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SUMMARY:Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova \nSvetlana Alexievich\, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature\, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book\, she conducts\, over the period of five to ten years\, between 500 and 700 interviews with witness-participants or their surviving family members. In her montage of individual narratives\, she gives a voice to several Soviet generations\, if not to an entire Soviet society that has strained to make sense of the enormous suffering it experienced during the 20th century. Together\, Alexievich’s books make up a series that she calls “The Chronicle of the Big Utopia\, or The History of the Red Man.”  Some scholars claim that Alexievich created a genre of her own\, and in this presentation\, her work is treated as a form of moral philosophy\, a way to approach ethical issues through literature. The most prominent of these seems to be the question of the meaning of suffering\, as it is encountered by a post-Soviet man at the moment when the Soviet world is crumbling and falling apart. \nElena Gapova is Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University; Founding Director\, Centre for Gender Studies\, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania). \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-10-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
DESCRIPTION:The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989\, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization\, unemployment\, ethnic conflict\, poverty\, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world\, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect the whole of the capitalist world economy. The purpose of this project is not only to address the issues which capitalism creates and subsequently ignores in its unrestricted expansion; but also to provide viable alternatives and solutions to these problems by using the lens of socialism\, which\, conceived of both as a set of historical projects to achieve a post-capitalist society as well as a horizon of political perspective and activity\, retains its urgency today in the face of the recent crises and long term trends of global capitalism. \n\n\nAt the same time\, we view socialism not merely as a question of area studies\, but also as a global historical phenomenon\, and in this sense\, we aim to pose the problem of postsocialism as one that ramifies far beyond the territories of current or formerly socialist states\, intersecting in productive ways with any number of other “post”-discourses in contemporary debates\, from postcolonialism to postfordism. \n\n  \nElena Gapova is Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University; Founding Director\, Centre for Gender Studies\, European Humanities University (Belarusian “university-in-exile” in Lithuania). \nHunter Bivens\, Literature Department\, UCSC\nSara Blaylock\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nElena Gapova\, Department of Sociology\, Western Michigan University\nNatalia Koulinka\, History of Consciousness Department\, UCSC\nLisa Rofel\, Anthropology Department\, UCSC\nAndrei Tcacenco\, History Department\, UCSC \nIntroduced and Moderated by Neda Atanasoski\, Feminist Studies Department\,\nUCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/socialism-and-postsocialism-roundtable-discussion-with-elena-gapova-3/
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: Alex Rivera
DESCRIPTION:Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who\, for the past fifteen years\, has been telling new\, urgent\, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Alex is a Sundance Fellow\, Rockefeller Fellow\, was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University\, and was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” In 2015 Alex was awarded major support from the Surdna Foundation and the Ford Foundation for his film-in-progress\, ‘The Infiltrators\,’ and he received an Art & Technology Lab Grant from LACMA for an upcoming project in virtual reality. \n\n  \nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nThursdays\, 6:00-7:45 PM\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-rivera-3/
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 for Graduate Research: James Beneda
DESCRIPTION:James Beneda \n“The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience” \nI take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic stress (PTSD) as ‘moral injury’\, I argue that the traumatic experiences of American soldiers in the Iraq War resulted from flawed cultural and institutional indoctrination. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, HistoryJ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-james-beneda-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Sharon Inkelas: "The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology"
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose\, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach\, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model\, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to the performance limitations imposed by structural and motor immaturity\, children’s outputs differ from adult target forms in both systematic and sporadic ways. The computations of the child’s grammar are influenced by the distributional properties of motor-acoustic traces of previous productions\, stored in episodic memory and indexed in the eponymous A-map. We propose that child phonological patterns are shaped by competition between two essential forces: the pressure to match adult productions of a given word (even if the attempt is likely to fail due to performance limitations)\, and the pressure to attempt a pronunciation that can be realized reliably (even if phonetically inaccurate). These forces are expressed in the grammar by two constraints that draw on the motor-acoustic detail stored in the A-map. These constraints are not child-specific\, but remain present in the adult grammar\, although their influence is greatly attenuated as a wide range of motor plans come to be realized with a similar degree of reliability. The A-map model thus not only offers an account of a problematic phenomenon in development\, but also provides a mechanism to model motor- grammar interactions in adult speech\, including in cases of acquired speech impairment. \nSharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium Series: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-sharon-inkelas-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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