Living Writers: Myriam Gurba
2019-01-25 14:40 - 15:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean, and two short story collections, Dahlia Season and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. Dahlia Season won the Edmund White Award, which is given to queer writers for outstanding debut fiction. The book was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Gurba is also the author of two poetry collections, Wish You Were Me and Sweatsuits of the Damned. She has toured North America twice with avant-garde literary and performance troupe Sister Spit. Gurba’s other writing can be found in places such as Entropy.com, TIME.com, and Lesfigues.com. She creates digital and photographic art that has been exhibited at galleries and museums. She works as a high school teacher.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maitra Memorial Lecture / Foundation Medal with Janet Yellen
2019-02-02 18:30 - 22:00 | CA
Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential women leaders as we champion diversity in all areas of human endeavor.

When Janet Yellen took office in 2014, she became the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. Previously, she served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve, CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors under President Bill Clinton, and professor at the Haas School of Business atUC Berkeley.
She is noted for her patient, measured, and accessible explanations of monetary policy while being a thoughtful leader of the Federal Reserve. In her public appearances, she has addresses topics broader than monetary policy, including labor markets, unemployment, and poverty. She was considered by some to be the most powerful woman in America.
Presented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture.
Program will be followed by a dessert reception
The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal recognizes individuals of exceptionally distinguished achievement whose work and contribution to society exemplify the vision and ideals of UC Santa Cruz.
Presented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture Series
The Maitra Lecture Series was established by UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra in memory of her husband, Sidhartha—a scientist, entrepreneur, and admirer of humanist, rationalist, modernist thinkers. The lecture is a signature campus gathering, and integral to the intellectual life of the campus.

An Evening with Madeleine Albright
2019-02-05 19:00 | CA
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright, the United States’ first female Secretary of State, who will speak about her book, Fascism: A Warning, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. This ticketed event will take place at theKaiser Permanente Arena and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and Temple Beth El.
Of all the unanswered questions of our time, declared George Orwell in 1944, perhaps the most important is, What is fascism? Madeleine Albright has an answer: not as an explanation of the past, but as a warning for the present. As she shows with insight, humor, and personal storytelling, fascism not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II.
Written by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.
Madeleine Albright served as America’s sixty-fourth Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career also includes positions at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Madam Secretary, The Mighty and the Almighty, Memo to the President, and Read My Pins.
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Tickets are $23.00 and include 1 general admission ticket to the event and 1 pre-signed paperback copy of Fascism: A Warning. (The book is $17.99 and publishes on January 29.) All books will be distributed at the venue.
Please note that Madeleine Albright will not be doing a signing at the event.

Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
2019-02-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so, I unearth the normative relationship between candor, courage, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First, I recount Wells’s argument that “yellow” and impartial journalism are, in different ways, responsible for the precipitous rise in the lynching of African Americans at the turn of the century. Yellow journalism uses sensationalism to fuel whites’ fear and anxiety and, at times, goes so far as to coordinate lynchings. The more fact-driven and impartial journalism of the New York Times does no such thing. But it substitutes cold facts for moral courage and thus shirks an important social responsibility. Second, and drawing on work by Michel Foucault, I contend that her willingness to risk death to expose the true causes of lynching to help others see their way toward justice and away from injustice exemplifies fearless speech, or what the ancients called parrhesia. Third, I question whether intrepid speech can be a moral obligation for journalists and leaders living under extreme persecution.

Desmond Jagmohan is an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University. He researches and teaches history of political theory, and he works primarily in the areas of American and African American political thought. He also has interests in slavery and modern political thought and historical methods. At the moment, he is completing his first book, which is titled Dark Virtues: Booker T. Washington’s Tragic Realism. Based on several years of archival research, the book recovers an unseen Booker T. Washington. It reconstructs his political ethics, including his moral defense of equivocation, concealment, and deception as political virtues under conditions of extremity. His second project takes up Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative to look at the broader philosophical relationship between property, personhood, and moral agency in the context of nineteenth-century American slavery. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and Contemporary Political Theory.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.

All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Steven Church
2019-02-07 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood, and he edited the essay anthology, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He’s a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as well as the Series Editor for The Normal School Nonfiction Series from Outpost19. He’s the Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
2019-02-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
On the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox, and a film screening.
Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What happened after the novels ended and the romantic triumph of successfully surviving a 900-page plot began to fade? This talk will trace the pitfalls of getting married in Victorian Britain—the financial threats to women, the uneven standards for husbands and wives, the legal ways marriage compromised individual identity—and will look at how a few famously salacious marital scandals (including Dickens’s own!) succeeded in transforming both law and literature in the 19th century.
The Invisible Woman (2013) is a biopic about eighteen-year-old actress Ellen Ternan and her love affair with Charles Dickens.
Renée Fox is Co-Director of The Dickens Project and an assistant professor in the Literature department at UC Santa Cruz, where she teaches classes on Victorian literature and culture, Irish literature, gothic fiction, and Harry Potter. She is currently writing a book about reanimated bodies in 19th-century British and Irish literature—like mummies, vampires, and talking corpses—and is co-editing a Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies.

Elizabeth Allen: "Sanctuary and Medieval Kings"
2019-02-08 14:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Sanctuary and Medieval Kings” – Elizabeth Allen
American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages, felons could avoid death by running to the church, and kings bolstered their sacral power by protecting them. At the same time, those who seek sanctuary exerted an influence upon their kings “from below,” calling upon them to live up to the role of merciful monarch. Examining medieval chronicles of a fallen justiciar and an infamous breach of sanctuary, this talk will offer a provocation to contemporary ideas about both kingship itself and sanctuary as a ‘weak’ form of social protest.
“A Constellation of Moments: Walter Benjamin on the Middle Ages, Sanctuary, and the Current Emergency” – James R Martel
Also featuring:
Stephen David Engel
Veronika Zablotsky
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Co-Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department

John Dizikes Memorial
2019-02-09 14:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Event Center
John Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26, 2018. He was 86.
Dizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors to students in 1965. He was drawn to the school’s commitment to undergraduates and its determination to be a different kind of modern research university—one organized around a system of smaller residential colleges that nurtured the student experience.
Over the course of 35 years, Dizikes was a professor of history, a professor and co-founder of the American Studies Department, provost of Cowell College from 1979-1983, and chair of the Council of Provosts.
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MLK Convocation: Melissa Harris-Perry
2019-02-11 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.

Speaker: Melissa Harris-Perry
Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. There she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and co-director of Wake the Vote.
Harris-Perry is editor-at-large of Elle.com and a contributing editor at The Nation. From 2012-2016 she hosted the television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” on weekend mornings on MSNBC and was awarded the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism. She continues to create and direct programs with the goal of creating diverse, quality American media.
She is an award-winning author and sought after public speaker, lecturing widely throughout the United States and abroad.Together with her husband, James Perry, she is a principal of Perry Partnership, oﬀering both political and private consulting.
Harris-Perry received her B.A. degree in English from Wake Forest University and her Ph.D. degree in political science from Duke University. She also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Harris-Perry previously served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Tulane University. Professor Harris-Perry has been awarded honorary degrees from many universities including Meadville Lombard Theological School, Winston-Salem State University, Eckerd College, and New York University.
She and her family live in North Carolina.

This event is hosted/sponsored by: ACLU Santa Cruz Chapter, UCSC Chancellor’s Office, Inner Light Ministries, NAACP, and the City of Santa Cruz

Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
2019-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Kresge Town Hall
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12.
Please join us then.
The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics, and in the service of something – a position, a profit motive, a means to an end.
In this talk, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book, Algorithms of Oppression, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search, as well as the implications for public information needs.

This talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series, The Science & Justice Research Center, The Humanities Institute, and the Department of Sociology.
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Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow.
She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press).
Safiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias, including The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, USA Today, Wired, Time, and The New York Times, to name a few.
Dr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online and Emotions, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.

Laurie Palmer: “Public Sun”
2019-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Public Sun”
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A. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture, public projects, and writing, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground, and how these materials, once liberated, move between the earth and our bodies. She is currently researching the shapes and structures of underground oil shale formations and continuing to develop work on The Lichen Museum, a massively distributed, inside-out institution that considers this slow, resistant, adaptive and collective organism as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor.

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

All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Book Talk: Marlon James - Black Leopard, Red Wolf
2019-02-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
We are thrilled to partner with Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome award-winning author Marlon James for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which is already being touted as a book that “will come to be seen as a classic of our times.” (NPR)
“A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.” —Neil Gaiman
The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings.
In the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
As Tracker follows the boy’s scent—from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers—he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.
This free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have ADA accommodation requests for this event, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 16th. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow’s Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the NAACP Image Award. A professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.
“Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep and crafty as Gene Wolfe, bloodier than Robert E. Howard, and all Marlon James. It’s something very new that feels old, in the best way. I cannot wait for the next installment.” —Neil Gaiman
“This book begins like a fever dream and merges into world upon world of deadly fairy tales rich with political magic. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a fabulous cascade of storytelling. Sink right in. I guarantee you will be swept downstream.” —Louise Erdrich
“James’ sensual, beautifully rendered prose and sweeping, precisely detailed narrative cast their own transfixing spell upon the reader. He not only brings a fresh multicultural perspective to a grand fantasy subgenre, but also broadens the genre’s psychological and metaphysical possibilities. If this first volume is any indication, James’ trilogy could become one of the most talked-about and influential adventure epics since George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire was transformed into Game of Thrones.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[A] tour de force.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal, and dizzingly complex.” —The New York Times
“Awe-inspiring.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Thrilling, ambitious…both intense and epic.” —Los Angeles Times”An astonishing portrait of the politics of everyday life…Just as he is sharply aware of the nuances of their voices, James has the confidence not to deny his characters their humanity by turning them into moral exemplars, nor paper over the infected wounds that score across the country by suggesting that the loveliness of some of its territory makes up for the savage effects of poverty.” —The Washington Post

Jerry Zee: "Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
2019-02-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
Jerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC’s Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China’s meteorological contemporary.
This talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework contemporary land and air into a substantial continuum. It tracks territorial governance as it shifts into experimental formations that draw into the choreographies of sand, wind, and dust that they seek to re-engineer.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.

All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Gabriel Guillén: "¿Revolución o Candy Crush? Una conversación sobre y sus afines"
2019-02-20 17:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
La presencia de 691 “startups” del aprendizaje de lenguas en Angelist.co, una plataforma de inversión, debería alegrarnos como estudiantes de lenguas. Su lenguaje es, sin duda, prometedor. Sin embargo, no es oro todo lo que reluce. En esta charla exploraremos la relación entre los eslóganes de estas empresas, sus posibilidades reales y la teoría de la adquisición de lenguas. Del mismo modo, reflexionaremos sobre los retos y las posibilidades del emprendimiento social en el campo del aprendizaje de lenguas.
Gabriel Guillén is Assistant Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). In addition to his research on language learning and technology, he worked as a web developer and a reporter with more than 300 published articles in Spanish. At MIIS he teaches content-based Spanish courses focusing on social entrepreneurship and the use of media in the Hispanic world.
Light refreshments will be served.

James Loeffler, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy"
2019-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Presented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies
2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between the Holocaust, the legal framework of Human Rights, and the struggle to find justice on the global scale.

In this talk, James Loeffler draws on his new book, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, to revisit the 1948 moment in which modern human rights was born. This talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for minorities and stateless peoples by focusing on Jewish human rights pioneers who saw the Jewish state as an expression of global democracy. Join THI to ask where Human Rights come from, how Jews are part of the story, and if Zionism is in conflict with the modern Human Rights movement?

RSVP appreciated, seating is first come, first served. Reception to follow.

If you have disability-related needs, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 16th.
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James Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. At UVa he teaches courses in Jewish and European history, Russian and East European history, international legal history, and the history of human rights.
His publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press, 2010), and the forthcoming edited volume, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press).
This event is part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative, a project of Expanding Humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
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 on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
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Public Fellowship Info Session
2019-02-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re interested in exploring career opportunities beyond the academy or applying your expertise in the public sphere, the Public Fellowship program might be right for you.
Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program to learn more and hear from past Public Fellows. We will discuss the Summer and Year Long opportunities and describe some new partner organizations.
These fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.

Coffee and cookies will be served.

Breanne Fahs: "Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism"
2019-02-21 11:30 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore.
This colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance, particularly around the subjects of feminist rage, sex and love, tactics of feminist resistance, and intergenerational knowledge- making.
Lunch will be provided

All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front
2019-02-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Kresge Town Hall
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present:
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front
Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman
An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 5-7 p.m.
Kresge Townhall
See also: Breakfast seminar – February 22 with pre-circulated materials
Generously sponsored by CRES, the Dean of Students, AA/PIRC, Education, The Humanities Institute, the Center for Labor Studies, Stevenson College, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion.

Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich
2019-02-21 17:20 - 19:00 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
UCSC Living Writers, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s book, “The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner.
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, and The Guardian, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It has been published in the US, the UK, and the Netherlands; translations are forthcoming in Turkey, Korea, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, Brazil, and France. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.

Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People!
2019-02-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present:
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front
Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman
Breakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials *
Friday, February 22, 2019, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Humanities 202
* For access to materials, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu)
See also: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel – Thursday, February 21, 2019, 5-7 p.m. – Kresge Town Hall
Generously sponsored by CRES, the Dean of Students, AA/PIRC, Education, The Humanities Institute, the Center for Labor Studies, Stevenson College, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion.

PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop: Publishing Scholarly Articles with Gordon Hutner
2019-02-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Gordon Hutner is the editor of American Literary History, the scholarly he quarterly he founded 30 years ago. He is also the author or editor of numerous books and articles about American literature. These subject include the novel in the US, Jewish American writing, immigrant autobiographies, cultural iconography, and the future of the liberal arts in public higher education, among other diverse topics. Professor Hutner began his career at Kenyon College and the University of Virginia and has taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Illinois, where he is currently the Director of the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures. He has also taught at universities in Belgium, Italy, and Japan. Hutner is also the current president of Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Publishing Scholarly Articles is a workshop in the practice of writing for peer-reviewed academic journals. We cover what to send, how to prepare for print, where to send, and when you should be circulating your work. The discussion will entail how to choose venues for your essays, how to understand readers’ reports, and how to understand editors’ purposes as well as offer some instruction in how to think about converting seminar essays, panel papers, and dissertation chapters into publishable articles. All welcome.

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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
2019-02-22 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Between Two Africas: “Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination”
This paper explores the region and anthropologized people, of Nubia, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa “proper.” By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic concerns with representing Nubian people, Alirio Karina explores how the disavowal of the ethnographic (in all of its racial and cultural senses in Sudan and Egypt is an attempt to narrate of capitalist modernity in terms of ancient lineages, and against any sense of relation to the rest African continent, Karina argues that, in resurfacing the ethnographic, we may find a resistant frame through which to think Africanity north of the Sahara.
Alirio Karina is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department, with designated emphasis in the Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Alirio’s dissertation examines ethnographic photographs, objects and text representing British Africa, exploring how these materials produce ideas of race, culture and continent that have shaped and may yet transform African political possibility.
Friday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments HAVC, Literature, History of Consciousness, Psychology, and Education.

Translating America/America Translated Symposium
2019-02-22 13:00 - 18:00, 2019-02-23 08:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America Translated” symposium aims to re-situate scholarly and public narratives of American culture by way of multiple languages and various origin-points in space and time. It aims to move forward an important national conversation on the future of the field in its multilingual and multi-geographic dimensions and seeks to build a cohort of early-career comparative Americanist scholars.
Project Directors:
Susan Gillman, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Kirsten Gruesz, Literature, UC Santa Cruz

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Translating America/America Translated: A UC Faculty-Graduate Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210
February 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
February 23, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Keynote speakers include six prominent scholars of hemispheric American studies:
Ifeoma Nwankwo (Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost, Vanderbilt University)
Jesse Alemán (Professor of English and American Studies, Univ. of New Mexico)
Anna Brickhouse (Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Univ. of Virginia)
Michelle Burnham (Professor of English, Santa Clara University)
Sara Johnson (Associate Professor of Literature of the Americas, UC San Diego)
Rodrigo Lazo (Professor of English and Spanish and Director, Humanities Core Program, UC Irvine)
Program:
Friday, February 22:
11 am-12:30pm PhD+ Writing Workshop on journal publication with Gordon Hutner, editor of American Literary History (lunch provided)
1:00-2:30pm
Welcome: Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Keynote 1: Ifeoma Nwankwo (Vanderbilt University) “Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy”
2:30 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1, Room 202)
2:45-4:15 pm Graduate Panel #1 – Personal Narratives: Translations, Republications, Reprintings

Timothy Fosbury (UCLA English), “Crèvecouer’s Bermudian Crisis”
Brian Flores (UCI English), “‘Y nosotros vivimos aquí en la frontera’: Modes of Framing Latina/o Identity in the Autobiographies of José Policarpo Rodriguez and Santiago Tafolla”
Emily Travis (UCSC Literature),“A vida simple: The Complex Afterlives of Alice Dayrell Brant’s Minha vida de menina”
RESPONDENT: Amanda Smith (UCSC Literature)

4:30-6:00 pm Keynote 2: Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) “Earthquake History in the Americas”
6:00-8:00 pm Opening reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House
Saturday, February 23:
8:30 am Coffee and muffins (Humanities 1, Room 202)
9:00-10:30am Graduate Panel #2 – Coloniality, Indigeneity, Power

Jenny Forsythe (UCLA Comparative Literature), “Ladrones, vagabundos, holgazones sin honra ni vergüenza: Inca Garcilaso’s Imperialist Translators Meet the Man in the Canoe”
Carlos Macías Prieto (UCB Spanish and Portuguese), “Domingo Chimalpahin’s Rewriting of Antonio de Morga’s Narrative of Black Conspiracy in 1612”
Amrah Salomón (UCSD Ethnic Studies), “Regeneración and Regeneration: Anti- Colonial Theory Across Borders”
RESPONDENT: Rodrigo Lazo (UCI English)

10:45 am-12:15 pm Keynote 3: Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) “When Cubans Go South: Learning the Language of Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Nationalism”
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm Graduate Panel #3 – Nineteenth-Century Recoveries: Translating Texts and Places

Margaret McMurtrey (UCSB Religious Studies), “Singing Grace, Embodying Language and Place”
Gabriela Valenzuela (UCLA English), “Literary Wanderings: Nineteenth-Century Central American-U.S. Contact Zones and Spatial Imaginings”
Brandon Wild (UCI English), “Cincinnati: ‘El asombro de todos los que viajan la América del Norte’”
RESPONDENT: Sara Johnson (UCSD Literature)

3:00 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1, Room 202)
3:15-4:45 pm Keynote 4: Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara U) “Archival Diving in the Global Pacific: Towards a New American Literary History”
4:45-5:30pm Closing roundtable, moderated by Susan Gillman & Kirsten Silva Gruesz
6:00-8:00 pm Closing reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House
About Translating America/America Translated:
This symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages for American literary studies returns to historical moments that allow a reconsideration of language crossings as geographic alternatives to nation-bound paradigms. A 1998 conference on American empire at UC Santa Cruz produced groundbreaking work that has since become foundational, shifting the study of American cultures irrevocably away from an Atlantic-centered narrative of national development, and correspondingly toward languages other than English. Now, twenty years later, we revisit a once radically revisionist geo-timeline, dating to the 1998 centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War and recasting the history of US empire back from Cuba 1898 to an earlier time and place in the border treaty with Mexico in 1848. Critically examining the state of the discipline today, this symposium looks back still earlier: to the later eighteenth-century suturing of colonial to national studies that has proven exceptionally fruitful for scholars working across indigenous and multiple European colonial languages. Just as California’s demographic diversity prefigures that of the future United States at large, the University of California is rich in the human resources needed to re-invent a usable past for American cultural and literary studies. For more information visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/projects/translating-america-america-translated
Sponsors:
“Translating America/American Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego.
“Translating America/America Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego.
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VISITING GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER UC CAMPUSES
Chip Badley (UCSB English)
Anastasia Baginski (UCI Comparative Literature)
Yui Kasane (UCSD Literature)
Amanda Kong (UCD English)
Efren López (UCLA English)
Lorena Vega Tamayo (UC Riverside Hispanic Studies)

Lise Getoor: "Responsible Data Science"
2019-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Music Center Recital Hall
The 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Professor Lise Getoor on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex.
“Responsible Data Science”
Data science is an emerging discipline that offers both promise and peril. Responsible data science refers to efforts that address both the technical and societal issues in emerging data-driven technologies. Prof. Getoor is a computer scientist who is well known for her theoretical work that integrates logic and probability to reason collectively and holistically about context in structured domains. In this lecture, she will describe some of the opportunities and challenges in developing the foundations for responsible data science. How can machine learning and AI systems reason effectively about complex dependencies and uncertainty? Furthermore, how do we understand the ethical and justice issues involved in data-driven decision-making? There is a pressing need to integrate algorithmic and statistical principles, social science theories, and basic humanist concepts so that we can think critically and constructively about the socio-technical systems we are building. In this talk, she will lay the groundwork for this important agenda.

Giving Day 2019
2019-02-27 | CA
UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour giving drive to support students, staff, and faculty initiatives. Join us in the circle of Giving on February 27th 2019 from 12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. #give2UCSC
FIND A HUMANITIES PROJECT TO SUPPORT ON GIVING DAY:
Center for Public Philosophy
The Okinawa Memories Initiative
The Center for Cultural Studies Graduate Student Workshops in Race, Migration, and Sexuality
Center for World History Grad Conference
Nido de Lenguas (Language Nest)
Classics Alive!
History of Consciousness Graduate Student Research Fund

Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It”
2019-02-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Professor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film “Last Day of Freedom.” When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother, a Veteran returning from war, as he faces criminal charges, racism, and ultimately the death penalty. This film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice. She will discuss Last Day of Freedom as well as her upcoming animated documentary Run With It on Troy Davis’ story. A black man accused of killing a white police officer in Savannah Georgia, USA.
Dee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award® nominated, Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker; a Guggenheim Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Working in collaboration with Nomi Talisman, she produces animated documentary films that explore the crisis in the criminal justice system and the US racial divide, challenging entrenched attitudes, immersing viewers in a complex world of feelings and experiences, engendering empathy and critical reflection. In 2015 they received the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are potential catalysts for education and change. Hibbert-Jones was recently awarded a United States Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award in recognition for her “outstanding national commitment to civil rights, and social justice” and a Gideon award for “support to indigent minorities” for her film work.She a Professor of Art, Film, and Digital Art New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute

International Women's Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
2019-02-28 13:30 - 17:00 | Cultural Center at Merrill, Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2017). The second speaker is Dr. Barbara Sutton of the University of Albany, SUNY who will speak about her book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press, 2018). Together, these books explore the critical themes of resistance, survival, intersectionality, and trauma/hardships in the Americas.
Schedule:
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ~ Dr. Ranita Ray, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. ~ Break with light snacks
3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. ~ Dr. Barbara Sutton, University at Albany, SUNY
About the Speakers:
Ranita Ray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms, children and youth, urban inequalities, and education and policing. Her book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2018), challenges common wisdom that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray has published several other articles and book chapters related to children/youth, urban inequalities, race, class and gender, and co-authored a book titled As The Leaves Turn Gold: Aging Experiences of Asian Americans (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012). Ray is currently preparing a book manuscript that draws on rigorous fieldwork to explore how the relationship between policing, race, class, and gender shapes schooling experiences and educational trajectories of children growing up in marginalized communities in Las Vegas. Ray is actively involved in community-oriented research projects, and co-founder of Heating Youth Voices—a Connecticut based youth led organization.
Barbara Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the same institution. She earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (her country of origin) as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon. Professor Sutton’s scholarly interests include body politics, global gender issues, state violence and human rights, collective memory, and women’s movements, particularly in Latin American contexts. Her book, Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2010) received the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association. Her new book, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina, was published by NYU Press in the Spring of 2018.

Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
2019-02-28 17:20 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita.
Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Living Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita, Seshu Foster, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni.
This event is sponsored by The Literature Department, The Creative Writing Program, The Humanities Division, Porter College, Kresge College, Cowell College, Oakes College, Feminist Studies, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
2019-03-01 00:00 - 13:45 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices”
According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor’s chariot. Once they have completed their labor, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes the focus of this dissertation, which will engage with the ways in which Western societies and culture negotiate animal depth and engage with the materiality of the animal body. This dissertation explores this relationship by focusing on the representation and cultural digestion of the animal body, specifically on the instances in which animal bodies are, like in the Norse myth, “brought back to life,” in order to serve human needs. Once dead, their bodies are rearranged-as in the case of taxidermy -so that’s Ann illusion of life can be represented to serve human needs-of knowledge and education, wonder and discovery, entertainment, and amusement. Consequently, this research focuses on how the animal body is used to mediate its own loss, in what seems to be a system created for human pleasure.
Alessia Cecchet is an experimental filmmaker and PhD candidate whose work is invested in the representation of non-human animals.
Friday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments HAVC, Literature, History of Consciousness, Psychology, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities.

Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i: The Detours Project
2019-03-01 12:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i – The Detours Project
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Friday, March 1 – HUM 1 room 210
12:00 to 2:00 pm
Lunch will be provided
Publishing Workshop: After the Colloquium, Prof. Gonzales, who is an Associate Editor
of the American Quarterly journal, will conduct a Publishing Workshop.
2:30 to 4:00 pm – HUM 1 room 210
The Detours project explores the fantasy of Hawai’i as an exotic destination for consumption by tourists, perverting the genre of the guidebook to produce alternative narratives, tours, mappings and images
of the islands, and concrete examples of moving from metaphors of decolonization
to material practices and everyday acts of resistance.
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawaii’i and the Philippines, she also is co-editor with Hokulani Aikau, of Detours: A Decolonial Guide (under contract with Duke University Press).

Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition
2019-03-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Numerous political and intellectual traditions have sought to leverage the language of self-ownership as a tool of radical critique, including Marxism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory. But do we ‘own’ ourselves in any meaningful or politically productive sense? This lecture considers the dilemmas involved in this question with particular reference to the Black Radical Tradition, situating it within the broader framework of ‘dispossession’.
Robert Nichols is a McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). His areas of research specialization include contemporary political theory (especially Critical Theory, Marx and Marxism, Foucault); the history of political thought (especially pertaining to imperialism and colonialism in the 19th century); and the contemporary politics of settler colonialism and indigeneity in the Anglo-American world.

Camilla Hawthorne: "On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles"
2019-03-06 12:15 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework for understanding the historical and contemporary forms of racial criminalization and racialized citizenship in Italy. The emergent “Black Italian” movement in Italy has been increasingly confronted with the limits of national citizenship as a means for addressing racial inequality. In response, activists have begun to turn toward alternative political imaginaries and practices of community that extend far beyond the Italian nation-state. In this context, what can the Black Mediterranean open up in terms of new political praxes and transgressive alliance? Specifically, how might this framework help to bridge Black liberation politics in Italy with refugee rights mobilizations?
Camilla Hawthorne is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Inequality at UC Santa Cruz. Camilla received her PhD in Geography with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley in 2018. She also holds an MPA from Brown University. Camilla’s work addresses the politics of migration and citizenship, racism and inequality, and social movements. Her book project, tentatively titled Different Waters, Same Sea: Contesting Racialized Citizenship in the Black Mediterranean, explores the politics of race and citizenship in contemporary Italy. She is also co-editing a volume about Black Geographies with Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis of UC Berkeley. Camilla serves as faculty member and project manager of the Summer School on Black Europe in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Stevenson College Winter 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Phillip L. Hammack
2019-03-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Era of Radical Authenticity”
Professor Phillip L. Hammock will present on findings that challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity, community, and stigma.
The twenty-first century is a time of heightened recognition of diversity in gender, sexuality, and relationships—an era of “radical authenticity” in which individuals are increasingly able to align their internal sense of identity with its external presentation. Cultural attitudes and social policies in the United States and elsewhere have increasingly come to legitimize diversity in gender and sexual identity, with legal recognition of same-sex relationships and heightened visibility of the transgender experience. This presentation reports preliminary findings from a mixed-methods study of adolescents residing in distinct regions of California known for their historic support or hostility toward gender and sexual diversity. Mobilizing multiple sources of data (e.g., ethnographic, interview, survey), three larger stories are emerging that center on (a) the new vocabulary related to gender and sexual identity, revealed in adolescents’ appropriation of new identity labels that challenge binary conceptions; (b) the endurance of stigma in spite of social change and the resources associated with supportive community settings; and (c) the expansion of the meaning of community for contemporary adolescents, facilitated by social media. These findings challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity, community, and stigma.
Followed by a reception at the Stevenson Provost House
This year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture is cosponsored with The Humanities Institute, Oaks College, and the UCSC Psychology Department.

Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration, Art, and Social Justice - A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera
2019-03-06 18:30 - 21:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues of immigration, belonging, and home. Herrera and Rice will be joined in this community conversation by representatives of local groups working on social justice and immigration issues, including local filmmaker Brenda Avila-Hanna. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to contribute to a collaborative piece collecting community stories.
The evening’s conversation will be facilitated by UC Santa Cruz Literature professor Kirsten Silva Gruesz.
Borderbus is a new book project created by Rice in collaboration with Herrera. Herrera’s poem by the same name, which forms the foundation for Rice’s work, features a whispered conversation between two women held at the border between Mexico and the United States on an ICE bus. Rice, whose works build bridges between art forms, cultures, artists/audiences, and technologies, collaborates with visual artists, performing artists, and writers to create book structures in which word and image meet and merge.
Juan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2016) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.
Felicia Rice is a book artist, book arts educator, and sole proprietor of Moving Parts Press in Santa Cruz, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions and collections both nationally and internationally, from AIGA Annual Book Shows in New York and Frankfurt to the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Kirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Through her research and teaching she promotes comparative and multilingual approaches to “American” literature and history. She is the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing.

Sponsored by: UC Santa Cruz University Library, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Moving Parts Press, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and the following UC Santa Cruz partners: Research Center for the Americas, Oakes College, and the Department of Latin America & Latino Studies.

Email questions to:
UCSC Special Collections at speccoll@library.ucsc.edu

Anne Donlon, "Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons"
2019-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Learn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators, researching, drafting, sharing work in progress, getting informal and formal feedback, publishing on a Commons site, or sharing work published elsewhere in our open access repository.
This presentation will explore several options for engaging a broader audience of readers and collaborators.

Seating is limited. Registration is required. Register online now >

Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera
2019-03-07 17:20 - 19:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Born on the migrant roads of Central California, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement – San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec, Mayan cultural roots, as well as urban, and multi-cultural and spoken word, jazz styles on community performance stages. Also, he has been a founder of various poetry, jazz and afro-cuban percussion fusion ensembles, and street theatre groups. Schools, from UCLA, Stanford to Iowa have been key to his thoughts on culture, power and word. He delights in as many poetic traditions and experimental approaches as possible — children’s books, experimental art-word fusions, YA novels, and performance —with the instant society in mind, the audience-community. Awards have been many — NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, California Arts Council grants, the LA Times Robert Kirsch Award, the UCAL Chancellor;s Medal, the National Book Critic Circle Award, The Autry Spirit Award, the Latino International Award and the Pura Belpré Honor Award, among others. His most recent book, Imagine, a children’s book. “Every word is made of kindness,” he says.

Book Launch: Dana Frank, "The Long Honduran Night"
2019-03-07 19:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance, repression, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.
This powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, told in part through first-person experiences, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States.
Although it is full of terrible things, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them.
Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights, 2007); and, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted, with a new introduction, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, Politico Magazine, Foreign Affairs.com, Foreign Policy.com, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, The Baffler, and many other publications, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please email by March 5th.

PhD+ Workshop Series: Building Online Identities with Humanities Commons with Anne Donlon
2019-03-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Humanities Commons can help you develop your online presence, expand the reach of your scholarship—whatever form it may take—and connect with other scholars who share your interests. Humanities Commons is a not-for-profit, scholar-run network for people in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to collaborate and share work. You can create a profile, connect with colleagues in groups, publish a personal website or blog, and build a portfolio of work with the CORE repository. This session will introduce Humanities Commons and ways that you can use it to shape your professional online identity.

Following the workshop, local photographer, Crystal Birns will be on hand to take headshots for interested graduate students. Jumpstart your online identity by getting a new professional headshot.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
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Grad Slam
2019-03-08 17:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
UC Santa Cruz master’s and doctoral students are a force for innovation and new ideas that keep California in the forefront. Grad Slam is an annual contest to communicate research. It aims to make research accessible by providing emerging scientists and scholars with the skills to engage the public in their work. Participants are judged on how well they engage the audience, how clearly they communicate key concepts, and how effectively they focus and present their ideas—all in three minutes or less!
Vice Provost and Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies Lori Kletzer emcees the contest, and the judges panel includes community members in industry, media, government, and higher education … and YOU! Audience members vote for the people’s choice. Bring your internet-accessible mobile device to text message your vote!
Join us as our top graduate students present their mind-bending work to the community and cheer on our own Humanities Division, History of Consciousness graduate student, Natalia Koulinka, who is among the finalists.

Doors open at 5:00 p.m. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and is emceed by Lori Kletzer.
Light refreshments provided, wine and beer sales by Kuumbwa. Space is limited, please register

Linguistics at Santa Cruz 2019
2019-03-09 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Anne Norton; "Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering"
2019-03-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Anne Norton is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Norton is the author of seven books, including On the Muslim Question and 95 Theses on Politics, Culture and Method. She is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Theory and Event and on the executive board of the journal Political Theory. Her present work concerns problems of property and democracy.
Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering
1. The practice of democracy is being toward death.
2. Democracy requires courage.
3. Democrats take risks.
4. Bandits, pirates, outlaws and rogues are close to democracy.
5. Authoritarianism is the enemy of democracy, anarchy is its shadow.
6. Anarchy is not only to be feared, it is also a place that offers shade, a place to rest, a place to hide.
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38. Democracies depend on truth.
39. Truth prospers in democracies. Truth depends on the democratic.
40. We are not democrats yet.
41. Democracy is not an idyllic state, democracy is a struggle.
42. Each democracy is distinct.
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This is an event part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster
Next event: Monday, April 15th Bernard Harcourt

Prof and a Pint: "Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now"
2019-03-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Forager, San Jose, 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Political discourse in the United States is devolving. From social media to Washington D.C. closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, and agenda-driven reasoning are undermining the possibility for constructive dialogue. Where do these destructive tendencies come from? Are they the result of a person’s upbringing, or intelligence, or education? A matter of their character? Our research is beginning to provide answers to these questions, and these answers have profound, sometimes surprising, implications for the future of our country.
Please join us for a presentation and conversation to learn how the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz is fostering more thoughtful and engaged communities of thinkers, doers, and change-makers by using philosophy and cognitive science to teach us all—especially the next generations—how to think and talk to one another differently.
The Center for Public Philosophy is a research center within The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Please RSVP

Jon Ellis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and founding director of the Center for Public Philosophy. His current research is on motivated reasoning (cognitive dissonance, rationalization, self-deception, etc.) and, in particular, on the role it plays in especially intelligent, reflective, and sincere thinkers. He teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses at UC Santa Cruz, and has published on a broad range of topics including perception, language, color, skepticism, interpretation, and rationalization. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from UC Berkeley in 2002.
Juan Ruiz earned degrees in Philosophy and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2017, and is currently a master’s degree student in the Philosophy Department. He has been an active High School Ethics Bowl coach for under-served schools in Watsonville, San Jose, and Santa Cruz, CA. Ruiz co-authored the AB540 Student Emergency Fund, an addendum to CA AB540 Non-Resident Tuition Fee Waiver, which allocates $300,000 of unrestricted emergency funds for undocumented students on the UC Santa Cruz campus; and co-founded UCSC’s Minorities and Philosophy chapter. Ruiz received the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity as a result of furthering diversity, inclusion, and excellence at UC Santa Cruz.
Click here for more information about the UCSC “Prof and Pint” Lecture Series

Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
2019-03-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Kresge Town Hall
Please note: this event was rescheduled from February 12
The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics, and in the service of something – a position, a profit motive, a means to an end.
In this talk, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book, Algorithms of Oppression, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search, as well as the implications for public information needs.

This talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series, The Science & Justice Research Center, The Humanities Institute, and the Department of Sociology.
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Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow.
She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press).
Safiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias, including The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, USA Today, Wired, Time, and The New York Times, to name a few.
Dr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online and Emotions, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.

Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
2019-03-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Dai Jinhua’s lecture will address the place of post-colonial theory in the twenty-first century. This question is highly relevant to China, as it recalls the history of China’s involvement in the non-aligned movement, and subsequent efforts after the break with the Soviet Union to form third-world solidarities. But Dai calls into question whether the insights of postcolonialism are relevant for the transformations that have taken place in China in the last thirty years, as part of what she calls our current era of “the post-post-Cold War.” Historically the postcolonial binary of colonization/de-colonization blurred the coordinates of the Cold War, including most importantly China’s position as a “third” option within the non-aligned third world. Since the end of the Cold War, what can post-colonial theory tell us about the current dominance of finance capital and capital monopoly of new technologies that has reconstructed the entire third world to serve as production zones of cheap goods or fields of monoculture? To what extent is China implicated in these transformations? How can post-colonial theory address the enormous debt imposed on the global South by former colonial powers? Analysis of the cultural in post-colonial theory depended on the political-economic structure of the Cold War. How do we analyze the cultural in today’s world? And how can political critique and resistance become effective once again in China as well as around the world?
Dai Jinhua is an internationally well-known feminist Marxist critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literatureand Culture and director of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture, film studies, and gender studies.

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

Kevin McDonald, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants, Oceans, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment”
2019-03-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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At the end of the eighteenth century, a fantastic global plot was conjured up by a network of invested individuals that eventually reached the highest levels of the British state and the Admiralty. The plan: to transplant South Pacific breadfruit to the Caribbean Islands to feed the slaves of empire. Slaves grew sugar that fueled the proto-industrial workforce of England, and sugar produced rum, that powered the imperial navy. This research talk will explore the trans-oceanic exchanges not just of breadfruit, but of Atlantic and Pacific maritime cultures from ca. 1767-1798. Tracing the story of Babbo and the breadfruit allows us to intersect the surprisingly entangled histories of the South Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean, in a global history connected by plants, oceans, and empires; and the fusion of not two but three tropical farming systems (Africa, the West Indies, and the South Pacific).
Kevin McDonald is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who received his Ph.D. from UCSC in 2008. His first book, Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World examined the important role played by pirates in the informal trade networks that integrated economies throughout the Indian and Atlantic Ocean trading worlds. His new project focuses on the transfer of breadfruit from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean as a potential crop to feed the Caribbean’s massive plantations.

Book Talk: Carolyn Burke, Foursome
2019-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
THI joins Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book, Foursome, a captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz.
New York, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact, it was Salsbury, the least known of the four, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired, provoked, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures.
“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly
CAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC), and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney, Australia, she now lives in Santa Cruz, California.
This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th.

Matt Cook, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
2019-03-14 16:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context, at human scale, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Yet, relatively few curricular interventions have made full use of VR (or have published on the results of such integrations). This talk will use case studies and associated implementation strategies to explore and narrow this gap in the research literature, thereby empowering participants to begin thinking about their own VR-based course integrations.

Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
2019-03-15 00:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions
How do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot’s behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included to create the best possible robots for children.
Elizabeth Goldman is a fourth year doctoral student in the developmental psychology. She works in the Infant and Child Development Lab. Her current line of research focuses on how children interact with robots. Many robots are being designed and marketed towards children. This research focuses on answering questions about how these robots impact children developmentally/
Friday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments HAVC, Literature, History of Consciousness, Psychology, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities.

Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen
2019-03-15 16:00 | Kresge Town Hall
Helene Moglen (March 22, 1936 – October 18, 2018)
Please join us in the celebration of Helene’s life as friend, colleague, teacher, community activist, mother, grandmother, spouse, former Provost of Kresge College, and former Dean of Humanities and Art.
The celebration will include invited speakers, and an open microphone for individuals who want to share their stories of Helene.
Light refreshments will be served.

The Maghrib Workshop: "Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part II"
2019-03-23 09:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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The Maghrib Workshop: “Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part II” Program:
UCSC Humanities 1, Room 210
Morning
8:30 – Transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.
9:00 – Coffee and Introduction
9:15 – Samia Errazouki (UC Davis, History) “Morocco’s Bloody ‘Golden Age’: Race, Slavery, and Capitalism in the 16th Century African Atlantic”
10:30 – Olivia C. Harrison (USC, French and Italian and Comparative Literature) “Palestine and the Migrant Question”
11:45 – Thomas Serres (UCSC, Politics) “Of Democracies in Algeria: Elections and Popular Agonism (2011-2019)”
1:00 – Lunch
Afternoon
2:00 – Rachel Colwell (UC Berkeley, Music and Literature) “Tunis al-Maḥrūsa: Tunis the Well-Protected” in “al-Makān: Listening for Place”3:15 – Break
3:30 – Jessica Marglin (USC, Religion) “Rights, Nationality, and Belonging in a Transnational Context: Léon Elmilik and the Jews of Tunisia, 1861-1881”
4:45 – Concluding Remarks
6:00 – Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House
Speaker Bios:
Olivia C. Harrison: “Palestine and the Migrant Question”
Olivia C. Harrison is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization (Stanford 2016) and co-editor of Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford 2016). Her manuscript-in-progress, Banlieue Palestine: Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France, charts the emergence of the Palestinian question in France, from the anti-racist movements of the late 1960s to contemporary art and activism. She is currently researching the recuperation of minority discourses by the French far and alt right for a book tentatively titled The White Minority.
Professor Harrison will be presenting the last chapter of her current book manuscript, Banlieue Palestine: Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France, which examines the central importance of the Palestinian question in French politics, society, and culture. It is a testament to the pervasiveness of (post)colonial discourses on migration that the trope of the migrant as stranger-foreigner is ubiquitous even in anti-xenophobic discourses about the migrant “crisis.” What she call instead the migrant question – the production of a dehistoricized discourse of crisis about the “invasion” of France by colonial subjects-turned-foreigners – is a through line in representations of Palestine in postcolonial France, from Mohamed arfad valiztek to Genet’s unpublished film script, Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal: Nationalité “Immigré(e)”, Mohamed Rouabhi’s El menfi / L’exilé, and the street art of the “Palestine generation.” Already a key concern in the early 1970s when anti-racist activists began invoking Palestine as rallying cry, the migrant question has taken on even more urgency in recent years. This chapter is devoted to Palestine and the migrant question.

Augmented Intelligence Summit: Steering the Future of AI
2019-03-28 - 2019-03-31 | 1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley, CA, 95064, United States
Today many of the concepts, consequences, and possibilities involved in a future with advanced AI feel distant, uncertain, and abstract. No one has all the answers about how to ensure that powerful AI in the future is beneficial, either in terms of technical implementation or in terms of transference to the domains of law, regulations and policy, industry best practices, or society at large. There are a number of organizations and initiatives that are working on the issues of AI safety, ethics, and governance.
Joining these efforts with a distinct role that bridges academia and industry, the Augmented Intelligence Summit offers a unique, inter-disciplinary approach to learning and creating solutions in this space. We ask: is it possible to develop a collective, concrete, realistic vision of a positive AI future that can inform policy, the development of the industry, and academic research, and can it be done inclusively? Our hypothesis is that this is indeed possible, and we have designed an experiment to test it.
Learn more: https://futureoflife.org/augmented-intelligence-summit-2019-2/?cn-reloaded=1

Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion
2019-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Zakir Hussain is appreciated as one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in India and he is one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father and teacher, Ustad Allarakha, he has elevated the status of his instrument both in India and around the world. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, founded in formidable knowledge and study. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, Hussain’s contribution to world music has been unique, with many historic collaborations, including Shakti, which he founded with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, and recordings/performances with artists as diverse as George Harrison, YoYo Ma, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, and the Kodo drummers. Hussain presents his Masters of Percussion project on this concert date. Zakir Hussain Website
At the Rio Theatre
1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Doors at 6:30 PM
BUY TICKETS
Regular General Admission: $42/Advance $50/Door
Gold Circle Section (1st 10 rows): $63/Advance $70/Door
(5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax included, service charge not included)
This event is co-sponsored by Kuumbwa Jazz and The Humanities Institute.

Laurie Halse Anderson Book Launch: SHOUT
2019-04-02 19:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and new adults. Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chainswas short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Join us for a discussion and signing of her new book, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era.
Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999, her groundbreaking, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now, twenty years later, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing poetic memoir, SHOUT.
In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, devastating and triumphant, SHOUT is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts.
Moderated by Sabaa Tahir
Sabaa Tahir is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her brother’s comic book stash, and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock, garish socks, and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
Co-sponsored by the UCSC Title IX office, Cowell College, and UCSC First Gen Initiative

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

This event is for mature audiences only; children under 13 will not be admitted.
Attendees must purchase a copy of SHOUT from Bookshop Santa Cruz either in store or at the event to enter the signing line.
Get a copy of SHOUT at Bookshop Santa Cruz, at the event, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com.

POSTPONED - Elizabeth Marcus: "The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique"
2019-04-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Elizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program for 2017-2019. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Her research and teaching focus on the francophone and Arab worlds, with a particular interest in knowledge production, cultural imperialism, and the histories of religious and minority groups. In her current book project, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon, she uses post-independence Lebanon as a case study of multilingualism and decolonization from below.
She is developing a second project on global intellectual history, international students and radical politics in post-war France. Recovering the history of the Cité internationale universitaire, an international university campus set on the outskirts of Paris, she looks at how it became a key physical and symbolic space for students, writers and intellectuals from the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch
2019-04-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement
An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization, digital cartography, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform, empower, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data, narratives, and maps, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists, activists, oral historians, cartographers, muralists, and more, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement.
While AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories, numerous videos and reports, and even several murals, light projections, zines, and posters, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists, activists, designers, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps, graphics, poems, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation, Infrastructure, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites.

Barry Lam - Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice
2019-04-11 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
At different stages of the criminal justice system, from policing, bail hearings, and sentencing, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police, who to arrest, who goes to jail, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation, and how the future of criminal justice depends on decisions we make now about the risks we are willing to tolerate for public safety.
Organized by the Humanities Institute, Data and Democracy Initiative, and Center for Public Philosophy

Living Writers: Roger Reeves
2019-04-11 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, Austin.Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. In 2012, Reeves received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for his poem “The Field Museum.” He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013) is Reeves’s first book.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History, 1750-2019”
2019-04-12 08:30 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution, war, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration, borders, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens, non-citizens , subjects, refugees, and exiles in world history. We welcome broad definitions of “border,” “citizenship,” and “migration”to include boundaries that migrate even when people themselves do not, citizenships that are defined by entities other than the state, and migrations that don’t require physical movement (eg. movement among identities that can affect citizenship, like race or religion).
Graduate Student Conference hosted by: The UCSC Center for World History Program
Committee: Daniel Joesten, Muiris MacGiollabhui, Jackie Schultz, Crystal Smith
8:30–9:00 Opening Remarks, Coffee, and Pastries
9:00-10:30 Panel One: “Religion, Migration, and the Politics of Citizenship”
Chair: Crystal E. Smith

Jeffrey Turner (University of Utah) – “Polygamy, Race, and Religion in the 1891 Immigration Act”
Robin Keller (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “‘The Only Foreigners We Felt Sorry For:’ Holocaust Refugees and Border Control in World War II Shanghai”
Shimul Chowdhury (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Stitching Solidarity: Collaborative Craft and the Muslim Identity”

10:45-12:15 Panel Two: “Identity, Family, and the State”
Chair: Jaclyn N. Schultz

Selena Moon (Independent Scholar) – “ Sexism and Racism in U.S. and Japanese Citizenship Laws ”
Emma Bellino (University of Wollongong) – “From Citizen to Alien to Citizen Again: Married Women’s Dependent Nationality in Australia, 1920-1948 ”
Karina Ruiz (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Cleavages of the State: Legal geographies in the U.S.”

12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15- 2:45 Panel Three: “Exile and Banishment across Borders”
Chair: Muiris MacGiollabhuí

Daisy Munoz (San Francisco State University) – “Viva Reagan: Cuban Republican Partisanship in 1980 & 1984”
Kevan Aguilar (University of California, San Diego) – “‘Cárdenas was Calling Us:’ Race, Class, and Settlement in Mexican & Spanish Exile Imaginaries”
Lily Hindy (University of California, Los Angeles) – “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees, Emigrés, and Exiles Confront a New National Identity”

3:00-4:15 Panel Four: “Culture, Ethnicity, and Nationalism”
Chair: Daniel Joesten

Hardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) – “‘Popularly Understood ’ : U.S. Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century ”
Amelia Flood (St. Louis University) – “Marooned on American Shores: Migrating Between Citizen and Subject in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
Alberto Ganis (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Sub-State Nationalisms and the Other(s) : The Mediated Identities of Friuli”

4:30-6 Keynote
Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Africa and Atlantic History) – “Edward W. Blyden: The Afropolitan Dreams of an Atlantic Denizen”
Co-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, Cowell College, UCSC History Department, and our generous donors from UCSC Giving Day!

PhD+ Workshop - The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
2019-04-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY)
Independent high schools, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly, may be students last experience of a broad-based, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look like? Adam Casdin, trained as research scholar, has spent the last 14 years thinking about teaching and learning, most recently leading an experiential learning initiative in partnership with Royal Shakespeare Company. That program brings the plays to life in classrooms Nursery through 12th grade, reimagining the way students’ experience and interpret the works of Shakespeare.
In this open forum on education and the humanities in secondary schools, Casdin will lay out various innovations in teaching, his experience of bringing his PhD training to a prestigious high school, and then open the floor for discussion of how UCSC PhD conceive not just their subjects but how their educational approaches. Bring questions about pedagogy as well as about careers in teaching.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
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Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
2019-04-12 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Sandy Chung, UC Santa Cruz, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English, French, and Italian. These interests have shaped her research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori, Tongan, and Samoan (all languages of the South Pacific) as an undergraduate. As a graduate student, she did fieldwork on Indonesian. Since 1977, the main empirical focus of her research has been Chamorro, a language of the Mariana Islands.
She is still (slowly) making progress on the Chamorro reference grammar Chung has been writing since 2009. Currently, she is collaborating with Dr. Elizabeth D. Rechebei, Manuel F. Borja, Tita A. Hocog, and many others in the CNMI on a revision of the Chamorro-English Dictionary. Finally, since 2011, Matt Wagers, Manuel F. Borja, and Chung have been collaborating on psycholinguistic research on Chamorro in the Mariana Islands.
For More information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Bernard Harcourt: "The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn"
2019-04-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris.
Bernard Harcourt’s writings examine modes of governing in our digital age, especially in the post 9/11 period. Harcourt is the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books, 2018), where he documents our recent turn to the counterinsurgency warfare paradigm as a way of governing populations at home and abroad. He traces the birth of what he calls our “expository society” in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015). He is the author, recently as well, of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011), and Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience with Michael Taussig and W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago 2013). Earlier books include Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy(Chicago 2005), and Illusion of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing (Harvard 2001).
Bernard Harcourt is also an editor of the works of Michel Foucault. He recently edited the French edition of Michel Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures at the Collège de France, La Société punitive (Gallimard 2013) and the 1971-1972 lectures, Theories et institutions pénales (Gallimard 2015). He is also the editor of the new Pléiade edition of Surveiller et punirin the collected works of Foucault at Gallimard (2016). He is co-editor with Fabienne Brion of the lectures Foucault delivered at Louvain in 1981, in French and English, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (Chicago 2014). He is currently working on Foucault’s lectures on Nietzsche for the next series of lecture publications by Gallimard/Le Seuil called Cours et Travaux.
A passionate advocate for justice, Bernard Harcourt started his legal career representing death row inmates, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. He lived and worked in Montgomery for several years and still today continues to represent pro bono inmates sentenced to death and life imprisonment without parole. He recently resolved the case of death row inmate Doyle Hamm. He also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala, and actively challenged the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban, representing pro bono a Syrian medical resident excluded under the executive order, as well as Moseb Zeiton, a Columbia SIPA student.
This event is part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster

Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
2019-04-16 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.

Vanessa Ogle: "'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960"
2019-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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This talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces, reaching from the Channel Islands, Monaco, and Luxembourg to the Bahamas, Panama, and Singapore, among many others. The talk asks why tax havens in particular expanded significantly between ca. 1945 and 1965, and points to decolonization and colonial systems of taxation as one answer. It thus sheds light on a crucial period during which much of today’s tax avoidance industry got off the ground, with lasting implications for the rise of inequality in Europe and North America.
Vanessa Ogle received her PhD at Harvard in 2011, Assistant, was a Associate Professor in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2017, and is currently an Associate Professor, modern European history, UC Berkeley, 2017-present.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Counterpoints Book Launch
2019-04-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
2019-04-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Discourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses promote imperial and capitalist class power in the Gulf. Through combining this framework with a postcolonial discursive critique and feminist scholarship on social reproduction, a class struggle perspective both moves us beyond victimization discourses of Gulf labor and highlights global patterns of capitalist accumulation. In turn, the paper shows how the Gulf is an unexceptional zone of capital accumulation with labor exploitation and social reproduction regimes continuous with, and shaped by, similar such regimes in the Global North.
Ahmed Kanna is associate professor of anthropology at University of the Pacific. He is the author of Dubai: The City as Corporation (2011, University of Minnesota Press), De-Exceptionalizing the Field (with Amelie Le Renard and Neha Vora, forthcoming, Cornell University Press), and articles in Cultural Anthropology, City, and Arab Studies Journal among others.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Susanah Shaw Romney, "Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century"
2019-04-25 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Colonization is not a one-time land grab, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on a simultaneous colonization of intimate space. Women of Batavia, as wives, concubines, and slaves, played an often unwilling role in the construction of empire at the intimate, local, and transoceanic scales.
Susanah Shaw Romney, Assistant Professor, earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she worked with Prof. Mary Beth Norton. Her book, New Netherland Connections, is the winner of the 2014 Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, given annually to a first book published by a woman pertaining substantially to the subject of women and gender; the 2013 Jamestown Prize, given every two years by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; and the 2013 Hendricks Prize, given annually by the New Netherland Institute. She is now at work on a new project looking at gender, settlement, and land claims in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire in North America, Guyana, South Africa, and Java.

Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
2019-04-25 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco, California, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Abraham Lincoln, Armed Cell, the Capilano Review, The American Reader, LIES, Macaroni Necklace, Mondo Bummer, ELDERLY, and Open House. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was among the Poetry Foundation’s 2016 “Staff Picks,” and a bilingual edition of the chapbook – Brazilian no es una raza – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. In September 2018, her first book-length collection of poems Cruel Fiction was published by Commune Editions. In addition, Cruel Fiction was chosen by Momtaza Mehri for Artforum International’s “Best of 2018.”
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula living in California. They work sometimes with the visual, sometimes with movement, sometimes with language, sometimes all three at once. Along with Elana Chavez, they’re a founding curator of The Cantíl Reading Series, and with Chavez and Angel Dominguez, a member of La Vidx Locx, a collective of queer Latinx poets. They’ve taught movement and filmmaking to children and adults alike. Work has been exhibited and performed in Los Angeles and the Bay Area: writing has been published in a chapbook, PDF, by Solar Luxuriance; appeared in Esferas; and featured on the SBSM album JOY/RAGE. A split poetry cassette with Elaine Kahn is due out from Practical Records in 2017. The Easy Body is their first book.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Graduate Research Symposium
2019-04-26 13:00 - 15:30 | McHenry Library, UCSC

Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
2019-04-26 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Laura McPherson, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. Her primary research interests lie in phonology, morphology, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar, A Grammar of Tommo So, in 2013 based on fieldwork in Mali from 2008-2012.
McPherson’s current research projects include developing an automated computational tool for tonal annotation with Emily Grabowski (ATLAS: Automated Tone Level Annotation System), analyzing the linguistic underpinnings of a xylophone surrogate language, and fieldwork on Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) in preparation for her next reference grammar, supported by NSF Documenting Endangered Languages.
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For More Information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
2019-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Mchenry Library Second Level Terrace and South Lawn, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Come celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year’s Graduate Research Symposium.
Live music, light refreshments.
Free and open to the public

Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
2019-04-27 11:30 - 14:15 | Stevenson Event Center
11:30am-12:50pm
Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division.
This year’s luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees about their career trajectories after receiving their graduate-level degree from UCSC to their current positions of distinction, for the benefit of audience members of current and alumni graduate students.
12:50pm-2:15pm
Career Paths Panel of the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees. Currently enrolled UCSC grad students encouraged to attend.
Click here to Register

Jody Greene: "Radical Learning - The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience"
2019-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university’s history of active and activist pedagogy; its commitment to an education grounded in social justice; its ahead-of-the-times choice to have no grades and interdisciplinary departments; and its unique status as the only public research university in the country that was also founded as a kind of “alternative school.” The event will include prominent learning scientists as well as undergraduates working on projects related to improving student learning. Participants will give lightning talks on what it takes for students to be outstanding learners in our 21st-century university.
More info about Alumni Weekend: https://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/

Nidhi Mahajan: "Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean"
2019-05-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Sailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean, transporting goods, and people across South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade, centered in port cities such as Dubai and Sharjah that have “free trade” policies. I argue that these notions of free trade are entangled with war, conflict, and broader geopolitical concerns across the Indian Ocean region.
Nidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC and a principal faculty in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Her works examines how vernacular Indian Ocean trade networks articulate with regional and global circuits of capital.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
2019-05-02 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Paolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017), and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018).
From the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, to the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the ‘digital party’. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers, Gerbaudo argues that with new structures come worrying changes in political forms, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralized, charismatic leaders, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarization created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy.
Part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative. Lecture co-sponsored by the Politics Department.

The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
2019-05-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Carl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents, George and Patricia Deppe, along with his friends, established this annual lecture series in his memory as a tribute to his interest in classical antiquity. Each spring a distinguished scholar is invited to give the Carl Mark Deppe lecture. This year’s lecuture will be given by Professor Alex Purves, UCLA
It is customary to begin each annual lecture by reading the essay Carl wrote when he applied for admission to the University of California: you can see that essay here.

SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
2019-05-04 09:30 - 19:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different languages. SPOT aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between grammatical structures on the one hand, and how sentences are pronounced on the other, in a typologically diverse array of natural languages. Following the very successful SPOT 1 workshop on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, which led to successful funding from the NSF in 2018, we will hold a THI-sponsored SPOT 2 workshop on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Besides presenting the developments of the program since SPOT 1, the SPOT 2 workshop will also feature research talks on the Syntax-Prosody interface and Optimality Theory by invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe, as well as Bay Area researchers.
SPOT 2 Program:
9:30am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee and bagels
10:00am -12:00pm “SPOT: theory and analyses”
Jenny Bellik¹, Gorka Elordieta², Junko Ito¹, Nick Kalivoda¹, Armin Mester¹
(¹UC Santa Cruz, ²University of the Basque Country)
Discussant: Alan Prince (Rutgers University)
12:00pm -1:00pm Lunch (catered)
1:00pm – 2:00pm “Nested Interacting Stress Window Systems”
Naz Merchant (Eckerd College)
Discussant: Arto Anttila (Stanford University)
2:00pm – 3:00pm “Recursive phonological phrasing in Italian”
Nick Van Handel (UC Santa Cruz)
Discussant: Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country)
3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 4:30pm “Incorporation in Crow as phonological reduction”
Chris Golston, CSUFresno
(with John Boyle, CSUFresno, & Lewis Gebhard, NEIU)
Discussant: Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz)
4:30pm – 5:30pm“Big accent distribution in Stockholm Swedish”
Sara Myrberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Discussant: Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz)
5:30pm-7:30pm Dinner at the Cowell Provost House

Banu Bargu: "Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism"
2019-05-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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This paper analyzes Althusser’s proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism, and particularly with Marx on “primitive accumulation.” It identifies two different legacies of Marx’s reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time, taking both thinkers to task on their approach to colonialism, and especially settler colonialism, the paper moves toward decolonizing the aleatory materialist imaginary.
Banu Bargu is associate professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist, with a focus on modern and contemporary political thought and critical theory. Bargu is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP, 2014), which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the editor of Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence, and Resistance (Edinburgh UP, forthcoming in 2019) and co-editor of Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique (Palgrave, 2017). Her next book, Friends of the Earth: Althusser and the Critique of Teleological Reason, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
2019-05-08 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 520, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam”
The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum

Deirdre de la Cruz: "Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult"
2019-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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In the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands, psychic surgery achieved particular renown in the United States in the 1980s when celebrity practitioners of New Age spirituality like Shirley MacLaine spoke publicly about their experience with Filipino psychic surgeons. This talk first provides a broad historical outline of the esoteric movements in the twentieth-century Philippines that culminated in the convergence of New Age spirituality and Filipino Spiritism seen in psychic surgery, paying particular attention to the axial shift from Espiritismo (the science of communication with the dead codified by French educator Allan Kardec and introduced to the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century), to transpacific New Age movements. It then digs deep into the spectacle of healing that drew thousands of patients from around the world at a time when the Philippines was in the sway of the greatest cheat of all, Ferdinand Marcos.

Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
2019-05-09 17:30 | Peace United Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Brenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Our Andromeda(2012), So Much Synth (2016), and The Octopus Museum (2019). Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, the Boston Review, McSweeney’s, and Best American Poetry, among other places. Shaughnessy’s work is known for its ability to twin opposites: her poems are both playful and erotic, lyrical and funny, formal and strange. Reviewing Human Dark with Sugar, poet Cate Peebles noted that “Shaughnessy draws attention to the contradiction of being made up of so many parts while appearing to be one single body.” In the New Yorker, Hilton Als said of her book, Our Andromeda: “it further establishes Shaughnessy’s particular genius, which is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope, encompassing ideas about astronomy, illness, bodies, the family, ‘normalcy,’ home.” Shaughnessy has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, where she was a Bunting Fellow, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission, and the Howard Foundation of Brown University. She has taught at universities including Columbia, the New School, Princeton, and New York University. Shaughnessy is currently an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.
Poet and teacher Ellen Bass grew up in New Jersey. She earned an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she studied with Anne Sexton. Bass’s style is direct; she has noted, “I work to speak in a voice that is meaningful communication. Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak from me to myself and then from me to you.” Bass’s collections of poetry include Mules of Love (2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award; The Human Line (2007), named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Like a Beggar (2014). She helped edit the feminist poetry anthology No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973).
Bass has also written works of nonfiction, including, with Laura Davis, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1988) and Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children (2003, revised edition 2008). With Kate Kaufman, she wrote Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies (1996). Bass’s honors and awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Pablo Neruda Prize, a Larry Levis Reading Prize, and a New Letters Literary Prize. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. Bass lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
2019-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | CA, United States
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As Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred, and the planning of violent terror attacks.
This year’s UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these technologies and antisemitism, asking: Is there something new about antisemitism today or is it just a continuation of old images and fears? How do social media platforms create environments for the viral spread of global antisemitism?
Join Nathaniel Deutsch and Rachel Deblinger, co-directors of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC Santa Cruz, to discuss these questions and explore how scholars of antisemitism can work closely with members of the tech community to fight against this and related forms of hatred toward others.

Registration Required
Doors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact the THI at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by May 6, 2019.
Event info:

Registration is required for entrance into this event.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.
Directions to the Computer History Museum are here.

Security:

Please be aware that all attendees must pass through security to enter the event venue. Make sure to carefully review the below information to ensure your entry to the event.
There will be no in and out privileges. Once you have passed through security, if you leave the venue re-entry will not be permitted.
All bags are subject to search. Prohibited items include weapons, drugs, and knives of any kind. Anything deemed unsafe by the security team will not be permitted to enter the venue.
All bags, including briefcases, purses, luggage and diaper bags, larger than 14” x 14” x 6” are not permitted. Backpacks and hard-sided bags of any kind are also prohibited. Single-compartment drawstring bags and fashion backpack purses that are smaller than 14” x 14” x 6” are permitted.

Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
2019-05-10 13:20 - 15:00 | CA, United States
Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) presents The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro.
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma
2019-05-13 15:00 - 16:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present:
A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine):
ALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS, POLICING, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press, 2019)
Co-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies and the Department of History of Consciousness

David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
2019-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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In this paper, “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely, that the dispossessed had prior possession over that which was stolen from them by their dispossessors. Like a number of other such cases I have been examining from the 17th and 18th centuries, in this case those who were dispossessed do not make claims about prior possession. Rather, both Juan Patricio and Fabiana Pech seem to have lived dispossession outside the terms of possession as such, critiquing and countering their dispossession in ways that call for a revision of contemporary understandings of dispossession. I suggest we read the archive of a case like this for alternative theories of dispossession as well as as-yet-unrealized anti-dispossessive politics.
David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His areas of specialization are transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century, Latin American studies (especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico), political philosophy, continental philosophy, colonial discourse studies, and Armenian diaspora studies. He is a member of the organizing collectives of the journal Social Text and of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, and is co-director of the Tepoztlán Institute from 2017-2019. His the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) and The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke). He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California), as well as (with Shay Brawn, Bonnie Dow, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Mary Klages, Deb Meem, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books). He is currently at work on two monographs. The first sets radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide. The second finds anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic.
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.
This event is co-sponsored by Feminist Studies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky
2019-05-16 17:30 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Daniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015), and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011). His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (Co-im-press) won the American Literary Translator’s Association 2017 National Translation Award. He has translated poetry collections by Chilean poets Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches in the English Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Co-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Bay Tree Bookstore, The Humanities Institute, The American Indian Resource Center, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center.

Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium
2019-05-17 09:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Symposium Program
9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson, Mark Amengual, Kimberly Adilia Helmer
9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO
10:00-10:30 – John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness
10:30-11:00 – Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education
11:00-11:30 – Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy
11:30-1:30 – Lunch break
1:30-2:00 – Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University): Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper
2:00-2:30 – Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay), Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware): The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country
2:30-3:00 – Avizia Long (San Jose State University): Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish
3:00-3:30 – Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute): Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2
3:30-4:00 – Coffee/Tea break
4:00-4:30 – Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta (University of California, Santa Cruz): The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation With Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque.
4:30-5:00 – Stephen Fafulas (University of California, Santa Cruz): Cross-linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms
5:00-5:30 – Don Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz): Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability
5:30-6:00 – Bryan Donaldson (University of California, Santa Cruz): Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives 6:00- Closing Business Meeting and visit to Humble Sea Brewery
Speaker Bios:
Netta Avineri is TESOL/TFL Associate Professor andIntercultural Competence Committee Chair atthe Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She is the Middlebury Social Impact Corps Scholars Program Director, co-founded the MIIS Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project, and teaches Service Learning and Teacher Education courses at CSU Monterey Bay. Netta is an applied linguist and linguistic anthropologist who teaches education, intercultural competence, applied linguistics, research methods, and service-learning courses. Her research interests include language and social justice, critical service-learning, interculturality, and heritage and endangered language socialization. Netta’s individual and collaborative research has been published in various media outlets, academic journals, and books. Netta’s book Research Methods for Language Teaching: Inquiry, Process, and Synthesis was published in 2017 and she is one of the five co-editors of the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice. Netta is also the American Association for Applied Linguistics Public Affairs and Engagement Committee Chair.
Laura Callahan, formerly Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The City College and Graduate Center-CUNY, currently teaches courses in Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. Her areas of interest are: codeswitching; language, race, and identity; intercultural communication; heritage language maintenance; and linguistic landscapes. Recent publications have appeared in Spanish in Context, Heritage Language Journal, and L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teaching.
Bryan Donaldson (PhD, Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz, where he currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on word order and discourse structure in the acquisition of French as a second language (L2) and in Old French and Old Occitan. In second language acquisition, his work primarily examines the highest levels of L2 attainment and has shown that near- native speakers frequently converge on native speaker performance benchmarks, for example in their use of pragmatically marked word orders and variable structures. In Old French and Old Occitan, he has examined the interplay between word order, discourse structure, and diachronic change. He has published in venues such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Lingua, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Linguistics, andCanadian Journal of Linguistics.
Gorka Elordieta (PhD, University of Southern California, 1997) is a Linguistics professor in the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). During the 2018-2019 academic year he is a Visiting Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Santa Cruz. His area of specialization is phonology, more concretely prosody, intonation and the interface of phonology with syntax. He has been the principal investigator of a number of research grants in linguistics, and has published articles in journals such as Phonology, Language and Speech, Journal of the International Phonetic Association or The Linguistic Review and in volumes of Oxford University Press, John Benjamins and Mouton de Gruyter.
Stephen Fafulas is Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and director of the Study of Communities, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics (SoCIOLing) Laboratory. Currently, he is conducting research on U.S. Spanish and teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research incorporates work on Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese as well as indigenous languages, such as Yagua, which is featured in his forthcoming volume Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution. When not in the classroom or lab, you are likely to find him with his family, at the martial arts academy, or at a local coffee shop.
A Professor of Applied Linguistics, John Hedgcock currently teaches in the MATESOL and MATFL Programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). His recent research has focused on literacy development, genre-oriented literacy instruction, the socialization of foreign- and heritage-language learners in classroom settings, and language teacher preparation. He is the co-author of Teaching Readers of English and Teaching L2 Composition. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Applied Language Learning, and a number of edited volumes.
Jason Martel is an Associate Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he teaches courses on foreign/second language pedagogy and directs the Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP). He is an active member of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), for which he currently serves as Chair of the Teacher Development Special Interest Group. Along with Francis Troyan and Laurent Cammarata, he is a co-recipient of the 2017 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article, conferred by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). His publications can be found Foreign Language Annals, Journal of Applied Language Learning, and the French Review.
Avizia Long (Ph.D. Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at San José State University. Her research interests include variation in second language Spanish, the acquisition of Spanish by non- English-speaking learners, second language Spanish pronunciation, and pronunciation in task-based language learning and teaching. She is co- author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context (Routledge, 2014), and she has published research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Hispania, and several edited volumes.
Rebecca Pozzi (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at California State University, Monterey Bay, where she coordinates Lower Division Spanish, including the Heritage Language Program, and teaches courses in Spanish language, linguistics, and applied linguistics. Her research focuses on second and heritage language development, sociolinguistics, study abroad, language pedagogy, language policy, and language technology. She has published in journals including Hispania and The CATESOL Journal and in edited volumes from Routledge and Multilingual Matters.
Ala Simonchykis Assistant Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Her research interests focus on pronunciation instruction, experimental phonetics, and second language speech processing, specifically on how various domains, such as perception, production, lexical encoding and orthography interact with each other in the acquisition of L2 phonologies.

Don Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses on second language acquisition, L2 teaching, and research in Applied Linguistics. His research interests focus on corpus- based approaches to examining academic vocabulary in published and learner writing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Magdalena Romera (PhD, University of Southern California, 2001) is a professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Public University of Navarre (Spain) and Visiting Research Associate at the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz for the current academic year. She has also been the Director of the Catedra de Patrimonio Inmaterial de Navarra for the past three years. Her research interests include Language Variation, Language Contact and Discourse Analysis. She has participated in several research grants in her areas of expertise, and has published articles in prestigious journals such as Linguistics, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Discourse and Society.
Thor Sawin is an Associate Professor in the Masters of Teaching Foreign Languages/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Middlebury Language Schools. His research and teaching interests focus mainly on technology in language instruction, grammar pedagogy, and multilingualism in social impact settings. He also does consultancy on language policy and language acquisition support for several multinational organizations. His recent publications have appeared in Reconsidering Development, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, and the CALICO Journal, and he has authored chapters in several volumes published by Multilingual Matters and Cambridge, as well as several field guides and reference articles.
Abstracts:
From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO
Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
Western NGOs, in their trainings and policy documents, often display language ideologies honed by years of their personnel’s formal language education. These tend to naturalize the so-called Herderian triad (one language, one people, one territory) by enforcing clear distinctions between reified language-as-systems supported by the tentpole of official written standards. Such ideologies endure even when NGO workers’ host communities are complexly multi- and translingual. This paper examines what did and did not shift in language ideology of NGO staff working with indigenous and displaced minority populations across the Middle East, and the process of crafting new language policies. The NGO, previously committed to rigidly serial language acquisition, contacted the author for training on translingual practice. The needs of the organization favor a language-as-mobile-resource approach and contact zone orientation (Harrison, 2007; Blommaert, 2010; Canagarajah, 2017). Data from the participant-authored blogposts before and conversations during the five-day training revealed narratives of vision and blindness, and also of freedom through admitting that the language practices of their hosts were less separable and nameable than their training acknowledged. Resistance centered on felt implausibility of learning “more than one language” –a parallelism refuted by neurological and sociolinguistic research. Unless Western ideologies of language are adapted to the language life ways connecting rural-traditional and urban-migrant spaces, organizations serving, multilingual minority populations may ironically risk reinforcing nationalistic views through their policies on language acquisition (Ndhlovu, 2018).
Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness
John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
In a connected, digitized world, language teacher education must prepare teacher candidates to function in a dynamic world of work and communication. Drawing on critical incidents from a U.S. teacher preparation program, the presenter will explore three obstacles to building teachers’ language awareness. These challenges include: (1) cultivating understanding of the naturalness of linguistic variation; (2) promoting the uptake of teaching skills; and (3) nurturing the ability to use and transform the language and genres of skilled educators. Reflecting on his work with developing teachers, the presenter will share field-tested strategies and interventions designed to convert these obstacles into opportunities.
Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education
Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
Scholars have called for an identity approach to language teacher education, which involves employing identity as a lens for helping teacher candidates take ownership over their professional development and assert agency in becoming the types of language teachers they aspire to be. Although previous studies have examined specific identity-oriented tools used in language teacher preparation programs, none has yet addressed a course in which a focus on identity is integrated throughout all assigned activities. The present study thus addresses the experiences of language teacher candidates enrolled in an identity-oriented capstone practicum course as part of a TESOL/TFL master’s degree program. Data were mined from course activities (e.g., teaching journals, post-observation conferences), as well as two additional interviews. Findings include ways in which the participants not only processed identity positions they brought to the course, but also explored new positions related to their experiences during the semester.
Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy
Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
How can applied linguists mobilize their expertise, experience, and networks to engage in social justice efforts? This talk focuses on collaborations at the intersection of language, social justice, and advocacy, highlighting how applied linguists’ participation in struggles over language are connected to broader justice struggles. First, I present my model of “nested interculturality”, a collective of dispositions and practices for ethical engagement in multilingual and intercultural interactions. Language teacher education and critical service-learning course examples will be shared. Next, I discuss various collaborations in the AAAL Public Affairs and Engagement Committee around immigration and international exchange. Last, case studies from the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (Avineri, Graham, Johnson, Riner, and Rosa, Eds.) of collaborative advocacy efforts around the “language gap”, sports team mascot names, immigration, and the US Census will be explored. Overall, the presentation provides applied linguists with multiple avenues for impactful social justice work.
Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper
Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University)
This presentation will examine the use of Spanish in U.S. English-medium films and newspapers, with data from over the past 20 years. Examples to be seen range from cases in which the objective seems to be a casual demonstration of the speaker’s power, with Spanish used as a tool to accomplish that purpose, to other instances in which the use of Spanish seems to function as a language display signaling the speaker’s claim to a Latinx identity. The corpus provides fodder for a discussion of various issues germane to the teaching of Spanish and Spanish linguistics, such as Mock Spanish, language and power, pragmatics and second language users, as well as codeswitching and other contact phenomena.
The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country
Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay), Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware)
Although the number of heritage speakers (HSs) studying abroad is projected to grow in the coming years (Shively, 2018), little is known about the pragmatic choices and development of HSs in this context. This study investigates the impact of a 3-week instructional treatment related to requests, apologies, and the use of vos among three HSs of Mexican descent during study abroad (SA) in Mendoza, Argentina. A written elicitation task was used as a pre/post measure of students’ meta- pragmatic awareness and their accommodation ofvoseo. Following explicit instruction, HSs increased their meta-pragmatic awareness and their use of vos. Nevertheless, variation was observed due to individual differences and HS identities. Case studies revealed that participants’ pragmatic choices aligned with their identities, their interactions with Argentines, and their future goals. These findings suggest that these HSs benefited from explicit pragmatics instruction, increased their meta- pragmatic awareness, and made pragmatic choices that reflected their identities.
Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish
Avizia Long (San Jose State University)
Previous research on the second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish rhotics has focused on the tap- trill distinction in production by native English-speaking learners (e.g., Face, 2006; Major, 1986; Olsen, 2012; Reeder, 1998; Rose, 2010). There is a lack of research on rhotic pronunciation by learners who speak a non-English first language (L1), limiting the generalizability of attested findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by investigating the acquisition of Spanish rhotic production by adult learners whose L1 is Korean. Sixty-six adult Korean learners at four instructional levels of Spanish language study (Long, 2016) completed an oral picture book description task (dePaola, 1978) from which words containing intervocalic rhotics were extracted for acoustic analysis. This talk will present the findings of this analysis, specifically the types of productions observed for the alveolar tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/ at each instructional level sampled.
Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2
Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute)
Previous research suggests that accurate realization of L2 phonemes is not necessarily accompanied by learners’ accuracy in other domains of phonological acquisition. The current talk will investigate whether learners who produce a challenging contrast in their L2 store words with this contrast separately in the mental lexicon. Forty American learners of Russian were evaluated on their production and lexical encoding of highly familiar Russian words with palatalization. The results suggest that learners’ ability to accurately differentiate words with the plain/palatalized contrast in production developed independently of their phonolexical representations, which appear to merge in the mental lexicon. Moreover, leaners’ performance was strongly affected by the prosodic position of the target consonants. In intervocalic position, learners made significantly fewer production mistakes than word-finally. However, they accepted a substantially greater number of nonwords with the target consonants in intervocalic position than in word-final position on a lexical encoding task.
The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation with Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque
Magdalena Romera and Gorka Elordieta (Public University of Navarre and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)/University of California, Santa Cruz)
The main goal of this paper is to analyse the prosodic features of Spanish varieties that are in contact with Basque in Northern Spain (Basque Country and Navarre) and to observe to what extent social factors, particularly the speakers’ attitudes towards the other language, can determine the degree of linguistic convergence (Romera and Elordieta 2013; Elordieta and Romera in press). We recorded semi-directed conversations in Spanish of a total of 36 speakers (monolingual speakers of Spanish, L1 Spanish-L2 Basque speakers, and L1 Basque-L2 Spanish speakers), in urban and rural areas in the Basque Country and Navarre. In this talk, we concentrate on information-seeking yes/no questions, which present different intonation contours in Basque and in Spanish. In Basque, yes/no questions end in a low or falling contour (cf. Elordieta and Hualde 2014), whereas in Castilian Spanish they end in a rising contour (Navarro Tomás 1918; Quilis 1981; Face 2008; Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto 2008, 2010; Hualde and Prieto 2015, among others). Preliminary results from 24 speakers show that all of them present a majority of falling final contours in their Spanish, regardless of their knowledge of Basque. Speakers differed in their frequency of occurrence of falling contours, ranging from 66% to 100%. Interestingly, in urban populations (Bilbao and San Sebastian) a correlation was found between attitudes to Basque among monolingual and L1 Spanish speakers and the degree of prosodic convergence towards Basque found in their speech. In other words, the more positive the attitudes, the higher the degree of prosodic convergence shown (i.e. the higher the percentage of yes/no questions ending in a falling contour). Prosody is a trait that strongly identifies Basque speakers; it stands as a fundamental identifying feature. The results indicate then that the adoption of the characteristic prosody of Basque allows these speakers to be recognized as members of the Basque community. In smaller towns, however, where the degree of contact with Basque is higher, no correlation between language and ethnolinguistic attitudes and degree of convergence was found. In general, a higher percentage of final contours in yes/no questions than in the two cities were observed. We conclude that in towns where the presence of Basque in everyday life is stronger, the higher degree of contact with Basque is the main factor that can account for the higher frequency of Basque intonational features. Although this investigation is still in progress, the results obtained so far in this study of a particular aspect of Spanish intonation in contact with Basque reveal the influence of social factors in the degree of convergence between the two languages.
Cross-Linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms
Stephen Fafulas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Accounts of tense-aspect-mood systems hold that cross-linguistically there is a small set of prototypical functions that have followed similar evolutionary paths. For example, in languages that mark progressive aspect obligatorily with the present progressive, the simple present has been edged into habitual territory. However, there are languages such as Spanish that allow for the use of simple present and present progressive forms to encode “action simultaneous with speech”. Still others, like English, show a clearer distinction between progressive and habitual form-function mapping. What is lacking in these accounts is abundant cross-linguistic empirical evidence to substantiate the claims. To address this, the current study compares the distribution of simple presents and present progressives in an oral corpus of Spanish and English to test whether these languages and forms operate as suggested in the previous literature.
Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability
Don Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Over the past two decades, the greatest efforts in designing and validating corpus-based word frequency lists have gone into three areas: corpus design, item selection criteria, and coverage-based demonstrations of list robustness. Corpora are now often much larger and better balanced and, as a result, perhaps more representative than ever before; the application of additional distributional statistics allows for better targeting of items with desired distributions (e.g., Gardner & Davies, 2014); and contemporary lexical frequency lists are proving increasingly efficient, providing ever higher coverage of target texts or achieving such coverage with fewer words (e.g., Brezina & Gablasova, 2015). In this talk, I argue that researchers should go beyond coverage-based, indirect evidence of reliability in order to better understand the representativeness of corpora and the generalizability of word lists based on them.
Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives
Bryan Donaldson (University of California, Santa Cruz)
This talk examines clitic position in coordinated declaratives in early Old French. Prior to about 1200, object and adverbial clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal in this context (Simonenko & Hirschbühler 2012), as in (1) and (2).
(1) É li poples ápluvéit de tutes parz é fud é se teneit od Absalon.
“And people came in large numbers from everywhere and were with and stood with Absalom.” (Li quatre livre des reis, Curtius, 1911: 86)
(2) Or ne fera mes plus; trop a avant alé, E pesot li que tant en aveit trespassé.
“From now on, he will not do more; he went too far, and he regretted having gone that far.” (Becket, v.
1020)
An empirical study reveals that the choice of coordinate structure, and clitic position, is
principled and reflects discourse structure. In particular, cases like (1) occur within a single discourse segment, whereas examples like (2) correspond to separate discourse segments.

PhD+ Workshop Series: Writing for Graduate School and Beyond
2019-05-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Workshop with Eric Hayot (Penn State)
Why is writing so hard? Can It be easier? Possibly, Eric Hayot argues. But answering these questions well also asks us to think about the place of writing in humanities scholarship, and the ways in which our institutional patterns and structures, and our daily and psychological ones, shape what we mean when we say “writing,” and we think, finally, that writing is for.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
Lunch will be served.
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Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 1
2019-05-17 15:00 - 19:00 | Page Smith Library
A weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century.

Friday, May 17th
3:00 – 3:30. Opening remarks
3:30 – 4:45. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition,” part 1
4:45 – 5:00. Break / coffee
5:00 – 6:15. “The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition,” part 2
6:15 – 6:30. Film screening, Garden
6:30 – 9:00. Reception and dinner for participants and friends
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The Return of the Gods: Brown’s Prophetic Tradition
part 1:
Asad Haider, moderator
Thomas Marshall, “Whaddayou Mean “ςπουδαιογελοιον”?: Nabi’s Last Study”
Martin Devecka, “Variae inludunt pestes: Learning and Labor in the Georgics”
Barry Katz, “Opening Time, Closing Time: A Journey from Hermes and Hesiod to Vico and Joyce”
part 2:
Jack Davies, moderator
Edmund Burke, “Prophecy & Apocalypse in the Irano-Semitic Tradition: Norman O. Brown & Marshall Hodgson”
G.S. Sahota, “Identifying Khizr: On the Paths of Goethe and Iqbal”

Day 2 Information
Sponsored by Cowell College, the Humanities Institute, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the History of Consciousness department.

The 19th Season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XIX)
2019-05-17 20:00, 2019-05-18 20:00, 2019-05-19 20:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 19th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XIX), May 17, 18, and 19, at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual theater pieces in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English supertitles, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. There is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.
This year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of Tales of the Service Industry, comprised of three vignettes by the comic duo of Sandwichman and Un-Jash, directed by Sakae Fujita and her students. Spanish will offer a work by the Chilean playwright, Sergio Vodanovic, El delental blanco (The White Apron), with Carolina Castillo-Trelles directing. Chinese will present Butterfly Lovers, inspired by a Chinese folktale, directed by Ting-Ting Wu, and adapted by her students. French will be represented by On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa), a glimpse at adult life through the eyes of a small boy, from Les aventures du petit Nicholas (The Adventures of little Nicholas), by Gocinny and Sempé, Renée Cailloux, who adapted the work for the stage, and Miriam Ellis, will direct.
French
On fait le marché avec Papa (Shopping with Papa)
From The Adventures of little Nicholas
By Gocinny and Sempé Adapted by Renée Cailloux
Directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux
Japanese
サービス業カタログ (Anything for You, Dear Customer!)
Based on vignettes by Japanese comic duos
Directed by Sakae Fujita and her students
Spanish
El delantal blanco (The White Apron)
By Sergio Vodanović
Directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles
Chinese
梁祝 (Butterfly Lovers)
Inspired by a Chinese folktale
Adapted by Ting Ting Wu’s students
Directed by Ting Ting Wu
Over the years, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences, who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format, and we cordially invite the community to attend.
For more information, please contact Lisa Leslie (lmhunter@ucsc.edu).

Norman O. Brown Conference: Into the Future, Day 2
2019-05-18 09:00 - 19:00 | Page Smith Library
Day 1 Information
A weekend of presentation, reflection, and inquiry addressing the work and life of Norman O. Brown. From poetics to politics, theology to pedagogy, utopia to apocalypse: scholars from around the country will meet to engage Brown’s long shadow. Amidst the landscapes he traversed incessantly, we can gauge the importance of Norman O. Brown for the 21st century.

Saturday, May 18th
9:00 – 9:30. Breakfast / coffee
9:30 – 11:30. “There is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination”
11:30 – 1:30. Lunch / visit to the Norman O. Brown archival display
1:30 – 3:30. “Utopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism, Counterculture, Arts”
3:30 – 4:00. Break / coffee
4:00 – 6:00. “Closing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy”
7:00 – Onward. Reception and dinner for participants and friends
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There is Only Poetry: Form and Possibility in the Brownian Imagination
Matthew O’Malley, moderator
Jay Cantor, “On Love’s Body”
Michael Davidson, “The Double Agent: Norman O. Brown / Robert Duncan”
Andrew Schelling, “Nobby, or Metamorphosis”
Daniel Tiffany, “Diction and the Prophetic Voice”
Rob Wilson, “‘Transfiguration’ as a World-Making Poetics”
Utopia and/or Revolution: Radicalism, Counterculture, Arts
Johanna Isaacson, moderator
Rebecca Herzig, “Alma Mater”
Stuart Kendall, “Fearless Majesty: Norman O. Brown’s Dionysian Vision”
Jed Rasula, “Norman O. Brown’s Poetics”
Stephen Carter, “Politics, Metapolitics, and Depoliticization: History and Archetype in the Work of Norman O. Brown”
Jonathan Beecher, “Exchanges with Nobby: Fourier, Faust, Palingenesis”
Gary Miles, “A Naif’s View from the Trenches”
Closing Time: A Roundtable on Brown’s Life and Legacy
Isaac Blacksin, moderator
Nor Hall on pedagogy
Jim Clifford on metamorphosis
Bob Meister on chance
Jerome Neu on Freud
Chris Connery on liberation
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Sponsored by Cowell College, the Humanities Institute, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and the History of Consciousness department.

Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
2019-05-19 09:00 - 17:00 | San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz
Learn about the indigenous languages of Oaxaca at Nido de Lenguas: Pop-Up, taking place at the 13th Annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza. The Pop-Up will feature fun and exciting activities where anybody can directly experience the beauty and value of Oaxacan languages. The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is a cultural festival sponsored by Senderos, featuring food, music, dance, and crafts, much like a traditional fiesta in Mexico.

Faculty Ethics Bowl: Ethics and the Far Future
2019-05-20 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What role should thinking about the far future—1,000 years ahead and more—play in research on campus? Faculty at UC Santa Cruz have widely divergent views on this question and it’s something the administration needs to decide on soon. Some say we should allocate significant resources; others say very little. This will be the focus of UC Santa Cruz’s first Faculty Ethics Bowl.
But the key here is the Ethics Bowl format. Ethics Bowl is very different from traditional debate. Teams are not automatically pitted against one another, and are docked for using rhetoric, spin, aggression, and clever rationalization. Rather, teams are scored on the basis of active listening, flexibility, collaboration, and analytical rigor–critical ingredients for meaningful discussion on difficult topics.
This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
Team 1: Team 2:

Anthony Aguirre Pranav Anand
Physics Linguistics

Sandra Faber Sylvanna Falcón
Astronomy & Astrophysics Latin American and Latino Studies

David Haussler Nico Orlandi
The Genomics Institute Philosophy

Led by Associate Professor of Philosophy Jon Ellis, in conjunction with the Center for Public Philosophy and The Humanities Institute.

Shadi Rohana: "Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation"
2019-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography, historical context, characters and language, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605, and how this presence was later translated into modern Arabic during the 20th century. The talk will also discuss the reception of Don Quixote in varios Arabic speaking contexts.
Shadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator, translating between Arabic, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM), and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine, 2016) was his first novel-length worth
Spanish:
“Cervantes y los árabes: Las traducciones del Quijote al árabe”
Shadi Rohana es traductor literario y profesor de tiempo completo en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México. Traduce entre el árabe, español e inglés. Ha introducido a la lengua árabe a varios escritores latinoamericanos, así como los comunicados del EZLN en Chiapas. Cursó Estudios Latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos (Swarthmore College) y México (UNAM). Es traductor al árabe de la novela mexicana Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco (Palestina, 2016).
Al leer el Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes, el lector árabe no puede ser indiferente. En esta novela española del siglo XVII existe un sinnúmero de referencias a la presencia árabe-islámica en la Península ibérica: la geografía, arabismos, moriscos, guerra contra los otomanos, y personajes que hablan en lengua árabe. Dicha presencia es conocida por los árabes como “Al Ándalus”: un territorio y cultura que se extendió, de forma cambiante, en la Península ibérica desde el año 711 hasta la caída de Granada/Ghurnaata en 1492. ¿De qué manera en nuestros días los árabes han leído, interpretado y traducido aquella presencia de Al Ándalus en el Quijote? Abordaré esta cuestión narrando la historia de las traducciones del Quijote al árabe moderno, así como la recepción de la novela y sus personajes en varios contextos de habla árabe.

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