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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Nancy Luxon - Switch Points of Power: Psychodynamics of state legitimation and neoauthoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Recent political trends not just in the United States but globally have led to speculation about the resurgence of authoritarianism and an “authoritarian personality.” As the usual orientations of Left and Right held in place by a liberal status quo begin to falter\, social science looks for new frameworks through which to describe these political phenomena and to analyze the kind of challenge they pose to existing liberal or neoliberal institutions. With this paper\, I argue that these contemporary political currents revive older debates about state legitimation and the terms on which to construe “the people.” In the wake of a neoliberalism has reduced political and moral vocabularies to a financial language of risk and exposure\, politics seeks new sources of psycho-social investment that would reframe classic relations of care and obligation. To think through this political conjuncture\, I draw on Michel Foucault and the relational school of psychoanalysis. I argue that these contemporary political trends direct us towards those “switch points of power” in which relations of power have become unstable and thus capable of being redirected. These switch points potentially open up for revision those authorial practices that sustain or undo the status quo. \n\nNancy Luxon is an associate professor in Political Science at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power\, subjectivity\, and truth-telling. She came to these themes from a preoccupation with those practices that organize the interstices of political spaces – namely\, the spaces between personal and political practices\, between political conditions of possibility and psychic interiority\, and between past and future. Her first book\, Crisis of Authority (2013)\, considers political authority as a political and psychological process in which individuals come to author themselves\, and so to act within and against relations of hierarchy. More recently\, she has edited a translation of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families (2017)\, along with a companion scholarly volume\, Archives of Infamy (2019)\, and Foucault’s lectures at Berkeley\, Discourse and Truth (2019). Her current work is on Fanon and désaliénation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-luxon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information at: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/ottessamoshfegh2020 \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 2nd. \nDeath in Her Hands comes from one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, a New York Times bestseller; Homesick for Another World\, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year; Eileen\, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; and McGlue\, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Department of Defense/DARPA Discussion and Faculty Panel Session
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is hosting a discussion and faculty panel session on best practices and strategies for pursuing Department of Defense (DoD) funding. Opportunities offered through DoD are a less understood\, and often under-accessed\, source of research funding. This event will be an opportunity to hear from an external Washington DC-based expert and UCSC faculty with various levels of DoD experience. These experts will share their advice and insight on positioning your research programs for long-term DoD support. Join us for this introduction where you will have an opportunity to engage in Q&A sessions and learn more about engaging the DoD\, identifying opportunities\, and successfully executing DoD funded projects. \n \n\nAgenda \n12:00 – 12:10: \nIntroductions from UC Santa Cruz\, Office of Research\, Vice Chancellor of Research\, Scott Brandt \n12:15 – 01:45: \n Kristen Jordan Ph.D. Independent Consultant\, MBO Partners. \n“DOD Opportunities and Engagement” \nDr. Jordan is a former program officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)\, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and currently serves as an advisor to acting DARPA Director\, Peter Highnam. \n12:45 – 01:00: \nBreak \n2:00 – 04:00: \nFaculty Panelists: Personal experience\, suggestions\, and lessons learned \nMarco Rolandi\, Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Baskin School of Engineering (BSOE) \nDan Costa\, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, PBSci\, and Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) \nDaniele Venturi\, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics\, BSOE \nTerrie M. Williams\, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in PBSci and Director of the Center for Marine Mammal Research and Conservation at UCSC \nRicardo Sanfelice\, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, BSOE and Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center \nShiva Abbaszadeh\, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, BSOE \nRajarshi Guhaniyogi\, Assistant Professor of Statistics\, BSOE
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/department-of-defense-darpa-discussion-and-faculty-panel-session/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The 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-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Thinking the Pandemic: Part I
DESCRIPTION:A number of scholars have recently written about the current pandemic\, taking up questions of sovereignty and biopolitics in different ways. We will read and discuss some short pieces by Alain Badiou\, Bifo Berardi\, Byung-Chul Han\, and Bruno Latour. Chris Connery and Max Tomba will start the conversation off with presentations on some of the readings. Please do the readings beforehand. RSVP below by 4pm Tuesday\, May 5 to receive Zoom link and password. \nReadings: \n“On the Epidemic Situation” by Alain Badiou\n“Beyond the Breakdown” by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi\n“We cannot surrender reason to the virus” by Byung-Chul Han\n“What protective measures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model?” by Bruno Latour \n \n\nImportant information about this event: These informal sessions will be on Zoom and will start at 12:15pm. For security reasons\, you will need to RSVP to register for each session; you will then receive a Zoom link and password for that session. We will have a “waiting room” for the session; the waiting room will open at noon\, so please join between noon and 12:15pm (event moderators will let you into the session from the waiting room). Entry to the session will close at 12:30pm\, so please don’t be late to join a session. \nWe will begin these Special Sessions with a two-part series on “Thinking the Pandemic.” The first part will be Wednesday\, May 6 and the second on Wednesday\, May 12. Stay tuned for more special sessions\, including a speculative film called “A World Without Clouds\,” for later in May. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-thinking-the-pandemic-part-i/
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SUMMARY:Teaching Credential Workshop for Humanities PhDs
DESCRIPTION:The humanities are alive and well in K12 education. Can you thrive there? \nJoin Kip Téllez in this workshop to learn more about simultaneously pursuing a teaching credential and master’s degree in education while completing your doctoral degree in the humanities! Explore the possibilities of public school teaching in California for a union-backed career. Ethnic studies students\, learn about how you would be positioned to roll out ethnic studies in the public high school curriculum statewide! \nPlease email Jane Komori or Ka-eul Yoo for Zoom information. \n\nKip Téllez is Professor and former Chair in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz. After teaching elementary and high school students in east Los Angeles county and earning his PhD from the Claremont Graduate University\, his research has focused on the intersection of language teaching and teacher education. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education\, Bilingual Research Journal\, Teaching and Teacher Education\, and Review of Research in Education. He served as the editor of Teacher Education Quarterly from 2013 to 2016\, as well as serving on several editorial boards. His most recent book is titled The Teaching Instinct: Explorations Into What Makes Us Human. \nThis event is sponsored by Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES). \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-credential-workshop-for-humanities-phds/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Ramon Rising Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ramon-rising-film-screening/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Jesse Harris
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Harris (UCLA) – Title TBD \nJesse Harris is an assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Linguistics\, and director of the UCLA Language Processing Lab. His research investigates how language users develop a sufficiently rich linguistic meaning during online comprehension\, concentrating in particular on three related areas: (a) the formal semantics of context sensitive expressions\, (b) the semantic processing of contextually dependent terms\, and (c) the pragmatic and processing defaults engaged when generating a semantic or discourse representation for an utterance or phrase. \nAbout eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jesse-harris/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us via Zoom for the announcement of the symposium winners! \n•Best overall\, $1000\n•Best of the Arts Division\, $250\n•Best of the Baskin School of Engineering\, $250\n•Best of the Humanities Division\, $250\n•Best of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division\, $250\n•Best of the Social Sciences Division\, $250 \nFind out who won in this year’s online Graduate Research Symposium! Enjoy watching the Zoom presentations of the winners! \nThe Division of Graduate Studies will upload all recorded symposium Zoom presentations to our YouTube channel.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-2/
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