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SUMMARY:Octavio Valadez: "Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain\, Mind\, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39)\, co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC\, Winter 2015. \nÉdgar Octavio Valadez Blanco is currently studying his PhD in Philosophy of Science at UNAM in Mexico City\, with the project “Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Theory and practice of cancer as a complex problem.” Octavio obtained his B.Sc. degree in Basic Biomedical Research at UNAM with his thesis work “Cancer as a complex disease: networks and levels of organization” (2008)\, with Germinal Cocho Gil as advisor. In 2010\, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy from the UAM-Iztapalapa and was awarded the UAM academic merit medal. His thesis (advised by Mario Casanueva) addressed the scientific explanation of cancer based on the model of “part-whole science” proposed by Rasmus (Winther 2011\, Synthese)\, which develops a pluralistic research horizon. \nOctavio’s main academic interests are the complexity of cancer\, as this problem cannot be understood\, much less solved if we do not consider and articulate the philosophical\, sociological\, historical and political aspects involved. Octavio intends to contribute to a critical focus on the theories and practices in the scientific disciplines related to cancer research–especially the biomedical sciences–in which abstractions often turn into reifications of reality thus hampering the creativity and the possibility of a plurality of scientific views and practices. This critical approach has in part evolved from Octavio’s great concern for the deep contradictory realities prevailing in Mexico\, which has also prompted him to undertake studies on politics and pedagogy\, as well as to actively participate in novel scholarly projects\, extra-curricular organizations\, and general education. \nWinter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule: \nRobin Dunkin\nTuesday\, January 27\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function” \n***** \nMichael Anderson\nThursday\, January 29\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain” \n***** \nNicolas Davidenko\nTuesday\, February 3\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception” \n***** \nJanette Dinishak\nThursday\, February 12\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Autism & Neurodiversity” \n***** \nRay Gibbs\nThursday\, February 12\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Embodied Meaning\, Thinking\, and Communication” \n***** \nCraig Schindler\nTuesday\, February 17\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Enduring Wisdom\, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience” \n***** \nJohn Brown Childs\nThursday\, February 19\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Transcommunality” \n***** \nDada Nabhaniilananda\nThursday\, February 19\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Dragon Taming for Smart People” \n***** \nNatalia Carrillo\nTuesday\, February 24\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“A History of the Action Potential” \n***** \nDoc Edge\nTuesday\, February 24\, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00\n“Talking About Race: Geneticists\, Philosophers\, the Media\, and the People” \n***** \nBrian Cantwell Smith\nThursday\, February 26\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“The Three R’s: Representation\, Registration\, and Reality” \nThursday\, February 26\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind” \n***** \nOctavio Valadez\nTuesday\, March 3\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching” \n***** \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero \nThursday\, March 5\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities” \nThursday\, March 5\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/octavio-valadez-co-teaching-and-revolutionary-teaching-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:Johanna Ogden: "Mutiny in Oregon: Early Twentieth Century East Indian Radicals and the Birth of the Ghadar Party"
DESCRIPTION:The Hindustani Association of the Pacific Coast\, better known as the Ghadar Party\, was a game-changing development in Indian history. Ghadarites called for and attempted the overthrow of British colonial rule in India during WWI\, seeking a caste-free\, secular and independent Indian nation. Ghadar was overwhelmingly initiated by and composed of Sikh laborers from the North American West and became a worldwide movement drawn from people of all castes and religions. San Francisco was home to the movement’s public office and its weekly newspaper\, Ghadar\, and has often been logged as the movement’s birthplace\, especially by historians of the North American West. But remote Astoria\, Oregon holds this distinction. Drawing on Indian historical accounts\, oral histories and Oregon archival materials\, Ms. Ogden both repopulates the East Indian community in Oregon and traces reasons for and key moments in Ghadar’s seemingly unlikely genesis there. Her larger interest\, however\, is exploring the dis-remembering of East Indians in Oregon and the window it provides into the targeting of Arabs\, Muslims and South Asians in post-9/11 America. \nJohanna Ogden is an independent historian and activist from Oregon. In 2013 she initiated and was the consulting historian for Astoria’s two-day Ghadar Party Centenary Commemoration and in 2014 participated in an international conference on Ghadar in Chandigarh\, Punjab. Her most recent publications include the award-winning “Ghadar\, Historical Silences & Notions of Belonging” Oregon Historical Quarterly\, Summer 2012; “Ghadar’s Oregon Roots\,” The Ghadar Movement: Background\, Ideology\, Action and Legacies (Punjabi Uni: 2013). She is presently writing a book about Ghadar’s roots in Oregon for the University of Washington Press. \n\n  \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joanna-ogden-mutiny-in-oregon-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:Will the Robots Win? Promises and Perils of Technology in Society
DESCRIPTION:Technology is ubiquitous. Computers and phones impact our daily rhythms\, communicative abilities\, and cognitive energies. Consider being hospitalized\, flying from one country to another\, or taking a prescription medicine. Or think about the police searching big databases\, or the government military-industrial complex and its automated war machines. Or imagine the potential of nanotechnology\, transhumanism\, and artificial intelligence. Technology is powerful. \nWhich effects does technology have on our individual psychology\, and on our social values celebrating freedom\, diversity\, and the pursuit of happiness? Can it help us lead healthier\, fuller\, and more democratic lives? Which dark sides does technology have\, and how might it inflict pain and violence? \nCome join us for a broad-ranging conversation on technology and on its ethical\, political\, religious\, and social dimensions. The panelists are scientists and philosophers who have thought deeply about the promises and strengths—and perils and weaknesses—of technology. The public is free to ask questions and challenge all of us on urgent matters. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n  \nPANELISTS\nScott Lokey received his undergraduate degree from Trinity University in San Antonio\, TX. Here\, he cultivated a strong interest in both the sciences and the humanities. During his time at Trinity University\, Scott developed an interest in Chemistry\, which he pursued to receive his PhD at the University of Texas\, Austin. After receiving his PhD\, Scott spent time away from academia traveling the world. Upon his return to the US\, Scott began a Post Doc at Genentech in San Francisco. Afterwards\, he pursued a second Post Doc at the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. Finally\, in 2002\, Scott joined UCSC as a Chemistry Professor and started his own research lab. Currently\, Scott and his lab are researching new drug paradigms\, hoping to develop drugs that go beyond typical drugs which pass through the cell membrane. Scott and his lab study membrane permeability in molecules that are traditionally considered to be too large to be used in drugs. He has strong interests in consciousness studies and Buddhism. \nAndrew Sivak is a doctoral candidate in History of Consciousness at UCSC. He is interested in political theory\, theology\, and William Blake. His courses include “Nuclear Criticism\,” “The Adventure of French Philosophy\,” and “Prophecy Against Empire.” \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote\, as his undergraduate thesis\, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006\, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation\, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos\, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms\, Subjectivity\, and Power). \nOctavio Valadez is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy of Science at UNAM in Mexico City\, with the project “Complexity and Transdisciplinarity: Theory and practice of cancer as a complex problem.” Octavio obtained his B.Sc. degree in Basic Biomedical Research at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) with his thesis work “Cancer as a complex disease: networks and levels of organization” (2008)\, with Germinal Cocho Gil as advisor. In 2010\, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy from the UAM-Iztapalapa and was awarded the UAM academic merit medal. His thesis (advised by Mario Casanueva) addressed the scientific explanation of cancer based on the model of “part-whole science” proposed by Rasmus Winther (2011\, Synthese)\, which develops a pluralistic research horizon. His main academic interests are the complexity of cancer\, as this problem cannot be understood\, much less solved\, if we do not consider and articulate the philosophical\, sociological\, historical and political aspects involved. \nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz (UCSC). At UCSC he is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Psychology and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. He was previously an assistant professor at UNAM and a part-time guest researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. His degrees are from Stanford University (Philosophy) and Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Winther works in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology\, and has strong interests in metaphysics\, philosophy of mind\, the history of philosophy\, comparative philosophy\, and the philosophy of multiculturalism. To date he has published over 40 articles in journals both in philosophy of science and philosophy of biology and in science more generally. Winther has held over 60 lectures at international conferences in Australia\, Denmark\, Germany\, Mexico\, South Africa\, UK\, USA\, and at universities including Berkeley\, Cambridge\, Humboldt (Berlin)\, London School of Economics\, MIT\, University of Chicago\, as well as venues like Google. He is the PI of the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” Research Cluster\, a collaborative research project involving UC Santa Cruz\, UC Davis\, and Stanford University. Currently\, he is working on maps in science and philosophy\, and the science and philosophy (and art) of maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/when-maps-become-the-world/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/will-the-robots-win-promises-and-perils-of-technology-in-society-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED "Into the Sea" Documentary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Easkey Britton lives in Ireland and she’s an amazing competitive big wave surfer –one of the few women in the sport–and she has a PhD in Environment and Society.  Among her many projects\, Easkey recently led an expedition to Iran to introduce young women there to the ocean and to surfing. She is looking for ways to use her love of the ocean and her research interests to promote understanding of the ocean\, gender equity\, international diplomacy\, etc.\nThere will be a screening of a 52-min. documentary\, Into the Sea\, about this experience\, which will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Easeky Britton.  The event will be on Tuesday evening\, March 3rd\, from 6-8pm in the Merrill Cultural Center.\nThis event is free and open to the public and proudly supported by The Institute for Humanities Research\, Porter College\, Literature Department\, Environmental Studies Department\, & the Sea Slugs. \nEVENT WEBSITE\nInto The Sea info\nTED Talk
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/into-the-sea-documentary-screening-2/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Chen: "Ed Roberson and the Poetics of Serial Identities"
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Chen’s scholarly interests include theories of comparative racialization\, racial capitalism and the black radical tradition\, and debates over what Charles Taylor and others have called the “politics of recognition.” Christopher is currently working on a book-length comparative study of contemporary African-American and Asian-American experimental or “avant-garde” writing. He is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nWinter 2015 Colloquium Series \nJanuary 14 : Maya Peterson \nJanuary 21: Naveeda Khan \nJanuary 28: Carolyn Dean \nFebruary 4: Madhavi Murty \nFebruary 11: Kris Alexanderson \nFebruary 18: Jennifer Horne \nFebruary 25: Gayle Salamon \nMarch 4: Christopher Chen \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-chen-ed-roberson-and-the-poetics-of-serial-identities-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:Antonella Guidazzoli: "Open Virtual Heritage Applications: From Research Tools to Emotional and Participatory Virtual Spaces"
DESCRIPTION:Antonella Guidazzoli\, CINECA Supercomputer Center\, Bologna Italy\, leads research services for the 3D Virtual Information Research Lab at Italy’s supercomputer center in Bologna\, CINECA\, a non-profit consortium comprising 69 Italian universities\, two national research centres\, and the Ministry of Universities and Research. She has done distinguished work in the creation of virtual cultural heritage sites\, including a 3D project on the Etruscans that includes an educational video featuring the Etruscan character\, Ati: http://www.glietruschielaldila.it \nContact digitalhumanities@ucsc.edu for more details about any of the above events.\nFollow @DH_UCSC on Twitter and Digital Humanities at UCSC on Facebook.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/antonella-guidazzoli-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:Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain\, Mind\, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39)\, co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC\, Winter 2015. \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote\, as his undergraduate thesis\, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006\, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation\, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos\, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms\, Subjectivity\, and Power) \nFabrizzio is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at UNAM. \nWinter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule: \nRobin Dunkin\nTuesday\, January 27\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function” \n***** \nMichael Anderson\nThursday\, January 29\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain” \n***** \nNicolas Davidenko\nTuesday\, February 3\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception” \n***** \nJanette Dinishak\nThursday\, February 12\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Autism & Neurodiversity” \n***** \nRay Gibbs\nThursday\, February 12\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Embodied Meaning\, Thinking\, and Communication” \n***** \nCraig Schindler\nTuesday\, February 17\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Enduring Wisdom\, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience” \n***** \nJohn Brown Childs\nThursday\, February 19\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Transcommunality” \n***** \nDada Nabhaniilananda\nThursday\, February 19\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Dragon Taming for Smart People” \n***** \nNatalia Carrillo\nTuesday\, February 24\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“A History of the Action Potential” \n***** \nDoc Edge\nTuesday\, February 24\, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00\n“Talking About Race: Geneticists\, Philosophers\, the Media\, and the People” \n***** \nBrian Cantwell Smith\nThursday\, February 26\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“The Three R’s: Representation\, Registration\, and Reality” \nThursday\, February 26\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind” \n***** \nOctavio Valadez\nTuesday\, March 3\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching” \n***** \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero \nThursday\, March 5\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities” \nThursday\, March 5\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fabrizzio-mcmanus-guerrero-from-queer-theory-to-teoria-cuir-latinamerican-appropriations-of-gay-identities-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:Living Writers Series: Maceo Montoya
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Writing Program presents Maceo Montoya in the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series. \nMaceo Montoya grew up in Elmira\, California. He graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Columbia University in 2006. His paintings\, drawings\, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. Montoya’s first novel\, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review\, 2010)\, was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for “Best First Book” and Latino Stories named him one of its “Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch.” In 2014\, University of New Mexico Press published his second novel\, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza\, and Copilot Press published Letters to the Poet from His Brother\, a hybrid book combining images\, prose poems\, and essays. \nMontoya is an assistant professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches the Chicana/o Mural Workshop and courses in Chicano Literature. He is also affiliated with Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA)\, a community-based arts organization located in Woodland\, CA. \n\n  \nWinter 2015 Living Writers Series: \nJanuary 15: Cherrie Moraga\, poet/playwright \nJanuary 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta\, poets \nJanuary 29: Korimar Press\, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) \nFebruary 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez\, poet \nFebruary 12: Luis Alfaro\, performance artist/playwright \nFebruary 19: John Jota Leanos\, filmmaker \nFebruary 26: Anita Hill\, attorney \nMarch 5: Maceo Montoya\, fiction writer \nMarch 12: student reading \n  \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information\, or email ktyamash@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-maceo-montoya-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:Fabrizzio McManus Guerrero: "Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-Explanations"
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lectures for “Introduction to Philosophy” (Phil 11) and “Brain\, Mind\, and Consciousness” (Cowell 39)\, co-taught by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther\, UCSC\, Winter 2015. \n\nExplaining Sexual Orientation\, or for that matter\, Gender Identity in Trans subjects\, has been at the core of Human Biology for the last 150 years. The technological innovations that nowadays allow us to gain epistemic access to the brain in terms of its structure\, physiology and development are only the most recent examples of this historical trend. In this talk I analyze the structure of these explanations and suggest how an analytic feminist perspective might be useful in detecting and criticizing possible gender biases. \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero studied Biology in the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM from 2000 to 2004 and wrote\, as his undergraduate thesis\, a taxonomic revision of the genus Jatropha (fam. Euphorbiaceae). From 2004 to 2006 he was a masters student in the Program in Philosophy of Science also at UNAM. There he wrote his master thesis focusing on the philosophical problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. His masters thesis won two prizes: the Norman Sverdlin prize for best philosophy thesis in 2006\, and the UNAM prize medal “Alfonso Caso.”He started his doctorate in the same program in 2006. In his dissertation\, he analyzed homosexuality in the context of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation and biopower.He successfully defended (with honors) his dissertation in November 2010: La homosexualidad a la luz de la filosofía de la ciencia: Mecanismos biologicos\, subjetividad y poder (Homosexuality in Light of the Philosophy of Science: Biological Mechanisms\, Subjectivity\, and Power) \nFabrizzio is currently Assistant Professor\, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)\, in Mexico City. \nThis talk is supported by the “Philosophy in a Multicultural Context” IHR Research Cluster \n\nWinter 2015 Lecture Series Schedule: \nRobin Dunkin\nTuesday\, January 27\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Building Blocks of the Brain: Neuron and Glia Form & Function” \n***** \nMichael Anderson\nThursday\, January 29\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neural Reuse and Hebbian Learning: Two Kinds of Neuroplasticity in the Brain” \n***** \nNicolas Davidenko\nTuesday\, February 3\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Suggestible Nature of Motion Perception” \n***** \nJanette Dinishak\nThursday\, February 12\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Autism & Neurodiversity” \n***** \nRay Gibbs\nThursday\, February 12\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Embodied Meaning\, Thinking\, and Communication” \n***** \nCraig Schindler\nTuesday\, February 17\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Enduring Wisdom\, Mindfulness & Emerging Neuroscience” \n***** \nJohn Brown Childs\nThursday\, February 19\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Transcommunality” \n***** \nDada Nabhaniilananda\nThursday\, February 19\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Dragon Taming for Smart People” \n***** \nNatalia Carrillo\nTuesday\, February 24\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“A History of the Action Potential” \n***** \nDoc Edge\nTuesday\, February 24\, Humanities Lecture Hall at 12:00\n“Talking About Race: Geneticists\, Philosophers\, the Media\, and the People” \n***** \nBrian Cantwell Smith\nThursday\, February 26\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“The Three R’s: Representation\, Registration\, and Reality” \nThursday\, February 26\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction and the Anxious Mind” \n***** \nOctavio Valadez\nTuesday\, March 3\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“Co-Teaching and Revolutionary Teaching” \n***** \nFabrizzio McManus Guerrero \nThursday\, March 5\, Humanities Lecture Hall @ 12:00\n“From Queer Theory to Teoria Cuir: Latinamerican appropriations of Gay Identities” \nThursday\, March 5\, Stevenson 175 @ 6:00\n“Neuro-Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation and Their Counter-explanations”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fabrizzio-mcmanus-guerrero-2/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin 152
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Michael Wilson
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. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202. \n  \n\nWinter 2015 Schedule: \nJanuary 16th – Jesica Siham Fernández\, Social Psychology\, “Latina/o Children as Cultural Citizens: Membership\, Sense of Belonging\, Space and Rights” \nJanuary 23rd – Wes Modes\, DANM\, “A Secret History of American River People” \nJanuary 30th – Aubrey Hobart\, Visual Studies\, “The Queen of Heaven and the Prince of Angels: Saintly Rivalry in Colonial Mexico” \nFebruary 6th – Melissa Brzycki\, History\, “Inventing the Socialist Child\, 1945-1976” \nFebruary 13th – Delio Vásquez\, HISC\, “The Criminal Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Criminal: Illegal Black Resistance in the 60s and 70s” \nFebruary 20th – Melissa Yinger\, Literature\, “Ronsard’s Echo-critical Poetic Narcissism: The Elegies for Narcissus and Gâtine” \nFebruary 27th – Tracy Perkins\, Sociology\, “From Protest to Policy: The Political Evolution of California Environmental Justice Activism\, 1980s-2010s” \nMarch 6th – Michael Wilson\, Politics\, “Violent Constructions: Classifying\, Explaining\, and Misrepresenting Contentious Politics” \nMarch 13th – Jessica Calvanico\, Feminist Studies\, “On the Politics of Owning a Kara Walker” \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\, Sociology\, Institute for Humanities Research\, as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-michael-wilson-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kukla CHANGED TO MARCH 6: "The Sedimentation of Bias in Medical Institutions"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nBias is becoming an increasingly central topic in both moral psychology and bioethics. We have ample evidence that biases shape our interactions\, including interactions between health professionals and patients\, in complicated and penetrating ways that are resistant to first person access and to manipulation. Typically\, biases are presumed to be distortions at the level of individual cognitive processes. I examine how bias can be built into the institutions\, spaces\, policies\, and practices of medicine\, quite apart from any person-level cognitive distortions. I examine three types of examples: (1) judgments of scientific uncertainty and epistemic risk in health care research and delivery; (2) material medical environments that perpetuate specific ideological distortions; (3) the inflation of drug-treatable diseases and the overvaluing of pharmaceutical interventions. The upshot is that bias in medicine requires structural solutions\, not just the ‘education’ of individuals. \nAbout: \nRebecca Kukla is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her research interests include social epistemology (including the epistemology and methodology of medical research)\, philosophy of language\, feminist philosophy\, metaethics\, reproductive ethics and the culture of pregnancy and motherhood\, and research ethics. Much of her research bridges ethics\, epistemology\, and philosophy of language. She also has serious interests in eighteenth century philosophy\, especially the work of Rousseau and Kant. \nShe received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. From 2003-2005\, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2004\, she was a Visiting Scholar at the USDA\, studying ethical issues concerning food and nutrition assistance programs. She also received her Sommelier certification from Algonquin College in 2007. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelley Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-kukla-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:First Annual Grad Slam
DESCRIPTION:Also known as the 3 Minute Thesis® competition\, started by the University of Queensland\, Australia\, the UCSC Grad Slam will challenge graduate students to present a compelling presentation of their dissertation research in just three minutes\, using language appropriate for a non-specialist audience. \nThe Grad Slam is not an exercise in trivializing or dumbing-down research; rather\, it is meant to encourage students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research. \nThe Grad Slam is open to all graduate students who have Advanced To Candidacy. \nFinalists will present their three minute thesis presentations at a live event on March 6th in Earth & Marine Sciences B206. This event will be open to the public\, and a final panel of judges will choose a first place and runner-up winner; the audience will vote for a people’s choice awardee. If the people’s choice awardee is the same as the winner or runner-up\, both awards will go to that person. \nThe winner of the UCSC Grad Slam will receive $3\,000; the runner-up receives $1\,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. \nThe UCSC Grad Slam winner will go on to present at a UC-wide final Grad Slam to be held in Oakland\, on May 4th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/first-annual-grad-slam-2/
LOCATION:B206 Earth & Marine Sciences
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SUMMARY:From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
DESCRIPTION:From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence \nMarch 6 at the Oakes Learning Center\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nMarch 7 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, Santa Cruz \nAs folks across the country demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner\, community members in Salinas\, CA are fighting the police murders of Angel Ruiz\, 42 (d. March 20\, 2014); Osman Hernandez\, 26 (d May 9\, 2014); Carlos Mejia-Gomez\, 44 (d. May 20\, 2014); Frank Alvarado\, Jr.\, 39 (d. July 10\, 2014); and Jaime Garcia\, 35 (d. October 31\, 2014). “From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence” brings together community members\, political organizers\, scholars\, and artists/poets from across California to discuss the ongoing historical crisis of state-sanctioned violence against people of color and the movement to oppose white supremacist policing in the U.S. We hope to build upon the momentum we’ve witnessed over the last six months as people have taken to the streets to demand justice and offer visions of a world in which black and brown lives matter. We seek an analysis of the historical relationship between anti-black and anti-brown violence in the U.S. in the hopes of strengthening cross-racial solidarities. We seek to raise awareness about the intersections between racialization and economic violence\, between police brutality and mass incarceration\, and between intimate and state-based gender violence. We are interested in building connections between those who are grieving the loss of their loved ones\, those who fight to stay alive despite the injustices of the U.S. justice system\, and those who mobilize poetic imaginaries to build the world anew. \nMarch 7\, 10-4 // Resource Center for Nonviolence \nOfrenda y altares Workshop\, 10-11:30 am \nLed by Emma Garcia from the Santa Cruz Arts Council\, this workshop will teach participants how to create altars to commemorate people who have been harmed by the state. We will make four altars in total — one for the indigenous communities who lived\, struggled\, and died at Mission Santa Cruz in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; one for the people persecuted by the anti-Chinese movement in Santa Cruz throughout the nineteenth century; one for Jose Chamales and Francisco Arias\, who were lynched by a mob and hanged from the Water Street Bridge in 1877; and one for the people of Salinas who are being targeted and murdered by police today. Participants will later deliver these altars to sites we visit during the anti-colonial walking tour. \nLunch served by Food Not Bombs \nPoetic Imaginaries Against Violence\, 12-1:30 pm \nReadings and Discussion with Ronaldo Wilson (Assistant Professor\, Literature and Creative Writing\, UCSC\, and author of Poems of the Black Object and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man) and Tisa Bryant (Critical Studies Faculty\, California Institute of the Arts\, and author of Unexplained Presence\, [the curator]\, and Tzimmes). \nAnti-Colonial Walking Tour\, 2-5 pm \nWe will leave the RCNV at 2 pm to visit sites of white supremacist violence in Santa Cruz\, including Mission Santa Cruz\, the Front St. Post Office (one of four former Chinatowns)\, the alley beside the El Palomar Restaurant (where Eduardo Carrillo’s mural was destroyed by the city)\, the Water Street Bridge\, and the Beach Flats. Each site will be narrated by a different storyteller\, as well as activated by the altars we leave behind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-ferguson-to-salinas-intersections-against-state-sanctioned-violence-2-2/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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