Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio"
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

Critical Conversations in Cultural Heritage
2017-04-14 09:00 - 17:30 | University Center, UCSC, College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
3rd Annual Research Conference
Free and Open to the Public
Advance Registration Required
Appeals to “heritage” have become increasingly common and visible in recent decades. Whether within the realms of the promotion and re-creation of history, claims to sovereignty, protection of landscapes and climate, or economic development, connection to the past is often utilized as a demonstration of legitimacy and authority. Making sense of these diverse appeals to heritage and the many ways that the past becomes meaningfully constituted in the present is a challenge. This is due both to the complexity of the issues as well as the fact that heritage scholars tend to be widely scattered between departments and disciplines. To address these challenges our conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to discuss current research and evaluate future directions for this rapidly growing, yet still decentralized, field of study.
Keynote Speaker
Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
Speakers
Jane Anderson, New York University
Sony Atalay, University of Massachusetts
Jon Daehnke, UC Santa Cruz
Robin Gray, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Leventhal, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Lonetree, UC Santa Cruz
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland
Tsim D. Schneider, UC Santa Cruz
Hegnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis
Registration on:
http://arc.ucsc.edu/conferenceregistration.html

Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium
2017-04-14 14:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos:

Ethics and Language of Conservation
What is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct?
A Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life
Friday, April 14, 2017
2:00-5:30pm
Humanities 1, Room 210

Speakers:
Claudio Campagna
Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Wildlife Conservation Society
Daniel Guevara
Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCSC
Paul Koch
Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences, UCSC
Distinguished Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Beth Shapiro
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Sponsored by:
IHR Research Cluster on The Language of Conservation Project, Center for Public Philosophy, Dean of Humanities, Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences
For more information visit:
The Language of Conservation Project
Center for Public Philosophy

Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
2017-04-14 14:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
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 Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series)
2017-04-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Focusing on gender, deportation, and labor, the third and final session of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, approaches citizenship, denizenship, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as people of various statuses interact with each other.
Please join us for this free, public seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, and Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. To reserve your lunch and to access the pre-circulated readings, please register here:

Following the seminar, Professors Golash-Boza and Parreñas will take part in The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility, a public conversation at the Museum of Art & History at 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz.

Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights. In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.
Rhacel Parreñas‘ book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 2011), won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute, 2014), The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press, 2008), and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.
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.

Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest
2017-04-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Comparative urban studies are on the rise, raising new questions about translation, fungibility, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This talk, moderated by Feminist Studies doctoral candidate and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy, will feature Bucharest-based housing justice activist, artist, and scholar Veda Popovici. Veda will share more about the Bucharest’s direct action collective, the Common Front for the Right to Housing, as well as histories of postsocialist neoliberal housing restitution laws that have incited current Romanian spatial struggles. Erin and Veda will discuss a growing call to think both global capital formations and comparative urbanism in Romania through decolonial analytics.

The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas
2017-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz

Presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research
In two Ted-style talks, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) help close UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship by discussing what they see as some of the key issues framing debates around migration in our time: gender, deportation, incarceration, slavery, human trafficking, structural violence, and global apartheid. The evening begins with a reception at 6:30pm, followed by presentations at 7:00pm and a Q&A moderated by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (UC Santa Cruz).
“Deported without Due Process: Ryan’s Story”
Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
Since 1996, five million people have been deported from the United States – 98% of them Latin American and 90% men. Laws passed in 1996 made it easier to deport legal permanent residents, even those eligible for citizenship. In immigration proceedings, you have no right to legal representation. You can be detained without bond. You can be deported without a full hearing. In this talk, Tanya Golash-Boza will explain how legal permanent residents can be deported from the United States with minimal or no due process.
“The Unfree Labor of Migrant Domestic Workers”
Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Across the globe, migrant domestic workers are unfree workers whose legal residency is contingent on their continued employment as live-in workers with a designated sponsor. Rhacel Parreñas’ talk gives a global overview of the exclusionary terms of their belonging. It then interrogates dominant theoretical frameworks for thinking about contemporary unfreedoms – slavery, human trafficking and structural violence – and proposes the alternative concept of “indentured mobility,” which sees migration as simultaneously constituting of financial mobility from a life of poverty in the sending society but at the cost of servitude vis-à-vis a sponsoring employer in the receiving society. The concept of indentured mobility foregrounds not only the severe structural constraints that limit the options of domestic workers but also their agentic negotiations for improving their work conditions and maximizing thepossible gains in their state of unfreedom.
This event is free and open to the public, but attendees are kindly asked to register in advance.

Speakers
Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books, including Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights. In addition, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera, The Boston Review, The Nation, Counterpunch, The Houston Chronicle, Racialicious, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dissident Voice.
Rhacel Parreñas‘ book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo(Stanford University Press, 2011), won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute, 2014), The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press, 2008), and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. She is the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (New York University Press, 2013), an exploration of the relationship between global shifts and intimate circuits of desire, love, and marriage. Her current research is on surveillance technologies and the sexual criminalization of migrant bodies on and beyond the US-Mexico border. Other research interests include borderlands and transnationalisms; affect and capitalism; race, technology, and subjectivity; and Chicana and Latin American cultural studies.

This free, public event is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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” (spring 2017). Click here to learn more.

Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium
2017-04-19 08:30 - 14:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies, Digital Scholarship Commons, University Library, IHR
With support from the Koret Family Foundation
The Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to announce the first Undergraduate Digital Research Symposium on April 19, 2017. At UC Santa Cruz, undergraduate students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. This symposium will showcase innovative undergraduate research and celebrate the digital projects that students develop in class.
Join us to explore and engage with public facing, media-rich, critically engaged, and creative student research. The event will include a digital poster session, two panels featuring undergraduate work, and a keynote address by Jaye Padgett, Interim Vice Provost for Student Success. Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.

Program:
8:30 – 9:00am Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome, Elizabeth Cowell (University Librarian)
9:15 – 10:00am Digital Poster Session
10:00 – 10:45am Panel 1: Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows
11:00 – 11:45am Panel 2: The Gail Project, Team Leaders
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch (Brown Bag lunch provided for all registered attendees)
1:00 – 1:45pm Keynote: Jaye Padgett (Interim Vice Provost for Student Success)

Highlights of the Symposium include:
Six student groups will be showcasing digital projects (both independent research + class work) in a Digital Poster Session
Eight undergrads will be participating in two panels discussing independent research.

Click here to register.

Zac Zimmer: “Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas”
2017-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas
Zac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction, creating a point of contact between the contemporary world and the hemispheric American colonial encounter.
Zac Zimmer is Assistant Professor of Literature and LALS 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.

The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
2017-04-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on “Ghetto: Invention of a Place, History of an Idea”
Lecture at 4:00pm – Humanities 1, RM 210
Reception to follow
Parking – Free to attendees – Please follow “Diller Lecture” signs to Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 109 and 110 – Parking attendants will be on hand to issue parking permits

Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño, "A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas"
2017-04-19 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño
Ximena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de animalidad en la literatura moderna de América Latina, especialmente de la zona andina. Ha sido becaria del Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín y es coordinadora del grupo de investigación materia en Stanford.
Exploro el arco trazado por el ave guanera desde Trilce de César Vallejo hasta El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas. Quiero discutir la presencia de una poética excrementicia en la vanguardia andina desde una perspectiva post-antropocéntrica. Tomando como punto de partida la idea clásica de la vanguardia latinoamericana como crítica a la modernidad, esta ponencia extrema esta postura para mostrar que, más bien, la línea excrementicia que comunica la escritura de Vallejo y Arguedas marca cómo esa temporalidad colapsa en un tiempo catastrófico que borra la frontera de lo humano y lo no humano.

The "Light” Revolution and its aftermaths: Protest, resistance and performing Eastern Europe
2017-04-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Sub Rosa
SubRosa
Throughout all of February, tens of thousands took the streets in Romania to protest corruption of the political class. Far from being the first spontaneous mass protests in recent local history, they were the first of such magnitude to affirm a clear right-wing position. As international radicals, we expect solidarity not with the imperialist narrative of the “at last enlightened East” but with local resistance to the liberal paradigm of civic, peaceful protest.

Humanities Earth Day
2017-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 – 1:00pm in Humanities 1, Room 210.

PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty
2017-04-21 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Last year, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short presentation about our NEH grant, as well as to provide an opportunity in which to share ideas, thoughts, and concerns about the state, and future of, humanities graduate education at UCSC–and in general. We hope to integrate the feedback we receive into the strategies that each of our working groups are in the process of developing in order to better serve the UCSC humanities community. After a short introduction about the grant, an informal panel discussion will provide some groundwork for a larger, audience-based conservation regarding topics such as community building within/among graduate students and faculty, skills development opportunities for humanities students, and understanding/defining expectations for mentor/mentee relationships. As part of our town hall discussion, we provide a modest and optional selection of articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education as background reading for those who would like to participate.
Please RSVP below. Lunch will be served.
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.
Please RSVP below.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jaclyn N. Schultz
2017-04-21 12:20 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Advertising Female Futurity: Children’s Books Printed as Advertisements in the U.S., 1850-1870
In this presentation, I examine children’s books printed as advertisemtns between 1850 and 1870 that were directed at female children. Beginning around 1850, companies produced books that served as advertisements but took the shape of children’s primers, rhymes, or storybooks. This presentation carefully studies these books to uncover consumerist lessons directed at children as well as contemporaneous understandings of the women of the future. By examining how female child readers were trained to become a certain kind of women through these advertising books, my presentation illuminates the distinctive understanding of gendered labor, consumerism, and futurity that existed in the U.S. between 1850 and 1870.
Friday Forum Spring 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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Lothar Von Falkenhausen: "Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale"
2017-04-21 17:00 - 19:00 | 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
Lothar Von Falkenhausen
Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, UCLA
Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage:
One Committee Member’s Tale
Friday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Refreshments at 4:30 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture
Professor Von Falkenhausen will give an account of his service as a member of President Obama’s
Cultural Property Advisory Committee. He reflects upon the purpose of the committee and its
composition and the nature of its work, as well as the wider impact of the United States
government’s efforts to contribute to cultural-heritage preservation worldwide.
Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA, where
he heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research
concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, focusing on large interdisciplinary and
historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. He has
published copiously on musical instruments; Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions; Chinese
ritual; regional cultures; trans-Asiatic contacts; the history of archaeology in East Asia; and
method and theory in East Asian archaeology. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius
(1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American
Archaeology Book Award. Since 2012, Professor Von Falkenhausen has served on the
Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, charged with implementing the 1970
UNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States.
For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
Metered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109)

Traci Brynne Voyles: "Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country"
2017-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | 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
Traci Brynne Voyles
Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)
Humanities 1, room 210
Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings
Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm
“Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (justice) History
Humanities 1, room 210
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university.

Eric Porter, "'The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising': The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO"
2017-04-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical, social, and imagined urban space.
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.

Traci Brynne Voyles: "Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History"
2017-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | 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
Traci Brynne Voyles
Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)
Humanities 1, room 210
Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings
Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm
Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History
Humanities 1, room 210
Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university.

The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century
2017-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period, through the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime during WWII, to the struggle for national liberation, and finally, the years of mass Jewish exodus and authoritarianism, this talk pushes against teleological readings of Moroccan Jewish history and explores a previously obscured narrative of political possibility and radical roads not taken.
Assistant Professor Alma Heckman, History
Reception to Follow
For accessibitiy concerns, contact pmreed@ucsc.edu

Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
2017-04-27 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016 closing reception
Thursday, April 27, from 4PM to 6PM
UCSC McHenry Library, 4th floor
414 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz CA. 95064
Light refreshments served
The closing reception of “Pictures & Progress: Black Panther, 1966-2016” will be a public program bringing into conversation the power of visual representation and the radical tradition. We are happy to host a panel with Jeremy Love graphic novelist (Bayou); Juliana Smith, UC alum and comic book writer, and organizer (Hafrocentric); Tarika Lewis, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party; and Aaron Dixon, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and who helped begin Free Breakfast Program. This panel will be moderated by UCSC professor of Literature, Vilashini Cooppan. “Pictures and Progress: The Black Panther: 1966-2016” has been a celebration of the 50th anniversary of both the party and the comic book series. Photos featuring women and children of the party from the Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photography Collection along with comic books from the James Gunderson and Peter Coha collection will be on display in McHenry at the reception.
4:00-4:15: Refreshments
4:15-4:25: Introductions
4:25-5:20: Panel Discussion
5:30-6:00: Book Signing
Panelists:
Tarika Lewis, former Assistant Minister of Culture and the first woman to join the Black Panther Party
Aaron Dixon, former Co-Founder Seattle Chapter of the BPP and helped begin Free Breakfast Program
Jeremy Love, comic book artist and graphic novelist, Bayou
Juliana Smith, comic book creator and community activist, HafroCentric
Moderator:
Vilashini Cooppan

Alumni Weekend 2017
2017-04-28 - 2017-04-30
SAVE THE DATE
April 28 – 30, 2017
More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen
2017-04-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending
Using a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information, I study the following research questions:|1) What are the borrower characteristics that lenders value when choosing which loans to fund?; and (2) Do lenders value the correct characteristics with respect to minimizing to probability of default? In this online context, the researcher observes everything that the lender does, enabling unbiased estimation of the borrower characteristics that lenders favor. Estimating the characteristics that predict loan default is problematic due to selection at the funding state. I consider three potential strategies to address this issue:(1) restricting attention to borrower characteristics for which there is no evidence of selection in the first stage; (2) bounding the default estimates in the style of Lee (2009) and (3) exploiting variation in the probability of funding caused by contemporaneous competition on the platform. The evidence suggests that lenders give the correct weight to verified income levels, underestimate the importance of verified education level and marital status, and overestimate the importance of verified employment industry.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Ethics and the Language of Conservation
2017-04-29 11:00 | Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center, Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy) and Claudio Campagna (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Wildlife Conservation Society) assert that we need to radically rethink the meaning of conservation. “Sustainable Development” is a failed term, and as a result, the crisis of conservation is fundamentally a philosophical crisis with real-world implications. Their goal is to give a compelling and rigorous voice to an authentic ethical concern for Nature. Light refreshments and coffee will be served.
Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Humanities Mix & Mingle
2017-04-29 12:00 | humanites courtyard
Please join us from 12-1 for a lunchtime Mix & Mingle in the Humanities courtyard. Connect with Humanities alumni, faculty, and beloved emeriti professors while enjoying complementary beverages and desserts. Tables and chairs will be set up, so grab your lunch at Quarry Plaza and come spend some time with the Humanities Division!
Registration link:

Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
2017-04-29 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career, non-academic career, government, and startups. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Panel 1: Careers and Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students
1:00–2:15 p.m., Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 259.
J Guevara, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Economic Development Manager, Santa Cruz Economic Development Office, and Municipal Broadband and Right-of-Way Manager, City of Santa Cruz
Adam Siepel, Ph.D. Computer Science 2005; Professor, Watson School of Biological Sciences, and Chair, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Emily Sloan-Pace, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Professor in Residence, Zoho Corp., Pleasanton, CA, and Chennai, India

Coffee and Light Refreshments between panels, 2:15–2:30.

Panel 2: Leadership Opportunities for Graduate Students
2:30–3:45 p.m., Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 259.
Claudio Campagna, Ph.D. Biology 1987; Marine Conservationist, Argentina and Marine Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Heller, M.F.A. Digital Arts and New Media 2013; CEO, Two Pore Guys, Inc., Santa Cruz
Betsy Herbert, Ph.D. Environmental Studies 2004; Earth Matters international columnist, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Chair, Science Advisory Panel, Sempervirens Fund
Adam Siepel (see bio info above)
Emily Sloan-Pace (see bio info above)

Networking Mixer, April 29, 4:00–6:00 p.m., Cafe Iveta
Immediately following the second panel discussion on leadership, please join the panelists and other visiting graduate student alumni at the networking mixer. Sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies and administrative and faculty representatives from the five academic divisions in welcoming back to campus our five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees, panelists, and other returning graduate student alumni at this social gathering to celebrate our fantastic graduate programs and network with other graduate students from UCSC.

Graduate Alumni Honored, 2016-17
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies and the divisions of the Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences will honor five distinguished graduate student alumni representing each division at an award luncheon on April 29, 2017, during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. Click here to read more

Teach-in with Gina Dent: "Ex Post Facto: How to respond to a ‘post-truth’ world"
2017-04-29 14:45 - 16:15 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, will discuss the role of the humanities in responding to the current discussion of “alternative facts.” How can we develop a critical relationship to “facticity,” while preserving the ability to think and act politically?
Registration link: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/teach-in-2/

Graduate Alumni Networking Mixer
2017-04-29 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Graduate Alumni and current graduate students will have an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their work and enjoy a relaxed opportunity to reconnect and network. Refreshments will be provided.

Location: Graduate Student Commons and Cafe Iveta

Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails
2017-04-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Charles Dickens was a unique and protean fellow; writer, social commentator, reporter, actor, father, and much more.He was also a great lover of the table and glass, a noteworthy bon vivant who created wondrous punches, cups, cocktails, and other nourishing potations, in novels as well as in daily life. This lecture will address Dickens’s skill with wine, ale, cider, rum, and gin, interspersed with cocktail demonstrations, allowing time to taste and ponder these delicious beverages

Burke Owens is a long time Bay Area wine and food industry professional, educator, former sommelier, punch aficionado, and most importantly, parent of two UCSC alums. He now serves as senior pastor at the Petaluma United Methodist Church. His appreciation of food and wine, of Dickens and the arts, can all be traced back to his mother who cooked, his father who sculpted, and each one’s passionate love of literature.
Watch Burke’s tutorial to learn how to prepare Cold Gin Punch, a traditional Victorian beverage. {https://vimeo.com/49291630}

Registration link:
REGISTER HERE

Humanists@Work: Graduate Career Workshop in Silicon Valley
2017-05-01 | UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
Santa Clara – May 1, 2017
What is Humanists@Work?
Humanists@Work is a UC-wide initiative geared towards UC Humanities and humanistic Social Science MAs and PhDs interested in careers outside/alongside the academy.
On May 1, 2017, HumWork will host a sixth workshop for graduate students and faculty members in partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Inspired by its location, Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop – Silicon Valley will engage the synergistic possibilities at the intersection of new media, community engagement, education and public humanities that is characteristic of the greater Bay Area.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Campus
3175 Bowers Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95054
FREE PARKING ON CAMPUS
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
8:00—9:00 AM: HOT BREAKFAST
9:00—9:30 AM: WELCOME
9:30—11:00 AM: STORIES FROM THE FIELD
In Stories from the Field, four UC humanities PhDs discuss how long-term, sustained humanistic thought and labor shape, and potentially transform, their career trajectories and the industries in which they find themselves employed. How did their values, ethics, and politics inform their post-PhD work choices?
Christian Blood
Curriculum Specialist
Zoho Corporation
Dana Douglas DePietro, Ph.D.
Cultural Resources Division Lead, FirstCarbon Solutions
Executive Director, S.H.A.R.E
Tamao Nakahara, PhD
Co-organizer
DevXCon
Sheri J. Tatsch, PhD
Owner/Principal
Indigenous Consulting Services
11:00—11:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
11:30 AM—1:00 PM: FROM ACADEMIC CV TO INNOVATIVE RÉSUMÉ USING JARED REDICK’S “PURPOSE, CONTENT, DESIGN” METHODOLOGIES
The Résumé Studio’s Jared Redick returns to Humwork, sharing his “purpose, content, design” techniques aimed at helping recent and soon-to-be PhDs shape a purposeful résumé, while framing the possibilities of a fulfilling future beyond or alongside academia.
1:00—2:00 PM: LUNCH
2:00—3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION 1 – HUMANITIES PHDS: DESIGNING CAREER PATHS
Debra Behrens, PhD
PhD Counselor
University of California, Berkeley
This interactive workshop is for humanities PhDs in the early stages of researching careers who want to Explore career ideas, Learn to research jobs and engage short-term strategies for gaining experience, and Design potential career paths.
SESSION 2 – PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWING
Annie Maxfield, MS
Associate Director, Graduate Student Relations and Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions.
3:30—4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK AND INFORMAL NETWORKING
4:00—5:30 PM: CANDID CONVERSATIONS: DEBT IN THE HUMANITIES
Student debt is a collective experience shared by the majority of humanities PhDs, so why aren’t we talking about it? Candid Conversations engages faculty, graduate students, and university staff in a dialogue around the issue of debt and how it influences your post-PhD careers.
Joshua A. Anderson
Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Beard, PhD
Higher Education Project Organizer
American Federation of Teachers
Jennifer E. McSpadden
ABD
University of California, Davis
Allison Perlman, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Digital Pedagogy Showcase
2017-05-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Get some syllabus inspiration! The inaugural cohort of the Digital Instruction Project lead this Brown Bag Session about developing and implementing new digital assignments in their classes. Join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges of adding digital tools into your syllabus and pushing your students to try new forms of scholarly writing.
The panel includes Philip Longo (Writing Program), Kyle Parry (HAVC), Cat Ramirez (LALS), Amanda Smith (Literature), and Dustin Wright (History)
The Digital Instruction Project was launched in Fall 2016 by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL).

"What's Left of Progressive Politics?"
2017-05-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents
“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”
Roundtable Discussion with
Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider
Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future
2017-05-02 17:00 - 19:00
Vijay Prashad’s talk In the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism and Cruel Populism Suffocate the Future traces the rise of populism across the world, including the global South and North, in the present historical moment. This type of populism expresses itself in anti-immigrant politics and defines the nation in narrow terms – race, ethnicity, and religion. It seeks to exclude immigrants who do not fit within the narrow confines of these categories. This populism does not address the substantive issues of inequality and jobless even if some of its energy is derived from it.

Dr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism, race and immigrant communities in the US, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world. He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013). Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian, the Hindu, Frontline, jadaliyya, and AlterNet.
Location: TBD
For more information, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu
These events are free and open to the public

Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape"
2017-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape”
This talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life, intellectual and critical work, ideological formation, cultural production, social movements, political action, and social space.
Chris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai 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.

Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice"
2017-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea.
Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder
2017-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Doris Leibetseder, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
In this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex, gender, sexuality, kinship relations and the right to procreate, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.”

Doris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, CSMTS (Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society).

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen
2017-05-04 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India, 2013).
Eric Sneathen, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016)
Eric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer, Elderly, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book.
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

PhD+: Mentorship
2017-05-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within, alongside, and outside the academy

This PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty, administration, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:

the benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role, e.g., faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department), non-academic professionals, peer graduate student mentors, etc
the goals of a mentor/mentee relationship, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks, and setting corresponding expectation
the processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict, overcome obstacles or inertia, etc.

Each question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience. The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion, development, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.

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.
Lunch will be served, as always.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford
2017-05-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
This presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin.
Friday Forum Spring 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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic"
2017-05-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Center for World History Presents
Brett Rushforth
“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm
Humanities 1, Room 210
Free and open to the public
Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American
and Atlantic history who specializes in slavery, race, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His
most recent book, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”, uncovered the
hidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s,
sending captive Sioux, Apache, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal, Quebec, and even the
French Caribbean. In 2013-14, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history
by the Organization of American Historians, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the
French Colonial Historical Society, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum
on European Expansion and Global Interaction, and the best book in French Cultural Studies.

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
2017-05-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Stevenson Event Center
The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was recently established with a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, is the inaugural chair holder. The endowed chair will help fund research and teaching as well as graduate fellowships in feminist studies.

Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony from IHR on Vimeo.
Event Photos: by Steve Kurtz

Join us for the Investiture Ceremony, May 8, 2017 at 2pm to be held at the Stevenson Event Center. Reception to follow.
Complimentary parking will be available in the Barn Theater parking lot. Parking permits will be on sale for $4. Continuous shuttle service to Stevenson Event Center will be available from 1:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Barn Theater.

About Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Aptheker is a nationally recognized historian and a scholar of feminist studies. She received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and became the first ladder-rank faculty member of the Feminist Studies Department, then known as Women’s Studies, in 1987. For nearly three decades Bettina has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses, exposing more than 10,000 students to her deeply compelling teaching. Bettina works extensively with graduate students in Feminist Studies, and other departments, and teaches graduate seminars, including Feminist Pedagogy and Black Feminist Reconstruction. She has received numerous awards over the years, and in June will be presented with the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities.
About the The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation currently focuses on improving the lives of women and girls and ensuring equal access to education for all community members. UC Santa Cruz and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation have been partnering on advancing innovative and impactful scholarship for many years. The foundation has funded the Baskin Feminist Scholars Program and the Baskin Scholars Program in Engineering that enable community college students to transfer to UC Santa Cruz, underwritten fellowships to women doctoral students in engineering, offered scholarships to women transfer students, and funded the summer Girls in Engineering program for middle-school girls since its inception. With this new Presidential Chair, the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation is leading the way in support of teaching and research in feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension"
2017-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects.
Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College.
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.

Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
2017-05-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
A colloquium by
Associate Professor Jason W. Moore
Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University

Jason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, written with Raj Patel, will be published this fall (University of California Press). He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.

This event is co-sponsored by Rachel Carson College, the UCSC Humanities Research Institute, and the Sociology and Environmental Studies Departments. Professor More will also be speaking at EXTRACTION: A Two-Day Conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene, May 12-13, sponsored by the Center for Creative Ecologies.

Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
2017-05-11 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents
Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014)
AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer– and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Later this spring, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. Aisha is trained in various Congolese and Ethiopian dances and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She was born in Montreal.
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

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
2017-05-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle
The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women, one back and one white, the painting inspired the 2014 film, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of period dramas, the creators of Belle fabricated a largely fictional account, envisioning Dido with a generous measure of agency and influence despite being black and female. This is evident in the portrait revealed in the movie. Though the original painting and film version are nearly identical, this presentation examines the two, considering the implications of the alterations made in the latter.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2017-05-12 13:00 - 16:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC
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Graduate Research Symposium
The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, and industry professionals, for presenters from each division and two overall awards.
*This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.
Registration Information
We welcome presenters from all disciplines on campus, and encourage live and media presentations as well as traditional poster presentations! For 2016, registration was available for 48 posters, 30 live presentations, and 10 media presentations.
Each presentation must have a primary presenter, but may also list up to three co-presenters.
Presenters will be asked to check into the event between 12:30 and 1:15 depending on their selected format. Presentation judging officially begins at 1:30 pm.
An awards reception will immediately follow the Symposium until 4:30 pm. Graduate students are also encouraged to attend the Graduate Alumni Social at the Graduate Student Commons in the Quarry Plaza that evening.
*Please click here to view the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium Program

Presenters
Poster Presentations: All posters must fit on 4′ x 4′ easels provided in the Information Commons South. Posters will be arranged in the order in which they arrive. There will be personnel available to assist with set up. Posters presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:45 and 1:15 pm on the 2ndfloor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your poster for judging.Posters may be removed after 3:30 pm.
Oral Presentations: Oral and live presentations will be in three classrooms on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. A computer and projector will be available so that presenters can bring slides via either flash drive in PowerPoint or Keynote format, or saved to Google Drive in Google Slides; you may bring your own laptop if you like, though this is not recommended because of the time constraints involved in setting up/down. An easel will also be available for additional visual aids upon request. Be sure to indicate your media needs on the registration form. Oral presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. (Due to time restrictions, oral/live presentations must be limited to 10 minutes in length including set-up and taking-down.)
Media Presentations: Media presentations may be in audio and/or video format. Media presenters will be required to set up a short meeting with McHenry Library staff the week prior to the Symposium to discuss technical and/or physical space needs. Please specify your media needs on your registration form. Media presenters must check in at the registration table between 12:30 noon and 1:00 pm on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library. After you register to present, you will be assigned a one-hour window during which you must stay with your presentation for judging.
*Please click here to review our Best Practices site!

Click here to see our previous symposium awardees.

Ethics Bowl Invitational
2017-05-13 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What It Is:
Every Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun, low-stakes way to get their feet wet.
This year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at which more than 75% of enrolled students are eligible for free/reduced price lunch, foster youth, and/or English-language learners.
The grant allows us to provide a top undergraduate philosophy student to coach the school’s team(s) in the two months leading up to the event and to provide each school with $1,000 for costs. We are grateful to the Division of Student Success for this grant.

Participating Teams:
Alisal High School
Salinas, CA
Burton High School
San Francisco, CA
Costanoa High School
Santa Cruz, CA
Diamond Technology Institute
Watsonville, CA
Downtown College Prep Alum Rock
San Jose, CA
Escuela Popular
San Jose, CA
Latino College Preparatory Academy
San Jose, CA
Luis Valdez Leadership Academy
San Jose, CA
Pajaro Valley High School
Watsonville, CA
Watsonville High School
Watsonville, CA

Information for May 13:
This year there will be two rounds, followed by a lunch, one more round and then a debrief over dessert. In each round, teams will be discussing two of the eight cases downloadable here.

For Teams & Coaches:
Teams should arrive on campus no later than 8:30am and proceed to the Humanities Lecture Hall.
Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here.
The day’s events will conclude at 2:30pm. You can read the rules of High School Ethics Bowl here.

For Judges
To our judges: first, thank you. We couldn’t hold this event without you. We appreciate your time and support.
Judges should meet in Humanities 1, 210 at 8:30am for the judges’ meeting. Coffee and pastries provided. Information on parking and directions can be downloaded here.
In preparation, all judges should familiarize themselves with the cases teams will be discussing. And if this is your first time judging, please watch the judges’ training video here.

Best of luck to all participating teams!
If you’re school or a individual interested in participating next year, or if you have any questions, please contact the Bowl Director Kyle Robertson.

Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
2017-05-15 14:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm.
Featuring:
Christopher Chen, Literature
Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness
Christopher Connery, Literature
T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies
Carla Freccero, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies
Susan Gilman, Literature
Asad Haider, History of Consciousness
Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness
Sandra Harvey, Politics
Gail Hershatter, History
Laurie Palmer, Art
Warren Sack, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

Susan Gilson Miller: "Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco"
2017-05-16 15:20 - 16:55
Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman’s course “The Holocaust and the Arab World” (HIS 1850).
When: May 16, 2017 – 3:20-4:55pm
Location: Cowell Acad Classroom 113
This event is free and open to the public
Professor Miller was formerly head of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is currently a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Miller has held Visiting Lecturer appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the lnstitut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and at the Woolf Institute of the University of Cambridge. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College, she has an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of the Modern Middle East. Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Maghribi Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her book, The History of Modern Morocco, 1830-2000, (Cambridge University Press, 2013) was a Finalist for the Leon Carl Brown Best Book award of the American Institute of Maghribi Studies in 2014. Her research interests center on colonial and post-colonial histories in the Maghrib, minorities, urbanism, and the history of travel and migration. Prof. Miller is a frequent visitor to Morocco, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her current project is about the life and times of Hélène Cazes Benatar, Morocco’s first woman lawyer and human rights activist, who rescued thousands of Jews and non-Jews during the period of Vichy rule in North Africa.

Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics"
2017-05-17 12:00 - 13:30
Socratic Economics
Martin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens. His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action.
Martin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics 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.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
2017-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need
Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
History is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake, Stryker contends, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real.

Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
2017-05-18 09:00 - 16:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m.
Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department
Panel One: Translating Tradition
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Christopher Chen
Victoria Jones: Ion
Elli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles
Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation
Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You
Panel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Moderator: Martin Devecka
Marcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems
Savanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner
Pang Yang Embellishing Lia
FREE! LUNCH BUFFET
12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Panel Three: Practices of Reading
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Moderator: Amanda Smith
Sarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction
Samantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries
Harold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft
Panel Four: Rock and Romanticism
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: Rob Wilson
Sylvester Cruz On the English Disease
Isaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison
John Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman”
Panel Five: The Time of Slavery
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Moderator: Dorian Bell
Isla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time
Fiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives
Carina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power
Closing Remarks 4:15 p.m.
A. Hunter Bivens, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!

Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism"
2017-05-18 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not, or at least not mainly, a philosophical position, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind, and, second, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with.
About:
Maudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Advanced Reading:
The Will to Power – first 20 pages
Genealogy of Morality

Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
2017-05-18 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010)
Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña, Lourdes Vázquez, and Lila Zemborain, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009), and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2017-05-18 20:00 - 2017-05-21 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Description:
This year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy, La Folle de Chaillot, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis, while Spanish will present Fable, by Samaniego, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work, Happy Dating, Everyone, directed by Natasha Samokhina, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese, we will present Music of Japan, directed by Sakae Fujita.
Admission Details:
There is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production.
Dates:
May 18th – 8:00pm
May 19th – 8:00pm
May 20th – 8:00pm
May 21st – 8:00pm

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
2017-05-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture
In 1970s Hawai’i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai’i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language, visual culture, and attitude of the islands, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii, which addressed local culture, politics, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
2017-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future.

Geographies of Imperial Citizenship
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chicano Latino Research Center
This talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders, pursue employment, access public benefits and services, and resist deportation, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists.

The Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín, Colombia
Claudia Lopez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
In this presentation, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the lifecycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs, to argue that, across the lifecycle, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded.

Belonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity
Tsering Wangmo, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Literature
Tsering Wangmo’s dissertation, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist, and that, ultimately, unity was an exclusionary discourse.

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

Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban"
2017-05-23 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania.
Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people.
The IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading.

Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels”
2017-05-24 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, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM
Interview with Professors
– Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements.
– Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History
Click here to listen online

Johan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
2017-05-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Johan Mathew’s current project, Opiates of the Masses: Labor, Narcotics, and Global Capitalism, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism.
Johan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers 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.
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UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie
2017-05-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo.

Event Photos: by Crystal Birns

Join us for “UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
As we mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and the stunning electoral success of Bernie Sanders, the revival of interest in socialism inspires this discussion of the history of radical Jewish Politics.

RSVP has closed – Due to an overwhelming response, we are no longer accepting registrations to this event. However you are welcome to come to the Museum the night of the event and we will do our best to accommodate you if a sufficient number of people who have already RSVP’d are not in attendance.

6:00pm – Doors open
6:30pm – Public Conversation with Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History; and Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
2017-05-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with one another. Geographically, these contexts include Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Egypt, Russia, Hungary, Egypt, Morocco, and the United States of America. Thematically, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms, historiography and state memory, and much more.
2:00-5:00pm
Afternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists)
Afternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists)
Concluding remarks
Dinner
RSVP required – Please register for the event here
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, History Department, Center for Cultural Studies, and Institute for Humanities Research.
Scholar Bios:
Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History, and recently published a scholarly piece, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls, Fall 2016.
Orit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature. Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq, New Babylonians, A history of Iraqi Jews, and Impossible Exodus, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago, she teaches classes on nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East, on modern Islamic civilization, and on Israeli history.
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East.
Arie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle.
Peter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions.
Lior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism, Zionism, and constitutionalism, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East.
Bob Weinberg is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa, anti-Jewish pogroms, blood libel, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and Birobidzhan

Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
2017-05-26 02:40 - 15:40 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2016
May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
2017-05-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War
In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto Kiyoshi, this project was supported on multiple fronts in the United States. This paper analyzed the American capitalistic mode of generosity from the TV program, “This is Your Life” aired on May 11, 1955, which featured the Japanese minister Tanimoto, who recently arrived in the United States with Hiroshima Maidens. The TV program and its host successfully collected $56,000 in donations by asking its viewers to show their “American way”. This American way generosity demonstrated multiple problematic viewpoints in the ways of how the Americans constructed their superiority through the victims’ radicalized and gendered bodies.
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
2017-05-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Delinquency As Labor”
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level archives to explore how narratives of young people as “trouble” (threat) or “troubled” (at-risk) inform the limits and possibilities of schooling.

“BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect”
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is an Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department here at UCSC. Her book, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas, was published in 2013 with NYU Press. She is working on a new project called “Tracking Migrants: Biosecurity Across Erotic Borders” that follows the de-humanization of Latina/o migrants branded as biothreats, or deviant and criminal threats. In this project I follow the ways state surveillance remakes relations between technology-the-body-and nature, and then decolonizes these state regimes through an Anzalduan approach to what I call an erotic cosmology: using the body as a technology to hone our senses deeper into the sensual relationality of human-animal-cosmic ontologies.

Symposium: Charting the Library's Future
2017-05-31 10:00 - 14:30 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Program:
10:00-10:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Chancellor George Blumenthal and University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell

10:30-12:00pm
Panel Discussion
MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis
Expanding Research Support in University Libraries
Academic libraries’ research support is inherently interdisciplinary (or omnidisciplinary) so they are uniquely positioned to expand those services to include common modern research tools and methods, such as spatial and data science, informatics and analytics, writing and programming. Providing central, democratically accessible facilities, instruction, and expert support for these essential modern research skills is a natural role for libraries while increasing their value to the universities they serve.
Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library
This Magic Moment: Are We Coming Together, or Falling Apart?
Abstract: What kind of a library does a globally connected faculty working on the grand challenges of our time need? The recent election has sparked a public debate about factual information, the scientific method and intellectual freedom; it has also deepened the academy’s resolve to uphold those core values. At the same time, our blue planet faces grand challenges that become tractable only through collective and collaborative action. Both faculty and librarians are striving to respond by working across traditional organizational and/or geopolitical boundaries. The UC system, and the UC libraries within it, are a microcosm of a community finding a collective response, and a case-study in an experiment to go further together. (Examples illustrating these dynamics might came from the national response to safeguarding federal research data, and the UC libraries strategy to realize our goal of a fully open access future.)
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Bringing Together People, Information and Technology: Connected Learning
Astract: University libraries always have been providers of public goods and gateways to discovery. They amassed collections of millions of books and scholarly articles to share with all faculty and students, who could not afford to do so individually. New learners coming through the doors had transcendent — often ecstatic — discovery experiences that fueled individual growth, and social and scientific progress. We should continue to provide public goods to excite the passions and open the eyes, but the information environment has changed drastically and so must the learning environments and experiences. We must create connected learning spaces as open-to-all gateways before students reach specialized labs and facilities limited to their choice of major. These spaces must connect people, information and technology to support collaborative and active learning. The public goods we provide should include not just books and articles (and videos and maps and…) but also new information technologies most students can’t afford for themselves (e.g., virtual reality gear, data visualization systems, programmable 3-D scanners, etc.). And we need to provide experts to help them find those head-exploding discoveries that open their eyes to the Age of Information.

12:00-1:00pm:
Lunch provided for all registered attendees

1:00-2:30pm:
Lightning Talks and Discussion sessions
The Changing Practices of Scholarly Work
Sylvanna Falcón, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Danielle Crawford, Graduate Student in Literature and former CART Fellow
Jody Greene, Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness, and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Christy Caldwell, Research Support Services Librarian

Shahzad Bashir, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues”
2017-05-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language, historiography, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance.
Shahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic Studies and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford 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.

Mat Callahan, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams”
2017-06-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Presented by The History of Consciousness, The Center for Cultural Studies, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives, with support from Logo’s Books.
With special musical guest Dry Days
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, “flower power,” “acid rock,” and “hippies”; author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan’s new book, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975 (PM Press, 2017) offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone, the United Farm Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the counterculture.
Callahan’s meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews, primary sources, and personal experiences, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge.
A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been), The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist.
Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books, Sex, Death & the Angry Young Man, Testimony, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern, Switzerland.

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho
2017-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanites 1, Room 320, Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation
Patricia de Santana Pinho, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz
The talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black diaspora communities. In this chapter I analyze how gender impacts these transnational relations while simultaneously differentiating the experiences of female and male travelers. Analyzing why and how women travel is important in deconstructing the implicitly masculinist abstract tourist subject. At the same time, by focusing on women travelers, it is crucial not to confirm men as the norm that goes unexamined and unquestioned. While the chapter looks more closely at women, it does so in order to examine how travel and tourism function as fundamentally gendered and embodied practices, which in turn contribute to the gendering of the black diaspora.

Patricia de Santana Pinho, Associate Professor in LALS, is a Brazilian social scientist whose research focuses on topics of blackness, whiteness, racism, anti-racism, tourism, and the black diaspora. She is author of Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press, 2010).

Feminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:
May 4th: Doris Leibetseder, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
May 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”
June 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”

Living Writers: Lauren Levin
2017-06-01 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016)
Lauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) as well as several chapbooks, including The Lens (Little Red Leaves, 2014) and Working (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). From 2011-2014, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans.

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

PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students
2017-06-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
This year-end workshop is devoted to developing your fellowship / grant strategy to support your graduate career. We’ll focus on year-long prestigious fellowships such as American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, American Association of University Women, Fulbright, and others, as well as smaller grants, including UC MEXUS, designed to fund small, short-term, field-specific projects. This workshop will assist you in thinking through your funding timeline for next year and beyond. Please bring any and all of your questions as a significant portion of this year-end meeting will function as an open forum for your questions and ideas.
Presenters / Facilitators:
Stephanie Moore, Director of Research Development, Arts Division
Irena Polic, Managing Director, Institute for Humanities Research
Samuael Topiary, Graduate Research Development Fellow
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP below.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen
2017-06-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Mom, can you help me with my homework?” Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children
The collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access to resources for contextualizing and deconstructing these lived realities. I discuss my reflexive process while interviewing my family about their experiences with the American-Vietnam War and how this ongoing dialogic process has transformed my relationships to my family and community, as well as highlighted sociopolitical tensions within Vietnamese American communities. I identify possible tools for intergenerational dialogue and emphasize the need to engage with these loud silences to support communities displaced by war in negotiating “the ending that are not over” (Espiritu, 2014).
Friday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule:
Fridays 12:30-2pm
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.
April 21, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz, History
April 28, 2017: Baizhu Chen, Economics
May 5, 2017: Danielle Crawford, Literature
May 12, 2017: Kristen Laciste, HAVC
May 19, 2017: Kara Hisatake, Literature
May 26, 2017: Yuki Obayashi, Literature
June 2, 2017: Angela Nguyen, Psychology

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
2017-06-02 12:45 - 15:45 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 12:45 – 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA.
We hope you will attend.
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program – coming soon!

Deanna Shemek: "Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations"
2017-06-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Conference Room, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations
When you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art?
Please join us for Deanna Shemek’s Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture as she discusses how she and her team are using Isabella d’Este’s personal correspondence to reconstruct Renaissance Italy. Using state of the art technology in virtual and augmented reality along with the work of numerous historians and researchers in the US and in Italy, Deanna’s work is bringing a whole new meaning to the term bringing history to life.

Intrigued? Here is a short video about the project:

Isabella d’Este Virtual Studiolo from Future Film Festival on Vimeo.

Please RSVP here.

IDEA Hub: A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise
2017-06-07 15:00 - 21:00 | Hotel Paradox
IDEA Hub: Creative and Social Entrepreneurship at UCSC presents
A Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise
June 7th, 2017 3-9PM
Paradox Hotel, Santa Cruz, CA
3-6pm – IDEA Hub Pitch for
Social Change
6-9pm – SCNT MeetUp
Applications are currently being sought from UCSC students and community collaborators who have ideas for innovations that promote positive social change.
Requirements/Eligibility: Team must have at least one UCSC student member. Innovations must be an original idea that addresses an area of societal need, including (but not limited to) poverty, affordable housing, income inequality, drug abuse, violence, mental & public health, food security, discrimination, cultural sustainability, participatory governance, education, transportation, environmental sustainability, climate change. Innovations must have completed R&D sufficient to demonstrate viability and potential to scale beyond initial target application or customers.
How to Apply: Send enterprise summary (max 3 pages) that includes name of Team, Team
members and affiliations, contact information for team lead, one sentence mission statement, problem being solved and your solution to problem, your intended customers and the value you bring to those
customers, competing products or services and why your innovation offers a better solution, estimates of financial costs to develop your innovation/run your enterprise, and potential source of revenue to cover those costs, expertise and resources you bring.]
Email pdf to: cied@ucsc.edu
For more info: cied.ucsc.edu
ideahub.sites.ucsc.edu
Deadline: May 19th, 2017
Prizes:
$3K first place, $2K second place, $1K third & possibility to apply for seed funding and services

Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2016-17 Spring Awards
2017-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Event Photos: by Sarah Caldwell

Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human.
Humanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Past year’s categories for acknowledgement have been:
Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Awards – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year.

Click here to download the Humanities Spring Awards Program

Living Writers: UCSC Creative Writing Program
2017-06-08 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

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

OpEd Project Workshop: "Write to Change the World"
2017-06-09 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Write to Change the World
The “Write to Change the World” program builds participants’ capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of  expertise. This program focuses on increasing the number of underrepresented voices in the media and bringing the humanities to bear on public debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators, with approximately 20 fellows in each workshop, from nine participating campuses (UCSF, UCSB, UCI, UCR, UCSD, UCSC, UCD, UCM, UCLA), for a total of 60+ fellows. After the 1-day workshop, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources, access and support, including cutting edge game-based, research-driven programming, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide. Apply now for Spring 2017 workshops at UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, or UC Irvine.
About the OpEd Project
The Op-Ed Project envisions a world where the best ideas – regardless of where they come from – will have a chance to be heard, and to shape society and the world. Working with top universities, foundations, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community organizations, the OpEd Project scouts and trains under-represented experts to take thought leadership positions in their fields; the OpEd Project connects them with national networks of high-level media mentors; and vets and channels the best new experts and ideas directly to media gatekeepers who need them, across all platforms. For more on the OpEd Project, visit their website.
Our fellows will:
1) Attend a 1-day workshop
2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop
3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop
Dates and Locations:
UC Merced: April 14, 2017
UC Santa Cruz: June 9, 2017
UC Irvine: June 16, 2016
Apply
Faculty and postdoctoral fellows can apply online for Spring 2017 workshops here by Feb. 1, 2017.
For more information, contact the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced at humanities@ucmerced.edu.
UCSC OpEd Workshop Participants
Click here to read about the faculty fellows at the UCSC workshop

Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics
2017-06-12 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Guest Speakers:
Eric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara)
Emiliana Cruz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Christian DiCanio (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Organized by the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America.

*Stay tuned for more information.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
2017-07-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz High Theater
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research, and Temple Beth El present best-selling and award-winning author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) for a reading and signing of his latest novel, Here I Am. Ticket packages are $19.98 and include two tickets to the event and one copy of Here I Am in paperback (publication date: June 6th). Purchase tickets here
Location: Santa Cruz High Theater
“In Foer’s latest novel, generations of history are laid on the shoulders of one modern Jewish-American family during a time of crisis. So much is endured, revealed, and lost that they seem inextricably bound to the reader. At the heart of it all is this: What does it mean to be fully present in one’s life? There are no easy answers, but I am in awe at the skill with which Foer delves into the heart of familial life.” – Jax, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. One of the year’s most anticipated novels, Here I Am is bestselling Safran Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

37th Annual Dickens Universe featuring Middlemarch
2017-07-30 - 2017-08-05 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens.

In 2017, in anticipation of the 2019 bicentenary of George Eliot’s birth, the Universe will feature her novel, Middlemarch.

Now in its 37th year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels.

Here are some of the things that make the Universe such as special experience.

The college lifestyle: participants live on campus, eat together in the student dining hall, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.
Everyone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.
The range of activities—formal lectures, small discussion groups, films, daily Victorian teas, performances, and Victorian dancing.

The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion of reading, talking with one another, and bringing Victorian culture to life.
Registration link:

REGISTER HERE
Watch the Dickens Project Mini Documentary {https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs}

Weekend with Shakespeare
2017-08-18 - 2017-08-20 | UCSC Arboretum
About: Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about this season’s mainstage productions. Educator’s Day on Sunday, August 20 is built to provide teachers with tools and lesson plans to gain confidence and strategies for teaching Shakespeare in the classroom and beyond.
Weekend schedule:
Weekend with Shakespeare will be Friday & Saturday, 12-5pm at the UCSC Arboretum.
Educator’s Day will be Sunday, 11-3pm, featuring three 45 minute workshops including an acting/text workshop led by Artistic Director Mike Ryan, and a workshop on Common Core integration at UCSC Humanities 1, Room 210.
Registration:
Attend the lectures only, or attend both the lectures and performances at a great discount!
Lecture only: $50 members / $55 non-members*
Lecture + 2 play package: $135 members / $150 non-members*
Teacher Training Day: $25
*Lecture only and Teacher Training Day tickets can be purchased at the Ticket Office or online. Packages (lecture + 2-plays) must be purchased by phone to ensure the exclusive reserved seating.
Register online: https://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/wws/
Weekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Shakespeare Workshop, a program with the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
Full program schedule available at: https://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/wws/
Location:

Day 1 and 2 of the workshop will take place at the UCSC Arboretum

Educator’s Day on Sunday August 20 will take place at Humanities 1, Room 210

Humanities Radio Hour: “Ben Breen”
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
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Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
2017-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140.
“In the not-so-distant future, a diverse cast of characters inherit a New York that has been flooded and overwhelmed as a result of the environmental, economic, and social disasters we are facing today. New York 2140 is timely and relevant and more realistic than the sci-fi I typically read. Significantly, it purposes a future in which ethics and moral reasoning are still being undermined by the status quo. I’d recommend reading it with friends!” – Ashley, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff
Register for the event: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140
As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear — along with the lawyers, of course. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building’s manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don’t live there, but have no other home– and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all– and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. New York 2140 is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel, from a writer uniquely qualified to the story of its future.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis, California.
“A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding, written with a cleareyed love for the city’s past, present, and future.” ―Kirkus
“The tale is one of adventure, intrigue, relationships, and market forces…. The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read.” ―Booklist
“Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world’s finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation.” ―Guardian

Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy, Shelby Graham, & Irena Polic
2017-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM

Briohny Doyle, "Postapocalypse Now"
2017-10-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Briohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin, the virus, & the nomad. ​
Briohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. Her debut novel, The Island Will Sink, is the critically acclaimed first book published by The Lifted Brow. Her first book of nonfiction Adult Fantasy is out through Scribe in 2017.
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.

Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue
2017-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery, Porter College
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm
Exhibition run dates:
Thu, Oct 5, 2017 to Sat, Dec 2, 2017
Weekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm.
Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27
The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is inspired by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1952 by an American Army Captain: Charles Eugene Gail. The photos were generously donated to Special Collections at McHenry Library by Charles’ daughter, Geri Gail, and have since been made available for student research. Our team of faculty, staff, and undergraduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing a traveling exhibition of Gail’s photographs with an accompanying digital archive that is comprised of the photos, key texts and documents, and oral histories from both America and Okinawa. We believe that using the photographs as a lens through which to view this crucial time is relevant to populations throughout Okinawa, Japan, the United States and the entire Pacific region, and we aim to establish a dialogue by shedding light on both historical and contemporary issues.
The project emphasizes hands-on research and creation by undergraduate students and as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia, social media, archival research and travel.
The Gail Project is directed by Professor Alan Christy of the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz and curated by Shelby Graham of the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at Porter College, UC Santa Cruz.
Gallery hours:
(through the academic year)
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Wednesday 12-8 p.m.
For more information: https://gailproject.ucsc.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGailProject
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegailproject/
Medium: https://medium.com/the-gail-project
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheGailProject

Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
2017-10-05 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives, material significance, and geography, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced.
As a naturalized American, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects, food, architecture, visual lexicons, and vernacular languages. For instance, vernacular Tagalog, is infused with Spanish and English words, lending itself to verbal mutation. This malleability result in wordplay and jokes that transform words like Persuading to First wedding, Tenacious to Tennis Shoes, and Masturbation to Mass Starvation. His practice draws from the sensibility of the insider and outsider- jumbling signifier, material, linguistics, and site.
Michael has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Cue Arts Foundation, and the Asia Society in NY among many others.

"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World" Symposium
2017-10-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World”
In the past decade, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, have traced epistolary networks that spanned continents and oceans. But what about the cross-cultural movement of textual artifacts that weren’t books or letters? This symposium will explore the limits of book history. At what point does an object shade into being a textual artifact? How can we make space for a less Eurocentric book history by following the itineraries of objects, like textiles, tattoos, or mummies, which encoded information in ways that differed from the format of book or the letter?

Guest Speakers:
Chris Heaney – University of Texas, Austin – “Dead Archives: Inca Bodies as the Lost Founding Texts of Peru?” – In 1989, the social anthropologist Paul Connerton highlighted how Western scholarship privileges inscriptive practices of history—which write, photograph, record, and trap information “long after the human organism has stopped informing”—over incorporative practices: gestures, ceremonies, rituals that invoke and transmit the past and its continuities via the human body. Inspired by Connerton, the cultural anthropologist Frank Salomon subsequently observed that when the Spanish invaded in 1532, they encountered a Peruvian dead that “transmit[ted] both kind of messages”: a society headed by the ancestral mummies of Inca emperors and other pre-conquest Andeans who were seated, dried, and dressed as if they were alive—arms posed in authoritative gesture—and paraded in ceremonies whose commemorative ballads further made legible their sanctity, nobility, and orders of descent and importance. This paper explores how the earliest Spanish managed their illiteracy when faced with those mummies’ inscribed historicity; it shows how they moved from attempting to inscribe the corpse of Atahualpa as a founding text of Christian Peru, to outright confiscating what we might call the ‘banned books’ of the Inca dead, the mummies themselves, 27 years after the conquest begun. While other scholars have asked what the loss of those mummified ancestors meant socially and religiously for the Inca and other Andeans, this paper ultimately asks what their loss as ‘texts’ meant for the foundational histories of Peru written by both Spaniards and Incas between 1533 and the early seventeenth century, many of which attempted to reproduce the absent and illegible imperial bodies at their core.

Mairin Odle – University of Alabama – Marin Odle is Assistant Professor of American Studies and teaches courses in Native American Studies and early American culture. Her research interests include Native-newcomer relations, the history of the body, and how selfhood, experience, and identity were narrated in early America. Her current book project investigates how cross-cultural body modification in early America remade both physical appearances as well as ideas about identity. Focusing on indigenous practices of tattooing and scalping, the book traces how these practices were rapidly adopted and transformed by colonial powers, making them key sites of cultural contestation.
Professor Odle’s talk “Reading Their ‘Marckes’: English Perceptions of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy” explores early English interpretations of Native American tattooing, focusing on writing and art produced in response to late sixteenth-century voyages. Artists and scholars on such expeditions paid close attention to bodily appearance and inscription. Lines marked on Native bodies were then transferred—and translated—as lines within European books. Colonial observers conceived of indigenous tattooing as an important communication system, and one that they hoped to employ for their own goals—even as they simultaneously claimed that Natives were people with “no letters”.

Hosted by the Center for World History
Co-sponsored by the “Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Books School”

Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
2017-10-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018
Ashwini Deo, “Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish”
Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive to properties of the circumstances at which the truth of the copular sentence is evaluated. On the proposed analysis, estar presupposes that the prejacent is boundedly true at the evaluation circumstance. The prejacent’s bounded truth at a circumstance i at a given context of use c depends on two conditions:
(a) there are no-weaker alternative circumstances i′ accessible at c where the prejacent is false, and
(b) i is a maximal verifying circumstance at c.
Central to the analysis is the notion of a strength ordering over alternative circumstances of evaluation — a circumstantial counterpart to the more familiar ordering over alternative propositions. Assuming that this content is conventionally associated with estar allows for an account of its distinct flavors and readings with a range of predicates. ser is shown to be associated with its own inferences that derive from its status as the presuppositionally weaker, neutral member of the pair.
Ashwini Deo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. Unless otherwise stated, talks take place on Fridays in Humanities 1, Room 210 at 4 p.m. during the fall quarter 2017 and at 2:30 p.m. during winter and spring quarters 2018.

Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
2017-10-10 10:30 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman–featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman’s work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson, Cathy Thomas, and David Buuck.
This event is part of Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today, a joint UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley conference on the legacy of New Narrative–a literary movement emerging from the Bay Area in the 1970s. For a full schedule of UC Berkeley readings, film showings, walks, and talks, see: https://communalpresence.com/
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Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), and Houses of Ravicka (forthcoming fall 2017)—as well as the recently released Prose Architectures, her first monograph of drawings, and Calamities, a collection of linked essay-fictions on the intersections of writing, drawing, and community, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s, Stonecutter, and Poetry Magazine. A 2014-15 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa, TX, she makes work in New England.
​This event is sponsored by the Department of Literature, Living Writers, and the Puknat Endowment.

Carrie Smith, "Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice"
2017-10-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity, intersectional community-building, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline.
Smith-Prei Associate Professor of of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.
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.

IDEA Hub Fall Open House
2017-10-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Engage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Digital Arts Research Center
Room 108
Schedule of Events:
1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet
1:45 p.m. Introductions
2:00 p.m. Current Project Presentations Pitches: Funding Opportunties
3:30 p.m. Networking Team Formations

Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
2017-10-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Fatima Mojaddedi, “Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier”
This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of language (particularly a language that demands its own translation (English) into one that signifies what Afghans do not know (Persian/ Pashto), doubles as a harbinger of wartime death and surveillance. It illustrates how military translators mediate the exchange of words and sense-making, and participate in the construction of a dangerous rural subjectivity as the exemplification of ineradicable danger.
Linguistic and biometric practices deployed in intercultural translation within military campaigns, while newly commodified and bearing much greater and more devastating consequences, are also the ideological heirs of an earlier imperial discourse on nomadism and irregular frontier movement in the subcontinent. This now transpires in contexts of counterinsurgency, and speech has come to signify collaboration or guilt (apostasy or terrorism). It informs the contemporary fear about the status of dialect in the Afghan countryside, where rural subjects are thought to be especially (and dangerously) itinerant, taking their dialect with them in order to evade military interrogation and biometric capture.
Fatima Mojaddedi, a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at UCBerkeley, completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2016. Her ethnographic research, based in Kabul, Afghanistan, considers the nature of contemporary warfare, language, and questions of cultural representation and catastrophe.

Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, "Many Molyneux Questions"
2017-10-12 15:15 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Many Molyneux Questions”
Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen
Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of representations of (not just shape, but) any arbitrary feature shared by any two modalities. Our starting point is that this is over-simple. The scientific literature contains investigations of many such questions; some are answered positively, others negatively. The answer to each question is empirical and each has to be investigated separately. Given this fragmentation, we suggest that the most fruitful approach to MQ is “dimensional:” we identify and organize the problem around parameters that pose processing difficulties for various modalities, and ask how these difficulties affect MQ. This approach yields many novel MQs, some new, others re-applications of problems posed in other contexts.
Jonathan Cohen is a Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. He specializes in Philosophy of mind, language, and perception, particularly as these are informed by the cognitive sciences; color and color vision.
Advanced Reading: Molyneux Questions, p. 364 (pdf p. 186) to p. 399 (pdf p. 203).
