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SUMMARY:Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: “Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction”
DESCRIPTION:The King Lecture Series\, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King\, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture also incorporates the interests of his wife\, crime writer Laurie R. King\, in conversation with three other award-winning crime writers\, for an event called: \nHigher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction\n\nZoë Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War\, living in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family\, a group of Saudi-Palestinians. Zoë has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her novels are published in over thirty countries. \n  \n\nSharan Newman is a Medieval historian with an MA in Medieval Literature and a PhD in Medieval Studies\,specializing in twelfth-century France. She has been writing fiction since1980\, with ten books in her award-winning series about Catherine LeVendeur\, once a student under the abbess Heloise. Her books explore Medieval ideas of religion as well as Christian/Jewish relations. \n  \n  \n \nJulia Spencer-Fleming\, a bestselling author with an armful of awards\, spent most of her childhood on the move as an army brat\, then studied acting and history at Ithaca College\, receiving a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. She writes a crime series about Army helicopter pilot-turned-Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson set in her native upstate New York. \n  \nModerator Laurie R. King\, who did her BA in Comparative Religion at UCSC and her MA in Old Testament Theology at the Graduate Theological Union\, turned to crime (fiction) when she wrote a tale in which young theology student Mary Russell meets the famous skeptic Mr. Sherlock Holmes\, and finds herself apprenticed to him. Many of Laurie’s books have theological and religious themes. \n  \n  \nHigher Mysteries is sponsored by UCSC’s Noel Q. King Memorial and the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Books will be sold at the event by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and refreshments served thanks to the Friends of the Public Library. \nFor background reading to the discussion:\nZoë Ferraris: Finding Nouf & City of Veils\nLaurie R. King: A Monstrous Regiment of Women & A Darker Place\nSharan Newman: The Outcast Dove & Strong as Death\nJulia Spencer-Fleming: In the Bleak Midwinter & Out of the Deep I Cry \nPlease RSVP to info@laurieking.com will help the Friends with the chair setup. \nFor more information\, write to info@laurieking.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noel-q-king-annual-lecture-higher-mysteries-faith-and-theology-in-crime-fiction-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T121500
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SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium - Blake Wentworth: "Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint"
DESCRIPTION:“Bhakti Demands Biography: Crafting the Life of a Tamil Saint” \nBlake Wentworth’s current work revolves around a central feature of south Indian political life in premodernity\, the mapping of sexuality onto the political domain such that lordly power is beautiful. By tracing the genealogy of this trope\, he explores the interplay between ancient Tamil poetics and the wider Sanskrit world. \nBlake Wentworth is Assistant Professor of South and South EastAsian Studies at UC- Berkley.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/
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:20130515T170000
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SUMMARY:Richard Miskolci: "Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge"
DESCRIPTION:Challenges for a North-South dialogue \nWhy does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange\, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces theories and South is seen as a space for collecting data or applying Northern theories to particular cases. Knowledges are created under institutional frames that connect them to power interests. During the end of 19th century\, for example\, evolutionism created a kind of alliance between intellectual and ruling classes in different parts of the world. Later\, after World War II\, this same alliance was recreated with a new objective: spreading a modernization ideal based on the assumption that West – the US in particular – was the model for the Rest (of the world). Beginning with the 1960s\, with the historical event Foucault called “the insurgence of subalternized knowledges”\, we saw the rise of a set of studies connected to once overlooked inequalities inside the so called West. These studies challenged the old ways of creating knowledge and connected their work to the interest of subalternized groups like women\, people of color\, gays\, lesbians\, colonized peoples\, and\, more recently\, queer persons. Unfortunately\, this important historical inflection that created specific fields like feminist\, post-colonial and queer studies has not changed the flux of knowledge production from North to the South. \nWhat are the reasons behind this continuity even in fields committed to subalternized people and experiences? Why are feminist\, post-colonial\, racial/ethnic\, and queer studies made in the South not seen as interlocutors in the North? Why isn’t Southern intellectual production circulated or taken into account in Northern genealogies of the so-called “studies”? Have “studies” been dragged into the academic battles inside US and Europe to conquer their internal institutional space while overlooking their possible allies in the South? Why – in a decentered world – do “studies” keep the global South in the position of a silent interlocutor that appears in generalized assumptions of contemporary production subsumed under expressions like international\, transnational and global? Finally\, what are the challenges to create a North-South dialogue? This presentation will try to address these questions and present some hypotheses\, but its main objective is not to give any final answer or present a solution. The idea is to promote the discussion about how knowledge committed to subalternized people and social change can reproduce – and even reinforce – unfair power relations outside the borders in which it is created. \nRichard Miskolci is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo state\, Brazil\, and Researcher at Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu\, UNICAMP. A key figure in the debate on queer theory in Brazil\, Miskolci has authored several books\, including Thomas Mann\, the Mestizo Artist (2003)\, O desejo da nação: masculinidade e branquitude no Brasil de fins do XIX (2012) and is the editor of Dissident Sexualities (2007)\, the first Brazilian Queer Studies anthology. Dr. Miskolci is a Visiting Scholar in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz this year. \nAdditional Reading: “Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge” \nMiskolci Event Flyer
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-miskolci-undisciplined-studies-the-geopolitics-of-knowledge-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ad Neeleman: "Person: Inventory and Realization"
DESCRIPTION:“Person: Inventory and Realization” is a joint work with Peter Ackema\, of the University of Edinburgh. \nIn this presentation Dr. Neeleman will develop a theory in which person features are more abstract than usually assumed: they do not refer to speaker or addressee\, but are rather used to navigate a ‘person space’ . The theory is confronted with two typological problems. \n(i) Why is the inventory of persons so limited? Why aren’t there 30 persons? (In this context 30 is not a random number\, but represents the number of potential persons.) \n(ii) What explains the typological observation that syncretism between first and third person is much rarer than syncretism between either first and second\, or second and third person (Baerman et al. 2005\, Baerman and Brown 2011)? \nIf time allows\, he will discuss also Dutch as a case study. In this language there are two person endings that arrange themselves in such a way that there is a 2-3 syncretism in the regular case\, a 1-2 syncretism under subject-verb inversion\, and an optional 1-3 syncretism with a particular lexical class of verbs (modals). \nAd Neeleman is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His research focuses on syntactic theory and the interaction between the syntax and syntax-external systems. He received his PhD from Utrecht University (Complex Predicates\, 1994) and is the author of some forty research papers and two books (Flexible Syntax\, 1999\, with Fred Weerman\, and Beyond Morphology\, 2004\, with Peter Ackema). His current research deals with linear asymmetries in syntax\, the grammar of person and the linguistic representation of causation. \nThis event is presented by he Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology Research Cluster\, and sponsored by the UC Humanities Network. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact: Shann Ritchie\, (831) 459-5655\, sritchie@ucsc.edu. Maps: maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ad-neeleman-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Grant McGuire: "Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality"
DESCRIPTION:Current theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This talk describes early results from a project examining the role of stereotypes\, or more abstracted representations not necessarily based in direct experience\, in the processing of voices. Specifically\, we will detail the role various voice types play in phonetic accommodation\, the phenomenon where a talker adapts properties of another talker’s voice. \nGrant McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and recipient of an IHR Faculty Fellowship (2012-13). His primary research interest is in speech perception. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Ohio State University (Phonetic Category Learning\, 2007) and has published research articles on perceptual learning in adults and infants\, audio-visual speech perception\, and gender effects on speech perception.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-faculty-fellow-lecture-by-grant-mcguire-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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