics. His dissertation research investigates the grammatical properties of questions and related constructions\, such as indefinite pronouns (i.e. words like ‘someone’\, ‘something’) whose function is to introduce issues for immediate or future conversation. In order to address these general questions\, Mr. AnderBois has been engaged in primary fieldwork on the properties of these constructions in Yukatek Maya\, an indigenous language of Mexico\, currently spoken by approximately 800\,000 people in the Yucatán Peninsula. Whereas questions in English are clearly identified by the presence of question words like ‘who’ and ‘what’\, analogous questions in Yukatek Maya are formed by placing a word which otherwise means ‘someone’ or ‘something’ in a particular position within the sentence. Expanding on this exploration of the tight relationship between indefinite pronouns and questions in Yukatek Maya\, Mr. AnderBois’s research sheds light on the meanings of both constructions as a general phenomenon in human language. \nThis event is made possible by the UC Society of Fellows and the UC Humanities Network.  Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-anderbois-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110512T174140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T174140Z UID:10004813-1305892800-1305900000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gender Violence in Mexico DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 20th\, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico\, violence targeting human rights activists\, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico. \nSpeakers:  Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin)\, Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez)\, Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos\, Chihuahua City)\, and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University). \nTIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge\, College 9 \nOn Thursday evening\, May 19th\, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla.  The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women. \nQ&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim\, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas\, Austin). \nTIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center \nPlease note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK\, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com \nSponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies\, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center)\, Chicano/Latino Research Center\, and the Women’s Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-violence-in-mexico-2/ LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110520T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110513T153252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110513T153252Z UID:10004821-1305889200-1305894600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Damon Brown: "Porn and Pong" DESCRIPTION:McDonald’s has “Fast Food Nation\,” the fish industry has “Cod\,” but no book has successfully weaved the cautionary tales and humorous history of the world of video games into our modern society… until now. For “Porn and Pong” Playboy Magazine journalist Damon Brown spent five years exploring how the $20 billion video game industry traces our evolution in sexual mores\, technological dependence and personal interaction. The VCR and the dawn of the modern porn industry parallels the first Atari systems\, Reality TV skyrocketed the same year as The Sims\, and the surgically-endowed Pamela Anderson was only outshined by one other woman: Lara Croft. In one of the most stimulating moments\, Brown examines Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2005 tirade against Grand Theft Auto\, and how politics\, hidden agendas and financial pressure affect all controversial art forms. \nDamon Brown writes about sex\, technology\, music and video games for Playboy\, New York Post and Family Circle\, and is the tech columnist for AARP Online and PlanetOut. He is the author of several books\, most recently Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto\, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Damon has a Masters in Magazine Publishing from Chicago’s Northwestern University and a degree in Journalism and Computing from Detroit’s Oakland University. The Jersey native considers New Orleans\, Chicago and Lansing (Michigan) his hometowns\, but recently established his secret headquarters in Northern California. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/damon-brown-porn-and-pong-2/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Simularium\, Room 180\, Baskin Engineering\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110512T174554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T174554Z UID:10004815-1305831600-1305838800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: "La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí" DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 20th\, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico\, violence targeting human rights activists\, and the social movement for peace and an end to violence in Mexico. \nSpeakers:  Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas at Austin)\, Eva Arce (Ciudad Juárez)\, Alma Gómez (Centro de Derechos Humanos\, Chihuahua City)\, and Cynthia Bejarano (New Mexico State University). \nTIME & PLACE: 12-2 PM @ Namaste Lounge\, College 9 \nOn Thursday evening\, May 19th\, there will be a screening: La Carta: Sagrario nunca has muerto para mí (English sub-titles) directed by Rafael Bonilla.  The film documents the life of Paula Bonilla Flores and her struggle for justice on behalf of her daughter and other murdered and disappeared women. \nQ&A with Paula Flores (director of Fundación María Sagrario and mother of feminicide victim\, María Sagrario González from Ciudad Juárez); and Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas\, Austin). \nTIME & PLACE: 7-9 PM @ Merrill College Cultural Center \nPlease note that ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE BOOK\, Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas\, go to select organizations listed in www.stopterrorizingwomen.com \nSponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies\, El Centro (Chicano/Latino Resource Center)\, Chicano/Latino Research Center\, and the Women’s Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-la-carta-sagrario-nunca-has-muerto-para-mi-2/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110512T173349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110512T173349Z UID:10004812-1305824400-1305831600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emily Greenwood: "Regarding Priam: Reconciliation and Classical Reception" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: \nIn light of David Malouf’s 2009 novel Ransom\, based on Priam’s supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad\, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via the study of classical receptions\, paying particular attention to debates about restorative justice. \nEmily Greenwood is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. Her research interests include ancient Greek historiography\, Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, twentieth century classical receptions (especially uses of Classics in Africa\, Britain\, the Caribbean\, and Greece)\, Classics and Postcolonialism\, and the theory and practice of translating the ‘classics’ of Greek and Roman literature. She is the author of Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press\, 2010). \nReception to follow. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-greenwood-regarding-priam-reconciliation-and-classical-reception-2/ 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:20110519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110507T231534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110507T231534Z UID:10004811-1305795600-1305820800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:All members of the UCSC community and the general public are invited to attend the Twelfth Annual UCSC Literature Undergraduate Colloquium onThursday\, May 19\, 2011 in Humanities 1\, room 210. The Undergraduate Colloquium is a day-long event showcasing and celebrating undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department\, and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. For more information please see literature.ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-4778. \nThe colloquium schedule is as follows: \nOpening Remarks\n9:00 – 9:10 a.m.\nKaren Bassi\, Literature Department Chair \nPanel One: Morphologies\n9:10 – 10:30 a.m.\nModerator: John O. Jordan\nKirby A. Conrod\, Dialog and Morphology in the Novel\nNicole Green\, Explorations of the Nature of Reality in To the Lighthouse\nAshley Overhouse\, Read Between the Paratexts: Resistance in the 19th Century Race Novel\nAlicia Roll\, Poetic Inspiration \nPanel Two: Pacific Crossings\n10:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.\nModerator: Tim Yamamura\nAlyssa Benveniste\, The Body of a Woman: Exploring the Nation in Chang Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life\nDavid Manalo\, An Investigation Into The Literary Sublime of the 21st Century Asian Diaspora\nKyle Murphy\, Kerouac and Oriental Worlding \nLunch Buffet 12:10 – 12:55 p.m. \nPanel Three: Creative Writing\n1:00 – 2:20 p.m.\nModerator: Juliana Leslie\nJohan Flyvbjerg\, Flakes and Cherries\nKatharine Elyse Wheeler-Dubin\, Inside Games\nJessica Jones\, The Garden Not Forgotten \nPanel Four: Negotiating Identity\n2:30 – 3:50 p.m.\nModerator: A. Hunter Bivens\nJulia Franceschini\, Comic-book Cinema: How Maus Captures Reality\nBrenda Houser\, Zoot Suit: Pachuco Mythology and the Redefinition of Chicano Identity\nJessica Mead\, Liberating Cuba: The Use of Historical Romance to Imagine a Nation\nMegan Susman\, Jews\, Errants\, Disaster: From the Destruction of the Second Temple to Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110518T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161352 CREATED:20110517T175343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110517T175343Z UID:10004592-1305727200-1305738000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Professor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz \nHUMANITIES DEAN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION \nProfessor William Ladusaw’s Vision for the Humanities \nThe presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Meetings will be held for Humanities Faculty\, Students\, and Staff\, beginning at 2:45PM \n2:00 – 2:45pm    Candidate Presentation \n2:45 – 3:30pm   Humanities Faculty and Department Chairs \n3:30 – 4:00pm   Humanities Graduate Students \n4:00 – 4:30pm   Humanities Undergraduate Students \n4:30 – 5:00pm   Humanities Staff & Department Managers URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/professor-william-ladusaws-vision-for-the-humanities-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR