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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \n \nRelationships come and go\, but plastination is forever!  \nThe only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi\, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle involving a young man\, a young woman\, and an anatomically correct sex doll that looks an awful lot like the young woman. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is a socially maladroit technical writer who pines for a temp typist in his office\, Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller)\, but cannot work up the nerve to ask her out. Shown an internet site selling deluxe sex dolls for thousands of dollars\, he designs a life-size rubber doll made to look like Lisa\, though he christens the doll Nikki. After developing a comprehensive relationship with Nikki (including sex and nightly tête–à–têtes)\, Kenneth works up the nerve to approach Lisa\, which only makes Nikki more and more violently jealous. In many respects a companion film to Lucky McKee’s May\, a much more widely known and respected horror film released the previous year—in his excellent book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman goes so far as to suggest that May and Kenneth “might be soulmates if they weren’t in different films”—Love Object is not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-16-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T100000
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SUMMARY:Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents:\nHedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding” \nDr. Hedwig C. Rose\, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University\, was born in Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. After her father\, his five brothers and their families were rounded up by the Nazi occupiers in 1942\, she spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar. She came to the United States in 1947. \nA visiting fellow at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (War Document Archives) in Amsterdam in 2008\, for past eight years she has been visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, where she is continuing her research for a book on The Netherlands before and during World War II.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-the-life-of-anne-frank-cjs-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:20140219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140219T133000
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SUMMARY:Warren Sack - "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
DESCRIPTION:Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing. \nWarren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-warren-sac-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:Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Holland\, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment\,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish\,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what is the relationship of “blackness” to discourse on the animal?  Do black humans “die” or “perish”?  The prevailing thought in the field of African Americanist scholarship is that “blackness” – through Martin Heidegger and Frantz Fanon in particular – is related to “thingness\,” rather than animality.  This theoretical project re-thinks that interpretive paradigm.  I am particularly invested in how movement away from “the animal\,” writ large in the Cartesian framework\, does not allow for much discussion of an ethical commitment (Emanuel Levinas) to the animal within African Americanist discourse.  My intention is to provide both a critique of the present condition in critical discourse on blackness (especially its gendered assumptions) and a model for how to begin such a conversation within the theoretical language available to us on the human/animal divide. \nSharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor (1992).  She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY (Duke UP\, 2000)\, which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002.  She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture\, UM\, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press\, 2006). Professor Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic\, THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007) for publication (2007).  She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press\, 2012)\, a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race\, Feminist\, and Queer Theory.  She is also at work on the final draft of another book project entitled simply\, “little black girl.”  You can see her work on food\, writing and all things equestrian on her blog\, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com//.  She is currently at work on a new project\, “Perishment” an investigation of the human/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion. She is presently a Professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nPresented with generous support from: the Institute for Humanities Research\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharon-holland-2-20-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision\, in isolation\, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance\, figure\, magnitude\, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not\, strictly speaking\, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans\, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance\, figure\, magnitude\, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure\, magnitude\, and situation\, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment. \nRead the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision\n  \nRebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College\, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy\, Thomas Reid\, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy\, Res Philosophica\, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly\, Philosophical Quarterly\, History of Philosophy Quarterly\, The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy\, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press\, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/becko-copenhaver-berkeley-on-the-language-of-nature-and-the-objects-of-vision-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140221T093000
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SUMMARY:Gender. Region. Slavery.
DESCRIPTION:Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media.\n \nFor slavery studies\, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions\, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians\, in particular\, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at work in the making of ‘regions’ and ‘slavery’ between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. However\, such scholarship has minoritized gender relations in the making of such geographies. This colloquium reverses the trend by foregrounding the question: what would regional histories of ‘slavery’ look like if interrogated as formulations of gender? Eschewing the conventional segregation and/or minoritization of regions as spatialities that provide local historical flavor\, the colloquium seeks to simultaneously correct regional asymmetries of the past of slavery\, as well as highlight the centrality of gender in the making and conceiving of ‘region’ itself. Central to our concerns is an interrogation of race as understood primarily through the history of the transatlantic slave trade\, such that this idea of race could be said to constitute the background against which all representations of racial formation take place. Rather\, our presenters ask\, for example\, what would it mean to imagine an analytic of race that would take the transatlantic trade to the Indian Ocean and not produce African subjects in the same trajectory of slavery? What are the different life-forms and histories of slavery that exceed the hegemonic plantation model of slavery?\n9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks by Anjali Arondekar\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n10:00 AM: Ronaldo V. Wilson\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nSlave Slips | Life Forms: a poetry performance \n10:45 AM: Indrani Chatterjee\, University of Texas\, Austin\nDecolonizing the History of Slavery\nRespondent: Juned Shaikh\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n12:00 PM: Lunch \n1:00 PM: Stephen Best\, University of California\, Berkeley\nUnfit for History\nRespondent: Vilashini Cooppan\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n2:00 PM: Tea Break \n2:15 PM: Jenny Sharpe\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nThe Degraded Image of Slavery\nRespondent: Gina Dent\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\nSponsored by the Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, with generous contributions from the Departments of Literature\, History\, Sociology\, Anthropology and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nFor further information\, please contact Anjali Arondekar: aarondek@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-region-slavery-2-2/
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:20140222T180000
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SUMMARY:From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. \nFeaturing: \nMurray Baumgarten\, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies \nPeter Kenez\, Professor Emeritus of History \nFacilitated by Bill Ladusaw\, UCSC Dean of Humanities \nMurray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching in the liberal arts has changed over the years\, and how their course\, The Holocaust–taken by hundreds of UCSC students each year–has expanded from the lecture hall to the global electronic stage. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, the class reached nearly 18\,000 students worldwide. While student-faculty interaction is still a hallmark of UCSC education\, the evening will explore how great teachers can leverage technology to broaden their reach.\n  \nRSVP by February 12\, 2014 online at http://specialevents.ucsc.edu/books-to-moocs \nQuestions? (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-books-to-moocs-the-evolution-of-teaching-in-the-liberal-arts-2/
LOCATION:St. Francis Yacht Club on the Marina
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