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SUMMARY:Israeli Music Extravaganza!
DESCRIPTION:Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! \nMonday\, March 7 at 8:30pm\n@ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall\nDoors open at 8:00pm \nDrums: Gary Kehoe\nGuitars: Nelsen Hutchison\nBass: Etienne David Franc\nSaxophones: Anne Stafford\nKeyboard: Avi Tchamni\nPercussion: Noam Harel \nThe show is FREE for all \nFor more information\, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/israeli-music-extravaganza-3/
LOCATION:Porter/Kresge Dining Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T140000
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SUMMARY:Sugar Beets\, Biocolonialism\, and Memory in the American West
DESCRIPTION:The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History \nBernadette Jeanne Pérez\nPh.D. Candidate\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities \nWhat can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science\, capitalism\, and American settler colonialism? In this talk\, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals\, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution\, and mid-twentieth century industry histories\, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers\, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples\, subjugate non-white workers\, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945\, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold\,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism\, race\, and Manifest Destiny. \nBernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation\, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields\, 1900-1945\,” is a social\, cultural\, environmental\, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change\, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award\, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sugar-beets-biocolonialism-and-memory-in-the-american-west-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, History of Art & Visual Culture\, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: \nUrsula Biemann \nSwiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015)\, addressing\, among related works and topics\, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics and history\, as well as her essayistic storytelling and creative imaging. Set in the Shetland Islands\, Greenland’s Disco Bay and on a tiny Caribbean Island\, and occurring at the end of the 2\,500 year old Holocene epoch\, the video’s relational eco-geography captures moments of aquatic flows through invisible ocean streams and melting Arctic icescapes\, and reads this interconnected system as both a hyperobject (one of an expanded geo-space-time\, as Timothy Morton writes)\, and a modeling of intensive science and virtual philosophy (as according to Manuel De Landa). This event will compliment Biemann’s presentation in the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium the following afternoon:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/subatlantic-a-screening-and-presentation-3/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160308T193000
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SUMMARY:Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford\, Professor Emeritus\, History of Consciousness. \nMarch 8\, 2016\, 7:30pm\n Doors open at 7pm.\n Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) \nThe University of California\, Santa Cruz\, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay\, is famously beautiful. But the usual language of aesthetics does little to reveal what makes the place extraordinary. The lecture\, based on years of walking the rugged site\, uses color photography and historical research to explore the interaction of architecture and ecology. It traces UCSC’s experience of environmental design through changing times and ponders its continued significance. \nComplimentary parking is available in the Performing Arts parking lot. Parking attendants will be onsite that evening to issue permits. \nFor questions or accommodation requirements\, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at (831) 459-5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/discovering-the-uc-santa-cruz-campus-by-james-clifford-3/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families\, Unstable Molecules\, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four'”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: \n“Flame On!”: Nuclear Families\, Unstable Molecules\, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four \nDR. RAMZI FAWAZ\, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON \nReleased to popular acclaim in 1961\, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who gain extraordinary powers when cosmic rays alter their physiology\, respectively granting them control over living flame\, invisibility\, impenetrable rock-like skin\, and physical pliability. In this talk\, Ramzi Fawaz explores the surprisingly queer evolution of the series\, which used the mutated bodies of its heroes to depict the transformation of the bread-winning father\, doting wife and bickering male siblings of the 1950s nuclear family into icons of 1960s radicalism: the left-wing intellectual\, the liberal feminist\, the political activist\, and the potential queer. \nAbout the Author: Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press\, 2016)\, which received the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship award for best first book manuscript in LGBT Studies. Dr. Fawaz’s research has been published in American Literature\, Callaloo\, and GLQ.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-ramzi-fawaz-flame-on-nuclear-families-unstable-molecules-and-the-queer-history-of-the-fantastic-four-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:The Cosmopolitical Forest
DESCRIPTION:Arts Division\, Film & Digital Media\, History of Art & Visual Culture\, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: \nUrsula Biemann \nBased on comprehensive research\, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources\, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in these massive physical encroachments. Her recent fieldwork has taken her to vital forested regions in the Americas. Engaging with the political ecology of oil and water\, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality. Discussing her artistic practice in the projects Deep Weather and Forest Law\, Biemann particularly raises questions regarding the entanglement of aesthetics\, ecology and geopolitics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-cosmopolitical-forest-3/
LOCATION:Porter College\, Room D245
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SUMMARY:Anna Tsing: "The Mushroom at the End of the World"
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series\, “Book Talks\,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from “The Mushroom at the End of the World.” \nA tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes\, “The Mushroom at the End of the World” follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. In all its contradictions\, the matsutake mushroom offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi\, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination in to the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes\, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth. \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC and a Neils Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark\, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is author of “Friction” and “In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-tsing-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T160000
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SUMMARY:Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Claude Steele\, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists\,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity. \nClaude Steele\, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California\, Berkeley\, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat\, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups\, being threatened by different stereotypes\, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele’s recent book\, “Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do\,” published in 2010\, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of “stereotype threat”. \nLight refreshments will precede the lecture. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stereotype-threat-how-it-affects-us-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-3/
LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160310T163000
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SUMMARY:Sex Radical\, Afro-Fututrist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
DESCRIPTION:Sex Radical\, Afro-Fututrist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. \nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: \nSex Radical\, Afro-Futurist\, and Grand Master of Science Fiction\, SAMUEL R. DELANY\, Reads from His Work \nThursday\, March 10\, 2016\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz\nFree and open to the public \n4:30PM Doors Open\n5PM Reception & Book signing\n6PM Reading \nSamuel R. Delany is an American science-fiction novelist and critic whose highly imaginative works address sexual\, racial\, and social issues\, heroic quests\, and the nature of language. Born in New York City’s Harlem in 1942\, Delany was the first African American writer to achieve note through commercial american science fiction. He is the author of the non-fiction books Times Square Red\, Times Square Blue (1999)\, and About Writing (2005). His novels include Nova (1968)\, Dhalgren (1975)\, The Return to Nevèrÿon Fantasy Series (1979-87)\, The Mad Man (1995)\, Dark Reflections (2007)\, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012)\, and Phallos (2013). He has won the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award. In 2002 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and\, this year\, into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master of Science Fiction and lives in Pennsylvania. Last year he retired from teaching creative writing at Temple University. \nEvent sponsored by: UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Living Writers Series\, Humanities Division\, Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nJoin the Discussion\n#ihrevents\nFacebook \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/samuel-delany-3/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160311T123000
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
DESCRIPTION:Bristol Cave La-Costa \n“Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” \nWhile much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented\, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act\, which excluded “immoral” immigrants\, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women. \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-bristol-cave-la-costa-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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