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SUMMARY:Annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
DESCRIPTION:Don Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. \nAfter more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students\, the senior lecturer emeritus in writing–and recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence–has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their writing teachers. \n“The ‘First Year Writing Award’ seeks to celebrate excellence in writing among first-year UCSC students\, and to give them the chance to honor instructors who contributed to their growth as writers\,” said Rothman. \n“It’s likely that UCSC would not be the institution that it is now if its founders hadn’t intuited the importance of identifying\, challenging\, and respecting our beginning students’ strengths as thinkers and writers.” \nThe first awards were presented at an October ceremony which honored seven students and their instructors. \nMolly Carpenter received the top prize and had nothing but praise for her teacher\, writing lecturer Jeff Arnett. \n“Although I’ve always loved to write\, I don’t think I knew how to truly write thoughtfully until I took Jeff’s class\,” said Carpenter. “Jeff consistently pushed me to be the very best writer I could be.” \n“I just want to express how lucky I am to attend a university that encourages original and creative thought through writing\, regardless of whether you’re an engineering or art major\,” she added. \nThe UCSC Writing Program serves approximately 3\,000 students each year\, taking into account core classes. More than 100 classes are offered annually. \nWriting Program chair James Wilson noted Rothman’s visionary impact over the years\, citing his deep commitment to the writing process\, and his ability to bring out the best in both teachers and students. \n“Through his years of serving as director of the Central California Writing Project\, Don has been a strong advocate for outreach in the wider community\, working in schools at all levels from K-12\, especially in Santa Cruz County\,” said Wilson. \nWilson added that Rothman has also been a “deliberate\, persistent\, and optimistic” spokesperson for the Writing Program across the campus\, speaking with faculty across the divisions about the importance of writing and emphasizing the value of undergraduate education–particularly at a research university. \n“Part of Don’s message is to remind the university that the effective teaching of writing to undergraduate students is essential to the mission of a research university\,” said Wilson.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/annual-don-rothman-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:Jean-Jacques Surbeck: "Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards"
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Cowell College Presents\nConflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine \nTuesday Evenings Fall 2014\n6:00-7:45pm\, Merrill Academy 102 \nTuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” \nTuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department\, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. \nTuesday Oct 21: Dr. Bruce Thompson (History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC)- “The History of Zionism: From Hertzl to Ben-Gurion. \nTuesday Oct 28: Jean-Jacques Surbeck (Executive Director of Training and Education about the Middle East). Israel and the World\, a Unique Lesson in Double Standards. \nTuesday Nov 4: Hatam Bazian (Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies\, UC Berkeley). Palestine\, Islamophobia and Global Dispossession \n*Thursday Nov 13: Stephen Zunes (Politics and International Studies\, University of San Francisco)- Israel\, Palestine\, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society \nTuesday Novr 18: Eran Kaplan (Chair Israel Studies\, San Francisco State University). Changes in Israel society and the Peace Process. \nTuesday Nov 25: Lee Ross (Psychology\, Stanford) and Byron Bland (Stanford Law School). Barriers for Peace. \nTuesday Dec 2: Aaron Hahn Tapper (Peace and Justice Studies\, University of San Francisco) and Tom Pettigrew (Psychology\, UC Santa Cruz). Contact\, Intergroup dialogue and the Question of Normalization.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-jacques-surbeck-israel-and-the-world-a-unique-lesson-in-double-standards-2/
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SUMMARY:UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents LASER
DESCRIPTION:UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday\, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: \nCarolyn Dean “Moving Stones: An Inka Perspective”\n David Glowacki “Modeling Humans as Energy Fields”\n Stacy Philpott “Urban garden insect biodiversity: fascinating and functional”\n Karen Tei Yamashita will be reading from her new work \nCarolyn Dean is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. Dean studies Inca visual and performance culture. She is author of Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco Peru (Duke University Press\, 1999) and A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Duke University Press\, 2010). \nDavid Glowacki is a Royal Society Research Fellow\, holding joint appointments in chemistry and computer science at Stanford University and the University of Bristol. He specializes in computational nano-physics and interactive digital art. Glowacki is the creator of danceroom Spectroscopy (dS)\, an interactive digital framework that has been used to create the award-winning dance piece Hidden Fields. \nStacy Philpott is Associate Professor in Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz. She is an agroecologist and insect ecologist interested in community ecology\, ecosystem services\, urban agroecology\, and interactions between agriculture\, conservation\, and farmer livelihoods. She has worked in agroecosystems the US\, Latin America\, and Indonesia. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz\, and currently co-holds the UC Presidential Chair for Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She is the author of six books\, including I Hotel and Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance\, all published by Coffee House Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucscs-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-presents-laser-2/
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SUMMARY:Azar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination"
DESCRIPTION:The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives. \nTen years ago\, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller\, Reading Lolita in Tehran\, which told the story of how\, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions\, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up\, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned\, beguiling\, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. \nTaking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle\, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran\, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\, Babbitt\, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination\,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. \n“Nafisi makes a passionate argument for returning to key American novels in order to foster creativity and engagement.” —Kirkus Reviews \nThis offsite ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church. Purchase tickets below or in-person at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n“We are all citizens of Azar Nafisi’s Republic of Imagination. Without imagination there are no dreams\, without dreams there is no art\, and without art there is nothing. Her words are essential.” —Marjane Satrapi \nTICKETS: $31.50\, includes two tickets to the event and one copy of The Republic of Imagination. This event will take place at Peace United Church. Open seating.\n  \nTickets & Information\n \n  \nEvent presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/azar-nafisi-the-republic-of-imagination-2/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nirvikar Singh: "Sikh Studies & Post-Modern Orientalism"
DESCRIPTION:NIRVIKAR SINGH\nSarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics\, UCSC \nProfessor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed “post-modern.” More specifically\, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s own self-understanding.\n  \nFall 2014 Colloquium Series: \nOctober 15: Bali Sahota \nOctober 22: Vilashini Cooppan \nOctober 29: Nirvikar Singh \nNovember 5: Juned Shaikh \nNovember 12: Dean Mathiowetz \nNovember 19: David L. Clark \nDecember 3: Terry Burke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-nirvikar-singh-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:"Digital is not a Dirty Word” - Digital Humanities Graduate Student Open House
DESCRIPTION:Let’s talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping\, databases\, blogs\, or twitter\, but don’t know how they help your work? Are you skeptical\, but curious? Come join an open\, informal\, and frank talk about the Digital Humanities. Rachel Deblinger\, the new Digital Humanities Specialist\, will offer a brief description of what DH might mean at UCSC and invites critical conversation and questions. Pizza My Heart will be served. Open to all Graduate Students. \nFor more information please contact Rachel at digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu. \nSponsored by the University Library and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster \nFollow us at @DH_UCSC and start a conversation with #DHUCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-is-not-a-dirty-word-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
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SUMMARY:Bryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan\, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan\, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak\, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). I analyze clitic position specifically in affirmative main declarative sentences that contain overt preverbal subjects. In this context\, clitics are either preverbal\, as in (1)\, or post verbal\, as in (2)\, with no apparent semantic distinction.\n  \n(1) E.N Constantis s’en anet.\nand.Sir Constantine himself.from-there went\n‘And Sir Constantine left.’ (Razo of 80\,20 & 80\,32 §8; Boutière 1964: 92) \n(2) E.N Guilhem anet. s’en.\nand.Sir Guillaume went himself.from-there\n‘And Sir Guillaume left.’ (Razo of 208\,1\, §34; Boutière 1964: 325)\n  \nPrevious analyses have concluded that this variation is random (Mériz 1978) or du to regional or dialectal variation (Hinzelin 2007). Neither approach satisfactorily addresses the underlying grammar or the principles underlying the distribution of the variants appears. The present analysis draws on the discourse-functional notion of topic (e.g.\, Reinhart 1981) as well as theoretical claims about the clausal left periphery in medieval Romance (Benincà 2006). I report empirical data from the complete troubadour biographies (vidas and razos; 13th-14th centuries) and the vida of Saint Douceline (early 14th century). Results from 470 subject-verb declaratives establish that the subject in (2) is left-dislocated\, albeit covertly so. I argue that (2) is one of several instantiations of subject left-dislocation in Old Occitan and that it is both functionally and formally distinct from (1). More precisely\, (1) signals topic continuity\, whereas (2) is a shifting topic.\n  \nBryan Donaldson is Assistant Professor of Languages and French Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bryan-donaldson-information-structure-and-word-order-in-medieval-occitan-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:Arlene Davila: Locating Neoliberalism in Time\, Space & Latino/Latin American Cultures
DESCRIPTION:The Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections of culture and neoliberalism across the Americas.\n  \nMore information on the speaker and the rest of the LALS Distinguished Speaker Series will be available soon.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lals-arlene-davila-2/
LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Tobias Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School\, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army\, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs\, Back in the World\, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories\, Our Story Begins\, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award – both for excellence in the short story – the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.  He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories\, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories\, and A Doctor’s Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, and other magazines and literary journals. \nFall 2014 Living Writers Series: \nOctober 9: Ariel Gore \nOctober 16: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nOctober 23: Andrew Lam\, Kate Gale \nOctober 30: Tobias Wolff \nNovember 6: Helene Wecker \nNovember 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill\, Interpreter Aaron Brace \nNovember 20: Kelly Link\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Karen Joy Fowler \nDecember 4: Katie Crouch \nDecember 11: Student Reading \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tobias-wolff-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joan Raspo: DANM BIRTH OF STARS: a play that asks "What would you give up to gain the universe?"
DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-raspo-danm-birth-of-stars-a-play-that-asks-what-would-you-give-up-to-gain-the-universe-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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