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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T040000
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SUMMARY:Steven Miller\, "Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Steven Miller\nProfessor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. \nThis lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department\, with cosponsorship by the Center for Cultural Studies. For further information\, please contact Michael Holohan\, mholohan@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-miller-violence-against-the-nonliving-the-death-drive-destruction-in-contemporary-philosophy-3/
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:20111024T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111024T170000
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SUMMARY:The Affect Working Group Presents:  Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nVilashini Cooppan\, “Affective History and Literary Studies”\nAssociate Professor\, Literature\, UCSC \nProfessor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi\, 2011)\, and a book project on affect\, historical violence and world literature.\n \nSharon Daniel\, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary”\nProfessor\, Film and Digital Media and DANM\, UCSC \nProfessor Daniel’s essays have been published in books and professional journals\, including Database Aesthetics\, the Sarai Reader and Leonardo.\n \nDanilyn Rutherford\, “Affect\, Ethics\, and the Empirical in Anthropology”\nProfessor and Chair\, Anthropology\, UCSC \nProfessor Rutherford is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2002) and the forthcoming Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012).\n \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\, “Affective Computational Media”\nAssociate Professor\, Computer Science \nProfessor Wardrip-Fruin has authored or co-edited books on games and digital media\, including The New Media Reader (MIT\, 2003) and Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions\, Computer Games\, and Software Studies (MIT\, 2009).\n \nModerator: Kimberly Lau\nProfessor\, Literature\, American Studies \nProfessor Lau is the author of Body Language: Sisters in Shape\, Black Women’s Fitness\, and Feminist Identity Politics (Temple\, 2011).\n \nFor further information\, please contact Deborah Gould\, dbgould@ucsc.edu. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-affect-working-group-presents-affect-across-the-disciplines-a-faculty-graduate-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Red Room\,  Red Restaurant and Bar‎ 200 Locust Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T061208
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SUMMARY:Gildas Hamel\, "Monotheism and Empire II"
DESCRIPTION:Gildas Hamel\nProfessor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations\, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires\, or as an episode in the cultural borrowing and translation of religious stories and practices. \nGildas Hamel is a S.O.E. Lecturer in History. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support from the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gildas-hamel-monotheism-and-empire-ii-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:20111026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T160000
DTSTAMP:20260617T061208
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SUMMARY:Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show
DESCRIPTION:The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach\, Associate Professor\, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: \nNadja Durbach\nPerforming Race at the Victorian Freak Show \nWhile scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions\, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes\, none have explored in earnest either the preconditions for\, or the ramifications of\, this artifice. This talk interrogates the cultural attitudes that bound ethnic and racial Otherness together\, and the ways in which these relationships were embodied and performed\, in order to explain what made these fake shows not only possible\, but appealing to a broad British public. \nThe widespread use of working-class men\, and the Irish in particular\, to portray Africans or other “savages” at sideshows depended upon and contributed to beliefs about the relationships between class\, ethnicity\, and race. Irishmen were regularly employed to play sideshow savages\, whether American Indians\, Bushmen\, or Zulus\, because of long-standing assumptions about their primitive\, wild and violent natures. Showmen cast them in these roles\, and audiences allowed themselves to be deceived\, because the ruse reinforced widespread beliefs about the racial inferiority of the Irish and conversely the whiteness of other Britons. I argue that most audience members were probably not fooled by these fraudulent acts but were nevertheless entertained and reassured by the messages they conveyed about race and empire\, perhaps even more so than by authentic exhibitions. \nThis event is part of the 2011-2012 MACS research theme Exhibitions and Performance. For more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/performing-race-at-the-victorian-freak-show-3/
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:20111026T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T193000
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CREATED:20111025T003442Z
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SUMMARY:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy"
DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Frame\nThe Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”\, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. \nThe Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco\, 1975\, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera\, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed. \nChip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn  and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac  Ranch sculpture in Amarillo\, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres\, often mixing the two\, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media. \nMargaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/temporalities-of-reenactment-a-speaker-series-the-eternal-frame-an-artists-reenactment-of-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T180000
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SUMMARY:Wooksik Cheong \, “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju "
DESCRIPTION:Today\, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism\, its hardy diving women\, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment\, Jeju is\, however\, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25\, 1950\, the purported start of the Korean War\, Jeju\, deemed a “Red” island\, was a site of counter-revolutionary violence—indiscriminate state-sponsored bloodshed justified in the name of “national defense.”  In long overdue recognition of the civilian massacres it perpetrated under US watch in 1948\, the South Korean government in 2005 designated Jeju an “Island of Peace.” \nYet\, the legacy of unrestrained militarism and the abuse of government authority are far from over.  Since 2007\, the people of Gangjeong village have waged non-violent resistance against the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju.  Due to be operational by 2014\, the naval base\, which will host 20 warships and two Aegis destroyers integrated within the US Missile Defense System\, not only stands to destroy a UNESCO biosphere reserve and government-recognized “absolute preservation area” characterized by rare rock formations\, abundant and fertile farmlands\, pristine fresh and sea waters\, and endangered animal species\, but also\, to displace Gangjeong villagers from their sea- and land-based livelihoods.  Not merely a local struggle\, the democratic resistance of Gangjeong residents and activists against the naval base raises the question of a neo-Cold War US/South Korea/Japan alliance and a looming regional arms race with China.  With growing global attention to the Jeju resistance\, the South Korean government has intensified its crackdown\, recently dispatching more than 1\,000 riot police from the mainland to forcibly remove and arrest protesters to clear the way for construction. \nWooksik Cheong\, a founding member and representative of Peace Network\, a South Korean NGO formed in 1999 that works for peace and disarmament in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula\, will speak on the resistance movement against the militarization of Jeju. \nFree and open to the public.  Event co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies\, the Asian Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Program\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence.   For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wooksik-cheong-peace-island-resisting-the-militarization-of-juju-3/
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:20111027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T183000
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SUMMARY:Ella von der Haide\, "Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010"
DESCRIPTION:This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide\, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning\, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa\, Argentina\, Germany and North America. Urban community gardening is a phenomenon that is spreading throughout the world.  This film will focus on the North American context. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ella-von-der-haide-another-world-is-plantable-a-documentary-on-community-gardening-and-food-justice-in-north-america-2010-3/
LOCATION:Communications\, Studio C\, Room 150\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111027T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer\, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories\, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives\, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded several honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Literary Fellowship\, and the Bard Fiction Prize. \nPeter Orner\nOrner has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review\, and various other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses). Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)\, as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2007). A film version of one of Orner’s stories\, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director\, Rob Jones\, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. \nOrner has taught at the University of Montana\, Bard College\, Charles University in Prague\, Washington University\, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Orner is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State where he is an associate professor. He is a currently visiting fiction faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. \nFor more information about the event\, please contact Micah Perks by email at meperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk\, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore. \nThe Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund\, the Porter Hitchcock Fund\, the UCSC Literature Department\, and the Sain Endowment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-peter-orner-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T061208
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. \nMatt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse\, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books\, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance\, the Zhouli.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-reading-and-exhibition-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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