BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T133000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20171213T194441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T225504Z UID:10006567-1519128000-1519133400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Angus Forbes: "Immersive Interpretation - Exploring Data in Virtual Reality" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nImmersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality\nAngus Forbes (UCSC\, Computational Media) \nForbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies\, such as interactive video walls\, ambisonic theaters\, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets\, including an interactive art installation that explores connections between photographic images and literary themes in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude\, dynamic visualizations of the human brain connectome and protein interaction networks\, and an outdoor museum exhibition that superimposes historical photographs onto relevant architectural features. By taking advantage of the new forms of representation and interaction that these technologies make possible\, we can provide useful interpretations of and new perspectives into the complex systems that that govern\, or perhaps define\, contemporary life. \n  \nDr. Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Computational Media department at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he directs the UCSC Creative Coding lab. His research investigates new forms of visualizing and interacting with complex scientific information; his computational artwork has been featured at museums\, galleries\, and festivals throughout the world. Angus was the general chair of the IEEE VIS Arts Program from 2013 through 2017\, and will serve as the art papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2018. \nClick here for any additional information about Angus’s research and artwork.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angus-forbes-digital-humanities-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AngusinBrooklynDec2017-e1516655521596.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20180206T201925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T230206Z UID:10006590-1519214400-1519219800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jodi Byrd: "Fire & Flood - Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk:\n“Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms” \nCaught within the both/and of dystopic collapse\, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle for colonial dominance. This talk closely reads HBO’s Westworld alongside LeAnne Howe’s Indian Radio Days to consider how procedural elements of technological play produce dystopic visions of American collapse as the failure of indigenous futures. \n  \nJodi Byrd is Associate Professor\, English and Gender & Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Byrd is a Chickasaw decolonial thinker\, writer\, teacher\, and video gamer. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fire-flood-settler-colonialisms-pessimistic-indigenous-futurisms/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jodi-Byrd-2.21.18-flyer-Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T193000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20180219T171235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T171522Z UID:10006595-1519234200-1519241400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet) DESCRIPTION:Crossings Film Series \nOver 2017-18\, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present “Crossings\,” a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary\, “Io sto con la sposa\,” winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films are subtitled and screenings are free and open to the public. \nIo sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet\, 2013) \nTwo outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker Andrea Segre. Shun Li (Zhao Tao) is a thirtysomething single mother from China who has come to Italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. However\, Shun Li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it difficult for her to pay her fees so she can make enough money to bring her son to Italy. She works as a barmaid in a shabby waterfront tavern in the fishing village of Chioggia; there\, she meets Bepi (Rade Serbedzija)\, an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and pens doggerel verse himself. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan\, China’s most celebrated poet\, and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However\, the Chioggia natives make it clear that they don’t approve of Shun Li and Bepi’s budding relationship\, especially given their suspicions about her Chinese heritage. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/io-sono-li-shun-li-poet/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20171129T211008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T230849Z UID:10005438-1519306200-1519311600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Titas Chakraborty: Controlling "Quarrelsome Workers": Boatmen of Bengal\, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition\, 1701-1806 DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for World History presents: \nControlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal\, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition\, 1701-1806 \nTitas Chakraborty URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/controlling-quarrelsome-workers-boatmen-of-bengal-english-east-india-company-state-and-the-global-mobility-transition-1701-1806-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Titas-Chakraborty-2.22.18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20180130T201430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T225123Z UID:10005454-1519315200-1519322400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sora Y. Han: "Poetics of MU" DESCRIPTION:The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure\, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race\, colonialism\, and the limits of translation. Slave law\, Oedipus\, kinship\, and language as forms of law contain two essential a-genealogical characteristics. The first concerns the perverse logics of law\, and the fact that submission to or refusal of law offers no protection against its violence and judgment; and the second\, where genealogy can neither be named nor established\, what issues forth can only\, in the present circumstances\, be described as an obscene obliteration of law’s reference. This peculiar co-presence of law and non-referentiality\, differentially explored by Edouard Glissant\, David Marriott\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Fred Moten\, and Theresa Had Kyung Cha\, can only be grasped by a transversal writing\, the “poetics of mu\,” not simply at the limits of translation\, but also\, transliteration and utterance. \n  \nSora Han is Associate Professor of Criminology\, Law and and the School of Law at UC Irvine. She also is core faculty of the Culture and Theory Ph.D. program\, and affiliate faculty of African American Studies. Professor Han is the author of Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015) and she has two books in-progress: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness\, which brings together poetics\, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu\, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet\, an experimental text which offers a speculative meditation on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Her most recent publication on this new line of research\, “Slavery as Contract\,” was published by Law and Literature (2016) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sora-y-han-poetic-mu/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-10.31.19-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T185000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20171227T184045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180215T004937Z UID:10006572-1519320000-1519325400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña DESCRIPTION:ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However\, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration.\n \nIn Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña’s absence\, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students\, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez\, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña’s work\, showing video/sound footage\, and providing comments\, revolving around their own engagements with her art and poetry. \n\n  \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction\, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña’s work began in the mid 60s in Chile\, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard”;. Her art has been exhibited at The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA\, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was included in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel\, Germany\, 2017. Her itinerant exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans in March 2017 and will travel to various museums in the U.S during 2018. Vicuña has published twenty-five art and poetry books\, including About to Happen\, 2017\, Read Thread\, The Story of the Red Thread\, 2017\, and Kuntur Ko\, 2015. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-cecilia-vicuna-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T110000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20180206T191917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T232929Z UID:10006589-1519376400-1519383600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Group: Cathy Davidson "The New Education" DESCRIPTION:The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday\, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson’s visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday\, March 2 at 2-4 pm in 1 HUM 202. \nFor copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education\, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-learning-humanities-now-cathy-davidson/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T120000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20180213T181921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T185049Z UID:10006594-1519383600-1519387200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Funding Support Info Session DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about support services offered for grant and fellowship research and writing through Arts Research Development Office and The Humanities Institute. \nIn this information session\, we will share key resources for finding funding opportunities and crafting compelling application materials. You will also meet the graduate student fellows who offer one-on-one consultations. \nRegister \n  \nPresenters:\nS. Topiary Landberg\, Arts/Humanities Research Development Fellow\nSarah Papazoglakis\, Graduate Fellow\, Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/info-session-graduate-funding-support/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T203124 CREATED:20180201T230947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180201T230947Z UID:10006587-1519407000-1519412400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Grad Slam DESCRIPTION:Congratulations to our 12 finalists for 2018! Come cheer them on at the Grad Slam and vote for the People’s Choice Award: \nTony Assi\nKimberley Bitterwolf\nStephan Bitterwolf\nEilin Francis\nSharmistha Guha\nHelen Holmlund\nCourtney Kersten\nNickolas Knightly\nStephanie Montgomery\nRebecca Ora\nTiffany Thang\nTalia Waltzer \nGrad Slam\, a competition also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge\,* challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise\, compelling\, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and help others understand and appreciate the significance of their research or other graduate work. The contest is open to all graduate students. \nThe winner of the UCSC Grad Slam receives $3\,000; the runner-up receives $1\,500; and the people’s choice winner receives $750. The UCSC Grad Slam winner goes on to compete in the UC-wide Grad Slam in late April or early May. UCSC’s 2017 champion\, John Felts\, took second place at the UC Grad Slam held May 4\, 2017\, at LinkedIn\, 222 2nd Street in San Francisco. Visit UCOP Grad Slam to view the 2017 finalists from all UC campuses and learn the first-place\, third-place\, and people’s choice winner of that competition. \nRegistration for the 2018 Grad Slam opened November 13\, 2017\, and closed January 21\, 2018\, at midnight PST. All registrants must submit a 3-minute-maximum video of their presentation via a share link entered in the registration form. A panel of UCSC staff judges will review the videos and select the finalists (10 to 12 graduate students) to compete in UCSC’s live Grad Slam on Friday\, February 23\, 2018\, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.\, at the Music Center Recital Hall\, with a reception following for competitors and audience. \n\nCheck out the 2017 winners here. \nView video of the three awardees\, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2016 Grad Slam\nView video of the three awardees\, and the complete list of finalists from the UCSC 2015 Grad Slam \n\n*Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a registered trademark of The University of Queensland. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-grad-slam/ LOCATION:Music Recital Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/grad-slam-banner.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR