Right Livelihood Conference
2018-05-15 - 2018-05-17 | UC Santa Cruz
‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Laureates at UCSC
In May 2018, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice. In these tumultuous times, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts toward a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world.
Public Program Dates: May 15 – 17, 2018
Place: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

The Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting the annual award, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation also supports the work of its Laureates, particularly those whose lives may be in danger due to the nature of their activities.

The Right Livelihood College
Common Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz’s Kresge College is the one and only Right Livelihood College in North America, and we are honored to host the first North American Regional Conference featuring many Laureates from the USA and Canada. By linking activists and academics, the Right Livelihood College highlights UC Santa Cruz’s trailblazing leadership in service of people and the planet, and makes vital contributions to the intellectual life of the campus and community.

Laureates attending
The following Laureates have confirmed their attendance:

Robert Bilott (USA, 2017)

“…for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution, winning long-sought justice for the victims, and setting a precedent for effective regulation of hazardous substances.”

Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada, 2015)

“…for her lifelong work to protect the Inuit of the Arctic and defend their right to maintain their livelihoods and culture, which are acutely threatened by climate change.”

Bill McKibben / 350.org (USA, 2014)

“…for mobilising growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change.”

Paul Walker (USA, 2013)

“…for working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons.”

Jamila Raqib on behalf of Gene Sharp (USA, 2012)

“…for developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world.”

Yannick Beaudoin (David Suzuki Foundation), on behalf of David Suzuki (Canada, 2009)

“…for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science, and for his massive contribution to raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public support for policies to address it”.

Amy Goodman (USA, 2008)

“…for developing an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by mainstream media.”

Daniel Ellsberg (USA, 2006)

“…for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”

Maude Barlow (Canada, 2005)

“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”

Tony Clarke (Canada, 2005)

“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”

Wes Jackson / The Land Institute (USA, 2000)

“…for his single-minded commitment to developing an agriculture that is both highly productive and truly ecologically sustainable.”

Alice Tepper Marlin (USA, 1990)

“…for showing the direction in which the Western economy must develop to promote the well-being of humanity.”

Frances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Institute) (USA, 1987)

“…for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.”

Amory Lovins (USA, 1983)

“…for pioneering soft energy paths for global security.”

Pat Mooney (Canada, 1985)

“…for working to save the world’s genetic plant heritage.”

Lisa Wartinger, Bruce Curtis and/or Peter Schweizer of Plenty International (USA, 1980)

“…for caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”

Partner Organisations
A number of groups at UC Santa Cruz are collaborating to co-host this event, including:UCSC Foundation
Common Ground Center
Kresge College
Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance
Everett Program for Technology & Social Change
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Division of Social Sciences
The Humanities Institute
University Relations
Science and Justice Research Center
Sustainability Office
Environmental Studies Department
Heller Chair in Agroecology
Rachel Carson College & Headley Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental JusticePlease contact us using the information below if you would like to contribute to the conference.

Conference Background
Since 2013, the Right Livelihood Award has arranged a series of regional conferences for its Laureates. It was after a call from one of our Colombian Laureates, asking for help to strengthen their regional network, that we decided to bring Laureates from Latin America and the Caribbean together for the first time. Since it was such an important and fruitful meeting, this meeting was followed by regional meetings for Laureates in Africa and the Middle East in 2014, in Asia in 2015, and, in 2016, Laureates in Europe. The meeting of North American Right Livelihood Award Laureates will be the fifth regional conference. In times when safe spaces for action are shrinking for civil society all over the world, these meetings provide an enabling environment for important actors toward a more sustainable and peaceful world. Award recipients have been able to share struggles, exchange ideas, strengthen networks of collaboration, and engage more deeply with change makers and communities local to the areas where the meetings have been held.

Add strength to change-makers by supporting this conference
Since its founding by Jakob von Uexkull, Individual donations have been the backbone of the Right Livelihood Award. Institutional donors also help to support the Award. If you would like to contribute to this meeting of courageous people and organisations in North America that have found practical solutions to the root causes of global problems, please visit the ‘Donate‘ section.
Mark your support: “Regional conf., Santa Cruz”

Contact information
Kajsa Övergaard
Senior Programme Director
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
kajsa@rightlivelihood.org
+46-8-7020340
David Shaw
Coordinator, RLC Campus Santa Cruz
Co-Director, Common Ground Center
UCSC Kresge College
daveshaw@ucsc.edu
+1-831-222-0253

Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna
2018-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Confused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal?
If you’re looking to code, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working with GitHub. You’ll learn how to fork, branch, push, pull, etc… If you don’t know what any of these words mean, you’re more than welcome! Start here.
Registration Required. Limited Seating.

Jennifer Doyle: "Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons"
2018-05-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers, students and staff who live and work with harassment, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as, in some ways, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of us have never left, but which critical formations tend to represent as having passed: super-sexual political writing calling for openness against an intolerable future.
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at UC Riverside.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

UCSC Night at the Museum: "Global 1968 - Race and Revolution around the World"
2018-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
6:00pm – doors open | 6:30pm – program begins

Fifty years ago, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians, “Global 1968” spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to China, Oakland to West Africa—while considering what lessons can be drawn for politics and protest today.
Registration Required – Registration has closed
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Speakers:
Jean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)
Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)
Donna Murch (Rutgers University)
Emily Honig (UC Santa Cruz)
Moderated by: Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz)

Photography Exhibit:
Included in the evening’s event will be a pop-up exhibit of images from a 1968 photography project launched by artist Ruth-Marion Baruch to document the people and the work of California’s Black Panther Party. The now-iconic photographs she and her husband Pirkle Jones took of the Panthers were both celebrated and criticized for their sympathetic portrayal of a maligned community. Black Panthers, 1968 is one of many projects revealing Baruch’s and Jones’s commitment to art and social change that are preserved in their archive at UC Santa Cruz’s Special Collections & Archives.

Registration Required. Each attendee must submit a registration form. Seating is first come, first serve. Overflow space will be available. If you have disability-related needs, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. Please note that if you do not receive an email confirmation with your form responses, you have not successfully registered for the event.

Co-sponsored by: The Center for World History and the History Department. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Jennifer Kelly: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine”
2018-05-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents:
“Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine”
Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity tours, Palestinians are expected to rehearse their displacement and provide evidence of their dispossession against a constellation of U.S. and Israeli state sanctioned narratives that have rendered them unreliable narrators. Kelly shows how Palestinian tour guides disrupt tourist expectations by refusing to perform subjection for the tourist gaze. In alternative performances of pleasure and through acts of “hanging out,” Palestinian tour guides intervene in tourist expectations of performances of trauma and instead ask tourists to confront the violences of their own desire in Palestine.
Jennifer Kelly is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Asian American Studies.

Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton
2018-05-17 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Cruel Futures (City Lights, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press, 2010), which received an American Book Award. She also coedited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press, 2014).
giovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011), which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space, silence, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist, while engaging a concern for the historical, the personal, the spiritual, as expanses… The buildup is slow, and culminates as play, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.”
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2018-05-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
There is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00.
There are exciting innovations in the program this year, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi, including a short play and poetry, directed by Arshinder Kaur, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, sung in German, directed by Sheila Willey, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy, Black and White, by Ignacio Dominis, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles, which explores characters who live in two different worlds, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054).

"¿Cómo te comunicas?": 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium
2018-05-18 08:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium “¿Cómo te comunicas?” will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI.

Friday Forum: Rebekkah Gross
2018-05-18 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Situational Features Influences College Students’ Evaluations About Helping
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner
2018-05-18 13:30 - 14:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior”
The past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language, representation, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist, we can take as established that how often and in what context different speech patterns occur influence both memory and processing. The question now is what we do with this rich foundation.
In this talk, I present a few, short examples of how usage-based approaches to phonetics and psycholinguistics help us understand social biases and human behavior. I provide some evidence showing that phonetically-cued talker information (e.g., emotion, gender) directly activates lexical items, providing us with some insights into the timing and availability of this
information. The purpose of this first part is to illuminate the complexity of experiencing linguistic events from the perspective of a listener.
For the remainder of the talk, I move away from phonetics, taking the basic insights from the studies initially presented (e.g., that we are pattern recognizers) to question assumptions about language use and experience and ask how our understanding of language use, semantic associations and culture can inform society at large. Specifically, I spend the last large chunk of
this talk investigating how we can understand the refugee experience through the lens of spoken language comprehension.
Meghan Sumner is an associate professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-19 20:00 - 22:00

Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
2018-05-20 09:00 - 17:00 | San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz
We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance, music, food, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in attendance.
In addition to Guelaguetza we are presenting these FREE family-friendly events in May!
Saturday, May 5 – MÚSICA CLÁSICA EN LA MISIÓN 2-5:30pm
Santa Cruz Mission Historic Park: tours of Mission, crafts, Oaxacan food for sale with outdoor concert at 3:30pm featuring the wonderful student musicians from Oaxaca who will be with Senderos for a 3 week cultural exchange.
This event presented in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks and California State Parks
Saturday, May 12 – Senderos Fiesta – 5-7pm, Cooper Street
Music, dancing, Oaxacan food for sale – street party!
This event presented in partnership with Santa Cruz City Arts and Santa Cruz MAH
Co-sponsored by:
Nido de Lenguas – a project of the UCSC Humanities Institute and the UCSC Linguistics Department to share the value of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2018-05-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Stevenson Event Center
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi, French. German, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
There is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00.
There are exciting innovations in the program this year, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi, including a short play and poetry, directed by Arshinder Kaur, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, sung in German, directed by Sheila Willey, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy, Black and White, by Ignacio Dominis, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles, which explores characters who live in two different worlds, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054).

Dayna Barnes: "Learning Lessons? A comparison of Planning for the Occupations of Japan and Iraq"
2018-05-21 15:30 - 17:00 | Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy
2018-05-23 09:00 - 15:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
This event will showcase the independent, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy.
Lunch will be included for participants and registered attendees.
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, and The Digital Scholarship Commons (University Library).
REGISTER NOW

PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
9 am – 3pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor, McHenry Library)
9: 00 Light Breakfast + Coffee
9:30 – 10:30 Digital Poster Session​: Undergraduate Research + Graduate Student Pedagogy projects
10:30 – 11:45 Panel of Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows (Moderator, Ebad Rahman)
11:45 – 1:30 Lunch + Break
1:30 – 3:00 Round table on Innovative Pedagogy with Faculty and Graduate Students (Moderators, Kendra Dority and Aaron Zachmeier)

Saein Park: "Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine, Marx, & Benjamin"
2018-05-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature, political philosophy, and critical theory, focusing on translation and reception studies, theories of waste, and plant studies.
Saein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Applied Linguistics Colloquia
2018-05-23 15:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

Mitch Aso: "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam"
2018-05-24 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Rubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam, adopts a broader lens, what I call an ecological history, to examine the role of rubber in shaping Vietnamese society in the twentieth century. Through this lens, I examine how the evolving relationships between humans and non-humans contributed to both the projects of empire and nation building. I argue that rubber, and rubber plantations, structured the material and symbolic bodies and landscapes of the postcolonial nation of Vietnam. In my talk, I will touch on the promises and the perils of such ecological histories and the new perspectives on the past that they offer.
More info on The Center for World History

Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu
2018-05-24 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet, translator, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan, France, China, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries. She teaches at Brown University.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Friday Forum: Madison Treece
2018-05-25 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Opera Works: Journey in Creation
2018-05-29 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, a San Francisco based company under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshop is free and open to everyone.

RELATED EVENTS

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm

Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Jeff Michno: "Nicaragua Y ¿Vos, tú o usted?"
2018-05-29 17:15 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community, providing evidence that locals use tú, a variant reported as virtually absent from Nicaraguan Spanish, with both outsiders and other locals. Utilizing local commentary, I show that this practice coincides with a sense of prestige attributed to the tú form, and stigma, to vos, the form reported as ubiquitous in Nicaraguan Spanish. In addition, through an interactional analysis, I identify several functions of pronoun switching (e.g. from vos to tú) by a given speaker with the same conversational partner, including: flirting, enhancing or reducing deference, emphasizing youthfulness, and negotiating identity status and stance in new relationships. Most notably, I show how locals systematically switch pronouns to shift from direct address (e.g. ¿Cómo te llamas? ‘What is your[tú] name?’) to an impersonal stance (e.g. Tenés que trabajar para comer. ‘You[vos] have [one has] to work to eat.’). The evidence supports the view that impersonal use of second-person pronouns implies some type of generalization, which can serve to create solidarity between conversational partners.
Jeff Michno is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville, SC. Professor Michno’s research focuses on language and culture contact, examining both well-established contact settings, such as the Texas-Mexico region, as well as more recent scenarios rooted in migration, globalization and tourism. He is currently investigating a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact due to tourism. His primary research goal is to highlight ways in which language varies according to the social characteristics of individuals as well as their moment-to-moment communicative moves (i.e. variation according to both social and pragmatic factors).

"Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts" Panel
2018-05-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists, writers, and poets to find voice in a world that has been, until very recently, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money.
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Event Photos:

Registration required – registration has closed

Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsal with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invites students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.
Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm
Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm
These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Robin Coste Lewis: "Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies, Art, Race, & Poetry"
2018-05-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invites students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”– Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm

Wed, May 30th
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz
2018-05-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.
This free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
Full event info: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/robin-coste-lewis-voyage-sable-venus
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm
Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Living Writers: Robin Coste Lewis
2018-05-31 17:20 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.
Lewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater fellow in poetry. She also earned a MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a Provost’s fellowship in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. Other fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Can Serrat International Art Centre in Barcelona, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. She was a finalist for the International War Poetry Prize, the National Rita Dove Prize, and semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize and the Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Prize.
Lewis has taught at Wheaton College, Hunter College, Hampshire College and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Born in Compton, California, her family is from New Orleans.

About Living Writers, Spring 2018: “A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement”
Spring quarter 2018 will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.
RELATED EVENTS
Tuesday, May 29th
“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.
2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, and the Humanities Institute, invite students, faculty, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele, San Francisco based company, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita, UCSC Music Department), commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers, the librettists, the composer, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone.

Tuesday, May 29th
Panel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required
Featuring:
Robin Coste Lewis, Poet, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
Nicole Paiement, Conductor, Musical Director, Opera Parallele
Laura Kaminsky, Opera Composer
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC (moderator)
Doors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen
Event starts at 7:00pm

Wed, May 30th
Cultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1, Room 210 @ 12:15pm
Robin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm

Thurs, May 31st
Living Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm

These events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies, Arts Division, Porter College, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.

Friday Forum: Sheeva Sabati
2018-06-01 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Coloniality of the West: The Formation of the UC System
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Stephanie Bosch Santana: "The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain"
2018-06-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the 1950s to the present. It argues that writers from South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have developed new genres of fiction in these media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space.
This Cultural Studies Colloquium is part of the UCHRI Junior Faculty Lecture Circuit.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Jennifer Egan: "Manhattan Beach"
2018-06-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
BUY TICKETS
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel, Manhattan Beach.
Tickets for this special offsite event (which will be held at Peace United Church) are on sale now online at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz.
Join us prior to the event for a wine reception at 6:30.
Praise for Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach may seem like a straightforward historical novel, but with Egan’s peerless writing and keen emotional intelligence, it plumbs the depths of human will, connection, and reinvention. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America, and the world.
– Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
– A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year
– A New York Times Notable Book & Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017
– Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction
– Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction
– Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian & Kirkus Reviews
“Joy, purification, renewal, death—the sea is all of these things in Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan’s intricately patterned and visionary new novel.” —The Atlantic
“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda, Bookshop Head Book Buyer
Bio
Jennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus.

Ticket Details
Ticket packages are $20.00 and include one ticket to the event and one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only, no book included) is available for $7.00 when purchasing a ticket package.

LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
2018-06-08 13:00 - 15:45 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Towards the end of the spring quarter each year, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department.

Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards and Retirement Celebration
2018-06-08 16:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Humanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human.
Humanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. See the event program and all award winners here.

Celebrating the Humanities – 2018 Spring Awards from THI on Vimeo.
View our full event photo album on Flickr:

Program Schedule
4:00-5:00pm Spring Awards
5:00-5:30pm Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session
5:30-7:00pm Retirement Celebration

38th Annual Dickens Universe Conference featuring Little Dorrit
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-21
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens.
View our full event photo album on Flickr:

In 2018, the Universe featured Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. Full of contrasts—light and shade, comedy and pathos—Little Dorrit is one of the great social novels of the Victorian age. It takes as its central themes the prison of this lower world, the vicissitudes of love in middle age and the inescapable power of money. Intricately plotted and full of Dickensian humor and sentiment, the novel displays a broad social vision and remarkable psychological insight.
Now in its 38th year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels. Here are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience:

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

The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading, talking with one another, and bringing Victorian culture to life.
More information and registration:
General Website: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/
Registration Link: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/registration/index.html
Phone: (831) 459-2103
Email: cmahaney@ucsc.edu
Video Link: https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs

Cabrillo Music Festival Community Night
2018-08-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The Humanities Institute is excited to announce a new public partnership with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. THI will serve as a sponsor of the Festival’s new Community Night event on August 9, 2018. Community Night will include a dynamic short concert of chamber works performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra designed for new listeners. The program includes fan favorites from recent seasons plus a few surprises – all led by conductor Cristi Măcelaru.
To celebrate this new partnership, THI will make 100 free tickets available for Community Night. The first 50 people to request tickets through this online form will receive 2 free tickets.
“THI and the Cabrillo Festival share a deep commitment to telling stories that reflect diverse cultural backgrounds and speak to the human spirit. We’re honored to be part of the community they have cultivated for more than 50 years,” says Irena Polic, THI Managing Director.
The annual music festival serves as a celebration of music and community, bringing together players, composers and music lovers for two weeks of contemporary musical performances.
“The Festival’s rich tradition of showcasing new and experimental music embodies our goal of making culture accessible and meaningful to everyone in our community,” says Polic. “We’re proud to be a co-sponsor of Community Night and look forward to rolling out additional programming connected to the festival in the years ahead.”
The Cabrillo Festival runs from July 29 through August 12 and tickets are now on sale.

Weekend with Shakespeare
2018-08-11 - 2018-08-12 | UCSC Arboretum
Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2018 Season’s mainstage productions, Romeo & Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website.
Weekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
DAY ONE Lecture Series, Love’s Labour’s Lost: Saturday, August 11
Noon welcome (light lunch provided)
12:15-1:15 – Sean Keilen, Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz), discusses Shakespeare’s wit in Love’s Labour’s Lost
1:15-1:30 – Break
1:30-2:30 – Conversation with Michael Warren, Emeritus Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz) and Head of Dramatugy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, and Ashley Herum, Dramaturg for Love’s Labour’s Lost
2:30-3:00 – Break with refreshments and light snacks.
3:00-4:00 – Q&A with cast from Love’s Labour’s Lost, moderated Mike Ryan, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz .
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7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove.
7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance talk: ‘5 Things to Look For,” with Sean Keilen
8:00 – Evening performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost.
DAY TWO: Lecture Series, Romeo & Juliet: Sunday, August 12
Noon Welcome (light lunch provided)
12:15-1:30 – Dr. Ariane Helou, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies (UCLA) and Dramaturg for Romeo and Juliet, discusses poetry and transformation in Romeo and Juliet
1:30-2:15 – Break with refreshments and light snacks
2:15-3:30 – Workshop on sonnets with Mike Ryan and Sean Keilen
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7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove.
7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance discussion of “5 Things to Look For,” with Ariane Helou
8:00 – Evening performance of Romeo and Juliet

Nido de Lenguas: Summer Camp
2018-09-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz Adult School, 319 La Fonda Ave, Santa Cruz, 95062, United States
Nido de Lenguas Summer Camp is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please sign up online using the form or by emailing us at nidodelenguas@ucsc.edu.
What is Summer Camp?
It is a one-day event where anybody has the opportunity to learn about — and learn how to speak — a Oaxacan language. Currently, participants can choose the Zapotec of Santiago Laxopa or the Mixtec of San Martín Peras.
Summer Camp brings together community members with native speaker and linguists from UC Santa Cruz. There are fun group activities and fast-paced games, each geared toward learning a Oaxacan language.
Who comes to Summer Camp?
Participants are community members who were excited to discover the indigenous languages of Oaxaca, many spoken by their neighbors across the Monterey Bay area. Native speakers of Mixtec and Zapotec teach their languages, and linguistics professors and students from UC Santa Cruz facilitate the activities.
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2018
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Where: Santa Cruz Adult School, 319 La Fonda Ave, Santa Cruz

Madhuri Shekar’s Queen + Panel
2018-09-29 14:00 - 17:00 | De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, United States
With prestigious accolade only days away, the numbers start adding up to an ethical dilemma for UC Santa Cruz graduate researchers, Ariel Spiegel [Stacy Fairley] and Sanam Rao [Nandini Ravindran], and their supervisor, Dr. Philip Hayes [Michael Boehm] in Madhuri Shekar’s Queen. Is financier, Arvind Patel [Snehal Pachigar], correct that their whole hypothesis is motivated by left-wing bias?
The drama directed by EnActe Arts’ Artistic Director and Founder, Vinita Sud Belani, and launches EnActe Art’s 2018-19 season dedicated to the telling of women’s stories in response to author Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to publishing houses for 2018 to be a year of publishing women.
Following the 2 pm performance on September 29, a panel of UCSC faculty will address the joys and challenges facing women in academia and scientific research. Featuring: Vilashini Coopan (Literature), Needhi Bhalla (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology), and Jennifer Derr (History).

Tickets Required
UCSC Students, Faculty and Staff, use code UCSCQUEEN for free tickets.
General Seating $25.00
Student/Senior $10.00
Tickets available at https://www.tikkl.com/enacte/c/queen

Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
2018-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz alumna, Reyna Grande, will discuss her new memoir, A Dream Called Home, in conversation with Micah Perks, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor.
A DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and become an award-winning and bestselling author. Grande shares an inspiring, personal account of what it means to find a home and place of belonging in America as a undocumented, first-generation Latina.
Event Photos by Crystal Birns:

Get a copy of A Dream Called Home at Bookshop Santa Cruz, at the event, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. Free books will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend (student ID required at the door).
Reyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria, 2006), received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award, a 2007 American Book Award, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award, Best Women’s Issues, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs, including Rochester Reads 2018, MacReads 2018, One Book/One Michiana 2018, All Henrico Reads 2018, Timberland Reads Together 2017, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016, Camarillo Reads 2016, Roswell Reads 2015, and One Maryland/One Book 2014, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work, visit www.reynagrande.com.
Presented by: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute
Co-sponsored by:
Research Center for the Americas
UCSC First Gen Initiative
Kresge College
UCSC Year of Alumni
Parking is limited. Please carpool or choose alternative transportation if you are able. If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.

Digital Humanities Meet Up
2018-10-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship.
Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor of Literature, will present a short paper, “Cryptography, Subjectivity and Spyware: From PGP Source Code and Internals to Pegasus,” to kick off a DH-focused conversation related to the 2018 – 2019 THI theme, Data and Democracy.
Read Cyberwar for Sale beforehand and come prepared to discuss the issues
This brief intervention will use two examples from the world of secure communications to explore the intersection of global norms of privacy and local conceptions of political subjectivity.
The first example is a book published by Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press in 1995. That 900-page tome was a hard copy print out of the source code for his open source implementation of the public-key RSA cryptosystem. In the early 1990s, Zimmermann was being prosecuted by the US Government for distributing his software. By publishing his source code as a book, Zimmermann claimed free speech protections, while resourceful users knew that by scanning the pages they’d be able to compile their own versions of the software. PGP has since gone through several iterations, yet remains a global standard for email encryption. And yet it is not foolproof. In 2017, The Citizen Lab reported an exploit used by the Mexican state. “Pegasus,” produced by the Israeli cyberarms firm the NSO Group, allowed Mexican authorities to surveil and target Mexican lawyers, journalists, activists, and others. Pegasus uses social engineering and “spear-phising” attacks to compromise communications systems. There is no cryptographic solution to Pegasus.
Through tracing the trajectory from PGP to Pegasus, I pose the following questions: Is there a work-around to surveillance society? Will Big Data recognize any other civil rights framework, other than “privacy”? Is there a way to “transmediate” cryptographic protocols, in the spirit of Zimmermann and MIT Press’ collaboration, in order to protect against exploits like Pegasus?

Co-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons

Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
2018-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp, about their new book, History vs. Women.
Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains.
Women are, and have always been, all these things and more.
Looking through the ages and across the globe, Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, along with Ebony Adams PHD, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew.
Featuring beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own.
Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Best known as the creator and host of Feminist Frequency’s highly influential series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, Anita lectures at universities, conferences and game development studios around the world. Anita dreams of owning a life-size replica of Buffy’s scythe. She is the coauthor of History vs Women.
Ebony Adams, Ph.D. is an author, activist, and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism, social justice, and pop culture, and is the coauthor of History vs Women.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. While seating is open (chairs are usually set up an hour ahead of time), you can reserve you place in the signing line by preordering your copy of History vs. Women with a priority signing line voucher from Bookshop Santa Cruz below.
If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 8th.

Chris Benner: "A Universal Technology Dividend? - Rethinking price, value, work and the commons"
2018-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In this talk, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets.
Event Photos:

Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored six books (most recently Equity, Growth and Community, 2015, UC Press) and more that 70 journal articles, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
2018-10-11 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Poet Laureate, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College.

About Living Writers, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms”
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.

All events are free and open to the public.

Nido de Lenguas: Clases
2018-10-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Small Schools Campus, 840 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Led by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds, vocabulary, and grammar, building on previous lessons. Students increase their language skills through a variety of group exercises. There is also homework, so students can keep their Zapotec skills sharp between classes.
Clases is free and open to the public. To attend, it is necessary to register online here:

Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
2018-10-12 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Subjects of copular constructions”
Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve
More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
2018-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Forager, San Jose, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Over the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This talk explores how the globalization of drugs in the eighteenth century influenced Enlightenment-era science, commerce, and technology. It does so through three case studies: Jesuits observing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America, East India Company merchants sampling cannabis in South Asia, and the strange story of the invention of nitrous oxide.

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Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
2018-10-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban, South Africa, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, and in today’s racial capitalism.
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Sharad Chari is a geographer working at the interface of political economy, historical ethnography, Marxist geography, agrarian studies, Black and subaltern radical traditions and oceanic studies. He has spent time at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the ‘Anthrohistory’ program at Michigan, Geography at the LSE, and Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, before returning to Berkeley Geography. Sharad is a scholar of agrarian transition and industrialization in South India (his first book, Fraternal Capital, 2004) and has been working on South Africa since 2002 (on the book project Apartheid Remains which he is speaking from.) He has also begun new work on an oceanic conception of capitalism, in relation to the fetishism of ‘the Ocean Economy’ in the Southern African Indian Ocean region, focusing on the South African and Mozambican Indian Ocean littorals, Réunion and Mauritius. At Berkeley, he is also part of Berkeley Black Geographies and the Submergent Archive, both collective projects in Geography Department, and at WiSER he is part of the project on the Oceanic Humanities in the Global South.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

UCHRI Funding Workshop
2018-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
UCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to know to apply.
One-on-one Consultations also available
Brown and Melnysyn will also be available for informal consultations about faculty-led research projects. Contact thi@ucsc.edu if you would like to set up time to meet with them.

David Lee: "Pictures of the Past - Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America"
2018-10-18 16:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Ancient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives of the peoples who made them and their descendants. This lecture will explore many of the various rock art styles of this region and place them within the greater context of national and international rock art studies.
Free and open to the public
Metered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109)

David Lee is an independent rock art researcher, focusing on the function and context of Native American rock art in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert. Beginning in 1996 he has documented rock art in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Australia, and has authored and co-authored many papers and reports on the Mojave Desert, eastern California, and Australia. Since 2005 he has also been documenting rock art and associated traditional stories in northern Australia. He is a founding member of Western Rock Art Research, a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and management of rock art.
For more information on the lecture, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu

PhD+ Workshop: "Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD - Reflections on Work and Identity"
2018-10-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD: Reflections on Work and Identity”
This workshop will provide space to discuss, critique, and engage with some of the thorny questions about transitioning to non-tenure track careers. Kelly Anne Brown, Associate Director of UCHRI, and Shana Melnysyn, Competitive Grants Officer at UCHRI, will share their perspectives as PhDs at work in an Institute that hires many PhDs. We will begin by engaging with a few examples of “quit lit” from across the affective spectrum, and discuss how we might approach them as primary sources in our research on broadening career horizons. We will ask graduate students to come prepared with questions about pursuing different kinds of work–particularly those they wouldn’t feel comfortable asking in other contexts.
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Please read these texts ahead of the workshop and join the conversation:

Just Another Piece of Quit Lit, by Joseph Conley
The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind, by Erin Bartram
Thesis Hatement, by Rebecca Schuman
Quit Lit is About Labor Conditions, by Katie Rose Guest

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

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Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
2018-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape.
Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz, she is swept off her feet by Daniel, a true-blue romantic–athletic, bookish, from Santiago, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris, their blended family doesn’t blend so well, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us.
Micah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us, a novel; We Are Gathered Here, a novel; Pagan Time, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA, five Pushcart Prize nominations, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
Read more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student, Thais Miller.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
If you have any ADA accomodation requests, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd.

CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
2018-10-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Tropical Exceptions – Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates” Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. Dr. Tambe’s talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases Tambe discusses —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— she show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence.
Ashwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices, and why sexual practices are freighted with political meaning. Her previous work has engaged the history of sex trade regulation in Bombay. Her forthcoming book focuses on age standards for sexual consent and the legal paradoxes in defining girlhood in India. She is also writing a book on academic feminism and the #MeToo movement, and co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory. She is the editorial director of Feminist Studies, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers - Khary Polk
2018-10-25 17:20 - 18:55 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem, The Journal of Negro History, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Gawker, the journal Biography, and has contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies, including Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, If We Have To Take Tomorrow, Corpus, and Think Again. His forthcoming book, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Race, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019.

Living Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.
All events are free and open to the public.

Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing - Bridge of Clay
2018-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
Markus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are on sale at Bookshop Santa Cruz and at https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/markus-zusak. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU.
This offsite book discussion and signing event will be held at: Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz
TICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30.00, include one copy of Bridge of Clay and one ticket to the event. One companion ticket may be purchased for $10.00. (No book included. Limit one per full price ticket.)
The publication date of Bridge of Clay is October 9th, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of Bridge of Clay (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after October 9th, or at the venue on the night of the event).
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.
At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge–for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.
The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?
Markus Zusak is the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, an LA Times Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honor book. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and children.

Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
2018-10-26 10:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas
“Re-rooting ‘We Refugees’: Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil” – Dr. Scott Ritner
“Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective” – Hannes Glück
“Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times” – Veronika Zablotsky
12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30-3:30 pm
Session 2: Chair: Prof. Max Tomba
“Borders and Crossings: Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices” – Prof. Susan Coutin (skype)
“History, Sense, Sanctuary: The Time-Lapse Politics of Church Asylum” – Key MacFarland
“Hotspot Geopolitics versus Geosocial Solidarity: Contending Constructions of Safe Space for Migrants in Europe” – Prof. Katharyne Mitchell and Prof. Matthew Sparke
3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break
4:00-6:00pm
Session 3: Keynote Address
“Time, Sanctuary, and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison” – Prof. Anne McNevin
6:00-8:00 pm
Dinner at the Cowell Provost’s House

DATE CHANGE - Anne McNevin - "Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison"
2018-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018
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Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her work focuses on the transformation of political belonging, the regulation of borders and migration, and spatiality and temporality in world politics. She is author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political (Columbia UP, 2011) and co-editor of Citizenship Studies. Her current research explores contemporary social movements that enliven a politics of membership and mobility beyond the terms of open/closed borders and citizen/migrant subjects.
Co-sponsored by: The After Neo-Liberalism Research Cluster and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding

Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html

Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
2018-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Recital Hall
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute
The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was supposed to empower people and enrich culture and democracy. What went wrong was based on a simplistic, nerdy philosophy. The solution can be discerned, and it involves creating and strengthening societal structures that are in between giant tech platforms and individuals.
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Unable to join us for the event? View the recording here:

Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It” from IHR on Vimeo.
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.
Data and Democracy: This event kicks off a year of programming on “Data and Democracy.” The Humanities Institute will be hosting numerous events and other activities around this theme. As our society navigates shifting definitions of fake news, targeted ad programs, and compromised voting systems, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. During the 2018-2019 Academic Year, The Humanities Institute will lead a community-wide conversation about this topic through a range of events focused on the ethics of social media, online privacy, big data, and algorithmic bias.
Directions and Parking
The UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Parking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. Click here for directions.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-3527.

Michel Feher: "Creditworthiness - The Political Stake of a Speculative Age"
2018-10-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.
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Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure, Paris, and at the University of California, Berkeley, and was recently a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the publisher and a founding editor of Zone Books, NY (in 1986) as well as the president and co-founder of Cette France-là, Paris (in 2008), a monitoring group on French immigration policy. He is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (2000) and, most recently, of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (2018); the co-author, with Cette France-là, of Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée (2012) and Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits (2012) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007), with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee, and of Europe at a Crossroads/near Futures Online, with William Callison, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels (2015).
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
2018-11-01 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards, as well as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Brooklyn-based Juan & the Pines and Oakland-based The Western Skyline. Julian is currently at work on The Apache Pollen Path (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press) with its grandmother, Inés Talamantez.

About Living Writers, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms”
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.
All events are free and open to the public.

Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline - Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
2018-11-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Kevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports between hinterlands and overseas markets, assuming economies pivoted around rural production. This talk shifts our intellectual focus seaward to consider how enslaved aquanauts’ African-based expertise enabled them to harvest hinter-seas to produce capital that helped finance terrestrial production throughout the English Empire.
Kevin Dawson grew up surfing, swimming, and freediving in south Los Angeles County, all of which profoundly informed his scholarship. He received a BA from California State University, Fullerton and was awarded his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 2005, where his advisor was Dan Littlefield. Dawson’s scholarship and teaching focus on the African diaspora and Atlantic History from roughly 1444, when the Portuguese first sailed into Sub-Saharan Africa to 1888, when Brazil became the last country in the New World to abolish slavery.
He has conducted research throughout the continental US, Hawai‘i, the Caribbean, and West Africa and has published articles in the Journal of American History and Journal of Social History, as well as several chapters in edited volumes. His book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the Africa Diaspora was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
2018-11-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In recent years, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century, emphasizing sustainability, local produce, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine, American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts, build community in the present, and pass on their values to future generations.

Prof. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion. She received her PhD from Princeton University.

Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
2018-11-08 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Valeria Luiselli, Hofstra University, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd, Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize, a recipient of the National Book Foundation “5 under 35” award, and the Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives and teaches in New York City.

Living Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.

All events are free and open to the public.

Save the Waves Film Festival
2018-11-08 19:00 - 23:00 | Patagonia Outlet, 415 River St C, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The 10th annual Save The Waves Film Festival presented by UGG brings its west coast tour home with an epic evening of live music and international surf films at Patagonia Outlet in Santa Cruz, CA on Thursday, November 8th. The night’s festivities will feature world premieres of surf, adventure, and documentary films, as well as live music and a raffle at intermission. The Save The Waves Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Save The Waves Coalition and World Surfing Reserves, and all proceeds support their work to protect surf ecosystems.

This event will have a cash bar with offerings from Tito’s Vodka, Suerte Tequila, and Kona Brewery. To make our film festival more eco-responsible, we have eliminated single-use plastic cups at our bars. We will be selling stainless steel pint cups for $10 (one free drink with purchase!) or feel free to bring your own reusable cup. Thanks for helping us make this year’s film festival the greenest yet!
All Eventbrite ticketholders (pre-door sales) will receive a free raffle ticket at the door. Prizes include a Patagonia wetsuit, Firewire surfboard, GoPro Hero 6 Black, Peak Designs photographer’s messenger bag, Clif Bar prize pack + more!
**this is an all ages show**

Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero
2018-11-09 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Gabriella Caballero, UC San Diego: The Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)*
The cross-linguistic study of tone has largely focused on its lexical phonological properties, its phonetic implementation and interaction with other prosodic phenomena, but the morphological role of tone is still under-documented: What kind of morphological information may tone convey across languages? And what mechanisms regulate the outcome when there are lexical and grammatical tones in conflict?
This talk addresses these questions through the lens of Choguita Rarámuri (CR; Uto-Aztecan), a prosodically complex language of northern Mexico.

CR has three lexical tones exclusively realized in stressed syllables. Stress-accent is morphologically
conditioned and tonal patterns are partially predictable from stress. Yet there is evidence for grammatical tone and tonal classes independent of stress. We argue that the full range of grammatical tone patterns in CR follows from an analysis that incorporates tonal underspecification and construction-specific tonal patterns as output-oriented schemas. This analysis captures several properties of this system, including: (i) arbitrary relationship between tone patterns of related forms, (ii) heterogeneous nature of morphosyntactic classes expressed by tone melodies, and (iii) overwriting/avoidance of lexical tone by grammatical tone. We contrast this analysis with an alternative morphemic analysis that has been proposed in the literature (Spahr 2016), and argue that a construction-based analysis makes the correct empirical predictions.
* Work in collaboration with Austin German (UCSD/UT Austin)

More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
2018-11-10 09:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
Part I

Morning
8:30 am transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.

9:00 am Coffee and Introduction

9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UCSC) “Sanctuary, Refuge, and Displacement to the Maghrib during the Reconquista.”

11:00 Ashley V. Miller (UCB) “Designing Moroccan Heritage on the Economic Battlefield of World War I.”

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon
1:30 Idriss Jebari (Bowdoin) “Critical Thought, Nation-Building and Language Politics in the Maghreb.”

3:00 Break

3:15 Nouri Gana (UCLA) “Twilight Arabic: The Politics of Language in Postrevolutionary Tunisia.”

4:45 Concluding remarks

6:00 Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House

Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony
2018-11-13 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families.
Please RSVP by completing this short survey.

Julie Livingston: “Self-Devouring Growth - A Planetary Parable”
2018-11-14 12:00 - 13:30
This talk, like the book from which it is drawn, calls into question the imperative of economic growth, tracing the unintended consequences of escalating consumption. Using a series of linked cases of successful economic growth (water, roads, and cattle in Botswana), it shows how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, will inevitably overwhelm, a process Dr. Livingston terms self-devouring growth.

Julie Livingston is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of the forthcoming Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable told from Southern Africa (Duke University Press), Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke University Press), Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (Indiana University Press), and numerous articles and essays and edited volumes and special journal issues. Livingston is the recipient of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Wellcome Medal, and the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William Welch Medal. In 2013 she was named a MacArthur fellow.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Isa Blumi - "The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story"
2018-11-14 15:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story”

Although the majority of Ottoman refugees in the 1878-1912 period remained internally displaced, significant numbers found their way to new continents, themselves in the throes of colonialist expansion. These pioneers’ stories require looking into the larger context of modern exploitation economies under which these Ottomans also suffered (and subsequently resisted in various ways). From recent studies we learn that the demand for cheap labor that absorbed such waves of Ottomans came from expanding labor-intensive plantation and mining operations as well as infrastructure development, long the investment of choice for private capital. As much as we must tell the violent resistance to the exploitative demands of capital, however, Isa Blumi identifies thousands of Ottoman refugees whose violent experiences with Euro-American imperialism intersected in Southeast Asia, Eastern Africa, and the Americas. In several cases, he will chart how colonialist-projects harnessed the capacity of Ottoman refugees (victims of expansionist European violence in their homelands) to subjugate indigenous peoples of what is today known as Southern Philippines, the Swahili hinterland, and the borderlands of an expanding US and Mexico/Comanche. In other words, Euro-American imperialism took its ‘destined’ genocidal turn by often calling on various Ottoman subjects to make themselves useful in ways contradictory to their normative place in world history.
Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University.
This event is sponsored by the newly revitalized Center for World History, which fosters a rich set of lectures, conferences, pedagogical workshops, and scholarly conversations. This programming enhances the intellectual life of faculty and students at UCSC across numerous disciplines interested in the human past. All Center for World History events are open to all members of the UCSC community and to the general public. More at: https://cwh.ucsc.edu/

Tzutu Kan: Maya Hip Hop
2018-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
Tzutu Kan, hailing from what the Maya considered the belly button of the Universe — Lake Atitlan in the vernal Guatemala highlands — is a painter, sculptor, bio-builder, activist in the defense of native peoples, and hip hop artist who lays down rhymes in the ancient Mayan languages of Tz’utujil, Kaqchikel, and K’ichee.

Presentation at 4pm, followed by a performance.

World Philosophy Day at Humble Sea Brewing Co.
2018-11-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Humble Sea Brewing Company, 820 Swift St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
World Philosophy Day?
Yes, it is a thing! Falling on the third Thursday of each November, World Philosophy Day celebrates the value and practice of philosophy.
This year, The Center for Public Philosophy and Humble Sea Brewing Co. are partnering to celebrate together. Come join us!
Featuring an Ask-a-Philosopher Booth staffed by some of your favorite local philosophers, delicious Humble Sea brews (including one Humble Sea is naming in honor of philosophy!), and all the ‘civic discourse’ you can handle! We can’t wait to celebrate with you – we’re going to get things going at 6pm this Thursday, November 15th.

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Snyder and Special Guest Tom Killion
2018-11-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Music Recital Hall
View the full event recording online here.

Event Photos by Crystal Birns:

The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus, a nationally acclaimed poet, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture.
5:30 p.m. doors open / 6:00 p.m. program begins
The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception.
This event is free and open to the public, first come, first served.
Seating is limited and we anticipate a full event, so please plan accordingly.

Directions and Parking:
The UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Parking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5. Click here for directions.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
Event Program:
Poet Gary Young, will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:30 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception.
Gary Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist and educator. Involved in the Beat movement, Snyder read at the famous Six Gallery reading alongside Allen Ginsberg. Snyder’s writing focuses on environmental concerns and Zen Buddhism. He is an environmental activist who is known for his simple, clear style, as well as his first-person descriptions of his experiences in the natural world. Snyder’s poetry is influenced by Japanese haiku and Chinese verse, in addition to his knowledge of anthropological factors like oral traditions. Over his long career, Snyder has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1975, his collection Turtle Island was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist and he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2008.
Tom Killion is famous for his vibrantly colored woodcut prints of the California landscape. He was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The rugged scenery of Marin County and Northern California inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints using linoleum and wood, strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-ë style of Hokusai and Hiroshige. He studied History at UC Santa Cruz, where he was introduced to fine book printing by William Everson and Jack Stauffacher. In 1975, he produced his first illustrated book on UCSC’s Cowell Press. After traveling extensively in Europe and Africa, Killion returned to Santa Cruz in 1977 and founded his own Quail Press, where he published his second book, “Fortress Marin”. Visit tomkillion.com to learn more.
About Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet, author, teacher, film critic, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz, California, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com. You can also view the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC.
This community event is co-sponsored by:
The Humanities Institute
Living Writers Series
Porter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund
Special Collections & Archives
Cowell College
Porter College
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Ow Family Properties
Poetry Santa Cruz
Cabrillo College English Department
Santa Cruz Writes
Bookshop Santa Cruz

Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies I
2018-11-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Do you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It offers resources and tools to push through common roadblocks in your advanced writing practice related to issues of voice, discipline-crossing work, organization, timeline, and procrastination.
Join this workshop to develop a clear set of writing goals and an accountability strategy. Participants will form writing groups and commit to accountable writing practices in the second session of this workshop as part of a new THI series. Part II of the workshop will be held on Monday, December 3.
The workshops will be led by Nadia Roche (Sociology) and Veronika Zablotsky (Feminist Studies).

This new program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the THI Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project and co-sponsored by CITL.

Living Writers: Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich
2018-11-21 17:20 - 18:55 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, and The Guardian, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It has been published in the US, the UK, and the Netherlands; translations are forthcoming in Turkey, Korea, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, Brazil, and France. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.

All events are free and open to the public.

Book Presentation: Jai Sen's The Movements of Movements
2018-11-27 17:30 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS), Deborah Gould (UCSC), and Patrick King (UCSC).

Jai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer, then a researcher into popular movement, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote critical engagement with the World Social Forum and emerging world movement – as moderator of the listserv WSFDiscuss and as coeditor of several books including World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and World Social Forum: Critical Explorations. He helped found and remains associated with CACIM and with OpenWord.

The Movements of Movements (PM Press/OpenWorld, 2017/18):
Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. These two volumes, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.

Refreshments will be served.

Peter Limbrick: “For a New Nahda - Moumen Smihi, World Cinema, and Arab Modernism”
2018-11-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Dr. Limbrick’s forthcoming book on Moumen Smihi connects the Moroccan filmmaker’s modernism to the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the 19th-20th century, which re-energized Arab culture in dialogue with other languages and discourses. Offering new ways to think about world cinema and modernism in the region, Limbrick argues that Smihi’s radically beautiful films take up the Nahda’s challenge for a new age.
Peter Limbrick is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media. He is the author of Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (Palgrave 2010) and has published on transnational cinema and postcolonial culture in Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Third Text, Framework, Visual Anthropology and other journals. He has received fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and the UC President’s Research program and is currently finishing a book about Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, a key figure in the “new Arab cinema” that emerged in the late 1960s across North Africa and the Middle East. In 2013, he curated a major retrospective of Smihi’s work that has screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Block Cinema, in Chicago, and Tate Modern, in London.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Algorithms, Mobility, and Justice
2018-11-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Engineering 2, Room 599, Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Are moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral and self-driving cars will save lives. Drawing on feminist and care ethics, Atanasoski brings to fore the injustices built into current and future mobility systems such as laws and policies that protect car manufacturers and algorithmic biases that will have disproportionate negative impacts on the most vulnerable. Moreover, it is argued that a constricted moral imagination dominated by the reductive scenarios of the Trolley Problems is impairing design imagination of alternative futures. More specifically, that a genuine caring concern for the many lives lost in car accidents now and in the future—a concern that transcends false binary trade-offs and that recognizes the systemic biases and power structures—could serve as a starting point to rethink mobility, as it connects to the design of cities, the well-being of communities, and the future of the planet.
Neda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and affiliated with the Film and Digital Media Department. Atanasoski has a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include race and technology; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies.
Nassim JafariNaimi is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and the director of the Design and Social Interaction Studio which she established in 2013. JafariNaimi’s research engages the ethical and political dimensions of design practice and technology especially as related to democracy and social justice. Her research spans both theoretical and design-based inquiries situated at the intersection of Design Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Human Computer Interaction. Her writing on topics such as participatory media, smart cities, social and educational games, and algorithms have appeared in venues such as Science, Technology, and Human Values, Design Issues, Digital Creativity, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). JafariNaimi received her PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds an MS in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran.
Abhradeep Guha Thakurta is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Thakurta’s research is at the intersection of machine learning and data privacy. Primary research interest include designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms with strong analytical guarantees, which are robust to errors in the data. In many instances, Thakurta harnesses the privacy property of the algorithms to obtain robustness and utility guarantees. A combination of academic and industrial experience has allowed Thakurta to draw non-obvious insights at the intersection of theoretical analysis and practical deployment of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms.
Co-Sponsored by: THI Data and Democracy Initiative, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Feminist Studies Department, and the Science & Justice Research Center

Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
2018-11-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
“Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism”
Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, UCSC
In between Israeli military incursions, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse, satirize, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position Gaza as solely a site of suffering, a site where tourism could never flourish; they instead ask what it would mean if Palestinians in Gaza could actually invite tourists, host their own tours, and control their own borders. Through virtual tours that simultaneously describe suffering and create joy, Palestinians in Gaza are combating not only the siege but also the representations of Palestinians in Gaza as under siege and nothing more.

“Revisiting the Question of Palestine”
Noya Kansky, FMST Graduate Student, UCSC
In this paper, I revisit Edward Said’s “Question of Palestine,” with specific attention to the activation of Palestine as object of study in contemporary humanities-focused research agendas. How are these research choices shaped by institutions and the left-leaning ethos of scholar activism, contemporary post-colonial and settler colonial studies and additionally political theory, and current debates on research ethics and epistemic production? What violences does this practice reinscribe and in what ways does the contemporary university contain and re-direct questions that frame Palestine as a stable object – often exceptionalized as a research site that is productive to those thinking about oppression and violence?

Pizza and drinks provided!

Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou
2018-11-29 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Slate, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. Doan has taught at Boston University, Lesley University, and the Boston Conservatory. He was born in Dallas, Texas.

Angie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Hyphen, The Margins, Nat. Brut, and others. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and has received fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets and Kundiman. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Living Writers Series Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms”
This series features seven contemporary poets, critics, and artists who each render, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument, the fictive line, or the scholarly imagination, each of these authors explore questions of race, gender, sexuality, nature, and nation in their respective practices and forms.
*Note: All Readings, except for the Morton Marcus Reading, featuring Gary Snyder, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below. The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.

All events are free and open to the public.

Stuart Russell: “Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence”
2018-11-30 10:40 - 11:45 | Nat. Sci Annex Auditorium 101, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stuart Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive, while others, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles, may be negative. Beyond these, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern, as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have suggested? And, if so, what can we do about it? While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss the issue, I will argue that the problem is real and that the technical aspects of it are solvable if we replace current definitions of AI with a version based on provable benefit to humans.
Dr. Russell will appear as a guest lecturer for Dr. David Haussler’s Scientific Principles of Life class. All are welcome.

Stuart Russell, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, is one of the world leaders in this area, see, e.g. his TED talk here.

PhD+ Workshop: Values Driven Pedagogy
2018-11-30 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Defining a Values Driven Pedagogy Practice with Kendra Dority (CITL, UCSC Lit PhD)
This workshop invites participants to consider how teaching can be a site in which we define, cultivate, and enact a set of values. What values are communicated—explicitly and implicitly—in our classrooms through our teaching methods and assignments? How do pedagogical situations present opportunities for us to claim values that may contradict or transform institutional norms?

Kendra Dority, Associate Director for Programs at the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL), will share her perspectives on pursuing post-PhD work that aligns with her values, and the pedagogical contexts that facilitated a values-driven inquiry. She will then facilitate activities and discussion around participants’ own values in relation to their teaching contexts.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies II
2018-12-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Do you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It offers resources and tools to push through common roadblocks in your advanced writing practice related to issues of voice, discipline-crossing work, organization, timeline, and procrastination.
Join this workshop to develop a clear set of writing goals and an accountability strategy. Participants will form writing groups and commit to accountable writing practices in the second session of this workshop as part of a new THI series. Part I of this series will be held on Monday, November 19.
The workshops will be led by Nadia Roche (Sociology) and Veronika Zablotsky (Feminist Studies).

This new program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the THI Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project and co-sponsored by CITL.

Muriam Davis: “Colonial Genealogies of Racial Neoliberalism - Governing for the Market in Algeria, 1958-1965”
2018-12-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Prof. Davis’s current work studies how French attempts to introduce a market economy during the Algerian War of Independence transformed the prevailing understandings of racial difference organized around Islam. It highlights the continuities with the post-colonial period, when Algerian socialism introduced new economic practices that were a locus for expressing revolutionary values and national identity.
Muriam Haleh Davis is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research interests focus on questions of political economy, racial classification, and post-colonial studies in Algeria. She recently co-edited an edited volume entitled North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of European Integration History and Journal of Contemporary History.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Linguistics Colloquia: Gorka Elordieta
2018-12-07 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Gorka Elordieta, University of Basque Country
More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Book of Joy Community Read
2018-12-09 14:00 - 16:00
Join Book of Joy author Doug Abrams, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Temple Beth El, and The Humanities Institute for a community-wide discussion and celebration around the themes of kindness and joy. During this time of social and cultural division and at a time when many are feeling a sense of despair, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu is an ideal book to discuss as a community. Abrams will share some of the rare footage from the historic meeting of these global icons in Dharamsala, India and will then facilitate a dialogue with several community faith leaders—Rabbi Paula Marcus, Father Cyprian Consiglio, Reverend Deborah Johnson, and Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi—who will talk about different spiritual traditions that lift up joy and compassion. The afternoon will conclude with a book signing and musical performance.
Free & Open to the Public. This event will take place at Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos.
About the book: The Book of Joy has sold over a million copies around the world in over 38 countries. The Book of Joy was on the New York Times bestseller list for almost a year, awarded the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award, and chosen as one of “Oprah’s Favorite Things.”
About the panelists:
Senior Rabbi Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El in a variety of capacities since 1979. She received her ordination and masters degree in Rabbinic studies in May 2004, from the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles. Rabbi Marcus sees activism and interfaith work as important aspects of her of her rabbinic work. She serves on the national board of T’ruah, a Rabbinic Human Rights organization. and has helped to facilitate workshops for Jewish Funds for Justice, Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action, Out in Our Faith and The Tent of Abraham.
Father Cyprian Consiglio is a Camaldolese Benedictine monk, currently serving as the prior of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur. Having lived in the Santa Cruz area for ten years, he is well-known on the Central Coast as a musician, author, and teacher, particularly for his interreligious work.
Reverend Deborah Johnson is the founding minister and president of Inner Light Ministries in Soquel. A life-long social justice activist, Rev. Deborah is the successful co-litigant in two landmark cases in California – one set precedent for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the state’s Civil Rights Bill, the other defeated the challenge to legalizing domestic partnerships. A voice for compassion, equality, and reconciliation, her primary focus has been on coalition building, conflict resolution, public policy development, and cultural sensitivity awareness.
Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi is a Buddhist nun and teacher in residence at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California. Ven. Tenzin is also a certified teacher of Cultivating Emotional Balance and Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training, and has been teaching in prisons for over a decade.

Prof and a Pint: "Dickens and the Struggles of Marriage"
2018-12-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Forager, San Jose, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What happened after the novels ended and the romantic triumph of successfully surviving a 900-page plot began to fade? This talk will trace the pitfalls of getting married in Victorian Britain—the financial threats to women, the uneven standards for husbands and wives, the legal ways marriage compromised individual identity—and will look at how a few famously salacious marital scandals (including Dickens’s own!) succeeded in transforming both law and literature in the 19th century.

Renée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature department at UC Santa Cruz, where she teaches classes on Victorian literature and culture, Irish literature, gothic fiction, and Harry Potter. She is currently writing a book about reanimated bodies in 19th-century British and Irish literature—like mummies, vampires, and talking corpses—and is co-editing a Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies. She received her BA from Stanford and her Ph.D. from Princeton, and after a few years teaching in the English department at the University of Miami she is thrilled to be back in California at UCSC.
Renée co-directs The Dickens Project, a multi-campus research consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz that consists of nearly 50 participating universities from the US and overseas. The Dickens Project engages in and promotes research and graduate student training in Victorian literature and culture, focusing its energies not only on the production of new knowledge about the 19th century but also on the ways this scholarly work can be meaningful, exciting, and useful to wider, non-academic audiences. Every summer The Dickens Project hosts the Dickens Universe, a week-long conference on the UC Santa Cruz campus in which faculty, graduate students, and members of the general public gather together to discuss one novel by Charles Dickens. The Universe is part scholarly conference, part book club, part summer camp, and part Victorian festival: days are filled with lectures, discussion seminars, Victorian teas, and Victorian dance lessons, while evenings include movie screenings, parties, performances, and one final Victorian ball (costumes optional). More information about The Dickens Project can be found at https://dickens.ucsc.edu/index.html.
Prof and A Pint, An Alumni Council Silicon Valley Lecture:
Please join us for A Prof and A Pint, a monthly series of informal discussions, served over dinner and drinks, at Forager Tasting Room and Eatery. Brought to you by UC Santa Cruz Alumni, and helping to celebrate 2018 as the Year of Alumni, each talk will engage a UC Santa Cruz faculty member or grad student in discussion with you, the local community of Silicon Valley. Talks are held on the 2nd Monday of each month. Topics include everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras. Self-driving cars to Shakespeare. Audience participation is encouraged. Enjoy a great meal and learn something while you eat!
Entry is free, but please consider ordering some food and drinks to support *Forager, our host. Current students and alumni, we encourage you to invite your friends, whether they are Banana Slugs or not, to be a part of the discussion.

Center for Public Philosophy: High School Regional Ethics Bowl
2019-01-12 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Teams of up to five high school students have the fall semester to develop their thinking on 15 real-world ethical questions (“cases”) put out in early September by the National High School Ethics Bowl organization. In the Winter, each team participates at a regional tournament (“bowl”). The team that is deemed to have displayed the most clarity, depth, and open-mindedness in their thinking go on to represent our region at the National Bowl in the Spring (held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). The Humanities Institute’s Center for Public Philosophy hosts the Northern California Regional Ethics Bowl at UC Santa Cruz. For more information visit: publicphilosophy.ucsc.edu/ethics-bowl

Public Events:
Semi-Final at 3:15pm
Final Round at 4:30pm
Humanities Lecture Hall

Linguistics Colloquium: Naomi Francis
2019-01-14 14:30 - 16:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
More details available here.

Cancelled: Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium
2019-01-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This week’s Center Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium has been cancelled. See you next week!
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Questions That Matter on KZSC
2019-01-17 12:00 - 13:00 | CA, United States
Tune in to KZSC to hear the upcoming Transformation Highway featuring Pranav Anand (Associate Professor of Linguistics), Lise Getoor (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering), and Nathaniel Deutsch (Director of the Humanities Institute) who will be discussing the upcoming event Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy

Ralina Joseph: "Postracial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity"
2019-01-17 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Post Racial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity” speaks about how African American women, celebrities. cultural products, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse– the media- propagated notion that race and race based discrimination are over– in order to resist its very tenets.
Ralina Joseph is a Associate Professor at the University of Washington, is Director of the Center for Communication, Difference and Equity (CCDE). Dr. Joseph’s second book, Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity, examines how African American women negotiate the minefield of “postracial racism.”
Feminist Studies Colloquium. Events are free and open to the public.

Linguistics Colloquium: Jess Law
2019-01-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Jess Law, Constraints on distributivity
Abstract

Living Writers: Sina Grace
2019-01-17 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series, featuring the first out gay superhero.
More info: https://qz.com/1105347/the-middle-eastern-american-writer-behind-marvels-iceman-the-most-visible-gay-superhero-yet/

Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality - An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”
2019-01-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
An Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception of history that is not linear but articulated in a multiverse of historical temporalities, Insurgent Universality excavates an alternative trajectory of modernity, which originally bridges European and non-European political experiments.
Massimiliano Tomba is professor of History of Consciousness Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. His work aims at reconsidering predominant schemes of interpretation in political theory and universal history in order to open up political trajectories of modernity which constitute the terrain for an alternative canon. His publications include Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer, Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken, trans. L. Schröder, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities, trans. Sara Farris and Peter Thomas, Leiden, Brill, 2013; Attraverso la piccola porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin. Milano, Mimesis, 2017.

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

Nadine Theiler: "A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles"
2019-01-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
English has several additive particles, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also, a
common choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions, (1a-b). It has been
suggested that this particle can’t appear in a wh-question without triggering a so-called
show-master interpretation (Umbach, 2012), in which the speaker already has a certain answer in
mind when asking the question, (1c).
(1) Mary danced all night.
a. John also danced.
b. Did John also dance?
c. #Who also danced?
In this talk, I will challenge this generalization based on a previously unnoticed class of
questions, which I call summoning questions. To account for the resulting more differentiated
empirical picture, I will generalize Beaver and Clark (2008)’s QUD-based account of additive
particles by lifting it to an inquisitive semantics setting (Ciardelli et al., 2018). This allows us to
capture the contribution of also in declaratives and interrogatives in a unified way, while still
accounting for its distributional restrictions.
Additive particles are just one example of expressions that can appear with declarative and
different kinds of interrogative clauses. In the remainder of the talk, I will briefly walk through
two other examples—clause-embedding verbs like know, and the German discourse particle
denn—to show how the proposed account of additive particles forms part of a larger research
program that aims to develop formally unified accounts of expressions in this family.

Nadine Theiler is a PhD student at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam, where she is a member of the Inquisitive Semantics group.
Theiler’s research interests broadly relate to information exchange through linguistic communication, with a focus on question semantics. She is interested in the nature of questions as semantic objects as well as in the role that questions play in the structuring and interpretation of discourse.

PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop Series - Understanding the ACLS Public Fellows Program: Reflections from UCSC Alumni
2019-01-25 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Learn more about the ACLS Public Fellows program in conversation with two UCSC Grad Alums who have launched careers through the ACLS Public Fellows program.

Sophia Booth Magnone, Literature PhD, is the Development Manager & Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Feminist Press. In her role at FP, she manages grant writing, individual giving, and fundraising events to support the operations of a small nonprofit book publisher. Prior to the ACLS fellowship, she studied and taught feminist literature, speculative fiction, and animal studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her writing has been published in Public Books, Palimpsest, Humanimalia, and more.

Michael Ursell is the manager of development and strategic partnerships at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also associate publisher of The Believer, a nationally circulated literary magazine. Previously, he worked at the Los Angeles Review of Books as a communications director and an editor for the nonprofit magazine’s poetry section. He arrived at LARB through the American Council of Learned Societies “Public Fellows” program. Michael holds a PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he wrote about English and French Renaissance poetry and taught many classes, from Shakespeare to intro composition. His academic writing has appeared in publications including Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Connotations, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.

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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Living Writers: Myriam Gurba
2019-01-25 14:40 - 15:45
Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean, and two short story collections, Dahlia Season and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. Dahlia Season won the Edmund White Award, which is given to queer writers for outstanding debut fiction. The book was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Gurba is also the author of two poetry collections, Wish You Were Me and Sweatsuits of the Damned. She has toured North America twice with avant-garde literary and performance troupe Sister Spit. Gurba’s other writing can be found in places such as Entropy.com, TIME.com, and Lesfigues.com. She creates digital and photographic art that has been exhibited at galleries and museums. She works as a high school teacher.

Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy
2019-01-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Technology increasingly shapes our habits and defines our access to information. As our society navigates shifting sources of news, targeted advertising, and polarizing online rhetoric, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy.
Join THI to explore how we got here and to imagine a more inclusive, open, and transparent future. Part of our conversation about Data and Democracy.
Featuring:
Pranav Anand, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Lise Getoor, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Moderated by:
Nathaniel Deutsch, Director of the Humanities Institute

Questions that Matter “Data and Democracy” from THI on Vimeo.
Event Photos by Crystal Birns:

If you have disability-related needs, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 25th.
Questions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz
A public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the Institute to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. We invite you to join us on January 29, 2019 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Data and Democracy.”

Leta Hong Fincher: “The Feminist Awakening in China”
2019-01-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students, labor activists, civil rights lawyers, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among young Chinese women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian state today.
Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, and describing how the Communist Party has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.
Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist, scholar and author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018), which was named one of Vanity Fair’s top eight political books of fall 2018. Dr. Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting and is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She also has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014). Hong Fincher was a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University and recently moved to New York.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Jessica Bauman: "What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare"
2019-01-31 17:00 - 18:30 | Kresge Town Hall
New York City theater director Jessica Bauman and UCSC Professor Cat Ramirez will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration crisis. They will ask, how can we connect with the full humanity of displaced people, and what role should the arts and humanities play in helping us to do so?
If you have disability-related needs, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 28th.
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Jessica Bauman is a theater and film director, producer, teacher, and the founding artistic director of New Feet Productions. For her production, Arden/Everywhere, which reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy, As You Like It, as a play about refugees, she worked with refugees and immigrants from all over the world, both in New York and at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.

Cat Ramirez is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the UC Santa Cruz specializing in race, gender, migration, and citizenship.

This event is generously co-sponsored by Shakespeare Workshop, The Humanities Institute, Porter College, Kresge College, and Cowell College.

Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson
2019-01-31 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective.
