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SUMMARY:Ashwini Tambe: "Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates"
DESCRIPTION:Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. My talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases I discuss —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— I show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices. Ashwini Tambe is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park and affiliate faculty in the History department and Asian American Studies program. She is also the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. Her interests include transnational feminist theory\, modern South Asian history\, and sexuality studies. Her previous books are Codes of Misconduct:Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (2009\, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/New Delhi: Zubaan) and The Limits of Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean (2008\, London: Routledge) coedited with Harald Fischer-Tiné. Her recent articles have spanned topics such as population and age of marriage (Women’s Studies International Forum 2014)\, climatology in scientific racism (Theory\, Culture and Society\, 2011)\, interdisciplinary approaches to feminist state theory (Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East\, 2010)\, economic liberalization and sexual liberalism in contemporary India (Economic and Political Weekly\, 2010)\, and the long record of transnational approaches in feminist scholarship (New Global Studies\, 2010). Her current work\, supported by SSHRC and NEH grants\, examines the legal paradoxes in age standards for sexual consent in India; her forthcoming book on the subject is Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019\, University of Illinois Press). She is also co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory with Millie Thayer titled Transnational Feminist Itineraries. \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 Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-16/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. \nThe 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice\, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice\,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological\, cultural\, social\, political\, geological\, biological and other forces\, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth.  We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students\, faculty\, staff\, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies\, epistemologies\, and uneven responsibilities.\nMétis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology\, Carleton University\, Canada\nVisiting Professor of History\, Yale University \nKey Note Speakers: \nZoe Todd \nThis talk explores Alberta\, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe\, such as: extinction\, the Anthropocene\, environmental degradation\, climate change\, and energy studies.  Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information\, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity. \nValentin Lopez \nAlfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography\nDeakin University\, Australia \nFor some\, it seems\, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation\, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality\, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors\, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or\, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped? \nTimothy Neale \nTimothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance\, settler-Indigenous relations\, technoscience\, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017). \nKyle Powys Whyte \nTimnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University \nClimate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains\, in part\, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and\, ultimately\, climate justice.\nKyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice\, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning\, policy\, science\, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \nArboretum Tour with Rick Flores\, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nProgram Day 1: \n9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast \n10:00am – Conference Welcome \n10:15am – Valentin Lopez \n15 minute break \n11:15am – Zoe Todd \n12:45pm – Lunch \n2:00pm – Kyle Powys Whyte \n3:30pm – Conclusion \nProgram Day 2 \n  \nFor more information including directions and parking please visit: \nhttps://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-science-studies-conference-indigeneity-climate-justice-day-1/
LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum
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SUMMARY:*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 - Thi Nguyen: "The Gamification of Public Discourse"
DESCRIPTION:The pleasures of games include\, among other things\, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games\, our goals and values are clear\, quantified\, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm – a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends\, for the sake of the pleasure of the experience of play. This is morally acceptable in games\, because the ends in games are temporary and disposable. Instrumentalizing our enduring epistemic ends\, on the other hand\, invites bad faith reasoning. Social media encourages the instrumentalization of our epistemic ends\, by offering highly salient quantified targets: Facebook Likes and Twitter Likes and Retweet numbers. It invites us to shift the ends of public discourse from some more subtle value towards\, say\, maximizing retweet numbers. We would thereby increase the pleasures of value clarity from engaging in discourse. Importantly\, among those pleasures are: the pleasures of the simplified experience of moral outrage\, and the pleasures of being part of a united epistemic community. But changing one’s epistemic aims for the sake of these pleasures is bad faith reasoning. And the form of the pleasures may help us to understand the relationship between social media and the formation of echo chambers. \nThe gamification of public discourse is an example of what I call “value capture”. Value capture occurs when: 1.) our values are naturally rich and subtle; 2.) we are placed in a social or institutional setting with simple\, explicit\, typically quantified representations of those values; 3.) we internalize those simple representations of our values; and 4.) things get worse. Some other examples include being value captured by FitBit’s step counts\, academic citation rates\, and GPA’s. The gamification of public discourse helps us see how we can understand the problem of value capture: it’s the inappropriate instrumentalizatio of an end.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-nguyen-gamification-public-discourse/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. \nThe 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice\, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice\,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological\, cultural\, social\, political\, geological\, biological and other forces\, understood as simultaneous and mutually constitutive. A shared concern among our esteemed keynote speakers is the question of how to respond to the challenges of collaborative engagements between Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to caring for the Earth.  We invite them to engage in conversation with each other and students\, faculty\, staff\, and other conference participants about these pressing questions of multiple ontologies\, epistemologies\, and uneven responsibilities.\nMétis Scholar of Sociology and Anthropology\, Carleton University\, Canada\nVisiting Professor of History\, Yale University \nKey Note Speakers: \nZoe Todd \nThis talk explores Alberta\, Canada as a site of intense western knowledge production about topics that are currently ‘hot’ in euro-western academe\, such as: extinction\, the Anthropocene\, environmental degradation\, climate change\, and energy studies.  Challenging the tendency for scholars to literally or figuratively drop into Alberta to mine it for data and information\, Todd explores what it means to re-situate studies of earth violence in the Alberta petro-state as ones that require deep relationality and reciprocity. \nValentin Lopez \nAlfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Geography\nDeakin University\, Australia \nFor some\, it seems\, the concept of the Anthropocene has delivered a welcome dose of universalism. We must put aside the differences which previously proscribed the very existence of a ‘we’ – the ethics which outlawed such pronouns as a presumptuous act of capture – and see that beings on this planet are unified by their inevitable geological materiality; the dark anthropogenic end of their stony fate. In this presentation\, Neale offers a critique of these universalist and redemptive manoeuvres by exploring the temporality\, offered by several Indigenous interlocutors\, of ‘upside down Country.’ What practices and horizons are meaningful in a place where Country – or\, the emplaced and providential order of things – has bee churned and flipped? \nTimothy Neale \nTimothy Neale is a pakeha (settler) researcher and teacher from Aotearoa New Zealand but currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia\, where he holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Geography at Deakin University. His research focuses on environmental governance\, settler-Indigenous relations\, technoscience\, and the intersections of those three topics. He is the author of Wild Articulations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii Press\, 2017). \nKyle Powys Whyte \nTimnick Chair in the Humanities. Associate Proefssor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability. Michigan State University \nClimate change activism and scientific assessments often emphasize that humans must grasp the urgency of taking swift and decisive actions to address an environmental crisis. Yet many such conceptions of urgency obscure the factors that Indigenous peoples have called out as the most pressing concerns about climate justice. This obfuscation explains\, in part\, why climate change advocacy remains largely unrelated to Indigenous efforts to achieve justice and engage in decolonial actions. Whyte shows why a politics of urgency can be based in assumptions about the relationship among time (temporality) and environmental change that are antithetical to allyship with Indigneous peoples and\, ultimately\, climate justice.\nKyle Whyte is a professor in the departments of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. His work focuses on environmental justice\, especially climate change issues that Indigenous peoples face in planning\, policy\, science\, and activism. He is a Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. \nArboretum Tour with Rick Flores\, who is the curator of the California Native Plant Collection and the associate of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \nProgram Day 1 \nProgram Day 2: \n9:30am – Mingling and continental breakfast \n10:00am – Conference Welcome \n10:15am – Timothy Neale \n15 minute break \n12:00pm – Arboretum Tour with Rick Flores \n1:00pm – Lunch \n2:00pm – Final Roundtable with keynotes and grad students \n3:30pm – Conclusion \n  \nFor more information including directions and parking please visit: \nhttps://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/department-news/science-conference/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/46037/
LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
DESCRIPTION:Program: \n1:00 PM- Refreshments \n1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling \nSession 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik \n1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: “Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory” \n1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: “Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level” \n2:10 PM- BREAK \nSession 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley \n2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: “The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation” \n2:45 PM- Jared Crawford-Levis: “Subject Bridging: Exploring a New Construction” \n3:10 PM- Distinguished Alumnus Address: Introduction by Margaret Kroll Marcin Morzycki \n4:05 PM- Closing remarks: Amanda Rysling
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-lurc/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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