BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181003T172123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T193415Z UID:10006654-1543420800-1543428000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Algorithms\, Mobility\, and Justice DESCRIPTION:Are moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk\, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral and self-driving cars will save lives. Drawing on feminist and care ethics\, Atanasoski brings to fore the injustices built into current and future mobility systems such as laws and policies that protect car manufacturers and algorithmic biases that will have disproportionate negative impacts on the most vulnerable. Moreover\, it is argued that a constricted moral imagination dominated by the reductive scenarios of the Trolley Problems is impairing design imagination of alternative futures. More specifically\, that a genuine caring concern for the many lives lost in car accidents now and in the future—a concern that transcends false binary trade-offs and that recognizes the systemic biases and power structures—could serve as a starting point to rethink mobility\, as it connects to the design of cities\, the well-being of communities\, and the future of the planet. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and affiliated with the Film and Digital Media Department. Atanasoski has a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California\, San Diego. Her research interests include race and technology; war and nationalism; gender\, ethnicity\, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies. \nNassim JafariNaimi is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication at Georgia Tech and the director of the Design and Social Interaction Studio which she established in 2013. JafariNaimi’s research engages the ethical and political dimensions of design practice and technology especially as related to democracy and social justice. Her research spans both theoretical and design-based inquiries situated at the intersection of Design Studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, and Human Computer Interaction. Her writing on topics such as participatory media\, smart cities\, social and educational games\, and algorithms have appeared in venues such as Science\, Technology\, and Human Values\, Design Issues\, Digital Creativity\, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). JafariNaimi received her PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds an MS in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran\, Iran. \nAbhradeep Guha Thakurta is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Thakurta’s research is at the intersection of machine learning and data privacy. Primary research interest include designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms with strong analytical guarantees\, which are robust to errors in the data. In many instances\, Thakurta harnesses the privacy property of the algorithms to obtain robustness and utility guarantees. A combination of academic and industrial experience has allowed Thakurta to draw non-obvious insights at the intersection of theoretical analysis and practical deployment of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms. \nCo-Sponsored by: THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Feminist Studies Department\, and the Science & Justice Research Center URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/algorithms-mobility-justice/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\, Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181101T215322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181101T225319Z UID:10006676-1543503600-1543510800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine DESCRIPTION:“Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism”\nJennifer Kelly\, Associate Professor\, UCSC  \nIn between Israeli military incursions\, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse\, satirize\, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position Gaza as solely a site of suffering\, a site where tourism could never flourish; they instead ask what it would mean if Palestinians in Gaza could actually invite tourists\, host their own tours\, and control their own borders. Through virtual tours that simultaneously describe suffering and create joy\, Palestinians in Gaza are combating not only the siege but also the representations of Palestinians in Gaza as under siege and nothing more. \n  \n“Revisiting the Question of Palestine”\nNoya Kansky\, FMST Graduate Student\, UCSC \nIn this paper\, I revisit Edward Said’s “Question of Palestine\,” with specific attention to the activation of Palestine as object of study in contemporary humanities-focused research agendas. How are these research choices shaped by institutions and the left-leaning ethos of scholar activism\, contemporary post-colonial and settler colonial studies and additionally political theory\, and current debates on research ethics and epistemic production? What violences does this practice reinscribe and in what ways does the contemporary university contain and re-direct questions that frame Palestine as a stable object – often exceptionalized as a research site that is productive to those thinking about oppression and violence? \n  \nPizza and drinks provided! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invitation-object-reframing-study-palestine/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181010T184019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184156Z UID:10006661-1543512000-1543517700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou DESCRIPTION:Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game\, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry\, Poetry Northwest\, Slate\, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow\, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University\, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. Doan has taught at Boston University\, Lesley University\, and the Boston Conservatory. He was born in Dallas\, Texas. \n  \nAngie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hyphen\, The Margins\, Nat. Brut\, and others. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and has received fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets and Kundiman. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-duy-doan-angie-sijun-lou/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T104000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181101T212240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T172913Z UID:10006675-1543574400-1543578300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stuart Russell: “Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence” DESCRIPTION:Stuart Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive\, while others\, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles\, may be negative. Beyond these\, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern\, as Elon Musk\, Stephen Hawking\, and others have suggested? And\, if so\, what can we do about it?  While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss the issue\, I will argue that the problem is real and that the technical aspects of it are solvable if we replace current definitions of AI with a version based on provable benefit to humans. \nDr. Russell will appear as a guest lecturer for Dr. David Haussler’s Scientific Principles of Life class. All are welcome. \n  \nStuart Russell\, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley\, is one of the world leaders in this area\, see\, e.g. his TED talk here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stuart-russell-human-compatible-artificial-intelligence/ LOCATION:Nat. Sci Annex Auditorium 101\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180810T203312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031528Z UID:10006648-1543575600-1543581000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop: Values Driven Pedagogy DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDefining a Values Driven Pedagogy Practice with Kendra Dority (CITL\, UCSC Lit PhD) \nThis workshop invites participants to consider how teaching can be a site in which we define\, cultivate\, and enact a set of values. What values are communicated—explicitly and implicitly—in our classrooms through our teaching methods and assignments? How do pedagogical situations present opportunities for us to claim values that may contradict or transform institutional norms? \n  \nKendra Dority\, Associate Director for Programs at the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, will share her perspectives on pursuing post-PhD work that aligns with her values\, and the pedagogical contexts that facilitated a values-driven inquiry. She will then facilitate activities and discussion around participants’ own values in relation to their teaching contexts. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-values-driven-pedagogy/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181108T045904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T171447Z UID:10006680-1543840200-1543845600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies II DESCRIPTION:Do you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It offers resources and tools to push through common roadblocks in your advanced writing practice related to issues of voice\, discipline-crossing work\, organization\, timeline\, and procrastination. \nJoin this workshop to develop a clear set of writing goals and an accountability strategy. Participants will form writing groups and commit to accountable writing practices in the second session of this workshop as part of a new THI series. Part I of this series will be held on Monday\, November 19. \nThe workshops will be led by Nadia Roche (Sociology) and Veronika Zablotsky (Feminist Studies). \n  \nThis new program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the THI Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project and co-sponsored by CITL. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-graduate-writing-challenges-strategies-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/writing-infrastructure.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180810T202312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181129T212349Z UID:10006645-1544011200-1544016600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Muriam Davis: “Colonial Genealogies of Racial Neoliberalism - Governing for the Market in Algeria\, 1958-1965” DESCRIPTION:Prof. Davis’s current work studies how French attempts to introduce a market economy during the Algerian War of Independence transformed the prevailing understandings of racial difference organized around Islam. It highlights the continuities with the post-colonial period\, when Algerian socialism introduced new economic practices that were a locus for expressing revolutionary values and national identity. \nMuriam Haleh Davis is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research interests focus on questions of political economy\, racial classification\, and post-colonial studies in Algeria. She recently co-edited an edited volume entitled North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions and Culture (Bloomsbury Press\, 2018). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of European Integration History and Journal of Contemporary History. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/muriam-davis-colonial-genealogies-racial-neoliberalism-governing-market-algeria-1958-1965/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Muriam-Davis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180727T213742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180727T214145Z UID:10005503-1544188800-1544194800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Gorka Elordieta DESCRIPTION:Gorka Elordieta\, University of Basque Country \nMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-gorka-elordieta/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181026T172921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181120T230402Z UID:10006674-1544364000-1544371200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book of Joy Community Read DESCRIPTION:Join Book of Joy author Doug Abrams\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz Public Libraries\, Temple Beth El\, and The Humanities Institute for a community-wide discussion and celebration around the themes of kindness and joy.  During this time of social and cultural division and at a time when many are feeling a sense of despair\, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu is an ideal book to discuss as a community. Abrams will share some of the rare footage from the historic meeting of these global icons in Dharamsala\, India and will then facilitate a dialogue with several community faith leaders—Rabbi Paula Marcus\, Father Cyprian Consiglio\, Reverend Deborah Johnson\, and Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi—who will talk about different spiritual traditions that lift up joy and compassion. The afternoon will conclude with a book signing and musical performance. \nFree & Open to the Public. This event will take place at Temple Beth El\, 3055 Porter Gulch Road\, Aptos. \nAbout the book: The Book of Joy has sold over a million copies around the world in over 38 countries. The Book of Joy was on the New York Times bestseller list for almost a year\, awarded the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award\, and chosen as one of “Oprah’s Favorite Things.” \nAbout the panelists: \nSenior Rabbi Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El in a variety of capacities since 1979.  She received her ordination and masters degree in Rabbinic studies in May 2004\, from the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles. Rabbi Marcus sees activism and interfaith work as important aspects of her of her rabbinic work. She serves on the national board of T’ruah\, a Rabbinic Human Rights organization. and has helped to facilitate workshops for Jewish Funds for Justice\, Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action\, Out in Our Faith and The Tent of Abraham. \nFather Cyprian Consiglio is a Camaldolese Benedictine monk\, currently serving as the prior of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur. Having lived in the Santa Cruz area for ten years\, he is well-known on the Central Coast as a musician\, author\, and teacher\, particularly for his interreligious work. \nReverend Deborah Johnson is the founding minister and president of Inner Light Ministries in Soquel. A life-long social justice activist\, Rev. Deborah is the successful co-litigant in two landmark cases in California – one set precedent for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the state’s Civil Rights Bill\, the other defeated the challenge to legalizing domestic partnerships. A voice for compassion\, equality\, and reconciliation\, her primary focus has been on coalition building\, conflict resolution\, public policy development\, and cultural sensitivity awareness. \nVen. Tenzin Chogkyi is a Buddhist nun and teacher in residence at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel\, California. Ven. Tenzin is also a certified teacher of Cultivating Emotional Balance and Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training\, and has been teaching in prisons for over a decade. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-joy-community-read/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Untitled-design.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181210T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181210T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180207T000817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T203213Z UID:10006592-1544466600-1544472000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Prof and a Pint: "Dickens and the Struggles of Marriage" DESCRIPTION:Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love\, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes\, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt\, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What happened after the novels ended and the romantic triumph of successfully surviving a 900-page plot began to fade? This talk will trace the pitfalls of getting married in Victorian Britain—the financial threats to women\, the uneven standards for husbands and wives\, the legal ways marriage compromised individual identity—and will look at how a few famously salacious marital scandals (including Dickens’s own!) succeeded in transforming both law and literature in the 19th century. \n \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes on Victorian literature and culture\, Irish literature\, gothic fiction\, and Harry Potter. She is currently writing a book about reanimated bodies in 19th-century British and Irish literature—like mummies\, vampires\, and talking corpses—and is co-editing a Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies. She received her BA from Stanford and her Ph.D. from Princeton\, and after a few years teaching in the English department at the University of Miami she is thrilled to be back in California at UCSC. \nRenée co-directs The Dickens Project\, a multi-campus research consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz that consists of nearly 50 participating universities from the US and overseas. The Dickens Project engages in and promotes research and graduate student training in Victorian literature and culture\, focusing its energies not only on the production of new knowledge about the 19th century but also on the ways this scholarly work can be meaningful\, exciting\, and useful to wider\, non-academic audiences. Every summer The Dickens Project hosts the Dickens Universe\, a week-long conference on the UC Santa Cruz campus in which faculty\, graduate students\, and members of the general public gather together to discuss one novel by Charles Dickens. The Universe is part scholarly conference\, part book club\, part summer camp\, and part Victorian festival: days are filled with lectures\, discussion seminars\, Victorian teas\, and Victorian dance lessons\, while evenings include movie screenings\, parties\, performances\, and one final Victorian ball (costumes optional). More information about The Dickens Project can be found at https://dickens.ucsc.edu/index.html. \nProf and A Pint\, An Alumni Council Silicon Valley Lecture: \nPlease join us for A Prof and A Pint\, a monthly series of informal discussions\, served over dinner and drinks\, at Forager Tasting Room and Eatery. Brought to you by UC Santa Cruz Alumni\, and helping to celebrate 2018 as the Year of Alumni\, each talk will engage a UC Santa Cruz faculty member or grad student in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month. Topics include everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras. Self-driving cars to Shakespeare. Audience participation is encouraged. Enjoy a great meal and learn something while you eat! \nEntry is free\, but please consider ordering some food and drinks to support *Forager\, our host. Current students and alumni\, we encourage you to invite your friends\, whether they are Banana Slugs or not\, to be a part of the discussion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/renee-fox-alumni-council-silicon-valley-lecture/ LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Renee-Fox_Prof-and-a-Pint.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190113 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181018T223912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T213757Z UID:10006670-1547251200-1547337599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Public Philosophy: High School Regional Ethics Bowl DESCRIPTION:Teams of up to five high school students have the fall semester to develop their thinking on 15 real-world ethical questions (“cases”) put out in early September by the National High School Ethics Bowl organization. In the Winter\, each team participates at a regional tournament (“bowl”). The team that is deemed to have displayed the most clarity\, depth\, and open-mindedness in their thinking go on to represent our region at the National Bowl in the Spring (held at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill). The Humanities Institute’s Center for Public Philosophy hosts the Northern California Regional Ethics Bowl at UC Santa Cruz. For more information visit: publicphilosophy.ucsc.edu/ethics-bowl \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPublic Events: \nSemi-Final at 3:15pm \nFinal Round at 4:30pm \nHumanities Lecture Hall URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-public-philosophy-high-school-regional-ethics-bowl/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190109T223145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T223145Z UID:10005557-1547476200-1547481600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Naomi Francis DESCRIPTION:More details available here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-naomi-francis/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181015T193506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181205T180412Z UID:10006663-1547640000-1547645400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cancelled: Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium DESCRIPTION:This week’s Center Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium has been cancelled. See you next week! \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190114T220414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190114T224418Z UID:10005561-1547726400-1547730000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Questions That Matter on KZSC DESCRIPTION:Tune in to KZSC to hear the upcoming Transformation Highway featuring Pranav Anand (Associate Professor of Linguistics)\, Lise Getoor (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering)\, and Nathaniel Deutsch (Director of the Humanities Institute) who will be discussing the upcoming event Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-matter-kzsc/ LOCATION:CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190109T215610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T215743Z UID:10005556-1547731800-1547739000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ralina Joseph: "Postracial Resistance-Black Women\, Media\, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity" DESCRIPTION:“Post Racial Resistance-Black Women\, Media\, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity” speaks about how African American women\, celebrities. cultural products\, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse– the media- propagated notion that race and race based discrimination are over– in order to resist its very tenets. \n Ralina Joseph is a Associate Professor at the University of Washington\, is Director of the Center for Communication\, Difference and Equity (CCDE). Dr. Joseph’s second book\, Postracial Resistance: Black Women\, Media Culture\, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity\, examines how African American women negotiate the minefield of “postracial racism.” \nFeminist Studies Colloquium. Events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ralina-joseph-postracial-resistance-black-women-media-uses-strategic-ambiguity/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1539880456503.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190109T223550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T223550Z UID:10005558-1547737200-1547744400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Jess Law DESCRIPTION:Jess Law\, Constraints on distributivity\nAbstract URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-jess-law/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190107T220310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T193337Z UID:10005554-1547745600-1547751600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Sina Grace DESCRIPTION:UCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series\, featuring the first out gay superhero. \nMore info: https://qz.com/1105347/the-middle-eastern-american-writer-behind-marvels-iceman-the-most-visible-gay-superhero-yet/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sina-grace/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181015T193957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T215653Z UID:10006664-1548244800-1548250200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality - An Alternative Legacy of Modernity” DESCRIPTION:An Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception of history that is not linear but articulated in a multiverse of historical temporalities\, Insurgent Universality excavates an alternative trajectory of modernity\, which originally bridges European and non-European political experiments. \nMassimiliano Tomba is professor of History of Consciousness Department at University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work aims at reconsidering predominant schemes of interpretation in political theory and universal history in order to open up political trajectories of modernity which constitute the terrain for an alternative canon. His publications include Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer\, Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken\, trans. L. Schröder\, Frankfurt am Main\, Peter Lang\, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia\, Macerata\, Quodlibet\, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities\, trans. Sara Farris and Peter Thomas\, Leiden\, Brill\, 2013; Attraverso la piccola porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin. Milano\, Mimesis\, 2017. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190111T200450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T200450Z UID:10006695-1548342000-1548349200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nadine Theiler: "A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles" DESCRIPTION:English has several additive particles\, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also\, a\ncommon choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions\, (1a-b). It has been\nsuggested that this particle can’t appear in a wh-question without triggering a so-called\nshow-master interpretation (Umbach\, 2012)\, in which the speaker already has a certain answer in\nmind when asking the question\, (1c).\n(1) Mary danced all night.\na. John also danced.\nb. Did John also dance?\nc. #Who also danced?\nIn this talk\, I will challenge this generalization based on a previously unnoticed class of\nquestions\, which I call summoning questions. To account for the resulting more differentiated\nempirical picture\, I will generalize Beaver and Clark (2008)’s QUD-based account of additive\nparticles by lifting it to an inquisitive semantics setting (Ciardelli et al.\, 2018). This allows us to\ncapture the contribution of also in declaratives and interrogatives in a unified way\, while still\naccounting for its distributional restrictions.\nAdditive particles are just one example of expressions that can appear with declarative and\ndifferent kinds of interrogative clauses. In the remainder of the talk\, I will briefly walk through\ntwo other examples—clause-embedding verbs like know\, and the German discourse particle\ndenn—to show how the proposed account of additive particles forms part of a larger research\nprogram that aims to develop formally unified accounts of expressions in this family. \n  \nNadine Theiler is a PhD student at the Institute for Logic\, Language and Computation in Amsterdam\, where she is a member of the Inquisitive Semantics group. \nTheiler’s research interests broadly relate to information exchange through linguistic communication\, with a focus on question semantics. She is interested in the nature of questions as semantic objects as well as in the role that questions play in the structuring and interpretation of discourse. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nadine-theiler-unified-semantics-additive-particles/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180820T215850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031527Z UID:10006649-1548414000-1548419400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop Series - Understanding the ACLS Public Fellows Program: Reflections from UCSC Alumni DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the ACLS Public Fellows program in conversation with two UCSC Grad Alums who have launched careers through the ACLS Public Fellows program. \n  \nSophia Booth Magnone\, Literature PhD\, is the Development Manager & Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Feminist Press. In her role at FP\, she manages grant writing\, individual giving\, and fundraising events to support the operations of a small nonprofit book publisher. Prior to the ACLS fellowship\, she studied and taught feminist literature\, speculative fiction\, and animal studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her writing has been published in Public Books\, Palimpsest\, Humanimalia\, and more. \n  \n  \nMichael Ursell is the manager of development and strategic partnerships at the  Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. He is also associate publisher of The Believer\, a nationally circulated literary magazine. Previously\, he worked at the Los Angeles Review of Books as a communications director and an editor for the nonprofit magazine’s poetry section. He arrived at LARB through the American Council of Learned Societies “Public Fellows” program. Michael holds a PhD in literature from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he wrote about English and French Renaissance poetry and taught many classes\, from Shakespeare to intro composition. His academic writing has appeared in publications including Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\, Connotations\, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n  \n—- \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-understanding-acls-public-fellows-program-reflections-ucsc-alumni/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T144000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T154500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190111T193917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190124T005039Z UID:10006690-1548427200-1548431100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Myriam Gurba DESCRIPTION:Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean\, and two short story collections\, Dahlia Season and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. Dahlia Season won the Edmund White Award\, which is given to queer writers for outstanding debut fiction. The book was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Gurba is also the author of two poetry collections\, Wish You Were Me and Sweatsuits of the Damned. She has toured North America twice with avant-garde literary and performance troupe Sister Spit. Gurba’s other writing can be found in places such as Entropy.com\, TIME.com\, and Lesfigues.com. She creates digital and photographic art that has been exhibited at galleries and museums. She works as a high school teacher. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-myriam-gurba/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180810T202658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190201T205640Z UID:10006646-1548788400-1548795600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy DESCRIPTION:Technology increasingly shapes our habits and defines our access to information. As our society navigates shifting sources of news\, targeted advertising\, and polarizing online rhetoric\, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. \nJoin THI to explore how we got here and to imagine a more inclusive\, open\, and transparent future. Part of our conversation about Data and Democracy. \nFeaturing: \nPranav Anand\, Associate Professor of Linguistics\nLise Getoor\, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering \nModerated by: \nNathaniel Deutsch\, Director of the Humanities Institute \n \nQuestions that Matter “Data and Democracy” from THI on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 25th. \n Questions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz\nA public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the Institute to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz\, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed\, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum\, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation\, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. We invite you to join us on January 29\, 2019 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Data and Democracy.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-matter-data-democracy/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/120518-event_page-3a.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181015T194118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T212044Z UID:10006665-1548849600-1548855000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leta Hong Fincher: “The Feminist Awakening in China” DESCRIPTION:On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015\, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre\, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students\, labor activists\, civil rights lawyers\, performance artists\, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among young Chinese women. In Betraying Big Brother\, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular\, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian state today. \nThrough interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists\, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother\,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement\, and describing how the Communist Party has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles\, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. \nLeta Hong Fincher is a journalist\, scholar and author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018)\, which was named one of Vanity Fair’s top eight political books of fall 2018. Dr. Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Dissent Magazine\, Ms. Magazine and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting and is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She also has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014). Hong Fincher was a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University and recently moved to New York. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181018T224231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T215117Z UID:10006671-1548954000-1548959400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jessica Bauman: "What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare" DESCRIPTION:New York City theater director Jessica Bauman and UCSC Professor Cat Ramirez will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration crisis. They will ask\, how can we connect with the full humanity of displaced people\, and what role should the arts and humanities play in helping us to do so? \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 28th. \nClick here for parking and directions to Kresge Town Hall  \nJessica Bauman is a theater and film director\, producer\, teacher\, and the founding artistic director of New Feet Productions. For her production\, Arden/Everywhere\, which reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy\, As You Like It\, as a play about refugees\, she worked with refugees and immigrants from all over the world\, both in New York and at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. \n  \nCat Ramirez is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the UC Santa Cruz specializing in race\, gender\, migration\, and citizenship. \n  \n  \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis event is generously co-sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop\, The Humanities Institute\, Porter College\, Kresge College\, and Cowell College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jessica-bauman-shakespeare-workshops/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2019-01-16-at-11.58.08-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190111T194137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T194137Z UID:10006691-1548955200-1548961200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson DESCRIPTION:UCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer\, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ronaldo-v-wilson/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190202T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181108T233434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T193742Z UID:10006682-1549132200-1549144800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maitra Memorial Lecture / Foundation Medal with Janet Yellen DESCRIPTION:Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen\, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential women leaders as we champion diversity in all areas of human endeavor. \n \nWhen Janet Yellen took office in 2014\, she became the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. Previously\, she served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve\, CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco\, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors under President Bill Clinton\, and professor at the Haas School of Business atUC Berkeley. \nShe is noted for her patient\, measured\, and accessible explanations of monetary policy while being a thoughtful leader of the Federal Reserve. In her public appearances\, she has addresses topics broader than monetary policy\, including labor markets\, unemployment\, and poverty. She was considered by some to be the most powerful woman in America. \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. \nProgram will be followed by a dessert reception \nThe UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal recognizes individuals of exceptionally distinguished achievement whose work and contribution to society exemplify the vision and ideals of UC Santa Cruz. \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture Series\nThe Maitra Lecture Series was established by UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra in memory of her husband\, Sidhartha—a scientist\, entrepreneur\, and admirer of humanist\, rationalist\, modernist thinkers. The lecture is a signature campus gathering\, and integral to the intellectual life of the campus. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maitra-lecture-foundation-medal-janet-yeltson/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190103T173208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T211614Z UID:10005552-1549393200-1549393200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with Madeleine Albright DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright\, the United States’ first female Secretary of State\, who will speak about her book\, Fascism: A Warning\, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. This ticketed event will take place at theKaiser Permanente Arena and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and Temple Beth El. \nOf all the unanswered questions of our time\, declared George Orwell in 1944\, perhaps the most important is\, What is fascism? Madeleine Albright has an answer: not as an explanation of the past\, but as a warning for the present. As she shows with insight\, humor\, and personal storytelling\, fascism not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. \nWritten by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it\, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past. \nMadeleine Albright served as America’s sixty-fourth Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career also includes positions at the White House\, on Capitol Hill\, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Madam Secretary\, The Mighty and the Almighty\, Memo to the President\, and Read My Pins. \nEvent Photos by Shmuel Thaler: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTickets are $23.00 and include 1 general admission ticket to the event and 1 pre-signed paperback copy of Fascism: A Warning. (The book is $17.99 and publishes on January 29.) All books will be distributed at the venue. \nPlease note that Madeleine Albright will not be doing a signing at the event. \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evening-madeleine-albright/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ALBRIGHT-HEADER_NEW-VENUE-copy-e1546644594454.