BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute 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:20120215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120215T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T220217 CREATED:20111202T010201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111202T010201Z UID:10004944-1329307200-1329314400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\n\nBettina Apthekar\n\nBettina Apthekar\nDistinguished Professor\, Feminist Studies and History\, UCSC \n“Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States” \nIn 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter\, The Queer Communist\, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer and sickle\, marking an extraordinary moment relative to the homophobic history and politics of the CPUSA. The paper analyzes this history. \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-bettina-apthekar-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:20120216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T194500 DTSTAMP:20260418T220217 CREATED:20111207T222402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111207T222402Z UID:10004967-1329415200-1329421500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing and Literature present:\nUCSC Winter Living Writers Series \ngiovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton\nAra Shirinyan \ngiovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher ascension\, a collection of poems in 2012. singleton is currently at work on AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper\, a collection of concrete poems inspired by African American spirit writing\, the aboriginal dreamtime\, Tibetan meditation practice\, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy. \nAra Shirinyan lives in Los 
Angeles\, where he writes and is editor of Make Now Press. He is the author of two books of poetry\, Syria Is in the World ( Palm Press\, 2007) and Your Country is Great (Futurepoem Books\, 2008). With Stan Apps and Teresa Carmody\, he co-curates The Last Sunday Reading Series at the 
Smell in Los Angeles (an all ages punk/art rock club that he helped 
co-found in 1997 and briefly ran for a year). His work has appeared 
or is forthcoming in Word Ways\, UBUWEB\, Greetings\, Trepan\, Combo\, Area Sneaks\, Tuli & Savu among others. \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-giovanni-singleton-ara-shrinyan-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:20120217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T160000 DTSTAMP:20260418T220217 CREATED:20120205T182637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120205T182637Z UID:10004663-1329487200-1329494400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gautam Premnath: "Urban Form\, Minority Identity\, and Narrative Drift in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight" DESCRIPTION:Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005)\, Altaf Tyrewala’s novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point\, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula\, serving up a series of brief\, elegantly crafted\, loosely connected\, first-person narratives that chart sinuous\, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry\, detached narratorial voice that levels out differences between petty travails and high tragedy in the lives of his middle-class Muslim characters. Yet as the seventh episode nears its end\, a different tonal register irrupts into the narrative. As Amin-bhai\, a small shoeshop-owner\, anticipates his emigration to the United States\, the laconic speaking style he shares with other narrators gives way to an impassioned litany of recrimination and regret. Cataloguing assaults upon Muslims and other religious minorities by Hindu fundamentalist zealots\, Amin-bhai punctuates his leavetaking of his country\, stating\, “Let them have their Hindustan for Hindus.” Here\, Tyrewala institutes a formal break\, marked by a blank page. When the first-person narrative chain resumes\, the scene has shifted to a Gujarati village whose residents are being harangued by a mahant into violence against unspecified “outsiders.” Tyrewala has retrieved his studied equanimity\, and the novel renders state-sanctioned pogroms in 2002 Gujarat with a remarkably light touch. Before long the narrative returns to Bombay\, and the novel reverts to its earlier guise of urban dérive. But the Gujarat detour has crucially redirected this earlier imperative. This talk analyzes how the novel’s ambitions as urban exploration are conditioned and inflected by its concern to reflect upon the question of contemporary Indian Muslim identity. \nGAUTAM PREMNATH is Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley\, where he specializes in the 20th-century Anglophone literatures of Britain\, the Caribbean\, and South Asia\, and in theories of postcoloniality and diaspora. He has published numerous articles of literary criticism and cultural theory. His first book\, Mobile Republics: Itineraries of Postcolonial Authorship between India and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press. \nThis lecture is presented by the Literature Department and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent is free and open to the public. For further information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gautam-premnath-urban-form-minority-identity-and-narrative-drift-in-altaf-tyrewalas-no-god-in-sight-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR