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SUMMARY:Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Kant\nThe Philosophy Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13\, 2011. \nSpeaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room. \nFor more information or to register for this conference please contact Professor Daniel Guevara via email at guevara@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3600. \n2011 Meeting Program\nSaturday November 12: \n1:00 pm David Hills (Stanford University)\n“Of the (Kantian) Standard of Taste” \n2:30 pm  Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)\n“The Transcendental Ideality of the Kantian Sublime” \n4:00 pm Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)\n“Kant’s notion of unconditional goodness” \n5:30 pm Business meeting \n  \nSunday\, November 13: \n8:30 am Light Breakfast \n9:00 am Samantha Matherne (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant and the Art of Schematism”\nWinner of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend \n10:30 am Pierre Keller (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Ideas as the Source of Normativity” \n12:00 pm Abe Stone (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Kant on Objects and Things”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-study-group-of-the-north-american-kant-society-2011-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T123000
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SUMMARY:Scott Saul\, "What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA"
DESCRIPTION:Saul Scott\nThe Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul\, “”What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax\, Richard Pryor\, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”. This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum)\, examines how the film reframes the meaning of the Watts Riots\, as well as the political/cultural role of the black community in Los Angeles. By doing so\, it addresses persistent questions issues around black aesthetics and representations or urban life. \nScott Saul is an associate professor of American Studies and English at UC-Berkeley. His first book\, Freedom Is\, Freedom Ain’t\, on jazz and the 1960s\, was the winner of the American Book Award. He writes frequently on American culture and politics for publications such as Boston Review\, Harper’s\, and The Nation. He is currently working on “Becoming Richard Pryor” which will be the first critical biography of the comedian-entertainer. The study explores the trajectory of Pryor’s  artistic development in conjunction with a set of larger historical trends: the emergence of the counterculture and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements; the debates over the “declining inner city” and the “declining working class” in 1970s culture; and the challenge posed by New Hollywood to the older studio system. \nhttp://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/speakers/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-saul-what-you-see-is-what-you-get-wattstax-richard-pryor-and-the-secret-history-of-the-black-aesthetic-in-1970s-la-3/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000
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SUMMARY:Caren Kaplan\, "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation & Deception in Militarized Aeromobility
DESCRIPTION:Caren KaplanCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California\, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Science & Technology Studies. \nProfessor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke\, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill\, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke\, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota\, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works\, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. \nThis colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture\, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture\, Film & Digital Media\, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings\, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caren-kaplan-the-visual-culture-of-stealth-interpretation-deception-in-militarized-aeromobility-3/
LOCATION:Communications\, Room 139\, Communications Bldg‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111114T210000
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SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Gershom Gorenberg\nUCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book\, The Unmaking of Israel\, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places. \nGershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements\, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews\, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history\, of major Israeli leaders\, and of Israel-U.S. relations. \nHe is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount\, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin\, Shalom Friend\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award\, and edited Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report. \nAs a commentator on Middle East affairs and the interface of religion and politics\, Gershom has appeared on Sixty Minutes\, Nightline\, Dateline\, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report\, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, Mother Jones and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. \nGershom has been a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism\, and has lectured at the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Carnegie Council\, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, the Middle East Institute\, the Wexner Graduate Fellowship\, and for universities\, congregations and other organizations seeking a nuanced view of politics\, Mideast affairs and religion. \nGershom was born in St. Louis and grew up in California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz\, he came to Israel in 1977 and earned an MA in education at the Hebrew University. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife\, journalist Myra Noveck\, and their three children\, Yehonatan\, Yasmin and Shir-Raz. He is an active member of Kehillat Yedidya\, the pioneering progressive Orthodox congregation in South Jerusalem.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-distinguished-alumni-lecture-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T120000
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SUMMARY:Deanna Shemek\, "Digital Princess: Toward an Open-Access Online Archive of Renaissance Correspondence"
DESCRIPTION:Deanna Shemek\nProfessor Shemek studies intersections of elite and popular culture in early modern Italy\, especially among women. Her current research focuses on early modern letter writing. She is completing an edition of Isabella d’Este’s letters and a book on the broader significance of early modern women’s letters. The talk addresses plans to digitize the manuscript sources for her edition and visualize the social network of a Renaissance princess. \nDeanna Shemek is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deanna-shemek-digital-princess-toward-an-open-access-online-archive-of-renaissance-correspondence-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:20111116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T150000
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SUMMARY:A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
DESCRIPTION:One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag\, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically\, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews\, as well as from Jews from other places or backgrounds (e.g.\, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi). Significantly\, some Jewish sources went so far as to define minhag as a form of Torah and stressed the importance of maintaining minhagim (the plural form of minhag)\, while other sources cautioned against the dangers of blindly following minhagim. For centuries\, Jews learned minhagim mimetically\, that is\, by imitating other members of their community or family and through oral transmission. In the early modern period\, however\, Jews also began to publish printed collections of minhagim\, eventually creating a literary genre that exists to this day among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. In the twentieth century\, the collection and study of minhagim became one of the central interests of the first ethnographers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. \nIn this public dialogue\, Professor Jean Baumgarten\, a world-renowned expert on Yiddish minhag literature and Professor Nathaniel Deutsch\, whose recently published book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press) explores the groundbreaking ethnographic work of S. An-sky\, will discuss the history and significance of minhag in its many facets. \nJean Baumgarten\, is Professor and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS)\, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique\, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives\, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, in France. \nGenerous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-baumgarten-and-nathaniel-deutsch-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111118
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SUMMARY:Long Bui\, "Ms. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community"
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Long Bui\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\nMs. Little Saigon: Through the Looking Glass of Art\, Politics and Community \nThis presentation examines the historical legacy of the Vietnam War as it continues to shape political conflicts and ideological differences within the Vietnamese diasporic community. Recognizing the power of cultural media and production to symbolize ideas about nation\, gender and class\, I investigate a recent public controversy involving mass protests by hundreds of people demonstrating against an art exhibit produced by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/long-bui-ms-little-saigon-through-the-looking-glass-of-art-politics-and-community-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:20111117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T160000
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SUMMARY:Giancarlo Casale\, "What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nGiancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire\, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography\, global exploration\, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book\, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration\,” about the history of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century. The book was based on extensive research in the archives of both Turkey and Portugal\, and explored the ways in which the growth of the Ottoman Empire was part of the same historical process that witnessed the expansion of numerous other imperial powers\, ranging from the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal to rival Islamic states like Mughal India and Safavid Iran. His next major project\, tentatively titled “Curiosity and Intolerance: The Paradox of Early Modernity\,” is a comparative study of the development of ethnographic modes of writing in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. At the same time he is also engaged in several smaller research projects on topics including corsairs and the development of Ottoman naval technology\, the connection between naval power and deforestation in the Mediterranean region\, and a geo-historical study of the earthquake of Dubrovnik in 1667.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giancarlo-casale-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards\, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007\, California Book Award 2008\, the Prix Medicis 2010\, and the Premi Libreter 2011. David Vann’s work has been published by 22 different publishers in 16 different languages. His books have appeared on 43 Best Book lists in 10 countries. His works include Caribou Island\, Sukkwan Island\, A Mile Down and Legends of a Suicide.  \nDavid Vann\nDavid Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. \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/david-van-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:20111118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T180000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn\,"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism"
DESCRIPTION:Laurence R. Horn\nOn the Contrary: \nPragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism  \n  \nThe dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet 1888) describes the tendency for contradictory (apparent wide-scope) negation to be semantically or pragmatically strengthened to contrary readings whenever possible. This tendency is illustrated by lexicalization asymmetries (e.g. none ‘all not’ vs. *nall ‘not all’) and the widespread diachronic reanalyses of weaker negatives to contraries (e.g Il ne faut pas partir —literally = ‘one need not leave’ > ‘one must not-leave’). \nOutside the lexical domain\, contrary strengthening typically instantiates the inference schema of disjunctive syllogism (modus tollendo ponens): \n  f v j \n  ¬ f \n  j \nThe role of the disjunctive syllogism can be detected in a variety of strengthening shifts in natural language where the disjunctive premise in question is pragmatically presupposed in relevant contexts. It will be shown that a range of apparently quite diverse phenomena—negative strengthening in lexical and clausal contexts (e.g. neg-raising)\, scope adjustments with negated plural definites and bare plurals\, epistemic strengthening of weak implicature in both main and embedded contexts\, conjunctive readings of free choice disjunction\, and children’s word learning strategies\, among others—can be collected under the umbrella of pragmatic strengthening as reflexes of the general preference for contrariety\, the operation of disjunctive syllogism\, or both. \nLaurence R. Horn is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University. Professor Horn’s primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic\, lexical semantics\, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. He specializes in pragmatics\, semantics\, syntax\, language & gender. \nThis talk is presented by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group\, a research center of the Institute for Humanities Research. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-laurence-horn-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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