The Humanities Institute

Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
2018-04-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2018-01-24 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality.
We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware.
Cosponsored by the IDEA Hub and the Digital Scholarship Commons.

Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session
2018-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program on Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations.
In addition, we are launching a new public fellows program that will allow students to work as public fellows during the school year (we will cover tuition, fees, and stipends for selected applicants).
These fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
The 8 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward:
Danielle Crawford, Literature, Project: “Planning and Conservation League”
Andrew Hedding, Linguistics, Project: “Senderos”
Ryan King, Feminist Studies, Project: “Digital NEST”
Amani Liggett, Literature, Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Priscilla Martinez, History, Project: “Tucson Chinese Cultural Center”
Jason Ostrove, Linguistics, Project: “Barra Heritage Centre”
Kirstin Wagner, Literature, Project: “Catamaran Literary Reader”
We hope to see you there!

Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton
2018-04-10 08:00 - 17:00
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 writes lyric essays as well as poetry, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009), the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009), and the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (2010). Her most recent book, Milk and Filth (2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets (1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). Giménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
giovanni singleton is a native of Richmond, Virginia, a former debutant, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Her debut poetry collection, Ascension (Counterpath Press), informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane, received the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Cave Canem. singleton regularly consults and gives presentations on writing, editing, graphic design, and publishing at high schools, colleges, and conferences. Her work has appeared in What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America, Best American Experimental Writing, Inquiring Mind, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology, and elsewhere, and has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has taught poetry at the de Young Museum, CalArts, Naropa University, and Sonoma State University. She was the 2015-16 Visiting Assistant Professor in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and currently coordinates the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. A new book, American Letters: works on paper, was published by Canarium Books in 2018.
Spring 2018 Living Writers:
A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement
This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Santa Cruz Pickwick: "How Did the Grim Reaper's Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit's Plot?"
2018-04-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit
The 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.

Santa 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.
Schedule:
January 14th: Introduction of the Novel
February 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
March 11th: Victorian Colonialism
April 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”
May 13th: The Dickens Universe
More information, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M.

Book club is free and open to the public.
Registration requested.
Questions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu.

Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State
2018-04-07 09:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Center for World History presents: Intimate States: Family, Domestic Space, and the State
Full Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda
Conference Key Note: “The Household, the State, and ‘Economic Development Strategies’ in Europe and China Around 1800.”
Mary Jo Maynes
This talk will explore the comparative logics of statebuilding in China and Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular the ways in which state policies had implications for the household-economy nexus. Mary Jo will discuss several dimensions of state policy having implications for household structure, and for gender and generational relations including: fiscal policy (taxation, subsidy, etc.); state-run industries; state-produced information and education (technology manuals, encyclopedias, schools, etc.); laws and regulations; and state relations with relevant social groups such as producers and merchants. She hopes to rise comparative questions for discussion about long-term historical developments that connect statebuilding processes with the economic viability of household economies.
Mary Jo Maynes is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern Europe with interests in comparative and world history. Her work explores the social and cultural history of the family, gender and generational relations, class dynamics, and personal narratives. Her books include The Family: A World History (Oxford, 2012), co-authored with Ann Waltner; Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (Cornell, 2008), co-authored with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett and Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History (Indiana, 2004), co-edited with Birgitte Søland and Christina Benninghaus. She is currently a co-editor of Gender & History and co-organizer of two U of MN research collaboratives: “Narrative/Medicine” at the Institute for Advanced Study and “Subjects, Objects, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Change.

Maeve Cooke: "Civil Disobedience as Civil Regeneration: The Radically Transformative Power of Political Law-Breaking"
2018-04-05 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Cooke’s work focuses on the question of truth (intrinsic value) in social and political theory, with particular attention to debates on religion and politics. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Haberma’s Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) and Re-Presenting the Good Society (MIT Press, 2006). She is editor and translator of Habermas: On the Pragmatics of Communication (MIT Press, 1998) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books, mainly in the areas of social and political philosophy.

Laura Rosenzweig: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s”
2018-04-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Laura Rosenzweig will present at the Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture during Graduate Recruitment Day on April 4. The title of her talk is: “The Story of Hollywood’s Spies: Jewish Resistance to Nazism in Los Angeles in the 1930s” and will include a discussion about her journey from a UCSC doctoral student to a bestselling author. The talk will be from 4-5:30 at the Stevenson Fireside Lounge and will be followed by a reception at the Stevenson provost’s house.

Jeffrey Santa Ana: "Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited"
2018-04-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.

Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana's Transpacific Ecological Imagination
2018-04-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.
For pre-circulated readings, please email Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.

Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading
2018-03-15 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.

This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, 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, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

And Then They Came for Us: "From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban"
2018-03-14 18:40 - 20:30 | Del Mar Theatre
Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. “And Then They Came for Us” brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban. Knowing our history is the first step to ensuring we do not repeat it. “And Then They Came for Us” is a cautionary and inspiring tale for these dark times. Part of the Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race Series.
Presented by The Humanities Institute and Cowell College. Co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, CRES, Stevenson College, the History Department, and McHenry Library.
Due to overwhelming interest, this event is SOLD OUT. We hope to see you at another event soon!
Film screening and panel discussion.
6:40 pm – Doors open
7:00 pm – program begins
Parking and directions to the Del Mar Theater here
If you have disability-related needs, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
Featuring:
Abby Ginzberg – Director “And Then They Came for Us”
Donald K. Tamaki – Managing Partner of Minami Tamaki
Ammad Rafiqi – Civil rights attorney with the Council on American Islamic Relations
Q & A moderated by Alice Yang – History Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Abby Ginzberg is a Peabody-winning producer and director who has been making award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. Her most recent film, “And Then They Came for Us” has screened at film festivals across the country. Agents of Change, co-directed with Frank Dawson, tells the story of the black-led student protest movement of the late 1960’s on college campuses. It will be broadcast on America Reframed in Feb, 2018.
Her film Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa won a Peabody award in 2015 and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards for Best Documentary. The Barber of Birmingham, (Consulting Producer), was nominated for an Oscar in the short doc category in 2012.
Donald K. Tamaki is the Managing Partner of Minami Tamaki LLP in San Francisco. In 1983 to 1985, he served on the legal team which reopened the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Fred Korematsu, overturning his criminal convictions for refusing to be interned. The reopening was based on newly discovered evidence from the Justice Department, War Department, Navy, F.B.I., and F.C.C. admitting that Japanese Americans had committed no wrong and posed no threat. Other Justice Department memoranda characterized the Army’s claims that Japanese Americans were spying as “intentional falsehoods.” These official reports were never presented to the Supreme Court, having been intentionally suppressed, altered and destroyed pursuant to the orders of high government officials so as to manipulate the outcome of the Korematsu decision. Mr. Tamaki graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1973 and received his J.D. from Berkeley in 1976. Upon graduation, he practiced poverty and civil rights law in San Jose and there, he co- founded the Asian Law Alliance, a public interest law firm which has provided representation and advocacy for thousands of low-income Asian Americans in Santa Clara County, and is a past Executive Director of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, the nation’s first public interest law firm representing Asian Americans in civil rights and poverty law cases.
Ammad Rafiqi is a civil rights attorney with the Council on American Islamic Relations chapter of the San Francisco Bay Area. As the office’s Civil Rights and Legal Services Coordinator, he assists individuals facing structural and private discrimination, hate crimes, law enforcement harassment/surveillance as well as documenting and writing reports.

IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
2018-03-14 17:30 - 19:15 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present:
“IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments”
Jill Pellettieri, Ph.D.
This workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy beer, it pairs well in some settings but not in others. We will critically examine the IPA with an eye towards identifying its strengths and weaknesses as a tool for assessment in university language courses and programs. Participants will learn general principles for designing authentic, integrated language tasks and specific guidelines for modifying and adapting the ACTFL IPA for their language courses. It is unclear at this time whether we will actually be sampling craft brews.

Jill Pellettieri is an Associate Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish applied linguistics with a Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of California, Davis. Her areas of specialization include oral and computer-mediated interaction, task-based language learning, and community-based learning. Prior to joining the faculty at SCU, she was an Associate Professor of Spanish, Graduate TA trainer and supervisor, and chair of the Dept. of World Languages at Cal State San Marcos. She has published several articles and book chapters in her areas of specialization, and she has authored and coauthored several textbooks for the teaching of Spanish at the university level, including Palabra abierta, an advanced composition text, and Rumbos, a textbook for intermediate Spanish.

Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
2018-03-12 17:00 - 19:30
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents:
Letters to Memory
featuring a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong
Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese mass incarceration during World War II using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita’s engagement with them, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the mass incarceration and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community.
About the Author: Karen Tei Yamashita is a Professor of Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies.

March 12, 2018
5-:00-7:30pm
Feminist Studies Library
Humanities 1, Room 316

Writing Crises: How to Write When You Just Can't Write
2018-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Register at https://tinyurl.com/WritingCrises

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Victorian Colonialism
2018-03-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Peter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
2018-03-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Peter Svenonius (PhD, 1994), Professor of English Linguistics & Senior Researcher at the University of Tromsø.
Click here for more information.

Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
2018-03-09 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival
The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were produce for the screen, making it one of the most ubiquitous texts of the silent film era. Yet this once wildly popular and frequently re-made text has been all but erased from cinema history. How might we reimagine the parameters of cinema and media history and theory by reimagining and remaking the parameters of the archive? Drawing examples from What You Love, an archive of contemporary queer feelings produced in residency at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles, this presentation will rethink the history of cinema and sexuality, questioning contemporary conceptions of romantic love, the loss of queer female voices from the historical imagination, and the parameters of the archive.
Kiki Loveday is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media. She is an experimental filmmaker obsessed with deconstructing (and reconstructing) cinematic conventions: rethinking genre, mixing mediums, and practicing alternative production paradigms. Much of her work is concerned with isolation, people’s sometimes silly and heartbreaking inability to fit-in, connect with each other, or figure out how to live in a culture they didn’t create.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

Ben Breen: "Unknown Pleasures: Intoxication and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century"
2018-03-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Benjamin Breen’s current project is Age of Intoxication: The Origins of the Global Drug Trade, which examines the trade in medicinal drugs, poisons, and intoxicants in the Portuguese and British empires, circa 1640 to 1800. The book argues that the formation of ‘drugs’ as an epistemological, legal, and commercial category grew out of early modern colonialism.
Ben Breen is an Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Tyler Stovall: "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea"
2018-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Rio Sands Hotel in Aptos, 116 Aptos Beach Dr, Aptos, CA, 95003
Aptos Community Reads presents:
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz
The relationship between freedom and race has been one of the key themes of modern society and politics in the Western world. The enduring presence of racism in the history of America, a nation built both upon ideas of liberty and upon African slavery, Indian genocide, and systematic racial discrimination, has provided the most dramatic (but not the only) example of this complex relationship. In this talk, Dean of the Humanities Division and French historian, Tyler Stovall, will explore the ways in which freedom and race are not just enemies but also allies whose histories cannot be understood separately. Part of the Humanities Institute’s Freedom and Race series.
March 6, 2018 @ 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6)

The Aptos Community Reads program is designed to bring members of the Santa Cruz County community together around one book. This year the winning book is:
Born a Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE for AMERICAN HUMOR
This memoir depicts Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother his birth was an offence punishable by five years in prison. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.

From late January through early March 2018 the selected book, and themes in the book, will be highlighted in a series of special events: Films • Art Exhibits • Discussion Groups • Trivia Nights • Guest Speakers • Happy Hours • Music • Story Times • and more.
We encourage all readers to get involved!
Gifts of $50 or more, received by March 1, 2018, will entitle you to a free copy of the winning book!
Donate online. Please direct your gift to Aptos Chapter of Friends of SCPL.

Danny Snelson: "The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats"
2018-03-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
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The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats
Danny Snelson (UCLA, English)
As you read these lines, the Utah Data Center continues its process of deciphering untold exabytes of information collected by the NSA. This enterprise, like certain strands in the digital humanities and the corporate world alike, stakes its hopes for meaningful interpretation of the present on the parsing of tremendous amounts of data. Directly responding to these currents, I turn to the little database as an integral model for understanding our place in a rapidly changing information environment. Ranging from a private collection of MP3s hosted on your personal computer to a collection of poetry readings on a university-hosted website like PennSound, a little database is at once too large to “read” in a traditional way and, at the same time, small enough to be absolutely ordinary. Like the little magazines of the historical avant-gardes, the little database presents a dynamic forum for investigating the situation of politics, aesthetics, and meaning in a time of extensive technological change. In this presentation, I discuss a series of influential sites presenting avant-garde art and letters online, including Eclipse, PennSound, and UbuWeb. Tracing the transformative role of media formats, I examine an unlikely and contingent poetics that emerges through the use and reuse of historical works across the formats and platforms of the present.

Cathy Davidson Workshop
2018-03-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into.
For copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu
Presented by UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute and Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
Please note that the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss Cathy Davidson’s book “The New Education” in preparation for Davidson’s event on March 1.

Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
2018-03-02 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
“Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal”
Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are, affects the way we arrive at certain interpretations. This seems entirely reasonable for context-dependent expressions like pronouns (they) or relative gradable adjectives (big, expensive), but what about seemingly stable expressions, such as count nouns (fork, ball)? Are words like these—words that appear early in child-directed and child-produced speech—also sensitive to context? In collaborative research with Athulya Aravind (MIT), we have asked precisely this question. We start with a curious yet robust puzzle observed in the developmental psychology literature: young children, when presented with a set of partial and whole objects (like forks) and asked to count or quantify them, appear to treat the partial objects as if they were wholes (Shipley & Shepperson 1990, among others). While children’s non-adultlike behavior may be taken to signal a conceptual shift in development, we adopt a different perspective, entertaining the possibility that children are doing something that adults might indeed be willing to do in certain instances, and that their response patterns reveal something interesting about the context sensitivity of nouns, which we argue is similar to that seen with gradable adjectives. Across three tasks, we show that adults and children are more alike than the previous research has revealed: both age groups not only include partial objects but also impose limits on their inclusion in a category, depending on the speaker’s intentions or goals and the perceptual representation of the object, and a comparison with gradable adjectives reveals (perhaps surprisingly) that adults recruit a minimum standard of comparison for nominals. Thus, we argue there is conceptual and linguistic continuity in this aspect of development, and that experimental data from both children and adults sheds light on the semantics of nominal expressions.

Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
2018-03-02 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios
The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test, infants saw two test trials (consistent or inconsistent with the behavior in familiarization) in a new scenario. Experiment 1 showed that infants tracked a person’s helping behavior across scenarios and expected the person to be helpful again in the future. However, generalizing a person’s tendency to hinder proved more challenging. Experiment 2 replicated the positive results in Experiment 1 and showed that with the stronger cues of hindering intent, tracking hindering behavior across events appeared easier for infants.
Elizabeth Goldman is Psychology PhD student who works in the Infant Development Lab. Her research
primarily focuses on children’s understanding of prosocial (helping) behavior. This project looks at whether
children expect a person’s helping or hindering behavior to continue and carryover to other situations.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.

PhD+: Ken Wissoker (Duke UP): An Insider's Guide to Academic Publishing
2018-03-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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How different is the structure of your dissertation from the form of your first book? Who are the audiences for your research? How soon after completing the dissertation should you expect to begin drafting and pitching your book proposal? What is the history behind these publishing norms and how did they become what they are today?
These are some of the mysteries around academic publishing that Ken Wissoker, the editorial director for Duke University Press and the director of The Graduate Center at CUNY’s Intellectual Publics program, will demystify for us. Ken is known for giving people an optimistic way of thinking about their own work, to help them see what is really at stake in their research and how to structure a book around it. This event promises to generate a lively discussion around all aspects of academic publishing from edited volumes to developing your first book manuscript. Bring your questions, concerns, and anxieties

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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Cathy Davidson: "The New Education"
2018-03-01 17:00 - 19:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
How can we revolutionize the university to better prepare students for our age of constant change? How can we retool our classrooms as activist, engaged learning environments that model a more just society? In this talk, Cathy N. Davidson will discuss her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and show how we can revolutionize our universities to help students be leaders of change, not simply subject to it.

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Reception: 5:00pm | Talk begins: 5:30pm
Parking will be very limited at Colleges 9/10 so please plan to either walk from Core West Parking structure or take alternative transportation to campus for the event. Parking attendants will be on hand at Colleges 9/10 to direct attendees to the University Center.

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Cathy N. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co-founding director (2002-2017, now co-director) of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. As the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Boyer Award for Significant Contributions to Higher Education, she champions new ideas and methods for learning and professional development—in school, in the workplace, and in everyday life. For more information on Cathy Davidson, visit her website at: www.cathydavidson.com

Additional Events: The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 from 9-11am to discuss The New Education in preparation for Davidson’s visit. Davidson will also facilitate a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4pm.
For copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu

Presented by: The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. Co-sponsored by: Arts Division, Physical & Biological Sciences Division, Student Achievement & Equity Innovation, Literature Department, History Department, Social Sciences Division, Sociology Department, Philosophy Department, Chicano Latino Research Center.

If you have disability-related needs, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.

Tera W. Hunter: "Bound in Wedlock - Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19th Century"
2018-03-01 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The History Department Presents: Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. She will be speaking about her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Her first book, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, was the recipient of multiple awards and established her as one of the most prominent scholars of African American history and US women’s history.
Co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies and Sociology Departments, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, The Center for Labor Studies and The Humanities Institute.

Christina Gerhardt: "The Legacy of 1968 & Global Cinema"
2018-02-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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Christina Gerhardt is the author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory, and co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties. Currently, she is working on a new book project, 1968 and West German Cinemas, which examines the cinemas of West Germany’s long sixties that have long stood in the shadow of New German Cinema.

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

Giving Day
2018-02-28 | UCSC
Be a Part of Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz
Giving Day is an energized 24-hour online fundraising drive to support UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and campus programs. It’s a day for people everywhere to come together in a circle of giving for UC Santa Cruz. Generous donors provide incentives to make the day a success. They create matching funds that increase the impact of gifts to individual projects and they support challenge funds that inspire friendly competition among project teams. Givingday.ucsc.edu
Humanities participants are: The Center for Public Philosophy, The Classics Program, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), The Dickens Project, and The Gail Project.
Our Classics Program will be competing for a prize of $500-$1000 for the 7-8 am “Challenge Hour”. The goal is to have the most donors during that time window, so if you plan to give to the Carl Deppe Memorial Lecture in Classics, that will be a great time to do so!
We would appreciate your participation in whatever way suits you: whether it is by spreading the word through social media or by donating. The minimum donation this year is $5, and every bit helps.
If you have questions, or are interested in providing a matching gift, please contact Jenna Hurley at jehurley@ucsc.edu.

UCSC Grad Slam
2018-02-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Music Recital Hall
Congratulations to our 12 finalists for 2018! Come cheer them on at the Grad Slam and vote for the People’s Choice Award:
Tony Assi
Kimberley Bitterwolf
Stephan Bitterwolf
Eilin Francis
Sharmistha Guha
Helen Holmlund
Courtney Kersten
Nickolas Knightly
Stephanie Montgomery
Rebecca Ora
Tiffany Thang
Talia Waltzer
Grad Slam, a competition also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge,* challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research or other graduate work. The contest is open to all graduate students.
The winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3,000; the runner-up receives $1,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. The UCSC Grad Slam winner goes on to compete in the UC-wide Grad Slam in late April or early May. UCSC’s 2017 champion, John Felts, took second place at the UC Grad Slam held May 4, 2017, at LinkedIn, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2017 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the first-place, third-place, and people’s choice winner of that competition.
Registration for the 2018 Grad Slam opened November 13, 2017, and closed January 21, 2018, at midnight PST. All registrants must submit a 3-minute-maximum video of their presentation via a share link entered in the registration form. A panel of UCSC staff judges will review the videos and select the finalists (10 to 12 graduate students) to compete in UCSC’s live Grad Slam on Friday, February 23, 2018, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Music Center Recital Hall, with a reception following for competitors and audience.

Check out the 2017 winners here.
View video of the three awardees, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2016 Grad Slam
View video of the three awardees, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2015 Grad Slam

*Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a registered trademark of The University of Queensland.

Graduate Funding Support Info Session
2018-02-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us to learn more about support services offered for grant and fellowship research and writing through Arts Research Development Office and The Humanities Institute.
In this information session, we will share key resources for finding funding opportunities and crafting compelling application materials. You will also meet the graduate student fellows who offer one-on-one consultations.
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Presenters:
S. Topiary Landberg, Arts/Humanities Research Development Fellow
Sarah Papazoglakis, Graduate Fellow, Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program

Reading Group: Cathy Davidson "The New Education"
2018-02-23 09:00 - 11:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson’s visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4 pm in 1 HUM 202.
For copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu

Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
2018-02-22 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration.

In Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña’s absence, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña’s work, showing video/sound footage, and providing comments, revolving around their own engagements with her art and poetry.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña’s work began in the mid 60s in Chile, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard”;. Her art has been exhibited at The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was included in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Germany, 2017. Her itinerant exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans in March 2017 and will travel to various museums in the U.S during 2018. Vicuña has published twenty-five art and poetry books, including About to Happen, 2017, Read Thread, The Story of the Red Thread, 2017, and Kuntur Ko, 2015.

Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, 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, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

Sora Y. Han: "Poetics of MU"
2018-02-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race, colonialism, and the limits of translation. Slave law, Oedipus, kinship, and language as forms of law contain two essential a-genealogical characteristics. The first concerns the perverse logics of law, and the fact that submission to or refusal of law offers no protection against its violence and judgment; and the second, where genealogy can neither be named nor established, what issues forth can only, in the present circumstances, be described as an obscene obliteration of law’s reference. This peculiar co-presence of law and non-referentiality, differentially explored by Edouard Glissant, David Marriott, Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, and Theresa Had Kyung Cha, can only be grasped by a transversal writing, the “poetics of mu,” not simply at the limits of translation, but also, transliteration and utterance.

Sora Han is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and and the School of Law at UC Irvine. She also is core faculty of the Culture and Theory Ph.D. program, and affiliate faculty of African American Studies. Professor Han is the author of Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015) and she has two books in-progress: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness, which brings together poetics, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet, an experimental text which offers a speculative meditation on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Her most recent publication on this new line of research, “Slavery as Contract,” was published by Law and Literature (2016)

Titas Chakraborty: Controlling "Quarrelsome Workers": Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
2018-02-22 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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The Center for World History presents:
Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
Titas Chakraborty

Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
2018-02-21 17:30 - 19:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Crossings Film Series
Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present “Crossings,” a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, “Io sto con la sposa,” winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films are subtitled and screenings are free and open to the public.
Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet, 2013)
Two outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker Andrea Segre. Shun Li (Zhao Tao) is a thirtysomething single mother from China who has come to Italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. However, Shun Li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it difficult for her to pay her fees so she can make enough money to bring her son to Italy. She works as a barmaid in a shabby waterfront tavern in the fishing village of Chioggia; there, she meets Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and pens doggerel verse himself. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan, China’s most celebrated poet, and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However, the Chioggia natives make it clear that they don’t approve of Shun Li and Bepi’s budding relationship, especially given their suspicions about her Chinese heritage.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics

Jodi Byrd: "Fire & Flood - Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms"
2018-02-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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The Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk:
“Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Caught within the both/and of dystopic collapse, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle for colonial dominance. This talk closely reads HBO’s Westworld alongside LeAnne Howe’s Indian Radio Days to consider how procedural elements of technological play produce dystopic visions of American collapse as the failure of indigenous futures.

Jodi Byrd is Associate Professor, English and Gender & Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Byrd is a Chickasaw decolonial thinker, writer, teacher, and video gamer. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Dr. Angus Forbes: "Immersive Interpretation - Exploring Data in Virtual Reality"
2018-02-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
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Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality
Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media)
Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, including an interactive art installation that explores connections between photographic images and literary themes in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude, dynamic visualizations of the human brain connectome and protein interaction networks, and an outdoor museum exhibition that superimposes historical photographs onto relevant architectural features. By taking advantage of the new forms of representation and interaction that these technologies make possible, we can provide useful interpretations of and new perspectives into the complex systems that that govern, or perhaps define, contemporary life.

Dr. Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Computational Media department at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs the UCSC Creative Coding lab. His research investigates new forms of visualizing and interacting with complex scientific information; his computational artwork has been featured at museums, galleries, and festivals throughout the world. Angus was the general chair of the IEEE VIS Arts Program from 2013 through 2017, and will serve as the art papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2018.
Click here for any additional information about Angus’s research and artwork.

Adam Ussishkin: "Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access"
2018-02-16 13:20 - 15:20 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Words consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional, morphological level that mediates the recognition process. In morphologically linear languages like English, however, morphemes and letter or sound sequences are co-extensive, so the source of priming effects between related words could be due to simple phonological overlap as opposed to morphological overlap. In Semitic languages, though, the morphological structure of words reduces this confound, since morphemes are interdigitated in a non-linear fashion. Semitic words are typically composed of a discontiguous root (made up of three consonants) embedded in a word pattern specifying the vowels and the ordering between consonants and vowels. Active-passive pairs in Maltese illustrate this relationship (the root is underlined); e.g., fetaħ ‘open’-miftuħ ‘opened’. In this talk, I report on a series of experiments on the Semitic language Maltese investigating the extent to which root morphemes facilitate visual and auditory word recognition, and to what extent potential priming effects are independent of the phonological overlap typically inherent in morphological relationships. These experiments make use of the visual masked (Forster and Davis, 1984) and auditory masked (Kouider and Dupoux, 2005) priming techniques. The results of the experiments show that not only do roots facilitate visual and auditory word recognition in Maltese, but that these morphological effects are independent of phonological overlap effects.
Adam Ussishkin is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program, the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the lexicon, and is informed by psycholinguistic experimentation, as well as formal and laboratory phonology and morphology. Much of the research he conducts centers on Semitic languages, especially Maltese and Modern Hebrew. He also works on corpus creation and evaluation.

Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
2018-02-15 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Duriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living
Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings
include “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an
associate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State
University and the Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.

Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.

This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, 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, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

Daniel Lee: "A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two"
2018-02-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French, but who nonetheless fought in Britain for the allied cause. In the same vein, existing scholarship has not explored how North African Jews, persecuted by Vichy antisemitic laws, sought to re-integrate into the new structures that emerged following the allied liberation of North Africa in November 1942. This talk will re-examine these dual phenomena through the unlikely lens of the village of Elvington in Yorkshire and the diary of a North African Jewish airman stationed there, whose story reveals a new Sephardi perspective on World War Two.
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Daniel Lee is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. Before joining Sheffield in 2015, Lee was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. His first book, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–1942 was published with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research, the European University Institute, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, Lee is a regular broadcaster on radio.

Neel Ahuja: "Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare"
2018-02-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Neel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding, used as a form of medical rape in CIA prisons, and bodily plasticity, the presentation argues that the terrorist body is not only a useful discursive figure in the current wars, but also an experimental material that can be used to modulate time, sensation, and resistance toward forms of racial control.
Neel Ahuja teaches in the interdisciplinary humanities programs at UC Santa Cruz.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Little Dorrit in Historical Context
2018-02-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Victoria Bañales: "Community College Teaching - A View From Inside"
2018-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents:
“Community College Teaching: A View From Inside”
Victoria Bañales
Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/ a Américas. Victoria is a tenured English faculty member at Cabrillo College where she has taught for over twelve ears. She serves on numerous committees and is the chair of the Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council. She is last year’s recipient of Cabrillo’s EOPS Instructor of the Year Award.

Other Upcoming Events:
April 11 & 12th: “‘In Defense of Sex’ and the Post PhD Path” by Chris Breu

Friday Forum: Stephen David Engel
2018-02-09 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Kimberlé Crenshaw: 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Convocation
2018-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Speaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw
Professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.

Harriet’s Legacy: Navigating Intersectionality in the Age of Trump
Positioned at the crossroads of race and gender, women and girls of color face unique barriers under the burdens of both sexism and racism. This is especially true in the wake of the 2016 election, as discrimination, racialized hate speech and gendered violence have been normalized and, seemingly encouraged, by the White House. As we enter the 2nd year under the current administration, we must reflect back not only on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but of the Black women who, although often misremembered or outright forgotten, fought for civil rights and equality throughout history. In this lecture, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw will utilize a historical analysis with an intersectional lens to expose the impact of institutional oppression within marginalized communities’ configured networks between identities, i.e. race, gender, and socioeconomic status, a reflect on the contemporary legacy of social justice and the continued struggle for equality in the United States.
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Opening Reception: New Visualization Spaces in the Digital Scholarship Commons
2018-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Celebrate two new Visualization spaces in McHenry Library and the campus partnerships that enhance digital scholarship at UCSC.
The David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons is thrilled to formally launch the VizWall, a large scale visualization installation, and the VizLab, a Virtual Reality and 360 Lab. These new spaces are built through partnerships between the University Library, The Humanities Institute, the Humanities Division, CITIRIS, and the IDEA Hub.
Join us to toast these collaborative partnerships, explore these new spaces, and experience new modes of scholarly production. The event will include a featured presentation by Elaine Sullivan (History) about her work with 4D models of ancient Egyptian temple sites. Demonstrations in Virtual Reality will also be available throughout the reception.

Refreshments and wine will be served. Click here to register.

Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
2018-02-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma, daily life, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe.
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The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

PhD+: Effective Interviewing Practices & Job Offer Negotiation Skills: A Workshop with Annie Maxfield (UCLA Career Center)
2018-02-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Persuasive Interviewing and Negotiation Tips for Humanities PhDs with Annie Maxfield
Excelling in interview settings is a skill that requires thought, practice, and confidence. During this interactive workshop, attendees will practice and refine their interviewing skills by learning persuasive techniques that enhance their storytelling abilities and highlight their key contributions.
Annie Maxfield is the associate director for graduate student relations and services at the UCLA career center, where she leads campus-wide initiatives to prepare PhDs for careers in and beyond the academy. She has had the opportunity to lead workshops across the UC-System and at national conferences for Humanities and Social Science PhDs. She is an experienced teacher, having taught digital and strategic communication courses, interviewing and personal branding at 6 different universities including the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and communication and her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Utah.
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PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Humanities Institute. 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.
Lunch provided to all attendees.

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Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita
2018-02-01 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, and most recently, Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She received a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship and is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, 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, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

Yarimar Bonilla: "The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico"
2018-01-31 15:30 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents:
“Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico”
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Dr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University.
Her research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race, citizenship, and nation
across the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of
Disenchantment (2016).
Free and open to the public.

Derek Murray: "On Post-Blackness: Queer Satire in Contemporary African-American Art"
2018-01-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory and criticism of contemporary art, visual culture and cultural studies. Author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights, Murray is completing two additional book manuscripts, Regarding Difference: Contemporary African-American Art and the Politics of Recognition and Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control.
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Derek Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Questions That Matter:"Freedom and Race"
2018-01-30 18:00 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
America has famously been called “the land of the free,” and yet when the “Star Spangled Banner” was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by the song’s own author, Francis Scott Key. Today, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the world. Join us for a frank and thoughtful discussion of this question that matters.
Featuring:
Jennifer González is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UCSC. She writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space (exhibition space, public space, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender.
Tyler Stovall is a Distinguished Professor of History and Dean of Humanities at UCSC, as well as the current President of the American Historical Association. His work centers on questions of race and class, blackness, postcolonial history, and transnational history as applied to modern and twentieth century France, and covers a wide range of topics from the Paris suburbs to black American expatriates in France to the French Caribbean.
Moderated by:
Nathaniel Deutsch
Director of The Humanities Institute

Questions that Matter “Freedom and Race” from IHR on Vimeo.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018
Kuumbwa Jazz Center – Directions and Parking Details
$15 Ticket
6pm – Wine and hors d’oeuvres reception
7pm – Program
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Questions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz
A public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the Institute to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. We invite you to join us on January 30, 2018 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Freedom and Race.”

"Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work"
2018-01-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 2, Room 359
“Intentional Design: Making Assignments that Work,” with Jessie Dubreuil, Kimberly Helmer, Philip Longo, Tonya Ritola, and Heather Shearer
This is the second teaching workshop of The Humanities Institute research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now”, designed to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now. Whether you teach a large lecture course or a small seminar, join us to explore and discuss best practices for assignment design that go beyond the traditional essay. Writing Program faculty will introduce research-based strategies to promote conceptual thinking and build competency. The interactive workshop will provide faculty with strategies to apply to current or future assignments. Please bring an assignment you would like to work on. All Senate and non-Senate faculty and graduate students welcome.

Steven Haug: "Community in Heidegger's Philosophy of Art"
2018-01-26 12:30 - 13:45 | Humanities 2, Room 359
In order for a work of art to be great, according to Heidegger, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is discussed much less in the literature than the relation of art to truth in Heidegger, it is of more consequence. It is art’s inability to meet the community condition which led Heidegger to conclude that art since the Middle Ages is not great art. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of the community condition in Heidegger’s philosophy of art and explain just what the condition is.
Steven Haug is a philosophy Phd student who works primarily on the philosophy of art, especially 20th century German philosophy of art. His most recent project focuses on elucidating the importance of community in Heidegger’s philosophy of art.
Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association, the Humanities Institute, and the following departments: HAVC, Literature, and History of Consciousness.
For questions, email fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com

Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo
2018-01-25 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. She is the author of the collection of poems and art work, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback, 2011) and the limited edition chapbook POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES (Bloof Books, 2013). Her second full collection of poems and artwork is YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017, Coconut 2014). From 2010-2015, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow and a Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2016.) She currently lives and works in Sacramento, California.

Living Writers Series Winter 2018:
Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space
Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual and textile arts, photography, film, dance, and improvisation to address questions of gender, sexuality, and race. This series will explore the intersections of literature, writing and performance, and the ways that themes of nation, exile, trauma, and joy move through individual, collective and individual artistic practices.
This series will also feature three “Live Models,” in the form of master conversations/performances, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students, faculty, and the larger Cowell College Community.

Winter 2018 Schedule:
January 25th: Jennifer Tamayo
February 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita
February 15th: Duriel E. Harris
February 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña
March 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading

All Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns.
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, 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, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program.

Megan Moodie: "Emerging Genres: What Lies between Fiction and Ethnography"
2018-01-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Megan Moodie’s work focuses on feminist political and legal anthropology and experimental ethnographic writing in India, East Europe, and the U.S. Moodie will read from her full-length novel-in-progress, The Wishful, based in part on fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, and discuss the relationship between aesthetics and analytics in ethnographic practice and textual production.
Megan Moodie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Humanities Radio Hour
2018-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art’s Humanities Radio Hour for a discussion of the upcoming Questions That Matter: Freedom & Race. UC Santa Cruz Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Jennifer González will preview their 1/30 talk.

Click here to listen online.

Martina Wiltschko: "Nominal speech act structure. A personal view."
2018-01-19 13:20 - 15:20 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of
pronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to the speaker, 2nd person pronouns are used to refer to the addressee,
and 3rd person is used for individuals other than the speech act participants. Another way in which person plays a
role for speech acts has to with the fact that in much of the current literature that seeks to “syntacticize speech acts”
(Ross 1970, Speas and Tenny 2003, Zu 2013, Miyagawa 2017, a.o.) speech act participants are part of the syntactic
representation of sentences, as evidenced, for example, by speaker or addressee-agreement. However, 1st and
2nd person pronouns can receive an impersonal interpretation (Gruber 2013, Zobel 2014) while still triggering
grammatical agreement for 1st and 2nd person. This suggests that there are at least two notions of person: one purely
grammatical and the other pragmatic in nature.
In this talk I examine yet another way in which person may be tied to speech acts. In particular, assuming the well-
established parallel between the functional architecture of clauses and nominal projections (Chomsky 1970, Abney
1987, Grimshaw 2005, Rijkhoff 2008), we might expect that – just as clauses – nominal projections too are
dominated by a dedicated speech act structure. Specifically, I will argue that the arguments of (clausal and nominal)
speech act structure do not correspond to speech act participants directly, but instead they correspond to each speech
act participant’s ‘ground’ – hence I assume a speaker- and addressee-oriented projection. The function of this layer
of structure is to encode the mutual process of grounding – the joint activity which allows interlocutors to establish
common ground. To support this hypothesis, I review literature from dialogue based frameworks according to which
referring to an individual is a collaborative effort between speaker and addressee (Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs 1986,
Clark and Bangerter 2004). With this as my background assumption, I discuss the implications of the nominal
speech act hypothesis for a number of empirical phenomena including: impersonals, logophors, and social deixis.
Martina Wiltschko is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia.

Ram Neta: "Puzzle of Transparency"
2018-01-18 15:15 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Puzzle of Transparency
As you and I are out for a walk, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you “do you believe that it’s going to rain?” In response to this question, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind, but rather to the way the sky looks and the air feels. But if I’m asking about what you believe, then shouldn’t you pay attention to your own state of mind, instead of to your perceptible environment? Some philosophers claim that, when I utter the interrogative sentence “do you believe that it’s going to rain?”, I’m not curious about your state of mind, but only about the weather. But this is false: I could ask you the very same question even if I happen to know perfectly well that it’s going to rain, and I’m just curious what you make of the current weather conditions. So, if I’m asking about your beliefs, why do you normally answer me by paying attention to the weather instead of paying attention to your state of mind? In order to answer this question, I argue, we will have to admit that the capacity to represent one’s own mental states can make a metaphysical difference to the nature of those states.

Ram Neta is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in epistemology and is currently at work on a book on the nature of knowledge. In particular, he is trying to understand what knowledge is by examining the various ways in which knowing some things depends upon knowing other things.

Advanced Reading: The Puzzle of Transparency

CANCELED: Roddey Reid: "Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond"
2018-01-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma, daily life, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit
2018-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Center for Public Philosophy: High School Ethics Bowl
2018-01-13 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
What is an Ethics Bowl?
The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for students to gain valuable insight into ethical and philosophical issues. According to Michael Steinmann, director of the Stevens Institute High School Ethics Bowl, the events promote intellectual, personal, and social growth. They deepen students’ understanding of the complexity of ethical issues; increase their sense of personal responsibility; and promote a model of rational, civil discourse so essential to functioning democracies.
During each round, a moderator poses a question to two teams composed of five students and the competition follows a predetermined format encompassing team order and time limitations. All teams receive the cases and questions in fall so that they can prepare their responses with their coaches. The panel of judges includes not only those with philosophy backgrounds but businesspeople, politicians, and members of various professions in the community to underscore the fact that ethics is not simply an academic subject. We will also invite the press to attend. Each team will have the opportunity to compete in several rounds to advance to the semifinals and then the championship round. The winners of the competition (and their schools) will receive special recognition.
The ethical dilemmas used in a high school ethics bowl range from those particularly relevant to young students (questions about cheating, plagiarism, peer pressure, use and abuse of social media, the right to privacy, relationship responsibilities) to political and social issues (free speech, gun control, eco-tourism) and bioethical issues (cloning, parental consent).
Free and open to the public.
Schedule:
8:45-8:55am – Welcome
9:00-10:00am – Round 1
10:30–11:30am – Round 2
12:00-1:00pm – Round 3
1:00-2:00pm – Lunch
2:00-2:30pm – Announce Semi-Finalists
2:45-3:45pm – Semi-Final Round
4:00-5:00pm – Final Round

PhD+: "Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics"
2018-01-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
“Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics”
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Panelists:
– Sarah Papazoglakis, PhD Candidate, Literature
– Kara Hisatake, PhD Candidate, Literature & MLA Public Engagement Fellow
About: As doctoral students in the humanities, how do we communicate the importance of our work outside of our disciplines without it sounding reductive? How do we communicate what we do and why it matters to people outside of academia, including prospective employers?
In this workshop, you will:
– Hear from several hiring managers in the private and nonprofit sectors about what turns them on and off when humanities PhDs apply for jobs at their organizations. Learn to avoid common pitfalls.
– Create a one-page draft cover letter for a job in the private or public sector.
– Make an informal 3-minute video about your research using your smartphone or computer. Enter the video into the UCSC Grad Slam competition for a chance to win $3000!
Choose from sample job descriptions and cover letter templates provided at the workshop. Or bring a job description that interests you and your own sample cover letter.
Kara Hisatake is a PhD Candidate in Literature and a 2018-2019 MLA Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp Fellow. Sarah Papazoglakis is a PhD Candidate in Literature and part of the 2018 UCSC Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program Cohort.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Humanities Institute. 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.
Lunch provided to all attendees
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Ana Candela: "From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants in Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific"
2018-01-11 13:30 - 15:00
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Biography:
Ana Maria Candela is a historian of Modern China and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America as a way to explore the global dimensions of Chinese history. Her work has appeared in Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of World-Systems Research. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Intimate Others: Peruvian Chinese Between Native Place, Nation and World, 1880s-1940s.

Living Writers Series: Student Reading
2017-12-07 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This event will feature undergraduate student readings.

CRES: Works in Progress featuring Sheeva Sabati & Nick Mitchell
2017-12-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202

3D Scanning, Bronze Age Swords & Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge
2017-12-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
3D Scanning, Bronze Age Swords & Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge
Come learn about 3D scanning, statistics, and network analysis!

Kristy Golubiewski-Davis will detail her research using 3D scans of Bronze Age swords (~1600-800BC) to recreate community networks of knowledge. The aim of the work is to visualize the networks of specialized knowledge across space. Digital methods were used to identify the decisions of specialized craft workers and generate social networks that spread knowledge around the world.

This project serves as a case study for thinking about digital project development and management: how can you juggle multiple methods and a large data set while staying focused on building scholarly arguments?

Location: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)

Cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Digital Scholarship Commons

New Event Layout
2017-12-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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2017 Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC - Humanities And Social Sciences
2017-12-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Santa Cruz, 95064, United States
The Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC – Humanities And Social Sciences (SURU-HASS) is an event designed to allow students from different disciplines to come together to share and learn about research. Because of a need for more events like this in the Humanities and Social Sciences, we especially encourage students from those disciplines to apply, but research projects from all areas are welcome!
The application deadline is November 18, 2017 at 11:59pm and the event will take place on December 2, 2017.
Check out the SURU-HASS website to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/SURU-HASS
What SURU-HASS can do for you:
– We will be hosting workshops for doing an oral presentation and making a poster to help you with practical presentation skills!
– This symposium is a great opportunity to network with other undergraduates, graduate students, and even faculty and staff, within your major and beyond.
– The symposium is an opportunity to know the real-world problems other majors are trying to solve.
For more information contact: SURU-HASS@UCSC.EDU

PhD+: Proposal Writing - Framing Your Research for Fellowship and Grant Proposals
2017-12-01 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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This workshop is devoted to developing a fellowship and grant strategy that will assist you in making your research proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss how the jargon of field-specific descriptions can affect both the clarity and persuasiveness of funding proposals, and focus instead on teasing out the larger humanistic stakes of individual research projects. Please upload an abstract of your own by Friday, November 24 to the shared Google Drive folder at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YR76sm_j34z5-0i3NOIsAVgLNHgMhTMP, and bring a hardcopy with you to the workshop. A portion of our conversation will be devoted to revising current and/or future research proposals in order to appeal to scholars from a variety of humanistic departments and programs.
PhD+ Workshop Series
Please 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.
Lunch provided to all attendees.
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Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt
2017-11-30 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel, The Clubhouse Thief, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press), received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review.
Ellen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam, a course which included the voices of American, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Ellen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco, conducting literary interviews before a live audience.

Jenny Reardon, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome"
2017-11-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Jenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology, the history of biology, science studies, feminist and critical race studies, and the sociology of science, technology and medicine.
Dr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
2017-11-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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This is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017), called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes, from different directions, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word, phrase, and clause), and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure.
Besides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers.
More information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/
PROGRAM
SPOT Program: Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017
9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea, bagels, pastries and fruit
10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)
Shinichiro Ishihara (Lund University)
11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz)
12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)
Lisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst)
2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)
Nicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley)
3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)
Ryan Bennett, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz), and Emily Elfner (York University)
4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception
For more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu)

Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
2017-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Department of Linguistics presents:
Brian Dillon
“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”

Abstract:
Intuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze, 1996). Despite their centrality, there remain many open issues in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart, 1997), to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability.
In this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability, such as judgments in a rating task.
To illustrate this approach, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton, Christopher Hammerly, Joshua Levy, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler, 2010). Third, and perhaps most interestingly, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak, 2007; Wagers et al., 2009), rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard, Cutting & Bock, 2005).

Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux
2017-11-16 17:30 - 20:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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The Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16, 2017 at 5:30pm
Poet Gary Young, will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:20 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception.
The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus, a nationally acclaimed poet, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture.
Free Admission
Doors will open at 5:20pm, event starts at 5:30pm
Book signing and reception to follow
Parking information and directions:
Please park at the Cowell/Stevenson Parking lot 109 (map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Facility.pdf). Follow path from lot 109 to Humanities Lecture Hall. Permits are $4.00 and attendants will be present at parking lot to sell permits to event attendees. For disability accommodations, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
About Dorianne Laux: Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program.
About Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet, author, teacher, film critic, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz, California, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com
Visit the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8fx79zs/entire_text/.
This community event is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Humanities Research, Living Writers Series, Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Special Collections & Archives, Cowell College, Porter College, Ow Family Properties, Poetry Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College English Department, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz Writes.

Reading Seminar with On Barak, "Strands of Tentacular Thinking"
2017-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 408
The “Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene” Research Cluster invites faculty and graduate students to a reading seminar with On Barak, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a historian of the modern Middle East, specializing in the introduction of science and technology into non-Western settings. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (UC Press, 2013). We will be meeting in Humanities 408, on Thursday, November 16, from 4:00-6:00 pm.
Strands of Tentacular Thinking:
What can the non-Western humanities offer in the face of climate change – a phenomenon usually situated squarely in the domain of technoscience and entrenched in the fossil-fueled European Industrial Revolution and capitalism? A chapter-draft from On Barak’s book project Coalonialism grapples with such questions by drawing on nineteenth-century translations of geology books into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. The reading seminar puts this chapter in dialogue with works by Donna Haraway and Peter Godfrey-Smith. Read together, these texts constitute an attempt to recruit the octopus – a creature whose arms are said to be smarter than its brain – to reconsider imperial flows of concepts and power.​
Seminar readings:
Staying with Trouble – Donna Haraway
The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life – Peter Godfrey-Smith

Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop
2017-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Online Publishing and Non-Linear Argumentation
This introductory workshop is designed to let you start using Scalar, an online publishing platform. The workshop will focus on adding media content to Scalar and creating non-linear relationships. This is a hands on opportunity: bring ideas and content to the workshop. You will leave ready to explore and build on your own.
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)
Co-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research

On Barak, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said"
2017-11-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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Despite feigning perpetuity, “energy” is a child of its time, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels, including ethical, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate.
Barak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Living Writers Series: Toni Jensen
2017-11-09 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Toni Jensen’s first story collection, From the Hilltop, was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, and Fiction International and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South, Best of the Southwest, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. She’s working on a collection-in-progress, called Cowboyistan, about fracking and the sex trafficking of Indigenous women. She teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis.

Nirvikar Singh, "The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America"
2017-11-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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What is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group, & the lessons of that diversity, and concludes by exploring some of the challenges that Indian Americans face as a minority in the contemporary United States & the implications of events in contemporary India.
Nirvikar Singh holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also directs the UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative within the Division of Social Sciences.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now
2017-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover why Shakespeare’s play about Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy is a key text for deciding how to be free and just in the global society we inhabit now. With introductory remarks by Mike Ryan (Santa Cruz Shakespeare) and Murray Baumgarten.
Doors open at 6:00pm
Event begins at 6:30pm
RSVP Appreciated, Seating is first come, first serve. Overflow space will be available.
Please RSVP for the event here.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact the IHR at ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
Sponsored by Institute for Humanities Research, Center for Jewish Studies, Shakespeare Workshop, Porter College, and Arts Division.

Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
2017-11-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 2, Room 359
Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now Workshop Series
Before and After: How We Redesigned Courses for Educational Equity and Active Learning
with Alan Christy and Jody Greene
The Institute for Humanities Research cluster “Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now” is hosting a new workshop series that features educators in humanities fields at UC Santa Cruz sharing changes they have made to their teaching—ranging from changes to in-class policies and styles, to assignment re-design, to whole course transformations. The workshop series seeks to promote collective conversations about how we teach in the humanities now, and is open to all graduate students and faculty.
In the first workshop, “Before and After: How We Redesigned a Course for Educational Equity and Active Learning,” Alan Christy (Associate Professor of History) and Jody Greene (Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness) will discuss how they transformed lecture or survey courses to enhance educational equity and active learning in their classrooms.
Transforming “The Japanese Empire”
Associate Professor Alan Christy will discuss the transformation of a survey history course into a research seminar driven by the experience of discovery and focused on three key skills for researchers: asking good questions, finding sources, and articulating value.
Transforming “The Eighteenth-Century English Novel”
Professor Jody Greene will discuss the transformation of a traditional lecture course into a small course for entering transfer students, including the introduction of sequenced writing assignments, structured in-class activities, and presentations on the “hidden” aspects of the curriculum—e.g. how to take notes, how to read for a literature course, and how to write effectively within the discipline.
**If you’re interested in joining the research cluster and would like to be included on the cluster email list, please contact Jody Greene at jgreene@ucsc.edu.

Opening reception for "Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey"
2017-11-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
On November 6 from 4-6 pm, the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery in Cowell College will be hosting an opening reception for “Inside the Gail Project: An Experiential Research Odyssey,” a companion show to the current exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. This exhibition highlights student research and the active learning that takes place in the Gail Project.

Feminist Studies Colloquium: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India"
2017-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota
Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington
Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender and caste, we ask how these, as embodied imprints of the agrarian, impose limit conditions on possible politics for urban migrants. We explore two propositions: First, workers are constantly striving to disarticulate from the sway of value, and the growth of urban informal economies has made this both necessary and more possible. Second, agrarian origins, when mediated through gender and caste, become limit conditions on possible autonomy. The issue is not only proscriptions on forms of labor, but also how workers – females more acutely than males – remain orientated to agrarian caste relations and norms even when they work in the city (and are the enablers of men’s economic trajectories). In short, we foreground the spatial dialectics of social reproduction: how social reproduction straddles village and city, and is at once oppressive and nurturing.
Vinay Gidwani is a professor of Geography, Environment, and Society at the Institute forGlobal Studies, University of Minnesota. He studies the interactions of labor processes and ecologies in agrarian and urban settings, as well as capitalist transformations of these.
Priti Ramamurthy, a professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, is an ethnographer, who has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation.
Presented by the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and the Center for South Asian Studies, with generous contributions from the UCSC Division of the Humanities, UCSC Arts Department, and UCSC Economics Department

PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities - an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
2017-11-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. She will also share the resources available through the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) and discuss the range of digital skills sought on the academic job market. Following this workshop and discussion, Zac Zimmer will talk about his personal experience with DH communities as well as the need to engage with digital concerns in traditional scholarly pursuits. Together, they present DH not as a set of tools or skills, but as a way of learning about and developing a critical vocabulary for a understanding the contemporary digital world. This includes the network interfaces we use daily, the tools we employ to collect and organize research materials, etc. For this session, advance registration (below) will be required. Please review this handout: https://docs.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/document/d/1u1CQq2SNOj-wVduFclQTQcLGSckE46MpJ1ifnhRH2mU/edit?usp=sharing, and bring the requested materials to the session.
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PhD+ Workshop Series
Please 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.
Lunch provided to all attendees.
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Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
2017-11-02 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sesshu Foster is a poet, teacher, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching, writing, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry, City Terrace Field Manual (1996), celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry, World Ball Notebook (2009), won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005), which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers.
Foster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000), Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (2008), and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He coedited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles.

Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem"
2017-11-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents:
Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the archives of the Fatimid caliphs (969–1171). How did papers from a state archive in Cairo find their way into the hands of the Jewish scribes who reused them as scrap paper for compositions in Hebrew script? Did Jews who handled government documents know what they were looking at? This is a period from which only a tiny number of documents is believed to have survived. The very abundance and ubiquity of documentation in the Geniza suggest otherwise, and have much to say about the largest Jewish community in the medieval world and about the culture of legal and political rights in the Middle East.
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Marina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History at Princeton University, where she also directs the Princeton Geniza Lab. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008). In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Every year, we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Please direct any questions or disability accommodation requests to ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-1274.

Najat Abdulhaq, "Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the 'Arab Jew' in Contemporary Arabic Literature"
2017-11-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place?
Najat Abdulhaq is the author of Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser (I. B. Tauris).
This week’s Cultural Studies colloquium is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Humanities Radio Hour: "Merchant of Venice" with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
2017-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 | KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
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Humanities Radio Hour
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Michael Hardt: "Where have all the leaders gone?"
2017-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Town Hall
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents:
“Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”
Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and perplexed. Activists too have struggled to understand and evaluate the power and effectiveness of horizontal movements. Why have the movements, which express the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change and a more just society? Many assume that if only social movements could find new leaders they would return to their earlier glory and be able to sustain and achieve projects of social transformation and liberation. Where, they ask, are the new Martin Luther King Jr.s, Rudi Dutschkes, Patrice Lumumbas, and Stephen Bikos? Where have all the leaders gone?
In this lecture Professor Hardt will use examples from past theory and practice to situate and clarify some of the issues and alternatives involved in the organization of social movements today.
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About Professor Hardt: Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University, where he is co-director of the Social Movements Lab. He is author of Gilles Deleuze and co-author (with Antonio Negri) of six books. Their Empire trilogy (Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth) analyzes the contemporary capitalist global order and investigates the existing resources for creating alternatives oriented toward democracy and liberation. Their most recent book, Assembly, explores how social movements today can enact lasting political transformations. Michael Hardt also currently serves as the editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.
CO-SPONSORED BY THE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT, THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT, AND THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEPARTMENT.

Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
2017-10-26 17:20 - 18:50 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial.
Her current works are the documentary and transmedia project, No Más Bebés Por Vida (No More Babies For Life) about the sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s, and an interactive history documentary and video game-based learning project on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Building History 3.0.
Tajima-Peña has been deeply involved in the Asian American independent film community as an activist, writer and filmmaker. She was the director at Asian Cine-Vision in New York and a founding member of the Center for Asian American Media (formerly National Asian American Telecommunications Association. As a writer, she was a film critic for The Village Voice, a cultural commentator for National Public Radio and editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives.

Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
2017-10-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library
Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware.
If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance.
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library)
Co-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research

Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
2017-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3, 5, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if you can). Please note that Hardt himself will not be there; this is simply an occasion to discuss his and Negri’s work in anticipation of his talk.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and Center for Emerging Worlds

Carla Freccero, "Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity"
2017-10-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms?
Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Professor of Feminist Studies, at UC Santa Cruz.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.

Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen
2017-10-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018
Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics Department at UCSC. Her research focuses on morphosyntax, especially in the Mayan languages, especially Tzotzil, a language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico.

Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn
2017-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Việt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His current book is the bestselling short story collection, The Refugees.

No Place Like Home
2017-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
No Place Like Home is a campus-community event to unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. We will share the results of over 1400 surveys and interviews with local residents an dhow they are experiencing the housing crisis. The event also features a visual and literary art exhibit on the meaning on “home”. Finally, the event kicks off Affordable Housing week, with a wide-range of county organizations and community groups participating in an open discussion of responses to the crisis and sharing information about strategies, campaigns, and upcoming events seeking a way forward.
No Place Like Home is on-going research project funded by the UC Humanities Research Initiative and an extension of the Working for Dignity program of the Center for Labor Studies, the Critical Sustainabilities Project, Department of Sociology, Division of Social Sciences, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Community Bridges, Community Action Board, and the Economic Justice Alliance.

Digital Humanities Happy Hour
2017-10-19 15:30 - 17:30 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Share your digital research with the DH community!
Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. 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.

All students, faculty, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend.
Food and drinks courtesy of the Institute for Humanities Research.

María Inés La Greca: "The Collective Shout of 'Ni una menos' ('Not one less') in the Streets, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina"
2017-10-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
María Inés La Greca’s research focuses on the relationship between narrativity, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative, psychoanalysis & subject formation, her aim is to offer a critical reflection on discourse, embodiment & identity constitution in gender theory and feminist writing.
Inés La Greca is an adjunct professor at Tres de Febrero National University in Argentina.
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies.
All Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
