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:20120502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120308T202501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T202501Z UID:10004674-1335960000-1335967200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents:\nCatherine Jones \nHistory\, UCSC \nExcluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia\, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the meaning of freedom. This paper focuses on children in order to consider whether liberal assumptions embedded in the idea of agency have excessively narrowed historians’ analysis of postemancipation politics. \nSPONSORS: The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/catherine-jones-children-and-the-problem-of-agency-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:20120502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120430T075505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120430T075505Z UID:10004695-1335960000-1335967200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Kaborych of the Medici Archive Project and Its New Digital Interactive Platform DESCRIPTION:The Medici Archive Project Presents: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project\, Florence\, of  a new\, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management\, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-kaborych-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T230000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120319T162820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120319T162820Z UID:10005088-1335960000-1335999600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Dickens Day Celebration DESCRIPTION:A Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year \nCo-sponsored by The Dickens Project\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nAn Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco\, hence\, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus\, a brief description of what will occur by way of discourse and disquisition\, literary enrichment\, theatrical engagement\, delectable fare\, and of course\, sheer fun. \nA Dickens Day Celebration (in honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year will be held on Wednesday\, May 2 from NOON – 8:30 pm at San Francisco’s historic Mechanics’ Institute Library & Chess Room (founded in 1854). The day will start at Noon with lunch in the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub followed by a series of talks from 12:30 -3:30 pm on Discovering Dickens’s London. From 3:30 – 4:30 pm we feature English Tea with Charles Dickens in Residence (performed by Robert Young) with additional “5 minute Dickens” readings from the audience. The evening program from 6:30 -8:30 pm features a keynote address by Jane Smiley (Charles Dickens (2002)\, followed by a panel titled\, A Writer’s Life: Author\, Celebrity\, Social Reformer\, Intrepid Traveler\, Amateur Actor & Family Man and Dickens in the Digital Age with professors from the UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project and others; culminating with a dramatic reading by actor Paul Whitworth. \nSix Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub will offer hearty tavern fare from NOON – 6:00 pm with a special Tea Service from 3:30 -5:00 pm. The audience and participants are welcomed to come in costumes as favorite characters from Dickens’s novels or people of the times! \nAfternoon Program\nDiscovering Dickens’s London\n12:00 – Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Pub (hearty tavern fare & libations 12:00 – 6:00 pm) \n12:30-1:30 – John Jordan\, Arriving in Dickens’s London \n1:30-2:30 – Murray Baumgarten\, Reading Dickens Writing London \n2:30-3:30 – Peter Orner\, Dickens and Melville: A Tale of Two Scriveners \n3:30-4:30 – Tea Readings with Charles Dickens (Robert Young) Dramatic Reading by the Author!\n        “5-Minute Dickens” with audience participation – bring your favorite selection to share!\n        English Tea Service available!\n \nEvening Program\nA Writer’s Life: Author\, Celebrity\, Social Reformer\, Intrepid Traveler\, Amateur Actor & Family Man and\nDickens in the Digital Age\n6:00 – Doors Open – Victorian Guests & Surprises \n6:30-8:30 – Keynote Address: Jane Smiley\, author of Charles Dickens (2002) \nPanel discussion\, moderated by John Jordan with Murray Baumgarten\, Edwin Eigner\, Jane Smiley\, Peter Orner\, Jon Michael Varese \nFrom Page to Stage –A Dramatic Reading by actor Paul Whitworth\n \nReservations Required: (415) 393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org www.milibrary.org \nMembers Free; Public $15 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-dickens-day-celebration-3/ LOCATION:Mechanic’s Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T230000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120503T160001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120503T160001Z UID:10004697-1336003200-1336086000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dizikes Award and "Celebrating the Humanities" 2012 DESCRIPTION:Alan Christy\, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director\, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan’s teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years. \nJohn Dizikes will be on hand to present the award to Alan and will join Humanities faculty\, staff\, and students in honoring our other Humanities affiliates receiving recognition during our “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2012 “ Spring Awards Event on Thursday\, May 3rd. \nFor more detailed information about this event\, please follow this link: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/news-events/announcements/news-article-spring-awards-call.html \nThe annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities\, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. \nThe categories for acknowledgement this year are:\nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation\nMajor Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors:\nHUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities\nDean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year \nThis year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: HUGRA Awards\n3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Refreshments\n4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.: Dizikes Award\n4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Spring Awards URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dizikes-award-and-celebrating-the-humanities-2012-3/ 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:20120503T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T150000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120314T182336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T182336Z UID:10005082-1336050000-1336057200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:HUGRA Award Presentations DESCRIPTION:This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments \n4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hugra-award-presentations-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:20120503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120503T180000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20111209T192727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111209T192727Z UID:10004650-1336060800-1336068000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards DESCRIPTION:The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition\, awards\, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities\, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe categories for acknowledgement this year are: \n\nFaculty Awards and Honors\nResearch Grants and Fellowships\nTeaching Awards and Instructional Innovation\nMajor Publications\nUndergraduate Awards and Honors:\n• HUGRA – supports and encourages undergraduate research in the Humanities\n• Dean’s and Chancellor’s – granted to undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year\n\nThis year’s Celebrating Humanities event will be held in conjunction with the HUGRA awards. Following is the schedule: \n1:00 – 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards \n3:00 – 4:00 pm: Refreshments \n4:00 – 6:00 pm: Spring Awards \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2011-2012-spring-awards-event-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:20120504T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120314T190705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T190705Z UID:10005083-1336122000-1336165200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing" Conference DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/) \nFriday\n9:00-9:30am Opening Comments \n9:30-10:45am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:00am-12:15pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables \n1:15-2:30pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:45-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:30-6:30pm Dinner \n7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nSaturday\n9:00-10:15am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n10:30-11:45 Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading \n1:00-2:15pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:30-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:00-6:15pm Dinner \n6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emergent-communities-in-experimental-writing-conference-4/ 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:20120504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120504T173000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120217T205820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120217T205820Z UID:10005064-1336147200-1336152600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Matthew Tucker\, "Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding" DESCRIPTION:Matthew Tucker\nThis talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations\, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be understood in a unified light if theories of language take the syntax- morphology interface as an object of study. The first of these\, called the Anaphor Agreement Effect\, involves the inability of reflexive elements (such as English himself\, or Italian se stesso) to control verbal agreement. The second and third are the inability of question words in some languages to control regular verbal agreement\, known variably as the Anti-Agreement Effect and wh-Agreement. Drawing on data from Berber\, Italian\, Abaza\, and other genetically unrelated languages\, I show that a unified understanding of these processes can be given if morphology is allowed to interpret the same syntactic structures in one of several different ways\, corresponding to the range of empirical phenomena seen in reflexive and question agreement. This in turn supports a methodological conclusion that deep descriptive\, partially abstract linguistic analysis is a prerequisite to understanding the possible space of cross-linguistic variation. \nMatthew Tucker is a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics. Mr. Tucker’s research focuses on the interaction between syntax (word order) and other parts of language. He is involved in the IHR research cluster Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Prosody\, where his work focuses on Arabic and the connections between syntax and word-level metrical structure. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matthew-tucker-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120505T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260429T051419 CREATED:20120314T190924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120314T190924Z UID:10005084-1336208400-1336248000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference DESCRIPTION:This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many\, varying communities including performance art collaborations\, small press publishing and editorial projects\, virtual and digital work\, academic affiliations\, and intersecting aesthetic\, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried\, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores\, however contingent\, established by those attempts. Of particular interest is how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century\, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of various conceptualizations and practices of community. What do such formations include and leave out? What are the conditions of possibility for a community to emerge? From where does one emerge? How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation\, affiliation and creation? (Conference website: http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/) \nFriday\n9:00-9:30am Opening Comments \n9:30-10:45am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:00am-12:15pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n12:15-1:15pm Lunch / Collaborative Writing Tables \n1:15-2:30pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:45-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:30-6:30pm Dinner \n7:00pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nSaturday\n9:00-10:15am Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n10:30-11:45 Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n11:45am-1:00pm Lunch / Reading \n1:00-2:15pm Roundtable\n4 presenters \n2:30-4:00pm Panel\n3 papers\, one respondent \n4:00-6:15pm Dinner \n6:30pm Poetry Reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emergent-communities-in-experimental-writing-conference-2-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR