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SUMMARY:Acting Improvisation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, March 5\, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop\, focussing on Shakespeare\, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students\, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way “This workshop is a journey into the language and spirit of improvised Shakespeare.  The beauty and poetry of the language will be explored\, while at the same time we will emphasize simplicity and above all communication.” \nRegistration/Information\,. email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acting-improvisation-workshop-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170307T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170307T150000
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SUMMARY:Slow Seminar on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:2016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS \nRACE\, VIOLENCE\, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE \nThe contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change\, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era\, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems\, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and animal domestication\, and to more recent histories of European colonialism\, transatlantic slavery and capitalism. Via a year-long slow seminar and a series of public events\, we hope to enrich conversations about the Anthropocene – as term\, concept\, and historical era – by bringing together diverse bodies of scholarship\, in particular decolonial and postcolonial theory. This re-politicizes the Anthropocene as an object of study\, making race and empire\, capitalism and colonialism\, and social inequality and violence central to the story of ecological transformation. \nSEMINAR 2: \nTuesday March 7th\, 1-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 408 \nSeminar readings: \nElizabeth Povinelli\, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press\, 2016) \nNB: We will be reading the whole book. Copies have been ordered at the Literary Guillotine and can be purchased there. \nSponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/race-violence-inequality-and-the-anthropocene-seminar-2-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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SUMMARY:IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1
DESCRIPTION:IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS \nDeadline: April 30\, 2017 \nAmount: Up to $5\,000 \nNumber of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) \nThese fellowships will 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. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below. \nBefore applying\, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below: \nSession I. March 8\, 10am\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nSession II. March 9\, 2pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 402 \nMore information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-public-fellows-info-session-1-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled for March 15\, 2017
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-all-the-world-on-a-board-chess-and-cultural-crossings-in-dante-and-boccaccio-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:20170308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T180000
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SUMMARY:Alan Craig: "VR\, AR\, and the Brain: Teaching\, Learning\, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nAlan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality\, augmented reality\, and personal fabrication\, as well as educational applications of data mining\, visualization\, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality\, Developing Virtual Reality Applications\, and Understanding Augmented Reality)\, and holds three patents.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alan-craig-vr-ar-and-the-brain-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:20170309T110000
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SUMMARY:Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days
DESCRIPTION:Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful\, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott\, Chair\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Isaac Blacksin\, Ph.D. candidate\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJames Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000\, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives\, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/why-im-reading-joseph-conrad-these-days-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:Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
DESCRIPTION:Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge\, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions\, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales\, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies\, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies\, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields. \nZachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine\, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism\, Communism\, Islam\, and the Egyptian Working Class\, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association\, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America\, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zachary-lockman-adventures-in-field-building-on-the-history-of-area-studiesmiddle-east-studies-in-the-united-states-2/
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:IHR Public Fellows Info Session 2
DESCRIPTION:IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS \nDeadline: April 30\, 2017 \nAmount: Up to $5\,000 \nNumber of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) \nThese fellowships will 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. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below. \nBefore applying\, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below: \nSession I. March 8\, 10am\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nSession II. March 9\, 2pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 402 \nMore information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-public-fellows-info-session-2-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T185000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Urayoán Noel
DESCRIPTION:Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.   Born and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\, a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish\, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo\, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2 \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-urayoan-noel-2/
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:20170310T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T120000
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SUMMARY:Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism\, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media\, performance\, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play\, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use of social media among activist DREAMers and in the Haitian-Dominican context\, expressed in the #Latinx hashtag and Dominican Twitter. Another thread considers “eccentric archives of the Latina/o Sixties” by comparing two poetic movements\, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy. Although centered in California and New York respectively\, both groups of poet-performers imagined sites of organization outside the nation-state: “Califas” and “Nuyorico.” Finally\, Professor Noel considers the changing work of the space of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from the 1970s to the present\, from anti-gentrification to anti-globalization movements. \nPastries\, coffee\, and tea will be served. \n  \nPlease register here prior to attending this event. \n  \nUrayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging in and to the U.S. nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations. \nBorn and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Professor Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\,  a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014); and several books mostly in Spanish. Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo. He is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \n  \nThe seminar is co-sponsored by the Literature Department\, Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetics-of-non-citizenship-a-seminar-with-urayoan-noel-2/
LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge
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SUMMARY:PhD+: Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources
DESCRIPTION:Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources \nWhat does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And\, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues\, including depositing your dissertation\, data management\, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss: \n\nThe Presidential Open Access Policy\, and how it pertains to graduate research\nPublishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)\nand\, Open Access as Social Justice\n\nTake the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL\, digital research methodologies\, citation software\, library-based subscriptions\, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more. \n  \nLunch will be served\, as always. \n  \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: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-open-access-library-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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