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SUMMARY:Cristina Lombardi-Diop: "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nCristina Lombardi-Diop\, Italian Studies\, UC Berkeley\n“Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination“ \nProfessor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian colonial literature\, African-Italian autobiographies\, and the African diaspora in Italy. Her in-progress book is on the memory of Italian colonialism in Italy’s postwar cultural history. The talk explores Italy as a post-racial society and focuses on when the idea of whiteness as a discursive formation infiltrates Italian popular and mass culture. \nCristina Lombardi-Diop is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at The American University of Rome and Visiting Professor of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cristina-lombardi-diop-spotless-italy-advertising-culture-and-the-post-racial-imagination-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:20110413T153000
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SUMMARY:Florence Howe
DESCRIPTION:Kresge Writer’s House\, Living Writers\, & Feminist Studies presents: \nFlorence Howe\, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir\, A Life in Motion
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/florence-howe-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110413T180000
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SUMMARY:Gregg Herken: "Was J. Robert Oppenheimer\, 'Father of the Atomic Bomb\,' a Soviet Spy?"
DESCRIPTION:One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer–the “father of the atomic bomb”–was\, in fact\, a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.  Recently-declassified documents–from U.S. and former Soviet sources–make it possible to finally answer that question. \nGregg Herken (Stevenson College with Honors\, History BA with Honors\, Government with Highest Honors\, 1969) is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California\, and was a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced.  He received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University in 1974\, and subsequent taught at Oberlin College\, Yale University\, and Caltech.  From 1988-2003\, Herken was a senior Historian and Curator\, as well as the chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington\, D.C.  He is the author of four books\, The Winning Weapon:  The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (Knopf\, 1981; Princeton\, 1988)\, Counsels of War (Knopf\, 1985; Oxford\, 1986)\, Cardinal Choices:  Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (Oxford\, 1992; Stanford\, 1999)\, and Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer\, Ernest Lawrence\, and Edward Teller (Henry Holt\, 2002; Holt\, 2003)\, which was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. \nCo-sponsored by The Institute for Humanities Research and The Department of History.  Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregg-herken-was-j-robert-oppenheimer-father-of-the-atomic-bomb-a-soviet-spy-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T140000
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SUMMARY:Karen Sánchez-Eppler: "In the Archives of Childhood"
DESCRIPTION:Karen Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition\, Feminism\, and the Politics of the Body (California\, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago\, 2005)\, and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center where she is completing a project on manuscript books entitled The Unpublished Republic: Manuscript Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States\, and beginning a new one\, In the Archives of Childhood\, which probes the relations between our different ways of holding the past. Her talk at Santa Cruz draws from the introduction to this new project\, examining the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. \n“Archive Fever” as Jacques Derrida describes it\, epitomizes the infectious desire to locate and possess origins. For scholarship in the humanities the “archival turn” proves to have much in common with the study of childhood. Both have been there all along: the repositories of our cultural and personal pasts. In many ways\, for each of us\, childhood is the archive\, a treasure-box of the formative and the forgotten. Yet until the last few decades both our archives and our childhoods have remained largely under-theorized sites of origin. My talk will examine the intersection of archival practice and childhood studies in an effort to illuminate the attractions and limitations of both. Childhood manuscripts and documents demonstrate the potential of archival work for gaining access to children’s voices\, experiences\, and everyday life. Looking beyond this utility\, I hope to suggest how an attention to childhood may help rethink the nature of archival records\, organization\, and purpose itself. The traces of childhood found in archives tend toward the ephemeral—the scrap and the scribble far more likely than the tome—and thus puts pressure on the claims and nature of preservation and valuation. What constitutes the trivial as trivial? If childhood is ephemeral by nature—a stage to be outgrown—then what can it teach us about the archival tasks of keeping and cataloging? Age is not generally a classificatory category for archival holdings\, a fact that exemplifies the expressions of power at stake in the way knowledge is organized. Children tend to appear in archives in two ways\, on the fringes of collections of individual or family papers\, a residue of domestic life that accompanies the valuable work of adults\, for whose prominence these materials have been saved; and in the records of those institutions charged with the protection\, punishment\, and education of the young. Thus to think about childhood in the archives is to think about the tensions and collaborations between individual and institutional frames\, affection and control\, fame and loss. This will be a speculative discussion\, but one that theorizes from particular childhood stuff.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-sanchez-eppler-in-the-archives-of-childhood-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice”
DESCRIPTION:From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking\, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding of the nature of our rapidly changing world should alert us to the need for another form of philosophical thinking – one that pays attention to the condition in which we find ourselves and that seeks to reach practical conclusions\, if any\,on the basis of a proper diagnosis of the present. In place of the usual normative theorizing we need to foster\, what I will call\, a diagnostic practice in moral and political philosophy. \nProfessor Hans Sluga will be speaking at 4:00PM on Thursday\, April 14\, 2011 at the invitation of the Philosophy Department. This event is free and open to the public. \nHans Sluga studied at Oxford University\, where he became familiar with the writings of Wittgenstein. Sluga credits Sir Michael Dumment with influencing his extensive interest in Frege’s contribution to the development of modern logic and philosophy of language. During his time at Oxford he also studied under R.M. Hare and Isaiah Berlin\, stirring his interest in questions of ethics and politics. \nProfessor Sluga’s overall philosophical outlook is radically historical as he believes that “we can understand ourselves only as being with a particular evolution and history”.  As such he is drawn to the works of Nietzsche and Foucault. Sluga claims to be “attracted to a realist and naturalistic view of things rather than any sort of formalistic rationalism”. \nHe has recently taught courses on Political Philosophy\, Nietzsche\, and Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hans-sluga-from-normative-theory-to-diagnostic-practice-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage\, which The New York Times has called an “inspired\, lyrical novel\,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli\, which was named a Best Book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. His first novel\, The Path of Minor Planets\, and his story collection\, How It Was for Me\, were also published to wide acclaim. Greer’s stories have appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, and The New Yorker\, and have been anthologized in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the PEN/O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction\, the Northern California Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-andrew-sean-greer-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rajesh Bhatt: "Locating Agreement in Grammar"
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: \nRajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) \nThe location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement is a post-syntactic process\, other approaches (Boskovic 2009 and Chomsky 1999) locate it entirely within the syntactic system. More recently the data from agreement with conjoined noun phrases has played an important role in this debate; in this domain we find closest conjunct agreement\, a phenomenon whose seeming sensitivity to linear proximity indicates a post-syntactic component to agreement (Marusic et al. 2006). We analyze a novel set of data from Hindi-Urdu that shows that a proper analysis of agreement requires reference to both a pre-spellout syntactic and a post-syntactic component. Hindi-Urdu is a language with both subject and object agreement and we show that while subject agreement is calculated in the pre-spellout syntactic component\, the resolution of object agreement takes place in the post-syntactic component. \nThis presentation represents joint work with Martin Walkow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rajesh-bhatt-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:Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: "Pane Amaro"
DESCRIPTION:Italian Studies Program\, Language Program\, American Studies Program and History Department Present  a screening of the 2009  documentary film\,  \nPane Amaro (Bitter Bread)\ndir. Gianfranco Norelli  \nFollowed by a conversation with the director and co‐producer Suma Kurien \n“The story of migration to the U.S. is a very complex one. “Feel good” narratives about immigrants catapulting from rags  to riches or moralizing tales of “pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps” do not begin to capture that complexity. In Pane Amaro\, viewers learn of events and people known until now mainly to scholars. This is a rich panorama of images and voices from every corner of the Italian American community. Accessible and challenging\, it should be on the list of every ethnic studies course that wants to tackle the difficult process by which European immigrants became white as they became American.”  \nDonna Gabaccia. Director\, Immigration History Research Center\, University of Minnesota  \nFor more information contact:  gckg@ucsc.edu 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gianfranco-norelli-and-surma-kurien-pane-amaro-2/
LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 131\,  Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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