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SUMMARY:Zhongmin Chen — "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language"
DESCRIPTION:The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents\, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the ‘One-center Multi-Layer’ Development Hypothesis.” This talk will take place Monday\, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210. \nLanguage is humanity’s most vital tool for communication\, making the study of its evolution inherently linked to the dynamics of human activity\, society\, history\, and other influencing factors. Based on the historical and cultural contexts of language development\, the evolution of language can be broadly categorized into three models: \n1. The Family Tree Model – exemplified by Indo-European languages.\n2. The Polycentric Mixed Model – observed in regions such as Australia\, Papua New Guinea\, and the Balkans.\n3. The One-Center Multi-Layer Model – characteristic of East and Southeast Asian languages\, including Chinese. \nThis presentation delves into the historical and social contexts underlying these evolutionary models and highlights their defining characteristics. It also demonstrates the methodology used to analyze historical linguistic layers\, with examples drawn from the lexical\, syntactic\, and phonetic features of various Chinese dialects and East Asian languages. \nZhongmin Chen (陈忠敏) is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Fudan University (Shanghai). He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California\, Berkeley. He works on experimental phonetics\, historical linguistics\, and Chinese dialectology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhongmin-chen-re-evaluating-the-development-of-the-chinese-language/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer\, Dr. Persis Karim
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film\, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life\, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer\, Persis Karim\, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate\, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students\, refugees\, and exiles in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted by and contributed to the region. The event is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa and the Department of Film and Digital Media. \nPersis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diasporic literature\, and she has published numerous articles about Iranian diasporic literature and culture for academic journals as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora. She co-directed and co-produced the film with Soumyaa Behrens. Karim received her Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UT Austin. She is also a poet.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dawn-is-too-far/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T121500
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SUMMARY:Paul North & Paul Reitter – Notes on Translating Marx’s Capital
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will discuss the history of Anglophone translations of Capital (Vol. 1) Karl Marx’s magnus opus\, paying particular attention to the different circumstances that have shaped important translation decisions. It will also identify some of the major translation challenges the text poses and ask how the meaning of the Capital varies according to how we respond to those challenges. \nThis event will be held in Humanities 1 Room 210\, as well as via Zoom. Register here for the Zoom link. \nPaul Reitter teaches in the German department at Ohio State University. He is the author\, most recently\, of Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (cowritten with Chad Wellmon). His articles and essays have appeared in venues ranging from Representations to The New York Review of Books. \n  \nPaul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. He teaches and writes critical theory. His books include The Problem of Distraction (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Stanford University Press\, 2015)\, Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, and a new translation and critical reading edition of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press\, 2024). \nThis talk is hosted in collaboration with History of Consciousness and is co-sponsored by the UC’s Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group (IMWG)\, the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR)\, UC Berkeley’s Department of German Languages and Literatures\, UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities\, UC Berkeley’s Department of English and Program in Critical Theory. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-reitter-notes-on-translating-marxs-capital/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Wondering about your career options? Your curiosity is one of your greatest assets for discovering career possibilities\, for building your network\, and for creating a fulfilling professional life. Join this interactive workshop to learn about exploring your career options and growing your network with the practice of informational interviewing. \n \nFree copies of Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for all those who register by Friday 1/31 and attend the event. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-at-work-informational-interviewing/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan — “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2025 Anthropology Colloquium Series\, “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India with Radhika Govindrajan. \nThis talk draws on ethnographic research in Himalayan India to explore how majoritarian feeling creeps into the legal domain by exploring the contingent production of sentiment among state officials who legislate inter-religious relationships. \nRadhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores how the question of the village in contemporary India is tangled up with the political economy of sex and sexuality. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-govindrajan-its-not-love-its-deception/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dixita Deka--After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India
DESCRIPTION:Since India’s independence in 1947\, militarization\, the extractive regime\, and capital have significantly transformed the agrarian landscape in Northeast India. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic work in Assam among the former insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who have taken up farming. Reclaiming the fields and the commons has been a mammoth task for communities and surrendered insurgents alike. In the absence of a state rehabilitation program\, grassroots farming initiatives started by former ULFA insurgents in rural Assam allow them to reconnect with the community\, earn a livelihood\, and work with dignity. In doing so\, insurgents and communities are paving the path for a sustainable ecosystem in the aftermath of insurgency. \nDixita Deka is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Agrarian Studies at MacMillan Center\, Yale University\, New Haven\, CT. Her research interests include insurgency in Northeast India\, gender studies\, and food cultures in the Eastern Himalayas. \n\nThis talk will be in person and online.  To attend on Zoom\, register here.  Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, this event is part of the Ecologies of Care Lecture Series. Learn more about the series here: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2024-25-events/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dixita-deka-after-insurgency-farming-journeys-and-rehabilitation-in-northeast-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Neko Case | THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
DESCRIPTION:Beloved Grammy-nominated musician Neko Case will share her new book\, THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU — a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood\, obsessive desires\, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith\, NYT bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful). \n \nSinger\, songwriter\, music producer\, visual artist\, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records\, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers and has recorded a collaborative album with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs. She currently authors the popular bi-weekly Substack newsletter “Entering the Lung” and is writing the music for a high-profile Broadway production. \nNeko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists\, whose authenticity\, lyrical storytelling\, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics\, musicians\, and lifelong fans. In THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU\, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. \nIn luminous\, sharp-edged prose\, Case shows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child\, to take refuge in the woods around her home\, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music\, camaraderie\, and shared experience into art. \nTHE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption\, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world\, despite the obstacles we face. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Neko Case \nCo-sponsored by Streetlight Records and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neko-case/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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