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SUMMARY:Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
DESCRIPTION:Aparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti\, directed by Satyajit Ray\, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate\, Rabindranath Tagore\, it was her very first film. Since then Sen has achieved critical acclaim\, both nationally and internationally\, as an actress and a feminist filmmaker. \nOn April 21 (Media Theater\, UCSC\, 5 PM) Ms. Sen will appear on stage after the screening of Samapti\, an hour- long film. She will speak on Tagore’s great cultural and literary heritage. (admission free) \nOn April 22 there will be a screening ofst The Japanese Wife\, directed by Ms. Sen\, at Nickelodeon at 2 pm. (Nickelodeon\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060. Call: 831.426.7511 for reservation) \nMs. Sen will appear on stage for brief Question & Answer sessions after the screening of both the films. \nPresented by: Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center\, UCSC & ICCR\, New Delhi for more information call us 831.459.4012/459.2696\, or visit http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/news.htm
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabindranath-tagore-150th-anniversary-with-aparna-sen-2-3/
LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race\, Sexuality and the Production of the Real”
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nPedro Di Pietro \nVisiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow\, UCB; Research Affiliate\, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Philosophy\, Interpretation\, and Culture\, Binghamton University \nProfessor Di Pietro examines the production of queer spaces in the Andes and their diasporic dispersal in the Americas. He also examines geopolitical linkages between subaltern queerness and vernacular spirituality among Latino/as in the U.S.\, weaving regional epistemologies of sex/gender/desire together with a critique of the human/non-human distinction and its ethico-political aftermath across ethnic\, gender\, and queer studies. \nCO-SPONSORS: The Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, and the Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pedro-di-pietro-decolonizing-queer-space-race-sexuality-and-the-production-of-the-real-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:20120425T150000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy\, Roberto Bolaño\, and the Natural History of Destruction”
DESCRIPTION:In his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War\, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction begin?” In the process of beginning himself to answer this question\, Sebald critiques the German literary failure to confront “the true state of the material and moral ruin in which the country found itself\,” to relay the “very real horrors” of the constitutive feature of the European postwar landscape: death.  As some critics have more recently observed\, death constitutes the very being not only of the Holocaust but also of the contemporary genocide accompanying neoliberalism or our globalizing world system. With Sebald’s question (and provisional answers to it) as a prompt\, this talk explores questions of style and affective dynamics in the representations of violence and genocide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands exemplified by Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. \nAs I have argued in another context\, the postregional US West ought to be regarded as a rather spectral\, deterritorialized discursive terrain produced by the intersection of media imagery and the migration of transnational capital and human and animal bodies with particular geophysical terrains. These fictions by McCarthy and Bolaño specifically disclose how a postregional or global South economy of representation centers on the violent manner in which embodied laboring populations on both sides of the border are brought into and positioned in the spaces of relatively wealthy societies\, particularly its maquiladoras and the transportation networks produced by flows of drugs\, weapons\, and immigrants. Through an analysis of figures of suspended agency living in the aftermath of violent trauma\, I will speculate further on the ethical and political consequences of a forensic aesthetic combining pensiveness with parataxis. \nStephen Tatum is Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah\, where he teaches courses in US West literature\, theories of popular culture\, and environmental writing and ecocriticism. His recent publications include award-winning essays on postregional western American literature and culture\, an edited collection Reading ‘The Virginian’ in the New West\, and the books Cormac McCarthy’s ‘All the Pretty Horses’: A Reader’s Guide and In the Remington Moment. He is currently at work on a projected titled Morta Las Vegas. \nThis event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research\, and the departments of American Studies and Literature.  Staff support provided by the IHR.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephen-tatum-3/
LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 132\,  Cowell College 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T160000
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SUMMARY:ChaeRan Freeze: "Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova"
DESCRIPTION:ChaeRan Freeze\, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University\, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book\, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham\, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival materials from the former Soviet Union. It received the Koret Foundation Publication Award and the Salo Baron Award for the Best First Book in Jewish Studies. She also edited Polin: Jewish Women in Eastern Europe\, Volume 18 (Oxford\, 2005) with Paula Hyman and Antony Polonsky. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the study of Jewish women’s experiences in Eastern Europe. She is presently completing a project\, “Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia\, 1825-1914: Select Documents” (coauthored with Jay Harris\, Harvard University) which documents the “everyday” (Alltags) as a site of interaction with modernity where Jews confronted the unfamiliar\, and negotiated their environment in strategic and creative ways. This project received a Collaborative NEH Grant\, and will be published by the Brandeis University Press. Her new project is to publish the eight diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952)\, a noble Jewish woman who described elite Jewish culture and life in tsarist Russia. \nThis event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helen-diller-family-foundation-distinguished-lecture-chaeran-freeze-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:Pranav Anand: "All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate"
DESCRIPTION:Whereas a generation ago\, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor\, today a host of venues exist online\, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as the structure of argumentative combat in general. This talk will describe efforts to computationally discover both the variety of stances that people express in online debate and tactics through which they seek to defend their position. \nFollowing the lecture\, there will be a catered reception at the Stevenson provost house. \nPranav Anand is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Anand’s work concentrates on elucidating how contextual factors affect the meaning of linguistic expressions\, including expression of affect\, belief\, perspective\, and quantity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pranav-anand-all-i-want-is-some-honest-answers-to-my-questions-tracking-argumentation-and-stance-in-online-political-debate-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
DESCRIPTION:A Tribute to Adrienne Rich\nIt was in 1973\, in the midst of Black and women’s liberation movements\, the Vietnam War\, and her own personal distress\, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck\, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In the decades that followed\, Rich’s poetry\, essays\, and books addressed issues of feminist politics\, lesbian experience\, and Jewish identity\, and deeply engaged the critical concerns of racial and imperial oppression\, war and environmental degradation. Relentless in her commitment to social justice for all peoples\, her work has enlightened and inspired. She is considered\, in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century\, one of our greatest American poets. In this tribute\, members of our campus community will read from her work. \n \nSponsored by Literature Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, Porter College\, Oakes College\, Cowell College\, Merrill College\, Colleges 9 & 10\, Stevenson College\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Living Writers & the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-tribute-to-adrienne-rich-3/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120426T170000
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SUMMARY:Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a conversation with Oakes’ First Provost and UCSC’s first African American faculty member\, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Our conversation will center around Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences field. Refreshments will be served. \nPresented by Oakes College\, Oakes Science Community\, Science and the Justice Working Group.  For more information\, please contact Philip Longo (plongo@ucsc.edu) or Walter Adams (wjadams@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herman-blake-about-oakes-history-and-diversity-in-the-medical-sciences-3/
LOCATION:Guzman Room\, Oakes College\, Oakes College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Nalo Hopkinson
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/nalohopkinson-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:20120427T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T160000
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SUMMARY:Jeff Hull: "Unlocking the Power of Play; Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm"
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers\, pirate radio broadcasts from rogue agencies\, bizarre team building exercises\, guerrilla masonry\, covert subterranean exploration\, sasquatch dance bombs\, and all manner of subterfuge. As the founder of Oaklandish and The Jejune Institute he has taken Situationism and Street Art in unseen new directions\, blowing minds and winning awards along the way. His talk will offer a glimpse into the future of storytelling. \nJeff Hull is the creative director of Nonchalance\, a San Francisco based Situational Design agency whose mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play. This is achieved this by means of interactive narrative\, game design\, augmented reality\, automated environments\, event production\, installation art\, spatial navigation and cultural curation. They are best known for their award winning independent projects The Jejune Institute and Oaklandish. \nHosted By the Center for Games and Playable Media
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-hull-unlocking-the-power-of-play-immersive-narrative-in-the-civic-realm-3/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120427T160000
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SUMMARY:Craig Schiffer: Santa Cruz to Wall Street
DESCRIPTION:The University of California Satna Cruz Humanities presents the East Coast Distinguished Alumni Guest Lecture Speaker\, Craig Schiffer – Cowell\, Class of ’78 \nSanta Cruz to Wall Street\nHow I got from UCSC to Wall Street\, my experience in the world of finance and investment banking\, and the options for someone coming out of school now \nReception immediately following the lecture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/east-coast-distinguished-alumni-lecture-featuring-craig-schiffer-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:2012 Reunion Weekend
DESCRIPTION:2012 Reunion Weekend\nMore information TBA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2012-reunion-weekend-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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