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SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: "Line of Inquiry: Many Authors Explore Creative Computing Through a Short Program"
DESCRIPTION:The following one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program: \n10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 \ncontinually generates a pleasing random maze pattern. In this talk\, I argue that this tiny program can serve as a Rosetta Stone to help us understand the interconnected cultural and technical aspects of creative computing\, practices of using the computer expressively and recreationally in innovative ways. These began in the late 1950s and include the making of computer games as well as other types of amusing and aesthetic programs. By analyzing this short program from multiple viewpoints\, I\, along with a group of authors who are collaborating with me on this project\, aim to show that there are several specific methods that are useful in reading code deeply and insightfully. In my talk\, I will discuss how different printed variants of this program exist\, how it is written in a particular programming language with a history\, and how it executes on a particular platform with a history. I will describe how writing ports to other platforms and creating other variants of this program has helped us understand which of its qualities are most significant and why. Finally\, I will describe how the program engages randomness\, iteration\, visualization\, and other wider topics\, such as our changing perception of mazes\, helping us to understand computing as it relates to culture. \nNick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry\, develops computer games\, and is a critic\, theorist\, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and is now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.  \nHe collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto\, the sticker novel Implementation\, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems\, text generators\, and interactive fiction. Montfort has co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO\, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press\, 2003) and written Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System\, (with Ian Bogost\, MIT Press\, 2009) and Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montford-line-of-inquiry-many-authors-explore-creative-computing-through-a-short-program-2/
LOCATION:Engineering 2 Room 506\,  Engineering 2\, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110111T120000
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SUMMARY:Tony Michels: "The Roots of Jewish Socialism: From New York to Russia and Back"
DESCRIPTION:In the late nineteenth century\, a socialist workers’ movement burst onto the scene in New York City’s immigrant Jewish “ghetto.” Over subsequent decades and in cities around the country\, hundreds of thousands of men and women participated in this Jewish labor movement. They recast Jewish culture and community\, and made a strong imprint on American politics and social movements. Where did the Jewish labor movement come from? According to an old and widespread misperception\, immigrants transplanted radical traditions from Russia onto American soil. In fact\, the reverse was true. In the 1880s and 1890s\, most immigrants first discovered socialism in New York and other cities. They built the Jewish labor movement from scratch without support from Russia. Indeed\, New Yorkers provided crucial assistance to Russian Jewish revolutionaries\, enabling to start a workers movement of their own. \nTony Michels is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson\, ’89) and is now a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. His book\, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York\, won the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research for the best first book in Jewish Studies. Michels is editor of the forthcoming book Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Judaism: The Modern Era\, to be published in 2013. He is currently writing a history of Jewish Communists and Anti-Communists in the United States.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tony-michels-the-roots-of-jewish-socialism-from-new-york-to-russia-and-back-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110111T160000
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SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: "Curveship: Interactive Narrating for Interactive Fiction"
DESCRIPTION:Curveship is an interactive fiction (IF) development system that adds support for interactive narrating — automatic narrative variation that is accomplished through text generation. For 30 years\, IF development systems have done very well at allowing us to build and manipulate world models\, which are then encountered by players using text-based interfaces. Curveship aims to do for the *narrative discourse* what IF has already done for the underlying story world\, to allow us to change important things about the narrating as easily as we can move a simulated object from one room to another. The system aims to facilitate research and teaching in AI (and expressive AI particularly)\, computational creativity\, creative NLP\, and narrative theory\, while also allowing allow author/programmers to create new sorts of games with new literary aspects. In my talk\, I will demo the system and\, in theoretical and practical terms\, discuss: \n – Curveship’s representation of actions.\n – Writing string-with-slots templates for description and representation.\n – Generating text using only high-level narrative parameters.\n – Developing different types of “spin” — specifications for narrating. \nCurveship has been tested and used in research by a small group; it is\nbeing prepared for a public release early in 2011. \nNick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry\, develops computer games\, and is a critic\, theorist\, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and is now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.  \nHe collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto\, the sticker novel Implementation\, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems\, text generators\, and interactive fiction. Montfort has co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO\, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press\, 2003) and written Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System\, (with Ian Bogost\, MIT Press\, 2009) and Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montfort-curveship-interactive-narrating-for-interactive-fiction-2/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vilashini Cooppan: “Disciplining World Literature: History\, Memory\, & the Work of Worlding”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Cooppan’s in-progress Race\, Writing\, and the Literary World System combines the economic analysis of world systems theory\, world literature models of global literary movement\, traditional theory and history of the novel\, and psychoanalytic and philosophical studies of political affect. It explores how literary economies have helped to express\, translate\, shape\, and contest the history of modern racial power\, from slavery and empire to apartheid and the war on terror. \nVilashini Cooppan is Associate Professor of Literature\, UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vilashini-cooppan-disciplining-world-literature-history-memory-the-work-of-worlding-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bishnupriya Ghosh: "The 'Saint of the Gutters': Mother Teresa as Corporeal Aperture"
DESCRIPTION:The customary critique of Mother Teresa reads her image as a compromised mass commodity\, the anointed saint who habitually produces the “third world” as her necessary gutter. While it is certainly the case that global icons of her ilk lure consumers into commodity fetishism\, isolating them from social relations\, we see these recursive images routinely deployed in challenges to hegemonic institutions all over the world; reassembled culturally familiar icons surface in the new negotiations over global modernity\, often making the news when they instigate outbreaks of iconophobia or iconomania. These iconoclashes suggest there is more to the story of mass stupefaction told in the iconoclastic critique. What better way to think beyond this promissory skepticism than to relocate the scholarly gaze to a global region replete with rich cultural histories of icon veneration? Mother Teresa\, then\, provides an exemplary instance of a general social phenomena: the periodic outbreaks of anger\, grief\, even riots\, around highly visible public figures (a Lady Diana\, a Barack Obama\, or an Eva Perón) circulating as icons in mass media. Looking closely at her eruption as popular saint in Kolkata\, the talk argues for a reconstituted theory of the icon properly attentive to the mass commodity’s sudden volatilization into a magical technology of the popular. \nWith a doctorate from Northwestern University\, Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she teaches postcolonial theory\, literature\, and global media studies. She has published essays on literature\, film and visual culture in several anthologies\, as well as journals such as boundary 2\, Journal of Postcolonial Studies\, Public Culture and Screen; a monograph\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP\, 2004); and a co-edited volume\, Interventions (Garland\, 1997). Her current projects include a second monograph\, Global Icons in Public Culture (forthcoming Duke UP) and a web-project on speculative communication in HIV/AIDS prevention media. \nThis event is presented by the Department of Feminist Studies. It was made possible by generous contributions from the Departments of Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, History of Art and Visual Culture and Anthropology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bishnupriya-ghosh-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: Riddle & Bind & Generators
DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort will read from his recent book\, Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010)\, which contains poems that relate to his work in digital media. These include riddles (figuratively describing something that is left for the reader to guess) as well as constrained writing à la Oulipo. Then\, he’ll read some of the output of a few of my concise\, free text generators\, including my just-published collaboration with Stephanie Strickland\, Sea and Spar Between. The words in Sea and Spar Between come from Emily Dickinson’s poems and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The talk will conclude with him taking questions and discussing the poems and systems presented.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montfort-riddle-bind-generators-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110112T190000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series has been cancelled on 01/12/2011 due to illness. \nChuck Atkinson will be reading poetry. Sarah Rabkin will be reading from her forthcoming book\, What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World. Stephen Sweat will be presenting on the representation of literacy in eighteenth-century engravings.  It promises to be an evening of tremendous fun and relaxation as the quarter begins.  Please join us for a fantastic evening\, and see that we all do far more than teach in the classroom.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-2011-reading-series-5/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T120000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Schreier: "Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria"
DESCRIPTION:How did Algerian Jews respond to and appropriate France’s newly conceived “civilizing mission” in the mid-nineteenth century? The mission to civilize may have been rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration\, enlightenment\, and emancipation\, but it developed “on the ground” as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the diverse and unruly populations of Algeria’s cities. This meant weakening the influence of local networks and institutions in Algeria by “uplifting” the supposedly oppressed and corrupt Jews of Algeria and attaching them to the French administration. Central to this gendered\, moralizing campaign was an effort to submit Algerian Jews to French marriage and family law. Taken together\, civilizing’s various policies were intended to help establish a colonial hierarchy by dividing Jews from their Muslim neighbors. Local Algerian Jews\, however\, were not passive recipients of this campaign. While energetically adopting the language of civilization\, they used it to maintain their own rabbis\, synagogues\, and schools\, and to resist policies intended to reshape their marriage customs\, institutional life\, and religious faith. \nJoshua Schreier is an Associate Professor of History at Vassar College. He was raised in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Baltimore\, Maryland. He received is BA from the University of Chicago and his MA and Ph.D. from New York University. He has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Middlebury College. \nSchreier works at the intersection of Middle Eastern\, Algerian\, Jewish\, and French histories. His research focuses on French colonialism in Algeria\, and notably how several deeply-rooted North African Jewish communities responded to French imperial policy in the years before the rise of the “Imperial” (Third) Republic in 1870. He is interested in how French officials deployed the ideology of “civilization” to consolidate colonial rule\, but also how local actors co-opted\, reformulated\, or deflected it. He has also written about how French lawmakers and legal thinkers used Jewish and Muslim religious law\, and specifically those concerning the family\, to deny or confer citizenship to Algerian Muslims and Jews. His forthcoming book is entitled “‘Arabs of the Jewish Faith:’ The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria.” \nProfessor Schreier teaches an introductory course on the modern Middle East\, as well as intermediate courses on the Israel-Palestine conflict and French colonial cultures. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the UC Mediterranean Studies MRP.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joshua-schreier-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T160000
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SUMMARY:John MacFarlane: "A Puzzle about Modal Necessity"
DESCRIPTION:When does it make sense to be uncertain whether it’s possible that p? On many accounts of the semantics of epistemic modals\, including the one favored by Professor MacFarlane\, epistemic modal uncertainty should be appropriate only when one is (a) uncertain about what one knows\, or more generally about what is contained in the body of information relevant to evaluating the modal\, or (b) uncertain about whether the complement of the modal is compatible with that body of information. However\, there are cases in which epistemic modal uncertainty seems natural even though neither of these conditions is met. Professor MacFarlane will consider what should be said about these cases\, and about parallel cases of uncertainty about what ought to be done. \nJohn MacFarlane is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. He grew up in northern New Mexico and attended Harvard University\, graduating in 1991 with an A.B. summa cum laude in Philosophy and an honors thesis on Plato’s Protagoras and Gorgias. After a year working on the Navajo reservation in Arizona\, he went on to the University of Pittsburgh\, earning an M.A. in Classics in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2000. His dissertation\, “What Does It Mean to Say that Logic Is Formal?”\, which he wrote under the supervision of Robert Brandom and Nuel D. Belnap\, sought to illuminate contemporary debates about the demarcation of logic by looking at the genealogy of some key concepts used in those debates. MacFarlane has been teaching at Berkeley since 2000. While he has continued to work and teach in ancient philosophy and the philosophy of logic\, the main focus of his research in the last eight years has been the philosophy of language. He has sought to make intellectually respectable the idea that the contents of our thought and talk can be “assessment-sensitive”–that is\, their truth as assessed from a context can depend on features of that context–and put this idea to use in solving philosophical and semantic problems concerning future contingents\, epistemic and deontic modals\, knowledge attributions\, claims of taste\, and indicative conditionals. He is currently working on a unified\, book-length presentation of this work. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-macfarlane-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110113T180000
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Karen Tei Yamashita's Novel "I Hotel"
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Living Writers Series\, Literature and Creative Writing Professor Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her novel\, I Hotel; Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award\, Fiction. \nThere will also be conversations with:\n• Allan Kornblum\, publisher for Coffee House Press\n• Sina Grace\, illustrator of I Hotel and UCSC Creative Writing alum. \nCopies of I Hotel will be available for purchase at the event\, courtesy of Bay Tree Bookstore. \nSponsored by the Humanities Division\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. \nRead the full article: UC Santa Cruz Literature professor nominated for National Book Award. \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Literature Department and The Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-celebration-of-karen-tei-yamashitas-novel-i-hotel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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