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SUMMARY:Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
DESCRIPTION:EVENT PODCAST:\n \nThis conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500\, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and time. We bring together representations of the ghetto in art\, literature\, and photography while embracing the possibilities of digital methodologies. By conceiving of the ghetto as a “memory space that travels” rather than as a static museal site we open up the constellation of representations in which the Ghetto of Venice is situated in the 21st century. \nProgram:\n12:15-1:00 PM – Opening Remarks: by Dean Tyler Stovall presented by Professor Murray Baumgarten\n“The Venice Ghetto at 500: Situating the Conversation” \n1:00-1:30 PM – Skype conversation with Marjorie Agosín\nQuestions and Answers. Closing with Poetry Reading\nKatie Trostel (Ph.D. Candidate in Literature\, University of California Santa Cruz)  \n1:30-1:45 PM – Coffee Break\n1:45-3:15 PM – Panel #1: “The Ghetto as Theater”\nDr. Ariane Helou (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Voice and Theatricality in Leone de’ Sommi’s Dialoghi.” \nDr. Samuel Arkin (Lecturer in Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Hath not a Jew a home? Shylock in Venice\, Venice in Shylock?” \nRespondent: Professor Emeritus Harry Berger\, Jr. (Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)  \n3:15-3:30 PM – Coffee Break\n3:30-5:00 PM – Panel #2: “Mapping Liminal Jewish Space”\nAmanda Sharick (Ph.D. candidate in Literature\, University of California\, Riverside)\n“’Beating Vainly at Closed Doors’: Tracing and Transposing the Recurring Ghetto in the Works of Lady Katie Magnus\, Amy Levy and Israel Zangwill.” \nProfessor Alma Heckman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Porosity and Transgression: Modern Understandings of the Moroccan Mellah and Jews Apart.” \nRespondent: Francesco Spagnolo (Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California\, Berkeley) \n5:00-5:15 PM – Break\n5:15-6:30 PM – Round Table Discussion “The Venice Ghetto at 500”: Moderated by Professor Murray Baumgarten\nDr. Rachel Deblinger (CLIR Post Doctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nProfessor Bruce Thompson (Jewish Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nProfessor Emeritus Peter Kenez (History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nProfessor Nathaniel Deutsch (History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)  \n6:30 PM – Reception to follow\nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nSponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, the Literature Department\, and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-conference-liminal-spaces-ii-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:Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué.\n\n\nIn the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation\, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices\, together with their underlying conceptual models\, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context. \n\n  \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-16-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T180000
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SUMMARY:Todd Presner: "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities"
DESCRIPTION:2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner\n“The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities” \nWith more than 52\,000 testimonies\, 100\,000+ hours of video footage\, and a database of some 6 million records\, the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is the largest archive of Holocaust testimony in the world. But more than an archive of eyewitness testimony\, it is also an information management system\, a patented digital library\, and a generalizable database for indexing and cataloguing genocide. This talk examines how forms of computation – specifically databases\, data structures\, algorithms\, and information visualizations – function as specific modes of historical emplotment that raise significant ethical questions. Through an investigation of the entirety of the Shoah Foundation’s database\, Presner shows how computational analysis can be “read against itself” in order to reveal certain assumptions and patterns in the data. In so doing\, he argues for the development of an “ethics of the algorithm” based on insights from the Jewish ethical tradition. The talk will combine his research in Holocaust Studies\, history/memory\, and Digital Humanities. \nTodd Samuel Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA\, where he is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His most recent books are: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture\, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press\, 2016) and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities\, with co-authors David Shepard and Yoh Kawano (Harvard University Press\, 2014).\nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/todd-presner-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:Book Talks - Gil Anidjar: "Blood: A Critique of Christianity"
DESCRIPTION:Blood\, according to Gil Anidjar\, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis\, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining\, sometimes even defining Western Culture\, politics\, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism\, capitalism\, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries\, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address\, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics\, economy and theology\, and kinship and race. \nDr. Anidjar is professor of Religion\, Comparative Literature\, and Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew\, The Arab: A History of the Enemy and Semites: Race\, Religion\, Literature. \nUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series\, Book Talks\, which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talks-gil-anidjar-blood-a-critique-of-christianity-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T160000
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SUMMARY:Intro to Sikhs Guest Lecture: Shinder Thandi speaks on Global Sikh Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Shinder Thandi\n \n  \nShinder Thandi is a Global & International Studies Professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He specializes in Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora\, Political Economy of Development\, Emerging Economies with special focus on Indian and Chinese Development and Evolving China-India-Africa Relations. \nHe is the founder-editor of the Journal of Punjab Studies\, in publication since 1994. The Journal has been published by the Center for Sikh & Punjab Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2004. Also one of the founders and later Convenor of the Punjab Research Group which was established in the UK in 1984. \nHe has published widely on Indian\, Punjabi and Sikh migration and on transnational practices of Sikhs\, especially Sikh diaspora’s homeland relations. He is co-author (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri) of A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent\, (Greenwood Press\, 2007). He has co-edited two books: Punjabi Identity in a Global Context [ed. with Pritam Singh\, OUP\, 1999) and People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post Colonial Migration [edited with Ian Talbot\, OUP\, 2004). He is currently working on a book with Professor Gurinder Singh Mann on Global Sikhism.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intro-to-sikhs-class-visitor-cres-70s-3/
LOCATION:Cowell\, Room 134
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160225T180000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Chang-rae Lee
DESCRIPTION:Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995)\,  A Gesture Life (1999)\, Aloft (2004)\, The Surrendered (2010)\, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist\, and On Such A Full Sea (2014)\, which won the 2015 Heartland Prize for Fiction  and was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.\n\nHis other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the American Book Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award\, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award\, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award\, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\, and many other publications.  In 2000 he was named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 Writers for the 21st Century.\n\nHe has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and The American Academy in Rome.\n\nChang-rae Lee was born in Seoul\, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy\, Yale\, and the University of Oregon. He is Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.\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-chang-rae-lee-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T123000
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Keith Spencer
DESCRIPTION:Keith Spencer \n“What We Talk About When We Talk To Aliens” \nThroughout the history of the search for ET\, strategies for sending radio signals towards potentially inhabited planetary systems have always made unscientific assumptions and projections about alien culture\, language\, society and even economy. In my presentation I will deconstruct some recent scientific attempts to actively send out radio signals to other star systems and the hegemonic assumptions that are tied to the content of these radio compositions. \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-keith-spencer-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection: February 26 – May 22\, 2016
DESCRIPTION:Explore one of the largest private collections of African American art and artifacts. \nSpanning 400 years of history\, the Kinsey Collection reflects a rich cultural heritage. Includes work by Romare Bearden\, Elizabeth Catlett\, Jacob Lawrence\, and Richard Mayhew alongside archival material related to Frederick Douglass\, Zora Neale Hurston\, and Malcolm X. \nJoin us for a MAH Members Only Reception from 5:30-7:30\, and a public opening from 7:30-9pm. There will be food\, refreshments and a welcoming by Khalil\, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey\, the show’s curators at 6:30PM the Members Reception. Salif Kone a singer\, songwriter\, and multi-instrumentalist from Burkina Faso\, West Africa will play 5:30-6:30 and at 7:15PM. \nThe MAH is providing free admission to this exhibition for all Santa Cruz County K-12 students\, UCSC and Cabrillo College students. Just show your ID at the desk Feb 27-May 22\, Tuesday-Sunday\, 11-5\, to get in for free. Note: Free Admission does not apply during Third Friday festivals. \nSelf-guided tour materials also available for school groups and visitors\, click here to book a self-guided tour. \nPresented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, the Art Forum\, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research and Cabrillo College. For more information visit: santacruzmah.org\n \n\nJoin us for these exhibition-related events:\nAT THE MAH: \nOpening Reception\nFriday Feb 26th\nMembers/Invites only 5:30-7:30pm\nOpen to the Public 7:30-9pm \nMarch 1st Friday Opening\nMarch 4th\, 5-9PM\n5:30-6PM Panel discussion about The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection with Michael Watkins from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Simba Kenyata from the Santa Cruz NAACP.\n5-9PM Make a protest sign to fight for what you believe in. \n3rd Friday Artivism\nMarch 18th\, 6-9PM\nExplore activism through creative forms of expression: music\, dance\, poetry\, art\, food and more. Artivism is co-presented by MAH’s teen program\, Subjects to Change. \nCommunity Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom\nMarch 20\, 3-4:30PM \nCommunity Rental: Project Pollinate Presents Songs of Freedom: A Journey Through the Kinsey African American History Exhibit and a Birthday Tribute to Paul Robeson\nApril 8th\, 6-9PM \nCommunity Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom\nApril 9\, 3-4:30PM \n3rd Friday Beyond Borders\nApril 15th\, 6-9PM\nHow do we break barriers? We organize. We share stories. We speak out. Break through borders with inspiring local organizations fighting for political\, cultural and social justice. \nCommunity Rental: Rising Root Wellness Presents Resuscitating Ancestral Power\nApril 29th\, 6-9PM \nCommunity Rental: Barrios Unidos Presents Jazz For Freedom\nMay 14th\, 3-4:30PM \nCommunity Rental: UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents\, A Night at the Museum: A Story of Influence\nMay 18th\, 6PM\nA public conversation with Ethan Michaeli\, author of the acclaimed new book “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America”\, and David Anthony\, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Reception and book signing to follow talk. Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCOMMUNITY EVENTS AROUND TOWN:\nFire in the Heart at Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\nMarch 5th \, 7:30PM \nSanta Cruz Juneteenth Celebration at Laurel Park behind the Louden Nelson Community Center\nJune 11th\, 12-5PM
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-kinsey-african-american-art-history-collection-february-26th-2016-may-22nd-2016-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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