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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson\, New York 2140
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140. \n“In the not-so-distant future\, a diverse cast of characters inherit a New York that has been flooded and overwhelmed as a result of the environmental\, economic\, and social disasters we are facing today. New York 2140 is timely and relevant and more realistic than the sci-fi I typically read. Significantly\, it purposes a future in which ethics and moral reasoning are still being undermined by the status quo. I’d recommend reading it with friends!” – Ashley\, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff \nRegister for the event: http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140 \nAs the sea levels rose\, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square\, however\, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader\, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective\, whose work will never disappear — along with the lawyers\, of course. There is the internet star\, beloved by millions for her airship adventures\, and the building’s manager\, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don’t live there\, but have no other home– and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders\, temporary residents on the roof\, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all– and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. New York 2140 is an extraordinary and unforgettable novel\, from a writer uniquely qualified to the story of its future. \nKim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, Fifty Degrees Below\, Sixty Days and Counting\, The Years of Rice and Salt\, and Antarctica. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis\, California.\n“A thoroughly enjoyable exercise in worldbuilding\, written with a cleareyed love for the city’s past\, present\, and future.” ―Kirkus \n“The tale is one of adventure\, intrigue\, relationships\, and market forces…. The individual threads weave together into a complex story well worth the read.” ―Booklist\n“Science fiction is threaded everywhere through culture nowadays\, and it would take an act of critical myopia to miss the fact that Robinson is one of the world’s finest working novelists\, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation.” ―Guardian
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kim-stanley-robinson-new-york-2140-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy\, Shelby Graham\, & Irena Polic
DESCRIPTION:Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art\nHumanities Radio Hour \nClick here to listen online
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-radio-hour-gail-project-with-alan-christy-shelby-irena-polic-2/
LOCATION:KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM
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SUMMARY:Briohny Doyle\, "Postapocalypse Now"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nBriohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin\, the virus\, & the nomad. ​ \nBriohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. Her debut novel\, The Island Will Sink\, is the critically acclaimed first book published by The Lifted Brow. Her first book of nonfiction Adult Fantasy is out through Scribe in 2017. \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/cultural-studies-colloquium-briohny-doyle-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:Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery\, Porter College \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, October 5\, 5:00-7:00 pm\nExhibition run dates:\nThu\, Oct 5\, 2017 to Sat\, Dec 2\, 2017 \nWeekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm. \nClosed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27 \nThe Gail Project is a collaborative\, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is inspired by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1952 by an American Army Captain: Charles Eugene Gail. The photos were generously donated to Special Collections at McHenry Library by Charles’ daughter\, Geri Gail\, and have since been made available for student research. Our team of faculty\, staff\, and undergraduate students at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, are developing a traveling exhibition of Gail’s photographs with an accompanying digital archive that is comprised of the photos\, key texts and documents\, and oral histories from both America and Okinawa. We believe that using the photographs as a lens through which to view this crucial time is relevant to populations throughout Okinawa\, Japan\, the United States and the entire Pacific region\, and we aim to establish a dialogue by shedding light on both historical and contemporary issues. \nThe project emphasizes hands-on research and creation by undergraduate students and as an innovative platform for new educational methods that encourage the use of multimedia\, social media\, archival research and travel. \nThe Gail Project is directed by Professor Alan Christy of the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz and curated by Shelby Graham of the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at Porter College\, UC Santa Cruz. \nGallery hours:\n(through the academic year) \nTuesday – Saturday\, 12–5 p.m. \nWednesday 12-8 p.m. \nFor more information: https://gailproject.ucsc.edu/ \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGailProject \nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegailproject/ \nMedium: https://medium.com/the-gail-project \nTumblr: http://thegailproject.tumblr.com \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/TheGailProject
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opening-reception-the-gail-project-exhibition-an-okinawan-american-dialogue-2/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
DESCRIPTION:Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives\, material significance\, and geography\, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. \nAs a naturalized American\, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects\, food\, architecture\, visual lexicons\, and vernacular languages. For instance\, vernacular Tagalog\, is infused with Spanish and English words\, lending itself to verbal mutation. This malleability result in wordplay and jokes that transform words like Persuading to First wedding\, Tenacious to Tennis Shoes\, and Masturbation to Mass Starvation. His practice draws from the sensibility of the insider and outsider- jumbling signifier\, material\, linguistics\, and site. \nMichael has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum\, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego\, the de Young Museum in San Francisco\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Orange County Museum of Art\, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu\, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston\, Cue Arts Foundation\, and the Asia Society in NY among many others.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-michael-arcega-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World" Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World”\nIn the past decade\, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects\, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative\, have traced epistolary networks that spanned continents and oceans. But what about the cross-cultural movement of textual artifacts that weren’t books or letters? This symposium will explore the limits of book history. At what point does an object shade into being a textual artifact? How can we make space for a less Eurocentric book history by following the itineraries of objects\, like textiles\, tattoos\, or mummies\, which encoded information in ways that differed from the format of book or the letter?\n\n\n\nGuest Speakers:\nChris Heaney – University of Texas\, Austin – “Dead Archives: Inca Bodies as the Lost Founding Texts of Peru?”   – In 1989\, the social anthropologist Paul Connerton highlighted how Western scholarship privileges inscriptive   practices of history—which write\, photograph\, record\, and trap information “long after the human organism has   stopped informing”—over incorporative practices: gestures\, ceremonies\, rituals that invoke and transmit the past and   its continuities via the human body. Inspired by Connerton\, the cultural anthropologist Frank Salomon subsequently   observed that when the Spanish invaded in 1532\, they encountered a Peruvian dead that “transmit[ted] both kind of   messages”: a society headed by the ancestral mummies of Inca emperors and other pre-conquest Andeans who were   seated\, dried\, and dressed as if they were alive—arms posed in authoritative gesture—and paraded in ceremonies   whose commemorative ballads further made legible their sanctity\, nobility\, and orders of descent and importance. This   paper explores how the earliest Spanish managed their illiteracy when faced with those mummies’ inscribed   historicity; it shows how they moved from attempting to inscribe the corpse of Atahualpa as a founding text of   Christian  Peru\, to outright confiscating what we might call the ‘banned books’ of the Inca dead\, the mummies   themselves\, 27 years after the conquest begun. While other scholars have asked what the loss of those mummified   ancestors meant socially and religiously for the Inca and other Andeans\, this paper ultimately asks what their loss as ‘texts’ meant for the foundational histories of Peru written by both Spaniards and Incas between 1533 and the early seventeenth century\, many of which attempted to reproduce the absent and illegible imperial bodies at their core.\n\n\nMairin Odle – University of Alabama – Marin Odle is Assistant Professor of American Studies and teaches courses in Native American Studies and early American culture. Her research interests include   Native-newcomer relations\, the history of the body\, and how selfhood\, experience\, and identity were   narrated in early America. Her current book project investigates how cross-cultural body modification in   early America remade both physical appearances as well as ideas about identity. Focusing on indigenous   practices of tattooing and scalping\, the book traces how these practices were rapidly adopted and   transformed by colonial powers\, making them key sites of cultural contestation. \nProfessor Odle’s talk “Reading Their ‘Marckes’: English Perceptions of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy” explores early English interpretations of Native American tattooing\, focusing on writing and art produced in response to late sixteenth-century voyages. Artists and scholars on such expeditions paid close attention to bodily appearance and inscription. Lines marked on Native bodies were then transferred—and translated—as lines within European books. Colonial observers conceived of indigenous tattooing as an important communication system\, and one that they hoped to employ for their own goals—even as they simultaneously claimed that Natives were people with “no letters”. \n  \nHosted by the Center for World History \nCo-sponsored by the “Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Books School”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-breen-rare-books-conference-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:Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nAshwini Deo\, “Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish” \nAbstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk\, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive to properties of the circumstances at which the truth of the copular sentence is evaluated. On the proposed analysis\, estar presupposes that the prejacent is boundedly true at the evaluation circumstance. The prejacent’s bounded truth at a circumstance i at a given context of use c depends on two conditions: \n(a) there are no-weaker alternative circumstances i′ accessible at c where the prejacent is false\, and \n(b) i is a maximal verifying circumstance at c. \nCentral to the analysis is the notion of a strength ordering over alternative circumstances of evaluation — a circumstantial counterpart to the more familiar ordering over alternative propositions. Assuming that this content is conventionally associated with estar allows for an account of its distinct flavors and readings with a range of predicates. ser is shown to be associated with its own inferences that derive from its status as the presuppositionally weaker\, neutral member of the pair. \nAshwini Deo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. Unless otherwise stated\, talks take place on Fridays in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 4 p.m. during the fall quarter 2017 and at 2:30 p.m. during winter and spring quarters 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-deo-alternative-circumstances-of-evaluation-and-the-serestar-distinction-in-spanish-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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