BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140423T223706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140423T223706Z UID:10004931-1398704400-1398709800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles" DESCRIPTION:Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor’s Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published three books on this subject Antifacism in American Art\, A Taste For Pop: Pop Art\, Gender\, and Consumer Culture\, and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s\, her most recent book\, was awarded the 21st Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. At present\, she is researching the apocalyptic imaginary in 1950s and early 1960s art practice. \nImage: King Kong\, Niki de Sainte Phalle\, 1962.\n  \nPresented by the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia\, with support from the Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, and History of Art & Visual Culture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cecile-whiting-2/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140428T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130903T235845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130903T235845Z UID:10005443-1398675600-1398704400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference DESCRIPTION:[vc_column width=”2/3″ el_position=”first”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nThis conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76)\, during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop\, as an increasing number of scholars in China are engaged in research on this subject\, a result of the cottage industry of individual memoirs\, collections of letters\, diaries\, and archival materials that have been published. \nAlthough all of the conference participants have conducted research on historical aspects of the movement\, they share a concern with the legacies of that movement for contemporary China: the large percentage of the current political leadership (including President Xi Jinping) that were sent-down youth; the implications of economic relationships established in the context of the sent-down youth movement for contemporary economic development; and social issues facing the post-sent-down youth generation. Participants from China and the U.S. include historians\, sociologists\, and political scientists. \n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Schedule” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n9:00-9:15 AM – Opening Remarks\nEmily Honig\, Department of History\, UC Santa Cruz \n9:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Panel One\nChair: Benjamin Read\, Department of Politics\, UCSC \nSun Peidong (Department of History\, Fudan University)\n“Who will marry my daughter? Shanghai Parental Matchmaking Corner and the Zhiqing generation” \nXie Chunhe (Center for Research on Sent-down Youth\, Heihe College\, Heilongjiang)\n“The Quest for Social Identity of Sent-down Youth in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era” \nEmily Honig (Department of History\, UCSC) and Xiaojian Zhao (Department of Asian American Studies\, UCSB)\n“Calling the Phoenix Back to its Nest: Economic Legacies of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China” \nDiscussant: Kevin O’Brien\, Department of Politics\, University of California\, Berkeley \n12:15-2:00 PM – Lunch break\n2:00-5:00 PM – Panel Two\nChair: Christopher Connery\, Department of Literature\, UCSC \nTan Shen (Institute of Sociology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)\n“Remembering the Past in the Post Sent-down Youth Era” \nJin Guangyao (Department of History\, Fudan University)\n“Former Sent-down Youth in Post-Cultural Revolution China: Literature and Scholarship” \nLin Shengbao (Department of History\, Fudan University)\n“An Analysis of Sent-down Youth Oral Histories” \nDiscussant: Thomas Gold\, Department of Sociology\, University of California\, Berkeley \n  \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [vc_column width=”1/3″ el_position=”last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider height=”35″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_button size=”medium” style=”light” url=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions” label=”Location & Directions” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_button size=”medium” style=”light” url=”mailto:ihr@ucsc.edu?subject=Request for Legacy of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China Conference Readings&body=Please send me the readings for the Legacy of Sent-down Youth in Contemporary China conference.%0A%0AName:%0A%0AAcademic Department:%0A%0AInstitution:” label=”Request Readings” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \n \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sent-down-youth-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140425T221011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221011Z UID:10004932-1398625200-1398632400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs DESCRIPTION:It’s easy to create a victim. \nOne of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn\,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment\, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and befriends Anna\, another victim of abuse. Fifteen years later Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) and Anna (Morjana Alaoui) break into the house of a seemingly middle-of-the-road bourgeois family whom Lucie proceeds to slaughter with gory abandon because she believes them to be the perpetrators of her yearlong suffering and abuse as a child. These gruesome acts give way to some obvious problems (primarily having to do with how to dispose of the bodies) and the unexpected discovery of a hidden staircase that leads to the more affecting and startling atrocity exhibitions (and almost spiritual ordeals of survival) in the film’s second half. Though it is certainly one of the most graphic films we’ll be showing this quarter\, Martyrs is not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-martyrs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140421T154757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T154757Z UID:10004927-1398423600-1398427200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shakespeare-to-Go: Hamlet DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday\, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go’s one-hour production of Hamlet. \nStarring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy \nOriginal music by Eric Benjamin Parson \nFight choreography by Carla Pantoja \nDirected by Kimberly Jannarone URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-to-go-hamlet-2/ LOCATION:Porter Amphitheater END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140428 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130607T154105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T154105Z UID:10004822-1398384000-1398643199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reunion-weekend-2/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140124T185019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T185019Z UID:10004902-1398362400-1398369600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers\, taught by Carolyn Dunn) DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry\, most recently How We Became Human\, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books\, most recently Crazy Brave\, A Memoir; two children’s books\, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings\, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-joy-harjo-in-support-of-uc-pres-chair-sponsored-course-american-indian-feminist-writers-taught-by-carolyn-dunn-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140415T195957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140415T195957Z UID:10004924-1398355200-1398362400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War" DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 \n \nWe are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua\, who will be on campus for a series of events\, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics\, and her writing on cinema\, feminism\, Marxism\, revolutionary movements of the sixties\, class\, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist\, a feminist\, and an internationalist\, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural\, gender\, political\, social\, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and has been published in journals such as Positions\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation. \nSeminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)\n \nSchedule:\nI. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference\, April 18 and 19\nProfessor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”\, Friday April 18\, 2:30 to 5:00 PM\, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion\, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”\, Saturday April 19\, 3:45-6:00 PM. \nII. Public screening of Still Life\nMonday\, April 21\, at 7PM\, in Humanities I\, room 210.\nThere will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome. \nIII. Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke.\nTuesday\, April 22\, 4:00-6:00 PM\, Humanities I\, room 202. Refreshments will be served.\nStill Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years\, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity\, spatiality\, and socio-economic change\, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar\, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay\, “Temporality\, Nature Morte\, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“\, either in the original Chinese or in English translation. \nIV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War\nThursday\, April 24\, 4:00PM\, Humanities I\, room 210.\nWhere in time is China\, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures\, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.\n  \nProfessor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \, the Department of Literature\, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery\, Literature; Lisa Rofel\, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter\, History\, Asad Haider\, History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-april-18-april-24-lecture-after-the-post-cold-war-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140421T165233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T165233Z UID:10004928-1398340800-1398346200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion with Joy Harjo DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry\, most recently How We Became Human\, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books\, most recently Crazy Brave\, A Memoir; two children’s books\, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings\, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. \nAll are invited. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lunch-discussion-with-joy-harjo-2/ LOCATION:Ethnic Resource Lounge\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140422T180520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140422T180520Z UID:10004930-1398272400-1398277800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California" Screening and Q&A with Directors DESCRIPTION:Cowell College Provost\, History Department\, Italian Studies Program\, Languages\, and Applied Linguistics Department present \nA Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien\nFollowed by Q&A with Directors \nFinding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation of the past–one that recalls the ugly along the beautiful and the conflicts and tragedies along with the solidarity and triumphs.\n– Donna R. Gabaccia\, University of Minnesota URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/finding-the-mother-lode-italian-immigrants-in-california-screening-and-qa-with-directors-2/ LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 131\, Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140423T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140228T203928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T203928Z UID:10005650-1398254400-1398259800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susan Harding: "Secular Trouble: Anthropology\, Public Schools\, and De/regulating Religion in late 20th Century America" DESCRIPTION:Susan Harding \nProfessor of Anthropology\, UCSC \nSusan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism\, Christian revivalism\, Civil Rights\, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-harding-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140422T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140422T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140415T194127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140415T194127Z UID:10004923-1398182400-1398189600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 \n \nWe are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua\, who will be on campus for a series of events\, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics\, and her writing on cinema\, feminism\, Marxism\, revolutionary movements of the sixties\, class\, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist\, a feminist\, and an internationalist\, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural\, gender\, political\, social\, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and has been published in journals such as Positions\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation. \nSeminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)\n \nSchedule:\nI. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference\, April 18 and 19\nProfessor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”\, Friday April 18\, 2:30 to 5:00 PM\, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion\, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”\, Saturday April 19\, 3:45-6:00 PM. \nII. Public screening of Still Life\nMonday\, April 21\, at 7PM\, in Humanities I\, room 210.\nThere will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome. \nIII. Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke.\nTuesday\, April 22\, 4:00-6:00 PM\, Humanities I\, room 202. Refreshments will be served.\nStill Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years\, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity\, spatiality\, and socio-economic change\, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar\, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay\, “Temporality\, Nature Morte\, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“\, either in the original Chinese or in English translation. \nIV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War\nThursday\, April 24\, 4:00PM\, Humanities I\, room 210.\nWhere in time is China\, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures\, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.\n  \nProfessor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \, the Department of Literature\, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery\, Literature; Lisa Rofel\, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter\, History\, Asad Haider\, History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-april-18-april-24-seminar-on-still-life-directed-by-jia-zhangke-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140422T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140422T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140324T192631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140324T192631Z UID:10005675-1398171600-1398178800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Google Earth Workshop DESCRIPTION:Google Earth is an online virtual globe that allows researchers and students to display layered information on modern satellite imagery. In this introductory hands-on tutorial\, participants will be taught the basics of the program\, including how to navigate and add custom content. We will focus specifically on the use of Google Earth for the Humanities\, covering how to import and scale historic maps on top of the satellite imagery\, how to add descriptive text and digital imagery to locations on the surface of the earth\, and how to use the power of the program to organize one’s data temporally or thematically. \nThis workshop is especially useful for instructors wishing to add Google Earth mapping assignments to their courses. No prior knowledge required. Please bring laptops with the regular version of Google Earth pre-installed. \nSpace is limited\, pre-registration required. Please check back for registration information URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/google-earth-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140421T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140415T202710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140415T202710Z UID:10004925-1398106800-1398114000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua Film Screening: Still Life DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 \n \nWe are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua\, who will be on campus for a series of events\, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics\, and her writing on cinema\, feminism\, Marxism\, revolutionary movements of the sixties\, class\, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist\, a feminist\, and an internationalist\, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural\, gender\, political\, social\, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and has been published in journals such as Positions\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation. \nSeminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)\n \nSchedule:\nI. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference\, April 18 and 19\nProfessor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”\, Friday April 18\, 2:30 to 5:00 PM\, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion\, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”\, Saturday April 19\, 3:45-6:00 PM. \nII. Public screening of Still Life\nMonday\, April 21\, at 7PM\, in Humanities I\, room 210.\nThere will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome. \nIII. Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke.\nTuesday\, April 22\, 4:00-6:00 PM\, Humanities I\, room 202. Refreshments will be served.\nStill Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years\, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity\, spatiality\, and socio-economic change\, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar\, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay\, “Temporality\, Nature Morte\, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“\, either in the original Chinese or in English translation. \nIV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War\nThursday\, April 24\, 4:00PM\, Humanities I\, room 210.\nWhere in time is China\, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures\, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.\n  \nProfessor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \, the Department of Literature\, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery\, Literature; Lisa Rofel\, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter\, History\, Asad Haider\, History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-april-18-april-24-screening-still-life-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140418T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140418T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130918T224605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T224605Z UID:10004840-1397836800-1397842200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julie Legate: "Noncanonical Passives" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk\, I investigate the syntactic structure of voice\, focusing on noncanonical passives; I build on previous work by myself and others showing that voice is encoded in a functional projection\, VoiceP\, which is distinct from\, and higher than\, vP.  I demonstrate that microvariation in the properties of VoiceP explains a wide range of noncanonical passives\, including agent-agreeing passives\, restricted agent passives\, accusative object passives\, impersonals\, and object voice. The analysis draws on data from a typologically diverse set of languages. \nJulie Legate is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-julie-legate-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140418T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140419T093000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130703T183453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130703T183453Z UID:10005425-1397831400-1397899800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism" Conference DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the year\, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster has brought together scholars from UCSC and beyond for an interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and future of the capitalist world-system. A few focal points have arisen: the history of separation from the means of subsistence\, and the emergence of market dependence and waged labor; the interpretation of the history of economic thought\, and its relationship to capitalist development; the political problem of work\, as a process generative of capitalist subjectivities\, and a horizon of post-capitalist imaginaries; the constitution of family forms\, and practices of gendering that reproduce capitalist social relations. \nThe eponymous conference of the cluster\, April 18-19\, 2014 will provide a framework for collective discussion of the theoretical questions that have been raised over the course of the cluster’s events. It will also be a space for generating the research questions that the cluster will pursue as it continues its activities. \nThis conference is free and open to the public. \nFor more information\, including the an agenda and panels\, please visit Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference page URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-conference-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140317T191206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140317T191206Z UID:10005673-1397761200-1397768400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the 2014 spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture “Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree” \nViewed from a global perspective\, the Mediterranean region has enjoyed a common historical experience since 1500. Increasingly semi-peripheral with respect to the world capitalist system\, and characterized by weak states\, delayed or muffled class formation\, agrarian backwardness and the persistence of pastoralism\, the coming to modernity of the Mediterranean foreshadowed the historical experience of the Third World in its unity and diversity. \nEdmund “Terry” Burke III is Research Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Burke is the author of The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam (forthcoming\, California\, 2014). He is the co-editor of The Environment and World History (UC Press\, 2009) and Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East (Athens OH: Ohio University\, 2011)\, and Genealogies of Orientalism (Nebraska\, 2008). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/models-of-mediterranean-modernity-the-perspective-from-the-longue-duree-2/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140124T184505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T184505Z UID:10004900-1397757600-1397764800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Annie Boutelle in concert with Cowell College's Mary Holmes Festival DESCRIPTION:Annie Boutelle is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry\, as well as two poetry collections\, Becoming Bone and Nest of Thistles. \n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-annie-boutelle-in-concert-with-cowell-colleges-mary-holmes-festival-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140416T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140416T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140219T174642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140219T174642Z UID:10005639-1397665800-1397673000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marjorie Venit: "Strangers in a Strange Land: Negotiating the Afterlife in Monumental Greek tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt" DESCRIPTION:Marjorie S. Venit is Professor of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on the Greek center and its periphery considered both geographically and temporally. Particularly interested in the intersection of cultures and ethnicities\, she has excavated at Tel Anafa\, Israel\, and Mendes\, Egypt and is the author of Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead and Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums. Her book projects have been supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Kress Foundation\, and the J.P Getty Trust. Among her other national awards are a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship and fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt\, the American Association of University Women\, and the American Philosophical Society. \nDr. Venit has contributed chapters or entries to the The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome\, The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism\, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt\, and to other collections of scholarly papers. Her articles on monumental tombs and on Greek vases and sculpture\, which consider the social\, religious\, economic\, and political context and implications of the monuments\, have appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology\, Hesperia\, Antike Kunst\, and the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt and in other periodicals. \nShe served four years as President of the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and is currently its webmaster. She has delivered over fifty public lectures\, many of them as a circuit lecturer for the AIA. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ancient-studies-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140416T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140228T203717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T203717Z UID:10005648-1397649600-1397655000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Kris Alexanderson: "Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s" DESCRIPTION:Due to a medical emergency\, this event has been cancelled. – April 12\, 2014 \nKris Alexanderson \n“Transoceanic Politics and Dutch Maritime Conciliation in East Asia during the 1930s” \nKris Alexanderson’s current work examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration\, Dutch shipping businesses\, and Dutch foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia to control the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas across its colonial borders during the interwar period. \nKris Alexanderson is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kris-alexanderson-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140407T152814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140407T152814Z UID:10005679-1397478600-1397484000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race\, Immigration\, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire" DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century\, focusing on the interplay of colonialism\, racial boundaries and citizenship policy. The influx of Filipinos to the United States that followed the annexation of the Philippines confounded American authorities tasked with enforcing traditional racial checkpoints in American society. This talk will illustrate how the geo-political imperatives of U.S. imperial expansion repeatedly collided with domestic practices of racial exclusion forcing American policymakers to recalibrate the administrative boundaries of the national polity to address the status of colonial migrants. Contestation over the socio-legal status of Filipinos in the United States offers important insights into the contingent and contested nature of America’s ascriptive hierarchies and the interlocking politics of immigration\, race and U.S. statecraft. \nRick Baldoz is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Oberlin College. He is the author of the award winning book\, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America\, 1898-1946 (NYU Press). He is currently working on a book project about the 1965 Hart Celler Immigration Act\, examining this historical legislation against the backdrop of Cold War politics\, anti-colonial upheaval\, and domestic civil rights mobilization. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rick-baldoz-the-strange-career-of-the-filipino-national-race-immigration-and-the-bordering-of-u-s-empire-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140411T222431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140411T222431Z UID:10005681-1397471400-1397476800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nimrod Rosler: "Challenges in the Way to Peace in Israel/Palestine" DESCRIPTION:The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders\, society and the political context. The current talk will present a framework to conceptualize the change process and studies – both qualitative and quantitative – that examine its different aspects during real events within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. \nNimrod Rosler is Visiting Israel Professor of the Jewish Studies Program at the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Kansas. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nimrod-rosler-challenges-in-the-way-to-peace-in-israelpalestine-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 121 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140412T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140402T235452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140402T235452Z UID:10005676-1397293200-1397322000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation" DESCRIPTION:While Mary Douglas’ oft-quoted maxim states that\, “dirt is matter out of place\,” it is also the soil in which life takes root. This conference positions landscapes as fertile ground from which to explore the politics of dirt and other matters out of place. Moving away from engagements with landscape as inert background or pristine setting\, we consider perspectives on dynamic\, dirty landscapes produced by dislocations and emplacements\, abandonment and occupation\, or human and more-than-human movements. \nMatters Out of Place capture the anthropological imagination because they draw attention to the ways social orders are maintained\, destabilized and transformed. They are not simply boundary-making sources of cognitive dissonance\, as Mary Douglas’ maxim implies\, but material presences and absences that lead to unexpected forms of flourishing. This conference puts forth a dirty kind of anthropology\, one that works the boundaries of social orders as well as the boundaries of anthropology itself. \nFor the complete schedule\, please visit: http://ucscanthro.tumblr.com/schedule. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-student-conference-matters-out-of-place-landscapes-of-absence-and-dislocation-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140414 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130812T222205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130812T222205Z UID:10005433-1397260800-1397433599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Genomics and Philosophy of Race" Conference DESCRIPTION:The “Genomics and Philosophy of Race” conference aims to foster a dialogue about race\, and\, in particular\, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of experts and two keynote speakers will consider scientific\, historical\, sociological\, and philosophical questions: Does contemporary genomics inform and shift our classifications\, conceptualizations\, and consciousness of race? To what extent is race real? Which inferences\, if any\, about the body\, mind\, and culture might race and related concepts (e.g.\, ancestry and ethnicity) ground? We invite students\, researchers\, and the public at large to join our conversation. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nAGENDA & PANELISTS:\nSaturday\, April 12\, 2014 • 10am-6pm\n10:00am Brief Opening Comments:\nWilliam A. Ladusaw\, UC Santa Cruz\, Humanities Dean\nNathaniel Deutsch\, UCSC\, IHR Director\nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC PI “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” \n10:15am Opening Keynote:\nSarah Richardson\, Harvard: “Race in the Postgenomic Moment” \n11:00am Biology Panel:\nBridget Algee-Hewitt\, Stanford: “Forensic Casework and the Clustering of Human Craniofacial Variation”\nDoc Edge\, Stanford: “Multilocus Classification Accuracy and Polygenic Trait Differences”\nScott Lokey\, UCSC: “Pharmacology in the genomic age: targeting drugs to (and keeping them away from) specific subpopulations”\nRasmus Nielsen\, UC Berkeley: “On the genomic basis of the biological concept of race”\nNoah Rosenberg\, Stanford: “Properties of human population-genetic clustering” \n1:00pm Lunch \n2:00pm History Panel:\nNathaniel Deutsch\, UCSC: “The ‘Jewish Question’ Revisited:  Genomics and Jewish Difference”\nLisa Gannett\, St. Mary’s University: “The relevance (or not) of Dobzhansky and the evolutionary synthesis for contemporary population genomics”\nMinghui Hu\, UCSC: “The Eclipse of Darwinism and Its Chinese Accommodation”\nCarlos López Beltrán\, National Autonomous Univ of Mexico: “Mestizo Genomics. National\, regional and ethnic figurations”\nPaula Moya\, Stanford: “Racial Realisms\, or When Do We Describe\, and When Do We ‘Do Race’?” \n4:00pm Sociology Panel:\nJohn Brown Childs\, UCSC: “Geneologies of the Spirit: Spiraling Strands of Ethical Kinship Across Racialized Spaces”\nGuillermo Delgado-P\, UCSC: “Genomics and Isolation: the Case of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America”\nHiroshi Fukurai\, UCSC: “Genomics and Race: Social\, Political\, Legal\, & “Performative” Construction of Race”\nSandra Harvey\, UCSC: “On the “HeLa Bomb”: Race and Gender Passing Narratives in Biotechnology”\nStephanie Montgomery\, UCSC: “Nǚfàn: Gender\, Criminality and the Prison in 1930s Qingdao” \nSunday\, April 13\, 2014 • 9am-12pm\n9:00am Philosophy Panel:\nJosh Glasgow\, Sonoma State: “Biological-trait race without biological race”\nJames Griesemer\, UC Davis: “Some Thoughts on Population Studies and the Ethics of Attention”\nJonathan Kaplan\, Oregon State University: “Some Relationships Between Biological and Folk Races”\nRoberta Millstein\, UC Davis: “Thinking about populations and races in time”\nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC: “Are Races like Constellations?” \n11:00am Closing Keynote:\nQuayshawn Spencer\, University of San Francisco: “Philosophy of Race Meets Population Genetics” \n12:00pm Lunch \n1:00-2:30pm Student Workshops:\nStudent workshops will be led by PhD students involved in the Philosophy in a Multicultural Context research cluster. Workshops will be held in Kresge Seminar Room 159. \nSponsors\nThis event is presented by the Philosophy in a Multicultural Context Research Cluster\, and co-organized by the Institute for Humanities Research and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. Generous support provided by UCSC: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, the UC Center for New Racial Studies\, the Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Kresge College\, Cowell College\, College Eight\, College Nine\, Merrill College\, Departments of Philosophy\, Anthropology\, and Sociology. Additional support from: Center for Computational\, Evolutionary\, and Human Genomics\, Stanford University\, and Science and Technology Studies\, UC Davis. \nDirections & Parking\nClick here for directions and parking for Kresge Town Hall\, which is located in the northwest corner of the UCSC campus. For those driving\, we recommend parking in the Core West Parking Structure (FREE parking on weekends). From Highway 17\, exit Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) and make a slight right to follow the highway as it becomes Mission Street through town. Travel approximately one mile north to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to UC Santa Cruz. Turn left on High Street (you want the west campus entrance\, not the main entrance). Continue onto Empire Grade towards the west entrance. Turn right onto Heller Drive. The Core West Parking Structure entrance is on Heller Drive @ McLaughlin Drive (map). After parking\, walk across Heller Drive and take the pedestrian bridge to Kresge College. The Kresge Town Hall will be located on your right\, next to the Owl’s Nest Cafe. Accessible parking spaces are available behind the Town Hall in lot 142. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle should get off at the Kresge College bus stop on Heller Drive and walk over the pedestrian bridge. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/multicultural-philosophy-conference-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140411T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140411T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130918T224110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T224110Z UID:10004839-1397232000-1397237400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences" DESCRIPTION:Sun-Ah Jun is Professor of Linguistics at UC Los Angeles. \nAbstract: In a sentence such as Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony\, it is ambiguous whether the relative clause (RC) modifies NP1 the servant (i.e.\, high attachment) or NP2 the actress (low attachment). Although the details of attachment preference are language-specific (Fodor 1998\, Fernández 2003)\, it is known that\, crosslinguistically\, attachment decisions are sensitive to the sentence’s prosodic characteristics\, including the location of a prosodic boundary. This fact has been used to support the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH; Fodor 1998\, 2002)\, which holds that the human sentence parser favors low attachment when the RC forms a single prosodic phrase with NP2\, but favors high attachment when a prosodic break directly precedes the RC. In this talk\, I will provide new evidence supporting the IPH based on two experiments using the structural priming paradigm. These experiments show that attachment decisions for a target sentence are influenced by an explicit\, as well as an implicit\, prosodic boundary in a prime sentence. However\, I will also show that sensitivity to a prosodic boundary varies across individuals\, and is in part predictable based on “autistic”-like traits. A mechanism underlying this variation will be discussed. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-sun-ah-jun-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140313T213514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140313T213514Z UID:10004920-1397152800-1397160000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Caesar Must Die DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale\, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison\, where the inmates are preparing to stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. After a competitive casting process\, the roles are eventually allocated\, and the prisoners begin exploring the text\, finding in its tale of fraternity\, power and betrayal parallels to their own lives and stories. Hardened criminals\, many with links to organised crime\, these actors find great motivation in performing the play. As we witness the rehearsals\, beautifully photographed in various nooks and crannies within the prison\, we see the inmates also work through their own conflicts\, both internal and between each other. \nDiscussion after the film will be led by the UCSC Shakespeare’s Disciplines Research Cluster. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-caesar-must-die-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140410T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140124T183754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140124T183754Z UID:10004898-1397152800-1397160000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine DESCRIPTION:Rabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I\, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv\, a collection of short stories.\n\n\n\n  \nThe spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series\, Dislocations and the Imagined\, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-rabih-alameddine-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140409T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140311T232702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140311T232702Z UID:10004919-1397070000-1397077200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: After Tiller DESCRIPTION:the film explores the issue of late-term abortion in the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009\, one of the very few doctors to perform this procedure. We will actually have one of the physicians featured in the film\, Dr. Shelley Sella\, in attendance at the screening and she will answer questions afterwards. \nAfter Tiller intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States\, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller\, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana Wilson have created a moving and unique look at one of the most incendiary topics of our time\, and they’ve done so in an informative\, thought-provoking\, and compassionate way. \n  \nSpace is limited. If you would like to attend\, please make a free reservation using this link to Brown Paper Tickets:\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/608547\n  \nPresented by the Complicated Labor Research Cluster with support from Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-after-tiller-2/ LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140409T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140409T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140228T203252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T203252Z UID:10005646-1397044800-1397050200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mark Anderson "Franz Boas\, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology\, Race/Racism\, and the Harlem Renaissance" DESCRIPTION:Mark Anderson \nAssociate Professor of Anthropology\, UCSC \nMark Anderson is an anthropologist who works on the politics of race and culture\, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled Anthropology and Race/Racism: From The Harlem Renaissance to Decolonizing the Discipline\, which traces anthropological approaches to race/racism from the 1920s to the 1970s. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-anderson-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140408T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140224T172249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140224T172249Z UID:10005641-1396958400-1396963800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants\, swine flu\, and bioterrorism" DESCRIPTION:Since 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters\, there has been a concern about the “dual use” of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. The swine flu outbreak in 2009 in which the source of a potential pandemic was traced back to Oaxaca\, Mexico led to outcries for a better and stronger cross-border public health infrastructure. This presentation assesses the implications of an increased focus on infectious disease as a biosecurity concern for Latin American origin migrants in Mexico and the United States. The talk shows how Latin American origin populations have particularly been targeted for biosurveillance and have discursively\, if never materially\, been linked to bioterrorism. The human rights consequences of this discursive link are potentially very grave for cross-border migrants as biological explanations are used to foment xenophobia and policies are implemented to “pre-empt” and “prevent” any and every lethal biological “contaminant” from entering the United States. \nRebecca J. Hester is assistant professor of social medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UCSC. Her research focuses on the politics of the body as they are manifested at and through the intersections of immigration\, health\, and security.  She is co-author\, with Ronnie Lipschutz\, of “We are the Borg!  Human Assimilation into Cellular Society\,” pp. 366-407\, in: M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (eds.)\, Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Hershey\, Penna.: IGI Global\, 2014).\n  \nThese talks are co-sponsored by CGIRS\, College Eight\, the Politics Department\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Institute of the Arts & Sciences\, and the Science and Justice Research Center.  The BIOS  (Bodies Imag(in)ed to be Obstacles to Security) Research Cluster is a new project of the Center for Global\, International and Regional Studies\, focused on the surveillance\, management\, interrogation\, discipline and intervention  of human and other bodies in the digital age. If you are interested in joining the cluster\, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz at rlipsch@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-hester-those-against-whom-society-must-be-defended-mexican-migrants-swine-flu-and-bioterrorism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140407T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140311T180437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140311T180437Z UID:10004915-1396897200-1396902600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust" DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled “A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust\,” on Monday\, April 7\, at 7 p.m.\, at UCSC’s University Center. \nProfessor Morris Ratner successfully prosecuted Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss\, German\, Austrian\, and French entities that profited from Nazi atrocities by retaining dormant bank accounts\, failing to pay on life insurance policies\, and benefitting from the use of slave labor. Ratner’s litigation resulted in a series of settlements that\, together\, yielded payments in excess of $8 billion to victims of Nazi persecution. Using Holocaust litigation as a lens\, this lecture explores the topics of “what ‘justice’ means for victims of major atrocities like the Holocaust\, the role of private litigation in advancing social causes\, and the ability of individual advocates to prevail on behalf of victims in seemingly lost causes.” Ratner’s discussion of “social justice lawyering” also addresses the question: “Did it matter whether the lawyers in the Holocaust cases were–like the victims–Jewish\, Gay\, or Romani?” \nWatch the Video\n\nMorris Ratner joined the UC Hastings Faculty in 2012\, after teaching at Harvard Law School. An expert in civil procedure\, legal ethics\, and law practice management\, Ratner’s research explores ethical\, procedural\, and organizational questions that arise in multi-party actions\, including class actions and multidistrict litigations. Ratner worked as a litigator at the San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ firm Lieff\, Cabraser\, Heimann & Bernstein\, LLP\, where he was a partner for 10 years. During that time he prosecuted product liability\, mass personal injury\, consumer\, and human rights actions. \nPlease join us for this inaugural lecture in the Hastings Social Justice Speakers Series given by Hastings faculty at UCSC. The Series is a product of the UCSC-Hastings collaboration that also features the “3+3 BA/JD” Program which enables UCSC students to complete the BA and JD degrees in six\, rather than the usual seven\, years by attending both UCSC and Hastings College of the Law. \nAdmission is free and the public is invited\, with pre-registration encouraged to ensure a seat in the event of a sold out event. \nQuestions: Please call Kristin Palma at 831.459.5075\, or e-mail kpalma@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morris-ratner-a-monument-man-in-the-courtroom-litigating-the-holocaust-2/ LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140407T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140407T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140407T152411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140407T152411Z UID:10005678-1396873800-1396879200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions" DESCRIPTION:Jane McAlevey’s first book\, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)\, published by Verso Press\, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada\, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU\, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of the only successful multi-union\, multi-year\, geographic organizing campaigns for the national AFL-CIO (in Stamford\, Connecticut). She has led power structure analyses and strategic planning trainings for a wide range of union and community organizations and has had extensive involvement in globalization and global environmental issues. She worked at the Highlander Research and Education Center as an educator (and as Deputy Director) in her early 20’s. McAlevey is a contributing writer at The Nation Magazine. \nJane will discuss the lessons learned from ten years of building strong local unions that win collective bargaining and political gains based on deep and extensive membership involvement\, particularly in the context of the right-to-work state of Nevada and in the face of intensive union-busting efforts of for-profit hospital employers. She will shed light on the ongoing debates over how to rebuild union power in the face of austerity\, growing inequality\, and Conservative parties’ attacks on the basis of union organizational security. \nFor a sense of Jane’s take on these matters\, see her interview with Laura Flanders or visit janemcalevey.com. Copies of Jane’s book will be available at the talk for $20. \nBook talk co-sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies. \nFor Information about access\, please contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu. For information about the Sociology Colloquium Series: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-mcalevey-beating-attack-on-workers-by-building-high-participation-unions-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140319T185613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140319T185613Z UID:10005674-1396627200-1396634400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ned Block: "Conscious\, Preconscious\, Unconscious" DESCRIPTION:There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious\, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in the light of the close conceptual tie between conscious perception and first person authority. \nAdvance reading: Consciousness\, accessibility\, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience \nProfessor Block is the Silver Professor of Philosophy\, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ned-block-conscious-preconscious-unconscious-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140403T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140403T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131205T191902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131205T191902Z UID:10005582-1396533600-1396540800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGED Rebecca Jo Plant: "Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth" DESCRIPTION:Prof.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth\, a book project that she and her collaborator\, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney\, have undertaken. The project traces debates over the use of child soldiers and the relationship between youth and militarism over two centuries in order to illuminate how changing attitudes toward the U.S. as military nation intersected with evolving attitudes toward childhood and youth. The event will take the form of a workshop with precirculated readings. \nRebecca Jo Plant is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of California\, San Diego\, since 2002\, and is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (University of Chicago Press\, 2010) and a co-editor of Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood\, Welfare\, and Social Policies in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn\, 2012). She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has been awarded fellowships by the American Association of University Women\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, and the American Council for Learned Societies. Plant’s research interests focus on women’s\, gender\, and family history; the history of therapeutic culture and the psychological professions; and the social and psychological impact of war in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. \nFor access to the readings please contact catjones@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-jo-plant-child-soldiers-2/ LOCATION:Abbey Coffee Shop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140321T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140321T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140317T182211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140317T182211Z UID:10004921-1395417600-1395421200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shakespeare to Go! DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the final dress rehearsal of Shakespeare to Go! This year’s performance is “Hamlet\,” directed by Kimberly Jannarone. The final dress rehearsal will be on Friday\, March 21st at 4pm in the Theater Art’s Second Stage. The performance is approximately 1 hour. Doors will open at 3:45pm. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-to-go-2/ LOCATION:2nd Stage\, Theater Arts\, Performing Arts\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140316T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140316T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T191732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191732Z UID:10005630-1394996400-1395003600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Freaks DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nMarch 16th – Freaks (1932\, dir. Tod Browning) – a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out \nThe granddaddy of all the misfit horror films we’ve been exploring this quarter\, Freaks is Tod Browning’s empathetic depiction of the physically deformed performers who comprise the circus sideshow of Madame Tetrallini (Rose Dione). A beautiful acrobat marries and poisons a rich midget named Hans (Harry Earles) in order to get his inheritance\, for which the “freaks” in the circus enact a gruesome revenge. As this brusque summary suggests\, it is the “normal” people in the film who often come across as monstrous and grotesque\, though the film does provocatively pose the question of where compassion for these “freaks” stops and the exploitation of them begins. Made the year following his famous adaption of Dracula with Bela Lugosi\, Browning’s Freaks is not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-3-16-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140315T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140317T183316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140317T183316Z UID:10005672-1394910000-1394917200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WHAT WOULD ATTICUS DO? DESCRIPTION:Join Literature professors Christopher Chen and Micah Perks\, poet Danusha Lameris\, and attorney Ben Rice on Saturday\, March 15\, for a benefit screening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Following the movie\, Chen\, Perks\, Lameris and Rice will take part in a panel discussion entitled “Harper Lee’s Book and How it Changed My Life and The World.” This event\, in support of The Young Writers Program of Santa Cruz County\, will take place on Saturday\, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz). For more information and to purchase tickets\, please see http://santacruzwrites.org/. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-would-atticus-do-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140315T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130918T223310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T223310Z UID:10004838-1394875800-1394902800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION: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 Ruth Kramer (Ph.D. 2009) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lasc-linguistics-at-santa-cruz-2-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T210037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T210037Z UID:10005596-1394733600-1394740800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nCurrent UCSC creative writing students read from work they produced during winter quarter. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-8-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140305T221310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140305T221310Z UID:10004913-1394640000-1394645400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Noriko Aso: "Mitsukoshi at War: Rationalizing Luxury" DESCRIPTION:Although Mitsukoshi\, Japan’s preeminent department store\, did its best to rework luxury and play for the total war state through such efforts as a fashion spread on Vichy French style\, the state’s demands stripped the retailer bare by 1945. Yet opposing “luxury” and “war” gives Mitsukoshi and unwarranted alibi: collaboration with imperialism had been hither to profitable. Mitsukoshi at war exposes the tangled nature of alliance and opposition between civilian and state institutions\, as negotiated in the midst of crisis. \nNoriko Aso is Associate Professor of History\, and serves as the History Department’s Undergraduate Program Director.\n  \nThis talk is presented by Stevenson College as a Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Co-sponsored by East Asian Studies Program\, the History Department\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noriko-aso-mitsukoshi-at-war-rationalizing-luxury-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T193937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T193937Z UID:10005581-1394625600-1394631000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Karen Bassi - "Fading into the Future: Visibility and Legibility in Thucydides History" DESCRIPTION:This talk was originally scheduled for March 5th. It has been rescheduled to take place on March 12th. \nKaren Bassi’s current book project\, In Search of Lost Things: Classics Between History and Archaeology is a study of visual perception as the source of knowledge about the past in ancient Greek epic\, history writing\, and drama. The book explores the dominance of vision and visual metaphors in making truth claims\, the role of language in distinguishing fiction from fact\, and the criteria for establishing the reality of the past. \nKaren Bassi is Professor of Literature and Classics\, UCSC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-karen-bassi-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140309T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T191520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191520Z UID:10005619-1394391600-1394398800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nMarch 9th – Possession (1981\, dir. Andrzej Zulawski) – for those of you who suspect that marriage is intrinsically a horror film \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-3-9-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140308T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140308T171500 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140214T195144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140214T195144Z UID:10005635-1394271000-1394298900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Minorities in the Mediterranean\, A Symposium and Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project and the departments of Comparative and World Literature\, History\, Jewish Studies\, and the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University invite participants to a two-day\, two-part event on Medieval and Early Modern Minorities in the Mediterranean\, to be held on 7 & 8 March 2014 at San Francisco State University\, San Francisco\, CA. Participants from the broadest range of relevant disciplines are welcome and encouraged to register. \nMediterranean Minorities – Symposium\nFriday\, 7 March\, 10am—5:30pm\nSan Francisco State University\nHumanities Bldg.\, Room 587 \nA one-day symposium consisting of three round table discussions: \nOpportunity\nAssimilation and Exchange\nVulnerability \nfeaturing: \n• Fred Astren (Jewish Studies\, San Francisco State)\n• Jeremy Brown (Hebrew and Judaic Studies\, New York University)\n• Brian Catlos (Religious Studies\, CU Boulder/ Humanities\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n• Tom Dandelet (History\, University of California at Berkeley)\n• John Dagenais (Spanish and Portuguese\, UCLA)\n• Federica Francesconi (Jewish Studies\, University of Oregon)\n• Paolo Girardelli (History\, Boğaziçi University)\n• Mike Hammer (Spanish\, San Francisco State)\n• Joshua Holo (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)\n• Slobodan Dan Paich (Artship Foundation\, San Francisco CA)\n• Jonathan Ray (Jewish Studies\, Georgetown University)\n• Jarbel Rodriguez (History\, San Francisco State)\n• Stefan Stantchev (History\, Arizona State University)\n• David Wacks (Romance Languages\, University of Oregon)\n• Valerie Wilhite (Romance Languages\, University of Oregon)\n• Megan Williams (History\, San Francisco State)\n  \nMediterranean Minorities – Workshop\nSaturday\, 8 March\, 9:30am—5:15pm\nSan Francisco State University\nHumanities Bldg.\, Room 587 \nA workshop consisting of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar: \n• “Do Mediterranean Studies Speak to Latin American Colonial Studies? A Suspected German Lutheran Conquers A Suspected “Morisco”in the Canaries Before Taking On the New World”\nGiovanna Montenegro (Comparative Literature\, University of California\, Davis)\n• “Alexandria ad Aegyptum”\nDan Selden (Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n• “Being Different in the Medieval Middle East? The Poet’s Story”\nJocelyn Sharlet (Comparative Literature\, University of California\, Davis)\n• Featured scholar:\nStephen Humphreys (History\, University of California Santa Barbara):\n“Adapting to the Infidel: the Christian Communities of Syria in the Early Islamic Period” \nFull program for conference and workshop available here. \nAll interested graduate students and scholars are welcome. Both events are free but pre-registration is required; attendance is limited so please register soon. UC-and SFSU-affiliated scholars may register immediately\, non-UC scholars on or after February 7. Lunch will be provided on both days for attendees who register prior to February 26. \nTo register for the workshop and/or conference and receive the workshop papers\, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. UC-affiliated faculty and graduate students will be eligible for up to $350 for travel expenses; non-UC participants may apply but support will granted as available (contingent on availability and attendance at both events). \nThe Mediterranean Seminar is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum\, the aim of which is to promote collaborative research and the development of the field of Mediterranean Studies. The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project is funded by the UC Office of the President and is administered by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nTo join the Mediterranean Seminar\, send your name\, professional status\, affiliation and fields of interest to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/minorities-in-the-mediterranean-a-symposium-and-workshop-2-2/ LOCATION:SFSU Humanities Building END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T205553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T205553Z UID:10005595-1394128800-1394136000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nNovelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University\, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her debut story collection\, The UnAmericans\, is forthcoming in February 2014 from W.W. Norton. She is a recipient of the 2013 ‘5 Under 35’ Award from the National Book Foundation and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s This American Life and in many publications\, including One Story\, Ecotone\, American Short Fiction\, Glimmer Train\, Esquire and Mississippi Review Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel\, The After Party\, which will also be published by Norton. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-7-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140227T183954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140227T183954Z UID:10005644-1394125200-1394132400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu DESCRIPTION:Fred Kuwornu an Italian-Ghanaian activist\, director\, and producer\, will be screening his documentary\, 18 IUs Soli\, is on the denial of citizenship to children born of immigrants in Italy. He will also be participating in a Q&A following\, and there will be reception in Stevenson Fireside Lounge. \nFred Kudjo Kuwornu\, born and raised in Italy\, is an Italian-Ghanaian activist-producer-writer-director. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Mass Media. After college\, Fred moved to Rome where he began working as a TV show writer for RAI 1. He has produced several works with his production company\, Struggle Filmworks. In 2008\, after working with the production crew of Spike Lee’sMiracle at St. Anna (2008)\, Fred decided to research the unknown story of the 92nd Infantry “Buffalo Soldiers” Division\, discovering the journey taken by the real 92nd veterans\, the African American segregated combat unit which fought in Europe during WW II. Fred then produced and directed the award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo. Inside Buffalo was awarded “Best Documentary” at the Black Berlin International Cinema Festival\, and has been shown at the Pentagon\, the Library of Congress\, and many other venues including the top U.S. Black Film Festivals. He worked alongside talents such as Derek Luke (Captain America; Notorius; Catch a Fire; Lions for Lambs); Laz Alonso (Jumping the Broom\, Avatar\, Fast and Furious); Omar Benson Miller (CSI Miami\, 8 Miles); Michael Ealy; and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique (Black Swan). Fred Kuwornu founded the non-profit organizatiion Diversity Italia promoting the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in Italy and Europe using film and other arts as tools for building a more inclusive society. His next projects are Paisan Soldiers\, a documentary about Italian-Americans in World War II\, and ’64\, a film about the U.S. Civil Rights URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/18-ius-soli-film-screening-with-director-fred-kuwornu-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131106T214125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131106T214125Z UID:10004869-1394125200-1394130600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” DESCRIPTION:Michael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University\, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. Perelman has written 19 books\, including Railroading Economics\, Manufacturing Discontent\, The Perverse Economy\, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest project is\, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Control Undermines the Economy by Stunting Workers\, under contract with Stanford University Press. The basic theme is the way that capitalism is structured to be incapable of efficiently managing the labor process and that capitalism’s efforts to control the labor process create serious social and economic damage. \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series: \nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”\nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster.Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-perelman-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140220T170518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140220T170518Z UID:10005640-1394114400-1394119800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates" DESCRIPTION:What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of Western Civilization was in fact adapted from the world of Islam in the Middle Ages. The particular historical circumstances of Muslim Spain made this the chief venue for this process. Understanding how this came about deepens our understanding of the world of Islam and complicates our notions of what we consider “Western culture.” \nBrian Catlos is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at UCSC\, and co-director of the UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project. His The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon\, 1050–1300 (Cambridge) won two major prizes; two books: The Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom\, 1050–1614 (Cambridge) and Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Power\, Faith and Politics in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux) will be published in 2014. He also writes travel books and featured in the PBS documentary Cities of Light. For more see www.brianacatlos.com. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/islamic-spain-and-the-culture-of-the-west-from-al-andalus-to-bob-dylan-and-bill-gates-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T164000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140114T000454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140114T000454Z UID:10005597-1394033400-1394037600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion" DESCRIPTION:Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994)\, where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities\, Journal for Jewish Culture & Identity. He also serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Har Adar. \nHis main fields of research are: The wisdom of love; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Halakha; Democratic education. \nHe has published numerous articles and 12 books. His most recent books are: Unity within Diversity: A Common Core Curriculum for Israeli Schoolchildren\, (With Libat Avishay)\, Jerusalem 2012\, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Wisdom by the week – the Weekly Torah Portion as an Inspiration for Thought and Creativity\, New York 2012: Yeshiva University Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Values and Citizens – Civic Democratic Education\, Jerusalem 2011: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Rabbi in the New World: The Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture\, Education and Jewish Thought\, (with Avinoam Rosenak) Jerusalem 2011: Magnes Hebrew University Press and the VLJI; and The Wisdom of Love—Man\, Woman & God in Jewish Canonical Literature\, Boston 2009: Academic Studies Press. \nNaftali Rothenberg is the 2011 laureate of the Liebhaber Prize for the encouragement of religious tolerance in Israel. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/naftali-rothenberg-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T191315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191315Z UID:10005618-1393786800-1393794000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nMarch 2nd – Mother Joan of the Angels (1961\, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) – an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-3-2-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140228T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140228T164000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140115T235443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T235443Z UID:10005604-1393601400-1393605600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider \nThis talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography\, it pays close attention to a variety of texts\, visual images\, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment literature\, photographs and films\, poetry\, novels\, and memoirs\, art\, music\, and dance\, textbooks\, children’s literature and memoirs\, etc. By examining how the trope of the Zionist and Israeli hero changed over time\, I seek to enhance our understanding of the strong bond between the Jews of America and Israel as well as help to explain the ideational linkages that inform the contemporary U.S.-Israel relationship.\nMark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati and a Research Associate in the University’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture. He is also Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. \nDr. Raider’s scholarly articles have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal\, American Jewish History\, Jewish Social Studies\, The Journal of Israeli History\, and elsewhere. In 2010 he was awarded the American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman prize for the best article published in American Jewish History (“The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall\, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership”). \nHis books include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism\, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine–A Critical Edition\, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise\, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He also wrote a book-length history of the American Jewish experience for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (vol. 20\, 2006). \nHe most recently completed an edited and annotated anthology titled Free Associations: Selected Writings of Hayim Greenberg–A Critical Edition\, which is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. An excerpt from this volume appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. He is now working on a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise\, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders. \nDr. Raider teaches courses on U.S. history\, the American Jewish experience\, modern Jewish history\, and Zionism and Israel. He is married to Dr. Miriam B. Raider-Roth and they have three children–Jonah\, Emma\, and Talia. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-raider-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T205245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T205245Z UID:10005584-1393524000-1393531200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Poets DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nSesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Local readings are archived at www.sicklyseason.com. He is collaborates with artist Arturo Romo-Santillano and other writers on the website\, www.ELAguide.org. His most recent books are the novel Atomik Aztex and the hybrid text World Ball Notebook. \nAngel Dominguez writes things. Originally from Los Angeles\, he received his BA in Poetry from UC Santa Cruz. He is currently an MFA candidate at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the founding editor of the Omni Writers Collective Press\, the co-founding editor of TRACT / TRACE: an investigative journal\, and presently the senior editor for the Bombay Gin literary journal. His work has appeared in The Bombay Gin\, Omni Symposium vol.1\, and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review. Most recently he completed an interview chapbook TIME-SCAPING with Mary Burger\, published by Pinball Press. Now residing in Boulder Colorado\, he is exploring the sentence and what it is for. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-6-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T000810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T000810Z UID:10005606-1393520400-1393525800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” \nThis lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey\, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king\, Croesus. Recent excavation has dramatically changed our ideas about the Lydian city\, with the discovery of the monumental city wall\, terraces that regularized and organized the rugged natural topography\, very probably used as a palatial quarter; houses burned by the Persian sack of the city in 547 BC. It will consider the later history of the city\, including the temple of Artemis\, the Hellenistic theater\, and a temple of the Roman imperial cult. \nNicholas D. Cahill earned his B.A. at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1981. After that\, Cahill went on to the University of California-Berkeley to earn both his M.A. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1991 in Ancient History and Archaeology. Cahill specializes in Greek and Anatolian archaeology\, especially urbanism and housing. He has done field work in Turkey\, England and Israel. Professor Cahill has been honored with the National Endowment for the Humanities / American Research Institute in Turkey award for sabbatical year research (2005-2006); the title of UW Humanities Institute Fellow (2000-2001); and the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1995-1996.) Nicholas is currently teaching at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where he has been employed since 1993. \nTalk begins at 5:00 pm\, refreshments served at 4:30 pm\, with a reception following lecture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicholas-d-cahill-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140205T180508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140205T180508Z UID:10005631-1393439400-1393444800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shakespeare in ASL: A Performance and Discussion with Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain DESCRIPTION:O\, learn to read what silent love hath writ:\nTo hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.\nThe Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster\, Shakespeare’s Disciplines\, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language. \nIn addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL\, Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain will discuss the art of translation\, the concept of style in signing\, and the relationship between Shakespeare’s poems and his plays. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-in-asl-a-performance-and-discussion-with-monique-holt-and-tim-chamberlain-2/ LOCATION:Theater Arts\, E100 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140218T232223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140218T232223Z UID:10005637-1393434000-1393441200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp DESCRIPTION:When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy\, against the forces of racism\, sexism\, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence\, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular\, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War\, the Soviet-Afghan War\, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia. \nWhat this book brings to light—through novels\, travel narratives\, photojournalism\, films\, news media\, and political rhetoric—is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence.\n  \nThe Introduction and Chapter 4 will be available to read prior to the talk at:\nhttp://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/neda-book-2014.html \nPlease join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.\n  \nNeda Atanasoski is an Associate Proressor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of U.S and Eastern European media and cultural studies\, with a focus on the politics of religion and sexuality\, postsocialism\, human rights and humanitarianism\, and war and nationalism. Professor Atanasoski’s current research project\, in collaboration with Kalindi Vora (UCSD)\, takes up the relationship between notions of the “network” and “revolution” in the postsocialist era as they assess the ethical frames and moral imperatives undergirding current-day modes of waging war\, biomedical modes of extending life\, and understanding the politics of dissent and consent that both use and critique the “revolutionary” technologies associated such social and political shifts of our postsocialist era.\n  \nConversation and book reading presented by the Feminist Studies Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-book-party-for-neda-atanasoski-with-lisa-rofel-shelley-stamp-2/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T193758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T193758Z UID:10005580-1393416000-1393421400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matthew Wolf-Meyer - "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots\, Pacified Bulls\, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain" DESCRIPTION:Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine\, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript\, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism\, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains\, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience\, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism. \nMatthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-matthew-wolf-meyer-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140205T214602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140205T214602Z UID:10005632-1393356600-1393365600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Screening and Panel Discussion - The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution\, Politics\, Culture\, and the New Left Experience DESCRIPTION:A major success in Britain last Fall\, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening\, February 25th. 7:30 PM\, Studio C. (Communications 150) \nThe film\, 102 minutes\, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness)\, Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC)\, and Herman Gray (Sociology). \nRead reviews of and interviews about the film here and here. \nGenerously funded by the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Film and Digital Media. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/screening-and-panel-discussion-the-stuart-hall-project-revolution-politics-culture-and-the-new-left-experience-2/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140223T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T191050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191050Z UID:10005616-1393182000-1393189200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nA Chinese Ghost Story (1987\, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. \nBoth an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing Dynasty and a remake of a Shaw Brothers film entitled The Enchanted Shadow (1960)\, A Chinese Ghost Story is feverish mix of romance\, comedy\, and Evil Dead-style supernatural horror. After he fails to collect a debt owed to him\, a young scholarly tax collector (Leslie Cheung) is forced to spend the night in an abandoned temple where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Joey Wong)\, whom he subsequently realizes is a ghost enslaved to a Tree Demon (Siu-Ming Lau). With a Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu) at his side\, he sets out to free his beloved spirit from eternal servitude\, even if he has to follow the Tree Demon into the underworld to do so. The inspiration for two sequels\, an animated film version\, a television series\, and a remake in 2011\, A Chinese Ghost Story is a high point of Hong Kong cinema during what was arguably its most fertile creative period. Not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-23-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140222T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140222T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140218T193915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140218T193915Z UID:10005636-1393092000-1393101000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts DESCRIPTION:Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. \nFeaturing: \nMurray Baumgarten\, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies \nPeter Kenez\, Professor Emeritus of History \nFacilitated by Bill Ladusaw\, UCSC Dean of Humanities \nMurray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching in the liberal arts has changed over the years\, and how their course\, The Holocaust–taken by hundreds of UCSC students each year–has expanded from the lecture hall to the global electronic stage. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, the class reached nearly 18\,000 students worldwide. While student-faculty interaction is still a hallmark of UCSC education\, the evening will explore how great teachers can leverage technology to broaden their reach.\n  \nRSVP by February 12\, 2014 online at http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/books-to-moocs \nQuestions? (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-books-to-moocs-the-evolution-of-teaching-in-the-liberal-arts-2/ LOCATION:St. Francis Yacht Club on the Marina END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140221T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140221T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130607T160807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T160807Z UID:10004830-1392975000-1393002000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gender. Region. Slavery. DESCRIPTION:Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media.\n \nFor slavery studies\, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions\, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians\, in particular\, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at work in the making of ‘regions’ and ‘slavery’ between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. However\, such scholarship has minoritized gender relations in the making of such geographies. This colloquium reverses the trend by foregrounding the question: what would regional histories of ‘slavery’ look like if interrogated as formulations of gender? Eschewing the conventional segregation and/or minoritization of regions as spatialities that provide local historical flavor\, the colloquium seeks to simultaneously correct regional asymmetries of the past of slavery\, as well as highlight the centrality of gender in the making and conceiving of ‘region’ itself. Central to our concerns is an interrogation of race as understood primarily through the history of the transatlantic slave trade\, such that this idea of race could be said to constitute the background against which all representations of racial formation take place. Rather\, our presenters ask\, for example\, what would it mean to imagine an analytic of race that would take the transatlantic trade to the Indian Ocean and not produce African subjects in the same trajectory of slavery? What are the different life-forms and histories of slavery that exceed the hegemonic plantation model of slavery?\n9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks by Anjali Arondekar\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n10:00 AM: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nSlave Slips | Life Forms: a poetry performance \n10:45 AM: Indrani Chatterjee\, University of Texas\, Austin\nDecolonizing the History of Slavery\nRespondent: Juned Shaikh\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n12:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM: Stephen Best\, University of California\, Berkeley\nUnfit for History\nRespondent: Vilashini Cooppan\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n2:00 PM: Tea Break \n2:15 PM: Jenny Sharpe\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nThe Degraded Image of Slavery\nRespondent: Gina Dent\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nSponsored by the Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, with generous contributions from the Departments of Literature\, History\, Sociology\, Anthropology and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nFor further information\, please contact Anjali Arondekar: aarondek@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-region-slavery-2-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140212T000953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140212T000953Z UID:10005634-1392912000-1392917400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision" DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision\, in isolation\, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance\, figure\, magnitude\, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not\, strictly speaking\, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans\, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance\, figure\, magnitude\, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure\, magnitude\, and situation\, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment. \nRead the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision\n  \nRebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College\, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy\, Thomas Reid\, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy\, Res Philosophica\, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly\, Philosophical Quarterly\, History of Philosophy Quarterly\, The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy\, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press\, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/becko-copenhaver-berkeley-on-the-language-of-nature-and-the-objects-of-vision-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140211T180228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140211T180228Z UID:10005633-1392890400-1392895800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction" DESCRIPTION:Sharon Holland\, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment\,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish\,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what is the relationship of “blackness” to discourse on the animal?  Do black humans “die” or “perish”?  The prevailing thought in the field of African Americanist scholarship is that “blackness” – through Martin Heidegger and Frantz Fanon in particular – is related to “thingness\,” rather than animality.  This theoretical project re-thinks that interpretive paradigm.  I am particularly invested in how movement away from “the animal\,” writ large in the Cartesian framework\, does not allow for much discussion of an ethical commitment (Emanuel Levinas) to the animal within African Americanist discourse.  My intention is to provide both a critique of the present condition in critical discourse on blackness (especially its gendered assumptions) and a model for how to begin such a conversation within the theoretical language available to us on the human/animal divide. \nSharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor (1992).  She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY (Duke UP\, 2000)\, which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002.  She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture\, UM\, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press\, 2006). Professor Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic\, THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007) for publication (2007).  She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press\, 2012)\, a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race\, Feminist\, and Queer Theory.  She is also at work on the final draft of another book project entitled simply\, “little black girl.”  You can see her work on food\, writing and all things equestrian on her blog\, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com//.  She is currently at work on a new project\, “Perishment” an investigation of the human/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion. She is presently a Professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nPresented with generous support from: the Institute for Humanities Research\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharon-holland-2-20-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140219T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140219T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T193539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T193539Z UID:10005579-1392811200-1392816600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Warren Sack - "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies: DESCRIPTION:Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing. \nWarren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-warren-sac-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140115T234737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T234737Z UID:10005602-1392717600-1392723900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents:\nHedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding” \nDr. Hedwig C. Rose\, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University\, was born in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. After her father\, his five brothers and their families were rounded up by the Nazi occupiers in 1942\, she spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar. She came to the United States in 1947. \nA visiting fellow at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (War Document Archives) in Amsterdam in 2008\, for past eight years she has been visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, where she is continuing her research for a book on The Netherlands before and during World War II. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-the-life-of-anne-frank-cjs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140216T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T190856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190856Z UID:10005614-1392577200-1392584400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \n \nRelationships come and go\, but plastination is forever!  \nThe only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi\, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle involving a young man\, a young woman\, and an anatomically correct sex doll that looks an awful lot like the young woman. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is a socially maladroit technical writer who pines for a temp typist in his office\, Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller)\, but cannot work up the nerve to ask her out. Shown an internet site selling deluxe sex dolls for thousands of dollars\, he designs a life-size rubber doll made to look like Lisa\, though he christens the doll Nikki. After developing a comprehensive relationship with Nikki (including sex and nightly tête–à–têtes)\, Kenneth works up the nerve to approach Lisa\, which only makes Nikki more and more violently jealous. In many respects a companion film to Lucky McKee’s May\, a much more widely known and respected horror film released the previous year—in his excellent book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman goes so far as to suggest that May and Kenneth “might be soulmates if they weren’t in different films”—Love Object is not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-16-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T204959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T204959Z UID:10005583-1392314400-1392321600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Panel of Journalists DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nMartha Mendoza is a Puliter Prize-winning Associated Press National Writer whose reports have won numerous awards and prompted Congressional hearings\, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She has reported for the AP since 1997\, in Albuquerque\, N.M.\, New York and Mexico City. A UC Santa Cruz graduate\, she was a 2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a 2007 Ferris Professor for Humanities at Princeton University. \nNick Miroff is a correspondent for The Washington Post covering Mexico\, Central America and the Caribbean. He is also a senior correspondent for GlobalPost and a contributor to National Public Radio. Miroff has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism (2006) and studied Spanish and Latin American literature at UC Santa Cruz (2000). He grew up in Albany\, New York. \nMichael Scherer is TIME magazine’s Washington D.C. Bureau Chief. He joined TIME in December of 2007 and became the magazine’s White House correspondent following the 2008 campaign. He has written a number of cover stories in recent years\, including The Informers\, The Gunfighters\, The New Sheriffs of Wall Street and Yo Decido: the Rise of the Latino Voter. He won the 2012 National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his series on how the Obama campaign harnessed technology to win the Presidential race. Before coming to TIME\, he worked as a Washington Correspondent for both Salon.com and Mother Jones magazine\, and as a beat reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton\, Mass. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-5-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T192811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T192811Z UID:10005577-1392206400-1392211800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel: "Stretching time: emergence of apocalyptics and its uses" DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel’s current work is on the economy\, society and religion of ancient Israel and Graeco-Roman Judaea. His research focuses on taxes\, forms of labor\, the competition of various groups for resources and political power\, and the evolution of religious structures\, including the appearance of monotheism and new notions of time. \nGildas Hamel is  Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the History Department at UCSC. \n \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-gildas-hamel-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140211T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140211T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140127T164445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140127T164445Z UID:10004910-1392147000-1392152400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz presents Michael Hannon and Gary Young DESCRIPTION:Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced books\, sculptures and numerous gallery and museum shows. Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon’s work: “A very good poet indeed and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty.” Hannon is the author of thirty-five poetry titles\, including four full-length poetry collections: A Door in the Water(1975)\, Poems & Days (1985)\, Ordinary Messengers (1991)\, Trusting Oblivion (2002)\,Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems (2013). Michael is married to Nancy Dahl and lives in Los Osos\, California. He has 3 grown sons\, Dylan\, Jason\, and Colin and 3 grandsons\, Jadrien\, Oliver and Kai.Download a PDF of two poems by Michael Hannon from the Imaginary Burden:Selected Poems. \nRead praise for Imaginary Burden from Gary Young and Joseph Stroud.\n \nGary Young is a poet\, artist\, printer\, and educator. His numerous awards include recognition from the Poetry Society of America—the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013)\, the Shelley Memorial Award (2009)\, the William Carlos Williams Award (2003)\, and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). Gary has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities\, and his print work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, the Getty Center for the Arts\, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches Creative Writing\, and is the Director of the Cowell Press at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His books include Hands\, The Dream of a Moral Life\, Days\, Braver Deeds\, No Other Life\, and Pleasure. His latest book\, Even So: New and Selected Poems\, was released in 2012. His most recent poems were written while studying in Japan in 2011. In 2014 White Pine Press will release Precious Mirror\, his translations of and the calligraphy of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi and Ninja Press will publish a limited edition of new poems\, In Japan. \nSee Gary Young’s website.\n \n\n  \nPoetry Santa Cruz is funded\, in part\, by a grant from Arts Council Santa Cruz County.  Some events are supported by Poets & Writers\, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also grateful for the support of its members and donors\, In Celebration of the Muse\, and those who donated in memory of Maude Meehan and Kathleen Flowers.  The William James Association acted as our fiscal sponsor for our first four years.  Our readings are supported by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, Capitola Book Café\, Cabrillo College\, Darling House\, and KUSP.  Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press\, the University of Pittsburgh Press\, Robert Sward\, Coffee House Press\, Copper Canyon Press\, and Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-santa-cruz-presents-michael-hannon-and-gary-young-2/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T190634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190634Z UID:10005612-1391972400-1391979600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nFebruary 9th – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960\, dir. Terence Fisher) – perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson’s novella \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: literature.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-9-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T204704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T204704Z UID:10004882-1391709600-1391716800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Panel of Editors DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nZoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings\, Salon\, Two Serious Ladies\, and elsewhere. \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl\, which was short-listed for the Story Prize\, and a novel\, MacGregor Tells the World. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Pushcart Prize Anthology\, Threepenny Review and others\, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts.  She is currently Managing Editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and Senior Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review. \nDaniel Mirk was a staff writer for the satirical website The Onion from 2006 to 2012. He is one of the creators of the Peabody Award winning Onion News Network web series\, the IFC television series of the same name\, and the Amazon Studios pilot Onion News Empire. Daniel has also written for Comedy Central\, Funny Or Die\, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2013 Daniel was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the writing staff of the Comedy Central special “Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs” hosted by Jon Stewart. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-4-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131106T215418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131106T215418Z UID:10004870-1391706000-1391711400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries” DESCRIPTION:Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory\, feminist theory\, Marxist thought\, the critical study of work\, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP\, 2011) and Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP\, 1998)\, and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell\, 2000). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathi-weeks-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T192423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T192423Z UID:10005576-1391601600-1391607000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Aristea Fotopoulou: "‘All these emotions\, all these yearnings\, all these data': Platform openess\, data sharing and visions of democracy" DESCRIPTION:Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism\, information politics\, knowledge production\, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing. \nAristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow\, University of Sussex\, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the Science and Justice Research Center\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-aristea-fotopoulou-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130709T184457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130709T184457Z UID:10005427-1391594400-1391626800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Complicated Labors: Feminism\, Maternity\, and Creative Practice (Symposium & Gallery Exhibition) DESCRIPTION:The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists\, writers\, and scholars around questions of feminism\, maternity\, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. Through film\, visual art and photography\, performance\, writing\, and scholarship we will explore the complexities of contemporary motherhood. \nThis symposium\, with keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly\, will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity\, feminism\, art-making\, and writing\, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. The symposium is on Feb 5th from 10am-5pm at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab and will be followed by a gallery exhibition and reception from 5-7pm at the Sesnon Art Gallery. \nSymposium – Feb 5 @ 10:00am-5:00pm\nDigital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, UCSC\nFree and Open to the Public \nNearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document\, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images\, processes\, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized and relatively misrecognized in the art world.  Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice\, such work is more often than not\, read inside a discourse of indulgence\, sentimentality\, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems\, ethics\, care\, or labor.  Complicated Labors investigates this problem\, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today. \nGallery Reception – Feb 5 @ 5:00-7:00pm\nSesnon Art Gallery\, UCSC\nComplicated Labors Gallery Exhibition runs from February 5 – March 15\, 2014 \nComplicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic\, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms.  This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal\, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal\, and new collectives such as Broodwork. \nSymposium Schedule:\n\n10:00 AM – Welcome (Micah Perks and Irene Lusztig) \n10:30 AM – Mary Kelly Keynote (opening remarks) \n11AM: Maternal Interventions (artist panel and discussion) \n12:30 – LUNCH \n2:30 PM – Maternal Secrets (writer panel and discussion) \n4:15 PM Closing Remarks by Megan Moodie \n5:00 – 7:00 PM Opening reception\, Sesnon Gallery (with performance by Alejandra Herrera Silva) \nAll events are free and open to the public. \nSymposium & Gallery Participants:\nKeynote:\nMary Kelly is an American conceptual artist\, feminist\, writer\, and professor of art and critical theory in the School of Art and Architecture at UCLA. \nWriters:\nAmra Brooks was born and raised in California. Her novella California was published in 2008 by Teenage Teardrops. Her fiction\, critical reviews\, essays\, interviews\, and poems have appeared in such publications as Artforum\, Spin Magazine\, index\, the LA Weekly\, The Encyclopedia Project Volume F-K\, Ping Pong: the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library\, Not Enough Night\, Inventory Magazine\, and others. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego\, Naropa University\, and Muhlenberg College. Currently she lives in Providence\, Rhode Island with her family and is the Director of the Creative Writing program at Stonehill College in Easton\, MA. \nKate Moses is the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath and Cakewalk: A Memoir . Moses is the coeditor\, with Camille Peri\, of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children\, Sex\, Men\, Aging\, Faith\, Race & Themselves and the national bestselling\, American Book Award-winning Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. As a senior editor and contributing writer for Salon\, Moses cofounded Salon’s groundbreaking\, award-winning Mothers Who Think site. \nMicah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time\, about growing up on a commune in the Adirondack Wilderness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, among many other journals and anthologies. She’s won an NEA Award\, a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant\, four Pushcart Prize nominations\, and several residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. Her most recent publication is the short memoir\, Alone In The Woods\, an ebook from Shebooks\, about motherhood and the wild. \nCarmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir\, Bring Down the Little Birds\, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth\, Goodbye\, Flicker\, The City She Was\, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award\, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry\, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University\, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press. \nMichelle Tea is the founder and editor of Mutha Magazine\, an alternative parenting site obsessed with all things Mom. Her blog Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea\, on xoJane.com\, has documented her struggle to get knocked up. Tea is the founder and Artistic Director of RADAR Productions\, a literary non-profit which oversees the annual Sister Spit performance tours; Sister Spit Books\, a publishing imprint with City Lights; the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library\, and other programs. She is the author of many memoirs and novels\, and a collection of poetry. \nArtists:\nLenka Clayton is a British conceptual artist whose work exaggerates and reorganizes the accepted rules of everyday life\, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. \nNatalie Loveless is a Canadian artist\, curator\, writer and professor of contemporary art and theory at the University of Alberta whose work explores feminist embodiment\, material entanglement in the everyday\, and the frameworks of artistic research. \nIrene Lusztig is an American filmmaker\, media archeologist\, and new media artist whose film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings to reframe\, recuperate\, or reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. \nJill Miller is an American conceptual artist who works collaboratively with communities\, with a focus on on motherhood\, feminism and performance art. Faculty in New Genres and Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute. \nMother Art Collective\nAlejandra Herrera Silva is a Chilean visual and performance artist living and working in LA.  Recent body and action-based pieces have investigated the body as object at the intersection of maternal labour and affect. \nMierle Laderman Ukeles \nVideo Program Artists:\nMyrel Chernick\, Mark and Beth Cooley\, Masha Godovanaya\, Courtney Kessel\, Ellina Kevorkian\, Dillon Paul and Lindsay Wolkowitz \n  \nThis exhibition and symposium are sponsored by UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, Sesnon Gallery\, Porter College\, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA)\, UCSC Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund\, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Kresge College\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, Merrill College\, Stevenson College\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, Art\, Literature\, Film and Digital Media\, and Feminist Studies Departments. \n  \nFor more information visit: arts.ucsc.edu/complicatedlabors URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/complicated-labors-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab\, Room 306 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131210T171235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131210T171235Z UID:10004873-1391533200-1391538600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents:\nSteven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History” \nKishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot\, leaving 49 dead\, in an obscure border town\, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks\, it intruded on US-Russian relations\, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine\, the NAACP\, and\, most likely\, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much\, and for so long? \nSteven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia\, Poland\, France\, and Israel; for six years\, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. He is the author and editor of eight books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986\, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame\, Oblivion\, and the Furies of Writing (2008\, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography\, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian\, Hebrew\, and French. He has been awarded the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association\, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University\, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review\, the Washington Post\, The New Republic\, the Jewish Review of Books\, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies\, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture\, and the Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. In spring 2013\, he will be the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Zipperstein is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History\, in New York.\nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nThis event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-zipperstein-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140122T195927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140122T195927Z UID:10004896-1391522400-1391529600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune" DESCRIPTION:The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871\, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education\, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and its relation to ecological theory. The “communal luxury” produced by the Commune’s “working existence” was prolonged and elaborated in the political thought produced in the 1870s and the 1880s\, when Communard exiles met up and collaborated with a number of their supporters and fellow travelers\, notably Marx\, Kropotkin and William Morris. \nKristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988); Fast Cars\, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995); and May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002). \nThis talk is presented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster\, and the History of Consciousness and Literature Departments. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristin-ross-notes-on-the-cellular-regime-of-nationality-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T190326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190326Z UID:10005610-1391367600-1391374800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nFebruary 2nd – Arrebato (1980\, dir. Iván Zulueta) – think of it as a Spanish Videodrome\, only avant la lettre \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-2-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130918T222558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T222558Z UID:10004837-1391184000-1391189400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous\, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses\, which has been used to argue against bottom-up metrification in serial theories (van der Hulst 1984\, 1997\, 2009\, Bailey 1995). Other languages\, however\, show a primary stress which is clearly parasitic on secondary stresses\, which follows straightforwardly from a bottom-up theory but is incompatible with a top-down one (Hayes 1995). To account for both autonomous and parasitic culminativity in Harmonic Serialism\, this talk outlines the following proposals: (1) primary stress assignment can and must happen simultaneously with foot-building\, in a basically top-down fashion\, and (2) the primary stress must be allowed to move to another foot in the course of a derivation. In other words\, the conclusion will be that attested patterns of primary stress assignment provide evidence for limited parallelism in stress\, even when general metrification\, and the grammar itself\, is otherwise serial. Allowing limited parallelism without giving up serialism altogether is also defended\, as the predicted typology of culminativity in a serial theory with limited parallelism is shown to be superior to that of theory with unrestricted parallelism. \nReferences \nBailey\, Todd Mark (1995). Non-metrical constraints on stress. Doctoral dissertation\, University of Minnesota. \nHayes\, Bruce (1995). Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies. University of Chicago Press\, Chicago. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (1984). Syllable structure and stress in Dutch. Foris\, Dordrecht. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (1997). Primary accent is non-metrical. Revista di Linguistica 9: 99–127. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (2009). Brackets and grid marks\, or theories of primary accent and rhythm. In Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (eds.)\, Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory\, pp. 225–245. MIT Press\, Cambridge\, MA. \nMcCarthy\, John J. (2010). An introduction to Harmonic Serialism. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(10): 1010–1018.\nKathryn Pruitt is at Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-kathryn-pruitt-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140131 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140202 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131125T221834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131125T221834Z UID:10005568-1391126400-1391299199@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Politics of the Digital: Poetry\, Technology\, and the University DESCRIPTION:This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students\, faculty\, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. \nFriday\, January 31\, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nFeaturing Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand\, Margaret Rhee\, and Tsering Wangmo \nSaturday\, February 1\, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1\, room 210 \nPanel One: Textual and Visual Technologies—Pre-Histories of a Digital Era \nPanel Two: Digital Practice and Database Aesthetics \nPanel Three: Neoliberalism and the Digital Future \nKeynote from Johanna Drucker: Towards a New Humanism \nThe activities associated with the term “digital humanities” have gained much attention recently in academic and mainstream venues. But have core values of humanism been discounted as a result? Do the techniques of analytic processing or other engagements with large data displace or devalue those of more traditional method and even\, perhaps\, traffic in the worst kind of concessions to administered culture? Might these digital approaches be at odds with the tenets of humanistic inquiry? What are the ways out of a binaristic opposition between a retro-oriented\, possibly conservative\, defense of “the humanities” and a techno-digital approach that seems to some to dehumanize cultural materials by treating them as “data”? The answer might be in recovering the methods of humanism\, rather than just its objects. Engagement with the materiality of texts and artifacts crosses many disciplinary lines—from traditional critical studies\, bibliography\, and law to current studies of media archaeology\, new materialism\, and digital interpretation. This talk addresses ways in which the cultural authority of the humanities might be formulated as a new humanism whose methods and values extend traditional interpretative work while taking up some of the potential offered by data-driven and algorithm-based approaches to the study of human culture. \nReception at the Kresge Provost House \nMore info and full agenda available at http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/politics-of-the-digital-poetry-technology-and-the-university-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T185000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140114T005103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140114T005103Z UID:10005598-1391107800-1391115600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project DESCRIPTION:The Nickelodeon Theatre will host “An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project” on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of “The Invisible Woman” film\, showing at 6:50 pm. The film\, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens\, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title\, delves into the closely-held secret of Dickens’s love affair with the much-younger actress\, Ellen Ternan. During this period\, Dickens was also involved in a harrowing railway accident\, and nearly lost the manuscript to his novel\, Our Mutual Friend. The novel is the featured book for this summer’s Dickens Universe conference. \nDickens Project founders Murray Baumgarten and John Jordan will lead a discussion after the film\, joined by Jessica Kuskey and Nirshan Perera. The event is open to the public. Students will receive a special discount of $3 off the normal admission. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-the-ucsc-dickens-project-2/ LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T203738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T203738Z UID:10004881-1391104800-1391112000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nFantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review\, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre’s major awards\, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award\, and in 2010\, she won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She holds a master’s degree in fiction from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her second collection\, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST\, PRESENT AND FUTURE\, came out from Subterranean Press at the end of September. \nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the indie mini-series Books with Pictures\, the neo-noirCedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic\, and the autobiographical one-shot\, Self-Obsessed. Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell\, is his new book from Image Comics. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on his revenge video game-kickback\, Burn the Orphanage. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-3-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140115T233738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T233738Z UID:10005600-1391099400-1391103000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:North French Hebrew Miscellany DESCRIPTION:Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections.\nUCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts\, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. \nThe manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at a time of upheaval for the Jews of Europe. Comprising almost 1500 pages with 84 different groups of texts\, this small volume served as a portable library. The texts include scripture\, daily prayers\, mahzor\, the Passover Haggadah\, religious poetry\, blessings\, calendars\, formularies for legal deeds and the earliest known copy of Isaac de Corbeil’s Sefer Mitsvot Katan\, composed in 1277. Three to five artists worked with the scribe to decorate and illuminate the manuscript\, most likely in or near Troyes. It is now housed in the British Library. \nPlease join us on  to welcome this wonderful addition to Special Collections – the facsimile will be on display and Professors Sharon Kinoshita and Gildas Hamel will share their expertise with us. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/north-french-hebrew-miscellany-cjs-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T192047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T192047Z UID:10005574-1390996800-1391002200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies\, or the Cunning of Secularism" DESCRIPTION:Mayanthi Fernando works on religion\, politics\, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex\, religion\, and secularism\, and in particular the French state’s regulation of Muslim women’s sexual and religious intimacies. \nMayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-mayanthi-fernando-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140109T211833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140109T211833Z UID:10004878-1390842000-1390847400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so\, it has received moderate attention on SLA research\, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar\, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela\, 2006; Geeslin\, 2002; 2003; Schmitt & Miller\, 2007; among others). The present study goes beyond the alternation between ser and estar + adjective by looking at the selection of copula verbs to express location\, and existentials. \nFollowing Freeze (1992)\, I assume a universal locative paradigm with three surface structures that imply the use of three different verbs in Spanish: estar for the predicate locative when the subject is an object (1)\, and ser when it is an event (2); the existential with haber (2); and the possessive or ‘have’ using tener. \nThree microparametric differences among Spanish\, Italian\, and Catalan are investigated\, which regulate (a) the distribution of ser vs. estar in locatives (the eventiveness effect\, which does not exist in Standard Catalan or Italian)\, (b) the distribution of haber vs. estar (the definiteness effect\, Milsark\, 1977\, which is only obeyed in Spanish)\, and (c) the use of clitics in locatives (Spanish does not have a locative clitic\, whereas in Catalan and Italian it is obligatory). Given these differences\, we question whether L2 speakers of Spanish are able to fully acquire the distribution of estar in locative predicates and observe the restriction on definite DPs in Spanish existential constructions. Furthermore\, we wonder how the bilingual mind will restructure her clitic system into a reduced morphological paradigm with no partitive or locative clitics. \nThe present study analyzes the expression of L2 Spanish existential and locative constructions in 20 native speakers of Catalan\, 34 native speakers of Italian (from Rome)\, and 20 monolingual Spanish speakers with two main tasks\, an Acceptability Judgment Task and an elicited oral production task. Results indicated that L2 learners used significantly less ester to express location than native speakers\, showing that this verb develops later than ser as previously reported for English (VanPatten\, 1985\, 1987)\, and as predicted by recent analyses of the copular ser/estar (Brucart\, 2012; Gallego & Uriagereka\, 2011). Nonetheless\, Italian speakers also overgeneralized estar to localize events\, and in existential constructions\, when ser or haber are required in Spanish. \nFinally\, Italian speakers of intermediate proficiency\, and some Catalan speakers continued using ser to localize objects. More interestingly\, both L2 groups accepted definite DPs in presentational sentences\, violating the definiteness effect\, displaying problems when assembling semantic features into specific lexical pieces. These results will be discussed within the debate on dissociation between acquisition of syntax and acquisition of semantics\, and the feature assembly or feature matching hypothesis (Lardiere\, 2008\, 2009; Slabakova\, 2009).\nSpeaker: Silvia Perpiñan is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Western Ontario. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/silvia-perpinan-microparametric-variation-among-romance-languages-the-l2-acquisition-of-spanish-locative-and-existential-constructions-by-catalan-and-italian-speakers-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T185952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T185952Z UID:10005608-1390762800-1390770000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows DESCRIPTION:The House with Laughing Windows (1976\, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film)\nOne of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there\, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an atmosphere of queasy apprehension to the absolute breaking point over the course of a feature-length film is probably second only to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now\, made just three years previously. A young art historian named Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes to a remote Italian village to restore some twentieth-century frescos that depict the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian in an old church. Some rumors suggest that the deceased artist of the works actually tortured and murdered his real-life models. Meanwhile\, Stefano’s efforts to restore the frescoes get sidetracked by all the locals who have secrets they want to share with him but cannot because they keep dying under mysterious circumstances before they can actually get down to the business of telling him much of anything. This is a movie whose tensions and uneasiness build and build and build . . . Not to be missed!\nMisfit Horror is a film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-26-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140109T165125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140109T165125Z UID:10004877-1390582800-1390588200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate\, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that were created; 3) the steps followed for its successful implementation; and 4) the results of a study on students’ and instructors’ perceptions of IPA and the relationship between classroom content and assessment. In addition\, we will compare the results of IPA-based assessment tools with those from previous\, more traditional evaluation tools. \nGabriela Zapata is Associate Professor and Director of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs at the University of Southern California. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabriela-zapata-investigating-the-connection-between-learning-and-assessment-formative-assessment-in-intermediate-l2-spanish-classes-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130918T222309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T222309Z UID:10004836-1390579200-1390584600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses" DESCRIPTION:Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations that are easier to arrive at\, we can learn more about what a learner’s own abilities and expectations contribute to language acquisition. In this talk we look at one case where grammatical constraints pull in the opposite direction of the preferences of the system using those constraints: A-bar extraction of transitive subjects. In particular\, we look at the comprehension of relative clauses by children and adults in Q’anjob’al\, Mayan language where extraction of ergative marked subjects is reportedly banned. Results of a comprehension experiment with adults and children suggest that this tension does affect language acquisition\, and may effect language change. \nAnnie Gagliardi is a Linguistics Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-annie-gagliardi-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140122T164315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140122T164315Z UID:10004894-1390576500-1390582800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative \nWhy do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes\, invasions\, economic collapse\, state failure\, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective\, integrating sociological comparison of ancient societies including Arabia\, Athens\, and Rome with analysis of ancient writings about ruins to suggest that literary fantasies about post-urban life may play as important a part in bringing about the destruction of cities as any of the causes conventionally invoked by historians. \nMartin Devecka is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University\, where he received his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2012. He has taught there and at Brown University on subjects ranging from Latin political thought to Greco-Roman zoology. His research interests include animals\, the history of technology\, and the cultures of the Red Sea. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-devecka-some-ends-of-the-city-ruins-and-utopia-in-the-ancient-world-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T203333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T203333Z UID:10004880-1390500000-1390507200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nWriter/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames\, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool\, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself\, the story collection This Too Can Be Yours\, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl. Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on stage and video projects. They have performed at Dixon Place\, UCB Theatre\, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest\, Frameline\, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo\, Brasil. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131101T164100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131101T164100Z UID:10005548-1390399200-1390404600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs DESCRIPTION:Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations \nPresenters: Irena Polić\, Cayla McEwen\, Anne Callahan\, Lisa Oman \nTo sign up for this session\, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/research-proposal-writing-workshop-for-faculty-and-pis-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T191916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T191916Z UID:10005572-1390392000-1390397400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rebecca Karl: "Economics\, Culture\, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique" DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic questions as they emerge and re-emerge over the course of China’s twentieth century. Ongoing work includes a project on histories of economic concepts in China tentatively entitled\, Worlds of Chinese Economic Thought. \nRebecca Karl is Professor of Chinese History at New York University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-rebecca-karl-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140116T192448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T192448Z UID:10004892-1390158000-1390165200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child? DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \nJanuary 19th – Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them\, Who Can Kill a Child? takes The Birds (1963) and replaces Alfred Hitchcock’s bloodthirsty birds with an island full of homicidal children. Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (whose other horror film of note is the wonderfully sordid and atmospheric The House That Screamed from 1969)\, this Spanish production opens with a documentary montage of atrocity footage from around the world (the Holocaust\, the Korean War\, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971\, etc.) to polemically motivate the reasons why the children of the small island of Almanzora have collectively murdered the adult population there. Arriving in Almanzora on holiday\, the baby-expecting couple of Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) discover that the island appears to be deserted. Shops are untended\, no bellboys are waiting in the foyers of the island’s hotels\, restaurants are totally devoid of patrons or servers. The benign suspicion that the inhabitants are all on siesta\, however\, soon shifts to doubts and fears about the children who start to appear everywhere. Though not a gory film\, Who Can Kill a Child? remains a supremely unsettling film that will linger with you for a long time\, like it or lump it. Not to be missed! \n  \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-19-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140108T192434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140108T192434Z UID:10004876-1389978000-1389983400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis" DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this talk\, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage\nspeakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000\, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009\, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according to which changes in Heritage speaker syntax are restricted to areas of the grammar where the syntax interfaces with interpretable domains such as discourse/pragmatics. \nSince the possibility of preposition stranding constructions is one of purely syntactic features\, this hypothesis predicts that Heritage speakers of Spanish should not show variation from monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to these constructions. However\, the data that will be presented will show that they do and they do so in different syntactic contexts and with different types of prepositions. The data argues against extending the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speakers. \nIn addition\, we do not interpret the data found in this study of Spanish Heritage speakers as instances of incomplete acquisition. Instead\, the variation we observe between Heritage speakers and monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to the possibility of preposition stranding can be seen as variation between speakers of different varieties of Spanish and used as a further source of insight into the human language faculty. \nSpeaker: Marcela Depiante is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin\, Eau Claire URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcela-depiante-preposition-stranding-in-heritage-speakers-of-spanish-implications-for-the-interface-hypothesis-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20130918T221837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130918T221837Z UID:10004835-1389974400-1389979800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g.\, a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition\, where language acquisition is assumed to be straightforward if children’s hypothesis space is defined by the correct knowledge representation. Acquisition then becomes the process of selecting the correct language-specific grammar from that hypothesis space\, based on the language input encountered. I discuss quantitative metrics based on an argument from acquisition for comparing knowledge representations and the grammars they define. These metrics involve assessing grammar learnability from realistic input data\, and I use them to evaluate three prominent knowledge representations in the domain of metrical phonology that each define a grammar for English. Somewhat surprisingly\, I discover that learnability issues arise for the English grammars in all three representations. I discuss aspects of the proposed English grammars that may be hurting learnability as well as ways a child may still be able to learn the proposed English grammars from English input. \nLisa Pearl is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-lisa-pearl-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140116T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131106T211952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131106T211952Z UID:10004868-1389891600-1389897000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market” DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature\, English Department\, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Louis Althusser\, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes\, Hobbes\, Spinoza\, Locke\, Swift\, and Adam Smith. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press\,2013)\, and he has also published translations of Althusser\, Pierre Macherey\, and Étienne Balibar. His forthcoming book\, co-authored with Mike Hill\, is “The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention\, Commercial Society and the Birth of Necro-Economics” (Stanford University Press). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/warren-montag-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131126T191141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T191141Z UID:10005570-1389787200-1389792600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin" DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book concerns the emergence of a necro-economics from French economic thinkers to Adam Smith (and beyond\, from Malthus to Von Mises). \nWarren Montag is Brown Family Professor of Literature in the English Department at Occidental College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-warren-montag-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140108T000503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140108T000503Z UID:10004875-1389632400-1389637800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City. A look at co-referential complex sentences" DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Berenice Darwich\, Hispanic Linguistics\, CUNY Colleges; New York\, New York.\nAbstract: \nThe variable phenomenon of subject expression\, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences\, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City. \nBy taking into account the generation of speakers (first and second) and the syntactic hierarchy of the second clause (main or subordinate)\, the study will address the following questions: \nIs there pattern continuity in regards to subject expression in contexts of co-reference among generation of speakers?\nIs there an influence of English in regards to this pattern in second generation speakers?\nIs there a correlation between subject expression and the syntactic hierarchy of a clause across geographical varieties? \nThe hypothesis that guides this investigation is that in this context\, subject pronoun expression in the second clause is an instrument to signal the principal information of a message\, carried in the main clause of a complex sentence. \nResults confirm previous studies regarding this variable phenomenon in Spanish in general and in New York City: Dominican Spanish speakers favor pronoun subject expression more than Mexican Spanish speakers\, even in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences. When we look at the frequencies by each geographical variety in this very specific context\, the distributional differences allow a classification of the varieties in two different groups (Mexican pattern and Dominican pattern). But this trend does not hold when the generational group is considered\, showing a reverse pattern in the second generation Dominican speakers. \nThese findings confirm partially the hypothesis since it is only the first generation Dominicans who do not use subject pronoun expression as a mean to signal hierarchical syntactic information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/berenice-darwich-continuity-and-discontinuity-in-syntactic-patterns-in-new-york-city-a-look-at-co-referential-complex-sentences-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20140110T202450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T202450Z UID:10004879-1389290400-1389297600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nNovelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies\, for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and an International Latino Book Award (2010). Her most recent book\, The Distance Between Us\, is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as“the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience\,” it was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-9/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131205T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131104T201156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T201156Z UID:10004861-1386266400-1386272700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julia Phillips Cohen: "Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era" DESCRIPTION:The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this talk\, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective\, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision did so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to become imperial citizens\, to consider their neighbors as brothers and their empire as a homeland. Yet the process was not seamless: as they sought to teach each other how to become modern citizens of their state\, Ottoman Jews soon learned that their patriotic project could entail uncomfortable choices and disturbing consequences. \nCharting Ottoman Jews’ responses to these developments\, this talk provides new perspectives for understanding Jewish encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing\, modernizing Islamic state and an imperial\, multi-faith landscape. \nJulia Phillips Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, and\, together with Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, editor of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History\, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2014). \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julia-phillips-cohen-becoming-ottomans-sephardi-jews-and-imperial-citizenship-in-the-modern-era-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131204T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131125T221119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131125T221119Z UID:10005566-1386176400-1386185400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chair Lisbeth Haas - Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion DESCRIPTION:Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, showing how the missions became sites of their authority\, memory\, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash\, Luiseño\, and Yokuts territories\, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies\, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824\, native emancipation after 1826\, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848. \nLisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Pablo Tac\, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History\, c. 1840 (UC Press\, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California\, 1769–1936 (UC Press\, 1995). Professor Haas’s research interests include local histories of globalization\, indigenous histories of California\, subaltern scholars and their writing and painting\, Spanish colonial and Mexican California\, the Borderlands – especially the U.S. and Mexico\, the Colonial Americas\, California Studies\, Global Histories of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Diaspora\, Gendered Stories. \nThere will be a small reception following the reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chair-lisbeth-haas-saints-citizens-book-reading-discussion-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131203T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131203T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131105T214544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131105T214544Z UID:10004867-1386090000-1386095400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Critique DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nTo inaugurate a year of events\, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism research cluster is holding a panel which follows two interrelated threads. The first is the analysis of capitalism as a system\, from its origins to its contemporary transformations. This analysis extends across disciplines and theoretical orientations\, and one goal of this interdisciplinary panel is to represent the wide range of approaches that UCSC faculty are taking in their research into capitalism. The second thread is the reexamination of Marxist theory. Throughout its history Marxism has extended into a range of fields\, from sociology to literary criticism\, and has remained a crucial reference point for theory which seeks to understand social life historically. This panel will extend the historical analysis to Marxism itself\, critically reexamining its evolution and its engagement with its changing social and political context. \nPanelists include: \n\nMiriam Greenberg\, Associate Professor of Sociology: “Crisis-Driven Urbanization and Contemporary Capitalism”\nJonathan Beecher\, Professor Emeritus of History: “David Riazanov and the Marx-Engels Institute”\nTyrus Miller\, Professor of Literature\, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies: “Theaters of History: Drama\, Action\, and Historical Agency in the Work of György Lukács\nNeda Atanasoski\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies: “Revolutions and Networks: Technology and the Social Body after Socialism”\nModerated by Gopal Balakrishnan\, Associate Professor of History of Consciousness\n\n  \nUpcoming event series: “The Origins of Civil Society” \nThe development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market” \nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries” \nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n[/vc_column_text] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-capitalism-and-marxist-critique-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131125T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131114T214523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131114T214523Z UID:10005564-1385399700-1385406000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Language Program Colloquium with Midori Ishida DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the issue of roles of social interaction for developing pragmatic competence in a second language. As an example\, it examines interactions between a learner of Japanese and native speakers\, focusing on ‘receipts’\, or a kind of listener responses (e.g. soo desu ne [That’s true]). A learner’s conversations recorded during one-year study abroad in Japan and recorded in the U.S. before and after the period were analyzed using conversation analysis. Even though corrective feedback was rarely provided to the learner’s inappropriate receipt use\, his interlocutor’s next-turn action served as implicit feedback and provided him an opportunity for a more competent action. Moreover\, although not interactionally modified\, the interlocutor’s utterances and embodied actions provide comprehensible linguistic resources that the L2 speaker can draw on when performing similar actions. \nMidori Ishida earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics\, conversation analysis\, and the roles of interaction in second language acquisition. Her works have been published in Language Learning\, Pragmatics and Language Learning\, the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics\, and other edited books. She is currently teaching Japanese at Santa Clara University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/midori-ishida-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131121T194500 DTSTAMP:20260403T103719 CREATED:20131004T032812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T032812Z UID:10005527-1385056800-1385063100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nPoet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney’s second\, full-length collection of poetry\, The Black Automaton (Fence Books\, 2009)\, was Catherine Wagner’s selection for the National Poetry Series. Red Hen Press will publish Kearney’s third collection\, Patter\, in 2014. He has received a Whiting Writers Award\, a Coat Hanger award and fellowships at Idyllwild\, Cave Canem\, and others. He teaches at CalArts. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-douglas-kearney-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR