Film Screening: "Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels" (Non-citizenship series)
2016-10-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Del Mar Theatre
The Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship
Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John’s University join UC Santa Cruz’s David Anthony and Greg O’Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” 2016 winner of the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award.
EVENT PHOTOS: by Allison Garcia
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About the Film
Ghost of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker’s The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Viking-Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839, to interview elders about local memory of the case, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The film uses the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery.
“This film is an ambitious and imaginative attempt to explore the impact of the Amistad Mutiny and the repatriation of the brave Africans to their homes in Sierra Leone. It is of great interest to any student of slavery and the slave trade.” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Location:
Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Event details:
Film at 7:00pm
Q&A Discussion at 8:00pm
Greg O’Malley, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, moderates the Q&A with Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer immediately following the screening. David Anthony, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, opens and closes the evening.
Admission:
Free and open to the public, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance.
REGISTER HERE
Guest Speakers
David Anthony, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, researches and teaches on African and African-American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African Languages; the Indian Ocean wold; African and African American linkages; African diaspora studies; Islamic civilization; and world history. He is the author of numerous publications, including Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior (New York University Press, 2006).
Philip Misevich is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University. He specializes in the study of the slave trade and the development of the Atlantic World. His research focuses on the coerced migration of Africans throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. A practioner and developer of digital humanities scholarship, he is co-principal investigator of the African Origins database project and actively works with a team of scholars on Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, a project that details the movement of 35,000 slave vessels.
Greg O’Malley is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. His first book, the award-winning Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. He is co-principal investigator of the NEH-funded “Final Passages Intra-American Slave Trade Database,” which documents more than 7,600 individual shipments of enslaved people between American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is also conducting research for a new book, The Escapes of David George: One Man’s Struggle with Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era.
Konrad Tuchscherer, Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at St. John’s University, is a specialist in African history and languages. His interests include nineteenth and twentieth century West Africa, colonialism in Africa, and Gullah history in South Carolina and Georgia. His research experience in Africa includes Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and The Gambia. He also serves as co-director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Bamum Palace in Cameroon.
UCSC Roundtable Discussion
Professors Misevich, Tuchscherer, and O’Malley will also take part in “Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia,” a roundtable on ways in which scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences share our research with audiences beyond academia on Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:00-2:00pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210. Due to limited space, this roundtable is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty, students, and staff. Faculty, students, and staff should pre-register here.
About Non-citizenship
Non-citizenship is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. Linking citizenship, migration, border, labor, and carceral studies, and juxtaposing spatial and social mobility and immobility, this year-long series of events explores what it means to be a citizen and non-citizen in a world made by migrants, refugees, guest workers, permanent residents, asylum seekers, slaves, prisoners, detainees, the stateless, and denizens (residents who do not hold the same rights as citizens). Non-citizenship is organized around three themes: “Forced Migration” (fall 2016), “Labor Mobility and Precarity” (winter 2017), and “Fluidity of Status: Migrants, Citizens, Denizens” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

PhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
2016-10-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present
PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD
Friday, October 28, 2016
Humanities 1, Room 210
11 am – 12:30 pm
Panelists:
Christina Hall, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities, Career Center
Whitney deVos, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor, Career Center
Networking. It can seem like an ugly word, conjuring up images of used car salesman and shady political quid pro quo. Yet, no tool is more powerful when it comes to conquering the competitive academic job market or navigating the unfamiliar world of work within private industry. This interactive, discussion-based workshop will focus on helping you develop concrete strategies to develop your social capital while still remaining your authentic self.
We’ll also spend time exploring the Versatile PhD, an online networking and information site geared to PhDs looking for opportunities in private industry, non-profit, and government sectors, as well as The Professor is In, From PhD to Life, and other resources that can help you explore a variety of post-PhD career paths, within, alongside, and outside of the academy.
What kinds of professionalization and career preparation should the University provide? We want to hear your thoughts!
Lunch will be provided. Open to all graduate students but limited to 50 attendees. Please register below.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss:
possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter
2016-10-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky”
The Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky’s thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot, European alchemy, and New Age formulations of Hindu and Zen Buddhist thought. I attempt to trave the genealogical articulation of Jodorowsky’s brand of filmmaking and artistic practice by working through his depiction of Hindu, specifically Advaita (non-dualist), philosophy in two films, The Holy Mountain (1973) and The Dance of Reality (2013). Far from appealing to an Orientalist aesthetic, Jodorowsky incorporates Advaita conceptions of indeterminacy which “uses this disintegration {of meaning} and constructs order out of it.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Ronaldo V. Wilson: "Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other"
2016-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008), Poems of the Black Object (2009), and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
Farther Traveler is an expansive, complex hybrid of poetry, prose, and memoir. Wilson writes of loss, desire, abjection and radical possibility, traversing and transgressing boundaries of genre to produce a searing meditation on race, sexuality, and contemporary culture.

Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
2016-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Written by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail,” imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of rice agriculture. Whereas farmers in the Green Revolution’s legacy use poison to exterminate snails, a new generation of “friendly farmers” attempts to insert farming as one among many multispecies life ways within the paddy.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and Co-Director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA).
Isabelle Carbonell is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and a documentary filmmaker.
The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates
November 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell
November 9 Joan Wallach Scott
November 16 Robin Hunicke

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
2016-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric”
Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden
After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. For example, Estonia’s participation in Afghanistan missions was presented as self-evident and largely unquestioned both in parliament and in the media. In this context, it is difficult to find counter-narratives to war in public discourse, with implications for understandings of gender, geopolitics, and nationalism. In search of voices that question the general consensus about Estonia’s participation in NATO missions, I zoom in on the artworks of Estonian artist Maarit Murka who was invited to visit Estonian troops in Afghanistan on the commission of the Estonian Military Museum. Pondering upon three exhibitions she made as a result of her trip, I explore how artistic interventions might denaturalize gendered and nationalized notions of violence and justifications for war.
Redi Koobak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies- Gender Studies at Linking University, Sweden, where she also defended her dissertation, Whirling Stories: Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts (Linking University Press, 2013). She is a visiting scholar and lecturer in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz during Fall 2016.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule:
October 13th: Sara Mameni,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
November 3rd: Redi Koobak,”Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”
December 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
2016-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Cabrillo College Room 450
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud
Thursday, November 3, 2016
6:00 pm
Cabrillo College, Room 450 (Forum)
EVENT PHOTOS: by Lorraine Padgett
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First Song
That long ago morning at Ruth’s farm when I hid in the wisteria and watched hummingbirds. I thought the ruby or gold that gleamed on their throats was the honeyed blood of flowers. They would stick their piercing beaks into a crown of petals until their heads disappeared. The blossoms blurred into wings, and the breathing I heard was the thin, moving stems of wisteria. That night, my face pressed against the window, I looked out into the dark where the moon drowned in the willows by the pond. My heart, bloodstone, turned. That long night, the farm, those jeweled birds, all these gone years. The horses standing quiet and huge in the moon crossing blackness.
Joseph Stroud is the author of five books of poetry: In the Sleep of Rivers, Signatures, Below Cold Mountain, Country of Light, and the most recent, Of This World, New & Selected Poems, which was selected by the San Francisco Poetry Center as the outstanding book by an American poet for the year 2010. It was also short-listed for the PEN Literary Award USA and the Commonwealth California Book of the Year. His work has earned a Pushcart Prize, has been featured on American Public Media’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” and he has appeared as a guest poet on “A Prairie Home Companion.” His awards include the Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the prestigious Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award.
Free admission
Free Parking in lots E, F, G, and H. All other lots will be
ticketed. Carpooling and early arrival recommmended.
www.mortonmarcus.com

PhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
2016-11-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
November’s PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling, meaningful, and impactful research can take. We will discuss what research looks like in non-traditional academic jobs, exploring the potential of collaborative projects, negotiating research time, and being an intellectual partner other people’s research.
Lunch will be served, as always.
Please RSVP below.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss:
possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Hahkyung Darline Kim
2016-11-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary”
How can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk focuses on the case of the Korean War whose language of antagonism and ideological conflict remains very much alive in Korean society today. I will present parts of MemoRandom, my most recent documentary project based on inconsistent accounts of events during the war involving an alleged communist family, and examine the potential to simulate the perception/ production of historical knowledge through artful mediations of interviews. The project explores the allegorical dimension of interviews- ‘indicated’ stories of/by the individual-as a historiographical tool in documentary.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

From Concept to Project: A Digital Mapping Workshop for Graduate Students with Yoh Kawano
2016-11-04 13:30 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
Are you developing a digital map but feel unsure about your next steps? Or, having trouble reconciling the complexity of spatial theory with the nuts-and-bolts of GIS?
Graduate students interested in mapping and integrating spatial thinking into their research should consider joining this workshop with Yoh Kawano. Kawano is the GIS Specialist at UCLA and a lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy. With a 14 year career in GIS, Kawano has contributed to projects for urban planning, emergency preparedness, disaster relief, volunteerism, archaeology, and the digital humanities. He is a co-author of Hypercities: Thick mapping in the digital humanities.
Our objective is to work through some of the challenges that arise when trying to bring complex topics to life as digital projects. During the workshop, Yoh Kawano will work with grad students to help identify and troubleshoot some of the hurdles that arise when planning and executing a map-based projecur objective is to work through some of the challenges that arise when trying to bring complex topics to life as digital projects.
*If you are interested in participating, send a 300-word description of the project you are currently developing to Rachel Deblinger. In this description, please indicate what stage the project is currently in, and a question or challenge related to your project that you would like to discuss in the workshop. If available, please include information about the project platform, data, or a project URL.
Yoh Kawano
Yoh Kawano came to Los Angeles and UCLA in 1995 after living across the globe, in 5 different countries. At UCLA he works at the GIS and Visualization Sandbox as a member of the Research Technology Group for the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), serving as the Campus GIS Coordinator. He has supervised projects in urban planning, emergency preparedness, disaster relief, volunteerism, archaeology, and the digital humanities. Current research and projects involve the geo-spatial web, visualization of temporal and spatial data, and creating systems that leverage social media and web services in conjunction with traditional information systems. In the fall of 2015, Yoh enrolled in the PhD program at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, where he is pursuing his research on how nuclear power plants transform communities. Yoh has co-authored “Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities”, published in 2014 via Harvard Press. Yoh has an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and a BA in Sociology from the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo.

Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
2016-11-09 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment in anti-Muslim campaigns.
Scott is Professor Emerita of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds
The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.
Fall 2016 Colloquium Dates
November 16 Robin Hunicke

The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
2016-11-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act.

Kent Wong is the director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches labor studies and ethnic studies. For more than 50 years, the UCLA Labor Center has played a critical role as a research, education, and policy center on work and labor. Kent previously worked as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union in Los Angeles, and was the first staff attorney for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, now Advancing Justice. Kent Wong served as the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, and the founding president of the United Association for Labor Education. He is co-chair of the California Speaker’s Commission on Labor Education, and is a vice-president of the California Federation of Teachers. Kent has published numerous books on immigrant workers, immigrant students, organizing, popular education, and the new U.S. labor movement. He frequently speaks at labor, civil rights, university, and student conferences in the United States as well as internationally. He has been involved in global labor initiatives in the Pacific Rim, including China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico and Central America. Kent Wong’s most recent publications are Dreams Deported – Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation, and Nonviolence and Social Movements, the Teachings of Rev. James L. Lawson Jr.

Living Writers: Peter Orner
2016-11-10 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Peter Orner is the author of two story collections, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories, and two novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. He has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award. and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Atlantic, and Best American Stories. Orner has received Guggenheim and Lannan Foundation Fellowships, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. A faculty member at San Francisco State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, he has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Montana, and Northwestern University. He lives in San Francisco and Bolinas, California.
Living Writers is an series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as film makers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there! For more details, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com
Readings sponsored by The Humanities Division, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc.

Clive Sinclair: "One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home"
2016-11-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Podcast:

“In my time I have seen many Shylocks …..
But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.”
Clive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth – a work in progress – is a collection of stories, each orbiting the Merchant of Venice. He lives in London with the artist Haidee Becker. On the 21st of October his article on the Ghetto and the performance of Merchant of Venice and the mock trial of Shylock vs Antonio presided over by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was published in the London Times Literary Supplement.
The Ghetto of Venice by Clive Sinclair
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Shakespeare Workshop, Literature Department, Center for Jewish Studies, and the Institute for Humanities Research

Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design, Art, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
2016-11-16 12:15 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play.
Hunicke is Associate Professor of Digital Arts & New Media at UC Santa Cruz.

The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies.

Marc Matera: "The Global 1930s: The International Decade"
2016-11-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture, but a Europe- and North American-centered view obscures and distorts the broader global context of which they were an integral part. A global perspective on the 1930s not only decenters Europe and the United States but also reveals that, despite incipient or resurgent expressions of the national principle, internationalist impulses and transnational connections better characterize the dynamics of the period.
This talk comes from the forthcoming book, The Global 1930s, which Professor Matera coauthored with Professor Susan Kingsley Kent. The book treats the 1930s as the international decade, focusing particularly on internationalism—as Western imperialists, socialists and communists, and anticolonial activists/intellectuals conceptualized it—to foregrounds the role that imperialism played in fostering global relations at the same time that it destabilized the European world order. Transcolonial connections and anticolonial internationalisms motivated, kindled, and inspired developments that set the stage for decolonization and movements for international standards for human and civil rights that are usually associated with the decades following the Second World War. Postwar conceptions of development, citizenship, and sovereignty, however attenuated, emerged through and in response to the struggles of colonized and semicolonial populations across the global South and in imperial metropoles during the 1930s.
Organized by the IHR Research Center for World History.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophie PappenheimBlack
2016-11-18 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru”
My project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations of postcolonial politics and instead attend to the nonrepresentational aspects of their language: namely, their affect and literariness. In this talk I focus on Bessie Head’s novella Maru (1971), which itself is concerned with identity, racial prejudice, and tribal politics, as well as representation as mode of signification and figuration, and which has often been read as an allegorical romance. I argue that reading the effect of the novel’s language against its symbolism troubles this allegory and thus appeals for a new mode of politics.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
2016-11-18 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA
Winter 2017
February 7: TBA
March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Spring 2016
April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz
April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale
May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
2016-11-29 11:40 - 13:15 | Rachel Carson College, Room 301, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years.

Sasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She is an alumnus of UCSC (BA in History and German Studies, 1997) and received her PhD in History from New York University. She has been living and working in Germany since 2008. Her research interests include the history of motorization, industrialization, business administration, and leisure. She currently lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
2016-11-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
The Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization, representation and analysis of spatial questions.
*Event will be hosted at the Digital Scholarship Commons at the McHenry Library ground level.
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Jordi Aladro "Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta"
2016-11-30 17:15 - 18:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Desde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha representado como espejo y reflejo de sus contradicciones.

Jordi Aladro-Font is a professor of Spanish literature in the Literature Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is most recently the author of Fray Blas y Verdú, San Raimundo de Peñafort y La Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2012) and Pedro de Chaves, Libro de la Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2009).

*This talk will be in Spanish.

WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
2016-12-01 12:20 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies.

AK Thompson
Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization
Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM 210; UCSC
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Friday, DECEMBER 2 | 6-8pm | SUB ROSA 703 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz
Since the visual turn in the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century, images have become important points of engagement both as objects and as modes of analysis. For this reason, along with its 50+ entries exploring the keywords used by contemporary activists, Keywords for Radicals (AK Press 2016) incorporates data visualization to show how the “vocabulary” shared by radicals constitutes a kind of self-supporting small world network.
Such visualizations can help readers to map how the project’s vocabulary “works” and how struggles over word usage and meaning might most effectively be carried out. But while data visualization of this kind can be useful, it also raises significant epistemological questions about the relationship between representation and what’s real.
In this presentation, Keywords for Radicals editor AK Thompson will discuss the theoretical and aesthetic foundations of the project’s data visualization in order to evaluate the promise and perils of this technique in the age of the infographic.
AK Thompson got kicked out of high school for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications include Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
2016-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Ecologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies, even or especially among more-than-human others dying because of human (in)action? I search for signs of resistant ‘world making’ (Munoz) in ephemeral moments where scientist were able to speak their grief at extinction and love for their study species, through three cases: (1) scientists’ field photos and captions circulated during a twitter #cuteoff, (2) my own encounters with dead salmon during ecological field studies, and (3) “Tell A Salmon Your Troubles,” an interactive performance in which scientist confessed their troubles about data, habitat loss, and extinction to a silent yet responsive salmon character. I explore resonance between queer and trans theory and indigenous theory that foregrounds multispecies ethics and relational practices, and consider how field ecologist can challenge settler ontologies and epistemologies embedded in scientific and environmental management practices.
Dr.Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is an ecologist, hydrologist, writer, and scholar of water, working with mentor Karen Barad to explore queer, transgender, and decolonial possibilities for ecological science. In July 2017, he will join the faculty of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle as Assistant Professor of Equity and Environmental Justice.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule:
October 13th: Sara Mameni, “Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”
November 3rd: Redi Koobak, “Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”
December 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, “Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”

Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
2016-12-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Fania Davis will discuss Restorative Justice origins, principles, practices, and critical issues, with a focus on the ongoing project in Oakland, California. She will address RJ’s origins in indigenous cosmology as well as its kinship with feminist and relational theory. The talk will also explore RJ’s intersections with abolitionism, #BlackLivesMatter, and movements to end sexual violence.

Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice 12.1.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz
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Fania Davis, Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)
About Fania: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) Executive Director, Fania Davis, is an African-American woman, long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice scholar and professor, and a civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge. Coming of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era, the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing crystallized within Fania’s passionate commitment to social transformation. For the next decades, she was active in the civil rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-racial violence and anti-apartheid movements. After receiving her law degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1979, Fania practiced almost 27 years as a civil rights trial lawyer. During the late 1990’s, she entered a Ph.D. program in indigenous studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and apprenticed with traditional healers around the globe, particularly in Africa. Fania has since taught Restorative Justice and Indigenous Peacemaking at graduate and undergraduate levels. Founding Director of RJOY, Fania has also served as counsel to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Honors include the Ubuntu Service to Humanity award, the Maloney award recognizing exceptional contributions in youth-based restorative justice, World Trust’s Healing Justice award. She was recently named by the Los Angeles Times as a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. Fania is also a mother, grandmother, dancer, and practitioner of yoga.

About the Peggy Downes Baskin Endowed Lecture in Ethics:
Peggy Downes Baskin, PhD is an author, university professor, photograph and philanthropist. She graduated from Vassar Magna cum laude in 1953. Thirty years later she earned a doctoral degree in politics from the Claremont Graduate school of Government. She went on to infuse her professional career at Santa Clara University and The University of California, Santa Cruz with her core interests, originating courses on The Politics of Aging, Women & Power, and Presidential Management Styles.
Peggy and her husband Jack Baskin generously endowed a humanities fund in honor of her longtime interest in ethical issues across the disciplines, the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics. “There are so many areas in which ethical problems arise—in journalism, politics, medicine—and the endowment emphasizes the need to address these issues in a cross-disciplinary context,” Peggy said.

PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
2016-12-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
The 9 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward.
IHR Public Fellows:
David Donley, Philosophy (Santa Cruz County Jail)
Kendra Dority, Literature (Public Scholar funded by IHR and UCHRI and associated with the UC Davis Mellon-funded program)
Ashley Herum, Literature (Santa Cruz Shakespeare)
Kara Hisatake, Literature (Japanese American Museum of San Jose)
Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature (California Humanities)
Katie Trostel, Literature (The Center for the Study of the Holocaust & Religious Minorities in Oslo)
Vivian Underhill, Feminist Studies (Northern Alaska Environmental Center)
Claire Urbanski, Feminist Studies (Arizona State Museum)
Taylor Wondergem, Feminist Studies (Cabrillo College)
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP below.

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PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss:
possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
2016-12-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing’s concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African Studies takes part in a half-day symposium on labor mobility and precarity with Alejandro Grimson of Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and Biao Xiang of the University of Oxford on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, at the Merrill Cultural Center.
Session II of Non-citizenship focuses on global labor mobility and rising precarity, two concepts that highlight the broad and tiered spaces between citizen and non-citizen and their consequences. Linking labor mobility and precarity and holding them in dynamic tension is the notion of denizenship (residence without citizenship). Precarity—the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion—is also central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens, something short of full members. They are differentially incorporated into host societies that desire their labor, but reject their presence. From Irish helots, to Chinese “coolies,” to Mexican Braceros, to Silicon Valley’s high-tech guest workers, mobile laborers with limited rights face new opportunities abroad, along with new forms of vulnerability, contingency, and expendability. Meanwhile, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of labor precarity as social rights (for example, education, health care, and retirement protection) and access to their benefits are increasingly privatized and made contingent.
*Steve McKay, Associate Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will moderate the seminar with Professor Paret.

Marcel Paret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah and Senior Research Associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research examines the politics of class formation and how they vary over time and across space. He is especially interested in globalization and marketization, race and migration, labor and social movements, protest and community politics, and the causes and consequences of precarity. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of “Politics of Precarity: Critical Engagements with Guy Standing,” a speical issue of Global Labor Journal (Vol. 7, No. 2 [2016]).
Steve McKay is an internationally renowned scholar of labor, migration, globalization, and race; and author of the award-winning Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands: The Politics of High-tech Production in the Philippines (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) and co-editor with Sukanya Bannerjee and Aims McGuinness of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana University Press, 2012). He is the principal investigator of Working for Dignity, a project on low-wage labor in Santa Cruz County, and is now working on a study of the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County. In addition to serving on the CLRC Steering Committee, he directs the Center for Labor Studies and is also a co-principal investigator of Non-citizenship.

Please make sure to register here by Monday November 21,2016.
Attendees are also asked to read the following essays prior to the seminar:
Guy Standing, “Denizens and the Precariat,” in A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 1-32.
Marcel Paret, “Politics of Solidarity and Agency in an Age of Precarity,” Global Labor Journal Vol. 7, No. 2 (2016): 174-188.
Judith Butler, “Performativity, Precarity and Sexual Politics,” AIBR Vol. 4, No. 3 (2009): 1-13.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
2016-12-02 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Writing Hawai’i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain’s Letter’s s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation”
This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai’i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in, and imaginings of, Hawai’i as a space for continuing expansion westward. In viewing the letters through the lens of cartography, their function as re-making Hawai’i into an American space by re-drawing the imagined boundaries of the US to extend to the islands highlights the importance of narrating place as an essential step in the violence of colonial inclusion via dis-recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty.

Friday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
October 14th- Mikki Stelder, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness
October 21st- Kali Rubaii, Anthropology
October 28th- Mitchell Winter, HAVC
November 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim, Film and Digital Media
November 18th- Sophi Pappenheim, Literature
December 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer, History

Michael Chabon: "Moonglow"
2016-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Telegraph Avenue) for an offsite book talk and signing of Moonglow, his first novel in four years.
Moonglow takes the form of a grandfather’s deathbed confession to his grandson and covers the course of the 20th century. It is a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure and the forces that work to destroy us.

“Chabon’s most beautifully realized novel to date …. a masterful and resounding novel of the dark and blazing forces that forged our tumultuous, confounding, and precious world.” —Booklist, starred review
“Luminous…. The story builds to core revelations of wartime horror and postwar heartbreak as powerful as they come.” —Library Journal, starred review
“With clean prose and a candid tone, Chabon narrates the questionable deathbed confession of a character referred to only as ‘my grandfather.’ Although the ratio of truth to fiction in this compelling tale may never be known, Moonglow is an engaging, existential adventure through the speculative past of an enigmatic figure.” –Aric, Bookshop staff

This special offsite event, cosponsored by UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research, will take place at Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz.
TICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $32.53, and include one copy of Moonglow and two tickets to the event. Purchase tickets below (or at Bookshop), while supplies last.
Purchase tickets at BookshopSantaCruz.com

The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
2017-01-09 17:30 - 19:30 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents
The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
The Land Beneath Our Feet, a film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman, follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights. In post-conflict Liberia, individuals and communities are pitted against multinational corporations, the government, and each other in life-threatening disputes over land. What can this ghostly footage offer a nation, as it debates radical land reforms that could empower communities to shape a more diverse, stable, and sustainable future?
The film showing will be followed by a conversation with Gregg Mitman & Donna Haraway.
RSVP Here
For more information, contact: mfernan3@ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by: Institute for Humanities Research, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Center for Creative Ecologies, Science and Justice Research Center, and Center for Emerging Worlds
Click here for Directions & Parking for the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)

Reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
January 10, 2017 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Humanities 1, Room 210

Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
2017-01-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
A reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman
We will read two chapters by Gregg Mitman and Faye Ginsburg from Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, edited by Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Documenting the World concerns the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Mitman’s chapter investigates the many lives of a 1926 Harvard expedition film shot in Liberia; Ginsburg’s chapter explores the repurposing of Nazi medical films by disability activists. Both chapters examine what can happen when colonial and totalitarian impulses to collect, classify, and control are repurposed by those whose ancestors were once the objects of that documentary gaze.
For the readings and more information, contact mfernan3@ucsc.edu

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon
2017-01-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Parenting Binary Trans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area
Soma de Bourbon, Lecturer, Feminist Studies
Parents feel urgency to mitigate the disproportionally high rates of depression and suicide among trans youth. There is evidence (Olson at al. 2016)that a gender-affirming environment can, in part, accomplish this. Many Bay Area families are gender supportive, but is the larger Bay Area? I think we need to address the marginalization of binary trans youth of color within the non-binary movement in the Bay Area. Although the landscape of infinite gender holds radical potential for many, it can shift, and in some cases has shifted, to a repressive space for some. As mother to a binary trans girl, I watch her live in a liminal space-occupying a duality: acceptance as feminized girl when she is stealth and rejection for cissimilation when she is “out.” Both the revolutionary potential of the struggle to unbind the binary, and its capacity to exclude individuals who pioneered its inception and continue to die for it each year, binary trans women of color, are issues I am interested in engaging.

Soma de Bourbon is an adjunct professor at SJSU, De Anza College, and UCSC. She received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC and her B.A. from the Ethics Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Soma’s heritage is Blackfeet and French, and she is the advisor to the Native American Student Organization at SJSU.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:
January 12th: Soma de Bourbon, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”
February 2nd: Mikki Stelder, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”
March 2nd: Omid Mohamadi, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”

Northern California High School Ethics Bowl
2017-01-14 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos: by Crystal Birns
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.

What is an Ethics Bowl?
The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues. According to Michael Steinmann, director of the Stevens Institute High School Ethics Bowl, the events promote intellectual, personal, and social growth. They deepen students’ understanding of the complexity of ethical issues; increase their sense of personal responsibility; and promote a model of rational, civil discourse so essential to functioning democracies.
During each round, a moderator poses a question to two teams composed of five students and the competition follows a predetermined format encompassing team order and time limitations. All teams receive the cases and questions in fall so that they can prepare their responses with their coaches. The panel of judges includes not only those with philosophy backgrounds but businesspeople, politicians, and members of various professions in the community to underscore the fact that ethics is not simply an academic subject. We will also invite the press to attend. Each team will have the opportunity to compete in several rounds to advance to the semifinals and then the championship round. The winners of the competition (and their schools) will receive special recognition.
The ethical dilemmas used in a high school ethics bowl range from those particularly relevant to young students (questions about cheating, plagiarism, peer pressure, use and abuse of social media, the right to privacy, relationship responsibilities) to political and social issues (free speech, gun control, eco-tourism) and bioethical issues (cloning, parental consent).
Schedule:
7:45-8:00am – Judge’s Check-In (Humanities Room 210)
8:00-8:45am – Team Check-In (Humanities Lecture Hall); Judge’s and Moderator’s Training
8:45-8:55am – Welcome
9:00-10:00am – Round 1
10:15–11:15am – Round 2
11:30-12:30pm – Round 3
12:30-1:45pm – Lunch
1:45-2:00pm – Announce Semi-Finalists
2:00-3:00pm – Semi-Final Round
3:15-4:15pm – Final Round
Northern California High School Ethics Bowl will take place on the UCSC campus on January 14, 2017.
Please contact Kyle Robertson at kxrobert@ucsc.edu for further information.

Susan Buck-Morss: "History as Translation"
2017-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses), and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way).
Susan Buck-Morss is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center and a Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History of Consciousness, Literature, and Politics

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future”
2017-01-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Susan Buck Morss, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia.
Cultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”
January 18th 12-1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210
Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses), and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way).

PhD+ Workshop Postponed
2017-01-20 11:00 - 12:30
This workshop has been postponed for April 2017.

Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
2017-01-22 16:00 - 18:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the:
Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Investiture Ceremony and Reception
College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz
Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served
RSVP HERE
RSVP by January 6, 2017
Questions? Contact Jessica Guild at (831) 459-1274 or jguild@ucsc.edu

HONOREES
Professor Murray Baumgarten

Professor Murray Baumgarten is a research professor of literature and distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at UC Santa Cruz. This chair honors Professor Baumgarten, the person most responsible for today’s thriving Jewish Studies program and for founding the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. In 1967, Professor Baumgarten co-founded the world-renowned Dickens Project, and ten years ago, with the help of the Helen Diller Family Foundation, he established the Jewish Studies program.

Professor Nathaniel Deutsch

As the director of the Center for Jewish Studies (CJS), Professor Nathaniel Deutsch is the inaugural chair holder of the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. He is a professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the director of the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research. His work focuses on the modern Jewish experience and its relationship to tradition.

Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception Investiture Ceremony 1.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo.
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Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
2017-01-24 11:40 - 13:15 | College 8, Room 301, College Eight Rd‎, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
As emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat due to the claimed necessity of extractivist development projects which impact the lives of all of our relations: human and more-than-human. In North America, energy extraction has accelerated processes of accumulation by dispossession, in a context of “light touch” regulation in which threats to water are scantily monitored, under-regulated, and under-reported, creating new and significant breaches of Indigenous rights.
Tuesday, January 24th from 11:40-1:15 in the Rachel Carson College room 301.
Our collective is beginning a large, seven year research project (decolonizingwater.ca) through which we are creating Indigenous-led water monitoring systems embedded in Indigenous water laws, as an expression of Indigenous self-governance. This raises a series of questions about the desirability and possibility of decolonizing water science; resurgent Indigenous self-governance in Canada’s north; the challenges posed to the nation-state by legal pluralism and parallel governance structures. More broadly, our initiative unfolds within the set of possibilities opened up by big data and eco-informatics in the Anthropocene, in which “Wiring Gaia” creates new openings for science, democratic decision-making, and Indigenous self-determination in Canada’s North. How might an “Internet of Earthlings” be co-constituted, and what possibilities (and pitfalls) might it create for all of our relations?
Bio: Dr. Karen Bakker is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia (www.watergovernance.ca). She is currently the midwife (aka Principal Investigator) to a research collective of Indigenous community members, academics, artists, activists who are striving to decolonize water in both theory and practice (www.decolonizingwater.ca). A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford, Karen is trained in both the natural and social sciences. She currently works at the intersection of political economy and political ecology, and publishes on a wide range of environmental issues (water, hydropower, food, energy).
Co-sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene and the Science and Justice Research Center.

Emily Mitchell-Eaton: "What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands"
2017-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites of diaspora where imperial migrants resettle, exposing new racial formations, modes of (un)belonging, and immigrant solidarities.
Emily Mitchell-Eaton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Non-citizenship, LALS/Chicano Latino Resource Center at UCSC.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
2017-01-26 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Wayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His essays and poetry have appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Artforum, The Paris Review, Harper’s, The Believer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Cabinet, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Koestenbaum has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (Los Angeles), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. He has given musical performances at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, The Kitchen, REDCAT, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art; his first piano/vocal solo record, Lounge Act, will be issued by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017. He wrote the libretto for Michael Daughterty’s opera Jackie O, which has been performed around the world and has been released on DVD by Dynamic Italy. Winner of a Whiting Award, Koestenbaum has taught at Yale (in the English department as well as in the School of Art’s painting department), and is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
2017-01-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
American Philanthropy and “Aggressive Altruism” in Richard Wright’s Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias’ The Green Pope
My dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of the United States’ rise as a global superpower in the twentieth century. For this presentation, I will present an excerpt of a chapter that considers how philanthropy permeates representations of hemispheric American relationships in the interwar period. I read Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) and Miguel Angel Asturias’s El Papa Verde (1952) that center the “Black Metropolis” as the financial engine of the United States and the nucleus of transnational corporate expansion.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
2017-02-01 09:30 - 11:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work in the humanities into statements, programs, and publications that engage a wider public. Readings include texts by Hannah Arendt, Leonard Cassuto, and William Shakespeare.
Space is limited: Twelve seats are available.
Humanities 1- Room 210
9:30am-11:30am
For more information contact Sean Keilen at keilen@ucsc.edu
Workshop Readings:
Arendt, Crisis in Education (1954)
Cassuto, In Search of an Ethic
Shakespeare Readings

Regina Kunzel: "In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality"
2017-02-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, stigma, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality.
Regina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
2017-02-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities
Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar
In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists have engaged with PQBDS’ call and conditions of possibility within which responses emerged. Secondly, I discuss an event that undermined the logics of settler colonialism and sexual imperialism in Israel/Palestine: In 2011, three Palestinian queer groups engaged in email conversation with the International Gay and Lesbian Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO) about its decision to host its General Assembly in Tel Aviv. IGLYO went ahead with its plans, but invited the groups to a public debate with an Israeli LGBT group cohosting the GA. The Palestinian groups refused and then publicized their email correspondence with IGLYO. Viewing these decisions as a politics of refusal, I ask what other practices endure under Israeli occupation and alter the terms of Israel/Palestine engagement.

Mikki Stelder is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is a visiting scholar at UCSC in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department under the auspices and guidance of Gina Dent. She also teaches Feminist and Postcolonial Critique to choreography students at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:
January 12th: Soma de Bourbon, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”
February 2nd: Mikki Stelder, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”
March 2nd: Omid Mohamadi, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”

Christopher Newfield: "After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration"
2017-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in every arena? Newfield argues that universities should use this period to rebuild their public purpose from the ground up, with special attention to the non-college voters that allegedly turned the election towards Donald J. Trump.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Santa Cruz Faculty Association.

Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
2017-02-02 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz.
Matthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UCSC, where he teaches creative writing and French courses. His published work has appeared in The French Translator’s Quarter. As a writer he has certain formalist tendencies, one of which is to occasionally exist in the third person. He attempts to balance this out through his research on fascism, orality, and life in France’s Third Republic.
Kendall Grady is a poet!scholar working the couplet as microsystem– contact zone– associative monad– elective affinity– allocentrism– affective capillary– baroque structure of intimacy. Selected poems livewith Jupiter 88, Dusie, and The Atlas Review.
Courtney Kersten’s essays can be seen or are forthcoming from River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, The Master’s Review and elsewhere. She was the 2016 writer-in-residence at the Great Basin Writer’s Residency and was a Fulbright Fellow in Riga, Latvia where she researched nonfictional theater and literature. She is currently a PhD student in Literature, Creative Writing, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jared Joseph is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Literature at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Recent poems have been published in Fence, Noo Journal, and Company. Jared Joseph and Sara Peck’s collaborative book here you are is available from Horse Less Press, while Drowsy. Drowsy Baby is forthcoming from Entropy Press in 2017
Jose Antonio akterial, 2012). In 2008 he created the AMLT project (www.amltproject.com), which seeks to explore hypertext literature and alternative media forwriting through collective authorship. The project was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book, titled “open pit”, is forthcoming from AUB in 2016. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California in San Diego.
Kirstin Wagner is a writer and teacher living in Santa Cruz, CA. Her creative work is published/forthcoming in Bombay Gin Literary Journal, Gesture Literary Journal, and Something on Paper. She has taught creativewriting at Naropa University, Indiana University, U.C. Santa Cruz, and in the Boulder public school system. She is currently a PhD student in the Literature Department at UC-Santa Cruz.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017

Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.

Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public

January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
2017-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies
California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought, regulation of methane emissions from cows, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies, and future implementation of more robust framework labor laws. These converging pressures challenge the industrial mode of dairy production utilized by many California dairies, and may pave a path toward sustainable transformation. In this talk I focus on whose interests are represented as this heavily industrialized sector responds to social and environmental pressures, and what this means for future sustainability of the sector.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang
2017-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, focuses on precarity, labor mobility, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant, as opposed to a full citizen), concepts that highlight the tiered and sometimes overlapping spaces between citizen and non-citizen. Juan Poblete will moderate the seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang as they discuss migrants, denizens, and the precariat in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This seminar, while self-standing and based on pre-circulated readings, is meant in preparation for our symposium, “Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale,” to be held Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 12:00-5:30pm, at the Stevenson Event Center.

Please check back to access the pre-circulated readings.

Lunch will be served.

Please register here prior to attending the seminar.

Alejandro Grimson, an expert on south-south migration, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of many books, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina, 2011), winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year.
Juan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature, nation and nationalism, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin, Palgrave, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez, Palgrave, 2016).
Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, is a scholar of labor, globalization, citizenship, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializes in labor, migration, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press, 2007), Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press, 2013).

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
2017-02-07 12:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Event Center
Event Videos:

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo.

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo.

Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo.

Event Photos:
If you have trouble viewing above images, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
This symposium explores how global labor mobility and rising precarity affect and connect the experiences of citizens and non-citizens. Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens—residents or inhabitants who are not quite full members of society. They are incorporated into societies that desire their labor, but reject their very presence. Meanwhile, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of vulnerability as social rights, such as education, health care, and retirement, are increasingly privatized, made contingent, or dissolved altogether. In such contexts, a majority of British voters demand Brexit and Donald Trump is elected president with the mandate to “make America great again.”
To prepare for this symposium, Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang will take part in a seminar on labor mobility and precarity on Monday, February 6, 12:00-2:00, in Humanities 1, Room 210.

Please register here prior to attending the February 7th symposium.

Symposium Schedule:
12:00-12:20pm – Lunch
12:20-1:50pm – Guy Standing (School of Oriental & African Studies): “The Precariat: The New Denizens” + Q&A
1:50-2:05pm – Coffee break
2:05-3:35pm – Alejandro Grimson (Universidad Nacional de San Martín): “The Waste Product of Globalization’s Party” + Q&A
3:35-3:50pm – Coffee break
3:50-5:20pm – Biao Xiang (University of Oxford): “The Other Precariat: Notes from Asia” + Q&A

Speakers:
Alejandro Grimson, an expert on south-south migration, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of many books, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina, 2011), winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year.
Juan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature, nation and nationalism, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin, Palgrave, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez, Palgrave, 2016).
Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, is a scholar of labor, globalization, citizenship, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializes in labor, migration, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press, 2007), Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers, 2005), and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press, 2013).

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

"The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India"
2017-02-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present:
Dr. Sareeta Amrute

“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
Works-In-Progress Seminar
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
2-4pm
Humanities 1, Room 402
Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper

“adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora”
Colloquium
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
3:15- 5:00pm
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Dr. Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the university of Washington, Seattle. Her scholarship investigates personhood and labor within technological capital and throughout the South Asia diaspora. She is particularly interested in how race and class are reviews and remade in sites of new economy work, such as coding and software economies, and her first book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin was published in Fall 2016 by Duke University Press.

Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
2017-02-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Academic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors:
Professor Sandra Chung

“Language Through the Lens of Diversity.”
The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design–universal characteristics that make language acquisition possible. Are these views challenged by the great diversity of the world’s languages? In this talk, Sandra Chung explores this question from the perspective of Chamorro, an understudied language spoken in Micronesia. She suggests that while language diversity is real, language universals emerge when ‘small’ languages are investigated in the same depth as first-world languages.

About the Faculty Research Lecture: The Faculty Research Lecture started in 1967. Lecturers are nominated by the Committee on Faculty Research Lecture based on a distinguished record in research and asked to deliver a lecture upon a topic of their choice.

Camillo Gomez-Rivas: "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier"
2017-02-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions, the project is based on readings of multiple sources, including Arabic, Castilian, and Catalan legal, historiographical, and literary sources.
Camillo Gomez-Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
2017-02-08 15:15 - 17:00 | Social Sciences 1, Room 261, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
2017-02-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank
Dana Frank is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Bananeras:Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, among other books. Since the 2009 coup her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Review, Politico Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, The Nation, The Baffler, Jacobin, and elsewhere, and she has been interviewed by the New Yorker, Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press, National Public Radio, BBC World News, ABC/Fusion, and regularly for Democracy Now!

Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: "Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education"
2017-02-08 17:15 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents
Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen
Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education
Wednesday, February 8
210 Humanities Bldg 1
5:15PM
Light refreshments will be served
The talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of vocabulary and grammar rules, sometimes or even often without the knowledge of how to make appropriate use of this information in actual communicative situations. The talk will highlight certain specific areas in TL pragmatics that are teachable but often neglected in TL instruction, as well as some of the challenges involved in teaching this information. The talk will also include brief comment regarding the assessment of the pragmatics that is taught and strategies for students in the learning and performance of pragmatics. The speaker has been studying his 12th TL (Mandarin) for the last five years, so he can speak from experience about pragmatic failures.

Benjamin Jealous: 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
2017-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Please join us
Speaker: Benjamin Jealous
Civil and human rights leader, former NAACP president, venture capitalist, and author
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017, 7 p.m.
Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public.
The 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Benjamin Jealous, Civil and human rights leader, former NAACP president, venture capitalist, and author.
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the former president and CEO of the NAACP. He recently joined the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kapor Capital, where he plans to continue his goal of growing opportunities for minorities in the tech economy.
A Rhodes Scholar, Jealous was named by both Fortune and TIME magazines to their “Top 40 under 40” lists, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
The youngest president in NAACP history, he began his career at age 18 opening mail at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and end mass incarceration.
Under his leadership, the NAACP grew to be the largest civil rights organization online and on mobile, and became the largest community-based nonpartisan voter registration operation in the country.
Prior to leading the NAACP, he spent 15 years as a journalist and community organizer.
Jealous currently teaches graduate courses on civil rights, social entrepreneurship, and leadership at Princeton University and is also a regular commentator on MSNBC.
More information at: specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han
2017-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 – 1965
My research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China (1945-1976) was devoid of environmental consciousness or concern with environmental protection, and places Chinese policy in the context of the international development of environmental consciousness during that time. It will show the ways in which early Mao-Era Chinese scientists actively participated in and were influenced by the global discussion of pollution, extinction, natural conservation, and biodiversity. It also traces incipient state-initiated conversation policies in the early 1960s. I will explore the ways in which center- periphery tensions and the role of local indigenous people reflected and altered state-initiated conversation policy, which led to a devastating loss of biodiversity in Heilongjiang province.

Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries
2017-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz

UC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Series
Cowell College and the Institute for Humanities Research Present
Waves Passing in the Night
Monday, February 13, 7 p.m.
Followed by dessert reception and book signing
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal, Walter Murch, a three-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor, and author Lawrence (Ren) Weschler (Cowell ’74), with astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz for a conversation on astrophysics, harmony, and boundaries.

$10 ticket includes parking in the Performing Arts lot. Free admission for Students who register.
Ren Weschler’s book on Walter Murch, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the land of Astrophysics,” releases in January 2017. Murch is a 3-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor with an interest in astrophysics. As a consummate outsider, Murch had a hard time attracting any sort of comprehensive hearing from professional astrophysicists. However, Murch has made advances that even some of them find intriguing, including a connection between Titius Bode and earlier notions–going back past Kepler and Pythagorus–of musical harmony in the heavens.
“It is controversy that brings science alive.”
– Lee Smolin, theoretical physicis
Brought to you by Cowell College, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, and Film & Digital Media Department.
Questions? UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office. Specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831)459-5003
About the book – Waves Passing in the Night
From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe. Click here for more information.

About the Speakers:
Walter Murch
Murch has been a Hollywood sound editor for over 45 years, and has worked with such names as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. He has won three Academy Awards—one for his work on Apocalypse Now (Best Sound) and two for The English Patient (Best Sound and Best Film Editing).

Lawrence (Ren) Weschler
A graduate of Cowell College (1974), Weschler was a staff writer for over twenty years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998).

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Ramirez-Ruiz is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions, gamma-ray bursts and accretion phenomena. Ramirez-Ruiz is one of the seven international scholars selected this year for the Niels Bohr Professorship Program, which aims to attract top international researchers to Danish Universities. He leads the international research collaboration in theoretical astrophysics and splits his time between UC Santa Cruz and the University of Copenhagen.

Reading Seminar on Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
2017-02-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
We will read and discuss Gary Wilder’s recent book, Freedom Time. Reading the whole book is encouraged and copies of the book are available at the Literary Guillotine. If you need to focus on a few chapters, please read Chapter 1, 5, 6 & 9 (email sjetha@ucsc.edu for PDFs of those chapters)

Gary Wilder: "Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth"
2017-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Gary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism.”
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French; and Director, Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
2017-02-16 09:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
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This conference invites graduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs of all stakeholders–from students to WASC.
New Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kara Taczak, Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, will deliver the keynote and a half-day workshop on her award-winning “Teaching for Transfer” curriculum. Her research centers on the transfer of knowledge and practices. Her current project, The Transfer of Transfer Project, examines the efficacy of the Teaching for Transfer curriculum in multiple courses across multiple institutional sites. This research is the second phase of the study described in her co-authored book, Writing Across Contexts, which was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Impact award and the 2016 Council of Writing Program Administrators Book Award. Taczak’s other publications have appeared in Composition Forum, Teaching English in a Two-Year College, and Across the Disciplines.
Click here to Register
Schedule:
8:45-9:10: Coffee and Pastries
9:10-9:30: Opening Remarks
Herbie Lee, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor
Heather Shearer, Writing Program Chair
Tonya Ritola, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator
9:30-10:00: Keynote Address: Kara Taczak, “Teaching for Transfer: Shifting from How to What”
10:00-10:10: Break
10:10-11:00: Graduate Student Panel
Facilitator: Veronica Flanagan, Writing Program Faculty
Elizabeth Goldman, Psychology, “Make Your Course More than Just a Graduation Requirement: Teaching Transferable Skills in Your Classroom”
Lindsay Weinberg, History of Consciousness,”Rhetorics of Censorship: A Transferrable Interdisciplinary Pedagogy”
Heather Schlaman, Education, “Analysis of Education: Teaching Students About Writing through the Study of Schooling”
Lara Galas, Literature, “Engaged Pedagogy and Teaching for Transfer: Helping Students Re-Member Themselves Through Writing”
Kylie Kenner, Education, “Utilizing Everyday Genres to Scaffold Writing in New Disciplines”
11:00-11:10: Break
11:10-12:00: Staff and Faculty Panel
Facilitator: Tonya Ritola
Anna Sher, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies, “Learning Outcomes Assessment of Written Communication Skills: Methods and Results”
Terry Terhaar, Writing Program, “Transfer of Knowledge and Practice Across Multiple Writing Contexts: A Key Term Perspective”
Deborah A. Murphy and Kenneth Lyons, University Library, “Laying the Groundwork for Disciplinary Communication: Library Information Literacy Tools for Writing Students”
12:00-1:00: Lunch in Humanities 1, Room 202
1:10-2:45: Interactive Workshop: Kara Taczak, “Key Terms and a Reflection Framework: How to Encourage Successful Transfer”
2:45-3:00: Closing Remarks
Tonya Ritola, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator
Sponsors:
Institute for Humanities Research, Division of the Humanities, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, University Library, Division of Student Success, Division of Undergraduate Education, Division of Graduate Studies, and the Writing Program.

Living Writers: Laura Mullen
2017-02-16 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject, Dark Archive, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and has been a frequent visitor to the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work is included in American Hybrid and Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) as well as other anthologies; recent poems have appeared in The Nation and Poetry. An essay on using Gertrude Stein in the creative writing classroom is included in the forthcoming anthology Approaches to Teaching Stein. Her collaboration with the composer Nathan Davis, “Ask,” will be performed at Princeton in 2017. She is the McElveen Professor in English at Louisiana State University.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
2017-02-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics
Are you interested in learning more about how graduate training in the humanities can lead to successful and intellectually stimulating careers in consulting? Consulting is an expansive and evolving field, one that many values-driven PhDs are currently shaping by challenging organizational tenets based on profit-motive. PhD alumni in Philosophy Ben Roome and Jake Metcalf discuss how their doctorates prepared them to become independent and influential consultant-scholars in the fields of data analysis and management, (educational) technology, and applied ethics. They’ll also address the ways in which their experiences as UCSC PhDs continue to influence the type of work they accept, seek out, and perform, and how such decisions influence their career trajectories in general. Jacob (Jake) Metcalf is a consultant and independent scholar specializing in data and technology ethics. Ben Roome is an entrepreneur, an ed tech and data ethics consultant, a researcher and data analyst.

Lunch will be served, as always.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya
2017-02-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation
The Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also, contained behind the Wall that Israel erected, populate a space of physical, social, and cultural isolation. The Wall severs communities, people’s access to services, livelihoods and religious and cultural amenities. It fragments not only the land, but also the very social fabric of the Palestinian people.
In search for a landscape of hope, Yulia Gilichinskaya through her research and artwork looks for way to subvert the walls and barriers, address the issue of separation, and to amend the dictated borders imposed on the Palestinians.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project
2017-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the Digital Humanities working group for a presentation about 3D Modeling, Digital Humanities, and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn more about Digital Humanities and how 3D modeling can be integrated into your teaching.

Sturt Manning: "Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East"
2017-02-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Presents:

Professor Sturt Manning
Department of Classics, Cornell University

Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East: Creating an Independent, Robust and Precise Timeframe for Archaeology and History
Professor Manning will discuss his efforts to combine radiocarbon (C14) and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) to rewrite the chronologies of the civilizations of the Bronze and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. His original and fundamental work has forced a reassessment of some of the linchpin events of this period, including the famous eruption of the Santorini volcano (which some scholars had linked to the end of the Minoan civilization) and the chronology of Mesopotamia.

Sturt Manning is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. He is internationally known for his work in archaeological science, above all in dendrochronology and radiocarbon chronology. He has published many articles and books, including A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid Second Millennium BC (second edition 2014).

Open to the public. Refreshments will be at 4:30 p.m. and a reception will follow the lecture.

For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

I Am Not Your Negro - Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2017-02-21 19:10 - 22:00 | Del Mar Theatre
I Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin.
Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th.
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, which was to be a revolutionary, personal account of three assassinated leaders who were also his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Sometimes in April, Lumumba) envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Using only Baldwin’s words, either spoken by the man himself or read by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material, Peck has crafted a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. I Am Not Your Negro is a poetic, eloquent and thought-provoking journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter; it is a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
Panel:
Brenda J. Griffin, President, NAACP Santa Cruz
David Anthony, Professor of History, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC
Ronaldo Wilson, Professor of Literature & Creative Writing, UCSC
Vicki Fabbri, Communication Studies, Cabrillo College
Michael Pebworth, Professor of History, Cabrillo College
Film screening begins at 7:10pm, with a panel discussion following at 9pm. Admission to the film includes the panel. Please save your ticket stubs!
Click here for ticket information
Co-Sponsored by:
NAACP Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research, Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Rick Prelinger: "Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points"
2017-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians.
Rick Prelinger is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC; Founder of Prelinger Archives; and board member of Internet Archive.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
2017-02-22 15:30 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina:
A Talk by Héctor Hoyos
Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales, discutiendo obras críticas de Ericka Beckman y Fernando Ortiz, así como el cuento “Historia de un computador” del chileno Alejandro Zambra y el policial Coltán del español Alberto VásquezFigueroa.

Héctor Hoyos es Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Culturas Iberoamericanas
de la Universidad de Stanford. Es autor de Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin
American Novel (Columbia University Press, 2015). Ha sido becario de la Fundación
Humboldt en Berlín y prepara el manuscrito Things with a History: Transcultural
Materialism in Latin America.

Note: This talk will be in Spanish.

Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
2017-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Kresge Town Hall
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo.
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The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult, often traumatic, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of struggle, oppression, violence, and silence. Digital content has connected these museums to audiences beyond Washington and created opportunities for synthesis, remembrance and reflection.
Join us for a discussion between Angel Nieves (consultant for the “Power of Place” exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Michael Berenbaum (project director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) about building museums, engaging the public, and representing difficult memories on the Washington Mall. They will examine the role of museums in today’s post-fact world and the potential for digital tools to reimagine how museums speak to their audiences.
This event is free and open to the public.
Click here for directions to Kresge Town Hall
Parking attendants will be selling $4 permits in the Core West parking lot. Anyone with an ADA placard should park in lot 142 behind Kresge College.
Co-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster, and Digital Scholarship Commons, with support from the Koret Foundation.

Dark Deleuze in the Dark
2017-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today’s world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.”
“Dark Deleuze in the Dark” is a conceptual conversation conducted in the dark with Professor Culp that addresses themes from his work on interruption, un-becoming, and escape. In our age of ubiquitous connectivity, joy, and self-disclosure, how might darkness help us to cast a line to the outside? As Culp argued in a recent interview, “A revolution that emerges from the darkness holds the apocalyptic potential of ending the world as we know it.”
This event is organized by INTERVAL and hosted by OpenLab with support from Film & Digital Media, Digital Arts & New Media, and the Arts Division at UCSC. INTERVAL is a space dedicated to interdisciplinary play and experimentation of art practice and scholarship.
Refreshments provided.
Andrew Culp is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas, Dallas.

Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier
2017-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Ruth Mostern

Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years, environmental scientists and historians have converged on a set of insights about the timing and processes that brought about these changes. All of the evidence confirms that the primary cause of upstream erosion and downstream flooding was the intensification of human activity in the grasslands of the Ordos basin, the loess soil region contained within the great bend of the Yellow River. This paper introduces environmental science research about the long history of human impacts on the loess plateau during the entire Holocene. In addition it uses historical sources, spatial analysis and soil science to focus particular particular attention on the northern and western Ordos region during the eleventh century, explaining why these decades created a tipping point in social and ecological life in north China.

Lunch will be provided.

Susanna Schellenberg "Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity"
2017-02-23 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract:
I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This is a radical view, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual consciousness is analyzed in terms of (sensory awareness relations to) peculiar entities, such as, phenomenal properties, external mind-independent properties, propositions, sense-data, qualia, or intentional objects.
About:
Susanna Schellenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and an Executive Council Faculty Member of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Her work focuses on a range of topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She is particularly interested in the nature of perceptual content, the epistemic role of perceptual experience, and mental capacities.

Living Writers: Micah Perks
2017-02-23 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More details and work at micahperks.com.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
2017-02-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Its Ok, We’re Safe Here”: Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$)
Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, political, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$), highlights how social inequalities experienced every day in Aboriginal communities are inseparable from environmental destruction. Both issues are intertwined in Australia’s colonial history; due to the centrality of landscape and environment in Aboriginal worldviews and identities, the destruction of the former necessarily impacts the latter. Windjarrameru responds to this colonial legacy by subverting ethnographic representations of Aboriginal peoples and the Australian landscape, while the role of ancestral spirits makes visible the impact of mining on the living beings in this landscape.
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Grad Slam
2017-02-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work.
The contest is open to all graduate students.
Register and upload your video here.
Finalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on
February 24 at 5:30 p.m.
in the Music Center Recital Hall.
This event is free and open to the public.
A panel of judges will choose first-place and runner-up winners, and the audience will vote for a people’s choice winner. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held May 4, 2017, at LinkedIn, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2016 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the winner of that competition.

Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: "Streetopia and Beyond"
2017-02-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies Presents:
Streetopia and Beyond
A Talk by Eric Lyle
3-5 pm
Monday, February 27
Humanities 1, 210
What does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era, cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have rushed to reassure that their governments intend to oppose new restrictive federal immigration policies and to reinforce these cities’ status as Sanctuary Cities. But as homeless sweeps and evictions continue to endanger communities of working class and people of color, we have to ask what does “sanctuary” mean in the era of rampant displacement? Author Erick Lyle suggests the path to resisting Trump Administration policies lies in doubling down on existing anti-gentrification efforts and organizing on a hyperlocal basis to seize community control of development, housing, planning, and utilities. Join Lyle for a discussion of the possibilities for resistance in neighborhood organizing and for a look at the author’s work on Streetopia, a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in San Francisco in 2012, and brought together residents of the city’s Tenderloin with over a hundred artists and activists to actualize mutual aid-based community projects and to consider utopian aspiration for the city.
Erick Lyle is a writer, curator, musician, and underground journalist. His work has appeared in Art in America, Vice, California Sunday Magazine, Huck, LA Weekly, Brooklyn Rail, and on NPR’s This American Life. Since 1991, he has written, edited, and published the influential punk/activist/art/crime magazine, SCAM, and he was a frequent contributor to the arts and literary section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has played on some 30 records by at least a dozen bands. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Hillary Angelo: "Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the 'Green Screen'"
2017-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning.
Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 8th: Akash Kumar

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
2017-03-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference
Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies
My talk centers on the Irania women’s movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign’s central text, The Effect of Laws on Women’s Lives, and activists’ testimonies, I show how the Iranian women’s movement appeals to (and also challenges) multiple sites simultaneously, and highlight and critique scholars who subscribe to a shared historical narrative suggesting that the current unity between secular and religious feminists is evidence that the women’s movement has superseded a century of internecine conflict and possibly ideology itself. One must also look at the internal logic of rights themselves and their ability to either imperil or strengthen social movements. I argue that two central facets of rights coupled with two historical development after the 1979 Revolution are responsible for the recent rights-based activism of Iranian feminist, and conclude by thinking through the politics of difference within the movement, especially claims of radical alterity that fray when confronted with the complex relationship between secularism and religion.

Omid Mohamadi earned his Ph.D. in Politics at UCSC with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Focusing on contemporary Iran, his research utilizes feminist and political theory to explore interrelated questions on religion, secularism, gender, rights, the state, art, and social movements.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:
January 12th: Soma de Bourbon, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”
February 2nd: Mikki Stelder, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”
March 2nd: Omid Mohamadi, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”

Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
2017-03-02 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed “institutions,” e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that people are sometimes unable to justify their moral evaluations and that such evaluations are sensitive to factors presumed morally irrelevant. In this talk, I will argue that these studies have a number of methodological and theoretical limitations. Research without these limitations, for instance on responses to so-called trolley dilemmas, indicates that reasoning plays important roles when individuals make moral judgments. Furthermore, this research suggests a realistic view of moral reasoning that is not premised on the dichotomy between reasoning and emotional reactions.
About:
Audun Dahl is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates early moral development. One line of work deals with the emergence of infant helping behavior and a second line deals with how young children acquire an aversion to harming others. His research combines naturalistic and experimental methods to study how infants’ everyday social interactions contribute to these developments.

The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
2017-03-03 - 2017-03-04 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Friday, March 3
Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts,  Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives”
11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The Army during the Algerian War in France through the Fortress Montluc”
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon
1:30 Lia Brozgal, French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, “‘Heureux les kabyles blonds’: Reading Race in the October 17 Archive”
3:00 Break
3:15 Alma Heckman, History and Jewish Studies, UCSC, “The Rights and Obligations of Divorce: Jews and Moroccan Independence”
4:45 Concluding Remarks
6:00 Dinner
Saturday, March 4
Andalusī Musical Traditions of the Western Mediterranean (The Spain-North Africa Project)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Rachel Colwell, Music, University of California, Berkeley, “al-Jaww al-Malouf al-Tounsi, an Acoustemology of Listening”
10:30 Jonathan Glasser, Anthropology, College of William and Mary, “The Problem of Muslim-Jewish Musical Borderlands at Algeria’s Spanish-Ottoman Frontier”
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon
1:00 Chris Silver, History, University of California, Los Angeles, “Marching (and Waltzing) toward Independence: North African Jewish Musicians at Mid-Century”
2:30 Break
2:45 Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Al-Andalus in the Musical World of the Medieval Mediterranean”
4:15 Brain-Storming Session on Follow-up
5:00 End!

Contact:
Camilo Gómez-Rivas
831.205.9001
cgomezri@ucsc.edu
Funded by:
University of California Humanities Research Institute  (UCHRI) Faculty Working Group grant and the Institute for Humanities Research

The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
2017-03-03 10:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
Friday March 3, 2017
Humanities 2, Room 359
UC Santa Cruz
The event is free and open to the public
During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the advent of electrical sound recording, and the spread of the radio broadcasting gramophone records generated new spaces and modalities of cultural circulation and political discourse. Port cities around the globe, in particular, produced hybrid musical forms that inspired imitators and innovators elsewhere. From the end of World War I to the present, new telecommunications technologies have served as instruments of power, means of manufacturing consent, and media of political and commercial colonization, while vernacular musics and recordings of political speeches and sermons have carried insurgent, otherworldly visions in opposition to empire. While textuality, printed media, and visual culture conventionally receive more attention, this daylong conference foregrounds soundscapes and the anticolonial audiopolitics of the Global South.
10:00 AM
Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) – Opening Remarks
10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Alejandra Bronfman (University of British Columbia)
“Drums, Mines, Coils, Voices: Histories of Media and Materiality”
– Discussion Comments by Katherine Gordy (San Francisco State University)
12:15 PM-1:30PM Lunch
1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Michael Denning (Yale University)
“‘A Noisy Heaven and a Syncopated Earth’: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music”
– Discussion Comments by Eric Porter (UC Santa Cruz)
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Closing Roundtable with Michael Denning, Alejandra Bronfman, Eric Porter, and David Anthony (UC Santa Cruz)
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
2017-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy
This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of “creative ecologies of practice” enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are imaginative and speculative, require resonance and creative response, and include practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics to foster sites of refuge, sites of agency and cities response-ablitiy. They enable collaborative inquires into urgent social, political and ecological challenges, exploring elements that help to activate, integrate and support collaborative endeavors that challenge current (neoliberal capitalistic) representations, foster (multi species) agency and create new knowledge(s).
Friday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:20-2pm
Humanities 1 Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 27, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis, Literature
February 03, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger, Environmental Studies
February 10, 2017: Kyuhyun Han, History
February 17, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya, Film & Digital Media
February 24, 2017: Maggie Wander, HAVC
March 3, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris, HAVC

Improvised Shakespeare
2017-03-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Center Stage, Downtown Santa Cruz
Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, “Improvised Shakespeare,” at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The players describe the performance this way: “​Shakespeare’s stories take place in a tumultuous world full of unrequited love, treachery, passion, war, mistaken identity, political intrigue and, sometimes, magic. In our shows, we strive to inhabit that world and to play characters who go through similar adventures and emotions. We don’t know in advance if the show will be a romantic comedy or a tragedy, or some of both. But we do know that it will be completely improvised. Each show is unique, the audience joining us on the journey to discover what story lies in wait for our merry players…huzzah!”

Acting Improvisation Workshop
2017-03-05 12:30 - 18:30
On Sunday, March 5, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop, focussing on Shakespeare, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way “This workshop is a journey into the language and spirit of improvised Shakespeare. The beauty and poetry of the language will be explored, while at the same time we will emphasize simplicity and above all communication.”
Registration/Information,. email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu

Slow Seminar on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene
2017-03-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
2016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS
RACE, VIOLENCE, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and animal domestication, and to more recent histories of European colonialism, transatlantic slavery and capitalism. Via a year-long slow seminar and a series of public events, we hope to enrich conversations about the Anthropocene – as term, concept, and historical era – by bringing together diverse bodies of scholarship, in particular decolonial and postcolonial theory. This re-politicizes the Anthropocene as an object of study, making race and empire, capitalism and colonialism, and social inequality and violence central to the story of ecological transformation.
SEMINAR 2:
Tuesday March 7th, 1-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 408
Seminar readings:
Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2016)
NB: We will be reading the whole book. Copies have been ordered at the Literary Guillotine and can be purchased there.
Sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene

IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1
2017-03-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS
Deadline: April 30, 2017
Amount: Up to $5,000
Number of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds)
These fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below.
Before applying, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below:
Session I. March 8, 10am, Humanities 1, Room 202
Session II. March 9, 2pm, Humanities 1, Room 402
More information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships

RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar
2017-03-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rescheduled for March 15, 2017

Alan Craig: "VR, AR, and the Brain: Teaching, Learning, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality"
2017-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Alan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality, augmented reality, and personal fabrication, as well as educational applications of data mining, visualization, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality, Developing Virtual Reality Applications, and Understanding Augmented Reality), and holds three patents.

Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days
2017-03-09 11:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott, Chair, History of Consciousness

Discussant: Isaac Blacksin, Ph.D. candidate, History of Consciousness

James Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013).

Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
2017-03-09 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields.
Zachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

IHR Public Fellows Info Session 2
2017-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402

Living Writers: Urayoán Noel
2017-03-09 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha.

Living Writers Series Winter 2017
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest
Improvi/Nations: Riff, Inquiry, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry, prose, visual, sound, performance, art, and theory to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture, memory and possibility via individual, collective and internal forms.
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
January 26: Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French, CUNY Graduate Center
February 2: Conner Bassett, Matthew Gervase, Kendall Grady, Courtney Kersten, Jared Harvey, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner, PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 16: Laura Mullen, McElveen Professor of English, Lousiana State University
February 23: Micah Perks, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
March 9: Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
March 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Division, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program, Chicano Latino Research Center, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar, Latin American and Latino Studies, and The Bay Tree Book Store

Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel
2017-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
In this seminar, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media, performance, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use of social media among activist DREAMers and in the Haitian-Dominican context, expressed in the #Latinx hashtag and Dominican Twitter. Another thread considers “eccentric archives of the Latina/o Sixties” by comparing two poetic movements, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy. Although centered in California and New York respectively, both groups of poet-performers imagined sites of organization outside the nation-state: “Califas” and “Nuyorico.” Finally, Professor Noel considers the changing work of the space of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from the 1970s to the present, from anti-gentrification to anti-globalization movements.
Pastries, coffee, and tea will be served.

Please register here prior to attending this event.

Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging in and to the U.S. nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Professor Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review, 2005), an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014); and several books mostly in Spanish. Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review, 2005), a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011), a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo. He is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha.

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Literature Department, Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

PhD+: Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources
2017-03-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Open Access, Data Management and Library Resources
What does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues, including depositing your dissertation, data management, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss:

The Presidential Open Access Policy, and how it pertains to graduate research
Publishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)
and, Open Access as Social Justice

Take the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL, digital research methodologies, citation software, library-based subscriptions, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more.

Lunch will be served, as always.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

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Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio"
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry, philosophy, and science in 13th-14th century Italy, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender, religious, and social boundaries.
Akash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Winter 2017 Colloquium Dates:
January 18th: Susan Buck-Morss
January 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
February 1st: Regina Kunzel
February 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas
February 15th: Gary Wilder
February 22nd: Rick Prelinger
March 1st: Hillary Angelo
March 15th: Akash Kumar

Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
2017-03-15 16:30 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that key properties of the revival process – its rapidity and recency – make it possible to track mechanisms by which broader ideologies (of nation, ancestry, class, gender, etc.) come to be embedded in the languages we speak. The talk will focus on East-West diasporic dynamics in the negotiation of accent for the new spoken Hebrew, and on the shifting values of authenticity and sincerity in the construction of the new native-born speech style.
Reception to follow the lecture
For more info contact Peter Reed pmreed@ucsc.edu.

Humanities Radio Hour: "Language of Conservation with Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna"
2017-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art
Humanities Radio Hour
Wed, April 5th at 12:00PM–1:00PM
Interview with Professors Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna about the Language of Conservation Project.
Click here to listen online
UC Santa Cruz Faculty:
– Daniel Guevara, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy
– Claudio Campagna, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; and Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society

Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller "In Praise of Plasticity"
2017-04-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
About the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
About “In Praise of Plasticity”: Plasticity, in neurology, is the ability to adapt, change, grow and find new forms at multiple scalar levels whilst retaining, rerouting or developing function. Professor Fuller examines the notion of plasticity as it is articulated by cybernetics, machine learning, and anarchism.
Matthew Fuller will be presenting and is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London

Jewish Studies Open House
2017-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students, learn about classes, internship opportunities, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community.
Wednesday, April 12, 3-5pm
Hum 1, 210

Living Writers: Tongo Eisen-Martin
2017-04-13 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
Born in San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, MS.
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
The Lives of Other Songs
Living Writers Series Spring 2017
Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 13, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015)
May 4, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin, 2014) and Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
May 11, 2017: Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
May 18, 2017: Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
June 1, 2017: Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
June 8, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
