BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20111116T203231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111116T203231Z UID:10004922-1328531400-1328536800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julie Sze: "Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World" DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Sze’s current book project which examines flows\, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture\, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan\, a failed eco-city proposal\, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. \nJulie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley. \nSze’s book\, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice\, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize\, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies. \nSze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race\, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer\, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production. \nSze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair\, MELDI\, Newsweek\, Asian Reporter\, and Grist Magazine.\nThe Urban Studies is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, which has provided staff support for this event.  Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-sze-3/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120206T160000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20120124T203522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120124T203522Z UID:10004659-1328536800-1328544000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kathy Lou Shultz: "Diasporic Modernism at Mid-Century: Melvin B. Tolson and Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s." DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary). \nKathy Lou Schultz is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson\, Hughes\, Baraka. Schultz’s most recent journal articles are “To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson\, Langston Hughes\, and Theories of the Archive” that appeared in Contemporary Literature Vol. 52 No. 1 (Spring 2011) and “Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Wise: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic\,” forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Literature. She is also the author of four collections of poetry and experimental prose. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathy-lou-shultz-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20111202T003342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T003342Z UID:10004647-1328702400-1328709600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Vanita Seth: “Faces of the Self” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nVanita Seth\nVanita Seth\nAssociate Professor\, Politics\, UCSC \n“Faces of the Self” \nThe French ban on the burqa and niqab is only one example of the primacy accorded the face in modern western societies. Professor Seth here argues that the fortunes of the face are tied to the birth of modern individuality\, and that the face is both the grounds and the reflection of the modern expressive self. \n———————————————————————————————————— \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors.  The sessions consist of a 30-40 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. \nALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/csc-vanita-seth-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T160000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20120128T005642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120128T005642Z UID:10004661-1328709600-1328716800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Heather James: "Bison Hamlet" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Early Modern Comparative Studies/Shakespeare: \n“Bison Hamlet” considers the idea of species extinction in myths of the westward transmission of culture in early modern England (translation of empire) and nineteenth-century America (Manifest Destiny). The chief exhibits are an 1861 painting of the American frontier — in which a bison features as Hamlet — and the graveyard scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. \nHeather James teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California\, with emphases on English\, Latin\, and Italian. Her long-standing interests include classical transmission\, poetry and drama\, politics\, book history and gender. Newer interests include commonplacing and the presence of Renaissance culture in the American West. \nAt 4 p.m.\, Professor James will conduct a graduate-student-only seminar on Hamlet Act V\, scene 1 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/heather-james-bison-hamlet-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T190000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20120110T211147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120110T211147Z UID:10004970-1328808600-1328814000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maaike Bleeker: "(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding" DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nMaaike Bleeker \nTheatre Studies\, Utrecht University \n(Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding \nFollowing a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover\, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is reenacted being artistic creations by other artists\, as distinguished from the reenactment of historical situations or events. And also how reenacting these works results in new works\, covers. Covers exist in a specific relationship to the original work\, the cover being a remake or response to the original work from the position of another artist at a later moment in time. The notion of cover also points to how this relationship is mediated by recordings and documentation. The term ´cover version´ originates from the 1960´s when it was introduced to describe a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with an already released original version. That is\, the notion of cover is closely connected to recordings and the recording industry\, not to music or songs as live performance. \nMaaike Bleeker is a Professor and the Chair of Theatre Studies. She studied Art History\, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on Visuality in the Theatre (2002). Previously\, she lectured at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam\, The Piet Zwart Post-Graduate program in Fine Arts (Rotterdam)\, Media Gn: Centre for Emergent Media (Groningen)\, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam)\, the post graduate program Arts Performance Theatricality (Antwerp)\, and in the IPP Performance and Media Studies Summer School of the Johannes Gutenburg Universität\, Mainz. Since 1991\, she also worked as a dramaturge for various theatre directors\, choreographers and visual artists. She performed in several lecture performances\, ran her own theatre company (Het Oranjehotel) and translated five plays that were performed by major Dutch theatre companies. She was an Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (2006-2007) and member of the jury of the Dutch National Theatre Festival TF (2007-2008). \nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-bleeker-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T194500 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20111207T221453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T221453Z UID:10004965-1328810400-1328816700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \n Dawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective) \nDawn Lundy Martin\, Duriel E. Harris\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, Visiting Assistant Professor \nCollaborators\, Collectors & Collectives is a reading/performance series by poets who write and disseminate poetry across multiple disciplines and communities.  Whether as editors\, publishers\, activists\, teachers\, multi-media artists\, and/or co-collaborators\, the featured poets in this series present work that reflects their dynamic engagements in the world. \nThursdays / 6:00 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nContact: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, rvwilson@ucsc.edu or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lws-black-tool-collective-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120210T170000 DTSTAMP:20260617T001924 CREATED:20120129T011647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120129T011647Z UID:10004662-1328878800-1328893200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"What Latinos Are Reading" DESCRIPTION:The Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas presents: \nWhat Latinos Are Reading\nBringing together writers and editors\, this symposium explores the conditions of possibility for Latino literature today\, focusing on its less-explored popular edges. Panelists will explore the conditions of possibility for a US Latino literature–its varied audiences\, the kinds of literacy it presupposes or fosters. How do Latino children and young adults come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What genres and language modalities are most popular\, most inventive\, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district book banning\, what are Latinos not reading? \nSchedule:\nSymposium: 1:00-3:00 pm\nReadings: 3:15-5:00 pm\nFollowed by book signings. \nFeaturing:\nGustavo Arellano\, journalist and editor\, Orange County Weekly; author of the syndicated column and book Ask a Mexican!; and Orange County: A Personal History\nMalín Alegría (Ramírez)\, author of three Young Adult books\, and UC Santa Cruz alum\nTheresa Hamman\, veteran in Global and Bilingual Children’s Publishing\nModerated by Juan Poblete\, Literature\, UCSC \nThe Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto Culturas Literarias Latinas is a research cluster of the Institute for Humanities Research\, as well as a working group of the Chicano/Latino Research Center. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arellano-alegria-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR