The Humanities Institute

MAH 3rd Friday: Changemakers
2016-06-17 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Meet the creative leaders making change happen in Santa Cruz County.
Engage with county supervisors and cycling advocates. Meet artists and food justice activists. Network with film festival directors and Oaxacan cultural preservationists. Interact with hands-on workshops, demonstrations and performances.
C3 (Creative Community Committee) is the MAH’s community think tank of 45 diverse leaders across our county. We have spent the year creatively brainstorming new ways to build cultural bridges in our community. Meet us, learn about our work, step out of your comfort zone and explore all the ways you can connect with these leaders and each other.
Performances
6-7PM Preserving Mexican Cultural Traditions Through Dance and Healing with Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile who will perform Mexican folkloric dance. Senderos are an all-volunteer organization dedicated to sharing cultural arts to provide pathways for Latino youth and an appreciation of our community’s diversity.
Drop-in Workshops & Demonstrations
7-8PM Preserving Mexican Cultural Traditions Through Dance and Healing with Senderos: Oaxaqueña curandera (healer), Marta Martinez Navarro and her husband, Ramiro Hernandez, will demonstrate traditional remedies.
A Living History of Cooperatives in Santa Cruz and Beyond with Zachary Wolinsky from Santa Cruz: PedX Courier & Cargo and Santa Cruz Pedicab: What can we learn from democratically governed businesses in Santa Cruz County? Join us for a few rounds of Co-opoly, the game of cooperatives. Learn about the stories of the local cooperative businesses in Santa Cruz County and how they anchor wealth in the community and create opportunities for human connection. Help us create a map of cooperative business stories across time and space in the past, present, and future.
Everyday Science with Antonia Franco from SACNAS and Irena Polic from the Institute for Humanities Research:Explore your capacity for science and learn how even normal household products can be turned into fun & educational experiments.
Bringing the Museum to Your Bus Stop with County Supervisor John Leopold: Bus stops can be a site to share cultural experiences. Do you know there’s a psychedelic bus stop in Soquel about the history of Counterculture in Santa Cruz? Come see the original model and help turn the Metro’s Bus Shelters into vibrant “mini-museums” by celebrating our County’s art and culture.
The Tree that Overcame with Edgar Ontiveros from Nopal Media and Rebecca Hernandez Rosser from the UCSC American Indian Resource Center: Write on the leaves about a time you had a positive or negative experience around your gender, race/ethnicity, religion, sexuality, nationality, dis/ability or age. Share a moment of empowerment on a paper blossom.
PLACE Bingo with anthropologist and educator Natalie Baloy and Rick Flores, Steward of the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program and Amah Mutsun Land Trust: Get to know your place – Santa Cruz, your neighbors, your community – with a conversational Bingo game. Earn squares by engaging in conversations with fellow visitors – get five squares in a row and you’ll win a prize!
Abstract Identities with Nicole Zahm from the Santa Cruz Farmers Market and Doron Comerchero from Food What?!: Create an abstract image representing your identity and connect with others who share that with you. Explore our shared complex identities.
Pop-Up State Park with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks Bonnie Hawley, Jorge Savala and Vance Landis-Carey: Transport yourself to the Castro Adobe — play Californio games, make a tortilla ranchero style, and learn to rope. Take a virtual field trip, then come visit the Castro Adobe State Historic Park in Watsonville.
Have you ever built a time machine? with artist and educator Kyle McKinley: Explore the transformed history gallery as a machine for traveling through time. Time machines appear in American literary narratives as a technical solution to the historical dilemma of how to get from where we are to a utopian society. By asking participants to imagine the past and future differently, the idea of a time machine enables us to re-think the ways in which our present day decisions determine the shape that our collective futures will take.
Wayfinding with artist and designer, Raphael Arar: a responsive installation that reflects on the paths one chooses in life and their subsequent periods of chaos and harmony.
Dream Piñata with artist Louise Leong and artist Janis O’Driscoll from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries: What are the obstacles that get in the way of building bridges across difference in Santa Cruz? What are your hopes and dreams for bringing people together? At the end of the night we’ll break through all those obstacles written on the outside of the piñata to release all our dreams inside the piñata!
The Mask You Live In with Monica Martinez and Maria Castillo from Encompass Community Services: We often wear masks on the outside to conceal what’s on the inside. Make a mask that represents the ideas, feelings and experiences we often do not wear openly. See masks made with individuals in our community through Encompass and connect with others who share similar stories to your mask.
My Rite of Passage with Consuelo Alba from the Watsonville Film Festival and Christina Cuevas from the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County inspired by the documentary Xilonen: The Ceremony of Tender Corn. All cultures around the world celebrate rites of passage ceremonies or rituals that mark people’s transition into a new stage of life or a brand new identity. These transitions can be cultural, religious or social; the rites of passage include three phases: separation, transition or adventure and incorporation. Share with us that special moment of transition in your life. What was it? Why it happened? When? Where? Tell us your story.
Story Sharing with Strangers with : Anonymous story sharing will invite you to share a meaningful story with a stranger and listen to theirs.
Finding Home Between Different Worlds: Poems about Culture, Place, and People with UCSC history professor Pedro Castillo and Jacquie Benetua-Rolens from Santa Cruz Community Health Centers: Home means a lot of different things to us all. It is where we’ve unpacked our lives and planted seeds. It is a tapestry of different experiences, different languages and different places. It’s where we rest while it rests in our memories. We leave and come back everyday, carrying it with us, and always with the people we love. Invite us into your home by sharing your story.
Bike the Bay with Tawn Kennedy from Bike Santa Cruz County: Tawn is biking with Santa Cruz youth this year on the Bike the Bay Tour. What should they learn about the communities they’re riding through? What are the secret histories, wild adventures, and fun facts they should discover as they bike along this route?
What is C3? with Creative Community Committee (C3) Interns Ana Leopold & Alma Villa and C3 Members Keisha Frost from the United Way & Jacob Martinez from the Digital Nest: Learn about this group of Changemakers and the topics we’ve been discussing this year.
If you want to learn more contact Stacey Marie Garcia, stacey@santacruzmah.org

Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
2016-06-03 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present:
Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
By Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU)
Friday June 3rd, 6:00PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Vanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form the University of Claifornia, Los Angeles in 2013. She has been a lecturer at Rice University in Houston and an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Duquesne Univeristy in Pittsburgh. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and will begin her new position as Assitant Professor of Spanish at San Jose State University in Fall 2016. Her book project “Bridging the Atlantic: Debating Modernity Across Argentine, Mexican, and Spanish Literary Magazines (1920-1930),” argues print culture generated a complex network o exchange amongst avant-garde movements that sheds new light on the development of Latin America and Spain’s post colonial relationship during the 1920s.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Veronika Zablotsky
2016-06-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Veronika Zablotsky
“Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics”
In this talk, I mobilize Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean “style of thought,” a “corporate institution” and a “systematic discipline” that produces, manages and deals with the “Orient” by means of discourse to think about the idea of “Eurasia” and its uses in contemporary geopolitics.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronika Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

PhD+: Research and Grants Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
2016-06-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
Rescheduled for June 3, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Student Reading
2016-06-02 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Moira Weigel: "A Genealogy of 'Like': Taste, Emotional Labor, and Technology on the Dating Market"
2016-06-01 00:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
“But I Want A Guy I Like To Like The Things I Like”
Taste and Emotional Labor on the Dating Market
It is a truth universally acknowledged that “likes” play an important role in contemporary courtship. While all social media invite us to produce our online identities by performing taste, dating apps turn our “likes” into literal searching and sorting mechanisms. The favorite bands, books, foods, and so on that you list on an OkCupid profile determine who can find you–and who might be too unlike you to make a good match. But where does the idea that consumer tastes are good predictors of romantic compatibility come from? As Bourdieu put it in his canonical study, Distinction: “Taste classifies and it classifies the classifier.” Sociologists have shown that even on apps like Tinder, where users are encouraged to make snap decisions based on visual data (photographs) alone, they tend to select partners of similar socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Do “likes” simply recapitulate the functions that families, community groups, and schools have historically performed–sorting young people by class? Drawing on my newly released book, “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating“, I will present a Genealogy of the Like: excavating a wide range.

Moria Weigel is a PhD student in the joint program in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies. Before coming to Yale, she earned a BA (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, and an M. Phil (with distinction) from the University of Cambridge, where she was the Harvard Scholar in residence at Emmanuel College. She also worked as an Assistant Editor at Harper’s Magazine.
“Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating,” her first book, is coming out from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in May 2016. In a series of interlinking essays, LOL investigates the shape-shifting institution of dating–which, she contends, names the logic of courtship under consumer driven capitalism. Drawing on Marxist feminism, sociology, and cultural history, she examines how dating has co-evolved with other forms of gendered labor.

*Free lunch will be provided.
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Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2015-16 Spring Awards
2016-05-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human.
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I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday, May 31 from 4-6 pm at Cowell Provost House. Activities will include a poster presentation by the recipients of our Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards, remarks by student scholarship recipients, and last but not least – refreshments on the lawn.
Humanities Division’s 2015-16 awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. The categories for acknowledgement are:
Faculty Awards and Honors
Research Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Awards and Instructional Innovation Major Publications
Undergraduate Awards and Honors
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities
Dean’s and Chancellor’s Awards – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year
This year, the Humanities Division is a proud sponsor of the 2016 Annual Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity (CAAFD). Established in 2003, these awards honor and showcase people and programs that have made outstanding contributions to furthering diversity, inclusion, and excellence at UC Santa Cruz.
I look forward to seeing you in May.
Tyler Stovall
Dean of Humanities

CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: "Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website 'Everyday Life in Mao's China'"
2016-05-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Covell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao’s China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website’s origins, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct comparable digital projects on other research topics.
Covell Meyskens is a historian of twentieth century China with a particular interest in industrialization, revolution, and everyday life. His current book project is tentatively titled “Securing Maoist China: The Cold War, Late Development, and Everyday Life in the Third Front, 1964-1980.” It is the first history of China’s largest ever industrial defense project – the Third Front. The book analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized hinterland regions in order to protect China from American and Soviet threats. Meyskens is also engaged in ongoing research on the history of China’s Railroad Corps, hydropower in Hubei province, and automobiles in China.

This event is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, History Department, and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster.

BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
2016-05-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
Featuring Guest Speakers:
Simone Browne and Simon A. Cole
Friday May 27th, 2-5 pm, Humanities 1 Room 202

Simone Browne, Draw a black line through it: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Situating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, this talk questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness— the historical, the present, and the historical present can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance.
Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Simon A. Cole, Identity or “Mere Identification”? Biometric Databases from Fingerprinting to DNA.
This talk traces the history of biometric identification technologies from their origins through to the present and the ethical and humanistic issues that have persistently been raised by them. It then discusses how we should understand these issues in the present moment of rapid technological advancement. It focuses in particular on the relationship between “mere” identification and broader notions of identity—behavioral, racial, and so on, and implications for the increasing expansion of genetic databases.
Simon Cole is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California, Irvine.
These talks will be followed by a conversation about research projects, new issues and directions, information exchange and coffee and cookies. The colloquium is open to the public, and graduate students are encouraged especially to attend. This colloquium is sponsored by the UC Biosurveillance Working Group, the UC Humanities Research Institute and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora
2016-05-27 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Rebecca Ora
“Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction”
Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the ability of performative nonfiction to map new geographic territories through ethical panic and identity-loss responding to diasporic relationships with Israel-Palestine. This paper cults from theorizations of documentary as well as Joseph Roach’s writings on surrogation and Circum-Atlantic performance.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
2016-05-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to the reparative and/or divisive logic of “science” is most evident in minoritized knowledge-formations such as sexuality studies and colonial/postcolonial studies. In the face of contemporary challenges about the limits of scholarship bowing out to the forces of globalization, the colloquium will examine what is at stake for sexuality studies and postcolonial studies to carve out a critical relationship to histories of science?
The types of issues we envisage participants addressing will engage three central questions:
What are the conversations instituted about sexuality in relationship to the colonial and postcolonial state in the global south?
How does sexuality studies’s own adherence/attachment to science studies parochialize key assumptions about freedom, rights and the subject?
What are the ways in which modalities of sentiment, affect, emotion entangle with the logic of state discourses and what role does sexuality play within such exchanges?
Schedule:
10:00am–10:15am: Introductory Remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Feminist Studies, UCSC
10:15am-10:30am: Poetic Techne
Ronaldo Wilson, Literature, UCSC
10:30-12:30: The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Omnia El Shakry, History, UC Davis
Respondent: Alma Heckman, History, UCSC
12:30-1:30: Break
1:30-3:30: Origins and the Sexuality of Science in Colonial India
Durba Mitra, History, Fordham
Respondent: Megan Moodie, Anthropology, UCSC
Participants:
Durba Mitra, Department of History, Fordham University
Origins and the Sexuality of Science in Colonial India
Durba Mitra is an assistant professor of history at Fordham University. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania for the year of “Sex.”
Omnia El Shakry, Department of History, UC Davis
The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Omnia El Shakry specializes in the the intellectual history of the Arab world and Europe, with a special emphasis on the history of the human sciences in Egypt. Her current book project, The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt, traces the lineaments of psychoanalysis in postwar Egypt.
CANCELLED – Duana Fullwiley, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
The Racial Embrace: DNA Sequences meet Dream Sequences in Struggles for (Scientific) Liberation
Dr. Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine interested in how social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetic findings increasingly intersect. She is the author of The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton, 2011), which examines how structural adjustment policies in Africa affected not only the lived experiences of sickle cell patients in Senegal, but also influenced the genetic science about them.

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Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
2016-05-26 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Emily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, the PEN Poetry Series, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Feature, TYPO, The Volta, Diagram, and elsewhere. In 2013, Brave Men Press published This Always Happens, a book of her drawings, and she has provided cover art for several poetry collections. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Poet Julien Poirier grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and was educated at Columbia University. He has described his poems as a system or a conversation already in progress, aligning observed and spoken ephemera with sound echoes, tracing the movement of a restless mind across themes of politics, poetics, and daily life. In an article on reading Poirier for EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, poet Filip Marinovich stated, “Poirier is a Genius in the classical sense: a resident spirit of Poetry, arcangeling words through the top of one’s lifted head. …” In a 2013 interview with Noel Black for BOMB Magazine, Poirier offered the following: “It’s exciting to be writing poems now … because if you can plunge into the simultaneity of all of these events that warped you in some way, drove you crazy or forced you to find some narrow streak of optimism in the evident relentless disaster, then you might, as a poet, be able to get deeper and deeper into an understanding of what’s happening. You might be able to understand the way things work together and make a poem map, ‘a map to the map’ as my friend Tony said, before you forget. And it’s incredibly exciting because there are about a million ways to go about doing this.”
Poirier is the author of the full-length poetry collection El Golpe Chileño (2010); several chapbooks, including Flying Over the Fence with Amadou Diallo (2000),Short Stack (2005), and Stained Glass Windows of California (2012); and the formally innovative newspaper novel Living! Go and Dream (2005).
A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective, Poirier edited the New York Nights newspaper from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) XVI
2016-05-25 20:00 - 2016-05-27 20:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 16th season. Three public performances will be held on May 25, 26, and 27 (Wed. – Fri.) at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center, UCSC, and will feature works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. There is no admission charge, with nearby parking at $4.00.
This year’s works include: (in French) Scenes from TARTUFFE, by Molière, directed by Miriam Ellis; (in Japanese) BEST FRIENDS, by Yuuki Himura & Osamu Shitara, directed by Sakae Fujita; (in Russian) UNCLE FYODOR, THE DOG AND THE CAT, by Edward Uspensky, directed by Natalya Samokhina and her students; (in Spanish) THE BAT, based on a myth by Eduardo Galeano, directed by Marta Navarro. The pieces range in style from folklore to classical and modern-day theater, with emphasis on their comic elements.
Over the years, the IP presentations have represented an important annual event for UCSC and have attracted a loyal following. In addition to those on campus, many community members, as well as faculty and students from high schools and Cabrillo College, attend regularly. The English titles make the material easily accessible to audiences, who are afforded a rare multicultural experience by the diversity of the programs.
For further information, please contact lmhunter@ucsc.edu or ellisan@ucsc.edu.

Digital Pedagogy Round Table
2016-05-25 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Faculty and instructors from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities.
The presentations will cover a broad range of topics, from digital exhibit building as a final class assignment to creating and employing video taped lectures and classroom content. The panel will consist of:

Benefits of a Flipped Classroom
Matthew Clapham (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Omeka as a platform for student research
Renee Fox (Literature)
The Learning Glass for hybrid and online instruction
Herbie Lee, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (Applied Math and Statistics)
Google Earth for teaching spatial and global thinking
Elaine Sullivan (History)
From flipped to fully online
Max Tarjan (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
2016-05-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. Bringing her feminist Marxism to bear, Dai Jinhua interprets Chinese film and culture, examining traces of forgotten histories. This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds and will have a simultaneous interpreter.
Jinhua is Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture at Beijing University.
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Camille Fauroux: "Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)"
2016-05-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
During the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and preserve their status as mothers and housewives, the National-socialist state chose to rely on the forced labor of millions of foreign men and women from occupied territories who where brought to the Reich. Drawing from a case study on the high-tech electronic industry in Berlin between 1940 and 1945, I reveal how French women’s “voluntary work” became more and more coerced as the war went on. Segregated housing in camps ensured a tight control of these workers as well as it prevented them from founding families on the German soil, but it also provided unexpected space for solidarity and resistance to forced labor.
Camille Fauroux is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. This year, she is a visiting research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lee Downs, examines French women’s labor in National-socialist Germany between 1940 and 1945. Her research interests include forced labor, migration, sexuality, and the transnational construction of gender.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
2016-05-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistic Colloquium:
The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.
Fall 2015
October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
Winter 2016
January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
February 6th: N. Goodman, Stanford University and A. Kehler, UC San Diego
March 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference
Spring 2016
April 15th: Sabine Iatridou, MIT
April 29th: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
May 6, 7, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th: Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
May 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
2016-05-20 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Trung Nguyen
“War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity”
Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory, subjectivity, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of inhabiting a subjectivity constituted by the material remainders of war.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Living Writers: Lev Grossman
2016-05-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Lev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in college too, and read even more in graduate school. Then I moved to New York City and started writing full time.
My first novel, Warp, came out in 1997. My second, Codex, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians was published in 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller and one of the New Yorker‘s best books of the year. The sequel, The Magician King, came out in 2011 and was a Times bestseller too. The third and (almost certainly) last Magicians book, The Magician’s Land, was published in 2014 and debuted at #1 on the bestseller list.
The Magicians books have now been published in twenty-five countries and have gotten praise from among others George R.R. Martin, John Green, Audrey Niffenegger, Erin Morgenstern, Joe Hill, William Gibson, Kelly Link, Gregory Maguire, and Junot Diaz. A Syfy series based on the trilogy is currently shooting and will premiere in early 2016.
I also write a lot of journalism. I’ve been the book critic at Time magazine since 2002. The New York Timesdescribed me as “among this country’s smartest and reliable critics.” I’ve written a dozen or so cover stories for Time, and my essays and criticism have also been in the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, the Week, Lingua Francaand many other places. I’ve won several awards for journalism, including a Deadline award in 2006. I make regular appearances on campuses, including Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and as a commentator on NPR.
I live in Brooklyn with my wife, two daughters and one son, in a creaky old house.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Jonathan Ellis: "Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light"
2016-05-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty.
The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.
Jonathan Ellis
Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Location: Humanities 1, Room 202
Time: 4:00 – 5:30
Coffee, tea, and cookies served.

Marjorie Agosin: "Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry"
2016-05-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda, María Luisa Bombal, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading.

May 18th: Presentation
Marjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral
May 19th: A Poetry Reading
“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”

UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
2016-05-18 18:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
PODCAST:

EVENT PHOTOS:
by Steve Kurtz

UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents:
UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”
Public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Reception and book signing to follow talk.
May 18, 2016
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Please register for Free admission to the museum and the Kinsey Collection
Doors Open at 6pm
Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts, while mixing and mingling with UCSC professors.

Register

Parking
There are two parking garages located near the Museum. There is disability parking available in both parking garages.
Soquel/Front Garage: The Soquel/Front Parking Garage is located at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Front Street. The lot is paid hourly parking, seven days a week, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Keep your ticket with you, and pay at one of the Pay-on-Foot stations (located on the ground floor stair towers) or the cashier’s office before returning to your vehicle.
River/Front Garage: The River/Front Garage is located between River and Front Streets next to the Galleria Office Complex. Permits are required for the second and third level and are limited to people who work or live downtown.
Questions, or for disability related accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655.
The Kinsey Collection at MAH:
February 26th, 2016 – May 22nd, 2016
Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X.
The MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22, Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals.
Self-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors, click here to book a self-guided tour.
Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Art Forum, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College.
For more information visit santacruzmah.org

Marjorie Agosin: "Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral"
2016-05-18 15:30 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated to the remembrance and memorialization of traumatic historical events in the Americas and in European holocaust. As a Chilean-American of Jewish heritage Agosin’s poetry enshrines women’s human rights. As a literary scholar she has published work on Pablo Neruda, María Luisa Bombal, and Gabriela Mistral. She is especially well known for preserving and celebrating Chilean “arpilleras” the resistance quilts made by work addresses the role of women during the Pinochet dictatorship. Some of these will be on display during the poetry reading.

May 18th: Presentation
Marjorie Agosin: Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral
May 19th: A Poetry Reading
“Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”
Event Photos

Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
2016-05-18 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ronaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, and writing as ways to explore race, sexuality, and representation.
Wilson is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
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Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
2016-05-17 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
When we speak, in addition to our intended linguistic message, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves, such as our perceived gender, ethnicity, region of origin, etc. Expectations about these social categories interact with our comprehension at a very basic perceptual level. In this talk I’ll discuss current research on how gender stereotype affects on voice processing impact our understanding of the speech communication system.
For more information contact Peter Reed, pmreed@ucsc.edu, 831-459-1026.

Cathy Park Hong: "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde"
2016-05-13 13:45 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
UCSC’s Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event, “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong.”
Please join us on Friday, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty, lecturers, and graduate students, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park Hong (poet and professor at Sarah Lawrence College). Presenters will include Chris Chen, Vanessa Fernandez, David Lau, Rob Sean Wilson, and Ronaldo Wilson. Coffee, snacks, and refreshments will be offered.
Cathy Park Hong’s latest poetry collection, Engine Empire, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Baffler, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

SYMPOSIUM
1:45 p.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks
2:00 p.m.: Panel 1
Whitney De Vos
Vanessa Fernandez
Kenan Sharpe
Rob Sean Wilson
Moderator: To be announced
3:45 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served)
4:00 p.m.: Panel 2
Chris Chen
Ronaldo Wilson
David Lau
Moderator: To be announced
4:30 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served)
4:45 p.m.: Keynote Reading by Cathy Park Hong
6:00 p.m.: Conference ends; please join us for a reception (snacks and wine served)
Location TBA
For more information on the symposium, please see our website: www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Cathy Thomas
2016-05-13 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Cathy Thomas
“Defining the Fête: The Utopian Potential of Drag, Disease and Diaspora in Oonya Kempadoo’s Carnival Imaginary”
The catharsis associated with Caribbean Carnivale has always been situated in the body. This paper considers the fête bodies of a transnational costume designer, the Queen of the Band and a gay reveler living with AIDS in Oonya Kempadoo’s tragicomic novel All Decent Animals as allegorical and political sites for producing and produced by trauma.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

POSTPONED PhD+: Research and Grants
2016-05-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
This event has been postponed to June 3rd.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
Rescheduled for June 3, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Elizabeth McKenzie
2016-05-12 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and recorded for NPR’s Selected shorts. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short-listed for The Story Prize, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal Best Nook of the year. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. She is also a UCSC creative writing alum!

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
2016-05-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by marine biologist Nicole Crane, artist Elaine Gan, film archivist Rick Prelinger, and astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.
Nicole Crane “One People One Reef: combining culture, context and science to manage changing ecosystems”
Elaine Gan “Making Time Appear”
Rick Prelinger “Inconvenient Materialities”
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz “Turning Stars into Gold”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Parking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.

Nicole Crane is Professor of Biology, Cabrillo College and a Senior Conservation Scientist at the Oceanic Society. Her research focuses on long term monitoring, with an emphasis in ecology of coral and temperate reefs with the aim of conservation and protection of marine resources. Crane’s field work includes temperate and tropical reef monitoring, fish biology, stream ecology, plant communities, and marine mammal ecology. With the Oceanic Society, she works with communities to set up monitoring programs, looking at habitat and fish populations on reefs and leading natural history expeditions.
Elaine Gan is a doctoral candidate in the department of Film & Digital Media at UCSC and also serves as art director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) in Denmark. She has been a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts and a graduate fellow of the Science & Justice Center at UCSC. Recent interdisciplinary projects include co-curating an exhibition titled DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2015); running a seminar series on multispecies technologies in the Anthropocene at Haus der Kulturen der Welt/HKW Berlin (2016); and co-editing an anthology, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Stories from the Anthropocene (forthcoming 2016).
Rick Prelinger is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. An archivist, writer, filmmaker and educator, his collection of 60,000 ephemeral films was acquired by Library of Congress in 2002. Beginning in 2000, he partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of the Prelinger Collection (now 6,500 films) available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world, and his new feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His Lost Landscapes participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles and elsewhere. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and regeneration. With Megan Shaw Prelinger, he co-founded Prelinger Library in 2004.
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is Professor and Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. He is also Director of Theoretical Astrophysics Santa Cruz Institute, Executive Director and Founder UCSC’s OpenLab, and the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute. His research focuses on the violent universe with an emphasis on stellar explosions, gamma-ray bursts, and accretion phenomena near compact objects. Ramirez-Ruiz is the youngest person to be inducted into the Mexican Academy of Sciences and has earned numerous awards including a Packard Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Stephanie Jones-Rogers: “Lady Flesh Stealers, Female Soul Drivers, and She-Merchants: White Women and the American Slave Market”
2016-05-11 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in the South’s slave market economy.
Jones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz
2016-05-11 | Unnamed Venue
Get ready to play the Giving Day Game
A 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and programs.
Great projects all across campus are being featured by academic divisions, colleges, student groups, and others.
The UC Santa Cruz community is invited to be a part of the fun of Giving Day by spreading the word, telling others about projects they might want to support, and by making a gift on May 11.
Visit Givingday.ucsc.edu on May 11th to play!
Support a Humanities Project:
The Gail Project
The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project emphasizes hands-on research and creation of content by undergraduate students and serves as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia, social media, archival research and travel. On Giving Day, there is a one-to-one match fund of $5,000.
The Dickens Project
Your gift helps support our partnership with the Neighborhood Academic Initiative and provides scholarships for four students from underserved Los Angeles-area high schools to attend the week-long Dickens Universe conference this summer. For these first-generation students, it’s a unique opportunity to taste the college experience at UCSC, alongside international faculty, graduate students, and others. On Giving Day, there is a one-to-one match fund of $1,500.
Graduate Student Internships
The Graduate Division is fundraising for internships for graduate students. Internships help build real-world skills—from collaboration to project management to innovation within or outside of academia. These opportunities provide crucial financial help and supporting relationship-building and professional development.

Click Here, to check out all the fundraising projects people across campus are pitching for support!
Click Here, and take the pledge to play and be a part of the fun!

Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop
2016-05-08 08:00 - 2016-05-09 17:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Graduate students, faculty, and staff, please register here.
More detailed information is forthcoming, but for now, here is an outline of the workshop sessions that will by offered at the upcoming Humanists@Work Graduate Career Workshop on May 8-9 in Los Angeles, CA. Please see our networking page for information about how to participate in our networking dinner and training session on May 8.
Applications for travel grants to the Graduate Career Workshop will be accepted between February 8 – April 11, 2016. Click here to apply.
All day LinkedIn Photo booth for professional pictures
8-9 AM Breakfast
9-9:20 Welcome and Introductions with David Theo Goldberg and Kelly Anne Brown
9:30-11 Stories from the Field: Four UC Humanities PhDs will share their stories as humanists at work in the world.
Keith Danner, Lecturer, UC Irvine
Melanie Ho, Executive Director, EAB Strategic Research, The Advisory Board Company
Stephanie Schrader, Curator, Drawings Department, J. Paul Getty Museum
Michael Ursell, ACLS Public Fellow at LA Review of Books
11-11:30 Coffee Break and Networking
11:30-1 LinkedIn for Humanists
Dr. Ann Dela Cruz, Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Admissions at UCLA’s Graduate Division will lead a session on the ways that LinkedIn can provide powerful networking and career search opportunities for humanists.
1-2 PM Lunch and open viewing of the permanent collection at the museum
2-3:30 Resume Redux: Using the Writing Process as a Tool for Career Discovery
The effort to convert humanities experience into language that reinstates beyond the academy continues. Jared Redick of The Resume Studio in San Francisco joins UCHRI in his ongoing journey to help humanities Ph.D.s and post-docs unravel complex matters related to converting an academic CV into a commercially-useful resume. Join the conversation whether you’re new to Jared’s methodologies, in the midst of your own career inflection, or happily on the other side of your job search.
3:30-4 Coffee Break and Networking
4-5:30 Candid Conversations
A multi-media, experimental dialogue between Faculty and Graduate Students about career preparation and the future of graduate education with
Erica Edwards, UCR English
David MacFadyen, UCLA Comparative Literature
Olufemi Taiwo, UCLA Philosophy
Helga Zambrano, UCLA Comparative Literature
5:30 Closing Remarks

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Raul Tadle
2016-05-06 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Raul Tadle
“FOMC Sentiment Extraction and its Transmission to Financial Markets”
Since December 2004, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the governing board that determines U.S. monetary policy, has expedited the release of the minutes of its meetings from six to three weeks after the meetings are held. The reasoning behind this move is that markets benefit from having information from the minutes sooner. But does information in the minutes actually cause a reaction in the financial market?

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9 (SULA 9)
2016-05-06 09:00 - 2016-05-08 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in Americas 9
SULA 9 will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz on May 6-8, 2016. The conference is a venue for researchers working on languages or dialects spoken in the Americas that do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. We especially encourage abstract submissions from those who do primary fieldwork or experimental work, as well as analysis. We also strongly encourage graduate students to submit. Click here for the SULA 9 website and conference program.

Invited speakers:
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe)
Line Mikkelsen (University of California, Berkeley)
Sarah Murray (Cornell University)
Katie Sardinha (University of California, Berkeley)

Registration:
Please submit a registration form by clicking here.

*If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact: sula9@ucsc.edu.

Rethinking Migration Conference
2016-05-06 08:30 - 2016-05-07 17:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration and leading up to our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Saywer Seminar on non-citizenship, this free, public two-day conference brings together scholars in the humanities and social sciences to expand the discourse on migration by analyzing key, emerging, and enduring terms in migration studies, such as alien, denizen, detention, deferral, (in)security, migrant, non-citizen, precarity, and refugee. It features addresses, panel presentations, and workshops in which participants share works-in-progress.
Click here for more info and to register for the conference.
Guest Speakers:
Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Yale University
Susan Bibler Coutin, University of California, Irvine
Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University
Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College Law School
Rachel Lewis, George Mason University
Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California/Institute for Advanced Study
Sarah Swider, Wayne State University
UCSC Participants:
Gabriela Arredondo, Latin American & Latino Studies
Angie Bonilla, Literature
Ruben Espinoza, Sociology
Adrián Félix, Latin American & Latino Studies
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Literature
Steve McKay, Sociology
Juan Poblete, Literature
Cecilia Rivas, Latin American & Latino Studies
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Feminist Studies
Veronica Terriquez, Sociology
Pat Zavella, Latin American & Latino Studies
This free, public event is part of Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration. The CLRC is proud to cosponsor it with the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, Institute for Humanities Research, and Division of Social Sciences, with generous support from the Dean’s Fund.

Patricia Piccinini and Donna Haraway in Conversation
2016-05-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini will join UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Donna Haraway for a conversation about their shared interest in what Haraway calls “technoculture and speculative fabulations.”
Patricia Piccinini works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. In 2014 she was awarded the Artist Award by the Melbourne Art Foundation’s Awards for the Visual Arts. She is well known for her invented, hybrid creatures which explore the end limits of evolution, both technological and biological. These creatures evoke the biotechnology and digital technologies that are challenging the boundaries of humanity.
As Donna Haraway writes, “Piccinini is a compelling story teller in the radical experimental lineage of feminist science fiction. In a sf sense, Piccinini’s objects are replete with narrative speculative fabulation. Her visual and sculptural art is about worlding; i.e., “naturaltechnical” worlds at stake, worlds needy for care and response, worlds full of unsettling but oddly familiar critters who turn out to be simultaneously near kin and alien colonists.”
Donna Haraway is a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at UC Santa Cruz. She is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies and the author of numerous books and essays that bring together questions of science and feminism, such as A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985) and Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988). In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J.D. Bernal Prize, for lifetime contributions to the field.

Carol Dougherty: "Nobody's Home: Metis, Improvisation, and the Instability of Return in Homer's Odyssey"
2016-05-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Annual Carl Deppe Lecture with
Professor Carol Dougherty Wellesley College
This talk considers Homer’s Odyssey in light of recent work in improvisatory studies to suggest that returning home is a creative rather than restorative act. Odysseus is famous for his mētis, exactly the kind of practical reasoning upon which improvisation depends, and close readings of his encounters abroad with the Cyclops and at home with Eumaeus, Telemachus, Penelope, and Laertes will show that Odysseus’ lies and acts of deception do not temporarily disguise his true identity but rather enable him to construct himself anew upon his return.
Carol Dougherty is Professor of Classical Studies and Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature at Wellesley College. She has published numerous books and articles on the literature and cultural history of archaic and classical Greece and is currently working on a book on Homecomings and Housekeepings in Classical and Contemporary Literature.

Christina Schwenkel - Designing the Rational City: Gender and the 'Housing Question' Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
2016-05-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Christina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside
Professor Schwenkel’s work addresses transnationalism, historical memory, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam. Her book, “The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical truth, knowledge and objectivity.

Undergraduate History Showcase
2016-05-05 14:00 - 16:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Undergraduate History Showcase is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. In addition, a history alumnus delivers a keynote address in which they expound on the valuable career skills they acquired by majoring in history.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
I. Student Presentations – 2:00-2:45 PM
II. Keynote Address – 3:00-3:30 PM
“History! What is it good for?” by Brian Mathias Photo
Brian Mathias
Attorney & Constitutional Law Fellow
This talk will explore how a background in history and the historical method is applied to the practice of law and everyday life.
Brian Mathias is a 2008 UCSC European History major graduate, a local attorney, and a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Monterey College of Law.
III. Student Presentations – 3:40-4:30 PM

*Light refreshments to be provided. This event is free and open to everyone!

Brian Mathias is a 2008 UC Santa Cruz European History major graduate, a local attorney, and a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Monterey College of Law.
Brian has always had a strong interest in history, biographies, and geography beginning as a young boy. However, his passion for history grew exponentially as a freshman when he took “Medieval Europe” taught by Professor Cynthia Polecritti. This was the first of five Italian and European History courses that Brian took from Professor Polecritti. Brian’s history background inspired him to complete his degree in the medieval city of Göttingen, Germany.
Brian has continued his independent study of history after graduation, studying in-depth his own genealogy, Christianity, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, and most recently Simon Bolivar.
Brian’s talk, “History! What is it good for?” will discuss how a background in history and the historical method is applied to the practice of law and everyday life.

A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle
2016-05-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
The Feminist Studies Department, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle!

Anubha Bhonsle, author of
Mother, Where’s My Country?
Journalist, Executive Editor, CNN-IBN
Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, 2015-16

Mother, Where’s My country? arc the life of Manipular, a state located in India’s north east, a diverse, picturesque, and strategically-vial state. It is also home to multiple insurgencies, a contested political identity, and a law called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Based on nine years of reporting from Manipur, including more than 200 interviews, scrutinizing dozens of court documents and testimonials, and revisiting places and conversations, Anubha Bhonsle paints a picture where impunity, fake encounters, protests and denial of memory and justice continue in an endless cycle. The book is available in the United Sates via Amazon.

Praise for the book – P Sainath: “…Anubha Bhonsle reproaches our hypocrisy but addresses our humanity.”

Book Talk with Donna Haraway: "Manifestly Haraway"
2016-05-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Emerging Worlds, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Science & Justice Research Center present:
Book Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway
Followed by a conversation between Donna Haraway & Cary Wolfe
Manifestly Haraway brings together Donna Haraway’s seminal “Cyborg Manifesto” and “Companion Species Manifesto.” Manifestly Haraway also includes a wide-ranging conversation between Haraway and Cary Wolfe on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human-nonhuman relationships, making kin, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more.
Donna J. Haraway is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of, among other works, “Primate Visions,” “Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium,” and “When Species Meet.”
Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, where he is also founding director of 3CT (Center for Critical and Cultural Theory). He is the author of “Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal and What Is Posthumanism?”

Donna V. Jones: “’I want more life’: Reflections on Time, Race and Duration in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner”
2016-05-04 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Donna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and biopolitics, and science fiction and science studies. Her current project is Cursed Immortality: Life, Duration, and Biopolitics in Late Capitalism.
Jones is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Building in Scalar and Exploring the Future of Scholarly Publishing Workshop
2016-05-04 10:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
With Craig Deitrich and Tara McPherson. This workshop will serve as an introduction to Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed for scholars writing media-rich, long-form, born-digital scholarship. Developed by The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern California, Scalar allows scholars to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose that media with their own writing in a variety of ways; to annotate video, audio, images, source code and text using the platform’s built-in media annotation tools; and to structure essay- and book-length works in ways that take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital writing, including nested, recursive, and non-linear formats. The workshop will cover basic features of the platform, including a review of existing Scalar books and a hands-on introduction to paths, tags, annotations and importing media. It will also cover more advanced topics including Scalar’s built-in visualizations, annotating with media, and a sprinkling of design theory by Craig Dietrich, Scalar’s Information Design Director.
This event requires registration! | REGISTER NOW
Coffee will be available from 9:30 AM and lunch will be served at 12 PM for registered participants.
Co-sponsored by the UCSC IGHERT Program, Film + Digital Media, HAVC, University Library, Grad Division

Paul Lee: "The Greeks had a word for it: thumos"
2016-05-03 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Provost House
Paul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967.
In 1976 alongside Paige Smith, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry Brown’s administration. Dr. Lee organized and proposed the Greenbelt Initiative to save the Pogonip in 1978. In 1985 he founded the organization that became Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center.
The campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia, conferences and workshops.

Designing Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
2016-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
With Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC)
The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and design? What audiences might such work reach? This talk will trace some of the alternate histories of DH, paying particular attention to the visual and the political by engaging the work of feminists, artists, and scholars of color.
McPherson will also consider how scholarly evidence might be engaged anew through the aesthetic possibilities of the digital archive. By taking up the work of the Vectors Lab, she will approach these questions through concrete examples of digital scholarship today.

Craig Dietrich is a digital artist, scholar, and educator. Deitrich is currently the Director of the Digital Humanities Research Studio at Claremont Colleges.
Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is a core faculty member of the IMAP program, USC’s innovative practice based-Ph.D., and also an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. Her research engages the cultural dimensions of media, including the intersection of gender, race, affect and place. She has a particular interest in digital media. Here, her research focuses on the digital humanities, early software histories, gender, and race, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship.
Co-sponsored by the UCSC IGHERT Program, Film + Digital Media, HAVC, University Library, Grad Division

Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz
2016-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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Kuumbwa Jazz Center and the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research present:
Race, Class & Culture through the Lens of Jazz
Featuring a headline performance by jazz vocalist Kim Nalley, UC Santa Cruz Humanities is celebrating International Jazz Day 2016! In the spirit of UNESCO’s International Jazz Day and in collaboration with the Kuumbwa Jazz center downtown, come join us and help celebrate. Enjoy refreshments and reconnect with your fellow alumni in the spirit of International Jazz Day. The program will begin with a fascinating conversation on the global historical role of jazz on race, class, and culture led by our expert panelists, including Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, History Professor Eric Porter and jazz singer/historian Kim Nalley. Stick around to enjoy the fun as Nalley switches from historian to jazz and blues vocalist for the evening’s featured performance. All guests are welcome to linger after the show.

Tickets
$25 tickets are available through the UCSC Alumni Weekend website

Panelists
Tyler Stovall is Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and is the author of several books and numerous articles in the field of modern French history, specializing in transnational history, labor, colonialism, and race.
Eric Porter is a History Professor at UC Santa Cruz. His research includes black cultural and intellectual history, US cultural history and cultural studies, critical race and ethics studies, and popular music and jazz studies.
Kim Nalley is a well-known Bay Area jazz artist and is on faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory. She is also Ph.D. candidate focusing on the globalization of jazz and black cultural politics.
Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 7:00pm
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
7:00pm – Doors, bar and cafe open
7:30pm – Program begins at with conversation on the global historical role of jazz on race, class, and culture led by our expert panelists
8:00pm – Headline performance by jazz singer/historian Kim Nalley

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Public Reading and Q&A with novelist Micheal Nava
2016-04-29 15:30 - 16:40 | Kresge Seminar Room 159, Seminar Room Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz: Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Michael Nava is an attorney, the author of the acclaimed seven-volume Henry Rios detective series, and has won 6 Lambda Literary awards. He is currently in the midst of writing a new series of novels, the first of which is The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). Set before and during the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, this novel follows the lives of two families in Mexico City during the clash between Francisco Madero and Porfirio Diaz.
co-sponsored by Kresge College, the Literature Department, and the Chicano Latino Research Center
for questions or more information, email Dr. Beth Hernandez-Jason bhj@ucsc.edu

Linguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky
2016-04-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
2016-04-29 13:00 - 16:00 | McHenry Library, UCSC
The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised of faculty, staff, researchers, alumni, and industry professionals, for presenters from each division and two overall awards.
This year’s event will be held in the “Information Commons South” area on the 2nd floor of the McHenry Library.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Erin McElroy
2016-04-29 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Erin McElroy
“Disposals through the #DigitalNomad: The Materialization of a Dispossessive Avatar”
The “Digital Nomad,” an illusive figure flourishing alongside the growth of digital and network technologies, has conjured ideas of travel and freedom with the emergence of the Silicon Valley induced Tech Boom. I trace how digital networks, accompanied by fantasies of mobility, contribute to gentrifying economies that precipitate material dispossessions in locales undergoing economic and social transformation.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez
2016-04-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez is the second event in the Borders and Belonging Series hosted by the CLRC. In The Beast (Los migrantes que no importan, in the original Spanish), intrepid Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez accompanies migrants on “the Beast,” the train that travels from Central America through Mexico to the United States. Meanwhile, UCSC Professor Emeritus Lewis Watts has captured some of the stasis of migration in his recent photos of “the Jungle,” the makeshift migrant camp in Calais, France. Mr. Martínez discusses the migrant trail and Professor Watts shares some of his recent photos from Calais.
Click here for more info and to register for the event.
The title of Martinez’s celebrated book comes from la Bestia, the old and decrepit train thousands of migrants cling to every day in the hopes of crossing from Central America heading north. Intimately familiar with this scene from his days of on-the-ground reporting in El Salvador, Martinez compiled his short briefs into one searing look at the crisis of those who many call the “invisible people.” Martinez also is a staff writer for El Faro out of San Salvador and runs “Sala Negra,” a project with fellow journalists, investigating the challenging questions addressing and concerning gang violence in Central America. Launched in 2011, la Sala Negra cover Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala; four of the most volatile regions in the world today. The consortium works on issues mostly related to organized crime, prison systems and the culture of violence in the region. Martinez is widely considered a leading voice on these topics and migration related concerns throughout Latin America
Lewis Watts’ photos of “La jungle,” the makeshift migrant camp in Calais, France, describe an intimate and profound look at one of the most dangerous and heavily-trafficked migrant crossings in the world. As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to unfold in the news, Professor Watts’ imagery shows the universal face of the immigrant and forced migration struggle. The conversation will also be joined by Jennifer González, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, who will moderate the morning’s conversation about migrants and migration in different regions of the world.
Óscar Martínez is the author of Los migrantes que no importan: En el camino con los centroamericanos indocumentados en México (Icaria/El Faro, 2010), which was translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington as The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Verso, 2013). The New York Times has described Mr. Martínez’s writing as “graceful” and “incisive.” His second book, A History of Violence, is forthcoming from Verso in 2016. Based in El Salvador, he writes for Elfaro.net, Latin America’s first online newspaper.
Lewis Watts joined the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz in 2001 after having taught at UC Berkeley for 23 years. He is a photographer of cultural and urban landscapes, with a focus on the African diaposora. He has photographed African and Afro-descent communities in the United States, Latin America, and Europe and is the co-author (with Elizabeth Pepin) ofHarlem of the West: The San Francisco Jazz Fillmore Era (Chronicle Books, 2005) and (with Eric Porter) New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition (University of California, 2013).
For questions, please contact Catherine Ramírez at cathysue@ucsc.edu.

UC Santa Cruz Alumni Weekend 2016
2016-04-29 - 2016-05-01 | UC Santa Cruz
SAVE THE DATE
April 28 – May 1, 2016
More info and event schedule at: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu
Questions? Contact alumni@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.

María en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora
2016-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Join us for a free, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration
To foster a conversation about migration, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land), 2010. This is the story of three Salvadoran women and their journey to the United States. The film has been called unprecedented and a critical addition to the global migration conversation. The journalists and filmographers involved in creating this unique documentary spent months riding the trains and sleeping in the same shelters as they followed immigrants from El Salvador and Mexico, attempting to make the harrowing crossing to the United States.
Immediately following the screening, Professors John J. Leaños (Film & Digital Media) and Cecilia Rivas (LALS) will moderate a Q&A with the director, Marcela Zamora.
Marcela Zamora is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She has made 14 films about gender and human rights, including María en tierra de nadie and El cuarto de los huesos / The Room of Bones (2015), a documentary about the quest to unearth and identify the disappeared in El Salvador. She studied journalism in Costa Rica and documentary filmmaking in Cuba and has worked for Al Jazeera, Tele Sur, and Elfaro.net, Latin America’s first online newspaper.
Click here for more info and to register for the event.
For questions, please contact Catherine Ramírez at cathysue@ucsc.edu.

Living Writers: Charlie Jane Anders
2016-04-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charlie Jane Anders: I’m probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books.
I’m the editor of io9.com, where I’m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender. Ormy super detailed look at the making of Mork and Mindy. Or for my Game of Thrones recaps. Or for my writing advice columns. Ormy in-depth investigation of people who claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. Or my geeky articles about topics like the search for a cure for cancer, or how Leonard Nimoy changed everything, or how the TV show Star Blazers helped me deal with being bullied. Or just generally being an obnoxious loud-mouth.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.”
I have published a ton of short fiction – way over 100 short stories at this point. I’ve stopped counting. My stories have appeared in Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine,Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies. One year, I was in one of the Year’s Best SF anthologies and in Best Lesbian Erotica at the same time. My novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards. My novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White Award.
I organizeWriters With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. Every month, I make up weird fictional bios for the readers and performers, and nobody’s sued yet. Readers/performers at Writers With Drinks have included the aforementioned Armistead Maupin, plus Mary Gaitskill, Amy Tan, Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Dorothy Allison, W. Kamau Bell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Karen Joy Fowler, Maureen McHugh and just countless others. The SF Chronicle did a really nice article about Writers With Drinks.
Back in 2007, Annalee Newitz and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine calledother, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Mireille Lee “The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress”
2016-04-28 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and The UCSC Archaeological Research Center present:
Archaeology provides important evidence for ancient Greek dress, which was essential to the construction of social identities. Although no complete garments survive, preserved fragments of silk and embroideries indicate the elite status of the wearer. Jewelry, dress fasteners, toilet implements, perfume vessels, cosmetics, and mirrors are also important indicators of status and gender. The visual sources, including sculpture and vase-painting, depict men and women performing various dress practices. Although some practices, such as bathing and the use of perfumes, are common to both genders, others are specific to either men or women. The visual sources demonstrate other aspects of identity: age and social role are often indicated by hairstyle, whereas ethnicity is also conveyed by means of garments and body-modifications. Although dress is often considered a mundane aspect of culture, Professor Lee argues that dress provides unique insight into ancient Greek ideologies.
Refreshments at 4:30 and reception to follow the lecture
Free parking for lecture in the lower Cowell parking lot
Mireille Lee is Assistant Professor with the Departments of History of Art and Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University, and holds her degrees from Bryn Mawr (Ph.D.) and Occidental College. Her research interests include Greek art and archaeology, in particular the construction of gender in ancient visual and material culture. She has published widely on the social functions of dress in ancient Greece, including her volume Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on ancient Greek mirrors as social objects.

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong "Implicit Moral Attitudes"
2016-04-28 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process dissociation procedure) and then explore potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for philosophical theories of moral epistemology, responsibility, and virtue. If there is time, I will discuss practical uses of these findings in criminal law, especially regarding the treatment of psychopaths and prediction of their recidivism.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has published widely on ethics (theoretical and applied as well as meta-ethics), empirical moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems.

Irene Lusztig: “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s”
2016-04-27 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Irene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials and methods from her current work in progress, Yours in Sisterhood, a participatory documentary project based on published and unpublished letters to the editor of Ms. magazine.
Lusztig is Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
2016-04-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Hong Kong Democracy Movement: A Student Leader Speaks
In the autumn of 2014, a massive protest led by students demanded genuine universal suffrage for China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Nathan Kwun-chung Law will give an eyewitness report on that movement, as well as an account of the ongoing struggle to expand political rights in Hong Kong.
Nathan Law, 22, is a well-known student leader and organizer in Hong Kong. He is Secretary General of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, and was a Standing Committee member from 2014-15. He participated in the only negotiation session with the Hong Kong SAR government during the Umbrella Movement.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
5:30 PM
Humanities 1 Room 210
Sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz East Asian Studies Program

Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
2016-04-23 18:00 - 18:45 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Readings from the works and about the man
A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
6:00-6:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public
This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets available at: www.scbaroque.org
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616, is sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop, Institute for Humanities Research, Porter College, and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jordan Reznick
2016-04-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Jordan Reznick
“Selfie Suburbia: Whites Online in the Early Twenty-First Century”
Snapshot photography has been a means for white Americans to affirm their identities and collectively participate in circulating fictions about “normal” Americans that naturalize and legitimize ideals of whiteness. As whites became more precarious in the early twenty-first century, they adopted several new snapshot trends for signifying their enjoyment of increasingly fictional good life fantasies.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Humanities Earth Day Lunch and Learn
2016-04-22 11:30 - 13:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Green Team would like to invite you to join us for Earth Day!
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
11:30am – 1:00pm

Program:
11:30am-12:00pm: Green Team introductions
12:00pm-12:15pm: PSI presentation
12:15pm-1:00pm: “Bin Confused” presentation

Come enjoy delicious food provided by local caterers while learning about how to achieve zero waste in your office, events, and at home!

PhD+: Eric Hayot: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities"
2016-04-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
PODCAST:
“Writing for Publication in the Humanities”
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies–both psychological and practical–for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP, 2014). His talk will offer specific insights into how to write literary scholarship in the mode that was born out of the influence of philosophy and cultural studies on literary criticism over the last three decades.
Professor Hayot is the author of Chinese Dreams (Michigan, 2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (Oxford, 2009), and On Literary Worlds (Oxford, 2012). He edits the “Global Asias” series for Oxford and serves as Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information. Learn more at erichayot.org.
Sponsored by: IHR, the Graduate Student Association, the Graduate Student Commons, the Departments of Literature, Politics, History of Art & Visual Culture, Latin American & Latino Studies, Anthropology, and Film & Digital Media.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 22, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Manuel Gonzales
2016-04-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife And Other Stories (Riverhead) and the forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! (Riverhead). He graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2003. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in McSweeney’s, Fence, Tin House, Open City, One Story, The Believer, i09.com, and various other publications.
He is the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction and the Binghamton University John Gardner Prize for Fiction. For four years he ran the nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids, Austin Bat Cave, and in times past he co-owned The Clarksville Pie Company in Austin, TX, where he baked pies for a living.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Tony Michels: "Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
2016-04-21 10:00 - 11:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as to join the American Communist Part with the hope of replicating the Russian Revolution on American soil. Although only a minority, Communists put forward a persistently attractive alternative to the dominant model of Americanization, according to which Jews ought to integrate into a liberal, political order. In the decades following the Russian Revolution, American Jews moved between competing poles of Communism and liberalism and, simultaneously, between competing ideals of universalism and Jewish particularity. All the while, Jews wrestled with the question of totalitarianism, one of the most divisive questions of the twentieth century. What was Soviet Russia? Was it a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor? Or was the Soviet Union a vast prison system built upon ruthless repression of the working class? Over a four decade period, from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the end of the Second World War, a period framed by enormous catastrophes yet animated by utopian visions of social justice, American Jews defined themselves in relation to the Soviet Union.
Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on immigration, politics, and comparative ethnic history, as well as courses in labor history and radical political movements. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research, and Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012). He is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s.

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Joshua Brahinsky: “The Cultivated Event: Why Pentecostals Were the Best Organizers of the 20th Century and How to Translate Their Strategies For the Rest of Us”
2016-04-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Joshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is an organizer for UC-AFT and the Economic Justice Alliance.
Brahinsky has his PhD from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Sikhism in the Global Age
2016-04-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Mark Juergensmeyer is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair of Global and Sikh Studies, fellow of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including the recently-released Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State (University of California Press 2008). His widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, revised edition 2003), is based on interviews with religious activists around the world–including individuals convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, leaders of Hamas, and abortion clinic bombers in the United States–and was listed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. A previous book, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (University of California Press, 1993) covers the rise of religious activism and its confrontation with secular modernity. It was named by the New York Times as one of the notable books of the year. His book on Gandhian conflict resolution has been reprinted as Gandhi’s Way (University of California Press, Updated Edition, 2005), and was selected as Community Book of the Year at the University of California, Davis. He has edited the Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press 2006) and Religion in Global Civil Society (Oxford University Press 2005), and is co-editing The Encyclopedia of Global Religions (Sage Publications 2008) and The Encyclopedia of Global Studies (Sage Publications 2009). His 2006 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University, God and War, will be published by Princeton University Press.
Juergensmeyer has received research fellowships from the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for contributions to the study of religion, and is the 2004 recipient of the Silver Award of the Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence in Spain. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Lehigh University in 2004, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006, and the Unitas Distinguished Alumnus Award from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 2007. He was elected president of the American Academy of Religion, and chairs the working group on Religion and International Affairs for the national Social Science Research Council. Since the events of September 11 he has been a frequent commentator in the news media, including CNN, NBC, CBS, BBC, NPR, Fox News, ABC’s Politically Incorrect, and CNBC’s Dennis Miller Show.

La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
2016-04-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present:
LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA
ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC)
Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma, los pilares que sustentan la enseñanza que quiere trasmitir el autor son la distancia socarrona y un convencido anticlericalismo; una ironía sin acidez y siempre constructiva y una desconfianza en la institución eclesiástica que nunca significa un ataque a la visión religiosa de la existencia. Tradicionalmente esta novela, que Ediciones Alfar tiene a bien ofrecer al lector, ha sido editada y analizada a la sombra de la famosa “segunda manera” y, particularmente, como la segunda parte de Nazarín. Esta edición presenta la obra aislándola de esas ataduras para que pueda ser leída de manera independiente. En cualquier caso, no hay duda de que Halma es otra de las grandes novelas del autor.

*Light refreshments will be served.

Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
2016-04-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating
information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental, ethical, and economic challenges facing humankind.
The goal of contemplative pedagogy, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, is to foster “true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and a more just society.”
Saturday, April 16 @ 9am-5pm
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
Daylong working group in which a small group of interested parties will read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. These works will primarily provide an introduction to contemplative teaching methods, although we will be discussing other methodological uses of contemplative approaches.
If you would like to participate in the symposium, please email ihr@ucsc.edu.
Friday, April 15 @ 2-4 pm
Public Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education
McHenry Library Room 4286
This roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines, including the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Legal Studies.
Click here for more info on the Roundtable.
Visitors
Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, no. 134, (Jossey Bass, 2013), 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review, 2011), “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009), and “Competing Narratives, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009).

Erin McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian, feminist, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington, 2010), her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently, her research interests are taking two directions – the first, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies.

Peter Grossenbacher, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction, worldview transformation, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception, Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Psychology, Personality, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health, and taught at the University of Oregon, England’s University of Cambridge, and American University in Washington, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he speaks internationally on contemplative education, synesthesia, meditation, and the brain.
Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.
To see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches, please visit the following websites:
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center
Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative
University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies
Naropa University Contemplative Education Program
Sponsors
Institute for Humanities Research, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster, Center for Public Philosophy, Bill Ladusaw, Literature Department, Philosophy Department, Graduate Division, Porter College, Oakes College, College Eight, Social Sciences Division.

Introducing Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education: A Public Roundtable with Leaders in the Field
2016-04-15 14:00 - 16:00 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Contemplative pedagogy is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that sees education as a transformative process rather than simply a means of accumulating
information. With an emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, engagement, and student-centered learning, contemplative approaches seek to cultivate thinkers and responders rather than consumers of knowledge. Practitioners forge links between traditional disciplinary wisdom and the environmental, ethical, and economic challenges facing humankind.
The goal of contemplative pedagogy, as articulated by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, is to foster “true community, deeper insight, sustainable living, and a more just society.”
Friday, April 15 @ 2-4 pm
Public Roundtable on Contemplative Approaches in Higher Education
McHenry Library Room 4286
This roundtable brings together leaders in the field with expertise in diverse disciplines, including the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and Legal Studies.
Saturday, April 16 @ 9am-5pm
Contemplative Pedagogy Symposium
A day-long Symposium will follow on Saturday, April 16th. We’ll read central texts in the field of Contemplative Pedagogy and discuss them with our panel of experts. If you would like to participate in the symposium, please email ihr@ucsc.edu. Click here for more info on the Symposium.
Visitors
Rhonda Magee, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her scholarly work focuses on race law and policy as well as on humanizing legal education and the practice of law. This effort aims to help law students and practitioners cope with pressure in order to be more successful and effective. A national leader in the movement to humanize law and legal education, and an expert in contemplative pedagogy, Professor Magee recently published “Contemplative Practices and the Renewal of Legal Education,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education, no. 134, (Jossey Bass, 2013), 31.” Magee’s courses share a common theme of examining how law responds to the vulnerable in society. She is the author of numerous journal articles, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” (University of Missouri–Kansas City Law Review, 2011), “Slavery as Immigration?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009), and “Competing Narratives, Competing Jurisprudences: Are Law Schools Racist?” (University of San Francisco Law Review, 2009).

Erin McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor in Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University. Dr. Erin McCarthy came to St. Lawrence in 2000. She teaches Asian, feminist, continental and comparative philosophy. Author of the book Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese and Feminist Philosophies (Lexington, 2010), her work has been published in several anthologies and journals in both French and English and she regularly presents her scholarship both nationally and internationally. She was an inaugural recipient of the “Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Residential Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values” at Naropa University in 2009. Dr. McCarthy sits on the Editorial board of the journal Comparative and Continental Philosophy and is Co-editor of the ASIANetwork Exchange: A journal for Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork (a consortium of over 170 North American colleges). Currently, her research interests are taking two directions – the first, a project titled “Re-imagining Maternity,”is a comparative philosophical re-thinking of the norms of maternity; and the second looks at the ways in which contemplative education can be enriched by incorporating feminist philosophies.

Peter Grossenbacher, Professor in Contemplative Education and Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University. Professor Grossenbacher directs Naropa’s internationally known Consciousness Laboratory. In collaboration with students in the lab, he conducts empirical research on meditation instruction, worldview transformation, and engagement with awareness. His research has been covered in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Discover Magazine. Grossenbacher teaches courses in Perception, Neuroscience, Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Psychology, Personality, and Research Methods. He previously conducted research on human attention at the National Institute of Mental Health, and taught at the University of Oregon, England’s University of Cambridge, and American University in Washington, D.C. A practitioner of meditation since 1980, he speaks internationally on contemplative education, synesthesia, meditation, and the brain.
Contemplative Approaches to Higher Education are some of the most exciting and fast-growing developments in post-secondary education in the US.
To see the kind of work being done by some of the leading national centers for Contemplative Approaches, please visit the following websites:
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center
Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative
University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies
Naropa University Contemplative Education Program
Sponsors
Institute for Humanities Research, Contemplative Pedagogy Research Cluster, Center for Public Philosophy, Bill Ladusaw, Literature Department, Philosophy Department, Graduate Division, Porter College, Oakes College, College Eight, Social Sciences Division.

Sabine Iatridou - "Fake Things Here and There: Evidence From Now and Then"
2016-04-15 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See here for more about Professor Iatridou’s work.
Stay tuned for more information.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Claudia Lopez
2016-04-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Claudia Lopez
“Contesting ‘Double Displacement’: Rural displaces Persons, informal Settlements, and the ‘Medellin Miracle'”
This presentation examines the Comuna 8, a sector of the city of Medellin resisting displacement by urban renewal. I highlight a historic voting process in 2014, lead by a committee of displaced persons, to contest the implementation of the redeveloped plan.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

Living Writers: Kate Schatz
2016-04-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Kate Schatz, UCSC creative writing/Lit alum, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, a children’s book (for everyone) published by City Lights Books. It’s gotten love from BUST, Publisher’s Weekly, BuzzFeed, MTV, Ms., Teen Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, GOOD, The New York Times, AFROPUNK, and all kinds of other rad outlets.
Her book of fiction, Rid of Me: A Story, was published in 2006 as part of the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Her work has been published in Oxford American, Denver Quarterly, Joyland, East Bay Express, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her short story “Folsom, Survivor” was a 2010 Notable Short Story in Best American Short Stories 2011.
She is a co-founder of The Encyclopedia Project, and is the Chair of the School of Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts. Kate received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown, and a double BA in Women’s Studies/Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

Spring 2016 Living Writers Series: Out of Line
Why Out of Line?
“I chose the theme Out of Line because it characterizes the way many of these writers work across genre, in different genres, and generally seem to prize the element of surprise in their writing. I’m hoping it will encourage our students to think outside the box and have fun with their writing. In general, I’m confident this will be a really fun series with a lot of writers with great senses of humor as well as deep interests in the political.” – Professor Micah Perks
This event is free and open to the public! Books from the authors will be on sale at the event by the Bay Tree Book Store. Get a book and get it signed by our marvelous visiting authors!
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
April 7: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
April 14: Kate Schatz
April 21: Manuel Gonzales
April 28: Charlie Jane Anders
May 5: NO READING
May 12: Elizabeth McKenzie
May 19: Lev Grossman
May 26: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
June 2: Student Reading

Gayle Salamon: "Gender Essentialism and Eidetic Inquiry"
2016-04-14 16:00 - 17:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk revisits the essentialism debates within feminism, and reconsiders the impasse in which those debates landed. What understanding of “essence” was operative in those conversations about gender essentialism? And might there be a different way of thinking about the relation between essence and gender? I turn to singular and plural essences in Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s concept of eidetic variation, showing that that phenomenology offers an articulation of essence in which variation and temporal unfolding, rather than fixity and atemporality, are primary. The phenomenological concept of essence, I will argue, offers a way to reconsider essentialism that steers clear of the straits of bilogical determinism and social constructionism that have deadlocked previous conversations about gender and essence.
About:
Gayle Salamon is an Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Research interests include phenomenology, queer and trans theory, feminist philosophy, 20th Century Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and disability studies.

Anne MacNeil: “A new breed of critical edition: the role of digital humanities in transforming music scholarship”
2016-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Hands on (Digital) Humanities with Prof. Anne MacNeil
Anne MacNeil will give a demonstration of her digital humanities project, IDEA Music, and the new software toolkit, Prospect, that powers it. In the last year, MacNeil’s close collaboration with programmer Michael Newton (UNC Digital Innovation Lab) and other members of the DIL community in developing Prospect has resulted in a powerful platform that has transformed IDEA Music into a multi-dimensional, multi-media publication that challenges the tradition concept of “critical edition”. The presentation will include a brief video from Michael Newton about his conceptualization of the data science underlying Prospect, together with MacNeil’s demonstration of the project administrator’s role in configuring relational databases and visualizations and of the front-end user interface (GUI). Also included will be a description of Professor MacNeil’s work with bioinformatics specialists in developing a model for music analysis using a modified Waterman algorithm, originally developed for analyzing amino acids.
Co-sponsored by the Music Department, Italian Studies, and The Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair, Cowell College

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New and Emerging Terms in Migration Studies: A Seminar with Nicholas De Genova
2016-04-14 09:30 - 12:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge
Inspired by Nicholas De Genova, et. al’s “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”, the International Organization for Migration’s Key Migration Terms, and recent debates regarding the distinction between “refugee” and “migrant,” this one-day seminar explores key and emerging terms in migration studies and the growing gap between vocabulary and lived reality. It kicks off Borders and Belonging, a series of events on human migration organized by the CLRC over the spring of 2016, helps open Rethinking Migration, a two-day conference that the CLRC will host May 6-7, 2016, and helps us prepare for Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Saywer Seminar.
This seminar is open to UCSC faculty and students, although space is limited, so attendees must register in advance. Readings will circulate prior to the seminar.
Please register for the seminar here. Registration will close on Friday, March 25, 2016.
Nicholas De Genova is one of the world’s leading migration scholars. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, among them, The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (co-edited with Nathalie Peutz, Duke University Press, 2010), Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Duke University Press, 2006), Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Duke University Press, 2005), and “Migrant ‘Illegality’ and Deportability in Everyday Life” (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2002). His current projects explore migration, race, and postcoloniality in Europe. He holds a permanent appointment as Reader in Urban Geography and directs a research group on spatial politics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London.

Spring Job & Internship Fair
2016-04-13 15:00 - 18:00 | College 8, West Field House
You are invited to the Spring Job & Internship this Wednesday. Don’t miss the last job and internship fair of the academic year!
Spring Job & Internship Fair
Wednesday, April 13
3:00-6:00pm
College Eight West Field House
Where companies come to meet Slug talent!
Check out the companies that are signed up. More to come!
7th Avenue Center
8×8, Inc
Abroad Internships
AXA Advisors
California Public Utilities Commission
CalRecycle
DataCare
Daversa Partners
Del Mar Food Products Corp.
Eargo Inc.
Easter Seals Bay Area
Education First
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Fisher Investments
Foresters Financial Services
Galileo Learning
Game Show Network (GSN) Games
Guidebook Inc.
Happy Valley Conference Center
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Korean Consulate Education Center
KQED, Inc.
LGS Recreation
Looker Data Sciences
Ma Labs
Peace Corps
Plantronics, Inc.
Santa Cruz Seaside Company
Schoolmessenger
Seneca Family of Agencies
Sherwin Williams
Social Security Administration
Surveymonkey
Symphony
Target
Two Pore Guys
United States Air Force
United States Navy
Urban Teachers
Vivint Solar
Walgreens
West Marine
Whiting’s Foods
WSO2 Inc.
Zoho Corporation
Prepare For The Fair
Research the companies you are interested in before coming to the fair. They like to know that you know something about them.
Have your resume ready and verbal introduction practiced.
Think about which companies you want to talk to & come dressed the part!
Check out our Career Fair Tips Pinterest Page for some quick tips!
Student ID required.
All Majors Encouraged to Attend

Roland Tolentino: “Cinema and State in Crisis: Political Film Collectives and the People’s Struggles in the Philippines”
2016-04-13 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Filipino Film Critics Group, Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy, and People’s Alternative Media Network.
Tolentino is Faculty at University of the Philippines Film Institute and Visiting Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia (CANCELED)
2016-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | FITC, 1336 McHenry Library
A hands-on workshop designed to construct innovative assignments using Wikipedia and its content editing platform. Building assignments that ask students to work on Wikipedia pages will help them:
• Develop writing skills
• Improve Media and Information Literacy
• Refine Critical Thinking and Research Skills
• Learn to work collaboratively
The workshop will also include a discussion about assessment and discipline specific objectives. Get inspired to integrate Wikipedia into your classroom.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrew Woods
2016-04-08 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Andrew Woods
“Punk the Academy (aka. Punk as Method)
With a particular emphasis on the non-hierarchical, ambiguous, and D.I.Y. ethos of punk cultures, this paper makes the case that punk can be used as a lens informing our investigations of other objects, scenes, themes, and theories. The information of punk as method is not assuming punk “has all the answers,” but rather that through subversive aesthetic shock and rupture, punk has the potential to open up new ways of thinking through not only our discourses, but also the social world from which they arise.

Friday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
April 8th- Andrew Woods, Politics
April 15th- Claudia Lopez, Sociology
April 22nd- Jordan Reznick, HAVC
April 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies
May 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics
May 13th- Cathy Thomas, Literature
May 20th- Trung Nguyen, History of Consciousness
May 27th- Rebecca Ora, Film of Digital Media
June 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky, Feminist Studies

RESCHEDULED PhD+: Writing for Publication in the Humanities
2016-04-08 | Unnamed Venue
This event has been rescheduled for April 22. Click here for more info.

Living Writers: Githa Hariharan (CANCELED)
2016-04-07 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States

Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
2016-04-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
Professor Sheren Seikaly is a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo. She is Co-founder and Co-editor of the important journal Jadaliyaa.
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.

Grad Slam for 2016 Finalists
2016-04-06 17:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge, is a competition that challenges doctoral students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work.
The contest is open to all doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy.
Congratulations to our 2016 Finalists!
Finalists will present their three-minute thesis presentations at a live event on April 6th at 5:30pm in the Music Recital Hall. This event is open to the public, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up, both awards will go to that person.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750.
The UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in San Francisco on April 22nd. Visit the UCOP Grad Slam page to see more information about finalists across all UC-campuses!

Sherene Seikaly: “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
2016-04-06 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sherene Seikaly’s current work explores the construction and regulation of the poor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt in terms of governance and of popular politics. Through a political economy of the history of food, this project rethinks our understanding of the “masses” and the specter of the “bread riot.” This talk is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds.
Seikaly is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara.

Spring 2016 Colloquium Series

April 6, 2016
April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016
April 27, 2016
May 4,2016
May 11,2016
May 18,2016
May 25,2016

Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich
2016-04-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday, March 31.
Free Admission. Advance Registration Required.
This event has reached capacity; online registration is now closed. To be placed on a waiting list, fill out this form or email the Special Events office.
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Modeling Culture: 3D Archaeology and the Future of the Past
2016-04-01 09:00 - 17:30 | McHenry Library UCSC, Room 4286
Organizers:
Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz
J. Cameron Monroe, UC Santa Cruz

Conference Theme:
The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital technologies in Archaeology, where the increasing power and declining cost of computing technology has transformed the way we think about collecting, analyzing, and presenting archaeological data. While many technologies have been adopted and adapted into the field, the potential for 3D modeling is still being explored. This conference asks leading innovators in the use of 3D research methods to present and evaluate the impact and future of this new technology on the study of the past.
Speakers:
Michael Ashley, Center for Digital Archaeology
Edward González-Tennant, Digital Heritage Interactive
Susan Kuzminsky, UC Santa Cruz
Nicola Lercari, UC Merced
Tom Levy, UC San Diego
Bernard K. Means, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rachel Opitz, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
John Rick, Stanford University
Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz
Willeke Wendrich, UC Los Angeles
Keynote Address by Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required: Register for the Conference

Call For Digital Presentations:
In addition to the above speakers, we invite submissions for a small number of digital presentations focusing on methodological issues in 3D archaeology. These presentations will be presented in a digital “poster-session” in which presenters will use a devoted widescreen LCD. As such, we discourage traditional powerpoint presentations or simple posters, but rather encourage presentations that will make maximum use of the flexibility afforded by a digital presentation mode. We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students, and small travel stipend is available to defray costs for graduate student presenters. To ensure full consideration, abstracts should be submitted online by February 19th using the link below.
Submit an Abstract for the Digital Poster Session

Film Screening: Inequality for All
2016-03-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Kresge Town Hall
An award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup.
Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality for All, an ward-winning documentary film. Inequality for All will be shown at Kresge Town Hall on Thursday, March 31.
The screening comes prior to a local talk by Robert Reich on April 5 at the Rio Theatre.
Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
2016-03-11 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Bristol Cave La-Costa
“Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act, which excluded “immoral” immigrants, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women.

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History

Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
2016-03-10 16:30 - 19:45 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present:
Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
Free and open to the public
4:30PM Doors Open
5PM Reception & Book signing
6PM Reading
Samuel R. Delany is an American science-fiction novelist and critic whose highly imaginative works address sexual, racial, and social issues, heroic quests, and the nature of language. Born in New York City’s Harlem in 1942, Delany was the first African American writer to achieve note through commercial american science fiction. He is the author of the non-fiction books Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), and About Writing (2005). His novels include Nova (1968), Dhalgren (1975), The Return to Nevèrÿon Fantasy Series (1979-87), The Mad Man (1995), Dark Reflections (2007), Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012), and Phallos (2013). He has won the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and, this year, into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master of Science Fiction and lives in Pennsylvania. Last year he retired from teaching creative writing at Temple University.
Event sponsored by: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Living Writers Series, Humanities Division, Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

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Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany

Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
2016-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity.
Claude Steele, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups, being threatened by different stereotypes, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele’s recent book, “Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do,” published in 2010, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of “stereotype threat”.
Light refreshments will precede the lecture. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Please RSVP here.

Anna Tsing: "The Mushroom at the End of the World"
2016-03-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from “The Mushroom at the End of the World.”
A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, “The Mushroom at the End of the World” follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. In all its contradictions, the matsutake mushroom offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination in to the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC and a Neils Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is author of “Friction” and “In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.”

The Cosmopolitical Forest
2016-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Porter College, Room D245
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents:
Ursula Biemann
Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in these massive physical encroachments. Her recent fieldwork has taken her to vital forested regions in the Americas. Engaging with the political ecology of oil and water, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality. Discussing her artistic practice in the projects Deep Weather and Forest Law, Biemann particularly raises questions regarding the entanglement of aesthetics, ecology and geopolitics.

Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four'”
2016-03-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present:
“Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four
DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON
Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who gain extraordinary powers when cosmic rays alter their physiology, respectively granting them control over living flame, invisibility, impenetrable rock-like skin, and physical pliability. In this talk, Ramzi Fawaz explores the surprisingly queer evolution of the series, which used the mutated bodies of its heroes to depict the transformation of the bread-winning father, doting wife and bickering male siblings of the 1950s nuclear family into icons of 1960s radicalism: the left-wing intellectual, the liberal feminist, the political activist, and the potential queer.
About the Author: Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press, 2016), which received the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship award for best first book manuscript in LGBT Studies. Dr. Fawaz’s research has been published in American Literature, Callaloo, and GLQ.

Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
2016-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness.
March 8, 2016, 7:30pm
Doors open at 7pm.
Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited)
The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But the usual language of aesthetics does little to reveal what makes the place extraordinary. The lecture, based on years of walking the rugged site, uses color photography and historical research to explore the interaction of architecture and ecology. It traces UCSC’s experience of environmental design through changing times and ponders its continued significance.
Complimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot. Parking attendants will be onsite that evening to issue permits.
For questions or accommodation requirements, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu

Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
2016-03-08 17:30 - 19:15 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents:
Ursula Biemann
Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics and history, as well as her essayistic storytelling and creative imaging. Set in the Shetland Islands, Greenland’s Disco Bay and on a tiny Caribbean Island, and occurring at the end of the 2,500 year old Holocene epoch, the video’s relational eco-geography captures moments of aquatic flows through invisible ocean streams and melting Arctic icescapes, and reads this interconnected system as both a hyperobject (one of an expanded geo-space-time, as Timothy Morton writes), and a modeling of intensive science and virtual philosophy (as according to Manuel De Landa). This event will compliment Biemann’s presentation in the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium the following afternoon:

Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
2016-03-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History
Bernadette Jeanne Pérez
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution, and mid-twentieth century industry histories, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples, subjugate non-white workers, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism, race, and Manifest Destiny.
Bernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields, 1900-1945,” is a social, cultural, environmental, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award.

Israeli Music Extravaganza!
2016-03-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá!
Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm
@ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
Doors open at 8:00pm
Drums: Gary Kehoe
Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison
Bass: Etienne David Franc
Saxophones: Anne Stafford
Keyboard: Avi Tchamni
Percussion: Noam Harel
The show is FREE for all
For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.

Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2016
2016-03-05 09:30 - 17:30 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ryan Bennett (Ph.D. 2012) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Laura Harrison
2016-03-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Laura Harrison
“Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act”
“Rights Are Not Justice” is the product of a community facilitated project in public sociology and critical disability studies. This project outlines who and what is at stake when a campus elevator/building is inaccessible by uncovering the answers to thefollowing three questions: 1) who is affected by building segregation; 2) which bureaucratic structures maintain or operationalize the necessary conditions for inaccessibility; and, 3) what ideas work to organize these structures?

Friday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Humanities 1, Room 202
A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students.
January 15- James Beneda, Politics
January 22- Alex Moore, HAVC
January 29- Whitney Devos, Literature
February 5- Sophia Magnone, Literature
February 12- Andrei Tcacenco, History
February 19- Amanda Reyes, History & Consciousness
February 26- Keith Spencer, Literature
March 4- Laura Harrison, Sociology
March 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa, History
