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SUMMARY:Lisa Snyder: "The Devil is in the Detective Work: Researching and Reconstructing Cultural Heritage Sites with Special Emphasis on The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893"
DESCRIPTION:One might argue that the creation of a computer reconstruction of a cultural heritage site requires a curious mix of academic training\, detective work\, and obsession. Unlike automated or algorithmic technologies that record extant sites and artifacts\, building a three-dimensional computer model of an ephemeral or long-demolished environment combines traditional historical methods with new technologies and results in an entirely new form of scholarly publication. Rather than a printed monograph\, the hours spent in search of obscure details buried in primary source materials or pouring over archival manuscripts and photographs are transformed into an interactive learning environment for interrogation by students and secondary scholars. Using her computer reconstruction of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as a case study\, Snyder will address the process of researching and reconstructing historic urban environments\, the challenges of translating multi-media research materials into a cohesive computer model\, and the opportunities for teaching and learning afforded by this new form of scholarship. (And\, yes\, obsession will be discussed.) \nLisa M. Snyder (Ph.D. UCLA) is an architectural historian and research scholar with UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) and is an Associate Editor of Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique. From 1996 – 2013 she was a senior member of the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA. Snyder’s primary research is on educational applications for three-dimensional computer models of historic urban environments. She developed the reconstruction model of the Herodian Temple Mount installed in 2001 at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem\, and is currently working on a reconstruction model of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition that is shown regularly at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. In 2010 she received an NEH-Digital Humanities Start-Up grant (HD-50958-10) for the development of a software interface (VSim) that provides users with the ability to craft narratives in three-dimensional space as well as the ability to embed annotations and links to primary and secondary resources and web content from within the environments. This work is continuing under an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant (HK-50164-14). Snyder is also co-PI on “Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites\,” an NEH Summer Institute being hosted at UMass Amherst in June 2015 and at UCLA in June 2016 (HT-50091-14). \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-snyder-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:NEW DATE & LOCATION: Works in Progress: Samantha Matherne
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Samantha Matherne. \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served. \n\n  \nReviving Philosophy of History \nPaul Roth\nTuesday\, January 20\, 2015 \n*** \nWhy Does Space Have More than One Dimension? \nAbe Stone\nThursday\, February 19\, 2015 \n*** \nErnst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics \nSamantha Matherne\nThursday\, April 9\, 2015
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/works-in-progress-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:Adrienne Mayor: "The Warrior's Husband: Theseus\, Antiope\, and the Amazons”
DESCRIPTION:Fierce Amazons are at the center of some of the most famous Greek myths. Every great hero\, from Heracles to Achilles\, tangled with warrior queens\, and Theseus captured and married the Amazon Antiope. Were Amazons mere figments of the Greek imagination? Combining classical myth and art\, nomad traditions\, and scientific archaeology\, this lecture reveals intimate\, surprising details and original insights about the fighting women known as Amazons\, with a special focus on Antiope. \nAdrienne Mayor’s most recent book is The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World (Princeton 2014). She is also the author of numerous publications; other books include a biography of Mithradates\, The Poison King\, a nonfiction finalist for the 2009 National Book Award\, and The First Fossil Hunters (2000). A research scholar in Classics and History of Science at Stanford\, Mayor’s work is often featured on the BBC\, The History Channel\, National Geographic\, History Today\, and other media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adrienne-mayor-the-warriors-husband-theseus-antiope-and-the-amazons-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Neloufer de Mel  "The Perethaya's Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka"
DESCRIPTION:Neloufer de Mel is the author of Militarizing Sri Lanka and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. Her current research is on cultures of justice in postwar Sri Lanka\, disability performance\, and the politics of aesthetic work in contexts of violence. \nNeloufer de Mel is a Professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series \nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka” \nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues” \nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence” \nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States” \nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age” \nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)” \nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious” \nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neloufer-de-mel-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:Gender-Differential Effects of Terrorism on Education: The Case of the Punjab Insurgency 1981-1993
DESCRIPTION:This study explores the long-run effect of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency on the educational attainment of adults who were between ages 6-16 years at the time of the insurgency. To examine the long-term effect of the insurgency on education\, we use a large scale cross-sectional dataset – the 2005 India Human Development Survey. To explore the channels through which the conflict affected education\, we use a unique historical dataset on the annual expenditure decisions by farmers (farm account surveys) for Punjab during 1978-1989. We combine both datasets with the annual district level data on major terrorist incidents from the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP). We find a substantial and statistically significant effect of terrorism on educational attainment by girls who were of school age during the conflict. We also identify the impact of terrorism at the household level. Households that had high ratios of girls to boys and who resided in the districts that experienced terrorist events\, had reduced the amount of educational expenditures. This finding suggests that this reduction was one of the channels through which conflict affected education. \nPrakarsh Singh is Assistant Professor of Economics at Amherst College\, Massachusetts. His research falls into three main categories in development economics: a. Performance Incentives in Public Health to target Child Malnutrition; b. Causes and Consequences of Conflict\, particularly civil wars; c. Teaching Development Economics. He has written and published widely in all three areas. A sampling of his recent work can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/prakarshsinghac/research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gender-differential-effects-of-terrorism-on-education-the-case-of-the-punjab-insurgency-1981-1993-2/
LOCATION:Economics Conference Room (E2 Room 499)
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SUMMARY:Envisioning Central Coast Water in 2030: Ecology\, Equity\, Ingenuity
DESCRIPTION:Governor Jerry Brown’s recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California’s water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of impending shortages as chiefly physical phenomena\, restricting possibilities for robust and innovative responses through the social sphere. In the Central Coast\, in particular\, seemingly intractable divisions between public water agencies and homeowners’ coalitions\, between groundwater aquifers and the needs of agriculture and between people and fish result in a fragmented political and ecological landscape where polarizing battles are not only seen as normal\, but self-evident. This cocktail hour will invite participants to engage in an uncommon civic dialogue to imagine and envision what broad-based\, collective interventions for Central Coast water might look like. Participants from all backgrounds will be strongly encouraged to share and discuss innovative suggestions for how a more ecologically-sound\, socially-equitable water plan might be drafted and implemented. Using the year 2030 as a horizon\, participants will have the opportunity to share suggestions and expertise across disciplinary boundaries and to consider whether and how competing visions for Central Coast water might be reconciled.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/envisioning-central-coast-water-in-2030-ecology-equity-ingenuity-2/
LOCATION:Oakes College 231
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SUMMARY:Using Zotero for Graduate Student Research: A Library Workshop for Humanities Division Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Led by: Annette Marines and Rachel Deblinger \nZotero is an open source (free) citation management software that allows you to attach PDFs\, notes and images to your citations\, organize them into collections for different projects\, and create bibliographies. It lives in your browser and connects directly to library catalogues and research databases. This workshop will help you get started with Zotero so that you can: \n• Create a personal library of research materials\n• Import references directly from most research databases and library catalogs\n• Organize and annotate references\n• Format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word and other word processing program documents\n• Share your citations or collaborate with others online
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/using-zotero-for-graduate-student-research-a-library-workshop-for-humanities-division-graduate-students-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, Room 2353
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SUMMARY:Yannis Galanakis: "The Diplomat\, the Dealer and the Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in 19th century Greece"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During the 19th century in Europe\, new states were founded and nationalism and colonialism were strengthened; while some Empires disintegrated\, others managed to maintain or even increase their power. At the same time\, archaeology was transformed into a structured discipline and large-scale excavation projects commenced across the Mediterranean. The stories of the people behind the antiquities trade in Greece during the 19th century—the diplomats stationed in Athens\, the local art dealers and the private diggers—help us write an important chapter in the social\, economic\, and cultural history of Europe and of Mediterranean archaeology as a whole. This lecture explores how the commodification of the past became interwoven with power politics and gave rise both to different attitudes toward collecting and to debates on cultural property\, ownership and the value of things in our modern world. \nYannis Galanakis is Lecturer in Classics (Greek Prehistory)\, Faculty of Classics\, University of Cambridge Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics\, Sidney Sussex College. \nFor more information\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \n\n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aiakress-lecture-with-yannis-galanakis-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:The Feminist Architecture of Gloria Anzaldúa: New Translations\, Crossings and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nA Conference on the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa\nGloria Evangelina Anzaldúa — poet\, philosopher\, and critical scholar — founded\, wrote\, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and scholarship\, with generative influences on critical race\, feminist\, queer\, and decolonizing ways of knowing. Importantly for UCSC\, Anzaldúa was a vital presence on our campus for over twenty years\, and her legacy is a profound part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the campus. \nThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies is proud to initiate a celebration of the intellectual legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa. This year-long celebration includes a series of undergraduate workshops and creative writing seminars\, advanced study seminars for graduate students and faculty\, performances by artists and poets as part of the creative writing Living Writers’ reading series\, and an installation of Anzaldúa’s writing altar from her archives in McHenry Library’s Special Collections. Finally\, our celebration will culminate in a two-day (April 10-11\, 2015) scholarly conference: The Feminist Architecture of Gloria E. Anzaldúa: New Translations\, Crossings\, and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought. \nConference Description\nBeginning with her co-editorship of This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color (1981) to the foundational Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) to the anthologies Making Face\, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras (1990) and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (2002)\, the collection of engagements in Interviews/Entrevistas (2000)\, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (2009) and her children’s books\, the work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa has greatly influenced critical race\, feminist\, queer and decolonizing theories of an active subjectivity and agency. Her worldview as intellectual\, lesbian of color\, poet\, teacher privileges the knowledge that comes from experiencing life in-between spaces—the border dweller\, the queer\, the colored\, and the mestiza. Embracing ambiguity\, liminality and border thinking\, Anzaldúa affirms life from within these spaces. Her call for women of color\, particularly lesbians of color\, to write\, engage and interrogate the world\, challenges the hegemony of knowledge production and categorical logic. The movement of U.S. third world feminists that Anzaldúa initiates centers coalitional politics and intersectional analysis of the lived experiences of women of color\, yet there continues to be a problem of legibility\, a misrecognition and appropriation of the theoretical contributions of these writers (Perez\, 2010). I believe that it is the issue of legibility that deflects scholars’ attention from engaging Anzaldúan thought in the critical ways that it deserves. \nThis will be a 2 day conference\, April 10-11\, to think together about the work of Gloria Anzaldúa with scholars who are engaging purposefully\, where discussions will center around these questions: \n● How do the efforts of the El Mundo Zurdo conference\, new archival material and translations invite us to participate and connect in new ways the living heart of Anzaldúa’s work?\n● How have scholars engaged/translated Anzaldúan theory into pedagogical practices\, either through alternative methodologies or epistemologies?\n● How is Anzaldúa’s work engaged with current theories of the post-human\, settler colonialism\, or decolonial thinking?\n● What provocations can we take from Anzaldúa’s work?\n● How do we move Anzaldúa 1.0 to Anzaldúa 2.0? \n\n  \nConference Schedule\nFRIDAY \nLocation: Humanities 1 Room 210 \n3:00pm Welcome\nBettina Aptheker and Karen Yamashita\, UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer and Cindy Cruz\, Conference Co-Chairs\nAlma Sifuentes\, Dean of Students\, UCSC \n3:15-4:30pm Keynote: Laura Perez\, UC Berkeley \n4:30-6:15pm Panel 1: Un Travesía/A Crossing: Thinking Anzaldúa across the Disciplines \nKaren Barad\, UCSC\nGaye Theresa Johnson\, UCSB\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer\, UCSC\nSonia Saldivar-Hull\, University of Texas San Antonio\nPedro DiPietro\, Syracuse University \nModerators: Jennifer Gonzales\, UCSC / Cat Ramirez\, UCSC \n+++++++++ \nSATURDAY \nLocation: Humanities Lecture Hall \n9:30-10:00am Coffee and Refreshments \n10:00-12:00pm Panel 2: La Facultad: Bridging Theory to Praxis in Anzaldúan Thought \nPat Zavella\, UCSC\nAida Hurtado\, UCSB\nSofia Villenas\, Cornell University\nAlejandra Elenes\, Arizona State University \nModerator: Marcia Ochoa\, Chair of Feminist Studies\, UCSC \n12:00-1:00pm Lunch \n1:00-2:45pm Panel 3: Roundtable – Santa Cruz Feminist of Color Collective \nSandra Alvarez\, Chapman University\nPascha Bueno Hansen\, University of Delaware\nSusy Zepeda\, UC Davis\nRoya Rastegar\, Los Angeles\, Filmmaker \nModerator: Cindy Cruz\, UCSC \n2:45-3:00pm Break \n3:00-4:30pm Keynote Conversation: Maria Lugones\, Binghamton University \nModerators: Rosa-Linda Fregoso\, UCSC / Bettina Apthekar\, UCSC \n  \n\n  \nDirections & Parking:\nPark near the Humanities Complex (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107\, 108\, 109\, and 110). Parking attendants will be available at the beginning of the event to sell permits. Otherwise\, permits can be purchased at pay stations in lots. \nClick here for directions and map  \n  \n\n  \nSpecial Exhibit of Anzaldúa Artifacts:\nMcHenry Library Special Collections will display the artifacts of the Anzaldúa Writing Altar in the Library California Room on April 9-10 from 10am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n\n  \nJoin the Conversation:\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n  \n\n  \nArticles:\nhttp://news.ucsc.edu/2015/04/Anzaldua-feminist-conference.html \nhttp://www.cityonahillpress.com/2015/04/14/anzalduan-thought-transcends-borderlands/ \n  \n\n\nEvent Photos:\nFriday\, March 10 \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSaturday\, March 11 \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n\nEvent Podcast:\n \n \n \n  \n\nEvent Video:\n \n\n\nSponsors:\nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies\, Office of the Dean of Students\, Graduate Student Association\, El Centro: The Chicano Latino Resource Center\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Latin American & Latino Studies\, Cowell College Provost\, College 8\, Stevenson College\, Literature Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, Politics Department\, Anthropology Department\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \n\n  \nUC Santa Cruz Celebrating 50 Years of Being Truly Original\nThis is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries\, artists\, scientists\, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Let’s celebrate 50 amazing years. Visit 50years.ucsc.edu and see what we are planning. \n  \n  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Jess Whatcott: “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons”
DESCRIPTION:The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. \nFor more info\, or to inquire about joining the roster of presenters for the 2015-16 academic year\, contact: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Schedule: \n10 April — Jess Whatcott\, Politics\n17 April — Evan Grupsmith\, History\n24 April — Rose Grose\, Social Psychology\n1 May — Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\n8 May — Cristopher Chitty\, History of Consciousness\n15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg\, Literature\n22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui\, History: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen\, 1791-1830”\n29 May — Ann Drevno\, ENVS\n5 June — Veronika Zablotsky\, FMST \nThis event series is made possible through the generous support from the Institute for Humanities Research and the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Joe’s Pizza and Subs\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-jess-whatcott-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Daniel Lassiter: "Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework"
DESCRIPTION:We propose a new semantics and pragmatics for epistemic statements which builds on the systems of Yalcin (2012) and Moss (2015)\, but offers several empirical advantages. The key improvements stem from (a) modeling information states using probabilistic graphical models\, a framework for knowledge representation that is highly influential in psychology\, AI\, and philosophy; and (b) a new method of treating probabilities as ordinary random variables\, making it possible to condition information states on probability statements such as Rain is likely [roughly\, P(rain) > .5]. This feature makes it possible to account for the dynamic effects of epistemic sentences while maintaining a thoroughgoing Bayesianism\, with conditioning as the only update operation. Nested epistemic statements are also given a natural interpretation in terms of higher-order probability\, which is implicitly defined once probabilities are treated as random variables. This approach simplifies Moss’ account and avoids some of its less desirable features\, but the simplification re-introduces certain empirical challenges\, which are discussed in conclusion. \nDaniel Lassiter is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/daniel-lassiter-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Futuristic Musical Poetry with Luciano Chessa
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Italian composer\, performer\, and musicologist Luciano Chessa. Chessa will perform Piedigrotta (a Futurist musical poem). Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo\, Futurist: Noise\, Visual Arts\, and the Occult (UC\, 2012)\, the first English-language monograph dedicated to Russolo and the art of Noise. He has been performing futurist sound poetry for well over 10 years. He has been active in Europe\, the U.S.\, Australia\, and South America as a practitioner of world avantgarde music; his scholarly areas include both 20th-century and late-14th-century music. Compositions include a piano and percussion duet after Pier Paolo Pasoliniʼs “Petrolio.” \nReception to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-of-futuristic-musical-poetry-with-luciano-chessa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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