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SUMMARY:Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
DESCRIPTION:The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. \nFeaturing: \nChristopher Chen\, Literature\nJim Clifford\, History of Consciousness\nChristopher Connery\, Literature\nT.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies\nCarla Freccero\, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies\nSusan Gilman\, Literature\nAsad Haider\, History of Consciousness\nDonna Haraway\, History of Consciousness\nSandra Harvey\, Politics\nGail Hershatter\, History\nLaurie Palmer\, Art\nWarren Sack\, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media \n  \nCoffee and refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conjuncture-crisis-critique-a-symposium-on-cultural-studies-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:Susan Gilson Miller: "Vichy on Trial: Cooperation\, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco"
DESCRIPTION:Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday\, May 16\, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman’s course “The Holocaust and the Arab World” (HIS 1850). \nWhen: May 16\, 2017 – 3:20-4:55pm \nLocation: Cowell Acad Classroom 113 \nThis event is free and open to the public \nProfessor Miller was formerly head of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is currently a  Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Miller has held Visiting Lecturer appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev\, the lnstitut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) at the Ecole  des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris\, and at the Woolf Institute of the University of Cambridge. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College\, she has an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of the Modern Middle East. Her  research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council\, the National Endowment of the Humanities\, the Fulbright Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\,  the American Institute of Maghribi Studies and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her book\, The History of Modern Morocco\, 1830-2000\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) was a Finalist for the Leon Carl Brown Best Book award of the American Institute of Maghribi Studies in 2014. Her research interests center on colonial and post-colonial histories in the Maghrib\, minorities\, urbanism\, and the history of travel and migration. Prof. Miller is a  frequent visitor to Morocco\, where she spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her current project is about the life and times of  Hélène Cazes Benatar\, Morocco’s first woman lawyer and human rights activist\, who rescued thousands of Jews and non-Jews during the period of Vichy rule in North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vichy-on-trial-cooperation-collaboration-and-confrontation-in-wartime-morocco-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
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SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics"
DESCRIPTION:Socratic Economics \nMartin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens.  His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action. \nMartin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics at UCSC. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-devecka-socratic-economics-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T160000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
DESCRIPTION:What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need\nSusan O’Neal Stryker\, Associate Professor\, University of Arizona  \nHistory is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk\, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title\, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today\, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake\, Stryker contends\, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets\, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real. \n  \nSusan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona\, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative. \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-2-2/
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:20170518T090000
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SUMMARY:The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m.\nDeanna Shemek\, Chair\, Literature Department\nPanel One: Translating Tradition\n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Christopher Chen\nVictoria Jones: Ion\nElli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno\, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles \nJessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation \nAlexander Pérez: The Nation in You \nPanel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nModerator: Martin Devecka \nMarcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems \nSavanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner \nPang Yang Embellishing Lia \nFREE! LUNCH BUFFET\n12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nPanel Three: Practices of Reading\n12:45 – 1:45 p.m.\nModerator: Amanda Smith \nSarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction\nSamantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries\nHarold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft \nPanel Four: Rock and Romanticism\n2:00 – 3:00 p.m.\nModerator: Rob Wilson \nSylvester Cruz On the English Disease\nIsaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison\nJohn Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman” \nPanel Five: The Time of Slavery\n3:15 – 4:15 p.m.\nModerator: Dorian Bell\nIsla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time\nFiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives\nCarina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power \nClosing Remarks 4:15 p.m.\nA. Hunter Bivens\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-eighteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-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:Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism"
DESCRIPTION:Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism\,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist\, but that he had now left it behind\, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper\, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not\, or at least not mainly\, a philosophical position\, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first\, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind\, and\, second\, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with. \nAbout:\nMaudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. \nAdvanced Reading:\nThe Will to Power – first 20 pages \nGenealogy of Morality
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maudemarie-clark-nietzsches-nihilism-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nRosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) and two chapbooks:  Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna\, 2003) and  Undocumentary (Dos Press\, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña\, Lourdes Vázquez\, and Lila Zemborain\, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s  Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press\, 2009)\, and poems for  The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. \nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-rosa-alcala-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:20170518T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T220000
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SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
DESCRIPTION:Description:\nThis year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy\, La Folle de Chaillot\, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis\, while Spanish will present Fable\, by Samaniego\, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work\, Happy Dating\, Everyone\, directed by Natasha Samokhina\, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese\, we will present Music of Japan\, directed by Sakae Fujita. \nAdmission Details: \nThere is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots\, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production. \nDates:\nMay 18th – 8:00pm\nMay 19th – 8:00pm\nMay 20th – 8:00pm\nMay 21st  – 8:00pm
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T140000
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
DESCRIPTION:Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture \nIn 1970s Hawai’i\, Pidgin\, also known as Hawai’i Creole english\, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language\, visual culture\, and attitude of the islands\, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii\, which addressed local culture\, politics\, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special\, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so\, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\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. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kara-hisatake-2-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T173000
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SUMMARY:Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton\, Claudia Lopez\, and Tsering Wangmo
DESCRIPTION:  \nWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free\, public forum\, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future. \n  \n Geographies of Imperial Citizenship\nEmily Mitchell-Eaton\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Chicano Latino Research Center \nThis talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders\, pursue employment\, access public benefits and services\, and resist deportation\, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas\, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists. \n  \nThe Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín\, Colombia\nClaudia Lopez\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Sociology \nIn this presentation\, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers\, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín\, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration\, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the life­cycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons\, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs\, to argue that\, across the lifecycle\, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city\, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately\, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship\, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum\, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded. \n  \nBelonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity\nTsering Wangmo\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Literature \nTsering Wangmo’s dissertation\, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora\,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk\, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen\,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist\, and that\, ultimately\, unity was an exclusionary discourse. \n  \nThis free\, public forum is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-finale-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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