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181015T194233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T214230Z UID:10005526-1549454400-1549459800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” \nThis paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so\, I unearth the normative relationship between candor\, courage\, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First\, I recount Wells’s argument that “yellow” and impartial journalism are\, in different ways\, responsible for the precipitous rise in the lynching of African Americans at the turn of the century. Yellow journalism uses sensationalism to fuel whites’ fear and anxiety and\, at times\, goes so far as to coordinate lynchings. The more fact-driven and impartial journalism of the New York Times does no such thing. But it substitutes cold facts for moral courage and thus shirks an important social responsibility. Second\, and drawing on work by Michel Foucault\, I contend that her willingness to risk death to expose the true causes of lynching to help others see their way toward justice and away from injustice exemplifies fearless speech\, or what the ancients called parrhesia. Third\, I question whether intrepid speech can be a moral obligation for journalists and leaders living under extreme persecution. \n  \nDesmond Jagmohan is an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University. He researches and teaches history of political theory\, and he works primarily in the areas of American and African American political thought. He also has interests in slavery and modern political thought and historical methods. At the moment\, he is completing his first book\, which is titled Dark Virtues: Booker T. Washington’s Tragic Realism. Based on several years of archival research\, the book recovers an unseen Booker T. Washington. It reconstructs his political ethics\, including his moral defense of equivocation\, concealment\, and deception as political virtues under conditions of extremity. His second project takes up Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative to look at the broader philosophical relationship between property\, personhood\, and moral agency in the context of nineteenth-century American slavery. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics\, Politics\, Groups\, and Identities\, and Contemporary Political Theory. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-4/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190111T194612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T194612Z UID:10006692-1549560000-1549566000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Steven Church DESCRIPTION:Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction\, most recently I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work\, Fear\, and Fatherhood\, and he edited the essay anthology\, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He’s a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as well as the Series Editor for The Normal School Nonfiction Series from Outpost19. He’s the Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-steven-church/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190130T181957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T210011Z UID:10005575-1549564200-1549573200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday\, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake\, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox\, and a film screening. \nCharles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love\, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes\, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt\, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What happened after the novels ended and the romantic triumph of successfully surviving a 900-page plot began to fade? This talk will trace the pitfalls of getting married in Victorian Britain—the financial threats to women\, the uneven standards for husbands and wives\, the legal ways marriage compromised individual identity—and will look at how a few famously salacious marital scandals (including Dickens’s own!) succeeded in transforming both law and literature in the 19th century. \nThe Invisible Woman (2013) is a biopic about eighteen-year-old actress Ellen Ternan and her love affair with Charles Dickens. \nRenée Fox is Co-Director of The Dickens Project and an assistant professor in the Literature department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes on Victorian literature and culture\, Irish literature\, gothic fiction\, and Harry Potter. She is currently writing a book about reanimated bodies in 19th-century British and Irish literature—like mummies\, vampires\, and talking corpses—and is co-editing a Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/45011/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Renee-Fox_Prof-and-a-Pint.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190114T191113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T232507Z UID:10006699-1549634400-1549648800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elizabeth Allen: "Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" DESCRIPTION:“Sanctuary and Medieval Kings” – Elizabeth Allen  \nAmerican nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”\, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities\, universities\, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages\, felons could avoid death by running to the church\, and kings bolstered their sacral power by protecting them. At the same time\, those who seek sanctuary exerted an influence upon their kings “from below\,” calling upon them to live up to the role of merciful monarch. Examining medieval chronicles of a fallen justiciar and an infamous breach of sanctuary\, this talk will offer a provocation to contemporary ideas about both kingship itself and  sanctuary as a ‘weak’ form of social protest. \n“A Constellation of Moments: Walter Benjamin on the Middle Ages\, Sanctuary\, and the Current Emergency” – James R Martel  \nAlso featuring:\nStephen David Engel\nVeronika Zablotsky \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nCo-Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elizabeth-allen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190114T221122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T203843Z UID:10005563-1549720800-1549731600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:John Dizikes Memorial DESCRIPTION:John Dizikes\, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26\, 2018. He was 86. \nDizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors to students in 1965. He was drawn to the school’s commitment to undergraduates and its determination to be a different kind of modern research university—one organized around a system of smaller residential colleges that nurtured the student experience. \nOver the course of 35 years\, Dizikes was a professor of history\, a professor and co-founder of the American Studies Department\, provost of Cowell College from 1979-1983\, and chair of the Council of Provosts. \nRead More \nClick here to register for the memorial \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-dizikes-memorial/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181108T233652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181203T213602Z UID:10006683-1549911600-1549918800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:MLK Convocation: Melissa Harris-Perry DESCRIPTION:  \nThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality\, freedom\, justice\, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. \n  \nSpeaker: Melissa Harris-Perry \nProfessor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. There she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and co-director of Wake the Vote. \nHarris-Perry is editor-at-large of Elle.com and a contributing editor at The Nation. From 2012-2016 she hosted the television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” on weekend mornings on MSNBC and was awarded the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism. She continues to create and direct programs with the goal of creating diverse\, quality American media. \nShe is an award-winning author and sought after public speaker\, lecturing widely throughout the United States and abroad.Together with her husband\, James Perry\, she is a principal of Perry Partnership\, offering both political and private consulting. \nHarris-Perry received her B.A. degree in English from Wake Forest University and her Ph.D. degree in political science from Duke University. She also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Harris-Perry previously served on the faculty of the University of Chicago\, Princeton University\, and Tulane University. Professor Harris-Perry has been awarded honorary degrees from many universities including Meadville Lombard Theological School\, Winston-Salem State University\, Eckerd College\, and New York University. \nShe and her family live in North Carolina. \n  \nThis event is hosted/sponsored by: ACLU Santa Cruz Chapter\, UCSC Chancellor’s Office\, Inner Light Ministries\, NAACP\, and the City of Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mlk-convocation/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181108T233904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190207T233504Z UID:10006684-1549998000-1550003400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble\, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12.\nPlease join us then.\nThe landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet\, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial\, disembodied\, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices\, situated within the dynamics of race\, gender\, class\, and politics\, and in the service of something – a position\, a profit motive\, a means to an end. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book\, Algorithms of Oppression\, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search\, as well as the implications for public information needs. \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Sociology. \n— \nDr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies\, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously\, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019\, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow. \nShe is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). \nSafiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary\, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race\, gender\, culture\, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias\, including The Guardian\, the BBC\, CNN International\, USA Today\, Wired\, Time\, and The New York Times\, to name a few. \nDr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University\, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/safiya-noble-algorithms-mobility-justice-event/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/maxresdefault-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181015T194516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T213045Z UID:10005528-1550059200-1550064600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laurie Palmer: “Public Sun” DESCRIPTION:“Public Sun” \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nA. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture\, public projects\, and writing\, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground\, and how these materials\, once liberated\, move between the earth and our bodies. She is currently researching the shapes and structures of underground oil shale formations and continuing to develop work on The Lichen Museum\, a massively distributed\, inside-out institution that considers this slow\, resistant\, adaptive and collective organism as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-5/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190201T182604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190201T182604Z UID:10005578-1550516400-1550520000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: Marlon James - Black Leopard\, Red Wolf DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to partner with Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome award-winning author Marlon James for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf\, which is already being touted as a book that “will come to be seen as a classic of our times.” (NPR) \n“A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.” —Neil Gaiman \nThe epic novel\, an African Game of Thrones\, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. \nIn the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy\, myth\, fantasy\, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose\,” people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier\, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge\, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own\, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. \nAs Tracker follows the boy’s scent—from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers—he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive\, Tracker starts to wonder: Who\, really\, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth\, and who is lying? \nDrawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination\, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious\, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth\, the limits of power\, and our need to understand them both. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 16th. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nMarlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings\, The Book of Night Women\, and John Crow’s Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize\, the American Book Award\, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as well as the NAACP Image Award. A professor at Macalester College in St. Paul\, James divides his time between Minnesota and New York. \n“Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous\, hallucinatory\, ancient Africa\, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made\, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep and crafty as Gene Wolfe\, bloodier than Robert E. Howard\, and all Marlon James. It’s something very new that feels old\, in the best way. I cannot wait for the next installment.” —Neil Gaiman \n“This book begins like a fever dream and merges into world upon world of deadly fairy tales rich with political magic. Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is a fabulous cascade of storytelling. Sink right in. I guarantee you will be swept downstream.” —Louise Erdrich \n“James’ sensual\, beautifully rendered prose and sweeping\, precisely detailed narrative cast their own transfixing spell upon the reader. He not only brings a fresh multicultural perspective to a grand fantasy subgenre\, but also broadens the genre’s psychological and metaphysical possibilities. If this first volume is any indication\, James’ trilogy could become one of the most talked-about and influential adventure epics since George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire was transformed into Game of Thrones.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[A] tour de force.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“Sweeping\, mythic\, over-the-top\, colossal\, and dizzingly complex.” —The New York Times \n“Awe-inspiring.” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Thrilling\, ambitious…both intense and epic.” —Los Angeles Times”An astonishing portrait of the politics of everyday life…Just as he is sharply aware of the nuances of their voices\, James has the confidence not to deny his characters their humanity by turning them into moral exemplars\, nor paper over the infected wounds that score across the country by suggesting that the loveliness of some of its territory makes up for the savage effects of poverty.” —The Washington Post URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-marlon-james-black-leopard-red-wolf/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/marlon-james-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20181015T194623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T210922Z UID:10005530-1550664000-1550669400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jerry Zee: "Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ DESCRIPTION:“Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ \nJerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC’s Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China’s meteorological contemporary. \nThis talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms\, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework contemporary land and air into a substantial continuum. It tracks territorial governance as it shifts into experimental formations that draw into the choreographies of sand\, wind\, and dust that they seek to re-engineer. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-6/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T171500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190125T233335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T233705Z UID:10005573-1550682900-1550682900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gabriel Guillén: "¿Revolución o Candy Crush? Una conversación sobre y sus afines" DESCRIPTION:La presencia de 691 “startups” del aprendizaje de lenguas en Angelist.co\, una plataforma de inversión\, debería alegrarnos como estudiantes de lenguas. Su lenguaje es\, sin duda\, prometedor. Sin embargo\, no es oro todo lo que reluce. En esta charla exploraremos la relación entre los eslóganes de estas empresas\, sus posibilidades reales y la teoría de la adquisición de lenguas. Del mismo modo\, reflexionaremos sobre los retos y las posibilidades del emprendimiento social en el campo del aprendizaje de lenguas. \nGabriel Guillén is Assistant Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). In addition to his research on language learning and technology\, he worked as a web developer and a reporter with more than 300 published articles in Spanish. At MIIS he teaches content-based Spanish courses focusing on social entrepreneurship and the use of media in the Hispanic world. \nLight refreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabriel-guillen-revolucion-o-candy-crush-una-conversacion-sobre-y-sus-afines/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20180921T202129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T180746Z UID:10005516-1550685600-1550689200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Loeffler\, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews\, Human Rights\, and Global Democracy" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies \n2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between the Holocaust\, the legal framework of Human Rights\, and the struggle to find justice on the global scale. \n\n\nIn this talk\, James Loeffler draws on his new book\, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century\, to revisit the 1948 moment in which modern human rights was born. This talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for minorities and stateless peoples by focusing on Jewish human rights pioneers who saw the Jewish state as an expression of global democracy. Join THI to ask where Human Rights come from\, how Jews are part of the story\, and if Zionism is in conflict with the modern Human Rights movement? \n\n\n\nRSVP appreciated\, seating is first come\, first served. Reception to follow. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 16th. \nParking and Directions to the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn  \n  \nJames Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. At UVa he teaches courses in Jewish and European history\, Russian and East European history\, international legal history\, and the history of human rights. \nHis publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press\, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press\, 2010)\, and the forthcoming edited volume\, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press). \nThis event is part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, a project of Expanding Humanities\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n— \nThe Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nVisit our lecture archive online > URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-loeffler-helen-diller/ LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/trtbh-events_page.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164253 CREATED:20190209T002036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220715T180122Z UID:10006706-1550746800-1550750400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Public Fellowship Info Session DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re interested in exploring career opportunities beyond the academy or applying your expertise in the public sphere\, the Public Fellowship program might be right for you. \nPlease join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program to learn more and hear from past Public Fellows. We will discuss the Summer and Year Long opportunities and describe some new partner organizations. \nThese fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \nCoffee and cookies will be served. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-fellowship-info-session/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190209T000130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190209T000215Z UID:10006704-1550748600-1550755800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Breanne Fahs: "Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism" DESCRIPTION:Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson\, Kathie Sarachild\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, and Dana Densmore.\nThis colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance\, particularly around the subjects of feminist rage\, sex and love\, tactics of feminist resistance\, and intergenerational knowledge- making. \nLunch will be provided URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breanne-fahs-burn-firebrand-feminism-legacy-second-wave-radical-feminism/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190214T175537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190214T180507Z UID:10006712-1550768400-1550775600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: \nALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front \nFeaturing TWLF veterans Bruce Occena\, Vicci Wong\, and Emil de Guzman \nAn Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel\nThursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 5-7 p.m.\nKresge Townhall \nSee also: Breakfast seminar – February 22 with pre-circulated materials \nGenerously sponsored by CRES\, the Dean of Students\, AA/PIRC\, Education\, The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Labor Studies\, Stevenson College\, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/power-people-asian-american-radicalism-bay-area-universities-third-world-liberation-front/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2-21-19_CRES.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190111T195252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T191545Z UID:10006693-1550769600-1550775600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich DESCRIPTION:UCSC Living Writers\, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s book\, “The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner. \nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir\, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly\, Audible.com\, Bustle\, Book Riot\, The Times of London\, and The Guardian\, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection\, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize\, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger\, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It has been published in the US\, the UK\, and the Netherlands; translations are forthcoming in Turkey\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Spain\, Greece\, Brazil\, and France. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo\, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award\, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland\, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-marzano-lesnevich-2/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190214T175852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T200118Z UID:10006713-1550829600-1550836800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People! DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: \nALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front \nFeaturing TWLF veterans Bruce Occena\, Vicci Wong\, and Emil de Guzman \nBreakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials *\nFriday\, February 22\, 2019\, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.\nHumanities 202 \n* For access to materials\, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) \nSee also: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel – Thursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 5-7 p.m. – Kresge Town Hall \nGenerously sponsored by CRES\, the Dean of Students\, AA/PIRC\, Education\, The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Labor Studies\, Stevenson College\, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breakfast-seminar-power-people-asian-american-radicalism-bay-area-universities-third-world-liberation-front/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2-21-19_CRES.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20180820T220459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031527Z UID:10006650-1550833200-1550838600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop: Publishing Scholarly Articles with Gordon Hutner DESCRIPTION:Gordon Hutner is the editor of American Literary History\, the scholarly he quarterly he founded 30 years ago.  He is also the author or editor of numerous books and articles about American literature.  These subject include the novel in the US\, Jewish American writing\, immigrant autobiographies\, cultural iconography\, and the future of the liberal arts in public higher education\, among other diverse topics.  Professor Hutner began his career at Kenyon College and the University of Virginia and has taught at the Universities of Wisconsin\, Kentucky\, and Illinois\, where he is currently the Director of the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures.  He has also taught at universities in Belgium\, Italy\, and Japan. Hutner is also the current president of Council of Editors of Learned Journals. \nPublishing Scholarly Articles is a workshop in the practice of writing for peer-reviewed academic journals.  We cover what to send\, how to prepare for print\, where to send\, and when you should be circulating your work.  The discussion will entail how to choose venues for your essays\, how to understand readers’ reports\, and how to understand editors’ purposes as well as offer some instruction in how to think about converting seminar essays\, panel papers\, and dissertation chapters into publishable articles.  All welcome.  \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/43111/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T184759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T190035Z UID:10006718-1550838600-1550843100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina DESCRIPTION:Between Two Africas: “Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination” \nThis paper explores the region and anthropologized people\, of Nubia\, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa “proper.” By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes\, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic concerns with representing Nubian people\, Alirio Karina explores how the disavowal of the ethnographic (in all of its racial and cultural senses in Sudan and Egypt is an attempt to narrate of capitalist modernity in terms of ancient lineages\, and against any sense of relation to the rest African continent\, Karina argues that\, in resurfacing the ethnographic\, we may find a resistant frame through which to think Africanity north of the Sahara. \nAlirio Karina is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department\, with designated emphasis in the Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Alirio’s dissertation examines ethnographic photographs\, objects and text representing British Africa\, exploring how these materials produce ideas of race\, culture and continent that have shaped and may yet transform African political possibility. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/two-africas-nubia-ethnographic-imagination/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181109T001706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T212553Z UID:10006685-1550840400-1550858400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Translating America/America Translated Symposium DESCRIPTION:“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Irvine\, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation\, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today\, the “Translating America/America Translated” symposium aims to re-situate scholarly and public narratives of American culture by way of multiple languages and various origin-points in space and time. It aims to move forward an important national conversation on the future of the field in its multilingual and multi-geographic dimensions and seeks to build a cohort of early-career comparative Americanist scholars. \nProject Directors: \nSusan Gillman\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz\nKirsten Gruesz\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTranslating America/America Translated: A UC Faculty-Graduate Symposium\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFebruary 22\, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm\nFebruary 23\, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm \nKeynote speakers include six prominent scholars of hemispheric American studies: \nIfeoma Nwankwo (Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost\, Vanderbilt University)\nJesse Alemán (Professor of English and American Studies\, Univ. of New Mexico)\nAnna Brickhouse (Professor of English and Director of American Studies\, Univ. of Virginia)\nMichelle Burnham (Professor of English\, Santa Clara University)\nSara Johnson (Associate Professor of Literature of the Americas\, UC San Diego)\nRodrigo Lazo (Professor of English and Spanish and Director\, Humanities Core Program\, UC Irvine) \nProgram: \nFriday\, February 22: \n11 am-12:30pm PhD+ Writing Workshop on journal publication with Gordon Hutner\, editor of American Literary History (lunch provided) \n1:00-2:30pm \nWelcome: Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nKeynote 1: Ifeoma Nwankwo (Vanderbilt University) “Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy” \n2:30 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n2:45-4:15 pm Graduate Panel #1 – Personal Narratives: Translations\, Republications\, Reprintings \n\nTimothy Fosbury (UCLA English)\, “Crèvecouer’s Bermudian Crisis”\nBrian Flores (UCI English)\, “‘Y nosotros vivimos aquí en la frontera’: Modes of Framing Latina/o Identity in the Autobiographies of José Policarpo Rodriguez and Santiago Tafolla”\nEmily Travis (UCSC Literature)\,“A vida simple: The Complex Afterlives of Alice Dayrell Brant’s Minha vida de menina”\nRESPONDENT: Amanda Smith (UCSC Literature)\n\n 4:30-6:00 pm Keynote 2: Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) “Earthquake History in the Americas” \n6:00-8:00 pm Opening reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nSaturday\, February 23: \n8:30 am Coffee and muffins (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n9:00-10:30am Graduate Panel #2 – Coloniality\, Indigeneity\, Power \n\nJenny Forsythe (UCLA Comparative Literature)\, “Ladrones\, vagabundos\, holgazones sin honra ni vergüenza: Inca Garcilaso’s Imperialist Translators Meet the Man in the Canoe”\nCarlos Macías Prieto (UCB Spanish and Portuguese)\, “Domingo Chimalpahin’s Rewriting of Antonio de Morga’s Narrative of Black Conspiracy in 1612”\nAmrah Salomón (UCSD Ethnic Studies)\, “Regeneración and Regeneration: Anti- Colonial Theory Across Borders”\nRESPONDENT: Rodrigo Lazo (UCI English)\n\n10:45 am-12:15 pm Keynote 3: Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) “When Cubans Go South: Learning the Language of Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Nationalism” \n12:15-1:30 pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00 pm Graduate Panel #3 – Nineteenth-Century Recoveries: Translating Texts and Places \n\nMargaret McMurtrey (UCSB Religious Studies)\, “Singing Grace\, Embodying Language and Place”\nGabriela Valenzuela (UCLA English)\, “Literary Wanderings: Nineteenth-Century Central American-U.S. Contact Zones and Spatial Imaginings”\nBrandon Wild (UCI English)\, “Cincinnati: ‘El asombro de todos los que viajan la América del Norte’”\nRESPONDENT: Sara Johnson (UCSD Literature)\n\n3:00 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n3:15-4:45 pm Keynote 4: Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara U) “Archival Diving in the Global Pacific: Towards a New American Literary History” \n4:45-5:30pm Closing roundtable\, moderated by Susan Gillman & Kirsten Silva Gruesz \n6:00-8:00 pm Closing reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nAbout Translating America/America Translated: \nThis symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages for American literary studies returns to historical moments that allow a reconsideration of language crossings as geographic alternatives to nation-bound paradigms. A 1998 conference on American empire at UC Santa Cruz produced groundbreaking work that has since become foundational\, shifting the study of American cultures irrevocably away from an Atlantic-centered narrative of national development\, and correspondingly toward languages other than English. Now\, twenty years later\, we revisit a once radically revisionist geo-timeline\, dating to the 1998 centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War and recasting the history of US empire back from Cuba 1898 to an earlier time and place in the border treaty with Mexico in 1848. Critically examining the state of the discipline today\, this symposium looks back still earlier: to the later eighteenth-century suturing of colonial to national studies that has proven exceptionally fruitful for scholars working across indigenous and multiple European colonial languages. Just as California’s demographic diversity prefigures that of the future United States at large\, the University of California is rich in the human resources needed to re-invent a usable past for American cultural and literary studies. For more information visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/projects/translating-america-america-translated \nSponsors:\n“Translating America/American Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego. \n“Translating America/America Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego.\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nVISITING GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER UC CAMPUSES\nChip Badley (UCSB English)\nAnastasia Baginski (UCI Comparative Literature)\nYui Kasane (UCSD Literature)\nAmanda Kong (UCD English)\nEfren López (UCLA English)\nLorena Vega Tamayo (UC Riverside Hispanic Studies) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ifeoma-c-kiddoe-nwankwo-translating-americas-symposium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/duboisdata11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181129T184329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T212710Z UID:10005551-1550908800-1550941200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Translating America/America Translated Symposium DESCRIPTION:“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Irvine\, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation\, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today\, the “Translating America/America Translated” symposium aims to re-situate scholarly and public narratives of American culture by way of multiple languages and various origin-points in space and time. It aims to move forward an important national conversation on the future of the field in its multilingual and multi-geographic dimensions and seeks to build a cohort of early-career comparative Americanist scholars. \nProject Directors: \nSusan Gillman\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz\nKirsten Gruesz\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTranslating America/America Translated: A UC Faculty-Graduate Symposium\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFebruary 22\, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm\nFebruary 23\, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm \nKeynote speakers include six prominent scholars of hemispheric American studies: \nIfeoma Nwankwo (Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost\, Vanderbilt University)\nJesse Alemán (Professor of English and American Studies\, Univ. of New Mexico)\nAnna Brickhouse (Professor of English and Director of American Studies\, Univ. of Virginia)\nMichelle Burnham (Professor of English\, Santa Clara University)\nSara Johnson (Associate Professor of Literature of the Americas\, UC San Diego)\nRodrigo Lazo (Professor of English and Spanish and Director\, Humanities Core Program\, UC Irvine) \nProgram: \nFriday\, February 22: \n11 am-12:30pm PhD+ Writing Workshop on journal publication with Gordon Hutner\, editor of American Literary History (lunch provided) \n1:00-2:30pm \nWelcome: Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nKeynote 1: Ifeoma Nwankwo (Vanderbilt University) “Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy” \n2:30 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n2:45-4:15 pm Graduate Panel #1 – Personal Narratives: Translations\, Republications\, Reprintings \n\nTimothy Fosbury (UCLA English)\, “Crèvecouer’s Bermudian Crisis”\nBrian Flores (UCI English)\, “‘Y nosotros vivimos aquí en la frontera’: Modes of Framing Latina/o Identity in the Autobiographies of José Policarpo Rodriguez and Santiago Tafolla”\nEmily Travis (UCSC Literature)\,“A vida simple: The Complex Afterlives of Alice Dayrell Brant’s Minha vida de menina”\nRESPONDENT: Amanda Smith (UCSC Literature)\n\n 4:30-6:00 pm Keynote 2: Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) “Earthquake History in the Americas” \n6:00-8:00 pm Opening reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nSaturday\, February 23: \n8:30 am Coffee and muffins (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n9:00-10:30am Graduate Panel #2 – Coloniality\, Indigeneity\, Power \n\nJenny Forsythe (UCLA Comparative Literature)\, “Ladrones\, vagabundos\, holgazones sin honra ni vergüenza: Inca Garcilaso’s Imperialist Translators Meet the Man in the Canoe”\nCarlos Macías Prieto (UCB Spanish and Portuguese)\, “Domingo Chimalpahin’s Rewriting of Antonio de Morga’s Narrative of Black Conspiracy in 1612”\nAmrah Salomón (UCSD Ethnic Studies)\, “Regeneración and Regeneration: Anti- Colonial Theory Across Borders”\nRESPONDENT: Rodrigo Lazo (UCI English)\n\n10:45 am-12:15 pm Keynote 3: Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) “When Cubans Go South: Learning the Language of Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Nationalism” \n12:15-1:30 pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00 pm Graduate Panel #3 – Nineteenth-Century Recoveries: Translating Texts and Places \n\nMargaret McMurtrey (UCSB Religious Studies)\, “Singing Grace\, Embodying Language and Place”\nGabriela Valenzuela (UCLA English)\, “Literary Wanderings: Nineteenth-Century Central American-U.S. Contact Zones and Spatial Imaginings”\nBrandon Wild (UCI English)\, “Cincinnati: ‘El asombro de todos los que viajan la América del Norte’”\nRESPONDENT: Sara Johnson (UCSD Literature)\n\n3:00 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n3:15-4:45 pm Keynote 4: Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara U) “Archival Diving in the Global Pacific: Towards a New American Literary History” \n4:45-5:30pm Closing roundtable\, moderated by Susan Gillman & Kirsten Silva Gruesz \n6:00-8:00 pm Closing reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nAbout Translating America/America Translated: \nThis symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages for American literary studies returns to historical moments that allow a reconsideration of language crossings as geographic alternatives to nation-bound paradigms. A 1998 conference on American empire at UC Santa Cruz produced groundbreaking work that has since become foundational\, shifting the study of American cultures irrevocably away from an Atlantic-centered narrative of national development\, and correspondingly toward languages other than English. Now\, twenty years later\, we revisit a once radically revisionist geo-timeline\, dating to the 1998 centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War and recasting the history of US empire back from Cuba 1898 to an earlier time and place in the border treaty with Mexico in 1848. Critically examining the state of the discipline today\, this symposium looks back still earlier: to the later eighteenth-century suturing of colonial to national studies that has proven exceptionally fruitful for scholars working across indigenous and multiple European colonial languages. Just as California’s demographic diversity prefigures that of the future United States at large\, the University of California is rich in the human resources needed to re-invent a usable past for American cultural and literary studies. For more information visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/projects/translating-america-america-translated \nSponsors:\n“Translating America/American Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego. \n“Translating America/America Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego.\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nVISITING GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER UC CAMPUSES\nChip Badley (UCSB English)\nAnastasia Baginski (UCI Comparative Literature)\nYui Kasane (UCSD Literature)\nAmanda Kong (UCD English)\nEfren López (UCLA English)\nLorena Vega Tamayo (UC Riverside Hispanic Studies) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/translating-america-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/duboisdata11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190204T185457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T193732Z UID:10006701-1551207600-1551214800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lise Getoor: "Responsible Data Science" DESCRIPTION:The 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Professor Lise Getoor on Tuesday\, February 26\, 2019 at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex. \n“Responsible Data Science” \nData science is an emerging discipline that offers both promise and peril. Responsible data science refers to efforts that address both the technical and societal issues in emerging data-driven technologies. Prof. Getoor is a computer scientist who is well known for her theoretical work that integrates logic and probability to reason collectively and holistically about context in structured domains. In this lecture\, she will describe some of the opportunities and challenges in developing the foundations for responsible data science. How can machine learning and AI systems reason effectively about complex dependencies and uncertainty? Furthermore\, how do we understand the ethical and justice issues involved in data-driven decision-making? There is a pressing need to integrate algorithmic and statistical principles\, social science theories\, and basic humanist concepts so that we can think critically and constructively about the socio-technical systems we are building. In this talk\, she will lay the groundwork for this important agenda. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lise-getoor-responsible-data-science/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lise_g.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190228 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190220T224505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T225633Z UID:10006716-1551225600-1551311999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Giving Day 2019 DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour giving drive to support students\, staff\, and faculty initiatives. Join us in the circle of Giving on February 27th 2019 from 12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. #give2UCSC \nFIND A HUMANITIES PROJECT TO SUPPORT ON GIVING DAY: \nCenter for Public Philosophy \nThe Okinawa Memories Initiative \nThe Center for Cultural Studies Graduate Student Workshops in Race\, Migration\, and Sexuality \nCenter for World History Grad Conference \nNido de Lenguas (Language Nest) \nClassics Alive! \nHistory of Consciousness Graduate Student Research Fund URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2019/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/giving-day-large-banner-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T194717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T211726Z UID:10005532-1551268800-1551274200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It” DESCRIPTION:Professor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film “Last Day of Freedom.” When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother\, a Veteran returning from war\, as he faces criminal charges\, racism\, and ultimately the death penalty. This film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care\, mental health access and criminal justice. She will discuss Last Day of Freedom as well as her upcoming animated documentary Run With It on Troy Davis’ story. A black man accused of killing a white police officer in Savannah Georgia\, USA. \nDee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award® nominated\, Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker; a Guggenheim Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Working in collaboration with Nomi Talisman\, she produces animated documentary films that explore the crisis in the criminal justice system and the US racial divide\, challenging entrenched attitudes\, immersing viewers in a complex world of feelings and experiences\, engendering empathy and critical reflection. In 2015 they received the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke\, created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are potential catalysts for education and change. Hibbert-Jones was recently awarded a United States Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award in recognition for her “outstanding national commitment to civil rights\, and social justice” and a Gideon award for “support to indigent minorities” for her film work.She a Professor of Art\, Film\, and Digital Art New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-7/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190213T193212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T193212Z UID:10006708-1551360600-1551373200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:International Women's Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas DESCRIPTION:The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2017). The second speaker is Dr. Barbara Sutton of the University of Albany\, SUNY who will speak about her book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press\, 2018). Together\, these books explore the critical themes of resistance\, survival\, intersectionality\, and trauma/hardships in the Americas. \nSchedule:\n1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ~ Dr. Ranita Ray\, University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\n3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. ~ Break with light snacks\n3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. ~ Dr. Barbara Sutton\, University at Albany\, SUNY \nAbout the Speakers: \nRanita Ray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. She is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms\, children and youth\, urban inequalities\, and education and policing. Her book\, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2018)\, challenges common wisdom that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs\, gangs\, violence\, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray has published several other articles and book chapters related to children/youth\, urban inequalities\, race\, class and gender\, and co-authored a book titled As The Leaves Turn Gold: Aging Experiences of Asian Americans (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers\, 2012). Ray is currently preparing a book manuscript that draws on rigorous fieldwork to explore how the relationship between policing\, race\, class\, and gender shapes schooling experiences and educational trajectories of children growing up in marginalized communities in Las Vegas. Ray is actively involved in community-oriented research projects\, and co-founder of Heating Youth Voices—a Connecticut based youth led organization. \nBarbara Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American\, Caribbean\, and U.S. Latino Studies at the same institution. She earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (her country of origin) as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon. Professor Sutton’s scholarly interests include body politics\, global gender issues\, state violence and human rights\, collective memory\, and women’s movements\, particularly in Latin American contexts. Her book\, Bodies in Crisis: Culture\, Violence\, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press\, 2010) received the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association. Her new book\, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina\, was published by NYU Press in the Spring of 2018. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-womens-day-celebrating-feminist-scholarship-americas/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Research Center for the Americas":MAILTO:rca@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T172000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190209T001953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190209T002329Z UID:10006705-1551374400-1551374400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nLiving Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita\, Seshu Foster\, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni. \nThis event is sponsored by The Literature Department\, The Creative Writing Program\, The Humanities Division\, Porter College\, Kresge College\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, Feminist Studies\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-celebration/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190301T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T185808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T205943Z UID:10006719-1551398400-1551447900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet DESCRIPTION:“Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies\, death\, and Western cultural practices” \nAccording to Norse mythology\, two male goats\, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr\, pull Thor’s chariot. Once they have completed their labor\, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter\, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes the focus of this dissertation\, which will engage with the ways in which Western societies and culture negotiate animal depth and engage with the materiality of the animal body. This dissertation explores this relationship by focusing on the representation and cultural digestion of the animal body\, specifically on the instances in which animal bodies are\, like in the Norse myth\, “brought back to life\,” in order to serve human needs. Once dead\, their bodies are rearranged-as in the case of taxidermy -so that’s Ann illusion of life can be represented to serve human needs-of knowledge and education\, wonder and discovery\, entertainment\, and amusement. Consequently\, this research focuses on how the animal body is used to mediate its own loss\, in what seems to be a system created for human pleasure. \nAlessia Cecchet is an experimental filmmaker and PhD candidate whose work is invested in the representation of non-human animals. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-alessia-cecchet/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190301T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190301T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190215T180205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190215T180236Z UID:10006714-1551441600-1551456000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i: The Detours Project DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies Colloquium: Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i  – The Detours Project\nVernadette Vicuna Gonzalez\, University of Hawai’i at Manoa \nFriday\, March 1 – HUM 1 room 210\n12:00 to 2:00 pm \nLunch will be provided \nPublishing Workshop: After the Colloquium\, Prof. Gonzales\, who is an Associate Editor\nof the American Quarterly journal\, will conduct a Publishing Workshop. \n2:30 to 4:00 pm – HUM 1 room 210 \nThe Detours project explores the fantasy of Hawai’i as an exotic destination for consumption by tourists\, perverting the genre of the guidebook to produce alternative narratives\, tours\, mappings and images\nof the islands\, and concrete examples of moving from metaphors of decolonization\nto material practices and everyday acts of resistance. \nVernadette Vicuna Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawaii’i and the Philippines\, she also is co-editor with Hokulani Aikau\, of Detours: A Decolonial Guide (under contract with Duke University Press). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/curating-decolonial-guide-hawaii-detours-project/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/3-1-19_Fmstudies_talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181109T002338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T192841Z UID:10006686-1551718800-1551726000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nNumerous political and intellectual traditions have sought to leverage the language of self-ownership as a tool of radical critique\, including Marxism\, feminism\, and Critical Race Theory. But do we ‘own’ ourselves in any meaningful or politically productive sense? This lecture considers the dilemmas involved in this question with particular reference to the Black Radical Tradition\, situating it within the broader framework of ‘dispossession’. \nRobert Nichols is a McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). His areas of research specialization include contemporary political theory (especially Critical Theory\, Marx and Marxism\, Foucault); the history of political thought (especially pertaining to imperialism and colonialism in the 19th century); and the contemporary politics of settler colonialism and indigeneity in the Anglo-American world. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neoliberalism-cluster-robert-nichols/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Obnoxious-Liberals-Jean-Michel-Basquiat.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T194843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T193707Z UID:10005534-1551874500-1551877200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Camilla Hawthorne: "On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles" DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework for understanding the historical and contemporary forms of racial criminalization and racialized citizenship in Italy. The emergent “Black Italian” movement in Italy has been increasingly confronted with the limits of national citizenship as a means for addressing racial inequality. In response\, activists have begun to turn toward alternative political imaginaries and practices of community that extend far beyond the Italian nation-state. In this context\, what can the Black Mediterranean open up in terms of new political praxes and transgressive alliance? Specifically\, how might this framework help to bridge Black liberation politics in Italy with refugee rights mobilizations? \nCamilla Hawthorne is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Inequality at UC Santa Cruz. Camilla received her PhD in Geography with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley in 2018. She also holds an MPA from Brown University. Camilla’s work addresses the politics of migration and citizenship\, racism and inequality\, and social movements. Her book project\, tentatively titled Different Waters\, Same Sea: Contesting Racialized Citizenship in the Black Mediterranean\, explores the politics of race and citizenship in contemporary Italy. She is also co-editing a volume about Black Geographies with Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis of UC Berkeley. Camilla serves as faculty member and project manager of the Summer School on Black Europe in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-8/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T202026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T202026Z UID:10006724-1551889800-1551895200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stevenson College Winter 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Phillip L. Hammack DESCRIPTION:“Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Era of Radical Authenticity” \nProfessor Phillip L. Hammock will present on findings that challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static\, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity\, community\, and stigma. \nThe twenty-first century is a time of heightened recognition of diversity in gender\, sexuality\, and relationships—an era of “radical authenticity” in which individuals are increasingly able to align their internal sense of identity with its external presentation. Cultural attitudes and social policies in the United States and elsewhere have increasingly come to legitimize diversity in gender and sexual identity\, with legal recognition of same-sex relationships and heightened visibility of the transgender experience. This presentation reports preliminary findings from a mixed-methods study of adolescents residing in distinct regions of California known for their historic support or hostility toward gender and sexual diversity. Mobilizing multiple sources of data (e.g.\, ethnographic\, interview\, survey)\, three larger stories are emerging that center on (a) the new vocabulary related to gender and sexual identity\, revealed in adolescents’ appropriation of new identity labels that challenge binary conceptions; (b) the endurance of stigma in spite of social change and the resources associated with supportive community settings; and (c) the expansion of the meaning of community for contemporary adolescents\, facilitated by social media. These findings challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static\, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity\, community\, and stigma. \nFollowed by a reception at the Stevenson Provost House \nThis year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture is cosponsored with The Humanities Institute\, Oaks College\, and the UCSC Psychology Department. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stevenson-college-winter-2019-distinguished-faculty-lecture-phillip-l-hammack/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181109T002511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T202939Z UID:10006687-1551897000-1551906000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration\, Art\, and Social Justice - A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera DESCRIPTION:Join recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues of immigration\, belonging\, and home. Herrera and Rice will be joined in this community conversation by representatives of local groups working on social justice and immigration issues\, including local filmmaker Brenda Avila-Hanna. Additionally\, attendees will have the opportunity to contribute to a collaborative piece collecting community stories. \nThe evening’s conversation will be facilitated by UC Santa Cruz Literature professor Kirsten Silva Gruesz. \nBorderbus is a new book project created by Rice in collaboration with Herrera. Herrera’s poem by the same name\, which forms the foundation for Rice’s work\, features a whispered conversation between two women held at the border between Mexico and the United States on an ICE bus. Rice\, whose works build bridges between art forms\, cultures\, artists/audiences\, and technologies\, collaborates with visual artists\, performing artists\, and writers to create book structures in which word and image meet and merge. \nJuan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2016) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014\, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. \nFelicia Rice is a book artist\, book arts educator\, and sole proprietor of Moving Parts Press in Santa Cruz\, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions and collections both nationally and internationally\, from AIGA Annual Book Shows in New York and Frankfurt to the Victoria & Albert Museum. \nKirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Through her research and teaching she promotes comparative and multilingual approaches to “American” literature and history. She is the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing. \n  \nSponsored by: UC Santa Cruz University Library\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, Moving Parts Press\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the following UC Santa Cruz partners: Research Center for the Americas\, Oakes College\, and the Department of Latin America & Latino Studies. \n  \nEmail questions to: \nUCSC Special Collections at speccoll@library.ucsc.edu \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juan-felipe-herrera-conversation/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Borderbus_THI_Website_Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190212T182023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T215515Z UID:10006707-1551967200-1551972600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anne Donlon\, "Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons" DESCRIPTION:Learn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators\, researching\, drafting\, sharing work in progress\, getting informal and formal feedback\, publishing on a Commons site\, or sharing work published elsewhere in our open access repository. \nThis presentation will explore several options for engaging a broader audience of readers and collaborators. \n\nSeating is limited. Registration is required. Register online now > URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-donlon-making-scholarship-open-humanities-commons/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190111T195617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T195617Z UID:10006694-1551979200-1551985200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera DESCRIPTION:Born on the migrant roads of Central California\, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement – San Diego\, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec\, Mayan cultural roots\, as well as urban\, and multi-cultural and spoken word\, jazz styles on community performance stages. Also\, he has been a founder of various poetry\, jazz and afro-cuban percussion fusion ensembles\, and street theatre groups. Schools\, from UCLA\, Stanford to Iowa have been key to his thoughts on culture\, power and word. He delights in as many poetic traditions and experimental approaches as possible — children’s books\, experimental art-word fusions\, YA novels\, and performance —with the instant society in mind\, the audience-community. Awards have been many — NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships\, California Arts Council grants\, the LA Times Robert Kirsch Award\, the UCAL Chancellor;s Medal\, the National Book Critic Circle Award\, The Autry Spirit Award\, the Latino International Award and the Pura Belpré Honor Award\, among others. His most recent book\, Imagine\, a children’s book. “Every word is made of kindness\,” he says. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-juan-felipe-herrera-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190225T192445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T192830Z UID:10006725-1551985200-1551985200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dana Frank\, "The Long Honduran Night" DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance\, repression\, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.\nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States.\nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email by March 5th. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-launch-dana-frank-long-honduran-night/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dana-Frank.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190308T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190308T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20180820T220800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031527Z UID:10006651-1552042800-1552048200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop Series: Building Online Identities with Humanities Commons with Anne Donlon DESCRIPTION:Humanities Commons can help you develop your online presence\, expand the reach of your scholarship—whatever form it may take—and connect with other scholars who share your interests. Humanities Commons is a not-for-profit\, scholar-run network for people in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to collaborate and share work. You can create a profile\, connect with colleagues in groups\, publish a personal website or blog\, and build a portfolio of work with the CORE repository. This session will introduce Humanities Commons and ways that you can use it to shape your professional online identity. \n  \nFollowing the workshop\, local photographer\, Crystal Birns will be on hand to take headshots for interested graduate students. Jumpstart your online identity by getting a new professional headshot. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/43116/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190308T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190308T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T201027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T172337Z UID:10006723-1552064400-1552064400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Grad Slam DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz master’s and doctoral students are a force for innovation and new ideas that keep California in the forefront. Grad Slam is an annual contest to communicate research. It aims to make research accessible by providing emerging scientists and scholars with the skills to engage the public in their work. Participants are judged on how well they engage the audience\, how clearly they communicate key concepts\, and how effectively they focus and present their ideas—all in three minutes or less! \nVice Provost and Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies Lori Kletzer emcees the contest\, and the judges panel includes community members in industry\, media\, government\, and higher education … and YOU! Audience members vote for the people’s choice. Bring your internet-accessible mobile device to text message your vote! \nJoin us as our top graduate students present their mind-bending work to the community and cheer on our own Humanities Division\, History of Consciousness graduate student\, Natalia Koulinka\, who is among the finalists.\n \n  \nDoors open at 5:00 p.m. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and is emceed by Lori Kletzer. \nLight refreshments provided\, wine and beer sales by Kuumbwa. Space is limited\, please register \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/grad-slam/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190309 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190310 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190111T200658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T200425Z UID:10006696-1552089600-1552175999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics at Santa Cruz 2019 DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-santa-cruz-2019/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190311T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190311T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190306T193011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T194203Z UID:10005589-1552323600-1552330800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anne Norton; "Theses on Democracy or\, The People\, Steering" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAnne Norton is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Norton is the author of seven books\, including On the Muslim Question and 95 Theses on Politics\, Culture and Method. She is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Theory and Event and on the executive board of the journal Political Theory. Her present work concerns problems of property and democracy. \nTheses on Democracy or\, The People\, Steering \n1. The practice of democracy is being toward death.\n2. Democracy requires courage.\n3. Democrats take risks.\n4. Bandits\, pirates\, outlaws and rogues are close to democracy.\n5. Authoritarianism is the enemy of democracy\, anarchy is its shadow.\n6. Anarchy is not only to be feared\, it is also a place that offers shade\, a place to rest\, a place to hide.\n(…)\n38. Democracies depend on truth.\n39. Truth prospers in democracies. Truth depends on the democratic.\n40. We are not democrats yet.\n41. Democracy is not an idyllic state\, democracy is a struggle.\n42. Each democracy is distinct.\n(…) \nThis is an event part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster \nNext event: Monday\, April 15th Bernard Harcourt URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-norton-theses-democracy-people-steering/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190311T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190311T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190103T195520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T211012Z UID:10005553-1552329000-1552334400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Prof and a Pint: "Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now" DESCRIPTION:Political discourse in the United States is devolving. From social media to Washington D.C. closed-mindedness\, confirmation bias\, and agenda-driven reasoning are undermining the possibility for constructive dialogue. Where do these destructive tendencies come from? Are they the result of a person’s upbringing\, or intelligence\, or education? A matter of their character? Our research is beginning to provide answers to these questions\, and these answers have profound\, sometimes surprising\, implications for the future of our country. \nPlease join us for a presentation and conversation to learn how the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz is fostering more thoughtful and engaged communities of thinkers\, doers\, and change-makers by using philosophy and cognitive science to teach us all—especially the next generations—how to think and talk to one another differently. \nThe Center for Public Philosophy is a research center within The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Please RSVP \n \n  \nJon Ellis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and founding director of the Center for Public Philosophy. His current research is on motivated reasoning (cognitive dissonance\, rationalization\, self-deception\, etc.) and\, in particular\, on the role it plays in especially intelligent\, reflective\, and sincere thinkers. He teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses at UC Santa Cruz\, and has published on a broad range of topics including perception\, language\, color\, skepticism\, interpretation\, and rationalization. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from UC Berkeley in 2002. \nJuan Ruiz earned degrees in Philosophy and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2017\, and is currently a master’s degree student in the Philosophy Department. He has been an active High School Ethics Bowl coach for under-served schools in Watsonville\, San Jose\, and Santa Cruz\, CA. Ruiz co-authored the AB540 Student Emergency Fund\, an addendum to CA AB540 Non-Resident Tuition Fee Waiver\, which allocates $300\,000 of unrestricted emergency funds for undocumented students on the UC Santa Cruz campus; and co-founded UCSC’s Minorities and Philosophy chapter. Ruiz received the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity as a result of furthering diversity\, inclusion\, and excellence at UC Santa Cruz. \nClick here for more information about the UCSC “Prof and  Pint” Lecture Series \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prof-pint-center-public-philosophy/ LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190207T233053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190207T233203Z UID:10006703-1552417200-1552422600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Safiya Noble\, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event was rescheduled from February 12 \nThe landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet\, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial\, disembodied\, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices\, situated within the dynamics of race\, gender\, class\, and politics\, and in the service of something – a position\, a profit motive\, a means to an end. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book\, Algorithms of Oppression\, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search\, as well as the implications for public information needs. \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Sociology. \n— \nDr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies\, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously\, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019\, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow. \nShe is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). \nSafiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary\, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race\, gender\, culture\, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias\, including The Guardian\, the BBC\, CNN International\, USA Today\, Wired\, Time\, and The New York Times\, to name a few. \nDr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University\, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/safiya-noble-algorithms-oppression-search-engines-reinforce-racism/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/maxresdefault-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190125T201400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T194821Z UID:10005569-1552478400-1552483800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDai Jinhua’s lecture will address the place of post-colonial theory in the twenty-first century. This question is highly relevant to China\, as it recalls the history of China’s involvement in the non-aligned movement\, and subsequent efforts after the break with the Soviet Union to form third-world solidarities. But Dai calls into question whether the insights of postcolonialism are relevant for the transformations that have taken place in China in the last thirty years\, as part of what she calls our current era of “the post-post-Cold War.” Historically the postcolonial binary of colonization/de-colonization blurred the coordinates of the Cold War\, including most importantly China’s position as a “third” option within the non-aligned third world. Since the end of the Cold War\, what can post-colonial theory tell us about the current dominance of finance capital and capital monopoly of new technologies that has reconstructed the entire third world to serve as production zones of cheap goods or fields of monoculture? To what extent is China implicated in these transformations? How can post-colonial theory address the enormous debt imposed on the global South by former colonial powers? Analysis of the cultural in post-colonial theory depended on the political-economic structure of the Cold War. How do we analyze the cultural in today’s world? And how can political critique and resistance become effective once again in China as well as around the world? \nDai Jinhua is an internationally well-known feminist Marxist critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literatureand Culture and director of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies\, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture\, film studies\, and gender studies. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-twenty-first-century-postcolonialism/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190213T203202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T195451Z UID:10006709-1552492800-1552498200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kevin McDonald\, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants\, Oceans\, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAt the end of the eighteenth century\, a fantastic global plot was conjured up by a network of invested individuals that eventually reached the highest levels of the British state and the Admiralty. The plan: to transplant South Pacific breadfruit to the Caribbean Islands to feed the slaves of empire. Slaves grew sugar that fueled the proto-industrial workforce of England\, and sugar produced rum\, that powered the imperial navy. This research talk will explore the trans-oceanic exchanges not just of breadfruit\, but of Atlantic and Pacific maritime cultures from ca. 1767-1798. Tracing the story of Babbo and the breadfruit allows us to intersect the surprisingly entangled histories of the South Pacific\, Europe\, Africa\, and the Caribbean\, in a global history connected by plants\, oceans\, and empires; and the fusion of not two but three tropical farming systems (Africa\, the West Indies\, and the South Pacific). \nKevin McDonald is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles\, who received his Ph.D. from UCSC in 2008. His first book\, Pirates\, Merchants\, Settlers\, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World examined the important role played by pirates in the informal trade networks that integrated economies throughout the Indian and Atlantic Ocean trading worlds. His new project focuses on the transfer of breadfruit from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean as a potential crop to feed the Caribbean’s massive plantations. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-mcdonald-babbo-breadfruit-plants-oceans-empires-age-enlightenment/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/kevin-mcdonald.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190201T182911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190201T183123Z UID:10006700-1552503600-1552507200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: Carolyn Burke\, Foursome DESCRIPTION:THI joins Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Foursome\, a captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \n“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-carolyn-burke-foursome/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/carolyn-burke.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190314T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190125T200337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T200337Z UID:10005567-1552579200-1552579200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matt Cook\, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom” DESCRIPTION:Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context\, at human scale\, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics\, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments\, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Yet\, relatively few curricular interventions have made full use of VR (or have published on the results of such integrations). This talk will use case studies and associated implementation strategies to explore and narrow this gap in the research literature\, thereby empowering participants to begin thinking about their own VR-based course integrations. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matt-cook-depth-field-translating-benefits-virtual-reality-laboratory-higher-ed-classroom/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T003000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190227T210053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T212604Z UID:10005585-1552609800-1552657500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman DESCRIPTION:World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions \nHow do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot’s behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included to create the best possible robots for children. \nElizabeth Goldman is a fourth year doctoral student in the developmental psychology. She works in the Infant and Child Development Lab. Her current line of research focuses on how children interact with robots. Many robots are being designed and marketed towards children. This research focuses on answering questions about how these robots impact children developmentally/ \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-elizabeth-goldman/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190213T213428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T213428Z UID:10006711-1552665600-1552665600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen DESCRIPTION:Helene Moglen (March 22\, 1936 – October 18\, 2018) \nPlease join us in the celebration of Helene’s life as friend\, colleague\, teacher\, community activist\, mother\, grandmother\, spouse\, former Provost of Kresge College\, and former Dean of Humanities and Art.\nThe celebration will include invited speakers\, and an open microphone for individuals who want to share their stories of Helene. \nLight refreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebration-life-helene-moglen/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190220T224028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T224652Z UID:10006715-1553331600-1553364000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop: "Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging Part II" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Maghrib Workshop: “Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging Part II” Program:  \nUCSC Humanities 1\, Room 210 \nMorning\n8:30 – Transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.\n9:00 – Coffee and Introduction\n9:15 – Samia Errazouki (UC Davis\, History) “Morocco’s Bloody ‘Golden Age’: Race\, Slavery\, and Capitalism in the 16th Century African Atlantic”\n10:30 – Olivia C. Harrison (USC\, French and Italian and Comparative Literature) “Palestine and the Migrant Question”\n11:45 – Thomas Serres (UCSC\, Politics) “Of Democracies in Algeria: Elections and Popular Agonism (2011-2019)”\n1:00 – Lunch \nAfternoon\n2:00 – Rachel Colwell (UC Berkeley\, Music and Literature) “Tunis al-Maḥrūsa: Tunis the Well-Protected” in “al-Makān: Listening for Place”3:15 – Break\n3:30 – Jessica Marglin (USC\, Religion) “Rights\, Nationality\, and Belonging in a Transnational Context: Léon Elmilik and the Jews of Tunisia\, 1861-1881”\n4:45 – Concluding Remarks\n6:00 – Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House \nSpeaker Bios: \nOlivia C. Harrison: “Palestine and the Migrant Question” \nOlivia C. Harrison is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization (Stanford 2016) and co-editor of Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford 2016). Her manuscript-in-progress\, Banlieue Palestine: Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France\, charts the emergence of the Palestinian question in France\, from the anti-racist movements of the late 1960s to contemporary art and activism. She is currently researching the recuperation of minority discourses by the French far and alt right for a book tentatively titled The White Minority. \nProfessor Harrison will be presenting the last chapter of her current book manuscript\, Banlieue Palestine: Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France\, which examines the central importance of the Palestinian question in French politics\, society\, and culture. It is a testament to the pervasiveness of (post)colonial discourses on migration that the trope of the migrant as stranger-foreigner is ubiquitous even in anti-xenophobic discourses about the migrant “crisis.” What she call instead the migrant question – the production of a dehistoricized discourse of crisis about the “invasion” of France by colonial subjects-turned-foreigners – is a through line in representations of Palestine in postcolonial France\, from Mohamed arfad valiztek to Genet’s unpublished film script\, Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal: Nationalité “Immigré(e)”\, Mohamed Rouabhi’s El menfi / L’exilé\, and the street art of the “Palestine generation.” Already a key concern in the early 1970s when anti-racist activists began invoking Palestine as rallying cry\, the migrant question has taken on even more urgency in recent years. This chapter is devoted to Palestine and the migrant question. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maghrib-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190401 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190321T192351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T210709Z UID:10005592-1553731200-1554076799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Augmented Intelligence Summit: Steering the Future of AI DESCRIPTION:Today many of the concepts\, consequences\, and possibilities involved in a future with advanced AI feel distant\, uncertain\, and abstract. No one has all the answers about how to ensure that powerful AI in the future is beneficial\, either in terms of technical implementation or in terms of transference to the domains of law\, regulations and policy\, industry best practices\, or society at large. There are a number of organizations and initiatives that are working on the issues of AI safety\, ethics\, and governance. \nJoining these efforts with a distinct role that bridges academia and industry\, the Augmented Intelligence Summit offers a unique\, inter-disciplinary approach to learning and creating solutions in this space. We ask: is it possible to develop a collective\, concrete\, realistic vision of a positive AI future that can inform policy\, the development of the industry\, and academic research\, and can it be done inclusively? Our hypothesis is that this is indeed possible\, and we have designed an experiment to test it. \nLearn more: https://futureoflife.org/augmented-intelligence-summit-2019-2/?cn-reloaded=1 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/augmented-intelligence-summit-steering-future-ai/ LOCATION:1440 Multiversity\, Scotts Valley\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T165756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T213513Z UID:10006662-1553886000-1553893200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion DESCRIPTION:Zakir Hussain is appreciated as one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order\, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in India and he is one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father and teacher\, Ustad Allarakha\, he has elevated the status of his instrument both in India and around the world. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity\, founded in formidable knowledge and study. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement\, Hussain’s contribution to world music has been unique\, with many historic collaborations\, including Shakti\, which he founded with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar\, and recordings/performances with artists as diverse as George Harrison\, YoYo Ma\, Joe Henderson\, Van Morrison\, and the Kodo drummers. Hussain presents his Masters of Percussion project on this concert date. Zakir Hussain Website \nAt the Rio Theatre \n1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95062\nDoors at 6:30 PM \nBUY TICKETS \nRegular General Admission: $42/Advance $50/Door\nGold Circle Section (1st 10 rows): $63/Advance $70/Door\n(5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax included\, service charge not included) \nThis event is co-sponsored by Kuumbwa Jazz and The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zakir-hussain/ LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hussain_Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190123T204317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T174012Z UID:10005565-1554231600-1554231600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson Book Launch: SHOUT DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers\, teens\, and new adults. Combined\, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chainswas short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Join us for a discussion and signing of her new book\, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era. \nLaurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about\, and advocates for\, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999\, her groundbreaking\, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now\, twenty years later\, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing poetic memoir\, SHOUT. \nIn free verse\, Anderson shares reflections\, rants\, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching\, devastating and triumphant\, SHOUT is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp\, whether aloud\, online\, or only in their own hearts. \nModerated by Sabaa Tahir \nSabaa Tahir is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There\, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels\, raiding her brother’s comic book stash\, and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock\, garish socks\, and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Title IX office\, Cowell College\, and UCSC First Gen Initiative \n \nIMPORTANT INFORMATION: \n\nThis event is for mature audiences only; children under 13 will not be admitted.\nAttendees must purchase a copy of SHOUT from Bookshop Santa Cruz either in store or at the event to enter the signing line.\nGet a copy of SHOUT at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at the event\, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laurie-halse-anderson-book-launch-shout/ LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Halse-Anderson-Shout-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T194956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T194849Z UID:10005536-1554897600-1554903000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Elizabeth Marcus: "The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique" DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program for 2017-2019. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French\, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Her research and teaching focus on the francophone and Arab worlds\, with a particular interest in knowledge production\, cultural imperialism\, and the histories of religious and minority groups. In her current book project\, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon\, she uses post-independence Lebanon as a case study of multilingualism and decolonization from below. \nShe is developing a second project on global intellectual history\, international students and radical politics in post-war France. Recovering the history of the Cité internationale universitaire\, an international university campus set on the outskirts of Paris\, she looks at how it became a key physical and symbolic space for students\, writers and intellectuals from the Middle East\, Africa and Europe. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-9/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181019T212401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T201831Z UID:10006672-1554908400-1554915600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\nAn Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project \n \nThis event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript\, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization\, digital cartography\, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform\, empower\, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement\, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data\, narratives\, and maps\, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists\, activists\, oral historians\, cartographers\, muralists\, and more\, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement. \nWhile AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories\, numerous videos and reports\, and even several murals\, light projections\, zines\, and posters\, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists\, activists\, designers\, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps\, graphics\, poems\, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters\, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification\, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter\, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors\, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book\, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material\, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/counterpoints/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mural-smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190402T174943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T175137Z UID:10006727-1554995700-1555002000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Barry Lam - Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice DESCRIPTION:At different stages of the criminal justice system\, from policing\, bail hearings\, and sentencing\, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police\, who to arrest\, who goes to jail\, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work\, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation\, and how the future of criminal justice depends on decisions we make now about the risks we are willing to tolerate for public safety. \nOrganized by the Humanities Institute\, Data and Democracy Initiative\, and Center for Public Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-future-philosophy-predictive-algorithms-criminal-justice/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190403T214707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221040Z UID:10006729-1555003800-1555003800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Roger Reeves  DESCRIPTION:Roger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas\, Austin.Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, and Tin House\, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship\, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008\, two Bread Loaf Scholarships\, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. In 2012\, Reeves received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for his poem “The Field Museum.” He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois\, Chicago\, and a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University. King Me (Copper Canyon Press\, 2013) is Reeves’s first book. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-roger-reeves/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190313T211052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T192402Z UID:10005590-1555057800-1555092000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History\, 1750-2019” DESCRIPTION:The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution\, war\, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration\, borders\, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens\, non-citizens \, subjects\, refugees\, and exiles in world history. We welcome broad definitions of “border\,” “citizenship\,” and “migration”to include boundaries that migrate even when people themselves do not\, citizenships that are defined by entities other than the state\, and migrations that don’t require physical movement (eg. movement among identities that can affect citizenship\, like race or religion). \nGraduate Student Conference hosted by: The UCSC Center for World History Program \nCommittee: Daniel Joesten\, Muiris MacGiollabhui\, Jackie Schultz\, Crystal Smith \n8:30–9:00 Opening Remarks\, Coffee\, and Pastries \n9:00-10:30 Panel One: “Religion\, Migration\, and the Politics of Citizenship” \nChair: Crystal E. Smith \n\nJeffrey Turner (University of Utah) – “Polygamy\, Race\, and Religion in the 1891 Immigration Act”\nRobin Keller (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “‘The Only Foreigners We Felt Sorry For:’ Holocaust Refugees and Border Control in World War II Shanghai”\nShimul Chowdhury (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Stitching Solidarity: Collaborative Craft and the Muslim Identity”\n\n10:45-12:15 Panel Two: “Identity\, Family\, and the State” \nChair: Jaclyn N. Schultz \n\nSelena Moon (Independent Scholar) – “ Sexism and Racism in U.S. and Japanese Citizenship Laws ”\nEmma Bellino (University of Wollongong) – “From Citizen to Alien to Citizen Again: Married Women’s Dependent Nationality in Australia\, 1920-1948 ”\nKarina Ruiz (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Cleavages of the State: Legal geographies in the U.S.”\n\n12:15-1:15 Lunch \n1:15- 2:45 Panel Three: “Exile and Banishment across Borders” \nChair: Muiris MacGiollabhuí \n\nDaisy Munoz (San Francisco State University) – “Viva Reagan: Cuban Republican Partisanship in 1980 & 1984”\nKevan Aguilar (University of California\, San Diego) – “‘Cárdenas was Calling Us:’ Race\, Class\, and Settlement in Mexican & Spanish Exile Imaginaries”\nLily Hindy (University of California\, Los Angeles) – “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees\, Emigrés\, and Exiles Confront a New National Identity”\n\n3:00-4:15 Panel Four: “Culture\, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism” \nChair: Daniel Joesten \n\nHardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) – “‘Popularly Understood ’ : U.S. Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century ”\nAmelia Flood (St. Louis University) – “Marooned on American Shores: Migrating Between Citizen and Subject in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”\nAlberto Ganis (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Sub-State Nationalisms and the Other(s) : The Mediated Identities of Friuli”\n\n4:30-6 Keynote \nHarry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Africa and Atlantic History) – “Edward W. Blyden: The Afropolitan Dreams of an Atlantic Denizen” \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies\, Cowell College\, UCSC History Department\, and our generous donors from UCSC Giving Day! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2nd-annual-grad-student-conference-citizenship-flux-migration-exclusion-world-history-1750-2019/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20180820T221048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031527Z UID:10006652-1555066800-1555072200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum DESCRIPTION:The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum\n with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School\, Bronx\, NY) \nIndependent high schools\, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly\, may be students last experience of a broad-based\, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look like? Adam Casdin\, trained as research scholar\, has spent the last 14 years thinking about teaching and learning\, most recently leading an experiential learning initiative in partnership with Royal Shakespeare Company. That program brings the plays to life in classrooms Nursery through 12th grade\, reimagining the way students’ experience and interpret the works of Shakespeare. \nIn this open forum on education and the humanities in secondary schools\, Casdin will lay out various innovations in teaching\, his experience of bringing his PhD training to a prestigious high school\, and then open the floor for discussion of how UCSC PhD conceive not just their subjects but how their educational approaches. Bring questions about pedagogy as well as about careers in teaching. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-careers-teaching-high-school/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20180727T213923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T201431Z UID:10005504-1555075200-1555081200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung DESCRIPTION:Sandy Chung\, UC Santa Cruz\, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English\, French\, and Italian. These interests have shaped her research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori\, Tongan\, and Samoan (all languages of the South Pacific) as an undergraduate. As a graduate student\, she did fieldwork on Indonesian. Since 1977\, the main empirical focus of her research has been Chamorro\, a language of the Mariana Islands. \nShe is still (slowly) making progress on the Chamorro reference grammar Chung has been writing since 2009. Currently\, she is collaborating with Dr. Elizabeth D. Rechebei\, Manuel F. Borja\, Tita A. Hocog\, and many others in the CNMI on a revision of the Chamorro-English Dictionary. Finally\, since 2011\, Matt Wagers\, Manuel F. Borja\, and Chung have been collaborating on psycholinguistic research on Chamorro in the Mariana Islands. \nFor More information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-sandy-chung/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190114T191807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T173455Z UID:10005559-1555344000-1555351200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bernard Harcourt: "The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nBernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris. \nBernard Harcourt’s writings examine modes of governing in our digital age\, especially in the post 9/11 period. Harcourt is the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books\, 2018)\, where he documents our recent turn to the counterinsurgency warfare paradigm as a way of governing populations at home and abroad. He traces the birth of what he calls our “expository society” in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015). He is the author\, recently as well\, of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011)\, and Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience with Michael Taussig and W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago 2013). Earlier books include Against Prediction: Profiling\, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago 2007)\, Language of the Gun: Youth\, Crime\, and Public Policy(Chicago 2005)\, and Illusion of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing (Harvard 2001). \nBernard Harcourt is also an editor of the works of Michel Foucault. He recently edited the French edition of Michel Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures at the Collège de France\, La Société punitive (Gallimard 2013) and the 1971-1972 lectures\, Theories et institutions pénales (Gallimard 2015). He is also the editor of the new Pléiade edition of Surveiller et punirin the collected works of Foucault at Gallimard (2016). He is co-editor with Fabienne Brion of the lectures Foucault delivered at Louvain in 1981\, in French and English\, Wrong-Doing\, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (Chicago 2014). He is currently working on Foucault’s lectures on Nietzsche for the next series of lecture publications by Gallimard/Le Seuil called Cours et Travaux. \nA passionate advocate for justice\, Bernard Harcourt started his legal career representing death row inmates\, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery\, Alabama. He lived and worked in Montgomery for several years and still today continues to represent pro bono inmates sentenced to death and life imprisonment without parole. He recently resolved the case of death row inmate Doyle Hamm. He also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala\, and actively challenged the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban\, representing pro bono a Syrian medical resident excluded under the executive order\, as well as Moseb Zeiton\, a Columbia SIPA student. \nThis event is part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bernard-hartcourt/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitled-design-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190409T174335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T191250Z UID:10006735-1555427700-1555434000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts\, Print Media\, and the Urgency of the Humanities DESCRIPTION:An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar\, launching a podcast\, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scholarship-public-podcasts-opeds-urgency-humanities/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T195055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T173319Z UID:10005538-1555502400-1555507800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vanessa Ogle: "'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens\, 1950s-1960" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces\, reaching from the Channel Islands\, Monaco\, and Luxembourg to the Bahamas\, Panama\, and Singapore\, among many others. The talk asks why tax havens in particular expanded significantly between ca. 1945 and 1965\, and points to decolonization and colonial systems of taxation as one answer. It thus sheds light on a crucial period during which much of today’s tax avoidance industry got off the ground\, with lasting implications for the rise of inequality in Europe and North America. \nVanessa Ogle received her PhD at Harvard in 2011\, Assistant\, was a Associate Professor in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania\, 2011-2017\,  and is currently an Associate Professor\, modern European history\, UC Berkeley\, 2017-present. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-10/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190402T202054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T202306Z UID:10006728-1555513200-1555520400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Counterpoints Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\nAn Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project \n \nThis event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript\, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization\, digital cartography\, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform\, empower\, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement\, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data\, narratives\, and maps\, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists\, activists\, oral historians\, cartographers\, muralists\, and more\, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement. \nWhile AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories\, numerous videos and reports\, and even several murals\, light projections\, zines\, and posters\, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists\, activists\, designers\, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps\, graphics\, poems\, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters\, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification\, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter\, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors\, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book\, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material\, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/45713/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/mural-smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T195341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T183331Z UID:10005540-1556107200-1556112600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDiscourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects\, PR professionals\, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory\,” a “sci-fi” space\, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses promote imperial and capitalist class power in the Gulf. Through combining this framework with a postcolonial discursive critique and feminist scholarship on social reproduction\, a class struggle perspective both moves us beyond victimization discourses of Gulf labor and highlights global patterns of capitalist accumulation. In turn\, the paper shows how the Gulf is an unexceptional zone of capital accumulation with labor exploitation and social reproduction regimes continuous with\, and shaped by\, similar such regimes in the Global North. \nAhmed Kanna is associate professor of anthropology at University of the Pacific. He is the author of Dubai: The City as Corporation (2011\, University of Minnesota Press)\, De-Exceptionalizing the Field (with Amelie Le Renard and Neha Vora\, forthcoming\, Cornell University Press)\, and articles in Cultural Anthropology\, City\, and Arab Studies Journal among others. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-11/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190125T211443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T182851Z UID:10005571-1556208000-1556208000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susanah Shaw Romney\, "Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nColonization is not a one-time land grab\, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia\, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known\, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There\, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on a simultaneous colonization of intimate space. Women of Batavia\, as wives\, concubines\, and slaves\, played an often unwilling role in the construction of empire at the intimate\, local\, and transoceanic scales. \nSusanah Shaw Romney\, Assistant Professor\, earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University\, where she worked with Prof. Mary Beth Norton. Her book\, New Netherland Connections\, is the winner of the 2014 Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians\, given annually to a first book published by a woman pertaining substantially to the subject of women and gender; the 2013 Jamestown Prize\, given every two years by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; and the 2013 Hendricks Prize\, given annually by the New Netherland Institute. She is now at work on a new project looking at gender\, settlement\, and land claims in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire in North America\, Guyana\, South Africa\, and Java. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unfree-intimacies-gender-taking-terraqueous-space-batavia-seventeenth-century-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitled-design-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190403T215206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221008Z UID:10006730-1556213400-1556213400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco\, California\, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, The American Reader\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was among the Poetry Foundation’s 2016 “Staff Picks\,” and a bilingual edition of the chapbook – Brazilian no es una raza – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. In September 2018\, her first book-length collection of poems Cruel Fiction was published by Commune Editions. In addition\, Cruel Fiction was chosen by Momtaza Mehri for Artforum International’s “Best of 2018.” \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula living in California. They work sometimes with the visual\, sometimes with movement\, sometimes with language\, sometimes all three at once. Along with Elana Chavez\, they’re a founding curator of The Cantíl Reading Series\, and with Chavez and Angel Dominguez\, a member of La Vidx Locx\, a collective of queer Latinx poets. They’ve taught movement and filmmaking to children and adults alike. Work has been exhibited and performed in Los Angeles and the Bay Area: writing has been published in a chapbook\, PDF\, by Solar Luxuriance; appeared in Esferas; and featured on the SBSM album JOY/RAGE. A split poetry cassette with Elaine Kahn is due out from Practical Records in 2017. The Easy Body is their first book. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-wendy-trevino-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T192523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T193717Z UID:10006722-1556283600-1556292600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190111T201945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T171717Z UID:10006697-1556284800-1556290800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson DESCRIPTION:Laura McPherson\, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014\, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. Her primary research interests lie in phonology\, morphology\, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar\, A Grammar of Tommo So\, in 2013 based on fieldwork in Mali from 2008-2012. \nMcPherson’s current research projects include developing an automated computational tool for tonal annotation with Emily Grabowski (ATLAS: Automated Tone Level Annotation System)\, analyzing the linguistic underpinnings of a xylophone surrogate language\, and fieldwork on Seenku (Mande\, Burkina Faso) in preparation for her next reference grammar\, supported by NSF Documenting Endangered Languages. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor More Information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laura-mcpherson/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T191620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T191738Z UID:10006721-1556294400-1556299800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year’s Graduate Research Symposium. \nLive music\, light refreshments.\nFree and open to the public URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-award-reception/ LOCATION:Mchenry Library Second Level Terrace and South Lawn\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T141500 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190222T190737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T191841Z UID:10006720-1556364600-1556374500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel DESCRIPTION:11:30am-12:50pm \nAnnual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni\, one from each academic division.\nThis year’s luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees about their career trajectories after receiving their graduate-level degree from UCSC to their current positions of distinction\, for the benefit of audience members of current and alumni graduate students. \n12:50pm-2:15pm \nCareer Paths Panel of the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees. Currently enrolled UCSC grad students encouraged to attend. \nClick here to Register URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/distinguished-graduate-student-alumni-award-luncheon-career-paths-panel/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190220T230123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T211756Z UID:10006717-1556373600-1556377200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jody Greene: "Radical Learning - The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience" DESCRIPTION:This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception\, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university’s history of active and activist pedagogy; its commitment to an education grounded in social justice; its ahead-of-the-times choice to have no grades and interdisciplinary departments; and its unique status as the only public research university in the country that was also founded as a kind of “alternative school.” The event will include prominent learning scientists as well as undergraduates working on projects related to improving student learning. Participants will give lightning talks on what it takes for students to be outstanding learners in our 21st-century university. \nMore info about Alumni Weekend: https://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jody-greene-radical-learning-heart-uc-santa-cruz-experience/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20181015T195452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T182055Z UID:10005542-1556712000-1556717400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nidhi Mahajan: "Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean\, transporting goods\, and people across South Asia\, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage\, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade\, centered in port cities such as Dubai and Sharjah that have “free trade” policies. I argue that these notions of free trade are entangled with war\, conflict\, and broader geopolitical concerns across the Indian Ocean region. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC and a principal faculty in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Her works examines how vernacular Indian Ocean trade networks articulate with regional and global circuits of capital. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-12/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190204T213802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T230149Z UID:10006702-1556803800-1556809200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paolo Gerbaudo\, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy DESCRIPTION:  \nPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College\, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012)\, The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017)\, and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018).\nFrom the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK\, to the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy\, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France\, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the ‘digital party’. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media\, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers\, Gerbaudo argues that with new structures come worrying changes in political forms\, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralized\, charismatic leaders\, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However\, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins\, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarization created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy. \nPart of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative. Lecture co-sponsored by the Politics Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lecture-paolo-gerbaudo/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sanders_supporters_Miami_ap_img.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T164254 CREATED:20190426T204343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T204457Z UID:10005603-1556899200-1556902800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves DESCRIPTION:Carl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC\, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert\, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents\, George and Patricia Deppe\, along with his friends\, established this annual lecture series in his memory as a tribute to his interest in classical antiquity. Each spring a distinguished scholar is invited to give the Carl Mark Deppe lecture. This year’s lecuture will be given by Professor Alex Purves\, UCLA \nIt is customary to begin each annual lecture by reading the essay Carl wrote when he applied for admission to the University of California: you can see that essay here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carl-mark-deppe-memorial-lecture-professor-alex-purves/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR