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SUMMARY:The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
DESCRIPTION:“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko \nDuring the high days of modernization fever\, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly\, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes\, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom\, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity\, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years. \n\nSasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She is an alumnus of UCSC (BA in History and German Studies\, 1997) and received her PhD in History from New York University. She has been living and working in Germany since 2008. Her research interests include the history of motorization\, industrialization\, business administration\, and leisure. She currently lives in Hamburg\, Germany.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-devils-wheels-men-and-motorcycling-in-the-weimar-republic-2/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
DESCRIPTION:The Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication\, Enchanting the Desert\, and discuss the work with a group of faculty\, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization\, representation and analysis of spatial questions. \n*Event will be hosted at the Digital Scholarship Commons  at the McHenry Library ground level. \nClick here for more information
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spatial-humanities-digital-humanities-reading-group-enchanting-the-desert-2/
LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry  Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T171500
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SUMMARY:Jordi Aladro "Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta"
DESCRIPTION:Desde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina\, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese\, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos\, fantasía de misóginos\, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad\, la cristiandad la ha representado como espejo y reflejo de sus contradicciones. \n  \nJordi Aladro-Font is a professor of Spanish literature in the Literature Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is most recently the author of Fray Blas y Verdú\, San Raimundo de Peñafort y La Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2012) and Pedro de Chaves\, Libro de la Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2009). \n  \n*This talk will be in Spanish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jordi-aladro-maria-magdalena-de-la-santa-a-la-prostituta-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:20161201T122000
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SUMMARY:WHAT GOES UP\, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness\, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies.\n\nAK Thompson\nEpistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization \nThursday\, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM 210; UCSC\n+\nFriday\, DECEMBER 2 | 6-8pm | SUB ROSA 703 Pacific Ave\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nSince the visual turn in the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century\, images have become important points of engagement both as objects and as modes of analysis. For this reason\, along with its 50+ entries exploring the keywords used by contemporary activists\, Keywords for Radicals (AK Press 2016) incorporates data visualization to show how the “vocabulary” shared by radicals constitutes a kind of self-supporting small world network. \nSuch visualizations can help readers to map how the project’s vocabulary “works” and how struggles over word usage and meaning might most effectively be carried out. But while data visualization of this kind can be useful\, it also raises significant epistemological questions about the relationship between representation and what’s real. \nIn this presentation\, Keywords for Radicals editor AK Thompson will discuss the theoretical and aesthetic foundations of the project’s data visualization in order to evaluate the promise and perils of this technique in the age of the infographic. \nAK Thompson got kicked out of high school for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist\, writer\, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University\, his publications include Black Bloc\, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012\, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1865000727120347/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-goes-up-must-come-down-contemporary-activist-scholarship-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:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
DESCRIPTION:“Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”\nCleo Woelfle-Erskine\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nEcologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction\, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies\, even or especially among more-than-human others dying because of human (in)action? I search for signs of resistant ‘world making’ (Munoz) in ephemeral moments where scientist were able to speak their grief at extinction and love for their study species\, through three cases: (1) scientists’ field photos and captions circulated during a twitter #cuteoff\, (2) my own encounters with dead salmon during ecological field studies\, and (3) “Tell A Salmon Your Troubles\,” an interactive performance in which scientist confessed their troubles about data\, habitat loss\, and extinction to a silent yet responsive salmon character. I explore resonance between queer and trans theory and indigenous theory that foregrounds multispecies ethics and relational practices\, and consider how field ecologist can challenge settler ontologies and epistemologies embedded in scientific and environmental management practices. \nDr.Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is an ecologist\, hydrologist\, writer\, and scholar of water\, working with mentor Karen Barad to explore queer\, transgender\, and decolonial possibilities for ecological science. In July 2017\, he will join the faculty of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington\, Seattle as Assistant Professor of Equity and Environmental Justice. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\, “Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\, “Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,  “Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-cleo-woelfle-erskine-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:Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational\, Healing\, and Radical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Restorative Justice: A Relational\, Healing\, and Radical Practice \nFania Davis will discuss Restorative Justice origins\, principles\, practices\, and critical issues\, with a focus on the ongoing project in Oakland\, California. She will address RJ’s origins in indigenous cosmology as well as its kinship with feminist and relational theory. The talk will also explore RJ’s intersections with abolitionism\, #BlackLivesMatter\, and movements to end sexual violence. \n \nBaskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational\, Healing\, and Radical Practice 12.1.16 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos: by Steve Kurtz\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nFania Davis\, Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)\nAbout Fania: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) Executive Director\, Fania Davis\, is an African-American woman\, long-time social justice activist\, a restorative justice scholar and professor\, and a civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge. Coming of age in Birmingham\, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era\, the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing crystallized within Fania’s passionate commitment to social transformation. For the next decades\, she was active in the civil rights\, Black liberation\, women’s\, prisoners’\, peace\, socialist\, anti-imperialist\, anti-racial violence and anti-apartheid movements. After receiving her law degree from University of California\, Berkeley in 1979\, Fania practiced almost 27 years as a civil rights trial lawyer. During the late 1990’s\, she entered a Ph.D. program in indigenous studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, and apprenticed with traditional healers around the globe\, particularly in Africa. Fania has since taught Restorative Justice and Indigenous Peacemaking at graduate and undergraduate levels.  Founding Director of RJOY\, Fania has also served as counsel to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Honors include the Ubuntu Service to Humanity award\, the Maloney award recognizing exceptional contributions in youth-based restorative justice\, World Trust’s Healing Justice award. She was recently named by the Los Angeles Times as a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. Fania is also a mother\, grandmother\, dancer\, and practitioner of yoga. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Peggy Downes Baskin Endowed Lecture in Ethics: \nPeggy Downes Baskin\, PhD is an author\, university professor\, photograph and philanthropist. She graduated from Vassar Magna cum laude in 1953. Thirty years later she earned a doctoral degree in politics from the Claremont Graduate school of Government. She went on to infuse her professional career at Santa Clara University and The University of California\, Santa Cruz with her core interests\, originating courses on The Politics of Aging\, Women & Power\, and Presidential Management Styles. \nPeggy and her husband Jack Baskin generously endowed a humanities fund in honor of her longtime interest in ethical issues across the disciplines\, the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics. “There are so many areas in which ethical problems arise—in journalism\, politics\, medicine—and the endowment emphasizes the need to address these issues in a cross-disciplinary context\,” Peggy said.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-with-fania-davis-3/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nThe 9 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward. \nIHR Public Fellows: \nDavid Donley\, Philosophy (Santa Cruz County Jail)\nKendra Dority\, Literature (Public Scholar funded by IHR and UCHRI and associated with the UC Davis Mellon-funded program)\nAshley Herum\, Literature (Santa Cruz Shakespeare)\nKara Hisatake\, Literature (Japanese American Museum of San Jose)\nSarah Papazoglakis\, Literature (California Humanities)\nKatie Trostel\, Literature (The Center for the Study of the Holocaust & Religious Minorities in Oslo)\nVivian Underhill\, Feminist Studies (Northern Alaska Environmental Center)\nClaire Urbanski\, Feminist Studies (Arizona State Museum)\nTaylor Wondergem\, Feminist Studies (Cabrillo College) \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below. \n  \nLoading… \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss:\npossible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-meet-our-public-fellows-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
DESCRIPTION:Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture\, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing’s concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African Studies takes part in a half-day symposium on labor mobility and precarity with Alejandro Grimson of Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and Biao Xiang of the University of Oxford on Tuesday\, February 7\, 2017\, at the Merrill Cultural Center. \nSession II of Non-citizenship focuses on global labor mobility and rising precarity\, two concepts that highlight the broad and tiered spaces between citizen and non-citizen and their consequences. Linking labor mobility and precarity and holding them in dynamic tension is the notion of denizenship (residence without citizenship). Precarity—the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion—is also central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens\, something short of full members. They are differentially incorporated into host societies that desire their labor\, but reject their presence. From Irish helots\, to Chinese “coolies\,” to Mexican Braceros\, to Silicon Valley’s high-tech guest workers\, mobile laborers with limited rights face new opportunities abroad\, along with new forms of vulnerability\, contingency\, and expendability. Meanwhile\, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of labor precarity as social rights (for example\, education\, health care\, and retirement protection) and access to their benefits are increasingly privatized and made contingent. \n*Steve McKay\, Associate Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, will moderate the seminar with Professor Paret. \n  \n\nMarcel Paret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah and Senior Research Associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research examines the politics of class formation and how they vary over time and across space. He is especially interested in globalization and marketization\, race and migration\, labor and social movements\, protest and community politics\, and the causes and consequences of precarity. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of “Politics of Precarity: Critical Engagements with Guy Standing\,” a speical issue of Global Labor Journal (Vol. 7\, No. 2 [2016]). \nSteve McKay is an internationally renowned scholar of labor\, migration\, globalization\, and race; and author of the award-winning Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands: The Politics of High-tech Production in the Philippines (Cornell University/ILR Press\, 2006) and co-editor with Sukanya Bannerjee and Aims McGuinness of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana University Press\, 2012). He is the principal investigator of Working for Dignity\, a project on low-wage labor in Santa Cruz County\, and is now working on a study of the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County. In addition to serving on the CLRC Steering Committee\, he directs the Center for Labor Studies and is also a co-principal investigator of Non-citizenship. \n  \n\nPlease make sure to register here by Monday November 21\,2016.  \nAttendees are also asked to read the following essays prior to the seminar: \nGuy Standing\, “Denizens and the Precariat\,” in A Precariat Charter:  From Denizens to Citizens (London:  Bloomsbury Academic\, 2014)\, 1-32. \nMarcel Paret\, “Politics of Solidarity and Agency in an Age of Precarity\,” Global Labor Journal Vol. 7\, No. 2 (2016): 174-188. \nJudith Butler\, “Performativity\, Precarity and Sexual Politics\,” AIBR Vol. 4\, No. 3 (2009): 1-13.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-precarity-a-seminar-with-marcel-paret-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
DESCRIPTION:“Writing Hawai’i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain’s Letter’s s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation” \nThis portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai’i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in\, and imaginings of\, Hawai’i as a space for continuing expansion westward. In viewing the letters through the lens of cartography\, their function as re-making Hawai’i into an American space by re-drawing the imagined boundaries of the US to extend to the islands highlights the importance of narrating place as an essential step in the violence of colonial inclusion via dis-recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\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. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stelder\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-nicole-vandermeer-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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