BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131222 CREATED:20180810T203312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031528Z UID:10006648-1543575600-1543581000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop: Values Driven Pedagogy DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDefining a Values Driven Pedagogy Practice with Kendra Dority (CITL\, UCSC Lit PhD) \nThis workshop invites participants to consider how teaching can be a site in which we define\, cultivate\, and enact a set of values. What values are communicated—explicitly and implicitly—in our classrooms through our teaching methods and assignments? How do pedagogical situations present opportunities for us to claim values that may contradict or transform institutional norms? \n  \nKendra Dority\, Associate Director for Programs at the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, will share her perspectives on pursuing post-PhD work that aligns with her values\, and the pedagogical contexts that facilitated a values-driven inquiry. She will then facilitate activities and discussion around participants’ own values in relation to their teaching contexts. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease 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. \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-values-driven-pedagogy/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T104000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131222 CREATED:20181101T212240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T172913Z UID:10006675-1543574400-1543578300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stuart Russell: “Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence” DESCRIPTION:Stuart Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive\, while others\, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles\, may be negative. Beyond these\, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern\, as Elon Musk\, Stephen Hawking\, and others have suggested? And\, if so\, what can we do about it?  While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss the issue\, I will argue that the problem is real and that the technical aspects of it are solvable if we replace current definitions of AI with a version based on provable benefit to humans. \nDr. Russell will appear as a guest lecturer for Dr. David Haussler’s Scientific Principles of Life class. All are welcome. \n  \nStuart Russell\, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley\, is one of the world leaders in this area\, see\, e.g. his TED talk here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stuart-russell-human-compatible-artificial-intelligence/ LOCATION:Nat. Sci Annex Auditorium 101\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181010T184019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184156Z UID:10006661-1543512000-1543517700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou DESCRIPTION:Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game\, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry\, Poetry Northwest\, Slate\, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow\, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University\, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. Doan has taught at Boston University\, Lesley University\, and the Boston Conservatory. He was born in Dallas\, Texas. \n  \nAngie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hyphen\, The Margins\, Nat. Brut\, and others. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and has received fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets and Kundiman. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-duy-doan-angie-sijun-lou/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181101T215322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181101T225319Z UID:10006676-1543503600-1543510800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine DESCRIPTION:“Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism”\nJennifer Kelly\, Associate Professor\, UCSC  \nIn between Israeli military incursions\, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse\, satirize\, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position Gaza as solely a site of suffering\, a site where tourism could never flourish; they instead ask what it would mean if Palestinians in Gaza could actually invite tourists\, host their own tours\, and control their own borders. Through virtual tours that simultaneously describe suffering and create joy\, Palestinians in Gaza are combating not only the siege but also the representations of Palestinians in Gaza as under siege and nothing more. \n  \n“Revisiting the Question of Palestine”\nNoya Kansky\, FMST Graduate Student\, UCSC \nIn this paper\, I revisit Edward Said’s “Question of Palestine\,” with specific attention to the activation of Palestine as object of study in contemporary humanities-focused research agendas. How are these research choices shaped by institutions and the left-leaning ethos of scholar activism\, contemporary post-colonial and settler colonial studies and additionally political theory\, and current debates on research ethics and epistemic production? What violences does this practice reinscribe and in what ways does the contemporary university contain and re-direct questions that frame Palestine as a stable object – often exceptionalized as a research site that is productive to those thinking about oppression and violence? \n  \nPizza and drinks provided! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invitation-object-reframing-study-palestine/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181003T172123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T193415Z UID:10006654-1543420800-1543428000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Algorithms\, Mobility\, and Justice DESCRIPTION:Are moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk\, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral and self-driving cars will save lives. Drawing on feminist and care ethics\, Atanasoski brings to fore the injustices built into current and future mobility systems such as laws and policies that protect car manufacturers and algorithmic biases that will have disproportionate negative impacts on the most vulnerable. Moreover\, it is argued that a constricted moral imagination dominated by the reductive scenarios of the Trolley Problems is impairing design imagination of alternative futures. More specifically\, that a genuine caring concern for the many lives lost in car accidents now and in the future—a concern that transcends false binary trade-offs and that recognizes the systemic biases and power structures—could serve as a starting point to rethink mobility\, as it connects to the design of cities\, the well-being of communities\, and the future of the planet. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and affiliated with the Film and Digital Media Department. Atanasoski has a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California\, San Diego. Her research interests include race and technology; war and nationalism; gender\, ethnicity\, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies. \nNassim JafariNaimi is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication at Georgia Tech and the director of the Design and Social Interaction Studio which she established in 2013. JafariNaimi’s research engages the ethical and political dimensions of design practice and technology especially as related to democracy and social justice. Her research spans both theoretical and design-based inquiries situated at the intersection of Design Studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, and Human Computer Interaction. Her writing on topics such as participatory media\, smart cities\, social and educational games\, and algorithms have appeared in venues such as Science\, Technology\, and Human Values\, Design Issues\, Digital Creativity\, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). JafariNaimi received her PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds an MS in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran\, Iran. \nAbhradeep Guha Thakurta is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Thakurta’s research is at the intersection of machine learning and data privacy. Primary research interest include designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms with strong analytical guarantees\, which are robust to errors in the data. In many instances\, Thakurta harnesses the privacy property of the algorithms to obtain robustness and utility guarantees. A combination of academic and industrial experience has allowed Thakurta to draw non-obvious insights at the intersection of theoretical analysis and practical deployment of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms. \nCo-Sponsored by: THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Feminist Studies Department\, and the Science & Justice Research Center URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/algorithms-mobility-justice/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\, Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T202107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181130T211212Z UID:10006644-1543406400-1543411800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Peter Limbrick: “For a New Nahda - Moumen Smihi\, World Cinema\, and Arab Modernism” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDr. Limbrick’s forthcoming book on Moumen Smihi connects the Moroccan filmmaker’s modernism to the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the 19th-20th century\, which re-energized Arab culture in dialogue with other languages and discourses. Offering new ways to think about world cinema and modernism in the region\, Limbrick argues that Smihi’s radically beautiful films take up the Nahda’s challenge for a new age. \nPeter Limbrick is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media. He is the author of Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States\, Australia\, and New Zealand (Palgrave 2010) and has published on transnational cinema and postcolonial culture in Cinema Journal\, Camera Obscura\, Third Text\, Framework\, Visual Anthropology and other journals. He has received fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and the UC President’s Research program and is currently finishing a book about Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi\, a key figure in the “new Arab cinema” that emerged in the late 1960s across North Africa and the Middle East. In 2013\, he curated a major retrospective of Smihi’s work that has screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley\, Block Cinema\, in Chicago\, and Tate Modern\, in London. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181119T204912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T205442Z UID:10005549-1543339800-1543345200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Presentation: Jai Sen's The Movements of Movements DESCRIPTION:Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS)\, Deborah Gould (UCSC)\, and Patrick King (UCSC).\n\n\n\nJai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer\, then a researcher into popular movement\, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote critical engagement with the World Social Forum and emerging world movement – as moderator of the listserv WSFDiscuss and as coeditor of several books including World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and World Social Forum: Critical Explorations. He helped found and remains associated with CACIM and with OpenWord.\n\n\n\nThe Movements of Movements (PM Press/OpenWorld\, 2017/18):\nOur world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement\, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local\, national\, transnational\, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. These two volumes\, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas\, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste\, class\, gender\, religion\, and indigeneity\, and move from the local to the global.\n\n\nRefreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-presentation-jai-sens-movements-movements/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jaisenf.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181121T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181121T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181119T203711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T205032Z UID:10006689-1542820800-1542826500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-marzano-lesnevich/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181119T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181119T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181108T045719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T171522Z UID:10006679-1542630600-1542636000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies I DESCRIPTION:Do you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It offers resources and tools to push through common roadblocks in your advanced writing practice related to issues of voice\, discipline-crossing work\, organization\, timeline\, and procrastination. \nJoin this workshop to develop a clear set of writing goals and an accountability strategy. Participants will form writing groups and commit to accountable writing practices in the second session of this workshop as part of a new THI series. Part II of the workshop will be held on Monday\, December 3. \nThe workshops will be led by Nadia Roche (Sociology) and Veronika Zablotsky (Feminist Studies). \n  \nThis new program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the THI Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project and co-sponsored by CITL. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-graduate-writing-challenges-strategies/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/writing-infrastructure.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180712T205745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181120T041113Z UID:10006640-1542304800-1542313800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Snyder and Special Guest Tom Killion DESCRIPTION:View the full event recording online here. \n  \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. \n5:30 p.m. doors open / 6:00 p.m. program begins\nThe reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, first come\, first served.\nSeating is limited and we anticipate a full event\, so please plan accordingly. \n  \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5. Click here for directions.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nEvent Program: \nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come\, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:30 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nGary Snyder is a poet\, environmentalist\, Zen Buddhist and educator. Involved in the Beat movement\, Snyder read at the famous Six Gallery reading alongside Allen Ginsberg. Snyder’s writing focuses on environmental concerns and Zen Buddhism. He is an environmental activist who is known for his simple\, clear style\, as well as his first-person descriptions of his experiences in the natural world. Snyder’s poetry is influenced by Japanese haiku and Chinese verse\, in addition to his knowledge of anthropological factors like oral traditions. Over his long career\, Snyder has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1975\, his collection Turtle Island was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His 1992 collection\, No Nature\, was a National Book Award finalist and he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2008. \nTom Killion is famous for his vibrantly colored woodcut prints of the California landscape. He was born and raised in Mill Valley\, California\, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The rugged scenery of Marin County and Northern California inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints using linoleum and wood\, strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-ë style of Hokusai and Hiroshige. He studied History at UC Santa Cruz\, where he was introduced to fine book printing by William Everson and Jack Stauffacher. In 1975\, he produced his first illustrated book on UCSC’s Cowell Press. After traveling extensively in Europe and Africa\, Killion returned to Santa Cruz in 1977 and founded his own Quail Press\, where he published his second book\, “Fortress Marin”. Visit tomkillion.com to learn more. \nAbout Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet\, author\, teacher\, film critic\, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City\, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz\, California\, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com. You can also view the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC. \nThis community event is co-sponsored by: \nThe Humanities Institute\nLiving Writers Series\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nSpecial Collections & Archives\nCowell College\nPorter College\nCenter for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nSanta Cruz Writes\nBookshop Santa Cruz \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-gary-snyder/ LOCATION:Music Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/09_WebBanner_2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181114T193211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T223657Z UID:10006688-1542304800-1542312000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:World Philosophy Day at Humble Sea Brewing Co. DESCRIPTION:World Philosophy Day? \nYes\, it is a thing! Falling on the third Thursday of each November\, World Philosophy Day celebrates the value and practice of philosophy. \nThis year\, The Center for Public Philosophy and Humble Sea Brewing Co. are partnering to celebrate together. Come join us! \nFeaturing an Ask-a-Philosopher Booth staffed by some of your favorite local philosophers\, delicious Humble Sea brews (including one Humble Sea is naming in honor of philosophy!)\, and all the ‘civic discourse’ you can handle! We can’t wait to celebrate with you – we’re going to get things going at 6pm this Thursday\, November 15th. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-philosophy-day-humble-sea-brewing-co/ LOCATION:Humble Sea Brewing Company\, 820 Swift St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/world-philosophy-day.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181108T222330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T224816Z UID:10006681-1542297600-1542304800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tzutu Kan: Maya Hip Hop DESCRIPTION:Tzutu Kan\, hailing from what the Maya considered the belly button of the Universe — Lake Atitlan in the vernal Guatemala highlands — is a painter\, sculptor\, bio-builder\, activist in the defense of native peoples\, and hip hop artist who lays down rhymes in the ancient Mayan languages of Tz’utujil\, Kaqchikel\, and K’ichee. \n  \nPresentation at 4pm\, followed by a performance. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tzutu-kan-maya-hip-hop/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180824T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T202737Z UID:10005513-1542209400-1542214800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Isa Blumi - "The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story”\n\n\nAlthough the majority of Ottoman refugees in the 1878-1912 period remained internally displaced\, significant numbers found their way to new continents\, themselves in the throes of colonialist expansion. These pioneers’ stories require looking into the larger context of modern exploitation economies under which these Ottomans also suffered (and subsequently resisted in various ways). From recent studies we learn that the demand for cheap labor that absorbed such waves of Ottomans came from expanding labor-intensive plantation and mining operations as well as infrastructure development\, long the investment of choice for private capital. As much as we must tell the violent resistance to the exploitative demands of capital\, however\, Isa Blumi identifies thousands of Ottoman refugees whose violent experiences with Euro-American imperialism intersected in Southeast Asia\, Eastern Africa\, and the Americas. In several cases\, he will chart how colonialist-projects harnessed the capacity of Ottoman refugees (victims of expansionist European violence in their homelands) to subjugate indigenous peoples of what is today known as Southern Philippines\, the Swahili hinterland\, and the borderlands of an expanding US and Mexico/Comanche. In other words\, Euro-American imperialism took its ‘destined’ genocidal turn by often calling on various Ottoman subjects to make themselves useful in ways contradictory to their normative place in world history. \nIsa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian\, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. \nThis event is sponsored by the newly revitalized Center for World History\, which fosters a rich set of lectures\, conferences\, pedagogical workshops\, and scholarly conversations. This programming enhances the intellectual life of faculty and students at UCSC across numerous disciplines interested in the human past. All Center for World History events are open to all members of the UCSC community and to the general public. More at: https://cwh.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isa-blumi-ottoman-refugee-euro-american-colonial-terror-global-story/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ottoman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T195015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T224029Z UID:10005511-1542196800-1542202200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julie Livingston: “Self-Devouring Growth - A Planetary Parable” DESCRIPTION:This talk\, like the book from which it is drawn\, calls into question the imperative of economic growth\, tracing the unintended consequences of escalating consumption.  Using a series of linked cases of successful economic growth (water\, roads\, and cattle in Botswana)\, it shows how insatiable growth\, predicated on consumption\, will inevitably overwhelm\, a process Dr. Livingston terms self-devouring growth. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nJulie Livingston is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of the forthcoming Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable told from Southern Africa (Duke University Press)\, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke University Press)\, Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (Indiana University Press)\, and numerous articles and essays and edited volumes and special journal issues. Livingston is the recipient of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing\, the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Wellcome Medal\, and the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William Welch Medal. In 2013 she was named a MacArthur fellow. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-livingston-cultural-studies-colloquium/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181107T185303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181107T185435Z UID:10006678-1542115800-1542121200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey\, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall\, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola\, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families. \nPlease RSVP by completing this short survey. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/don-rothman-endowed-award-first-year-writing-ceremony/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181110T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181110T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181105T201551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T192255Z UID:10006677-1541840400-1541872800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\n\n\nThe Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging\nPart I\n\n\nMorning\n8:30 am transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.\n\n9:00 am Coffee and Introduction\n\n9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UCSC) “Sanctuary\, Refuge\, and Displacement to the Maghrib during the Reconquista.”\n\n11:00 Ashley V. Miller (UCB) “Designing Moroccan Heritage on the Economic Battlefield of World War I.” \n\n12:30 Lunch\n\nAfternoon\n1:30 Idriss Jebari (Bowdoin) “Critical Thought\, Nation-Building and Language Politics in the Maghreb.”\n\n3:00 Break\n\n3:15 Nouri Gana (UCLA) “Twilight Arabic: The Politics of Language in Postrevolutionary Tunisia.”\n\n4:45 Concluding remarks\n\n6:00 Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maghrib-workshop-sovereignty-crisis-narratives-belonging/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180727T213558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T211210Z UID:10005502-1541769600-1541775600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero DESCRIPTION:Gabriella Caballero\, UC San Diego: The Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)* \nThe cross-linguistic study of tone has largely focused on its lexical phonological properties\, its phonetic implementation and interaction with other prosodic phenomena\, but the morphological role of tone is still under-documented: What kind of morphological information may tone convey across languages? And what mechanisms regulate the outcome when there are lexical and grammatical tones in conflict? \nThis talk addresses these questions through the lens of Choguita Rarámuri (CR; Uto-Aztecan)\, a prosodically complex language of northern Mexico. \n  \nCR has three lexical tones exclusively realized in stressed syllables. Stress-accent is morphologically\nconditioned and tonal patterns are partially predictable from stress. Yet there is evidence for grammatical tone and tonal classes independent of stress. We argue that the full range of grammatical tone patterns in CR follows from an analysis that incorporates tonal underspecification and construction-specific tonal patterns as output-oriented schemas. This analysis captures several properties of this system\, including: (i) arbitrary relationship between tone patterns of related forms\, (ii) heterogeneous nature of morphosyntactic classes expressed by tone melodies\, and (iii) overwriting/avoidance of lexical tone by grammatical tone. We contrast this analysis with an alternative morphemic analysis that has been proposed in the literature (Spahr 2016)\, and argue that a construction-based analysis makes the correct empirical predictions. \n* Work in collaboration with Austin German (UCSD/UT Austin) \n \n \nMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-gabriella-caballero/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T230000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181022T203436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T213320Z UID:10006673-1541703600-1541718000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Save the Waves Film Festival DESCRIPTION:The 10th annual Save The Waves Film Festival presented by UGG brings its west coast tour home with an epic evening of live music and international surf films at Patagonia Outlet in Santa Cruz\, CA on Thursday\, November 8th. The night’s festivities will feature world premieres of surf\, adventure\, and documentary films\, as well as live music and a raffle at intermission. The Save The Waves Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Save The Waves Coalition and World Surfing Reserves\, and all proceeds support their work to protect surf ecosystems. \n \n  \n  \nThis event will have a cash bar with offerings from Tito’s Vodka\, Suerte Tequila\, and Kona Brewery. To make our film festival more eco-responsible\, we have eliminated single-use plastic cups at our bars. We will be selling stainless steel pint cups for $10 (one free drink with purchase!) or feel free to bring your own reusable cup. Thanks for helping us make this year’s film festival the greenest yet! \nAll Eventbrite ticketholders (pre-door sales) will receive a free raffle ticket at the door. Prizes include a Patagonia wetsuit\, Firewire surfboard\, GoPro Hero 6 Black\, Peak Designs photographer’s messenger bag\, Clif Bar prize pack + more! \n**this is an all ages show** URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/save-waves-film-festival/ LOCATION:Patagonia Outlet\, 415 River St C\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181010T183815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T183815Z UID:10006660-1541697600-1541703300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli DESCRIPTION:Valeria Luiselli\,  Hofstra University\, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd\, Sidewalks\, The Story of My Teeth\, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award\, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize\, a recipient of the National Book Foundation “5 under 35” award\, and the Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s\, among other publications\, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives and teaches in New York City. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-valeria-luiselli/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180921T163216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T213308Z UID:10005515-1541683800-1541689200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rachel Gross\, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century\, emphasizing sustainability\, local produce\, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine\, American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts\, build community in the present\, and pass on their values to future generations. \n \n  \n  \nProf. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion. She received her PhD from Princeton University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-gross-deli/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pickles_web-events.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T194816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180922T183513Z UID:10005510-1541592000-1541597400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline - Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas\, c.1540-1840” DESCRIPTION:Kevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming\, surfing\, canoe-making\, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks\, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships\, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports between hinterlands and overseas markets\, assuming economies pivoted around rural production. This talk shifts our intellectual focus seaward to consider how enslaved aquanauts’ African-based expertise enabled them to harvest hinter-seas to produce capital that helped finance terrestrial production throughout the English Empire. \nKevin Dawson grew up surfing\, swimming\, and freediving in south Los Angeles County\, all of which profoundly informed his scholarship. He received a BA from California State University\, Fullerton and was awarded his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 2005\, where his advisor was Dan Littlefield. Dawson’s scholarship and teaching focus on the African diaspora and Atlantic History from roughly 1444\, when the Portuguese first sailed into Sub-Saharan Africa to 1888\, when Brazil became the last country in the New World to abolish slavery. \nHe has conducted research throughout the continental US\, Hawai‘i\, the Caribbean\, and West Africa and has published articles in the Journal of American History and Journal of Social History\, as well as several chapters in edited volumes. His book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the Africa Diaspora was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-dawson-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181010T173759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T183426Z UID:10006657-1541092800-1541098500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski DESCRIPTION:Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press\, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards\, as well as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Brooklyn-based Juan & the Pines and Oakland-based The Western Skyline. Julian is currently at work on The Apache Pollen Path (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press) with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-julian-talamantez-brolaski/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T194211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181101T224514Z UID:10005509-1540987200-1540992600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michel Feher: "Creditworthiness - The Political Stake of a Speculative Age" DESCRIPTION:Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book\, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books\, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization\, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nMichel Feher is a philosopher who has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure\, Paris\, and at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and was recently a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the publisher and a founding editor of Zone Books\, NY (in 1986) as well as the president and co-founder of Cette France-là\, Paris (in 2008)\, a monitoring group on French immigration policy. He is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (2000) and\, most recently\, of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (2018); the co-author\, with Cette France-là\, of Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée (2012) and Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits (2012) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007)\, with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee\, and of Europe at a Crossroads/near Futures Online\, with William Callison\, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels (2015). \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michel-feher-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Feher_Book-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180712T205558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T200114Z UID:10006639-1540839600-1540846800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It DESCRIPTION:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, Presented by the Humanities Institute\nThe internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries\, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction\, while in the developing world\, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was supposed to empower people and enrich culture and democracy. What went wrong was based on a simplistic\, nerdy philosophy. The solution can be discerned\, and it involves creating and strengthening societal structures that are in between giant tech platforms and individuals. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nUnable to join us for the event? View the recording here: \n \nJaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It” from IHR on Vimeo. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nData and Democracy: This event kicks off a year of programming on “Data and Democracy.” The Humanities Institute will be hosting numerous events and other activities around this theme. As our society navigates shifting definitions of fake news\, targeted ad programs\, and compromised voting systems\, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. During the 2018-2019 Academic Year\, The Humanities Institute will lead a community-wide conversation about this topic through a range of events focused on the ethics of social media\, online privacy\, big data\, and algorithmic bias. \nDirections and Parking\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. Click here for directions.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-3527. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-jaron-lanier/ LOCATION:Music Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/event-1a.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180727T212357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180727T212846Z UID:10006642-1540630800-1540659600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop DESCRIPTION:More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-semantics-pragmatics-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T201356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181031T183922Z UID:10006643-1540569600-1540576800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:DATE CHANGE - Anne McNevin - "Time\, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison" DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday\, October 26th\, 2018  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nAnne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton. Her work focuses on the transformation of political belonging\, the regulation of borders and migration\, and spatiality and temporality in world politics. She is author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political (Columbia UP\, 2011) and co-editor of Citizenship Studies. Her current research explores contemporary social movements that enliven a politics of membership and mobility beyond the terms of open/closed borders and citizen/migrant subjects. \nCo-sponsored by: The After Neo-Liberalism Research Cluster and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-mcnevin/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sanctuary-city_v2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181015T203403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181031T183147Z UID:10006669-1540548000-1540576800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nSession 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas \n“Re-rooting ‘We Refugees’: Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil” – Dr. Scott Ritner \n“Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective” – Hannes Glück \n“Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times” – Veronika Zablotsky \n12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break \n1:30-3:30 pm \nSession 2: Chair: Prof. Max Tomba \n“Borders and Crossings:  Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices” – Prof. Susan Coutin (skype) \n“History\, Sense\, Sanctuary: The Time-Lapse Politics of Church Asylum” – Key MacFarland \n“Hotspot Geopolitics versus Geosocial Solidarity: Contending Constructions of Safe Space for Migrants in Europe” – Prof. Katharyne Mitchell and Prof. Matthew Sparke \n3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm  \nSession 3: Keynote Address\n“Time\, Sanctuary\, and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison” – Prof. Anne McNevin \n6:00-8:00 pm \nDinner at the Cowell Provost’s House URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-subjectivity-practices-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180924T173544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181015T211729Z UID:10005519-1540494000-1540501200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing - Bridge of Clay DESCRIPTION:Markus Zusak\, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book\, Bridge of Clay\, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga\, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart\, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are on sale at Bookshop Santa Cruz and at https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/markus-zusak. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU. \nThis offsite book discussion and signing event will be held at: Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front St.\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30.00\, include one copy of Bridge of Clay and one ticket to the event. One companion ticket may be purchased for $10.00. (No book included. Limit one per full price ticket.) \nThe publication date of Bridge of Clay is October 9th\, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of Bridge of Clay (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after October 9th\, or at the venue on the night of the event). \nThe breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world\, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. \nAt the center of the Dunbar family is Clay\, a boy who will build a bridge–for his family\, for his past\, for greatness\, for his sins\, for a miracle. \nThe question is\, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? \nMarkus Zusak is the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, an LA Times Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honor book. He lives in Sydney\, Australia\, with his wife and children. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/markus-zusak-book-discussion-signing-bridge-clay/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181010T173828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T202524Z UID:10006658-1540488000-1540493700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers - Khary Polk DESCRIPTION:Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality\, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate\, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing\, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, the journal Biography\, and has contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies\, including Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, and Think Again. His forthcoming book\, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Race\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-khary-polk/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T193734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T202501Z UID:10005508-1540382400-1540387800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe DESCRIPTION:“Tropical Exceptions – Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates” Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. Dr. Tambe’s talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases Tambe discusses —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— she show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices\, and why sexual practices are freighted with political meaning. Her previous work has engaged the history of sex trade regulation in Bombay. Her forthcoming book focuses on age standards for sexual consent and the legal paradoxes in defining girlhood in India. She is also writing a book on academic feminism and the #MeToo movement\, and co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory. She is the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-tambe-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180924T172515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T153155Z UID:10005518-1540321200-1540328400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic–athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny\, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \nMicah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us\, a novel; We Are Gathered Here\, a novel; Pagan Time\, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks\, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nRead more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student\, Thais Miller. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have any ADA accomodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-book-launch-true-love-dreams-miraculous-escape/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Perks_True-Love.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T203136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031529Z UID:10006647-1539946800-1539952200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop: "Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD - Reflections on Work and Identity" DESCRIPTION:“Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD: Reflections on Work and Identity” \nThis workshop will provide space to discuss\, critique\, and engage with some of the thorny questions about transitioning to non-tenure track careers. Kelly Anne Brown\, Associate Director of UCHRI\, and Shana Melnysyn\, Competitive Grants Officer at UCHRI\, will share their perspectives as PhDs at work in an Institute that hires many PhDs. We will begin by engaging with a few examples of “quit lit” from across the affective spectrum\, and discuss how we might approach them as primary sources in our research on broadening career horizons. We will ask graduate students to come prepared with questions about pursuing different kinds of work–particularly those they wouldn’t feel comfortable asking in other contexts. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nPlease read these texts ahead of the workshop and join the conversation: \n\nJust Another Piece of Quit Lit\, by Joseph Conley\nThe Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind\, by Erin Bartram\nThesis Hatement\, by Rebecca Schuman\nQuit Lit is About Labor Conditions\, by Katie Rose Guest\n\n\n \n  \n—– \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease 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. \nLunch will be served. \n  \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-uchri-grants/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181004T171948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T182330Z UID:10006656-1539880200-1539889200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Lee: "Pictures of the Past - Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America" DESCRIPTION:Ancient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known\, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives of the peoples who made them and their descendants. This lecture will explore many of the various rock art styles of this region and place them within the greater context of national and international rock art studies. \nFree and open to the public \nMetered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109) \n  \nDavid Lee is an independent rock art researcher\, focusing on the function and context of Native American rock art in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert. Beginning in 1996 he has documented rock art in California\, Nevada\, Utah\, Arizona\, Idaho\, and Australia\, and has authored and co-authored many papers and reports on the Mojave Desert\, eastern California\, and Australia. Since 2005 he has also been documenting rock art and associated traditional stories in northern Australia. He is a founding member of Western Rock Art Research\, a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and management of rock art. \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-lee-pictures-past-introduction-rock-art-western-north-america/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/David-Lee-Talk-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181003T223127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T192512Z UID:10006655-1539871200-1539874800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCHRI Funding Workshop DESCRIPTION:UCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director\, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to know to apply. \nOne-on-one Consultations also available \nBrown and Melnysyn will also be available for informal consultations about faculty-led research projects. Contact thi@ucsc.edu if you would like to set up time to meet with them.\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uchri-funding-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-03-at-3.31.00-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T165333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T202855Z UID:10005507-1539777600-1539783000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains” DESCRIPTION:“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban\, South Africa\, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century\, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s\, and in today’s racial capitalism. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSharad Chari is a geographer working at the interface of political economy\, historical ethnography\, Marxist geography\, agrarian studies\, Black and subaltern radical traditions and oceanic studies. He has spent time at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the ‘Anthrohistory’ program at Michigan\, Geography at the LSE\, and Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand\, before returning to Berkeley Geography. Sharad is a scholar of agrarian transition and industrialization in South India (his first book\, Fraternal Capital\, 2004) and has been working on South Africa since 2002 (on the book project Apartheid Remains which he is speaking from.) He has also begun new work on an oceanic conception of capitalism\, in relation to the fetishism of ‘the Ocean Economy’ in the Southern African Indian Ocean region\, focusing on the South African and Mozambican Indian Ocean littorals\, Réunion and Mauritius. At Berkeley\, he is also part of Berkeley Black Geographies and the Submergent Archive\, both collective projects in Geography Department\, and at WiSER he is part of the project on the Oceanic Humanities in the Global South. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharad-chari-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180207T000712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T195251Z UID:10006591-1539628200-1539633600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ben Breen\, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries\, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods\, including testing them on themselves. This talk explores how the globalization of drugs in the eighteenth century influenced Enlightenment-era science\, commerce\, and technology. It does so through three case studies: Jesuits observing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America\, East India Company merchants sampling cannabis in South Asia\, and the strange story of the invention of nitrous oxide.\n \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\nAn alumni Council Silicon Valley Lecture \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-breen-alumni-council-silicon-valley-lecture/ LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Breen_Poster-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181012T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181012T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180727T212233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T183659Z UID:10006641-1539350400-1539356400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky DESCRIPTION:“Subjects of copular constructions”\nUr Shlonsky\, University of Geneve \nMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-ur-shlonsky/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180927T223828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T224148Z UID:10005522-1539279000-1539284400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Clases DESCRIPTION:Led by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos\, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds\, vocabulary\, and grammar\, building on previous lessons. Students increase their language skills through a variety of group exercises. There is also homework\, so students can keep their Zapotec skills sharp between classes. \nClases is free and open to the public. To attend\, it is necessary to register online here: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-clases/ LOCATION:Small Schools Campus\, 840 N. Branciforte Ave.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T185500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20181010T174022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184435Z UID:10006659-1539278400-1539284100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samiya Bashir DESCRIPTION:Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories\, and Gospel\, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published\, performed\, installed\, printed\, screened\, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she served as Poet Laureate\, and an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland\, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samiya-bashir/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T165109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T202816Z UID:10005506-1539172800-1539178200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Benner: "A Universal Technology Dividend? - Rethinking price\, value\, work and the commons" DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation\, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets\, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nChris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change\, regional development\, and the structure of economic opportunity\, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored six books (most recently Equity\, Growth and Community\, 2015\, UC Press) and more that 70 journal articles\, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-cultural-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180924T171928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T175413Z UID:10005517-1539111600-1539118800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women DESCRIPTION:Join us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams\, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp\, about their new book\, History vs. Women.  \nRebels\, rulers\, scientists\, artists\, warriors and villains. \nWomen are\, and have always been\, all these things and more. \nLooking through the ages and across the globe\, Anita Sarkeesian\, founder of Feminist Frequency\, along with Ebony Adams PHD\, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates\, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists\, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers\, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew. \nFeaturing beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design\, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own. \nAnita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency\, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Best known as the creator and host of Feminist Frequency’s highly influential series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games\, Anita lectures at universities\, conferences and game development studios around the world. Anita dreams of owning a life-size replica of Buffy’s scythe. She is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nEbony Adams\, Ph.D. is an author\, activist\, and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism\, social justice\, and pop culture\, and is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. While seating is open (chairs are usually set up an hour ahead of time)\, you can reserve you place in the signing line by preordering your copy of History vs. Women with a priority signing line voucher from Bookshop Santa Cruz below. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 8th. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anita-sarkeesian-ebony-adams-history-vs-women/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180925T154858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181003T172404Z UID:10005521-1539014400-1539021600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Meet Up DESCRIPTION:Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. \nZac Zimmer\, Assistant Professor of Literature\, will present a short paper\, “Cryptography\, Subjectivity and Spyware: From PGP Source Code and Internals to Pegasus\,” to kick off a DH-focused conversation related to the 2018 – 2019 THI theme\, Data and Democracy.  \nRead Cyberwar for Sale beforehand and come prepared to discuss the issues \nThis brief intervention will use two examples from the world of secure communications to explore the intersection of global norms of privacy and local conceptions of political subjectivity. \nThe first example is a book published by Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press in 1995. That 900-page tome was a hard copy print out of the source code for his open source implementation of the public-key RSA cryptosystem. In the early 1990s\, Zimmermann was being prosecuted by the US Government for distributing his software. By publishing his source code as a book\, Zimmermann claimed free speech protections\, while resourceful users knew that by scanning the pages they’d be able to compile their own versions of the software. PGP has since gone through several iterations\, yet remains a global standard for email encryption. And yet it is not foolproof. In 2017\, The Citizen Lab reported an exploit used by the Mexican state. “Pegasus\,” produced by the Israeli cyberarms firm the NSO Group\, allowed Mexican authorities to surveil and target Mexican lawyers\, journalists\, activists\, and others. Pegasus uses social engineering and “spear-phising” attacks to compromise communications systems. There is no cryptographic solution to Pegasus. \nThrough tracing the trajectory from PGP to Pegasus\, I pose the following questions: Is there a work-around to surveillance society? Will Big Data recognize any other civil rights framework\, other than “privacy”? Is there a way to “transmediate” cryptographic protocols\, in the spirit of Zimmermann and MIT Press’ collaboration\, in order to protect against exploits like Pegasus? \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/aidan-granberry-630661-unsplash.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180810T163613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T180430Z UID:10005505-1538506800-1538514000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz alumna\, Reyna Grande\, will discuss her new memoir\, A Dream Called Home\, in conversation with Micah Perks\, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. \nA DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and become an award-winning and bestselling author. Grande shares an inspiring\, personal account of what it means to find a home and place of belonging in America as a undocumented\, first-generation Latina. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nGet a copy of A Dream Called Home at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at the event\, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. Free books will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend (student ID required at the door). \nReyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel\, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria\, 2006)\, received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award\, a 2007 American Book Award\, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel\, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press\, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award\, Best Women’s Issues\, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs\, including Rochester Reads 2018\, MacReads 2018\, One Book/One Michiana 2018\, All Henrico Reads 2018\, Timberland Reads Together 2017\, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017\, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017\, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016\, Camarillo Reads 2016\, Roswell Reads 2015\, and One Maryland/One Book 2014\, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work\, visit www.reynagrande.com. \nPresented by: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute \nCo-sponsored by:\nResearch Center for the Americas\nUCSC First Gen Initiative\nKresge College\nUCSC Year of Alumni \nParking is limited. Please carpool or choose alternative transportation if you are able. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-book-launch-dream-called-home/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ReynaGrande_Banner_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180924T213845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T030336Z UID:10005520-1538229600-1538240400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Madhuri Shekar’s Queen + Panel DESCRIPTION:With prestigious accolade only days away\, the numbers start adding up to an ethical dilemma for UC Santa Cruz graduate researchers\, Ariel Spiegel [Stacy Fairley] and Sanam Rao [Nandini Ravindran]\, and their supervisor\, Dr. Philip Hayes [Michael Boehm] in Madhuri Shekar’s Queen.  Is financier\, Arvind Patel [Snehal Pachigar]\, correct that their whole hypothesis is motivated by left-wing bias?  \nThe drama directed by EnActe Arts’ Artistic Director and Founder\, Vinita Sud Belani\, and launches EnActe Art’s 2018-19 season dedicated to the telling of women’s stories in response to author Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to publishing houses for 2018 to be a year of publishing women. \nFollowing the 2 pm performance on September 29\, a panel of UCSC faculty will address the joys and challenges facing women in academia and scientific research. Featuring: Vilashini Coopan (Literature)\, Needhi Bhalla (Molecular\, Cell\, and Developmental Biology)\, and Jennifer Derr (History). \n  \nTickets Required \nUCSC Students\, Faculty and Staff\, use code UCSCQUEEN for free tickets. \nGeneral Seating $25.00 \nStudent/Senior $10.00 \nTickets available at https://www.tikkl.com/enacte/c/queen URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhuri-shekars-queen-panel/ LOCATION:De Anza College\, Cupertino\, CA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Queen-QUAD-banner-Copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180929T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180911T215734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180918T175550Z UID:10005514-1538215200-1538236800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Summer Camp DESCRIPTION:Nido de Lenguas Summer Camp is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please sign up online using the form or by emailing us at nidodelenguas@ucsc.edu. \nWhat is Summer Camp?\nIt is a one-day event where anybody has the opportunity to learn about — and learn how to speak — a Oaxacan language. Currently\, participants can choose the Zapotec of Santiago Laxopa or the Mixtec of San Martín Peras. \nSummer Camp brings together community members with native speaker and linguists from UC Santa Cruz. There are fun group activities and fast-paced games\, each geared toward learning a Oaxacan language. \nWho comes to Summer Camp?\nParticipants are community members who were excited to discover the indigenous languages of Oaxaca\, many spoken by their neighbors across the Monterey Bay area. Native speakers of Mixtec and Zapotec teach their languages\, and linguistics professors and students from UC Santa Cruz facilitate the activities. \nDate: Saturday\, September 29\, 2018\nTime: 10 am to 4 pm \nWhere: Santa Cruz Adult School\, 319 La Fonda Ave\, Santa Cruz URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-summer-camp/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Adult School\, 319 La Fonda Ave\, Santa Cruz\, 95062\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180811 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180813 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180221T184147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180810T195039Z UID:10006597-1533945600-1534118399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Weekend with Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures\, discussions\, and demonstrations about the 2018 Season’s mainstage productions\, Romeo & Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. \nWeekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year\, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However\, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website. \nWeekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nLECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE\nDAY ONE Lecture Series\, Love’s Labour’s Lost: Saturday\, August 11 \nNoon welcome (light lunch provided) \n12:15-1:15 – Sean Keilen\, Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz)\, discusses Shakespeare’s wit in Love’s Labour’s Lost \n1:15-1:30 – Break \n1:30-2:30 – Conversation with Michael Warren\, Emeritus Professor of Literature (UC Santa Cruz) and Head of Dramatugy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, and Ashley Herum\, Dramaturg for Love’s Labour’s Lost \n2:30-3:00 – Break with refreshments and light snacks. \n3:00-4:00 – Q&A with cast from Love’s Labour’s Lost\, moderated Mike Ryan\, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz . \n** \n7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove. \n7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance talk: ‘5 Things to Look For\,” with Sean Keilen \n8:00 – Evening performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost. \nDAY TWO: Lecture Series\, Romeo & Juliet: Sunday\, August 12 \nNoon Welcome (light lunch provided) \n12:15-1:30 – Dr. Ariane Helou\, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies (UCLA) and Dramaturg for Romeo and Juliet\, discusses poetry and transformation in Romeo and Juliet \n1:30-2:15 – Break with refreshments and light snacks \n2:15-3:30 – Workshop on sonnets with Mike Ryan and Sean Keilen\n**\n7:00 – Bring your own picnic dinner at The Grove. \n7:00-7:15 – Pre-performance discussion of “5 Things to Look For\,” with Ariane Helou \n8:00 – Evening performance of Romeo and Juliet URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/weekend-with-shakespeare/ LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180809T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180809T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180605T213350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T213350Z UID:10006638-1533841200-1533844800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cabrillo Music Festival Community Night DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to announce a new public partnership with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. THI will serve as a sponsor of the Festival’s new Community Night event on August 9\, 2018. Community Night will include a dynamic short concert of chamber works performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra designed for new listeners. The program includes fan favorites from recent seasons plus a few surprises – all led by conductor Cristi Măcelaru. \nTo celebrate this new partnership\, THI will make 100 free tickets available for Community Night. The first 50 people to request tickets through this online form will receive 2 free tickets. \n“THI and the Cabrillo Festival share a deep commitment to telling stories that reflect diverse cultural backgrounds and speak to the human spirit. We’re honored to be part of the community they have cultivated for more than 50 years\,” says Irena Polic\, THI Managing Director. \nThe annual music festival serves as a celebration of music and community\, bringing together players\, composers and music lovers for two weeks of contemporary musical performances. \n“The Festival’s rich tradition of showcasing new and experimental music embodies our goal of making culture accessible and meaningful to everyone in our community\,” says Polic. “We’re proud to be a co-sponsor of Community Night and look forward to rolling out additional programming connected to the festival in the years ahead.” \nThe Cabrillo Festival runs from July 29 through August 12 and tickets are now on sale. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cabrillo-music-festival-community-night/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180722 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180227T184250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T235923Z UID:10005461-1531612800-1532217599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:38th Annual Dickens Universe Conference featuring Little Dorrit DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. \nView our full event photo album on Flickr: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn 2018\, the Universe featured Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. Full of contrasts—light and shade\, comedy and pathos—Little Dorrit is one of the great social novels of the Victorian age. It takes as its central themes the prison of this lower world\, the vicissitudes of love in middle age and the inescapable power of money. Intricately plotted and full of Dickensian humor and sentiment\, the novel displays a broad social vision and remarkable psychological insight. \nNow in its 38th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels. Here are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience: \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe range of activities—formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \nMore information and registration: \nGeneral Website: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/\nRegistration Link: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/registration/index.html\nPhone: (831) 459-2103\nEmail: cmahaney@ucsc.edu\nVideo Link: https://youtu.be/JJgV87yGBSs URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/38th-annual-dickens-universe-conference-featuring-little-dorrit/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dickens-Banner-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180125T194011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180716T181228Z UID:10005449-1528473600-1528484400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating the Humanities: Spring Awards and Retirement Celebration DESCRIPTION:Humanists study the stories of humanity\, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration of what it means to be human. \nHumanities Division’s awards acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. See the event program and all award winners here. \n \n Celebrating the Humanities – 2018 Spring Awards from THI on Vimeo. \nView our full event photo album on Flickr: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nProgram Schedule\n4:00-5:00pm Spring Awards \n5:00-5:30pm Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Session \n5:30-7:00pm Retirement Celebration URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-spring-awards/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180608T154500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T181920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T181920Z UID:10006625-1528462800-1528472700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference DESCRIPTION:Towards the end of the spring quarter each year\, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker\, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lurc-linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180314T224437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T232954Z UID:10006606-1528398000-1528403400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan: "Manhattan Beach" DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel\, Manhattan Beach. \nTickets for this special offsite event (which will be held at Peace United Church) are on sale now online at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nJoin us prior to the event for a wine reception at 6:30. \nPraise for Manhattan Beach\nManhattan Beach may seem like a straightforward historical novel\, but with Egan’s peerless writing and keen emotional intelligence\, it plumbs the depths of human will\, connection\, and reinvention. Mesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime\, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America\, and the world. \n– Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n– A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n– A New York Times Notable Book & Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017\n– Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction\n– Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction\n– Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR\, The Guardian & Kirkus Reviews \n“Joy\, purification\, renewal\, death—the sea is all of these things in Manhattan Beach\, Jennifer Egan’s intricately patterned and visionary new novel.” —The Atlantic \n“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda\, Bookshop Head Book Buyer \nBio\nJennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. \n \nTicket Details\nTicket packages are $20.00 and include one ticket to the event and one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only\, no book included) is available for $7.00 when purchasing a ticket package. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-manhattan-beach/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Jennifer-Egan-event-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180125T193231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T172227Z UID:10005446-1528286400-1528291800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Stephanie Bosch Santana: "The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain" DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her work\, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation\, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the 1950s to the present. It argues that writers from South Africa\, Malawi\, Zambia\, and Zimbabwe have developed new genres of fiction in these media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space. \nThis Cultural Studies Colloquium is part of the UCHRI Junior Faculty Lecture Circuit. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cs-colloquium-ucla-junior-faculty-exchange-talk-stephanie-santana/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T175511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180520T162454Z UID:10005490-1527856200-1527860700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Sheeva Sabati DESCRIPTION:Coloniality of the West: The Formation of the UC System \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-sheeva-sabati/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T172000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180327T091005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220225Z UID:10006619-1527787200-1527787200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Robin Coste Lewis DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nLewis earned her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater fellow in poetry. She also earned a MTS degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from Harvard Divinity School. She is a Cave Canem fellow and was awarded a Provost’s fellowship in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. Other fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation\, the Ragdale Foundation\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Can Serrat International Art Centre in Barcelona\, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. She was a finalist for the International War Poetry Prize\, the National Rita Dove Prize\, and semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize and the Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Prize. \nLewis has taught at Wheaton College\, Hunter College\, Hampshire College and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Born in Compton\, California\, her family is from New Orleans. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Spring 2018: “A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement” \nSpring quarter 2018 will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”  – Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/41625/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180322T221006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220138Z UID:10006617-1527706800-1527714000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nFull event info: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/robin-coste-lewis-voyage-sable-venus \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robin-coste-lewis-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180228T234756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220105Z UID:10005477-1527681600-1527687000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis: "Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies\, Art\, Race\, & Poetry" DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”– Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-robin-coste-lewis/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T183657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180530T182550Z UID:10006627-1527618600-1527625800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Always Moving Uphill: Women in the Arts" Panel DESCRIPTION:Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists\, writers\, and poets to find voice in a world that has been\, until very recently\, so completely dominated and controlled by (white) male power and money. \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts” featuring: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nRegistration required – registration has closed \n  \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsal with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/always-moving-uphill-women-arts-panel/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Okeefe_R1a_Webbanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180515T210329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T210351Z UID:10006635-1527614100-1527620400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeff Michno: "Nicaragua Y ¿Vos\, tú o usted?" DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this talk\, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos\, tú\, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community\, providing evidence that locals use tú\, a variant reported as virtually absent from Nicaraguan Spanish\, with both outsiders and other locals. Utilizing local commentary\, I show that this practice coincides with a sense of prestige attributed to the tú form\, and stigma\, to vos\, the form reported as ubiquitous in Nicaraguan Spanish. In addition\, through an interactional analysis\, I identify several functions of pronoun switching (e.g. from vos to tú) by a given speaker with the same conversational partner\, including: flirting\, enhancing or reducing deference\, emphasizing youthfulness\, and negotiating identity status and stance in new relationships. Most notably\, I show how locals systematically switch pronouns to shift from direct address (e.g. ¿Cómo te llamas? ‘What is your[tú] name?’) to an impersonal stance (e.g. Tenés que trabajar para comer. ‘You[vos] have [one has] to work to eat.’). The evidence supports the view that impersonal use of second-person pronouns implies some type of generalization\, which can serve to create solidarity between conversational partners. \nJeff Michno is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville\, SC. Professor Michno’s research focuses on language and culture contact\, examining both well-established contact settings\, such as the Texas-Mexico region\, as well as more recent scenarios rooted in migration\, globalization and tourism. He is currently investigating a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact due to tourism. His primary research goal is to highlight ways in which language varies according to the social characteristics of individuals as well as their moment-to-moment communicative moves (i.e. variation according to both social and pragmatic factors). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-michno-nicaragua-y-vos-tu-o-usted/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-21.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180530 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180125T193828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T220033Z UID:10005448-1527552000-1527638399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Opera Works: Journey in Creation DESCRIPTION:Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. \n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nTuesday\, May 29\, 2018 \n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invite students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, a San Francisco based company under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshop is free and open to everyone. \n  \nRELATED EVENTS \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”  – Registration Required  \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nCultural Studies talk with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities 1\, Room 210 @ 12:15pm\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/georgia-okeefe-opera-workshop-panel/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Okeefe_R1a_Webbanner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T174902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T174902Z UID:10005489-1527251400-1527255900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Madison Treece DESCRIPTION:Maya Textile Arts Influence Contemporary Politics in Zapatista Embroidery \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-madison-treece/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180410T234117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T234117Z UID:10005484-1527182400-1527187800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu DESCRIPTION:Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet\, translator\, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan\, France\, China\, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes\, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa\, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor\, with Lisa Samuels\, of A Transpacific Poetics\, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries. She teaches at Brown University. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sawako-nakayasu/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180427T191320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T194953Z UID:10005498-1527168600-1527174000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mitch Aso: "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam" DESCRIPTION:  \nRubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet\, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book\, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam\, adopts a broader lens\, what I call an ecological history\, to examine the role of rubber in shaping Vietnamese society in the twentieth century. Through this lens\, I examine how the evolving relationships between humans and non-humans contributed to both the projects of empire and nation building. I argue that rubber\, and rubber plantations\, structured the material and symbolic bodies and landscapes of the postcolonial nation of Vietnam. In my talk\, I will touch on the promises and the perils of such ecological histories and the new perspectives on the past that they offer. \nMore info on The Center for World History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mitch-aso-rubber-making-vietnam/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Aso-talk-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180509T222821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T222821Z UID:10006634-1527089400-1527102000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Applied Linguistics Colloquia DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/applied-linguistics-colloquia/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180228T234424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T015140Z UID:10005475-1527076800-1527082200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Saein Park: "Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine\, Marx\, & Benjamin" DESCRIPTION:Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature\, political philosophy\, and critical theory\, focusing on translation and reception studies\, theories of waste\, and plant studies. \nSaein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-saein-park/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T183546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180510T032913Z UID:10006626-1527066000-1527087600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Research and Teaching Symposium featuring Undergraduate Digital Research and Innovative Pedagogy DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event will showcase the independent\, digital research and classroom work of undergraduate students alongside the innovative assignment design and pedagogical experimentation of faculty and graduate students. Join us in the morning to focus on undergraduate digital research and in the afternoon for an in-depth discussion about new methods in active and engaged pedagogy. \nLunch will be included for participants and registered attendees.  \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning\, and The Digital Scholarship Commons (University Library). \nREGISTER NOW\n\nPROGRAM \nWednesday\, May 23\, 2018\n9 am – 3pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor\, McHenry Library) \n9: 00 Light Breakfast + Coffee \n9:30 – 10:30 Digital Poster Session​: Undergraduate Research + Graduate Student Pedagogy projects \n10:30 – 11:45 Panel of Undergraduate Digital Research Fellows (Moderator\, Ebad Rahman) \n11:45 – 1:30 Lunch + Break \n1:30 – 3:00 Round table on Innovative Pedagogy with Faculty and Graduate Students (Moderators\, Kendra Dority and Aaron Zachmeier) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-research-teaching-symposium-featuring-undergraduate-digital-research-innovative-pedagogy/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180521T200333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T200333Z UID:10006637-1526916600-1526922000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dayna Barnes: "Learning Lessons? A comparison of Planning for the Occupations of Japan and Iraq" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dayna-barnes-learning-lessons-comparison-planning-occupations-japan-iraq/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T210431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T214219Z UID:10006631-1526846400-1526853600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-4/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180515T233125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T233125Z UID:10006636-1526806800-1526835600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join Senderos for our 13th annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza on Sunday\, May 20 at San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz (new location). This is an all-day (9am to 5pm) dance\, music\, food\, crafts festival which brings the rich cultural traditions of Oaxaca to our County. Last year we had over 3700 in attendance. \nIn addition to Guelaguetza we are presenting these FREE family-friendly events in May! \nSaturday\, May 5 – MÚSICA CLÁSICA EN LA MISIÓN 2-5:30pm\nSanta Cruz Mission Historic Park: tours of Mission\, crafts\, Oaxacan food for sale with outdoor concert at 3:30pm featuring the wonderful student musicians from Oaxaca who will be with Senderos for a 3 week cultural exchange.\nThis event presented in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks and California State Parks \nSaturday\, May 12 – Senderos Fiesta – 5-7pm\, Cooper Street\nMusic\, dancing\, Oaxacan food for sale – street party!\nThis event presented in partnership with Santa Cruz City Arts and Santa Cruz MAH \nCo-sponsored by:\nNido de Lenguas – a project of the UCSC Humanities Institute and the UCSC Linguistics Department to share the value of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza/ LOCATION:San Lorenzo Park\, Santa Cruz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T210128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210557Z UID:10006630-1526760000-1526767200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-3/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T205929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210338Z UID:10006629-1526673600-1526680800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T181455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T205841Z UID:10006624-1526650200-1526653800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner DESCRIPTION:“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior” \nThe past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language\, representation\, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist\, we can take as established that how often and in what context different speech patterns occur influence both memory and processing. The question now is what we do with this rich foundation. \nIn this talk\, I present a few\, short examples of how usage-based approaches to phonetics and psycholinguistics help us understand social biases and human behavior. I provide some evidence showing that phonetically-cued talker information (e.g.\, emotion\, gender) directly activates lexical items\, providing us with some insights into the timing and availability of this\ninformation. The purpose of this first part is to illuminate the complexity of experiencing linguistic events from the perspective of a listener. \nFor the remainder of the talk\, I move away from phonetics\, taking the basic insights from the studies initially presented (e.g.\, that we are pattern recognizers) to question assumptions about language use and experience and ask how our understanding of language use\, semantic associations and culture can inform society at large. Specifically\, I spend the last large chunk of\nthis talk investigating how we can understand the refugee experience through the lens of spoken language comprehension. \nMeghan Sumner is an associate professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-meghan-sumner-stanford/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-19.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T174633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T175308Z UID:10005488-1526646600-1526651100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Rebekkah Gross DESCRIPTION:Situational Features Influences College Students’ Evaluations About Helping \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. \nFor questions\, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-rebekkah-gross/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180427T034325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T034325Z UID:10005496-1526630400-1526670000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"¿Cómo te comunicas?": 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium DESCRIPTION:The 7th annual UC Comparative Iberian Studies Symposium “¿Cómo te comunicas?” will feature a cohort of 15-17 UC professors\, working in a variety of fields within the discipline of Iberian Studies\, stretching from medieval topics to cultural studies until the 21st century. \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCHRI. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/como-te-comunicas-7th-annual-uc-comparative-iberian-studies-symposium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-14.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T205846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T210241Z UID:10006628-1526587200-1526594400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell\, and Stevenson Colleges at UCSC will present the 18th season of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) from May 17th through May 20th at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center on campus. In this unique multilingual program\, students will be featured in fully-staged excerpts of short works in Punjabi\, French. German\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. \nThere is no admission charge for the event; nearby parking is $4.00. \nThere are exciting innovations in the program this year\, with the first MEIP presentation of works in Punjabi\, including a short play and poetry\, directed by Arshinder Kaur\, and excerpts from Mozart’s opera\, The Magic Flute\, sung in German\, directed by Sheila Willey\, and performed by students of the University Opera Theater\, as a preview of their upcoming production of the opera\, which will take place from May 31 to June 3 at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. Students of French will portray scenes from Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny\, one of the plays in his trilogy about a group of serio-comic characters in Marseille\, directed by Miriam Ellis and Renée Cailloux. Spanish will offer a contemporary comedy\, Black and White\, by Ignacio Dominis\, directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles\, which explores characters who live in two different worlds\, separated by a line never to be crossed. Over the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences who look forward to hearing their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend. \nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Leslie at lmhunter@ucsc.edu or (831-459- 2054). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse/ LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JapaneseSweet-Poison-MEIP-XV.-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180507T172412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T172600Z UID:10006633-1526577600-1526583000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry\, including Cruel Futures (City Lights\, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Goodbye\, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press\, 2010)\, which received an American Book Award. She also coedited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press\, 2014). \ngiovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist\, while engaging a concern for the historical\, the personal\, the spiritual\, as expanses… The buildup is slow\, and culminates as play\, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter\, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.” \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\nA Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-carmen-gimenez-smith-giovanni-singleton-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T220257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T163243Z UID:10005492-1526572800-1526580000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Kelly: “Subjection and Performance: Tourism\, Witnessing\, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program Presents: \n“Subjection and Performance: Tourism\, Witnessing\, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine” \nDrawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine\, in this talk Jennifer Kelly shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. On solidarity tours\, Palestinians are expected to rehearse their displacement and provide evidence of their dispossession against a constellation of U.S. and Israeli state sanctioned narratives that have rendered them unreliable narrators. Kelly shows how Palestinian tour guides disrupt tourist expectations by refusing to perform subjection for the tourist gaze. In alternative performances of pleasure and through acts of “hanging out\,” Palestinian tour guides intervene in tourist expectations of performances of trauma and instead ask tourists to confront the violences of their own desire in Palestine. \nJennifer Kelly is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Asian American Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-race-ethnic-studies-program-presents/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ACFrOgDdy997WofAVTT3_-O1bZNl-q7DdQz5yOa5MbnD5VeDWNE1PTYw57ydlrn3kNh18xyt-trNXOj1I7r8H05fUgwdmD-JAZg5VV5KV1maix98o8r8tpIrZXA5L-o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180125T193612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T170809Z UID:10005447-1526493600-1526500800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum: "Global 1968 - Race and Revolution around the World" DESCRIPTION:6:00pm – doors open  |  6:30pm – program begins \n  \nFifty years ago\, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians\, “Global 1968” spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to China\, Oakland to West Africa—while considering what lessons can be drawn for politics and protest today. \nRegistration Required – Registration has closed\nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSpeakers:\nJean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)\nJaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)\nDonna Murch (Rutgers University)\nEmily Honig (UC Santa Cruz)\nModerated by: Marc Matera (UC Santa Cruz) \n  \nPhotography Exhibit: \nIncluded in the evening’s event will be a pop-up exhibit of images from a 1968 photography project launched by artist Ruth-Marion Baruch to document the people and the work of California’s Black Panther Party. The now-iconic photographs she and her husband Pirkle Jones took of the Panthers were both celebrated and criticized for their sympathetic portrayal of a maligned community. Black Panthers\, 1968 is one of many projects revealing Baruch’s and Jones’s commitment to art and social change that are preserved in their archive at UC Santa Cruz’s Special Collections & Archives. \n  \nRegistration Required. Each attendee must submit a registration form. Seating is first come\, first serve. Overflow space will be available. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. Please note that if you do not receive an email confirmation with your form responses\, you have not successfully registered for the event. \n  \nCo-sponsored by: The Center for World History and the History Department. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-museum/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/banner-1b-1024x520.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180228T234026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180922T183101Z UID:10005473-1526472000-1526477400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Doyle: "Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons" DESCRIPTION:This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers\, students and staff who live and work with harassment\, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as\, in some ways\, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of us have never left\, but which critical formations tend to represent as having passed: super-sexual political writing calling for openness against an intolerable future. \nJennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at UC Riverside. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-jennifer-doyle/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180425T222259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T222625Z UID:10005494-1526385600-1526391000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Building a Coding Workflow from Terminal to Github: Workshop with Fabiola Hanna DESCRIPTION:  \nConfused by Github? Scared by the black screen of the Terminal? \nIf you’re looking to code\, but don’t know how to get started join Fabiola Hanna for an introductory workshop and learn how to set up a coding workflow. We’ll start with basic scripts in Terminal then move to setting up Brackets and working with GitHub. You’ll learn how to fork\, branch\, push\, pull\, etc… If you don’t know what any of these words mean\, you’re more than welcome! Start here. \nRegistration Required. Limited Seating. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/building-coding-workflow-terminal-github-workshop-fabiola-hanna/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180518 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180427T205050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T184014Z UID:10005499-1526342400-1526601599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Right Livelihood Conference DESCRIPTION:  \n‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Laureates at UCSC \nIn May 2018\, a group of Right Livelihood change-makers based in Canada and the US will convene at the University of California\, Santa Cruz to discuss challenges and opportunities for advancing social and environmental justice.  In these tumultuous times\, this meeting will deepen and ground our local efforts toward a more sustainable\, equitable\, and peaceful world. \nPublic Program Dates: May 15 – 17\, 2018\nPlace: University of California\, Santa Cruz\, USA \n  \nThe Right Livelihood Award \nThe Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting the annual award\, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation also supports the work of its Laureates\, particularly those whose lives may be in danger due to the nature of their activities. \n  \nThe Right Livelihood College \nCommon Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz’s Kresge College is the one and only Right Livelihood College in North America\, and we are honored to host the first North American Regional Conference featuring many Laureates from the USA and Canada. By linking activists and academics\, the Right Livelihood College highlights UC Santa Cruz’s trailblazing leadership in service of people and the planet\, and makes vital contributions to the intellectual life of the campus and community. \n  \n\n\nLaureates attending \nThe following Laureates have confirmed their attendance: \n\nRobert Bilott (USA\, 2017)\n\n“…for exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution\, winning long-sought justice for the victims\, and setting a precedent for effective regulation of hazardous substances.”\n\n\nSheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada\, 2015)\n\n“…for her lifelong work to protect the Inuit of the Arctic and defend their right to maintain their livelihoods and culture\, which are acutely threatened by climate change.”\n\n\nBill McKibben / 350.org (USA\, 2014)\n\n“…for mobilising growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change.”\n\n\nPaul Walker (USA\, 2013)\n\n“…for working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons.”\n\n\nJamila Raqib on behalf of Gene Sharp (USA\, 2012)\n\n“…for developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world.”\n\n\nYannick Beaudoin (David Suzuki Foundation)\, on behalf of David Suzuki (Canada\, 2009)\n\n“…for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science\, and for his massive contribution to raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public support for policies to address it”.\n\n\nAmy Goodman (USA\, 2008)\n\n“…for developing an innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by mainstream media.”\n\n\nDaniel Ellsberg (USA\, 2006)\n\n“…for putting peace and truth first\, at considerable personal risk\, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”\n\n\nMaude Barlow (Canada\, 2005)\n\n“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”\n\n\nTony Clarke (Canada\, 2005)\n\n“… for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water.”\n\n\nWes Jackson / The Land Institute (USA\, 2000)\n\n“…for his single-minded commitment to developing an agriculture that is both highly productive and truly ecologically sustainable.”\n\n\nAlice Tepper Marlin (USA\, 1990)\n\n“…for showing the direction in which the Western economy must develop to promote the well-being of humanity.”\n\n\nFrances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Institute) (USA\, 1987)\n\n“…for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.”\n\n\nAmory Lovins (USA\, 1983)\n\n“…for pioneering soft energy paths for global security.”\n\n\nPat Mooney (Canada\, 1985)\n\n“…for working to save the world’s genetic plant heritage.”\n\n\nLisa Wartinger\, Bruce Curtis and/or Peter Schweizer of Plenty International (USA\, 1980)\n\n“…for caring\, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”\n\n\n\n\n  \nPartner Organisations \nA number of groups at UC Santa Cruz are collaborating to co-host this event\, including:UCSC Foundation\nCommon Ground Center\nKresge College\nBlum Center on Poverty\, Social Enterprise\, and Participatory Governance\nEverett Program for Technology & Social Change\nCenter for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\nDivision of Social Sciences\nThe Humanities Institute\nUniversity Relations\nScience and Justice Research Center\nSustainability Office\nEnvironmental Studies Department\nHeller Chair in Agroecology\nRachel Carson College & Headley Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental JusticePlease contact us using the information below if you would like to contribute to the conference.\n\n  \nConference Background \nSince 2013\, the Right Livelihood Award has arranged a series of regional conferences for its Laureates. It was after a call from one of our Colombian Laureates\, asking for help to strengthen their regional network\, that we decided to bring Laureates from Latin America and the Caribbean together for the first time. Since it was such an important and fruitful meeting\, this meeting was followed by regional meetings for Laureates in Africa and the Middle East in 2014\, in Asia in 2015\, and\, in 2016\, Laureates in Europe. The meeting of North American Right Livelihood Award Laureates will be the fifth regional conference. In times when safe spaces for action are shrinking for civil society all over the world\, these meetings provide an enabling environment for important actors toward a more sustainable and peaceful world. Award recipients have been able to share struggles\, exchange ideas\, strengthen networks of collaboration\, and engage more deeply with change makers and communities local to the areas where the meetings have been held.\n\nAdd strength to change-makers by supporting this conference \nSince its founding by Jakob von Uexkull\, Individual donations have been the backbone of the Right Livelihood Award. Institutional donors also help to support the Award. If you would like to contribute to this meeting of courageous people and organisations in North America that have found practical solutions to the root causes of global problems\, please visit the ‘Donate‘ section. \nMark your support: “Regional conf.\, Santa Cruz” \n  \nContact information \nKajsa Övergaard\nSenior Programme Director\nRight Livelihood Award Foundation\nkajsa@rightlivelihood.org\n+46-8-7020340 \nDavid Shaw\nCoordinator\, RLC Campus Santa Cruz\nCo-Director\, Common Ground Center\nUCSC Kresge College\ndaveshaw@ucsc.edu\n+1-831-222-0253 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/right-livelihood-conference/ LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/RLC-banner-email-rla-santa-cruz-no-border-1334x386.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180513T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180513T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180110T201407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T201407Z UID:10006578-1526220000-1526227200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: The Dickens Universe DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-dickens-universe/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Pickwick-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180511T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T172334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T172334Z UID:10005487-1526041800-1526046300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Sam Hughes DESCRIPTION:The Origins of Kink-Oriented Desires: Perspectives from an Online Community of Kinky People \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-sam-hughes/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T152000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180427T035414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T035600Z UID:10005497-1525965600-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Engaging and Including Student Veterans in the Classroom DESCRIPTION:Writing Program Pedagogy Workshop \nThe number of student veterans is rapidly growing\, with more than a million currently enrolled in US colleges. Many institutions support veterans by promoting access to student services but overlook what actually happens in the classroom. What do we need to know as instructors about student veterans’ learning practices\, literacies\, and instructional needs? This workshop will enhance your cultural competence and provide new pedagogical tools to engage and include student veterans in our classrooms. \nDr. Brenda Sanfillipo is a lecturer with the UCSC Writing Program\, Stevenson College\, and Porter College. Her research focuses on representations of war since 9/11. In addition to her academic work and teaching on contemporary warfare\, she spent five years as part of the Army community. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-including-student-veterans-classroom/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-15.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180427T231248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T150538Z UID:10005500-1525965300-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer DESCRIPTION:“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” \nIs there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics and aim to delineate a well-motivated thesis about a priori access to such. After examining a few approaches that don’t succeed\, I introduce and defend a positive thesis of “semantic rationalism.” The relevance of that thesis for the topics of metaphysical necessities and essences is then explored\, with attention in particular to whether the rationalism in question has enough bite to be of interest. \nGene Witmer is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Florida. His research focuses on metaphysics and philosophy of mind\, with a special focus on physicalism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-gene-witmer/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180319T201507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T183257Z UID:10006614-1525878000-1525885200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED Digital Humanities Meet Up DESCRIPTION:**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED** \nShare your digital research with the DH community!  \nJoin the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal meet up. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short\, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style\, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new colleagues\, share your work\, and recognize mutual research interests. \n\nAll students\, faculty\, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend. \nFood and drinks courtesy of The Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180423T215256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T215256Z UID:10006632-1525509000-1525536000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Pacific Island Worlds Transpacific Dis/Positions Symposium DESCRIPTION:In this symposium\, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart\nPacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of\ncomplex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a\nrange of cultural and political identity dis/positions through kinship\, colonial histories\, and\ndiasporas. The symposium honors the memory of UCSC alum Teresia Teaiwa. \nSpeakers will discuss performance and poetry\, debates on cultural preservation\, imaging\nOceanic histories and places\, the cultures of Pacific travel and diasporas\, and Oceanic\necopoetics. \nSpeakers \n‘Ava ceremony with student group Oceania Navigators Empowerment\nJames Clifford\, UC Santa Cruz\, Keynote\nDiana Looser\, Stanford University\nJoe Balaz\, Poet\nKiri Sailiata\, UC Los Angeles\nJewel Castro\, University of Washington\nJane Chang Mi\, Pepperdine University\nKaili Chun\, Kapi’olani Community College\nJesi Lujan Bennett\, University of Hawai’i\nDavid Chang\, University of Minnesota\nRob Wilson\, UC Santa Cruz \nAll events are free and open to the public. \nPaid parking available at Cowell\, Stevenson\, and DARC lots. Weekend free parking at East Remote lot. See parking map for more details. \nFor disability-related or other questions\, please contact Stacy Kamehiro (kamehiro@ucsc.edu) or Kara Hisatake (khisatak@ucsc.edu). \n  \nRelated Events\nMay 4\, 2018\nDARC 206 \n“Veritas”: Talk by Award-Winning Artist Kaili Chun\, 2 pm \n“Seeing the Unseen: A Telephotography Workshop” with Jane Chang Mi\, 4:30 pm URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-island-worlds-transpacific-dis-positions-symposium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180313T202720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T192443Z UID:10006604-1525442400-1525453200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language” DESCRIPTION:In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts \nA Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nSpeakers: \nDaniel Guevara – Chair\, Department of Philosophy at UCSC \nClaudio Campagna – Adjunct Professor\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC\, Wildlife Conservation Society \nKaren Barad – Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC \nEric Porter – Chair\, History of Consciousness at UCSC & Professor of History at UCSC \nRSVP required. Reading materials sent upon RSVP. \nPlease RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2G3PIvQ \nCo-sponsored by: Cowell College\, The Dean of Humanities\, and Department of Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/language-conservation-colloquium/ LOCATION:Page Smith Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/flyer-colloquium-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T181236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T213936Z UID:10006623-1525441500-1525444200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock\, Boston Univeristy DESCRIPTION:Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages\, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings\, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. \nAs Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: Quantity superlatives across languages\, she maintains a part-time position as biträdande lektor at the University of Gothenburg\, in the department of Philosophy\, Linguistics\, and Theory of Science\, where she has worked since 2012. \nShe received a B.A. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2009. She became Docent in Linguistics through the University of Gothenburg in December 2013. (“Docent” is the Swedish equivalent of a German “Habilitation”\, a post-Ph.D. qualification\, regardless of what Google Translate might have you believe.) \nAbstract: \nThis paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker\, including French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Romanian\, and Greek (‘DEF+CMP languages). Despite ostensibly using definiteness markers to form the superlative\, superlatives are not always definite-marking in these languages\, and the distribution of definiteness-making varies across languages. Constituently structure appears to vary across languages as well. To account for these patterns of variation\, we identify conflicting pressures that all of the languages in consideration may be subject to\, and suggest that different languages prioritize differently in the resolution of these conflicts. What these languages have in common\, we suggest\, is a mechanism of Definite Null Instantiation for the degree-type standard argument of the comparative. Among the parameters along which languages are proposed to differ is the relative importance of marking uniqueness vs. avoiding determiners with predicates of entities that arrant individuals. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-liz-coppock-boston-univeristy/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Speaker-flyer-Coppock.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180417T171457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T224021Z UID:10005486-1525437000-1525441500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum: LuLing Osofsky DESCRIPTION:“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ” \nIn 2011\, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger\, the last remaining Holocaust survivor to have boxed for Nazi officials at Auschwitz. That amateur and champion Jewish boxers boxed at the camps to entertain SS is largely unknown\, and the few accounts are contested and contradictory. The “based on a true story” 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit shows Jews boxing fellow Jews to the death; Klieger derided the film as lies. It compelled me to investigate the complications and consequences of representing and narrativizing this horrific predicament in film. My essay blends interview and film criticism\, and reflects on which Holocaust narratives get preserved\, adapted\, or willfully winnowed away. \nLuLing Osofsky is a PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture program. She’s interested in how artists\, filmmakers\, curators\, and political entities represent and narrativize trauma\, destruction and disaster. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-luling-osofsky/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FF_Spring2018_Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131223 CREATED:20180228T205639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194814Z UID:10005463-1525431600-1525437000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC  DESCRIPTION:Foundational Labor: PhDs in Leadership Positions at UCSC \nAre you interested in learning more about the work of PhDs who are actively reimagining pedagogy and student support at UC Santa Cruz? This session will feature two PhDs who are currently employing their research and teaching experience in a variety of interrelated ways\, including program development\, project management\, and mentorship\, all of which are vital to the University’s mission and its commitment to equitably serving undergraduate students and graduate student-instructors. Kendra Dority is Assistant Director of the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and Zia Isola is Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs\, Co-Director of the UCSC Bridge to Doctorate Program (NSF-LSAMP)\, and Staff Advisor for UCSC Women in Science & Engineering (WISE). Participants will have an opportunity to hear about the day-to-day experience of working in two campus positions\, as well as how the PhD has influenced or helped reimagine their approach to their work. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \n*Stay tuned for more information. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180425T220829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T221855Z UID:10005493-1525424400-1525453200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emerging Ecologies: Arcaeologies of Slavery\, Landscape\, and Environmental Change DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Atlantic Era was a period of intense commercial integration linking key economic players in Western Europe\, the Americas\, the Indian Ocean littorals\, and West and Central Africa. The period was marked by dramatic increases in the volume of commerce at both the regional and global levels\, radically transforming the societies and environments of these core areas. In fact\, it is arguable that few communities on earth escaped the wide-reaching effects of commercial expansion and integration in this period. African slavery in the Atlantic World facilitated this integration. The slave trade linked four continents as traders carried European exports to Africa\, exchanged them for enslaved people\, and ferried those captives to the Americas. African people and cultures dispersed across the Americas\, and the crops and natural resources that enslaved people harvested in the New World were shipped around the globe. This political\, cultural\, and ecological process laid the foundations for the cultures\, environments\, and economies of the modern world. At the very heart of this transformation were cities\, ports\, and plantations that wreaked vast ecological changes across their respective landscapes. Large swaths of land were cleared for agricultural production\, port cities were established for import and export\, and flora and fauna were transplanted across hemispheres in a process known as the Columbian Exchange. These intentional and unintentional ecological transformations were accompanied by violent social and economic changes. Plantation labor regimes emerged as models for industrial factory work\, contributing directly to rapid industrialization in the Atlantic world. The trans-Atlantic Slave Trade thus stands as a point of origin for the Anthropocene\, the contemporary moment in which environments around the world have been profoundly shaped by human action. This one-day symposium explores of the impacts and legacies of slavery and the slave trade across the landscapes of our rapidly changing world. \nOrganizers\nJustin Dunnavant and J. Cameron Monroe \nSpeakers\nGeorgia Fox (CSU Chico)\nMark Hauser (Northwestern University)\nPaul Lane (Uppsala University)\nAmanda Logan (Northwestern University)\nMarco Meniketti (Sans José State University)\nFraser Neiman (Monticello Archaeology)\nLisa Randle (University of South Carolina)\nMeredith Reifschneider (San Francisco State University)\nElizabeth Reitz (Georgia Museum of Natural History)\nKrish Seetah (Stanford University)\nDiane Wallman (University of South Florida) \n***Keynote Address – Judith Carney (UCLA) \nAdmission is FREE and open to the public.\nAdvance registration is REQUESTED to ensure we have sufficient seating. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emerging-ecologies-arcaeologies-slavery-landscape-environmental-change/ LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/unnamed-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T185000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180410T233634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233634Z UID:10005482-1525368000-1525373400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten DESCRIPTION:Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity\, The Normal School\, River Teeth\, Hotel Amerika\, DIAGRAM\, The Sonora Review\, Black Warrior Review\, The Master’s Review\, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga\, Latvia\, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of California at Santa Cruz. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-courtney-kersten/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180124T214742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T171107Z UID:10005445-1525363200-1525368600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" DESCRIPTION:“Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility” \nJoin us as Devin E. Naar\, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington\, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s\, 1930s\, and today. Often relying on community members to supply source materials\, these archiving efforts have legitimized and rendered more visible the often-marginalized Sephardic experience. Professor Naar’s work demonstrates how digital humanities initiatives can draw upon methods and aspirations of previous generations while also providing new possibilities and opportunities in the 21st century. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor in the department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As the founder and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Naar oversees the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection\, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, won a National Jewish Book Award and the Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-diaspora-new-approaches-sephardi-north-african-jewish-studies/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Naar_Webbanner_R3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180427T231428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T231428Z UID:10005501-1525360500-1525366800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen DESCRIPTION:“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” \nOri Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he’s been working on metasemantics\, or foundational semantics\, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think about intentionality (or aboutness) in light of the pronouncements of contemporary semantic theory. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-ori-simchen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180316T225744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180316T225857Z UID:10006610-1525275000-1525282200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lesley Green: "Sons and Daughters of Soil?" DESCRIPTION:“Sons and Daughters of Soil?” \nDr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South) \nResponding\, as researchers\, to Earth Mastery that includes not only violent machines\, but a violation of evidence and epistemes including the scientific episteme\, requires accumulating and presenting evidence for existences that do not exist — at least\, not in neoliberal discourses.  In trying to research and support specific situations of Black environmental struggle in South Africa\, I find myself standing with that which has no existence in conventional discourses: for a cliff that no longer exists; for molecules that have no existence in local knowledge; for people who have no existence in the mining companies\, for the assassinated Bazooka Radebe\, whose existence is now with the Ancestors\, and with the soil he died to conserve.  Environmental Humanities South had begun by asking a question about how to generate evidence in the geological Anthropocene.  By the time our first three years had ticked by and we had encountered the Capitalocene\, I had learned that a far more fundamental struggle has to be the focus of our work. What exists? Who exists? In what registers and modes? How do we take on the new conquistadors with their machines called Earth Masters\, given that it is their owners’ logic that has come to define who exists and what exists and what can be ground to dust? How can scholarship contribute to the building of a broad-based environmental public? Presented as a dilemma tale\, this talk sketches six moves toward an ecopolitics in South Africa\, with the question: what else could be in this discussion? \n*This event is co-sponsored by the Science and Justice Research Center and the Anthropology Department\, and is open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lesley-green-sons-daughters-soil/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180228T221947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T172245Z UID:10005471-1525262400-1525267800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kyla Schuller: "The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race\, Sex\, & Science in the Nineteenth Century" DESCRIPTION:Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race\, gender\, sexuality\, and the sciences in U.S. culture\, and is particularly interested in ideas about how the body interacts with its environment from the periods both before and after classical genetics\, i.e. the 19th century and the present. Overall\, she examines how science and culture function as systems of knowledge that share methods and sources in common\, even as they rhetorically claim distinct spheres. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe 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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-kyla-schuller/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180501T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180316T230115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T173445Z UID:10006611-1525174200-1525181400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar: Dr. Lesley Green DESCRIPTION:Reading Seminar on #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Plant Medicine: On Posing Cosmopolitical Questions featuring Dr. Lesley Green (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South). \nPlease email krlyons@ucsc.edu for the readings URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-sciencemustfall-abc-plant-medicine-posing-cosmopolitical-questions/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180315T173414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T145535Z UID:10006609-1524922200-1524925800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker: "Women in the Arts" DESCRIPTION:Opera Parallèle\, a Bay Area opera company\, founded by UCSC Music Professor Emerita\, Nicole Paiement\, who is its musical director and conductor\, has commissioned an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, in her early career and before she was the icon we know today. This represents a milestone for women in the arts: a commissioned work by a woman composer\, about a woman artist\, with a woman conductor. \nThis new opera will be rehearsed in workshops while it is still in the process of creation\, May 29\, 30 and 31 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and on campus. Rehearsals will be free and open to the public. \nBettina Aptheker\, distinguished professor of feminist studies at UCSC and chair holder of the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, is collaborating with Nicole Paiement. Bettina and panelists will talk about the opera\, and more generally about women in the arts. \nCome and enjoy. Light refreshments will be served. \nRegister here: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-women-arts/ LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/31368350412_91f7db1783_b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T121500 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180315T173041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T145615Z UID:10006608-1524913200-1524917700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2018 Baskin Ethics Lecture & Alumni Weekend Keynote "The Ethical Role of the Public University" DESCRIPTION:“The Ethical Role of the Public University” \nPeggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture / Alumni Weekend Faculty Keynote \nwith Bettina Aptheker and Marlene Tromp \nBettina Aptheker\, distinguished professor and Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, will deliver the weekend’s faculty keynote address and this year’s Baskin Ethics Lecture. Aptheker\, an alumna herself\, created one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses\, taken by more than 16\,000 UC Santa Cruz students over the last four decades. Aptheker will talk about the ethical role of the public university and its potential to be a center of courage\, insight\, and principled rational discourse. Marlene Tromp\, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor will join her in conversation. \nRegister today to be part of this compelling discussion! \nRegister here: http://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/sessions/faculty-keynote/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alumni-weekend-faculty-keynote-bettina-aptheker-marlene-tromp-ethical-role-public-university/ LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/4-28-18_Lecture-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T131224 CREATED:20180306T200046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180306T200235Z UID:10005479-1524834000-1524852000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:14th Annual Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:14th Annual Graduate Research Symposium\nMcHenry Library\nApril 27\, 2018 \nThe UC Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Graduate students present their work in the following formats and venues: \n\n8-minute-maximum talk with or without visual aids\, which may be an overhead-projected slide presentation (e.g.\, Microsoft PowerPoint) in a library classroom bordering the 2nd-floor Information Commons South\n4’ x 4’ poster in the open-forum showcase of the library’s Information Commons South\nrecorded media presentation in the open-forum showcase of the library’s Information Commons South\n\nThe chancellor\, vice provost and dean of the Division of Graduate Studies\, and the five academic deans sponsor symposium awards decided by judges invited by the Division of Graduate Studies from among faculty\, staff\, postdoctoral scholars\, alumni\, trustees\, and community members. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/14th-annual-graduate-research-symposium/ LOCATION:McHenry Library\, UCSC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR