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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A Conversation with Warren Sack
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 26 (4 – 6 PM) at Humanities 210 \nDigital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group:\nA conversation with Warren Sack \nWarren Sack (Film & Digital Media) will lead a conversation about his article\, “A Storytelling Machine: From Propp to Software Studies” (Les Temps Modernes (novembre-décembre 2013)). Join us to consider a genealogy of narrative construction\, interactive storytelling\, software studies\, and the place of technology in “understanding.”  This discussion will prompt us all to think beyond the tools of Digital Humanities to explore the ways thinking is tangled up with technology. \nSack’s article is available online from Digital Studies in French. To receive a copy of Sack’s article in English\, emaildigitalhumanities@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-working-groupreading-group-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:John Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science"
DESCRIPTION:John Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy\, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber. \nJohn Modern is the Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. \n\nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”\n\nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues”\n\nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”\n\nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”\n\nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”\n\nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)”\n\nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”\n\nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-modern-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:Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with our End of Year Celebration\, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty. \nCamille Charette\, “Humanitarian Intervention\, a Feminist Perspective”\nAndrew Bunn\, “On Thomas Nagel’s ‘Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness’ ” \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nAll are welcome! \n\nPast (2014) Presenters:\nMatthew Strebe\, “Schopenhauer and Aesthetic Experience”\nLia Salaverry\, “Design Logic and Community Building in Public Transportation”\nAlex Dor\, “Construction of Nation and Nationalism”\nLisa Clark\, “Knowing When I’m Right”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/annual-philosophy-undergraduate-colloquium-graduation-celebration-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:Living Writers Series: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nSarah Manguso \nis an essayist and poet. Her new book\, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary\, is out now. Her five other books include The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend\, named one of the top ten books of 2012 by Salon\, and The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir\, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Telegraph\, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize\, and her books have been translated into Chinese\, German\, Italian\, and Spanish. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s\, the New York Review of Books\, and the New York Times Magazine\, and her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series. She grew up near Boston and now lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design. She can be found online at: http://www.sarahmanguso.com/ \nMaggie Nelson \nis a nonfiction writer\, critic\, scholar\, and poet. Her works of nonfiction include The Argonauts\, a work of “autotheory” about gender\, sexuality\, (queer) family\, and the limitations and possibilities of language; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011)\, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice; the cult hit Bluets (2009); a critical study of poetry and painting titled Women\, the New York School\, and Other True Abstractions (2007); and a memoir about sexual violence and media spectacle titled The Red Parts (2007)\, which will be reissued by Graywolf in Spring 2016. Her books of poetry include Something Bright\, Then Holes (2007); Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist\, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir)\, The Latest Winter (2003)\, and Shiner (2001). Her awards include a 2007 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation\, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a 2013 Literature grant from Creative Capital. Since 2005 she has taught on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. She currently lives in Los Angeles. She can be found online at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/maggie-nelson \n  \n\nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sarah-manguso-maggie-nelson-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:Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 29th\n4:00-5:30pm\nVideos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010)\, Technologia (2010)\, and Rain Making (2004) \nDiscussion with:\nTarek El Haik\, Assistant Professor\, Cinema\, San Francisco State University\nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz.\n7:00-9:00pm\nFeature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden\, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France\, 2008) \nDiscussion with:\nMayanthi Fernando\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology\, UC Santa Cruz\nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz. \nSaturday\, May 30th\n10:00am-12:30pm\nFilm screening: New Muslim Cool\, dir. Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor (USA\, 2009) \nScreening and discussion with director Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor\, Assistant Professor\, Social Documentation\, UC Santa Cruz\n1:30-3:30pm\nVideos by Monira Al-Qadiri featuring Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain) (2013)\, Behind the Sun (2013)\, Prism (2007-ongoing). \nDiscussion with Monira Al-Qadiri\n4:00-6:00pm\nFilm screening: Descending with Angels\, dir. Christian Suhr (Denmark\, 2013) \nDiscussion with Christian Suhr and Mayanthi Fernando\nCo-Sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media\, the Office of Student Affairs\, College 8\, and Colleges 9 & 10\, and the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/global-islam-a-weekend-of-film-and-video-2/2015-05-29/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum with Ann Drevno: “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
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\, “Abolition Feminism Against Eugenics in California Prisons” \n17 April — Evan Grupsmith\, History\, “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement” \n24 April — Rose Grose\, Social Psychology\, “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women” \n1 May — Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\, “Writing the Future with a Cement Pen: How to Concretize Displacement” \n8 May — Cristopher Chitty\, History of Consciousness\, “Scandals of Appetite: Machiavelli\, Sodomy and the Fall of the Florentine Republic” \n15 May — Keegan Cook Finberg\, Literature\, “Reading Poetry of the 1960s: The Fluxus Event Score as Multimedia Encounter” \n22 May — Muiris Macgiollabhui\, History\, “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen\, 1791-1830″ \n29 May — Ann Drevno\, ENVS\, “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program” \n5 June — Veronika Zablotsky\, FMST\, “On the Question of Socialist Governmentality: Being Interested in Early Soviet Armenia” \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. \n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-ann-drevno-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Complicated Labor: Feminism\, Maternity and Creative Practice Presents a Conversation with Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Conversation will be based on two readings. Contact Micah Perks at meperks@ucsc.edu to request reading selections. \nAdditional Event: Public reading by Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson in the UCSC Living Writers Series\, Thursday May 28\, Humanities Lecture Hall \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism\, maternity\, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to\nthe conditions in which we undertake expressive practices. \nSarah Manguso is the author\, most recently\, of Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Her five other books include The Guardians\, named one of the top ten books of the year by Salon\, and The Two Kinds of Decay\, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Telegraph\, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. \nMaggie Nelson is the author of five books of nonfiction and four books of poetry. Her most recent book is The Argonauts\, a work of “auto-theory” about gender\, sexuality\, sodomitical maternity\, queer family\, and the limitations and possibilities of language. Her 2011 book of art and cultural criticism\, The Art of Cruelty: A\n Reckoning\, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice. Her other nonfiction books include the cult hit Bluets. Recent awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 Innovative Literature grant from Creative Capital.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/complicated-labor-feminism-maternity-and-creative-practice-presents-a-conversation-with-writers-maggie-nelson-and-sarah-manguso-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:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday\, May 29th\, from 12:45 – 4:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Aaron White (2008)\, who is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. We hope you will attend.\n  \n12:45 p.m. Refreshments \n12:55 p.m. Opening remarks: Adrian Brasoveanu \nSession 1\n1:00 p.m. Jake Vincent: “Chamorro Head-Internal Relative Clauses” \n1:30 p.m. Valery Vanegas: “A Study in Voice Quality Using Accelerometers ” \n2:00 p.m. Break \nSession 2\n2:15 p.m. Matthew Jordan Margulis: “Aspectual Adverbials: The interaction of Aspect and One-By-One” \n2:45 p.m. Chantale Yunt: “Tu comprends tu – Questions of Quebecois” \n3:15 p.m. Break \n3:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumnus Address (introduction: Pranav Anand)\nAaron Steven White: “Learner as Lexical Semanticist”\nUniversity of Maryland \n4:30 p.m. Closing remarks: Grant McGuire
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-2-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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