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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Glenn Tiffert: Censorship\, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base - Lessons from China
DESCRIPTION:Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge\, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable\, difficult to detect\, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china\, this talk shows how a determined actor can exploit those vulnerabilities to tamper dynamically with the historical record. It furthermore demonstrates that machine learning models can now accurately reproduce the choices made by human censors\, and warns that we are on the cusp of a new\, algorithmic paradigm of information control and censorship that poses an existential threat to the foundations of all empirically-grounded disciplines. At a time of ascendant illiberalism around the world\, robust\, collective safeguards are urgently required to defend the integrity of our source base\, and the knowledge we derive from it. \nGlenn Tiffert is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Tiffert earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California\, Berkeley. From 2015-2017\, he was the Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where he also held faculty appointments in the History Department and Asian Languages & Cultures Department\, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on modern China. He has taught at Berkeley\, Harvard\, and UCLA\, and currently serves on the Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History. \n  \nFor further information\, contact Minghui Hu: mhu@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/glenn-tiffert-censorship-digitalization-and-the-fragility-of-our-knowledge-base-lessons-from-china/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T181500
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SUMMARY:Halloween Lecture "The Vampire in Love" (with costume contest)
DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series  \nOh yeah\, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual. \nFrom the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in the early nineteenth century\, the vampire has been a figure of both fear and desire\, often represented through the vampire’s longings and the range of social responses they inspire. This talk considers several different examples of “the vampire in love” in order to explore what the vampire might tell us about our most pressing social\, cultural\, and political concerns across the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches courses on contemporary fiction\, vampire narratives\, fairy tales\, and digital culture in relation to feminist and critical race theories. She has published a number of books and articles on a range of topics\, including most recently “Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber” (2015).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/halloween-lecture-the-vampire-in-love-with-costume-contest/
LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T143000
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SUMMARY:Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun - Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Stevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young: \nMabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of armed resistance and reveals the complex set of struggles between Black men and women about Black self-defense. \n Jasmin A. Young is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies. She is currently developing her manuscript\, Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle. This work rethinks the history of the Black Freedom Movement by placing Black women’s armed activity at the center of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The project explores the extensive practice and advocacy of armed resistance by Black women. \nPresented by Stevenson College in collaboration with UCSC History Department\, CRES\, The Humanities Institute\, and Feminist Studies departments. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasmin-young-she-stood-there-by-him-with-a-gun-mabel-williams-and-the-philosophy-of-armed-resistance/
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:20191029T190000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Elizabeth Strout: Olive\, Again
DESCRIPTION:Due to disruptions and concerns about ongoing wildfire and power disruptions across California\, Elizabeth Strout’s entire California tour has been cancelled/postponed to a future date. This means our event with Elizabeth Strout on October 29th has been CANCELLED. \nIf you purchased a ticket to this event\, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be in touch with you via email within the next day. Please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com with any questions in the meantime. Thank you. \nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a very special evening when #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Join us to discuss her highly anticipated new novel\, Olive\, Again\, in which she continues the life of her beloved character Olive Kitteridge. Strout will be in-conversation with writer Elizabeth McKenzie at this ticketed event\, also cosponsored by KAZU\, which will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab. \nThis great night out\, perfect for book groups and literature lovers\, will also feature a book signing by Elizabeth Strout\, raffle prizes and giveaways\, plus refreshments (including wine and beer) available for purchase. Literary Soiree attendees will have a chance to win great prizes\, including advanced reading copies of fall’s buzz books\, Elizabeth Strout’s paperback books\, tickets to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s upcoming event with Erin Morgenstern of The Night Circus fame\, and more. Each attendee will leave with great book recommendations after they stop by curated book stations in the lobby hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz Book Group Ambassadors such as “The 5 Best Books My Book Club Have Ever Read” or “Surviving 2020: Books That Will Make You Believe in Humanity.” \nTickets are $32 and include entry for one person to the soiree and one copy of Olive\, Again.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elizabeth-strout-olive-again/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
DESCRIPTION:“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear”\nUnder what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even a moral crime? Is this silent war on the body and idea of the citizen on the constitutional theorist and moral philosopher B. R. Ambedkar’s mind when\, in his revolutionary classic Annihilation of Caste (1936)\, he coins the phrase “armed neutrality?” In this lecture\, building on a new constellation of thinkers in political theory\, Kumar develops the fundamental insight that Ambedkar\, Hannah Arendt\, and Judith Shklar\, in conceptually different ways and with radically different moral psychological consequences\, offer on today’s insoluble democratic impasse: that the most catastrophic effect of social inequality is not merely a betrayal of our constitutional compact to justice but a weaponization of a new form of political cruelty. What is this new cruelty? And what kind of constitutional courage– a re-articulation of dignity– might today be necessary to retrieve our freedom? \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAishwary Kumar is an intellectual historian and political theorist with interests in South Asian\, European\, and American political thought. His work spans a wide spectrum of issues in moral and political philosophy\, constitutional theory and political justice\, war and ethics\, empire and liberalism\, and the history of democratic thought and rights. Kumar’s first book\, Radical Equality: Ambedkar\, Gandhi\, and the Risk of Democracy (Stanford\, 2015; Delhi\, 2019)\, was listed by The Indian Express among the fifteen most important works on politics\, morality\, and law to be published anywhere that year. His essays have appeared\, among other places\, in Modern Intellectual History\, Contemporary South Asia\, Social History\, Indian Economic and Social History Review\, and Public Culture. He has also been featured on the radio shows Entitled Opinions and Philosophy Talk. Kumar is currently working on two related book-length studies. The first\, titled “The Sovereign Void: Ambedkar’s Critique of Violence\,” examines the genealogies of political freedom and war in Southern and Atlantic political thought\, and their relation to notions of “force” across epistemological\, theological\, and secular traditions. The second\, titled “The Gravity of Truth: Disenchantment\, Disappointment\, Democracy\,” takes the Obama Presidency as its starting point to explore the place of moral and political judgment in the global constitutional imagination. \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/cultural-studies-colloquium-aishwary-kumar/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Jessica Guild: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nOn Friday and Saturday\, November 1 and 2\, 2019\, UC Santa Cruz will hold a conference to honor the late Hayden White. \nThe event is conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s thinking in new directions. Inspired by his rigorous\, daring\, iconoclastic spirit\, this will be a time for experiment and dialogue. Confirmed participants are innovative scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. \nProgram timeline – Full Schedule Here \n\nPre-Conference Gathering: November 1st @ 10:30am\, Hayden White Archive Exhibition at McHenry Library\nDay 1: November 1st @ 1pm-5:30pm in the Merrill College Cultural Center\, dinner to follow\nDay 2: November 2nd @ 9am-5:30pm in the Merrill College Cultural Center\, reception to follow\n\n \nKeynote speakers:  \nJudith Butler (UC Berkeley)\nCarol Mavor (University of Manchester)\nSusan Stewart (Princeton University) \nParticipants:  \n\nKaryn Ball (University of Alberta)\nAmy Elias (University of Tennessee)\nAmir Eshel (Stanford)\nRobert Harrison (Stanford)\nEthan Kleinberg (Wesleyan)\nPaul Kottman (New School for Social Research)\nMaría Inés la Greca (Universidad de Buenos Aires)\nDavid Palumbo-Liu (Stanford)\nTodd Presner (UC Los Angeles)\nJose Rabasa (UC Berkeley)\nVeronica Tozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)\n\nOrganizing committee: \nPaul Roth\, Professor of Philosophy\, UCSC\nJames Clifford\, Professor Emeritus\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC\nKaren Bassi\, Professor of Literature and Classics\, UCSC \nSponsored by: \nThe Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. With support from UCSC’s Cowell College\, Stanford University’s Division of Literatures\, Cultures and Languages\, and the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/orthodoxies-working-hayden-white/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T132000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
DESCRIPTION:Languages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense\, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a neo-Reichenbachian perspective\, having semantic tense means having a linguistic device (a lexical item or a rule) dedicated to invoking a reference time in relation to the local evaluation time. The two types of tense accounts have also been offered for the closely related languages Mbya Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní (Tonhauser 2011a\,b; Thomas 2014). We propose a truly tenseless account of Paraguayan Guaraní. A pronoun at the left edge of the clause\, denoting the local evaluation time\, directly binds the time variable of viewpoint aspect. In a matrix clause the evaluation time is speech time by default\, resulting in present temporal reference\, and with the help of a prospective morpheme\, in future reference. The evaluation time may shift\, as happens in restricted contexts in languages with tense (e.g.\, the historical present)\, but here more freely. The mechanism of evaluation time shift underlies past interpretation. The main consequence of this analysis is that tense is not a semantic universal. \nRoumyana Pancheva is a professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC\, her main areas of research being syntax and semantics. Her research employs formal modeling\, cross-linguistic comparison from a synchronic and diachronic perspective\, and experimentation. \n  \n  \nFor more information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-roumyana-pancheva/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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