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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130304T232940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130304T232940Z UID:10004801-1362384000-1362416400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The People’s Pacific: Trans-Pacific Solidarity and Alliances in the Age of Obama’s Pivot DESCRIPTION:In his landmark essay\, “The American Century” (1941)\, in which he argued against the foolishness of “isolationist sterility” given the rise of the United States as “the most powerful and most vital nation in the world\,” Henry Luce\, the China-born son of American missionaries\, predicted that “in the decades to come\,” Asia would “be worth to us four\, five\, ten billions of dollars a year.” In order to harness precisely this potential\, Luce advised\, ”we have to decide whether or not we shall have for ourselves and our friends freedom of the seas—the right to go with our ships and our ocean-going airplanes where we wish\, when we wish\, and as we wish.” Echoes of Luce’s hegemonic blueprint for U.S. twentieth-century power projection in Asia would reverberate—several decades later—in then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s October 2011 policy plan\, “America’s Pacific Century\,” which identified the Asia-Pacific region as the most critical sphere of twenty-first century U.S. influence. Addressing a war-weary American public\, Clinton pledged that the United States would remain a key “Pacific power.” Not only would the United States refuse to draw down its military commitments in Asia and the Pacific but also it would “pivot” (from the Middle East) and concentrate its military resources in the region. \nAgainst hegemonic U.S. designs that map the region as an “empire of bases” (Chalmers Johnson) aimed at containing China\, this year’s Pacific Seminar undertakes as its focus critical contemporary counter-imaginaries that chart the power of the region from below—as a “people’s Pacific” (Walden Bello)\, a “sea of islands” (Epeli Hau’ofa)\, and an oceanic commons. Focusing on the urgency of trans-Pacific solidarity and alliances between and among site-specific struggles\, the Pacific Seminar this year brings together three public intellectuals and activist-scholars who will present on their work and with whom we will engage in collective conversation: Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University)\, the founder of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and the driving force behind the Modern Asian Thought project; Keith Camacho (UCLA)\, a Chamorro scholar from the Marianas Islands and a key theorist of U.S. militarism in the Pacific; and Koohan Paik (International Forum Group)\, a grassroots anti-base activist and a founder of Moana Nui whose political work has focused on Hawai’i\, Guam\, and Korea. \n\n \nAs in past years\, this year’s Pacific Seminar will be run as a workshop and the following readings will be circulated in advance: \n\n• Kuan-Hsing Chen\, “De-Imperialization: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy” (2010) \n• Keith Camacho\, “After 9/11: Militarized Borders and Social Movements in the Mariana Islands” (2012) \n• Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander\, “Blowback in the Pacific” (2012) \n• Walden Bello\, “From American Lake to a People’s Pacific in the Twenty-First Century” (2010)\n\nPlease contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) for readings and with any questions. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research (UC Santa Cruz) and the Townsend Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies (UC Berkeley). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-peoples-pacific-trans-pacific-solidarity-and-alliances-in-the-age-of-obamas-pivot-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T180000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130201T001831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T001831Z UID:10005350-1362412800-1362420000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:American Indian Writers Series: Kim Shuck DESCRIPTION:Kim Shuck (Cherokee/Sac & Fox) is a poet\, weaver\, educator\, doer of piles of laundry\, planter of seeds\, traveler and child wrangler. Kim is the recipient of the Native Writers of the America’s First Book Award for her 2005 book Smuggling Cherokee. She has an MFA in weaving from SFSU\, and was a member of the board of directors for Califorinia Poets in the Schools. \nThis project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center\, Care Council\, The Departments of American Studies\, Literature\, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-indian-writers-series-kim-shuck-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130222T171645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130222T171645Z UID:10005384-1362499200-1362504600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:C.D.C. Reeve: Beginning and Ending with Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics DESCRIPTION:C.D.C. Reeve is the Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily in ancient Greek philosophy\, especially Plato and Aristotle. His books include\, Philosopher-Kings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006)\, Socrates in the Apology (Hackett 1989)\, Practices of Reason(Oxford\, 1992) Substantial Knowledge (Hackett 2000)\, Love’s Confusions (Harvard 2005)\, andAction\, Contemplation\, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard 2012). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997)\, Euthyphro\, Apology\, Crito (2002)\, Republic (2004)\, and Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998). \nThis event is free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-d-c-reeve-beginning-and-ending-with-happiness-in-aristotles-ethics-2/ 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:20130306T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130306T140000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20121113T233848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121113T233848Z UID:10005245-1362572100-1362578400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celine Parreñas Shimizu: "Straitjacket Sexualities: Mapping Asian American Manhoods" DESCRIPTION:Going beyond the assessment that Asian American men in the movies embody asexuality/effeminacy/queerness\, or a manhood that falls short of the norms\, Celine Shimizu’s Straitjacket Sexualities (Stanford\, 2012)\, explores how Asian/American men in US film history sought to formulate masculinities in\, through\, and beyond constricting notions of their identities. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-celine-parrenas-shimizu-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:20130307T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130307T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130201T182046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T182046Z UID:10005351-1362679200-1362684600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Reading Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our quarterly student reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-reading-series-student-reading-2-2/ 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:20130307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130307T203000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130213T010535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130213T010535Z UID:10005367-1362682800-1362688200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Karen D. Thompson: "Love is a Dangerous Promise DESCRIPTION:Karen Thompson gained national recognition following the November 13\, 1983 car accident of her partner Sharon Kowalski\, who sustained a traumatic brain injury after a drunk driver hit her car. After the accident\, Sharon’s biological family refused to acknowledge or accept Sharon’s relationship with Karen and kept them apart for more than 3 1/2 years. After an 8-year battle\, Karen was awarded legal custody of Sharon. \nKaren now speaks across the country to raise awareness for human rights issues\, including the legal protection of LGBTQIA relationships. \nUCSC presents Karen Thompson in a lecture titled “Love is a Dangerous Promise” on Thursday\, March 7\, at  7 p.m.\, in the Second Stage Theater in the Performing Arts Center on the UCSC campus. Admission is free\, and the public is invited. Free tickets to the lecture are available at santacruztickets.com. For more information\, call (831) 459-2698. \nThis event is sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division\, the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, the Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and UCSC’s Cantu Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-d-thompson-love-is-a-dangerous-promise-2/ LOCATION:2nd Stage\, Theater Arts\, Performing Arts\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130206T175114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130206T175114Z UID:10005355-1362733200-1362763800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Nutrition Symposium DESCRIPTION:Advice about what to eat for health and well being is pervasive in the modern world\, and such advice is delivered as if it were uncontroversial\, universally applicable\, welcome\, and effective. When it appears not to work\, rather than reflection on the scientific\, cultural\, and sociological underpinnings of the endeavor\, the response has been for more informative food labels and more emphasis on food education. What’s wrong or missing in conventional nutritional practice? What are its effects in terms of human health and social justice? What other approaches might work better? This symposium will bring together six leading scholars of nutrition\, public health\, and food science to discuss and debate the place of nutrition science in public health policies and cultural politics today. Representing such disciplines as geography\, public health\, sociology\, and communication\, invited guests include Charlotte Biltekoff (American Studies and Food Science\, UC Davis)\, Jessica Hayes-Conroy (Women’s Studies\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)\, Adele Hite (Public Health\, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)\, Aya H. Kimura (Women’s Studies\, University of Hawai’i-Manoa)\, Hannah Landecker (Sociology and Center for Society and Genetics\, UCLA)\, and Jessica Mudry (Center for Engineering in Society\, Concordia University). UCSC food scholars Julie Guthman\, Melissa Caldwell\, Nancy Chen\, and Jake Metcalf will provide commentary. The format of the symposium is designed to open up and stimulate discussion and debate among all participants: presenters\, discussants\, and attendees. \nThis event is sponsored by the Multi-campus Research Program on Food and the Body and the “Knowing Food” Research Cluster of the Center for Global\, International\, and Regional Studies. Additional support has been provided by the Community Studies Program\, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\, the Science & Justice Research Center\, the Departments of Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, and Sociology. \nThe event will be held March 8 from 9-5:30 in 261 Social Sciences I and is open to the public. Please RSVP to Lisa Nishioka (global@ucsc.edu) if you plan to attend. \nFor questions regarding the program contact Julie Guthman (jguthman@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-nutrition-symposium-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T104000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130123T181003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T181003Z UID:10005330-1362735000-1362739200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Young: “Stages of Memory: In Berlin & New York” DESCRIPTION:Reception following lecture. \nJames E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, where he has taught since 1988\, and currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He has also taught at New York University as a Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew/Judaic Studies (1984-88)\, at Bryn Mawr College in the History of Religion\, and at the University of Washington\, Harvard University\, and Princeton University as a visiting professor. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, his M.A. in 1976 from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983. \nProfessor Young is the author of At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press\, 2000)\, The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press\, 1993)\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994\, and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana University Press\, 1988)\, which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1988. He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City\, entitled “The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History” (March – August 1994\, with venues in Berlin and Munich\, September 1994 – June 1995) and was the editor of The Art of Memory (Prestel Verlag\, 1994)\, the exhibition catalogue for this show. \nIn 1997\, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany’s national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews\,” dedicated in 2005. He has also consulted with Argentina’s government on its memorial to the desaparacidos\, as well as with numerous city agencies on their memorials and museums. Most recently\, he was appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition\, now under construction. \nHis articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry\, Representations\, New Literary History\, Partisan Review\, The Yale Journal of Criticism\, Annales\, SAQ\, History and Theory\, Harvard Design Magazine\, Jewish Social Studies\, Contemporary Literature\, History and Memory\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Forward\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Prooftexts\, The Jewish Quarterly\, Tikkun\, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, and Slate\, among dozens of other journals and collected volumes. His books and articles have been published in German\, French\, Hebrew\, Japanese\, and Swedish. \nProfessor Young is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, ACLS Fellowship\, NEH Exhibition planning\, implementation\, and research grants\, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants\, an American Philosophical Society Grant\, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, among others. \nIn 2000\, he was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization\, a ten-volume anthology of primary sources\, documents\, texts\, and images\, forthcoming with Yale University Press. He is also currently completing an insider’s account of the World Trade Center Memorial process\, entitled The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Memorial Process. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-young-stages-of-memory-in-berlin-new-york-2/ 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:20130308T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T160000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130221T010157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130221T010157Z UID:10005382-1362754800-1362758400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Åse Vigdis Ystad: "Ibsen as Playwright: Between Dramaturgy and Ethics" DESCRIPTION:Special guest Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad gives a talk as part of this year’s Arts Divison Lecture Series\, ”Engaging the Mind”\, presenting work obtained through a lifetime of research on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt\, A Doll’s House\, Hedda Gabler). \nDr. Ystad is visiting UC Santa Cruz as part of The Gynt Project and the associated conference “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age.” Her visit is sponsored by UCSC’s Cowell College and the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair. \nThe lecture: From the start of his writing career\, Ibsen focuses on the human personality as his main theme\, but his subsequent attempts to represent love\, passion\, quest\, human morality and ethics as central motives in his work result in dramaturgical problems. This difficulty characterizes Ibsen’s plays from 1850–58 and is not overcome until he suffers a combined personal and poetic crisis around 1860. After the crisis\, he stands out as a mature playwright\, creating masterpieces like The Pretenders (1864)\,  Brand (1866)  and Peer Gynt (1867).  The lecture will also examine Ibsen’s great epic poem ”Terje Vigen” (1862) and give short comments on some of his later prose plays. \nDr. Åse Vigdis Ystad is a fixture of Norwegian arts and letters\, and is one of the world’s leading experts on the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Her lifelong service to Norwegian literature and culture earned her Knighthood in the Order of St Olaf by the King of Norway in 2012. After receiving her PhD in Philospohy at the University of Oslo\, she has been a Professor of Scandinavian literature there since 1973. She is an member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala; the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters\, History and Antiquities; the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature; the Society of Norwegian Language and Literature; and the Society of Danish Language and Literature. Ystad has presented lectures in Denmark\, Sweden\, Germany\, the Czech Republic\, Italy\, England\, Scotland\, China\, South Korea\, and the United States. \nThis lecture is free and open to the public. \nParking $4. \nVisit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ase-vigdis-ystad-ibsen-as-playwright-between-dramaturgy-and-ethics-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T081500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130307T185817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130307T185817Z UID:10004803-1362816900-1362857400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona. \nLinguistics at Santa Cruz Program URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-at-santa-cruz-lasc-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T143047 CREATED:20130221T212858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130221T212858Z UID:10005383-1362825000-1362848400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” Conference DESCRIPTION:This international conference brings together scholars\, designers\, and dramaturgs from Norway\, Tel Aviv\, Seattle\, and California for the second weekend of the performance. The event is held with the support of the Norwegian Consulate\, UCSC\, and the Norway House Foundation. \nSpeakers will discuss staging and design histories\, what it’s like to perform Ibsen\, and the international relevance of Ibsen’s most globally-produced work. \nThe “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age” conference will include Brian Johnston\, translator and Professor (retired) Carnegie Mellon University; Sverre Mørkhagen\, Norwegian author and Peer Gynt scholar; Sarah Bryant Bertail\, Associate Professor Emerita\, University of Washington; Freddie Rokem\, Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor of Theatre Studies\, Tel Aviv University; Michael Chemers\, Associate Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC. \nThe afternoon portion of the conference will include Kimberly Jannarone\, Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC; Brandin Barón-Nusbaum\, Associate Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC; Danny Scheie\, Professor of Theater Arts\, UCSC and Nancy Carlin\, Guest Artist; Ben Carson\, Associate Professor of Music\, UCSC; Jessica Hayden Molla and Chris Molla\, soundscape artists and UCSC DANM MFA alumni. \nVisit the Gynt Conference website for detailed information on conference and speakers. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peer-gynt-in-a-digital-age-conference-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR