BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T133000 DTSTAMP:20260425T161843 CREATED:20160104T184000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160104T184000Z UID:10006318-1453809600-1453815000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio DESCRIPTION:Interested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop will include an introduction to the kinds of tools available for use in the FITC and a discussion about designing assignments that include multimedia and audio components. \nThis workshop will inspire you to design new assignments\, develop your own multimedia materials\, and consider new pedagogical possibilities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-with-multimedia-audio-3/ LOCATION:FITC\, 1336 McHenry Library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260425T161843 CREATED:20151209T210237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T210237Z UID:10005176-1453824000-1453831200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joes Segal: "Cultural Integration"   DESCRIPTION:  \nIn an interview from 1990\, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead\, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by betraying the essence of true art. Baselitz’s statement exemplifies a remarkable feature of public discourse in 1990s Germany: the return of a Cold War rhetoric after the end of the Cold War. This presentation examines the cultural aspects of the German reunification process by focusing on the public debates on East German cultural heritage\, in particular the stormy dispute over the meaning and relevance of East German art. It will be argued that since the visual arts had played an important role in the construction of an East German and a West German identity after World War II\, the art debates of the 1990s reflect the broader issue of identity and belonging in post-socialist Germany. \nJoes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City\, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture\, German cultural history\, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History\, Culture and Modernity (HCM). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joes-segal-cultural-integration-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T133000 DTSTAMP:20260425T161843 CREATED:20151209T214701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T214701Z UID:10006308-1453896000-1453901400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joes Segal: "Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage" DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal \nLike street names\, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for the present state and the future direction of society. Taken together\, they constitute a canon of collective memory. However\, this canon is seldom uncontested\, and in times of revolution or regime change the new political leaders often try to redefine history in order to support their worldview and claim to power. Old heroes\, symbols and monuments suddenly become obsolete while new ones are created to evoke a sense of historical rupture or a brand new vision of historical continuity. Taking the fate of socialist monuments and their often ultra-nationalistic replacements after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a case study\, in this lecture I will explore the politics surrounding public monuments. \nJoes Segal is Chief Curator of The Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City\, CA. Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture\, German cultural history\, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) and managing editor of the International Journal for History\, Culture and Modernity (HCM). \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/joes-segal-post-socialist-monuments-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T194500 DTSTAMP:20260425T161843 CREATED:20160107T182235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160107T182235Z UID:10005185-1454004000-1454010300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales DESCRIPTION:Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels\, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder\, Colorado\, and teaches in the MFA program there and at UCR-Palm Desert. \nChristopher David Rosales is from Paramount\, CA. His first novel\, Silence the Bird\, Silence the Keeper\, won him the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. His stories have appeared in journals in the U.S. and abroad\, and he is a regular contributor to LitReactor. Rosales currently lives in Denver\, where he is the fiction editor for SpringGun Press and a PhD candidate at DU. His second novel\, Gods on the Lam\, is forthcoming Summer 2016.\n\n\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-stephen-graham-jones-christopher-rosales-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/speculationscolorfinalCORRECTED.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T161843 CREATED:20151119T215213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151119T215213Z UID:10005169-1454009400-1454014800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:William D. Adams: "'Wicked Problems': The Humanities in the Time of STEM" DESCRIPTION:UCSC Institute for Humanities Research presents:\n“Wicked Problems“: The Humanities in the Time of STEM\n15th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture by William D. Adams\,\nChairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities\nWilliam D. Adams\, NEH ChairmanPhoto by Fred Field\, courtesy of Colby College\nDr. William D. Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama as the 10th Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. Dr. Adams previously served as President of Colby College in Waterville\, Maine from 2000 until June 2014\, and as President of Bucknell University from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President and Secretary of Wesleyan University from 1993 to 1995\, and was Program Coordinator of the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University from 1986 to 1988. Earlier in his career\, he held various teaching positions at Stanford University\, Santa Clara University\, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Adams served in the Vietnam War as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In 1977\, he became a Fulbright Scholar and conducted research at the École des Hautes Études and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris\, France. Dr. Adams received a B.A. from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n*Wicked Problems\, a phrase introduced in 1967 by C. West Churchman\, denotes a problem that is resistant to resolution\, rather than evil. \nComplimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot.\nFree and open to the public. Space is limited\, registration is required. \nWe have reached maximum capacity with a growing waiting list for this event.\nTo be added to the waiting list please email specialevents@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5003. \nVIDEO:\n \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maitra-lecture-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Adams_WebPoster_FNL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T161844 CREATED:20160119T211727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T211727Z UID:10006330-1454070600-1454076000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Whitney Devos DESCRIPTION:Whitney Devos \n“After Lives\, After Palimpsests: Aimé Césaire & Claudia Rankine’s (Caribbean) ‘American Lyrics’ “ \nMy project seeks to frame certain forms of poetry as attempts at experimental\, non-linear historiography\, examining the ways in which lyric and documentary impulses—so often pitted against one another critically—are intertwined from the inception of documentary poetics\, an\nemerging multi-genre’d genre I read as quintessentially “American”: North\, South\, and Central. \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\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-whitney-devos-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FFPoster_W2016-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260425T161844 CREATED:20151209T215605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T215605Z UID:10006309-1454083200-1454090400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shaul Bassi: "Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto\, 1516-2016" DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto of Venice\, founded 500 years ago\, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock\, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641)\, as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present. \nShaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. His research\, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare\, postcolonial studies (India and Africa)\, and Jewish studies. He has published Le metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di un’etnicità immaginaria (Grafis\, 2000) and edited an Italian critical edition of Otello (Marsilio\, 2009). Recent publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi\, Ashgate\, 2011)\, Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe\, Routledge\, 2011); Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place\, ‘Race’\, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming. He is currently involved in multiple literary and cultural projects related to the 500th anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016).\n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, Shakespeare Workshop\, Italian Studies\, Cowell College\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shaul-bassi-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ShylockVsSophia-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR