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SUMMARY:West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics\, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Linguistics Research Center\, will take place on Friday\, April 13 to Sunday\, April 15\, 2012 at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nConference Program (PDF)\nFor more information and registration\, please visit the conference website. \nThis event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics\, the Institute for Humanities Research\, the Linguistics Research Center\, and Stevenson College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/west-coast-conference-on-formal-linguistics-3-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120416T153000
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SUMMARY:Ondrej Skovajsa: "Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to a talk by: Ondrej Skovajsa\, Visiting Fulbright Scholar \n“Written Voice: Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)\nand Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934)”\nDiscussing first the relevance of oral theory when dealing with texts\, the paper deals with the strategies Whitman and Miller share to get their voices across to the reader. With some striking similarities already at the paratextual level\, the paper moves to stylistic features\, most important of which is the present tense: it aligns these works with the “future focus” of biblical orality that James Nohnrberg defines as contrary to the “nostalgia” of literature. Further\, the paper discusses how the two texts employ Marcel Jousse’s notion of “mimisme” as the rhythmical creative law of the universe. (Jousse’s notion is parallel to Dorothee Soelle’s notion of creative happiness\, and Elaine Scarry’s notion of beauty that demands a replication of itself.) On a still deeper level\, the paper discusses imitatio Christi strongly embraced by both authors: important is the two flâneurs’ “sympathy”\, and the notion of “rebirth as hermeneutics” – i.e. as resurrection of the spoken living logos from the “grave of the book”\, as discussed by Walter Ong’s in “Maranatha” (1977). Whitman and Miller remain in resurrection of – and constant dialogue with – their textual “fixations” on their further journeys. \nMr. Skovajsa is an assistant professor at Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem\, and a doctoral student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Charles University in Prague.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ondrej-skovajsa-written-voice-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:20120417T160000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University\, Dartmouth College\, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998\, after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1984. \nHis research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish to point toward new pathways in the study of Jewish culture. His first book\, as co-editor\, was From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983 and 1998)\, which served as an introduction for younger\, English-speaking Jews to first-hand accounts of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. This was followed by Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991)\, based on his dissertation fieldwork in Paris\, and by a volume on the life history of Yiddish scholar Shlomo Noble. Further ethnographic and critical essays\, including some dealing with the contemporary Lower East Side in New York\, were published in Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory(1992) and Thinking in Jewish (1996). He edited and contributed to The Ethnography of Reading (1993) and Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994). With his brother\, Daniel Boyarin\, he co-edited Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (1997). His interest in Zionism\, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict\, and revaluation of diaspora in contemporary Jewish life is reflected in Palestine and Jewish History (1996) and (again with Daniel Boyarin) Powers of Diaspora (2002). His books in recent years include Jewishness and the Human Dimension (Fordham\, 2008); Time and Human Language Now (with Martin Land; Prickly Paradigm\, 2009); The Unconverted Self: Jews\, Indians and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago\, 2009) and Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer (Fordham\, 2011). \nThis event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-boyarin-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:20120418T120000
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SUMMARY:Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: "Pig Patients and their Personalities"
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: \nEva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl \nPh.D Fellow\, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies\, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow\, and The Science and Justice Working Group\, UCSC \nWhat  makes animal technicians describe a pig as “depressed\,” “a rebel” or “girly”? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically and become sources of information on human health? Professor Pihl discusses human/pig becomings in biomedical research\, focusing on apparatuses and spaces.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eva-vibeke-kofoed-pihl-pig-patients-and-their-personalities-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sara M. Benson: "Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography"
DESCRIPTION:This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies\, the talk traces the geography of prisons in what is now the U.S. Midwest\, maps the border politics and competing claims to law that brought the federal prison to Kansas\, and disrupts the conventional regional narrative of American prisons as North/South institutions. The talk locates Leavenworth in the afterlife of a civil war over slavery that began the Civil War and at the center of the federal strategy to establish\, police\, and dissolve Indian Territory. \nSara Benson received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and was part of the Designated Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies. She is now a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UCLA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-m-benson-locating-leavenworth-prisons-and-political-geography-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T173000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
DESCRIPTION:Filmed reenactment has a long\, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema\, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité\, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary\, reenactment fell from favor during the 1960s. But in the past decade\, and with\nremarkable alacrity\, reenactment has been revived as a critical figure\, in all manner of film-historical writing\, both in and on film. UCSC Film and Digital Media professors Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig consider some sources and implications of this renewed interest in reenactment as a trope of history\, with reference to and excerpts from two of Lusztig’s reenacted documentaries\, Reconstruction (2001)\, and The Samantha Smith Project (2005). In Reconstruction\, Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation\, when she travels to Bucharest to construct a portrait of her enigmatic grandmother. The title of the documentary is derived from a bizarre government propaganda film that reenacts the crime and trial of a robbery that “starred” her grandmother\, as a member of the infamous Ioanid Gang. Braiding together the story of the briefly-famous ten-year-old girl from Manchester\, Maine who became Yuri Andropov’s penpal at the height of the Cold War and a parallel personal narrative of travel to Russia fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union\, The Samantha Smith Project explores the aftermath of the Cold War and the contemporary Russian landscape\, while meditating on notions of forgetting\, nostalgia\, and the manufacturing and dismantling of political enemies. \nPlease visit our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-kahana-and-irene-lusztig-documentary-reenactment-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:The Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Literature Department/Creative Writing Program\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, East Asian Studies Program\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, Latino and Latin American Studies Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion\, El Centro\, Cantu Queer Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Stevenson College\, Oakes College\, and Merrill College. \nBooks are sold at the readings by The Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khadivi-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:20120421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120421T180000
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SUMMARY:WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 21 @ 1 pm  //  Museum of Art & History\nFree and Open to the Public (includes free museum access)\n\nJoin us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California. Hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions. \n\nWhat does it mean to do the humanities?\nWhy do the humanities matter?\nWhat’s public about the humanities?\n\nThe afternoon will consist of panel discussions and poster presentations. Panel topics include the power of language\, religion and modernity\, empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters\, feminist art\, slavery and cannibalism\, the criminalization of religious practice\, party-crashing in medieval literature\, the inevitable fate of the novel\, and many others. \nFor details visit: http://humanities.ihr.ucsc.edu/ \nBring your family and friends! All of the MAH exhibits will be free and open to the public that afternoon\, including the highly anticipated “All You Need Is Love” exhibit. Visitors will be able to enter a free raffle for items donated by local businesses – Logos Books and Records\, L’Atelier Salon\, Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, and many others. \nSponsored by the UC Humanities Network\, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, and local Santa Cruz businesses.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-are-we-doing-when-we-do-the-humanities-2-3/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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