The Humanities Institute

Questions that Matter: "Play: Games, Life, and Death"
2016-03-01 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Questions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo.
This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
Featuring:
Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature, UCSC
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor of Computational Media, UCSC
Moderated by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History & Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
The reception begins at 6:00pm, and the program begins at 7:00pm.
Please check back for updated program information.

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26 – May 22, 2016
2016-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts.
Spanning 400 years of history, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Malcolm X.
Join us for a MAH Members Only Reception from 5:30-7:30, and a public opening from 7:30-9pm. There will be food, refreshments and a welcoming by Khalil, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, the show’s curators at 6:30PM the Members Reception. Salif Kone a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Burkina Faso, West Africa will play 5:30-6:30 and at 7:15PM.
The MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22, Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals.
Self-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors, click here to book a self-guided tour.
Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Art Forum, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College. For more information visit: santacruzmah.org

Join us for these exhibition-related events:
AT THE MAH:
Opening Reception
Friday Feb 26th
Members/Invites only 5:30-7:30pm
Open to the Public 7:30-9pm
March 1st Friday Opening
March 4th, 5-9PM
5:30-6PM Panel discussion about The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection with Michael Watkins from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Simba Kenyata from the Santa Cruz NAACP.
5-9PM Make a protest sign to fight for what you believe in.
3rd Friday Artivism
March 18th, 6-9PM
Explore activism through creative forms of expression: music, dance, poetry, art, food and more. Artivism is co-presented by MAH’s teen program, Subjects to Change.
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
March 20, 3-4:30PM
Community Rental: Project Pollinate Presents Songs of Freedom: A Journey Through the Kinsey African American History Exhibit and a Birthday Tribute to Paul Robeson
April 8th, 6-9PM
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
April 9, 3-4:30PM
3rd Friday Beyond Borders
April 15th, 6-9PM
How do we break barriers? We organize. We share stories. We speak out. Break through borders with inspiring local organizations fighting for political, cultural and social justice.
Community Rental: Rising Root Wellness Presents Resuscitating Ancestral Power
April 29th, 6-9PM
Community Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom
May 14th, 3-4:30PM
Community Rental: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents, A Night at the Museum: A Story of Influence
May 18th, 6PM
A public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of the acclaimed new book “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Reception and book signing to follow talk. Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz
COMMUNITY EVENTS AROUND TOWN:
Fire in the Heart at Cabrillo College Crocker Theater
March 5th , 7:30PM
Santa Cruz Juneteenth Celebration at Laurel Park behind the Louden Nelson Community Center
June 11th, 12-5PM

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Keith Spencer
2016-02-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Keith Spencer
“What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens”
Throughout the history of the search for ET, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always made unscientific assumptions and projections about alien culture, language, society and even economy. In my presentation I will deconstruct some recent scientific attempts to actively send out radio signals to other star systems and the hegemonic assumptions that are tied to the content of these radio compositions.

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

Living Writers: Chang-rae Lee
2016-02-25 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and On Such A Full Sea (2014), which won the 2015 Heartland Prize for Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

His other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications. In 2000 he was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century.

He has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and The American Academy in Rome.

Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Oregon. He is Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.

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

Intro to Sikhs Guest Lecture: Shinder Thandi speaks on Global Sikh Diaspora
2016-02-25 16:00 - 17:45 | Cowell, Room 134
Shinder Thandi

Shinder Thandi is a Global & International Studies Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora, Political Economy of Development, Emerging Economies with special focus on Indian and Chinese Development and Evolving China-India-Africa Relations.
He is the founder-editor of the Journal of Punjab Studies, in publication since 1994. The Journal has been published by the Center for Sikh & Punjab Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2004. Also one of the founders and later Convenor of the Punjab Research Group which was established in the UK in 1984.
He has published widely on Indian, Punjabi and Sikh migration and on transnational practices of Sikhs, especially Sikh diaspora’s homeland relations. He is co-author (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri) of A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, (Greenwood Press, 2007). He has co-edited two books: Punjabi Identity in a Global Context [ed. with Pritam Singh, OUP, 1999) and People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post Colonial Migration [edited with Ian Talbot, OUP, 2004). He is currently working on a book with Professor Gurinder Singh Mann on Global Sikhism.

Book Talks - Gil Anidjar: "Blood: A Critique of Christianity"
2016-02-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western Culture, politics, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race.
Dr. Anidjar is professor of Religion, Comparative Literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy and Semites: Race, Religion, Literature.
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series, Book Talks, which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.

Todd Presner: "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities"
2016-02-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner
“The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours of video footage, and a database of some 6 million records, the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is the largest archive of Holocaust testimony in the world. But more than an archive of eyewitness testimony, it is also an information management system, a patented digital library, and a generalizable database for indexing and cataloguing genocide. This talk examines how forms of computation – specifically databases, data structures, algorithms, and information visualizations – function as specific modes of historical emplotment that raise significant ethical questions. Through an investigation of the entirety of the Shoah Foundation’s database, Presner shows how computational analysis can be “read against itself” in order to reveal certain assumptions and patterns in the data. In so doing, he argues for the development of an “ethics of the algorithm” based on insights from the Jewish ethical tradition. The talk will combine his research in Holocaust Studies, history/memory, and Digital Humanities.
Todd Samuel Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His most recent books are: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press, 2016) and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, with co-authors David Shepard and Yoh Kawano (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Every year we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

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Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
2016-02-24 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué.

In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
2016-02-23 12:15 - 18:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and time. We bring together representations of the ghetto in art, literature, and photography while embracing the possibilities of digital methodologies. By conceiving of the ghetto as a “memory space that travels” rather than as a static museal site we open up the constellation of representations in which the Ghetto of Venice is situated in the 21st century.
Program:
12:15-1:00 PM – Opening Remarks: by Dean Tyler Stovall presented by Professor Murray Baumgarten
“The Venice Ghetto at 500: Situating the Conversation”
1:00-1:30 PM – Skype conversation with Marjorie Agosín
Questions and Answers. Closing with Poetry Reading
Katie Trostel (Ph.D. Candidate in Literature, University of California Santa Cruz)
1:30-1:45 PM – Coffee Break
1:45-3:15 PM – Panel #1: “The Ghetto as Theater”
Dr. Ariane Helou (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Voice and Theatricality in Leone de’ Sommi’s Dialoghi.”
Dr. Samuel Arkin (Lecturer in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Hath not a Jew a home? Shylock in Venice, Venice in Shylock?”
Respondent: Professor Emeritus Harry Berger, Jr. (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
3:15-3:30 PM – Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 PM – Panel #2: “Mapping Liminal Jewish Space”
Amanda Sharick (Ph.D. candidate in Literature, University of California, Riverside)
“’Beating Vainly at Closed Doors’: Tracing and Transposing the Recurring Ghetto in the Works of Lady Katie Magnus, Amy Levy and Israel Zangwill.”
Professor Alma Heckman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Porosity and Transgression: Modern Understandings of the Moroccan Mellah and Jews Apart.”
Respondent: Francesco Spagnolo (Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley)
5:00-5:15 PM – Break
5:15-6:30 PM – Round Table Discussion “The Venice Ghetto at 500”: Moderated by Professor Murray Baumgarten
Dr. Rachel Deblinger (CLIR Post Doctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Bruce Thompson (Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Emeritus Peter Kenez (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Nathaniel Deutsch (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
6:30 PM – Reception to follow
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Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Literature Department, and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Amanda Reyes
2016-02-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Amanda Reyes
Dangerous Visibility: The Visual Epistemology of Eugenics
In the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing sterilization of people determined to have “hereditary” mental illnesses such as “idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy.” Key testimony asserted that her infant child had “a look about [her] that is not quite normal” and descriptions of Carrie as “poor in looks” formed the basis of the argument that Carrie’s “feeble-mindedness” was hereditary. Thinking through the ways that representations of the Bucks were curated and challenged, this paper argues that eugenic discourse operates through a visual economy.

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

Allan Langdale: "Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness"
2016-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Please join us for a lecture and reading by Allan Langdale (History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC), author of Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015). Dr. Langdale will read from his new book, show images of Palermo’s art and architecture, and talk about the project and the city’s history.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Languages & Applied Linguistics, Italian Studies, and History of Art and Visual Culture.

Living Writers: Nnedi Okorafor
2016-02-18 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Nnedi Okorafor’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel),Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013),Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner). Her latest works include her novel The Book of Phoenix and her novella Binti. Nnedi is an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, New York (SUNY). Learn more at Nnedi.com

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

Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
2016-02-17 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav.

Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even when no steady work can be found.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
2016-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Please join us
• Speaker: Alicia Garza
Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter
• Date: 7 p.m., Friday, February 12, 2016
• Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
• The event is free and open to the public.
The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Alicia Garza, Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter.
Social activist Alicia Garza prompted activism nationwide when she introduced the world to the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter along with movement cofounders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. The hashtag evolved into the banner under which this generation’s civil rights movement marches.
Garza, special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, previously served as executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights, where she led the charge on significant initiatives, including organizing against the chronic police violence in black neighborhoods.
Committed to challenging society to recognize and celebrate the contributions of all individuals, specifically black people and queer communities, Garza’s activism is rooted in organizational strategies and visions to connect individuals and emerging social movements. Her work has earned her various honors, including two Harvey Milk Democratic Club Community Activist Awards for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San Francisco’s largest remaining black community.
Delivering powerful perspective on the adversities inflicted by social injustice and discrimination, Garza educates and inspires audiences to organize and stand together to transform society into a world where the lives and contributions of all individuals are recognized equally.
Tony Hill Memorial Award
Members of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate outstanding individuals for the Tony Hill Memorial Award. The recipient will be recognized at the convocation.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
2016-02-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Andrei Tcacenco
“Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home”
My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the Soviet period. I will engage with official ideology while also showing how Soviet citizens shaped political discourse from the bottom-up by writing letters to local newspapers,television journals and local local radio stations.

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

Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
2016-02-11 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:
Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako
Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama
Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Living Writers Talk
Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206

Both events are Free and open to the public
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992), Frida Film (1993), Vorspiel (1994), Landing (1995), Market Forces (1996), Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998), The 3 screen installation, Sehe ice was, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?, 2002), for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000), she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005.
For her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012), and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea), a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.
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Winter 2016 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
January 14: Alex Rivera
January 21: Vikram Chandra
January 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
February 4: Charles Yu
February 11: Branwen Okpako
February 18: Nnedi Okorafor
February 25: Chang-rae Lee
March 3: Jeremy Love
March 10: Samuel Delany
Event Photos:
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Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
2016-02-11 16:00 - 17:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central both in the traditions in which the practices arose and in the scientific literature on meditation. I analyze them in terms of their characteristic intentions, distingush them from concentration and mindfulness in general, and examine the relations between them. Concentration involves keeping the mind focused on a single object, while mindfulness requires noticing whatever mental states occupy the focus of one’s consciousness. In the course of the investigation I examine the role of phenomenology and volition in the activity of meditating, and how they change as meditative capacities develop.
About:
Noa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind

Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
2016-02-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Nickelodeon Theater, 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo.
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:
Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako
Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama
Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Living Writers Talk
Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206

Both events are Free and open to the public
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992), Frida Film (1993), Vorspiel (1994), Landing (1995), Market Forces (1996), Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998), The 3 screen installation, Sehe ich was, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?, 2002), for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000), she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005.
For her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012), and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea), a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.

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Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
2016-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination.
Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.

Katie Trostel,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”
This digital mapping project centered on Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004) stems from larger questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC; the group has undertaken the project of thinking through the meaning of the ghetto in the context of its 500th anniversary. Through digital mapping, I trace the complexity of ways in which Jewish spaces, including that of the ghetto, are revisited, re-inscribed, entangled, and recycled in Agosín’s poems, as she simultaneously works through her experience of exile in the period of the Chilean post-dictatorship. The space of the ghetto, as well as globalized Jewish spaces as a broader category, are ways of thinking through the more expansive themes of exile, displacement, national belonging, and exclusion. Through her prose-poems, Agosín complicates the idea of a static geography, weaving personal place-based memories into a complex web of Jewish sites of global significance. Reflecting upon her travels across four continents, she explores both the category of exile and a certain longing for home. I use this work to think about the re-inscription of meanings of place, and how sites of memory can come to embody overlapping stories that span both space and time. I question: How do these sites of memory travel? How can a digital representation of literary space help to visualize and make deeper the layers of history and tangled webs of place-based belonging encoded in the pages of Agosín’s text?

Erica Smeltzer, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague”
This project uses a digital mapping platform to represent the many spatial characteristics attributed to Jewish experience: exile, sequestration, and diaspora. Beginning with the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the “Story Map” will begin with Egon Erwin Kisch’s Tales from Seven Ghettos, following the reportage as it describes place, space, and history in the Jewish quarter. This project evolved from the larger theoretical and comparative questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC. The group considers the Venice Ghetto “a memory space that travels.” In this spirit the digital map attempts to represent the intersections between stories of the ghetto, their reiterations, and the dispersal of their authors. In this way the mapping project begins with Egon Erwin Kisch, but it does not end with him. The map slowly expands as his text touches on different nodes (legends, landmarks, and histories) and begins to oppose a purely insular vision of the ghetto through a specialized and expanding network of intertext.

B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
2016-02-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich.

Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

Anna Björk: "Ex-hombres, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature"
2016-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
2016-02-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 402
In our introductory Winter Seminar, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment.
The first half of the meeting, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as a category of social critique and its intersections with our work. In the second half of the meeting, we intend to engage in a discussion of Paul Lafargue’s short piece The Right to be Lazy as a productive departure point for some of the directions listed above.
Some questions we hope to explore might include:

What differentiates labor and leisure and how have theses categories been historically constructed through racialized, gendered, heteropatriarchal, class, and/or colonial hierarchies?
What social and economic practices figure an activity as work, play, nonwork, or leisure?
How does the formal category of “leisure” itself act to discipline desires?
In what ways does the production and appropriation of excess enable cultural and political forms of participation and belonging?

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Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
2016-02-09 12:00 - 13:30 | McHenry Library, Room 1350
Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology, tools, and instructions that ensure a meaningful assignment for your students, including how such assignments should be evaluated.
This workshop will inspire you to design new assignments, develop your own multimedia materials, and consider new pedagogical possibilities.
Bring your lunch.

Leadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives
2016-02-06 10:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather than client-centered approaches.
Workshop trainer: Jyotswaroop Kaur
Education Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)
Free workshop open to all UCSC students and staff. Lunch provided.
Advance registration required. Please use form below.
Jyotswaroop Kaur joined SALDEF’s Southern California office with 10 years of experience in youth education programs, teaching, economic and social justice work. In her role at the helm of the Education Initiative, Kaur is responsible for the strategic growth and development of the organization’s two SikhLEAD programs: The Internship Program and the Leadership Development Program. While she spends the majority of her time running the Southern California Bureau, Kaur has brokered relationships with organizations, government bureaus, and offices on Capitol Hill securing coveted internships for the prestigious Internship Program. Kaur not only hand picks each candidate, but also grooms them with resume and interview coaching prior to their arrival in D.C. Just as she winds down her D.C. partnerships, Kaur begins creating the strategic plan and class for the Leadership Development Program where she carefully culls pioneers and changemakers from our nation’s top industries—entrepreneurs, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers— to speak with her incoming LDP class. Kaur also oversees much of the community relations work including the Law Enforcement Partnership Program. She serves on the Board of Directors of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy) — a community based organization in South Los Angeles. Kaur graduated with her M.A. in Public Administration, Non-Profit Management and Policy degree from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and received her B.A. in English with a minor in Conflict Resolution from the University of California at Irvine.
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Agenda:
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction
10:15 – 11:15 Mindset
Carol Dweck, Mindset, The Mindsets copy
11:15 – 11:25 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Leadership
Marshall Ganz reading on Leadership
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Sikh American Civil Rights Timeline
1:30 – 2:30 Adaptive Change
Video of Ron Heifetz
2:30- 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:15 Clients vs. Citizens
John McKnight reading, Services are Bad for People
3:15- 3:45 Social Justice Work
3:45- 4:00 Evaluations

Colin Phillips: "Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language"
2016-02-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, task-neutral cognitive system (“grammar”). So comprehension-production differences are a thorn in the side of anybody who might want to collapse grammar and language processing mechanisms (i.e., me!). In this talk I will show how the same underlying mechanism can have rather different surface effects in speaking and understanding. In production, I will discuss studies in English and Japanese that show syntactically constrained look-ahead in sentence planning, and that show that syntactic category acts as a strong filter on lexical access. In comprehension, I will discuss ERP studies in English, Mandarin, and Japanese that illustrate surprisingly “dumb” word prediction mechanisms. These predictive mechanisms are nevertheless subject to the same category constraint observed in sentence production, as reflected in different effects of case marker manipulation.

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

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophia Magnone
2016-02-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Sophia Magnone
“There is risk in dealing with a partner”: “Bloodchild” and Interspecies Encounter
I focus on “Bloodchild,” Octavia Butler’s story of extremely intimate yet profoundly troubling relations between species. On an extraterrestrial world, refugee humans become reproductive partners with their insectoid hosts, a relationship that mixes familial and sexual love with coercion and objectification. Yet in Butler’s own words, “Bloodchild” is a story of love, not slavery; she insists on the possibility of maintaining true affinity between profoundly different and unequal beings. What would it take to rescript the story of humans and nonhumans on our own

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

PhD+: Online Identity
2016-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Learn how to perfect your online identity and social media presence as an academic or higher ed professional.
Melissa De Witte (Web Coordinator, Social Sciences) will lead a discussion about how you can build your social media presence as an academic.
Whether you are a novice or an expert, a technophobe or an early adopter, this interactive talk will discuss the dos and don’ts, tips, strategies, common mistakes, and ways you can make the most out of social media in academia.
Melissa De Witte handles the digital and social media for the Division of Social Sciences here at UC Santa Cruz. She has an MA in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University.
Lunch will be served, as usual.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Charles Yu
2016-02-04 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Charles Yu is an Asian American writer of three well received works of speculative fiction, How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe, Third Class Superhero, and Sorry Please Thank You. Born 1976 in Los Angeles, Yu graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Law School. He lives with his wife and children in Santa Monica, California. He has been widely published in such places as Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review and has been cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII. He won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story “Class Three Superhero.” He was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its 5 Under 35 program, which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers. It is determined by previous National Book Award winners and finalists selecting one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find promising or interesting. Richard Powers, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction, selected Yu for the honor.
His novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was ranked the year’s second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and a runner up for the John W Campbell Memorial Award. The novel has been optioned for a film. The novel focuses on a father-son relationship and the narrator’s search for a father. It includes themes of how we live, time, memory, and creation of the self, and features a narrator who shares the author’s name and who lives in a time machine with his non-existent dog. His fiction deals with loneliness, isolation, time, memory, speculative technology, and is touched with a great deal of humor.

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

Jonathan Beecher: "Visions of Revolution: European Writers and the French Revolution of 1848"
2016-02-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher

Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848?

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:

January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Stay tuned for more information about guest speakers.

LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)
2016-02-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present:

LASER

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Wes Modes, “A Secret History of American River People”
Christopher Wilmers, “Who knew there was a puma in my backyard!”
Beth Shapiro, “How to Clone a Mammoth”
Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, “Making Last Day of Freedom”
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Parking ($4) is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.
BIOS:
Wes Modes is a Santa Cruz artist focused on social practice, sculpture, performance and new media work. He holds an MFA from the Digital Art and New Media program at UCSC. He has exhibited his art and performed regionally since 1996. He is also a UCSC art lecturer and curator for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. In other lives, he is a high-tech runaway, writer, community organizer, geek, and mischief-maker.
Christopher Wilmers is a wildlife ecologist who studies how global change influences animal behavior, population dynamics and community organization. An Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Wilmers is the founder and lead researcher for the Santa Cruz Puma Project—the most comprehensive study of Northern California cougars. Since 2008, Wilmers and his team of researchers have fitted mountain lions in Northern California with specially designed collars with radio telecommunications, global positioning, and an accelerometer device to record activities like pouncing and even mating.
Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary biologist who specializes in the genetics of ice age animals and plants to help develop strategies for the conservation of species under threat from climate change today. A pioneer in the young field called “ancient DNA,” Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. She has been named a Royal Society University Research Fellow, Searle Scholar, Packard Fellow, and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. In 2009, Shapiro received a MacArthur “genius” award. Her recent book is How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction.
Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman collaborate on art, film and interactive projects that look at the ways power structures and politics impact everyday lives. Hibbert-Jones is an Associate Professor of Art & New Media at UCSC; Talisman is a freelance editor and animator. Their current film project, Last Day Of Freedom, has won multiple awards, including the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Film of 2015; Best Short Film at Full Frame Documentary Festival; and the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies, among others.
For more information, email ias@ucsc.edu

Zephyr Frank: "Beyond Eyeballmetrics: Visualization and Analysis in Digital Scholarship"
2016-02-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of the Hands on (Digital) Humanities Series
This talk explores the boundary between visualization and analysis in contemporary digital scholarship. It argues for a shift in focus from creating visualizations (and related tools) toward a more robust analytical practice based on quantitative measurement. In this sense, visualization is seen as a useful but often insufficient step in the research process. A critical assessment of a series of examples of work from Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis will provide the foundation for the talk.
Zephyr Frank is Professor of History at Stanford and the Director of the Program on Urban Studies. He is also the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). At CESTA, Professor Frank directs the Spatial History Project. His most recent book is Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 2016).

OpEd Project Fellowship Application Deadline: "Write to Change the World"
2016-02-01 | UCSC
The “Write to Change the World” program will build our faculty’s capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of  expertise. Our focus will be on increasing underrepresented voices within these debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators, at three regional hubs: UC Davis, UC Merced, and UCLA, with 20 fellows in each workshop, from nine participating campuses (UCSF, UCSB, UCI, UCR,UCSD, UCSC), for a total of 60 fellows. Invitational priorities for applicants include: 1) sustainability and the environment 2) social justice and inequality 3) big data and digital humanities 4) public health and medical humanities 5) arts and public life. After the 1-day workshop, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources, access and support, including cutting edge game-based, research-driven programming, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide.
N.B. Faculty traveling to attend the workshop at another campus may receive travel support from their Center if their campus is not hosting a workshop. This amount will be indicated in their award letter from their Center.
REQUIREMENTS:
1) Attend a 1-day workshop
2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop
3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop
DATES and LOCATIONS:
UC Davis: May 23, 2016
UC Merced: April 29, 2016
UCLA: June 10, 2016
Application deadline: Feb. 1, 2016. Applicants from UCM, UCSD, UCLA, UCSB, UCD, UCSC, UCR, UCSF, and UCI can apply below.
Information and application online at: http://crha.ucmerced.edu/form/oped-project-fellowship-application
SPONSORED BY:
UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research,
UC Davis Humanities Institute, UC Irvine Humanities Commons, UCLA Humanities,
UC Merced Center for the Humanities, UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society,
UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, UC San Francisco Center for Humanities
and Health Sciences, UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Shaul Bassi: "Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016"
2016-01-29 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
The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641), as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present.
Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, postcolonial studies (India and Africa), and Jewish studies. He has published Le metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di un’etnicità immaginaria (Grafis, 2000) and edited an Italian critical edition of Otello (Marsilio, 2009). Recent publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi, Ashgate, 2011), Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe, Routledge, 2011); Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, ‘Race’, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming. He is currently involved in multiple literary and cultural projects related to the 500th anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Shakespeare Workshop, Italian Studies, Cowell College, and the Institute for Humanities Research.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos
2016-01-29 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Whitney Devos
“After Lives, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine’s (Caribbean) ‘American Lyrics’ “
My project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental, non-linear historiography, examining the ways in which lyric and documentary impulses—so often pitted against one another critically—are intertwined from the inception of documentary poetics, an
emerging multi-genre’d genre I read as quintessentially “American”: North, South, and Central.

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

William D. Adams: "'Wicked Problems': The Humanities in the Time of STEM"
2016-01-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents:
“Wicked Problems“: The Humanities in the Time of STEM
15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
William D. Adams, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field, courtesy of Colby College
Dr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama as the 10th Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. Dr. Adams previously served as President of Colby College in Waterville, Maine from 2000 until June 2014, and as President of Bucknell University from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President and Secretary of Wesleyan University from 1993 to 1995, and was Program Coordinator of the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University from 1986 to 1988. Earlier in his career, he held various teaching positions at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Adams served in the Vietnam War as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In 1977, he became a Fulbright Scholar and conducted research at the École des Hautes Études and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Dr. Adams received a B.A. from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
*Wicked Problems, a phrase introduced in 1967 by C. West Churchman, denotes a problem that is resistant to resolution, rather than evil.
Complimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot.
Free and open to the public. Space is limited, registration is required.
We have reached maximum capacity with a growing waiting list for this event.
To be added to the waiting list please email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003.
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Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
2016-01-28 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there and at UCR-Palm Desert.
Christopher David Rosales is from Paramount, CA. His first novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories have appeared in journals in the U.S. and abroad, and he is a regular contributor to LitReactor. Rosales currently lives in Denver, where he is the fiction editor for SpringGun Press and a PhD candidate at DU. His second novel, Gods on the Lam, is forthcoming Summer 2016.

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

Joes Segal: "Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage"
2016-01-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal
Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for the present state and the future direction of society. Taken together, they constitute a canon of collective memory. However, this canon is seldom uncontested, and in times of revolution or regime change the new political leaders often try to redefine history in order to support their worldview and claim to power. Old heroes, symbols and monuments suddenly become obsolete while new ones are created to evoke a sense of historical rupture or a brand new vision of historical continuity. Taking the fate of socialist monuments and their often ultra-nationalistic replacements after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a case study, in this lecture I will explore the politics surrounding public monuments.
Joes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM).

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Joes Segal: "Cultural Integration"
2016-01-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by betraying the essence of true art. Baselitz’s statement exemplifies a remarkable feature of public discourse in 1990s Germany: the return of a Cold War rhetoric after the end of the Cold War. This presentation examines the cultural aspects of the German reunification process by focusing on the public debates on East German cultural heritage, in particular the stormy dispute over the meaning and relevance of East German art. It will be argued that since the visual arts had played an important role in the construction of an East German and a West German identity after World War II, the art debates of the 1990s reflect the broader issue of identity and belonging in post-socialist Germany.
Joes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM).

Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio
2016-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | FITC, 1336 McHenry Library
Interested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop will include an introduction to the kinds of tools available for use in the FITC and a discussion about designing assignments that include multimedia and audio components.
This workshop will inspire you to design new assignments, develop your own multimedia materials, and consider new pedagogical possibilities.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore
2016-01-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Alex Moore
“Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson”
In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, 2013. Through a process of radical identification with the captive Orca whales Tilikum and Lolita, Hawk Swanson explores the ethics of aquatic theme park performances. I argue that the grotesque sculptures make visible the violence done to both humans and Orcas in the conceptions of nature, culture, and relationship manifested in the Shamu spectacle.

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

WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
2016-01-22 09:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. Following Hanna’s short introductory workshop in December, this more intensive session will offer instruction for writing in HTML, styling with CSS, and building dynamic web content using Java Script.
This introduction will not make you into expert coders – but it will provide you with insight into coding that you can apply to customize existing sites and work within easy-to-use platforms (like WordPress, Drupal). You will also gain an understanding of next steps so you can continue developing your coding skills.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary.
Be sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet).
*Registration Required. Reserve a seat today. *

Hedy Rose: "My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945"
2016-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose.
Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian samaritan.
Admission is free, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y
Reception will follow at 8pm.
$4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts
For more information, including accessibility, please contact Beverly Iniguez at binguez@ucsc.edu.

Film Screening: "For Marx"
2016-01-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Film Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster
“For Marx” (2012)
Directed by is Svetlana Baskova

“While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be denied nor ignored this ideological direction produces at this moment more questions than answers. Baskova’s new film channels some of the most burning ones: can Marxism indeed be repeated in Russia? How might this new attempt deal with the earlier, problematic incarnation? Who will be its new interpreters and how will they discern a new theory from practice? All these anxiety-producing questions, raised vividly by For Marx, make it contemporary, controversial, and one of the most worthwhile film experiences of 2012.” – quote from Polina Barskova, Associate Professor of Russian Literature at Hampshire College

Living Writers: Vikram Chandra
2016-01-21 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Vikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay. His honours include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia), the Crossword Prize, and the Salon Book Award. He teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been translated into nineteen languages.

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

Nicholas Mitchell: "On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes"
2016-01-20 12:15 - 14:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell
Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s studies at the heart of the consolidation of the post-Civil Rights U.S. university.
Mitchell is Assistant Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

Margaret Frantz Memorial
2016-01-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
A memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women’s Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January 17th from 2-5pm.
Refreshments & reception following the program.
Ample and free parking is available. Enter UCSC at the WEST entrance. Three stop signs and turn right and proceed to the end of the road. Recital Hall is in front of you.
Contributions in Marge’s memory are welcomed by Aptheker/Frantz Women’s Studies Endowment at UCSC, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and Alzheimer’s Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter.
“An inspiring and beloved teacher, skilled activist and generous friend, Marge Frantz died in Santa Cruz on October 16 at the age of 93. Passionately committed to social justice, she identified strongly with the three great social movements of her time: socialism, civil rights and feminism. They shaped her as an organizer, intellectual, and teacher who refused hierarchies while embracing and delighting in differences. She crossed boundaries wherever she encountered them—between teachers and students, academics and activists, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white. Her emphasis on commonalities was crucial to the success of the progressive communities she created and sustained throughout her life…” Read more.
Read Frantz’ obituary in the Santa Cruz Sentinel here.

Sharon Inkelas: "The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology"
2016-01-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to the performance limitations imposed by structural and motor immaturity, children’s outputs differ from adult target forms in both systematic and sporadic ways. The computations of the child’s grammar are influenced by the distributional properties of motor-acoustic traces of previous productions, stored in episodic memory and indexed in the eponymous A-map. We propose that child phonological patterns are shaped by competition between two essential forces: the pressure to match adult productions of a given word (even if the attempt is likely to fail due to performance limitations), and the pressure to attempt a pronunciation that can be realized reliably (even if phonetically inaccurate). These forces are expressed in the grammar by two constraints that draw on the motor-acoustic detail stored in the A-map. These constraints are not child-specific, but remain present in the adult grammar, although their influence is greatly attenuated as a wide range of motor plans come to be realized with a similar degree of reliability. The A-map model thus not only offers an account of a problematic phenomenon in development, but also provides a mechanism to model motor- grammar interactions in adult speech, including in cases of acquired speech impairment.
Sharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.

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

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
2016-01-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
James Beneda
“The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience”
I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic stress (PTSD) as ‘moral injury’, I argue that the traumatic experiences of American soldiers in the Iraq War resulted from flawed cultural and institutional indoctrination.

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

Living Writers: Alex Rivera
2016-01-14 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, and had a commercial release in the U.S, France, Japan, and other countries. Alex is a Sundance Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University, and was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” In 2015 Alex was awarded major support from the Surdna Foundation and the Ford Foundation for his film-in-progress, ‘The Infiltrators,’ and he received an Art & Technology Lab Grant from LACMA for an upcoming project in virtual reality.

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

Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
2016-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization, unemployment, ethnic conflict, poverty, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect the whole of the capitalist world economy. The purpose of this project is not only to address the issues which capitalism creates and subsequently ignores in its unrestricted expansion; but also to provide viable alternatives and solutions to these problems by using the lens of socialism, which, conceived of both as a set of historical projects to achieve a post-capitalist society as well as a horizon of political perspective and activity, retains its urgency today in the face of the recent crises and long term trends of global capitalism.

At the same time, we view socialism not merely as a question of area studies, but also as a global historical phenomenon, and in this sense, we aim to pose the problem of postsocialism as one that ramifies far beyond the territories of current or formerly socialist states, intersecting in productive ways with any number of other “post”-discourses in contemporary debates, from postcolonialism to postfordism.

Elena Gapova is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University; Founding Director, Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania).
Hunter Bivens, Literature Department, UCSC
Sara Blaylock, History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC
Elena Gapova, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University
Natalia Koulinka, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC
Lisa Rofel, Anthropology Department, UCSC
Andrei Tcacenco, History Department, UCSC
Introduced and Moderated by Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies Department,
UCSC

Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
2016-01-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova
Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book, she conducts, over the period of five to ten years, between 500 and 700 interviews with witness-participants or their surviving family members. In her montage of individual narratives, she gives a voice to several Soviet generations, if not to an entire Soviet society that has strained to make sense of the enormous suffering it experienced during the 20th century. Together, Alexievich’s books make up a series that she calls “The Chronicle of the Big Utopia, or The History of the Red Man.” Some scholars claim that Alexievich created a genre of her own, and in this presentation, her work is treated as a form of moral philosophy, a way to approach ethical issues through literature. The most prominent of these seems to be the question of the meaning of suffering, as it is encountered by a post-Soviet man at the moment when the Soviet world is crumbling and falling apart.
Elena Gapova is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University; Founding Director, Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania).

Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series:
January 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”
January 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes”
January 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
February 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”
February 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”
February 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
February 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
March 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”

PhD+: Research Tools and Methods
2016-01-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Refine your research skills, learn about new available research tools, and get to know the library staff that can help you in your research pursuits. This panel, including presentations by Annette Marines, Lucia Orlando, and Rachel Deblinger will offer introductions to:

Locating primary and secondary materials through library-based subscription databases
Analyzing data using web-based tools such as Social Explorer
Managing your citations and research materials with Zotero
Defining a file management system and employing tools to make sense of your archival materials

The panelists will also answer questions about the Presidential Open Access Policy, ILL, and digital research methodologies. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Enduring Power - Photography Exhibit - Nov. 2 - Dec. 17
2015-12-14 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-07 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-11-30 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-11-23 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-11-16 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-11-09 12:00 - 16:00, 2015-11-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Resource Center for Non Violence
Enduring Power:
The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story
— A Photography Exhibit —
November 2 – December 17, 2015
AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA
Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626
Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural,
Enduring Power’s striking images represent a wide range of experiences, aspirations, fears and realities of Middle Eastern and Iranian women from Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain, Iran and Kuwait. A collection of work from several female photographers of Middle Eastern backgrounds, Enduring Power shows an intimate and unique perspective of an otherwise private world to the American audience. This exhibition, curated by photographer Sina Araghi, presents powerful stories of education, individuality, familial relationships, societal restraints, and boldness.
“Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. These photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience, and the strength of women within these regions. Their sense of identity has not been erased by culture or governments.
These women are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and a sense of individuality is present. They are not weak or afraid. They are powerful and energized. They command your attention and your interest. Let their stories be heard.” — Sina Araghi, curator of Enduring Power
Senses Cultural, Davis, CA, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence are collaborating on this Senses Cultural’s traveling photography exhibition, which was previously at UC Davis, San Francisco State University. Senses Cultural believes that women – mothers, grandmothers, and daughters – have been the quiet strength that protects the rights of their families, communities, and nations.
Please join us for the First Friday EXHIBIT RECEPTION on December 4, 6-9p.m. featuring Tata Masud, Founder and CEO of Senses Cultural, Davis, CA. Light refreshments will be available.
Co-sponsors (list in formation): WILPF Santa Cruz
For more information: 831-423-1626, rcnv.org
Curator Statement by Sina Araghi
Enduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Woman’s Story is a collection of work by seven female photographers from Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran, examining the lives and livelihoods of women in that region.
Apart from their exceptional photographic work, these photographers were selected in great part due to their diverse coverage of topics regarding women, spanning across many different countries throughout the Middle East.
Peering behind the veil and headscarves to reveal real individuals is a delicate but necessary boundary to push. It is so vital to the future and progress of women in these cultures to be seen succeeding, thriving, and discovering – all on their own. Whether they are generations apart or contemporaries, progress is achieved when women grow and improve on their own terms, separate from the male influence that so strongly permeates their public culture and the worldwide media. There is an almost constant push/pull between the individualized and powerful identity of the Middle Eastern woman, and the attempts by culture and government to erase that identity.
This collection of images illustrate how that sense of identity has not been erased. This collection is a celebration of the progress and growth that has happened, and a tangible foreshadowing of what is still to come.
The division of gender throughout daily life creates two very different worlds within the same culture. The photographic perspective in this exhibition is unique to women who are inside these cultures and countries. These 7 photographers are not outsiders, tourists, or just passing through, and the familiarity and camaraderie felt between ‘insiders’ is tangible in these photographs. Being a female photographer creates uniquely privileged access into the lives and experiences of the Middle Eastern woman – access into a world that men seldom are privy to. Respecting this access while still honoring the truth in moments witnessed requires grace and trust. There is fragility in that access. As an Iranian male photographer, I admire this perspective, knowing full well the limitations and privileges of my own gender.
Collectively, these photographs speak of the greater issues of identity and resilience, and the strength of women within these regions. They are empowering themselves – against all obstacles – through their own will. A clear defiance and sense of individuality is present (an especially sacred quality in a world of appearance commonality), and there is no apologizing for any of it. These women are not weak or afraid. They are resilient, powerful, and energized. They command your attention and your interest.
Let their stories be heard.
-Sina Araghi, curator
For more information: 831-423-1626, rcnv.org

Friday Forum: Lara Galas "Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature"
2015-12-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Lara Galas (Literature) presenting her talk “Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

PhD+: Coding for Humanists
2015-12-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Part of the PhD+ Workshop Series, Sponsored by the IHR
Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. We will explore HTML, CSS, and (time permitting) Java Script by remixing existing website code. Think deconstruction as a way of learning how websites are built and how code processes work. This introduction will not make you into expert coders – but it will provide you with insight into coding that you can apply to customize existing sites and work within easy-to-use platforms (like WordPress, Drupal). You will also gain an understanding of next steps so you can continue developing your coding skills.
Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary.
Be sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet). Before the workshop: Download the Firefox Browser.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much, more more.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Living Writers: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California
2015-12-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Claudia Rankine
University of Southern California
Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. She also co-produces a video series, “The Situation,” alongside John Lucas, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Rankine’s bestselling book, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf, 2014), uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and visual images, to explore what it means to be an American citizen in a “post-racial” society. A defining text for our time, Citizen was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (it was also a finalist in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry. Citizen was nominated for the Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Award, was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award, and was selected as an NPR Best Book of 2014, who stated: “This collection examines everyday encounters with racism in the second person, forcing the read-er—regardless of identity—to engage a narrative haunted by the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Renisha McBride.” Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.
In all of her work, whether writing about intimacy or alienation, Rankine’s voice is one of unrelenting candor, and her poetry is some of the most innovative and thoughtful work to emerge in recent years. Her work often crosses genres as it tracks wild and precise movements of mind. In the words of the Judges Citation for the Jackson Prize: “The moral vision of Claudia Rankine’s poetry is astounding. In a body of work that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary lyric, Rankine has managed to make space for meditation and vigorous debate upon some of the most relevant and troubling social themes of the 20th and 21st centuries….These poems do the work of art of the highest order—teach-ing, chastening, changing, astounding, and humanizing the reader.”
Her other poetry collections are Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2008); the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private; The End of the Alphabet; and Plot, wherein she welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely—a multi-genre project that blends poetry, essays, and image—is an experimental and deeply personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contem-porary America. Rankine is also the author of the play, Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue, which is performed on a bus ride through the Bronx. The New York Times calls it an “engrossing urban adventure, which does not conform to the standard formula for theater but does make the bustle outside the bus throb with history, mystery and meaning, as the best live performances do.”
Rankine co-edited the anthology American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, and her work is included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writ-ing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Boston Review, TriQuarterly, and The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and educated at Williams College and Columbia University, she lives in California and is the Aerol Arnold Chair in the University of Southern California English Department.

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
2015-12-03 16:30 - 18:30 | Communications 150, Studio C
Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film

Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History

Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting of interviews and rare archival footage on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, the 27-year American occupation and the ongoing struggles of the local people up until the present, the film is a powerful statement on the historical background and complex reality of US bases on Okinawa, an issue that remains highly controversial on both the island itself and in mainland Japan.

Co-sponsors:

Center for Documentary Arts and Research
Department of History
Institute for East Asian Studies
Film and Digital Media
The Gail Project

Last Day of Freedom Film Screening
2015-12-03 15:30 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
You are invited to a film screening and presentation of Last Day of Freedom, an award winning film by UCSC Associate Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman.
Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of one man’s decision to stand by his brother, a Veteran returning from war, as he faces criminal charges, racism, and ultimately the death penalty.
Q&A with filmmakers and Estrus Tucker, Vietnam-era Veteran, ordained minister and Master Facilitator on issues of race and reconciliation. Board member National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Funded by Porter College, UCSC Art Department, SPARC at UCSC & the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz

Digital Humanities Reading Group
2015-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Senior Commons Room, Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062-1225, United States
Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities
by Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano
Join the Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Elaine Sullivan will lead our discussion about Hypercities and the impact of mapping on Humanities research. For a copy of the selected reading, email digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu.
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CANCELLED: Jonathan Ellis: "Philosophy and the Public"
2015-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Works in Progress Talk by Jonathan Ellis has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a date in January. Please stay tuned for more information.

Jonathan Ellis Works in Progress: Philosophy and the Public
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty.
The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited.
All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend.

Joel Kaminsky: "Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis"
2015-11-24 10:00 - 23:45 | Porter College, Room 144
Professor Kaminsky will explore various motifs surrounding the theme of special divine favor toward certain individuals and groups that pervades Genesis in hopes of illuminating these often troubling narratives. The talk will be conducted as a dialogue prompted by questions raised by Professor Nathaniel Deutsch and the students in his course.
Joel S. Kaminsky is the Morningstar Family Chair in Jewish Studies as well a Professor of Bible in the Religion Department at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has lectured widely at universities and colleges across the globe including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, St. Andrews, UCLA, Middelbury, University of the Pacific, University of British Columbia, University of Kansas, and University of Virginia. He has been a Visiting Professor at Duke, Harvard and twice at Yale Divinity School, as well as serving as a Visiting Jewish Studies Research Scholar in Residence at Durham University in England three times. He has authored many essays in both scholarly and more popular journals as well as authored and edited several books including, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election, and most recently he co-authored The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction.

Stacey Katz Bourns: "Integrating Grammar Pedagogy within New Frameworks for Language Instruction"
2015-11-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Foreign language programs in the 21st Century are in a period of transition. Many applied linguistics researchers now consider Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to be antiquated and are initiating alternate approaches, some more compelling than others. Central to the discussion is the always-controversial topic of grammar pedagogy. How should grammar be taught and learned? How can grammar pedagogy fit into new frameworks for teaching language that favor focusing on texts? Is metalinguistic competence a goal that should be pursued, and, if so, at what level of instruction? At the core of the issue is the changing profile of students who enroll in language classes and the need to balance students’ pragmatic demands with broader programmatic goals.
Stacey Katz Bourns is Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard University.

Light refreshments will be served.

Elliott Moreton: "Implicit and Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns"
2015-11-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Abstract:
What properties are shared by the processes used for learning linguistic and non-linguistic patterns? What properties are different? Research on non-linguistic (mainly visual) pattern learning has found distinct implicit and explicit processes which have different computational architectures, are facilitated by different experimental conditions, and differ in sensitivity to different pattern types. Is the same true of phonological pattern learning (“artificial-language” experiments)?
Experiment 1 asked whether implicit and explicit process are both available to human learners of a phonological pattern, and whether the same experimental conditions favor one over the other as in non-linguistic pattern learning. The pattern involved binary gender assignment conditioned by a single phonological or semantic feature. Training conditions were manipulated in ways which, in analogous non-linguistic experiments, have been found to elicit more implicit or explicit learning. Participants’ responses were duly shifted towards one or the other, as measured by self report of strategy, report of the correct rule, abruptness of learning curves, acceleration of response times after the last error, and bimodality of generalization performance. However, the shift was not categorical; some implicit and some explicit learners were found in both experimental conditions.
Experiment 2 asked whether explicit and implicit processes differed in sensitivity to structurally different patterns. In visual pattern learning, explicit learning has typically been found to be more sensitive to two-feature exclusive-or patterns (red XOR triangle) than to three-feature family-resemblance patterns (at least two of red, triangle, or small), and a large modelling literature has been dedicated to accounting for the exclusive-or advantage. Conditions which favor implicit learning reduce or reverse the exclusive-or advantage (reviewed in Kurtz et al. 2013). Our experiment reversed both of these results: The family-resemblance pattern was the easier one, and explicit learners showed a significantly stronger exclusive-or advantage. The reason for this surprising reversal seems to be that rule-seekers have a much harder time distinguishing relevant from irrelevant features in the exclusive-or condition compared to the family-resemblance condition.
These findings are discussed in the context of the larger question of how much linguistic and non-linguistic learning have in common (Moreton, Pater, & Pertsova, in press), and in connection with the practical question of how to design and interpret phonological-learning experiments.

Elliott Moreton is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

Friday Forum: Antoinette Wilson "Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth"
2015-11-20 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Antoinette Wilson is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology. Her work investigates ways in which in-group members judge and validate racial authenticity (e.g., accusations of “acting White” and bias based on skin tone). Central to her research is exploring adolescents’ perceptions of “Who fits in?”, “Who is typical of our group”, and “Who is ‘really’ one of us?” Her dissertation research focuses on how two aspects of racial-ethnic typicality– appearance and behavior–relate to variation in peer belonging and stereotyping among African American adolescents and young adults. Wilson’s talk describes findings from this work and is titled “Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth”.
Keywords: Black identity, Stereotyping, Development, In-group Belonging

The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Antoinette Wilson (Psych) presenting her talk “Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com.

Working for Dignity: A Community Discussion on Raising the Minimum Wage
2015-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
This event launches the final report from the Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County, produced by UCSC Center for Labor Studies, and a community conversation on economic justice. The event will include a panel discussion on the state-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, featuring local workers and small business owners, community organizations, and experts on the minimum wage. A wide range of community groups working on issues such as affordable housing, wage theft & legal services, paid family and sick leave, voter registration, and immigration reform will be on hand with information about services – and how you can get involved in the fight for economic justice. Refreshments provided and translation available.
Co-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, the Economic Justice Alliance, Chicano Latino Research Center, UC Humanities Research Institute, California Rural Legal Assistance, SC Day Worker Center, and the Museum of Art and History.
Questions? Email smckay@ucsc.edu

Trabajando por la Dignidad: Una conversación comunitaria sobre el aumento del salario mínimo
7:00-9:00 PM | Noviembre 19, 2015
Museo de Arte y Historia
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Gratis y abierto al público
Este evento iniciará una conversación con la comunidad sobre la justicia económica y lanzará el informe final del Trabajo por la Dignidad: Estudio de Trabajadores con Bajos Ingresos del Condado de Santa Cruz, producido por el Centro de Estudios Laborales UCSC. El evento incluirá un panel de discusión con los trabajadores locales y los propietarios de pequeñas empresas, organizaciones comunitarias, y expertos en el salario mínimo sobre la campaña a nivel estatal para aumentar el salario mínimo a $15 la hora. Un amplio gama de grupos comunitarios trabajando en varios temas como la vivienda asequible, el robo de salarios y servicios legales, el registro de votantes, y la reforma migratoria estarán a su disposición con la información sobre servicios– y cómo usted puede participar en la lucha por la justicia económica. Refrescos y traducción disponible.
¿Preguntas? Ponganse en contacto con Steve smckay@ucsc.edu

Living Writers: Juliana Spahr & Jasper Bernes
2015-11-19 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Juliana Spahr
Mills College
Juliana Spahr edits the book series Chain Links with Jena Osman and the collectively funded Subpress with nineteen other people and Commune Editions with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers. She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links, 2011), with Joan Retallack Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary(Palgrave, 2006), and with Claudia Rankine American Women Poets in the 21st Century(Wesleyan U P, 2002). With Joshua Clover, she has twice organized somewhat free schools, the 95 cent Skool (summer of 2010) and the Durruti Free Skool (summer of 2011), written on politics, on manifestos, applied for a job at the Poetry Foundation, and organized, with Chris Chen too, the conference Poetry and/or Revolution.

Jasper Bernes
University of California, Berkeley
Jasper Bernes is the author of two books of poetry, We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015) and Starsdown (2007). He is currently completing a book of literary history, Poetry in the Age of Deindustrialization, about the role poetry and art played in the postindustrial restructuring of labour. With Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr, he edits Commune Editions.

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Casey O'Callaghan "The Multisensory Character of Perception"
2015-11-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract: My thesis is that perceptual awareness itself is richly multisensory. I argue for this conclusion on the grounds that certain forms of multisensory perceptual experience are incompatible with the claim that each aspect of a perceptual experience is associated with some specific sensory modality or another. First, I explicate what it is for some feature of a conscious perceptual episode to be associated with a given modality, or to be modality specific, since no clear criterion yet exists in the literature on multisensory perception. Then, I argue based on philosophical and experimental evidence that some novel intermodal features are perceptible only through the coordinated use of multiple senses. The cases to which I appeal involve consciously perceptible feature instances and feature types that could not be perceptually experienced through the use of individual sense modalities working on their own or simply in parallel. Thus, not every feature of a conscious perceptual episode is associated with some specific modality or another. Finally, I offer an account of how to type perceptual experiences by modality that makes room for richly multisensory experiences. The key is rejecting the presumption that perceptual experiences apportion neatly into modality-specific components – an experience’s being visual does not preclude its being auditory.
Pre-reading: The Multisensory Character of Perception
About: Casey O’Callaghan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Research Interests: Focus on philosophical questions about perception, auditory perception and the nature of its objects.

Catherine Ramírez: “'Our Porto Ricans': Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923"
2015-11-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Catherine Ramírez works on 20th-century Mexican-American history, histories of migration and assimilation, Latino literature, feminist theory, and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book on the history of assimilation in the U.S. and was recently awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her work on migration, belonging, and non-citizenship.
Ramírez is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Director of the Chicano Latino Research Center 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.

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez: "A Net Made of Words: Intertextuality in Chicano/a Literature"
2015-11-13 14:00 - 15:10 | College 8, Red Room
This lecture will explore ways in which Chicano/a literature crosses literary borders, establishing a net of ties and connections with other literary traditions.
Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez is Professor of Literature and founding faculty at the University of California, Merced. He has published the books The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (co-edited with Beth Hernandez-Jason, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2015), Cantas a Marte y das batalla a Apolo: Cinco estudios sobre Gaspar de Villagrá (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2014), With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readership Across the Centuries (University of New Mexico Press, 2014, edited; recipient of a 2015 International Latino Book Award), a scholarly edition of Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nueva Mexico (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2010), Gaspar de Villagrá: Legista, soldado y poeta (Universidad de León, 2009), Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (University of New Mexico Press, 2003), La voz urgente: Antología de literatura chicana en español (Editorial Fundamentos, 1995, 1999, and 2006), and Rolando Hinojosa y su “cronicón” chicano: Una novela del lector (Universidad de Sevilla, 1993). His scholarly articles have appeared in PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, The Bilingual Review, The Americas Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Hispania, Revista Iberoamericana, Latin American Literary Review, REDEN, and Aztlán, among others. Martín-Rodríguez is also the publisher of alternaCtive-publicaCtions, a virtual press that has featured numerous Latino/a authors. He serves on the National Committee of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, and is an elected Académico de Número of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

Friday Forum: Maya Iverson "Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary 'Sit-In'"
2015-11-13 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Maya Iverson (Sociology) presenting her talk “Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary ‘Sit-In'”. Maya Iverson is a PhD student in Sociology. Her research focuses on black American media histories, archives and representation. Currently her work concerns how media scholars analyze the presence of black Americans in non-fictional depictions of the Civil Rights Movement.

For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Workshop with Miriam Posner: "How Did They Make That?"
2015-11-13 09:30 - 12:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Directions in Digital Humanities presents:
Miriam Posner
UCLA
Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas:
Exploring
Lobotomy’s Visual Culture
Workshop: How Did They Make That?

The catch-all term “digital project” can refer to a daunting array of technologies and methods. For a newcomer (or even an experienced practitioner), it can be hard to know where to start. In this presentation, we’ll examine a range of digital projects to get a handle on what’s out there. Then I’ll share some simple principles for figuring out the sources and technologies that constitute a “project.” You can use these principles to model your own project, or just to understand and evaluate someone else’s.

Miriam Posner is the Digital Humanities program coordinator and a member of the core DH faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. A film, media, and visual culture scholar by training, she frequently writes on the history of science and technology. She is also a member of the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
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Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading with California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young
2015-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UC Santa Cruz presents California’s Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young.
Al Young, born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. In 2005, he was named poet laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Widely translated, Al Young’s twenty-two books include: poetry—Heaven, The Sound of Dreams Remembered, Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons, and Something About the Blues; fiction—Who Is Angelina?, Sitting Pretty, and Seduction by Light; essays—Jazz Idiom: The Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson; anthologies—Yardbird Lives! (co-edited with Ishmael Reed), African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology, and The Literature of California (with Jack Hicks, James D. Houston, and Maxine Hong Kingston); musical memoirs—Bodies & Soul, Kinds of Blue, Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman), and Drowning in the Sea of Love. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review, Ploughshares, Essence, The New York Times, Chicago Review, Seattle Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature, Chelsea, Rolling Stone, Gathering of the Tribes, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. His honors include NEA, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Fellowships; the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction; the PEN/USA Award for Nonfiction; two Pushcart Prizes; two American Book Awards; the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence; and, most recently, the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award.
On the first Friday of each month, he reads a freshly-composed poem during The California Report,broadcast at San Francisco’s NPR-affiliate KQED. A teaching veteran (Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, University of Michigan, Colorado College, University of Washington, Rice, University of Arkansas, Davidson College), he currently holds seminars in imaginative writing and creativity at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Love Offline, a new poem collection, awaits publication. In the 1970s and 80s, Young wrote screenplays for Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor. Learn more about this versatile Berkeley-based author at www.AlYoung.org

In conjunction with the Living Writers Series Fall 2015.
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Miriam Posner: “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy's Visual Culture”
2015-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Co-sponsored by the University Library
Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients’ photographs before their operations and tracking them down years — even decades — later. In this presentation, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was so devoted to this practice, using computer-assisted image-mining and -analysis techniques to show how these images fit into the larger visual culture of 20th-century psychiatry.

Miriam Posner is the Digital Humanities program coordinator and a member of the core DH faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. A film, media, and visual culture scholar by training, she frequently writes on the history of science and technology. She is also a member of the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
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UPDATED TIME: Amalia Mesa-Bains Talk & Film Screening of "Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement"
2015-11-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Monday, November 9, 2015
6 PM, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Museo Eduardo Carrillo invite you to a talk by internationally renowned artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and a screening of the Museo’s new 30 minute documentary Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement.
Amalia Mesa-Bains is an artist, scholar, curator, and writer who has been involved in the Chicano artist movement since the 1960s. Dr. Mesa-Bains is a leading altar installation artist, incorporating Chicano culture and folk traditions into her work. She was the curator for the traveling exhibition,Ceremony of Memory, and the regional committee chair (Northern California) for the exhibitionChicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 (CARA). She also has written extensively on Chicano art.
Eduardo Carrillo was a founding faculty member at Oakes College at UC Santa Cruz, beloved Professor of Art and a renowned painter and muralist. He came of age during the dynamic social change on the 1960s. His tenure at UCSC (1972-1997) began at a turning point on the campus; there was a commitment to become more socially conscious and representative of diversity. Mesa-Bains and Eduardo worked together on a project called the CALIFAS SEMINAR at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, UCSC in April, 1982. Califas gathered Chicano/a artists to discuss the evolving role they played in society. It was a breakthrough event.
Filmed over 4 years across California and in Baja California, Mexico, the award winning documentary, A Life of Engagement, documents the artist’s relationship with his Mexican cultural heritage as he negotiated the challenges first generation Americans faced during the tumultuous social changes of the 60s and 70s. It features commentary by Amalia Mesa- Bains.
Join us November 9 at 6 pm in Digital Art Research Center, RM 108. The event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot for $4.
This program is cosponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center. Institute programs are supported by the Division of the Arts and and our annual donors.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police"
2015-11-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz to discuss police violence and mass incarceration in a lecture called “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution and The Police.” Her discussion in the UCSC Music Recital Hall on Nov. 9 paralleled the theme of her prize-winning publication “Golden Gulag,” a prescient examination of California prisons and the consequences of a punitive justice system. Continue Reading Article

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“America locks up too many people for too many offenses, jamming prisons, ruining families and running up steep taxpayer bills. That’s the party line on mass incarceration heard from social critics for years, but now it’s coming from a new chorus: police chiefs by the score.” –San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 2015
On November 9, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz will examine the issue of police and prisons with a free public lecture by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The title of her talk is “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution & the Police.” Feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker, co–chair of the UC Presidential Chair with literature professor Karen Yamashita, explained why they decided to bring Gilmore to campus.
“Several years ago, Ruth Wilson Gilmore wrote a timely and significant book, ‘Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California,’ published by the University of California Press,” said Aptheker. “Gilmore, a well-known public intellectual, documents in this book the ways in which California embarked upon the largest prison-building project in its and the nation’s history. Her work critically examines the political and economic forces that combined to propel such an ominous course.” Aptheker added that despite a crime rate that has been steadily declining for decades, California continues to incarcerate, even in the face of federal court orders to reduce its overcrowded and repressive system. “Most affected by these rates of incarceration are men and women of color,” Aptheker noted. Continue Reading
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has many honors and awards, and has delivered invited lectures at universities and cultural institutions around the world. Among many publications, her prize-winning book is Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007). Current projects include a second edition of Golden Gulag, as well as several other book projects: Fatal Couplings: Essays on Motion, Racial Capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition; and Big Things: Reconfigured Landscapes and the Infrastructure of Feeling. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and The Caribbean (IRADAC), and serves on the boards of many social justice, cultural, and scholarly formations in the US, Europe, and West Asia. She was a founding member of Critical Resistance, California Prison Moratorium Project, and other grassroots organizations.
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UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
UC Presidential Chair in Criminal Justice Reform
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Directions & Parking
The Music Center is located east of Heller Drive, and is best accessed from the West Entrance of the campus. At the Main Entrance, proceed west on Empire Grade, then turn right on Heller (the West Entrance). Go four stop signs and turn right on Meyer Dr.
$4 parking available in the Performing Arts Lot #126.
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HUMANISTS@WORK
2015-11-08 - 2015-11-09 | The Citizen Hotel
Humanists@Work is heading to Sacramento, California for our next statewide graduate student career professionalization workshop. We invite humanities PhDs, faculty, and staff to REGISTER for the workshop and join us for what will be another meaningful and productive gathering of humanities PhDs. We are offering a limited number of travel grants to 3 students from each UC campus (grants will cover your roundtrip travel and accommodation at The Citizen Hotel). Please note that those receiving a travel grant will be invited to the pre-workshop networking dinner. Deadline to apply for a travel grant is October 9th. Please apply online via UCHRI’s FastApps application system. For more information about the pre-workshop networking dinner, please visit our networking page.
SCHEDULE: HUMANISTS@WORK GRADUATE CAREER WORKSHOP & NETWORKING DINNER
NOVEMBER 8-9, 2015 | SACRAMENTO, CA
8:00AM | BREAKFAST
Hot breakfast bar with–yes, you guessed it–plenty of caffeinated beverages
9:00AM | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Kelly Anne Brown, UCHRI’s Assistant Director
9:15AM | THEORIZING OUR MOMENT: WHAT HUMANISTS@WORK LOOK LIKE
Part I of a two-part conversation moderated by the Humwork Graduate Student Advisory Committee and continuing the interactive, DIY activities began in San Diego last year, the Humwork grad committee will facilitate a conversation about issues such as: the possibilities for work outside/alongside academia, graduate student education and support, the general conditions of the humanities in higher education and society more generally, and the role of gatherings like Humwork to intervene in the many structural, cultural, and practical issues surrounding humanities work.
9:45AM | STORIES FROM THE FIELD
UC Humanities PhDs share their stories as humanists@work in the world. Featuring:
J. Guevara, Economic Development Manager for the City of Santa Cruz (PhD Literature, UCSC, 2012)
Amy Jamgochian, Academic Program Director, Prison University Project (PhD Rhetoric, UCB, 2010)
Susie Lundy, Bay Area Program Director, Youth Speaks (PhD Cultural Studies, UCLA, 2008)
Marty Weis, UC Davis English PhD, 2015
Moderated by Simon Abramowitsch, UC Davis English PhD and Humanists@Work Graduate Advisory Committee Member
11:00AM | COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK
11:30AM | RÉSUMÉ REDUX: USING THE WRITING PROCESS AS A TOOL FOR CAREER DISCOVERY
The quest to create a replicable résumé development framework for humanities PhD candidates exploring a variety of careers continues!
Since UCHRI’s February 2015 Humanists@Work workshop in San Diego, Jared Redick of The Résumé Studio, Kelly Anne Brown of UCHRI, and selected UC humanists have been hard at work refining the process of presenting academic experience within the boundaries of a non-academic résumé.
This iteration of the workshop builds on the work of past presentations at Berkeley and San Diego, focusing on how the writing process is being used as a tool for career discovery. Highlights include:
A glimpse into how current PhD candidates and other graduate students have used the Job Description Analysis to translate their academic and dissertation experience into transferable skills useful within a reimagined résumé.
Before and after samples from graduate students who have gone the distance and turned their backgrounds into marketable résumés, several resulting in new jobs this year.
Unsurprisingly, the work focuses on the student’s ability to convert academic activities into work experience that resonates beyond academia. Sounds easier than it is—which is why this series continues. UCLA PhD candidate Dana Linda joins the discussion to share her own experience, as well as insights she learned while going through the process.
Important:
Please be sure you have watched the full 1.5 hour Berkeley video before you attend, otherwise you may not gain the full value of this presentation.
Bring your current CV and/or résumé attempt (no matter how rough, printed or on your laptop) so it’s on hand for ideas you may capture along the way.
Jared Redick, The Résumé Studio and Dana Linda, UCLA Comparative Literature PhD Candidate
12:45PM | LUNCH
In addition to a hot lunch, participants will have access to view Al Farrow’s Bay Area Figurative Drawings in the special collections gallery.
1:45PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION A
SKETCHING YOUR CAREER’S UNIQUE CHRONOLOGY IN THE RÉSUMÉ CONTEXT
CROCKER ATRIUM
Jared Redick, The Résumé Studio
Working one-on-one with University of California PhD candidates and other graduate students this year, one of the surprising elements Jared Redick has discovered has been the complex task of distilling the hierarchy of one’s career within the limitations of the chronological résumé.
And chronological résumés are essential in the world beyond academia because functional résumés—while sometimes useful—are frequently regarded by recruiters and hiring managers as tools for masking periods of unemployment.
In this breakout session, Dana Linda joins Jared Redick for focused table work that utilizes the simplicity of 3×5 cards to wire frame your experience (institution names, job titles, dates, buckets) in a way that is readily understood by recruiters and hiring managers. This breakout is intended for people who are, or will soon be, deeply focused on the résumé development process.
Important:
Bring a stack of your own 3×5 cards for table work. These are essential to the exercise we’ll be doing, and we will not have enough to give to everyone.
Bring your current CV and/or résumé attempt, no matter how rough, printed or on your laptop.
Please be sure you have watched the 1.5 hour Berkeley video before you attend, otherwise you may not gain the full value of this breakout session.
SESSION B
DECODING WORK: A VALUES-BASED APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING CAREERS FOR HUMANITIES PHDS
CEMO MEETING SPACE
Annie Maxfield, UCLA
In this session students will connect their unique strengths and value system to career trajectories by surveying how values are expressed through work, organizations and industries. We will identify concrete UC-Humanities PhD career paths, and discuss ways to “decode” jobs, imagine possibilities, and identify starting points.
3:00PM | COFFEE/NETWORKING BREAK
3:30PM | A MINDFUL INQUIRY INTO THE RIGHT KIND OF WORK
Lauri Mattenson, UCLA Writing Programs
Many of our assumptions about the job search are predetermined by the routines and rules of our educational institutions, and accordingly, we learn to package ourselves like products for sale to potential employers. If instead, we regard ourselves as in-process and engage in mindful practices with an attitude of receptive non-judgement, we can free ourselves from fixed notions of self and success.
In this participatory workshop, we will practice “generative mindfulness” exercises designed to inspire greater insight into what might bring us true professional pleasure and fulfillment.
Mindful meditation is known to facilitate decision-making and cognitive flexibility and enhance well-being, creativity, social performance, and health (Langer, 1989; 2005; 2009), so a mindful inquiry into the right kind of work may help us conceptualize and create a career deeply aligned with our skills and values.
4:30PM | PART II: THEORIZING OUR MOMENT
5:30PM | CONCLUDING REMARKS

Leadership for Social Justice: A Sikh-American Perspective
2015-11-07 09:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This one-day workshop provides insights and training for individuals who wish to lead social change efforts. The workshop will be conducted by the Sikh Coalition, a community-based organization that works toward the realization of civil and human rights for all people, including Sikh-Americans. It will include sessions devoted to lobbying, media, legal remedies, and a case study on effective advocacy. The workshop will be highly interactive and will provide participants with concrete skills that will enable them to immediately begin advocating on major social and political issues.
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About the Workshop Trainers:
Arjun Singh joined the Sikh Coalition in June 2015 as the Director of Law & Policy. In this role, he is responsible for advocating and promoting policy solutions to civil rights issues that impact Sikhs and the broader American public. His work focuses on government affairs on Capitol Hill, inside the White House, and across numerous federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of State. Additionally, Arjun is an integral contributor to our media relations, coalition building, and regional advocacy campaigns.
Arjun joins the Sikh Coalition with nearly a decade of litigation and advocacy experience focused on civil and human rights in Washington D.C. First, he spent six years working as a Government Affairs and Litigation Associate at the international law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where his clients included victims of government profiling, national security detainees, and criminal defendants on death row. More recently, Arjun worked as a National Legislative Counsel for human rights and national security related affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is a regular contributor to national media outlets like Al Jazeera America, CNN, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course on 21st century policing and surveillance.
Arjun is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Harjit Kaur joined the Sikh Coalition as Community Development Manager in May 2014. As Community Development Manager, she leads program development and implementation for Bay Area youth to encourage leadership and engage them in advocacy and social justice work. She is also responsible for community engagement efforts and education initiatives to raise awareness about Sikhs.
Harjit initially joined the Sikh Coalition as a graduate of the Sikh Advocate Academy, Class of 2012. In her role as a Volunteer Sikh Advocate, she supported key initiatives such as the passage of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act of California and became a member of the Sacramento Area Hate Crimes Task Force at the U.S. Department of Justice
Prior to joining the Sikh Coalition, she was a part of the criminal defense team in a recent landmark case, led by Mani Sidhu, Esq., in which a battered South Asian woman in Yuba City was acquitted of first degree murder due to self-defense and the defense of her unborn female child. She currently serves as a board member of the Sacramento South Asian Bar Association and is the board secretary for the Sacramento Valley Charter School. She is also an adjunct professor and advisory committee board member for the legal assisting program at American River College.
Harjit earned her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2011 and is licensed to practice in California. Harjit obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Sonoma State University.

Free and open to all UCSC students and staff. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea provided.
Pre-registration required. Please register by clicking here. Enrollment limited to 20.

Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California and at UCSC
2015-11-07 08:30 - 17:30 | Music Center Recital Hall, Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In 2015, UCSC is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia its 40th. Both are products of a fertile period of ferment across California, during the 1960s and 1970s. Why has California been such a fertile and fruitful site for “Utopian Dreaming,” in film, fiction, media, design, architecture, mobility, electronics, intentional communities,ecology and environment, counter-culture and social movements? What kinds of futures has California come to represent? What has been the role of UCSC in these imaginaries of the future. Does California remain a Promised Land, or is it a Land of Squandered Promise?
On November 6th and 7th, 2015, join scholars, students, observers and utopian dreamers , in a conference to celebrate those anniversaries and explore visions of the future that have emerged from California and UCSC about California and UCSC. Presentations will run the gamut from Ecotopia to Technodystopia, from the real to the fantasized, from the past to the future, assessing the impacts of utopian imaginaries on culture, politics, environment, cities, beliefs and ideologies at UCSC, across California, and beyond.
Admission is free, but attendees are asked to register for the conference here.

Conference Schedule:
Friday, November 6, UCSC Music Recital Hall, 7:30-10 PM
7:30-10: Keynote — Return to Ecotopia: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Ernest Callenbach.
Kim Stanley Robinson, “Ecotopia and the 1970s Utopian Moment”
Conversation & Reminiscences about Ecotopia & Ernest Callenbach
Malcolm Margolin (publisher, Heyday Books, Berkeley),
Joanna Callenbach (daughter)
Richard Kahlenberg (Callenbach’s literary agent)
Saturday, November 7, UCSC Music Recital Hall
8:30-9: Registration & Continental Breakfast
9-9:30: Keynote — Fred McPherson, “Utopia at UCSC: The Early Years”
9:30-11:00: Panel I — California as Eco(u)topia
Benjamin Wurgaft (MIT), “All Futures Green and Chrome: From Callenbach’s Ecotopia to 21st-Century Cornucopianism”
Kristin Miller (Sociology, UCSC), “Postcards from the Future”
11-11:15: Coffee break
11:15-12:45: Panel II — Ecotopia and Apocalypse
Andrew Mathews (Anthropology, UCSC), “Climate Change as Utopia and Apocalypse”
Ursula Heise (English, UCLA), “What’s the Matter with Dystopia?”
12:45-1:30: Lunch (provided to attendees on site)
1:30-3:00: Panel III — Imagining Other Utopian Worlds
Rosaura Sanchez & Beatrice Pita (Literature, UC San Diego), “The Color of Sci Fi: The Presence/Absence of People of Color in Future Imaginaries.”
Miriam Greenberg (Sociology, UCSC), “Whose Ecotopia? Tracing Multiple Visions of a Sustainable Future in Northern California and Beyond”
3-3:15: Coffee break
3:15-4:45: Panel IV — California Techno-pasts and Utopian Futures
Fred Turner (Communications, Stanford), “From Counterculture To Cyberculture: How The Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community”
Richard Barbrook (Department of Politics and IR, U. of Westminster, London), “The California Ideology 2.0”
4:45-5:30: Concluding Remarks
Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics and College Eight, UCSC), “Eco-utopias and Other Such Futurist Dreaming in California”

For questions and information, please contact Ronnie Lipschutz, rlipsch@ucsc.edu (email preferred) or 831-459-3275/459-2543.
This conference is sponsored by College Eight, with funds from the Distinguished Visiting Professor fund, and the following: the Social Sciences Division, Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Latin American & Latino Studies, Environmental Studies, Art, History, Literature, Crown College, Merrill College, Cowell College, Stevenson College, Porter College, Oakes College, Kresge College Institute of the Arts & Sciences, Institute for Humanities Research, the Everett Program, the Chicano-Latino Research Center, the Science & Justice Research Center, an anonymous donor, the UCSC Natural Reserve Program, the Student Environmental Center and University Relations.

Joseph M. Pierce: "Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)"
2015-11-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 402
This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time, 2) actually shared, read, and commented on reading each other’s diaries, and 3) though under quite different circumstances, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface through which textual form influences understandings of self and other in the early years of the 20th century, arguing that it is, in this sense, a technology of self-making. This talk explores not simply what the diarist does, but what discourses, what possible modes of feeling and thinking are revealed through the process of writing and reading the diary. In particular the sister serves as critical nucleus for understanding relational subjectivity, sibling rivalry, and the queer potentials of lateral kinship. Examining both original manuscript notebooks and later published versions, I show how writing and reading the diary plays a crucial role in shaping each sister’s ideological positions regarding courtship, marriage, and sisterhood, and from this exploration I argue that the cultural anxiety over the division of public and private space, and in particular women’s labor, led each sister to stake a claim of individuality that emerges through the process of imagining herself as different, but potentially the same as, her sister.

Joseph M. Pierce is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on discourses of kinship, gender, and sexuality in Latin America and on the intersection of Latin American and North American approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is currently drafting a book manuscript entitled Queer Kinship in the Argentine fin de siglo: La familia Bunge, and is co-editor with Fernando Blanco and Mario Pecheny of Derechos Sexuales en el Sur: Políticas del amor y escrituras disidentes (Forthcoming, Cuarto Propio).

Light refreshments will be served.

Friday Forum: Samuael Topiary "The Anti-Representational Mode"
2015-11-06 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Samuael Topiary (Film & Digital Media) presenting his talk “The Anti-Representational Mode”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

PhD+: Internship Info Session
2015-11-06 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In the next couple of months, the IHR will be launching a new public fellowship/internship program for our graduate students, allowing them to work in organizations and companies in the area during the summer, while getting fellowship support from the IHR.
If you are interested in learning about this program, please join us for the next workshop in our PhD+ series on November 6th at 11 am. As always, lunch will be provided! Please RSVP using the form below.

PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the launch of PhD+, our new series! We will meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs, online identity issues, internship possibilities, work/life balance, elements of style, grants/fellowships and much more. Please RSVP below for each workshop you would like to attend.
October 9, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel
November 6, 2015: Internship Info Session
December 4, 2015: Coding for Humanists
January 8, 2016: Research Tools and Methods
February 5, 2016: Online Identity
March 4, 2016: Work-Life Balance
April 8, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities
May 13, 2016: Research and Grants
June 3, 2016: End of Year Luncheon
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Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
2015-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Civic Plaza Community Room
This community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project – Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project’s website and feature workers, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage theft. Community organizations will also be on hand to discuss new, monthly wage and hour clinics that can help those who have experienced wage theft to act. The event will conclude with a community dialog about workplace conditions and violations and what you can do.

Co-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, California Rural Legal Assistance, Chicano Latino Research Center, UC Humanities Research Institute, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center, and the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County.
For more information, contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu or the California Rural Legal Assistance: (831) 724-2253.
Free and Open to the Public
Translation available
Refreshments provided

Imogen Dickie "Proper Names: Transition to the End Game"
2015-11-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Abstract:
I shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms, descriptivisms, and crosses between; and identify two questions around which the next phase in discussions of reference-fixing for proper names should be structured.
About:
Imogen Dickie is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Research Interests: Philosophy of language and mind: theory of reference, metasemantics, acquaintance, perception, communication, singular thought. Some topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.
academia.edu: Imogen Dickie academic page
http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/dickie.html

Jasmine Syedullah: "‘Not Contraband, but Soldier': Against the Domestic Violence of National Security"
2015-11-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women.
Syedullah is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department 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.
Fall 2015 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series

November 18, 2015
Catherine Sue Ramírez
“’Our Porto Ricans’: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923″

Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
2015-11-04 09:30 - 10:40 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer.” Professor Lang’s many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press, 1990), The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (University Press of New England, 2009). His recently published biography, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Yale University Press, 2013), is a groundbreaking study of the convergence of the roles of scientist, humanist, witness, and moral philosopher in Levi’s writing.

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
2015-11-03 18:30 - 20:00 | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Giacomo Bernardi “Finding general patterns in the natural world: underwater cuckoos”
Emily Brodsky “Stress in Faults”
Robin Hunicke “The Art of Play”
A. Laurie Palmer “If I were you, I’d call me us”
Bios:
Giacomo Bernardi is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. His laboratory research focuses on the ecology of coral reefs and understanding speciation mechanisms in marine organisms.​ Bernardi did his undergrad and grad school at the University of Paris where he earned a PhD in Molecular Biology. He did a Post Doc at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, Tunisia and a Post Doc at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station before being hired at UCSC.
Emily Brodsky is a professor and earthquake physicist at the UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on identifying the processes that trigger earthquakes and constraining the forces and processes that occur inside a fault zone during slip. Prof. Brodsky earned her A.B. from Harvard in 1995, Ph.D. from Caltech in 2001 and was a 2001 Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and presented over 75 invited lectures or keynote talks. Her work was been featured in major press outlets such as the BBC, NPR, Time Magazine, NY Times, Nature, Reuters, LA Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Robin Hunicke is the Director of the new Art, Games & Playable Media BA program at UC Santa Cruz. A game designer and producer by training, she has a background in computer science, fine art and applied game studies. She has been designing, making and teaching about games for over 12 years (Journey, Boom Blox,MySims, TheSims2). Robin is also the Co-Founder of the independent game studio Funomena, where she is currently working on a puzzling fable called Luna and a joyful and musical physics playground called Wattam. Recognized as an influential Woman in Games, Robin is also an outspoken evangelist for diversity of thought and participation in game design and game culture. In this talk, she will talk about how game developers can create novel, experimental games by designing for feeling.
A. Laurie Palmer is an artist, writer, and teacher. Her work includes sculpture, installation, writing, and public art. She is concerned with material explorations of matter’s active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds, and she collaborates on strategic actions that work for social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (Black Dog, London, 2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground, and how these materials move between the earth and our bodies. Palmer collaborated with the artist group Haha for 20 years on site- and community-based projects. She currently collaborates with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM) and the Prison Neighborhood Arts Program (PNAP), both based in Chicago. She has shown her work, both independently and with Haha, at national and international venues.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center.

Fall Job and Internship Fair
2015-11-03 12:00 - 15:00 | College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room, College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Fall Job and Internship Fair is an excellent opportunity for you to meet with hundreds of students seeking employment opportunities. Meet with students from a variety of majors to have dialogue and collect resumes. This event can provide your organization with talent for entry-level positions, internships, and summer jobs. Many of our students have had work experience through summer employment, internships, and jobs during the academic year. UC Santa Cruz students offer specific job skills, knowledge developed in a rigorous academic major, and the breadth of a well-rounded liberal arts education.

e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies "The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy"
2015-11-03, 2015-11-02 | Stevenson Event Center
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UCSC to host an International e-Learning Conference, November 2-3 2015
This year, UC Santa Cruz will play host to the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies from November 2-3, 2015. The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging artists and scholars who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines. More than 20 countries are expected to be represented at the conference. I encourage our faculty and graduate students to submit proposals to present papers at this conference.
The e-Learning Conference will investigate the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities that are now pervasively part of our everyday lives. Additionally it explores the possibilities of new forms of technology-mediated learning devices not only in the classroom, but also in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education.
The conference welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives and encourages faculty and students to jointly submit proposals discussing e-Learning through one of the following themes:
• Theme 1: Pedagogies
• Theme 2: Institutions
• Theme 3: Technologies
• Theme 4: Social Transformations
• 2015 Special Focus: The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy
Plenary speakers will include: Satya V. Nitta, Program Leader of the Cognitive Learning Content research group at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center; Kevin Franklin, Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois; and Jim C. Spohrer, Director of the IBM Global University Programs.
For more information, including registration pricing, please visit the conference website at: http://ubi-learn.com/.
This conference is co-sponsored by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Academic Affairs. UCSC faculty and staff are welcome to contact Michael Tassio (mtassio@ucsc.edu) for more information.

Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
2015-10-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian

English, Italian, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes [where Bianca goes]). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which the wh-word has been modified by an affix (e.g., Elena goes [wher-everBianca goes]). The semantic behavior of these free relatives, though, is not the same across the three languages, despite their morpho-syntactic identity.
The semantic properties of –ever free relatives in English have received significant attention and insightful proposals have been made (cf. Jacobson 1995, Dayal 1997, von Fintel 2000, Heller and Wolter 2011, Condoravdi 2015, a.o.). In this talk, we present the first semantic investigation of the morpho-syntactic equivalent of -everfree relatives in Italian and Romanian, which we call Free Choice Free Relatives (FC-FRs). We show that semantic properties of FC-FRs differ from -ever free relatives, while closely resembling headed relative clauses introduced by the free choice determiner any in English. Interestingly, neither Italian nor Romanian has a free choice item with the same morpho-syntactic shape (i.e., non-wh determiner) and the same semantic properties as any in English. We sketch a preliminary compositional analysis of FC-FRs that aims to capture these facts, based on recent proposal for any and other free choice items by Chierchia (2013) and Dayal (2013).
We conclude by touching on the open issue of the difference in meaning between -ever free relatives in English and free choice any and the broader issue of how languages may differ in the way the available free choice items and constructions are mapped onto free choice meanings.

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

Friday Forum: Trey Highton "Surfing the Third Wave: Women's Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram"
2015-10-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research.
This meeting will feature Trey Highton (Literature) presenting his talk “Surfing the Third Wave: Women’s Professional Surfing & the Ethics of Instagram”.
For more info, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
2015-10-29 18:00 - 19:45 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Ronaldo V. Wilson
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Ph.D. is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009) winner of the 2010 Asian American Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose Other (Counterpath Press, 2015); and the forthcoming Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2015). He has held numerous fellowships including the National Research Council Ford Foundation, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Djerassi, and served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature, and Core Faculty of the PhD Creative/Critical Concentration in the Literature Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Fall 2015 Living Writers Series:
Creative Work & Critical Play
Thursdays, 6:00-7:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Creative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation, they mine issues of race, sexuality, gender, and class through several genres and media, to include poetry, fiction, critical prose, performance, sonic and visual art, memoir, as well as hybrid forms.
October 8: CA Conrad: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
October 15: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
October 22: John Keene: Rutgers University, Newark
October 29: Ronaldo V. Wilson: University of California, Santa Cruz
November 5: Student Reading
November 12: Al Young: California Poet Laureate, Emeritus
November 19: Juliana Spahr: Mills College & Jasper Bernes: University of California, Berkeley
December 3: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California

Rita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
2015-10-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Rita Lucarelli
Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
“Ghosts and the Restless Dead
in Ancient Egypt”
Center for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz

The beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the dead in magical and religious texts.
This paper will present and discuss the various evidence, which may indicate ghosts, revenants and evil dead in the spells and objects used in everyday magic as well as in mortuary compositions such as the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
-Rita Lucarelli
Rita Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Italy, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2005). Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2006 as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC.
from 2005 to 2010, Lucarelli held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Verona, Italy. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a Research Scholar on the Book of the Dead Project at the University of Bonn, Germany.
She was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies of Columbia University (2009) and at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of NYU (2012).
Until June 2014 she worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, and she held a part-time position as a Lecturer of Egyptology at the University of Bari in Italy.
Rita Lucarelli is currently writing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt and she is one of the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: http://www.demonthings.com.

Kimberly Robertson: "Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism"
2015-10-29 16:00 - 17:45 | B206 Earth & Marine Sciences
Dr. Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and an activist, teacher, scholar, and mother. She earned an MA in American Indian Studies and a PhD in Women’s Studies from UCLA. Dr. Robertson is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Northridge in Gender & Women’s Studies and American Indian Studies. Her academic and political interests include the relationships between violence against Native women, the construction of identity, urbanity, sovereignty, and indigenous feminisms.
The presentation will take place during the Feminism & Social Justice (FMST 20) class.
Open seating, please arrive early.
For more information and disability accommodations, please call: (831) 459-2427.
