BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute 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:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20191025T214014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191112T185817Z UID:10006795-1573657200-1573664400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:LOCATION CHANGE Dean Spade: Solidarity Not Charity - Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival DESCRIPTION:Join the Feminist Studies department as they present their second FMST Colloquium for the 2019 Fall quarter! \nWidespread\, effective social movements usually include mutual aid strategies that directly address conditions faced by targeted people\, such as providing housing\, food\, healthcare and transportation. Examples include the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program\, the Young Lords’ hijacking of New York’s tuberculosis testing mobile unit to high-risk\, medically neglected neighborhoods\, and feminist organizing to provide underground abortions in the 1970s. This talk will look at why mutual aid is an important part of building participatory movements\, and how it intentionally departs from charity frameworks. \nDean Spade is a lawyer\, writer\, trans activist\, and an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law\, where he teaches Administrative Law\, Poverty Law\, Gender and Law\, Policing and Imprisonment\, and Law and Social Movements. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dean-spade-solidarity-not-charity-mutual-aid-for-mobilization-and-survival/ LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190603T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190603T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190529T171915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T171915Z UID:10006746-1559568000-1559581200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana DESCRIPTION:Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity \nA documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai\, based on the forthcoming book\, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. \n1:20PM – 3:00PM Talk\n3:00PM – 5:00PM Screening \nRefreshments will be provided.\nSeating is limited. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hindustani-music-and-performance-of-modernity-a-talk-and-film-screening-by-tejaswini-niranjana/ LOCATION:Music Center Room 131\, 1156 HIGH STREET\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-10.18.31-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190501T172915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T184304Z UID:10005607-1559295000-1559316600@thi.ucsc.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-01-at-10.18.10-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190501T172618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T184103Z UID:10005605-1559208600-1559230200@thi.ucsc.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-01-at-10.18.10-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190515T172458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T172714Z UID:10006742-1558630800-1558636200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania DESCRIPTION:Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk\, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts\, these are stories that could have been\, but never happened…feminist unions\, Eastern European migrants antifascist organizing\, anticapitalist campaigns\, solidarity movements between students and coal miners. \nBased in Bucharest\, Veda Popovici holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Art. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/veda-popovici-history-not-repeat-speculative-histories-post-revolutionary-romania/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SSRC-DPD-UCSC.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20181015T195648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T180610Z UID:10006666-1557921600-1557927000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn this paper\, “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán\,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely\, that the dispossessed had prior possession over that which was stolen from them by their dispossessors. Like a number of other such cases I have been examining from the 17th and 18th centuries\, in this case those who were dispossessed do not make claims about prior possession. Rather\, both Juan Patricio and Fabiana Pech seem to have lived dispossession outside the terms of possession as such\, critiquing and countering their dispossession in ways that call for a revision of contemporary understandings of dispossession. I suggest we read the archive of a case like this for alternative theories of dispossession as well as as-yet-unrealized anti-dispossessive politics. \nDavid Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex\, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His areas of specialization are transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century\, Latin American studies (especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico)\, political philosophy\, continental philosophy\, colonial discourse studies\, and Armenian diaspora studies. He is a member of the organizing collectives of the journal Social Text and of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas\, and is co-director of the Tepoztlán Institute from 2017-2019. His the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) and The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke). He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California)\, as well as (with Shay Brawn\, Bonnie Dow\, Lisa Maria Hogeland\, Mary Klages\, Deb Meem\, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers\, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books). He is currently at work on two monographs. The first sets radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide. The second finds anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic. \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. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Feminist Studies. \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-14/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T161500 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190424T171652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T221946Z UID:10006737-1557759600-1557764100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma DESCRIPTION:Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present: \nA Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies\, UC Irvine): \nALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS\, POLICING\, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press\, 2019) \nCo-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies and the Department of History of Consciousness \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-l-thuma-feminist-cres-book/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-24-at-10.15.12-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20181019T212401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T201831Z UID:10006672-1554908400-1554915600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\nAn Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project \n \nThis event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript\, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement\, which will be released by PM Press in the spring of 2020. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a data visualization\, digital cartography\, and multimedia collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project aims to inform\, empower\, and activate communities impacted by housing inequity and displacement\, supporting the work of collectives fighting for housing justice. By excavating and creating pertinent data\, narratives\, and maps\, the AEMP reorients and repositions power in the community and in the hands of those who are working to restore housing equity in low-income communities and communities of color. Bringing together artists\, activists\, oral historians\, cartographers\, muralists\, and more\, AEMP is rooted in the idea that community-based knowledge production is essential in fighting displacement. \nWhile AEMP has produced hundreds of online interactive maps and oral histories\, numerous videos and reports\, and even several murals\, light projections\, zines\, and posters\, over the last year the project has launched into a new cartographic endeavor. Counterpoints brings together dozens of artists\, activists\, designers\, and cartographers to produce a manuscript-length series of maps\, graphics\, poems\, and text. Content is divided into seven chapters\, including: Migration and Relocation; Indigenous Geographies; Evictions and Root Shock; Public Health and Environmental Racism; Financial Speculation and Speculative Futures; Carcerality and Abolition; and Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Economy. Counterpoints encompasses geographies ranging from Vallejo to Santa Cruz in an effort to tell a regional story of gentrification\, particularly as it is racialized and classed. Different project members are editing and producing original visual content for each chapter\, and also working with numerous new community and partners and contributors\, thereby expanding the existing scope of AEMP’s work. In addition to the book\, AEMP crafting online interactive content and downloadable educational material\, which will be available on the PM Press and AEMP websites. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/counterpoints/ 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/2018/10/mural-smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190213T193212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T193212Z UID:10006708-1551360600-1551373200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:International Women's Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas DESCRIPTION:The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2017). The second speaker is Dr. Barbara Sutton of the University of Albany\, SUNY who will speak about her book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press\, 2018). Together\, these books explore the critical themes of resistance\, survival\, intersectionality\, and trauma/hardships in the Americas. \nSchedule:\n1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ~ Dr. Ranita Ray\, University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\n3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. ~ Break with light snacks\n3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. ~ Dr. Barbara Sutton\, University at Albany\, SUNY \nAbout the Speakers: \nRanita Ray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. She is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms\, children and youth\, urban inequalities\, and education and policing. Her book\, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2018)\, challenges common wisdom that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs\, gangs\, violence\, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray has published several other articles and book chapters related to children/youth\, urban inequalities\, race\, class and gender\, and co-authored a book titled As The Leaves Turn Gold: Aging Experiences of Asian Americans (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers\, 2012). Ray is currently preparing a book manuscript that draws on rigorous fieldwork to explore how the relationship between policing\, race\, class\, and gender shapes schooling experiences and educational trajectories of children growing up in marginalized communities in Las Vegas. Ray is actively involved in community-oriented research projects\, and co-founder of Heating Youth Voices—a Connecticut based youth led organization. \nBarbara Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American\, Caribbean\, and U.S. Latino Studies at the same institution. She earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (her country of origin) as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon. Professor Sutton’s scholarly interests include body politics\, global gender issues\, state violence and human rights\, collective memory\, and women’s movements\, particularly in Latin American contexts. Her book\, Bodies in Crisis: Culture\, Violence\, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press\, 2010) received the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association. Her new book\, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina\, was published by NYU Press in the Spring of 2018. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-womens-day-celebrating-feminist-scholarship-americas/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Research Center for the Americas":MAILTO:rca@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190209T000130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190209T000215Z UID:10006704-1550748600-1550755800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Breanne Fahs: "Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism" DESCRIPTION:Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson\, Kathie Sarachild\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, and Dana Densmore.\nThis colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance\, particularly around the subjects of feminist rage\, sex and love\, tactics of feminist resistance\, and intergenerational knowledge- making. \nLunch will be provided URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breanne-fahs-burn-firebrand-feminism-legacy-second-wave-radical-feminism/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 CREATED:20190109T215610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T215743Z UID:10005556-1547731800-1547739000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ralina Joseph: "Postracial Resistance-Black Women\, Media\, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity" DESCRIPTION:“Post Racial Resistance-Black Women\, Media\, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity” speaks about how African American women\, celebrities. cultural products\, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse– the media- propagated notion that race and race based discrimination are over– in order to resist its very tenets. \n Ralina Joseph is a Associate Professor at the University of Washington\, is Director of the Center for Communication\, Difference and Equity (CCDE). Dr. Joseph’s second book\, Postracial Resistance: Black Women\, Media Culture\, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity\, examines how African American women negotiate the minefield of “postracial racism.” \nFeminist Studies Colloquium. Events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ralina-joseph-postracial-resistance-black-women-media-uses-strategic-ambiguity/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1539880456503.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054824 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:20171103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20171020T195807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T195807Z UID:10006557-1509717600-1509724800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" DESCRIPTION:Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India” \nVinay Gidwani\, University of Minnesota\nPriti Ramamurthy\, University of Washington \nBased on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad\, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender and caste\, we ask how these\, as embodied imprints of the agrarian\, impose limit conditions on possible politics for urban migrants. We explore two propositions: First\, workers are constantly striving to disarticulate from the sway of value\, and the growth of urban informal economies has made this both necessary and more possible. Second\, agrarian origins\, when mediated through gender and caste\, become limit conditions on possible autonomy. The issue is not only proscriptions on forms of labor\, but also how workers – females more acutely than males – remain orientated to agrarian caste relations and norms even when they work in the city (and are the enablers of men’s economic trajectories). In short\, we foreground the spatial dialectics of social reproduction: how social reproduction straddles village and city\, and is at once oppressive and nurturing. \nVinay Gidwani is a professor of Geography\, Environment\, and Society at the Institute forGlobal Studies\, University of Minnesota. He studies the interactions of labor processes and ecologies in agrarian and urban settings\, as well as capitalist transformations of these. \nPriti Ramamurthy\, a professor in Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington\, is an ethnographer\, who has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades\, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families\, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation. \nPresented by the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and the Center for South Asian Studies\, with generous contributions from the UCSC Division of the Humanities\, UCSC Arts Department\, and UCSC Economics Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-agrarian-questions-in-urban-india-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/0001-2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20170503T160107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T160107Z UID:10005374-1496325600-1496332800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho DESCRIPTION:We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation\nPatricia de Santana Pinho\, Associate Professor\, UC Santa Cruz \nThe talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black diaspora communities. In this chapter I analyze how gender impacts these transnational relations while simultaneously differentiating the experiences of female and male travelers. Analyzing why and how women travel is important in deconstructing the implicitly masculinist abstract tourist subject. At the same time\, by focusing on women travelers\, it is crucial not to confirm men as the norm that goes unexamined and unquestioned. While the chapter looks more closely at women\, it does so in order to examine how travel and tourism function as fundamentally gendered and embodied practices\, which in turn contribute to the gendering of the black diaspora. \n  \nPatricia de Santana Pinho\, Associate Professor in LALS\, is a Brazilian social scientist whose research focuses on topics of blackness\, whiteness\, racism\, anti-racism\, tourism\, and the black diaspora. She is author of Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press\, 2010). \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-patricia-de-santana-pinho-2/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20170503T155439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T155439Z UID:10005373-1495029600-1495036800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker DESCRIPTION:What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need\nSusan O’Neal Stryker\, Associate Professor\, University of Arizona \nHistory is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk\, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title\, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today\, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake\, Stryker contends\, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets\, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real. \n  \nSusan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona\, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative. \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-2-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20170503T155024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T155024Z UID:10005372-1493906400-1493913600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder DESCRIPTION:QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies \nDoris Leibetseder\, Visiting Scholar\, UC Berkeley \nIn this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex\, gender\, sexuality\, kinship relations and the right to procreate\, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.” \n  \nDoris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala\, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley\, CSMTS (Center for Science\, Technology\, Medicine and Society). \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-3/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FMST-Colloq-Spring-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20170109T211358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T211358Z UID:10006451-1488463200-1488470400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi DESCRIPTION:The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference\nOmid Mohamadi\, Lecturer\, Feminist Studies \nMy talk centers on the Irania women’s movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign’s central text\, The Effect of Laws on Women’s Lives\, and activists’ testimonies\, I show how the Iranian women’s movement appeals to (and also challenges) multiple sites simultaneously\, and highlight and critique scholars who subscribe to a shared historical narrative suggesting that the current unity between secular and religious feminists is evidence that the women’s movement has superseded a century of internecine conflict and possibly ideology itself. One must also look at the internal logic of rights themselves and their ability to either imperil or strengthen social movements. I argue that two central facets of rights coupled with two historical development after the 1979 Revolution are responsible for the recent rights-based activism of Iranian feminist\, and conclude by thinking through the politics of difference within the movement\, especially claims of radical alterity that fray when confronted with the complex relationship between secularism and religion. \n  \nOmid Mohamadi earned his Ph.D. in Politics at UCSC with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Focusing on contemporary Iran\, his research utilizes feminist and political theory to explore interrelated questions on religion\, secularism\, gender\, rights\, the state\, art\, and social movements. \n  \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-omid-mohamadi-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FMST-Colloq-Winter-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20170109T203950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T203950Z UID:10006450-1486044000-1486051200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder DESCRIPTION:Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities\nMikki Stelder\, Visiting Scholar \nIn 2010\, Palestinian Queers for Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First\, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists have engaged with PQBDS’ call and conditions of possibility within which responses emerged. Secondly\, I discuss an event that undermined the logics of settler colonialism and sexual imperialism in Israel/Palestine: In 2011\, three Palestinian queer groups engaged in email conversation with the International Gay and Lesbian Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO) about its decision to host its General Assembly in Tel Aviv. IGLYO went ahead with its plans\, but invited the groups to a public debate with an Israeli LGBT group cohosting the GA. The Palestinian groups refused and then publicized their email correspondence with IGLYO. Viewing these decisions as a politics of refusal\, I ask what other practices endure under Israeli occupation and alter the terms of Israel/Palestine engagement. \n  \nMikki Stelder is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is a visiting scholar at UCSC in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department under the auspices and guidance of Gina Dent. She also teaches Feminist and Postcolonial Critique to choreography students at the School for New Dance Development\, Amsterdam. \n  \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-mikki-stelder-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FMST-Colloq-Winter-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20170109T201159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T201159Z UID:10006449-1484229600-1484236800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon DESCRIPTION:Parenting Binary Trans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area\nSoma de Bourbon\, Lecturer\, Feminist Studies \nParents feel urgency to mitigate the disproportionally high rates of depression and suicide among trans youth. There is evidence (Olson at al. 2016)that a gender-affirming environment can\, in part\, accomplish this. Many Bay Area families are gender supportive\, but is the larger Bay Area? I think we need to address the marginalization of binary trans youth of color within the non-binary movement in the Bay Area. Although the landscape of infinite gender holds radical potential for many\, it can shift\, and in some cases has shifted\, to a repressive space for some. As mother to a binary trans girl\, I watch her live in a liminal space-occupying a duality: acceptance as feminized girl when she is stealth and rejection for cissimilation when she is “out.” Both the revolutionary potential of the struggle to unbind the binary\, and its capacity to exclude individuals who pioneered its inception and continue to die for it each year\, binary trans women of color\, are issues I am interested in engaging. \n  \nSoma de Bourbon is an adjunct professor at SJSU\, De Anza College\, and UCSC. She received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC and her B.A. from the Ethics Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Soma’s heritage is Blackfeet and French\, and she is the advisor to the Native American Student Organization at SJSU. \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-soma-de-bourbon-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FMST-Colloq-Winter-2017-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20161027T175527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T175527Z UID:10005289-1480600800-1480608000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine DESCRIPTION:“Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”\nCleo Woelfle-Erskine\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nEcologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction\, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies\, even or especially among more-than-human others dying because of human (in)action? I search for signs of resistant ‘world making’ (Munoz) in ephemeral moments where scientist were able to speak their grief at extinction and love for their study species\, through three cases: (1) scientists’ field photos and captions circulated during a twitter #cuteoff\, (2) my own encounters with dead salmon during ecological field studies\, and (3) “Tell A Salmon Your Troubles\,” an interactive performance in which scientist confessed their troubles about data\, habitat loss\, and extinction to a silent yet responsive salmon character. I explore resonance between queer and trans theory and indigenous theory that foregrounds multispecies ethics and relational practices\, and consider how field ecologist can challenge settler ontologies and epistemologies embedded in scientific and environmental management practices. \nDr.Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is an ecologist\, hydrologist\, writer\, and scholar of water\, working with mentor Karen Barad to explore queer\, transgender\, and decolonial possibilities for ecological science. In July 2017\, he will join the faculty of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington\, Seattle as Assistant Professor of Equity and Environmental Justice. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\, “Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\, “Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,  “Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-cleo-woelfle-erskine-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/FMST-Colloq-Fall-2016-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20161013T212816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T212816Z UID:10005279-1478181600-1478188800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak DESCRIPTION:“Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nRedi Koobak\, Assitant Professor\, Linkoping University\, Sweden \nAfter its 50-year occupation by the Soviets\, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small\, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. For example\, Estonia’s participation in Afghanistan missions was presented as self-evident and largely unquestioned both in parliament and in the media. In this context\, it is difficult to find counter-narratives to war in public discourse\, with implications for understandings of gender\, geopolitics\, and nationalism. In search of voices that question the general consensus about Estonia’s participation in NATO missions\, I zoom in on the artworks of Estonian artist Maarit Murka who was invited to visit Estonian troops in Afghanistan on the commission of the Estonian Military Museum. Pondering upon three exhibitions she made as a result of her trip\, I explore how artistic interventions might denaturalize gendered and nationalized notions of violence and justifications for war. \nRedi Koobak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies- Gender Studies at Linking University\, Sweden\, where she also defended her dissertation\, Whirling Stories: Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts (Linking University Press\, 2013). She is a visiting scholar and lecturer in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz during Fall 2016. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\,”Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-redi-koobak-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/FMST-Colloq-Fall-2016-Poster-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T163000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20161006T195905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T195905Z UID:10006408-1477492200-1477499400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:P. Sainath: "The People's Archive of Rural India" DESCRIPTION:P. Sainath is India’s most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years\, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Journalism Prize\, and the only Indian winner so far of the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali prize\, the EC’s main award for development and human rights. Last year\, he won the first World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence for his 2014 series of field reports on India’s mega water crisis. He is the author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought (2013)\, and has spent\, on average\, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions\, writing from there for the country’s largest newspaper\, including The Times of India and The Hindu\, of which he was rural editor for a decade. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/p-sainath-the-peoples-archive-of-rural-india-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/P.Sainath-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20161013T205738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T205738Z UID:10005277-1476367200-1476374400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni DESCRIPTION:“Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nSara Mameni\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nIn her video project\, “In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain” (2014)\, Larissa Sansour enters the fictional world of a resistance group who bury porcelain remains of an imaginary civilization to influence history and support their claims to land and sovereignty. Shuttling between past and future\, the film uses science fiction aesthetics and speculative language to re-write the history of the future and lay claim to home. Similarly\, Morehshin Allahyari’s ongoing project titled “Material Speculation” (2015) reconstructs archeological artifacts destroyed by ISIS in 3D format \, archiving lost objects by including a digital memory card inside each newly constructed artifact. Sansour and Allahyari use the science of past-making to enter into the future. Yet unlike archeology’s attachment to stable land\, they propose a virtual archeology of landsand artifacts already lost. I argue that artist such as Sansour and Allahyari launch an ethnofuturist aesthetic geared towards a sustained relationship with otherness\, defying temporarily by claiming their politics in the imaginitve space of the future and the speculative space of hope. \nSara Mameni received her PhD in Art History at UC San Diego with dissertation titled “On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies\, Racial Affects.” Her research\, publications and curatorial work have engaged gender\, race and sexuality in art and visual culture in Iran and Arab/Muslim world. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\,”Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-sara-mameni-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/FMST-Colloq-Fall-2016-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20160426T190921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160426T190921Z UID:10006374-1462456800-1462462200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department\, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle!\n  \nAnubha Bhonsle\, author of\nMother\, Where’s My Country?\nJournalist\, Executive Editor\, CNN-IBN\nFulbright Humphrey Fellow\, 2015-16\n  \nMother\, Where’s My country? arc the life of Manipular\, a state located in India’s north east\, a diverse\, picturesque\, and strategically-vial state. It is also home to multiple insurgencies\, a contested political identity\, and a law called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Based on nine years of reporting from Manipur\, including more than 200 interviews\, scrutinizing dozens of court documents and testimonials\, and revisiting places and conversations\, Anubha Bhonsle paints a picture where impunity\, fake encounters\, protests and denial of memory and justice continue in an endless cycle. The book is available in the United Sates via Amazon.\n  \nPraise for the book – P Sainath: “…Anubha Bhonsle reproaches our hypocrisy but addresses our humanity.” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-book-reading-and-conversation-with-anubha-bhonsle-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anubha-Bhonsle.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20160302T234200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T234200Z UID:10005210-1457524800-1457530200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families\, Unstable Molecules\, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four'” DESCRIPTION:The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: \n“Flame On!”: Nuclear Families\, Unstable Molecules\, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four \nDR. RAMZI FAWAZ\, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON \nReleased to popular acclaim in 1961\, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who gain extraordinary powers when cosmic rays alter their physiology\, respectively granting them control over living flame\, invisibility\, impenetrable rock-like skin\, and physical pliability. In this talk\, Ramzi Fawaz explores the surprisingly queer evolution of the series\, which used the mutated bodies of its heroes to depict the transformation of the bread-winning father\, doting wife and bickering male siblings of the 1950s nuclear family into icons of 1960s radicalism: the left-wing intellectual\, the liberal feminist\, the political activist\, and the potential queer. \nAbout the Author: Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (NYU Press\, 2016)\, which received the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship award for best first book manuscript in LGBT Studies. Dr. Fawaz’s research has been published in American Literature\, Callaloo\, and GLQ. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-ramzi-fawaz-flame-on-nuclear-families-unstable-molecules-and-the-queer-history-of-the-fantastic-four-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fawaz_ucsc030916.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150127T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150127T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20141222T174747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141222T174747Z UID:10005952-1422378000-1422383400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kristina Lyons: “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs” DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nKalindi Vora\, University of California of San Diego\n“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”\nJanuary 6\, 5:oo – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristina-lyons-decomposition-as-life-politics-soils-shared-bodies-and-stamina-under-the-gun-of-the-u-s-colombia-war-on-drugs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150120T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150120T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20141222T174510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141222T174510Z UID:10005940-1421773200-1421778600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sara Giordano: “Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics" DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nKalindi Vora\, University of California of San Diego\n“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”\nJanuary 6\, 5:oo – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-giordano-tinkering-with-science-irb-diy-and-feminist-science-ethics-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150113T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150113T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20141222T173809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141222T173809Z UID:10005928-1421168400-1421173800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ann Fink: “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory” DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nKalindi Vora\, University of California of San Diego\n“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”\nJanuary 6\, 5:oo – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ann-fink-feminist-ethics-and-the-neurobiology-of-memory-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150106T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150106T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20141222T173511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141222T173511Z UID:10005926-1420563600-1420569000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction” DESCRIPTION:Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments\, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science. The techno-fantasy of the isolated womb is part of the originating conditions for the structure and discourse of Indian surrogacy as “wombs for rent\,” and the notion of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientic and medical practice allows for alienating logic of the “gestational carrier” as a functional role in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) practices. Given these ongoing histories and metaphors\, it is important to consider the unequal positions of participants in transnational fertility exchanges when evaluating recent articulations of the relationship between governance\, medicine\, and transnational ART markets in the debates about draft ART legislation in India. \nKalindi Vora is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and aliate faculty of the Critical Gender and Science Studies Programs at UC San Diego. Her book\, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press\, 2015)\, examines domestic work\, customer care\, the commodication of human organs\, gestational surrogacy and knowledge work as representing a global economy of vitality that relies on aective and biological labor of feminized workers. Her research and publications have focused on gendered labor\, globalization\, South Asian area and diaspora studies\, postcolonial studies\, and feminist theory.\n  \nUpcoming Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kalindi-vora-life-support-legacies-of-imperial-science-and-surrogate-technologies-of-racialized-reproduction-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140603T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140603T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20140523T230107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140523T230107Z UID:10005730-1401814800-1401822000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Queen for a Day: Transformistas\, Beauty Queens\, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce… \nQueen for a Day\nTransformistas\, Beauty Queens\, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela\nA Conversation & Book Party\n for Marcia Ochoa\n with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich \nTuesday\, June 3 \nAbout the Book\nQueen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and femininity that connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. is ethnography examines how femininities are produced\, performed\, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants\, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest\, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary\, and on the bodies of both\ntransformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle\, gender and sexuality\, race and class\, and self-fashioning and identity. \nVenezuela has won more international beauty contests than any other. e femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile\, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies\, clothing and makeup styles\, and postures and gestures of this national femininity\, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity. \nAbout the Author\nMarcia Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. An ethnographer of media\, Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America\, and the place of these subjects in the nation. She is a founder and advisor to El/La Para TransLatinas\, a social justice project for transgender Latina immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco\, CA. Ochoa is incoming co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nA chapter from the book will be available to read prior to the talk at:\nChapter 5: Sacar el Cuerpo \nPlease join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queen-for-a-day-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20140218T232223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140218T232223Z UID:10005637-1393434000-1393441200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp DESCRIPTION:When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy\, against the forces of racism\, sexism\, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence\, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular\, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War\, the Soviet-Afghan War\, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia. \nWhat this book brings to light—through novels\, travel narratives\, photojournalism\, films\, news media\, and political rhetoric—is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence.\n  \nThe Introduction and Chapter 4 will be available to read prior to the talk at:\nhttp://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/neda-book-2014.html \nPlease join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.\n  \nNeda Atanasoski is an Associate Proressor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of U.S and Eastern European media and cultural studies\, with a focus on the politics of religion and sexuality\, postsocialism\, human rights and humanitarianism\, and war and nationalism. Professor Atanasoski’s current research project\, in collaboration with Kalindi Vora (UCSD)\, takes up the relationship between notions of the “network” and “revolution” in the postsocialist era as they assess the ethical frames and moral imperatives undergirding current-day modes of waging war\, biomedical modes of extending life\, and understanding the politics of dissent and consent that both use and critique the “revolutionary” technologies associated such social and political shifts of our postsocialist era.\n  \nConversation and book reading presented by the Feminist Studies Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-book-party-for-neda-atanasoski-with-lisa-rofel-shelley-stamp-2/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20130930T230141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130930T230141Z UID:10005476-1381258800-1381264200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion DESCRIPTION:Archival montage\, science fiction\, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational\, industrial\, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films)\, The Motherhood Archives inventively untangles the complex\, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education. Revealing a world of intensive training\, rehearsal\, and performative preparation for the unknown that is ultimately incommensurate with experience\, The Motherhood Archives is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control\, ideological surveillance\, medical knowledge\, and nationalist state intervention.\n  \nIntroduction by Neda Atanasoski (Feminist Studies) \nPost-screening discussion with the filmmaker\, Irene Lusztig\, and:\nNancy Chen (Anthropology)\nJenny Horne (Film & Digital Media)\nFelicity Schaeffer (Feminist Studies) \nReception to follow in Communications 139\n  \nPresented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Departments of Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, and Film & Digital Media. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-motherhood-archives-2/ LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20130513T171518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130513T171518Z UID:10005421-1368637200-1368644400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Richard Miskolci: "Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge" DESCRIPTION:Challenges for a North-South dialogue \nWhy does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange\, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces theories and South is seen as a space for collecting data or applying Northern theories to particular cases. Knowledges are created under institutional frames that connect them to power interests. During the end of 19th century\, for example\, evolutionism created a kind of alliance between intellectual and ruling classes in different parts of the world. Later\, after World War II\, this same alliance was recreated with a new objective: spreading a modernization ideal based on the assumption that West – the US in particular – was the model for the Rest (of the world). Beginning with the 1960s\, with the historical event Foucault called “the insurgence of subalternized knowledges”\, we saw the rise of a set of studies connected to once overlooked inequalities inside the so called West. These studies challenged the old ways of creating knowledge and connected their work to the interest of subalternized groups like women\, people of color\, gays\, lesbians\, colonized peoples\, and\, more recently\, queer persons. Unfortunately\, this important historical inflection that created specific fields like feminist\, post-colonial and queer studies has not changed the flux of knowledge production from North to the South. \nWhat are the reasons behind this continuity even in fields committed to subalternized people and experiences? Why are feminist\, post-colonial\, racial/ethnic\, and queer studies made in the South not seen as interlocutors in the North? Why isn’t Southern intellectual production circulated or taken into account in Northern genealogies of the so-called “studies”? Have “studies” been dragged into the academic battles inside US and Europe to conquer their internal institutional space while overlooking their possible allies in the South? Why – in a decentered world – do “studies” keep the global South in the position of a silent interlocutor that appears in generalized assumptions of contemporary production subsumed under expressions like international\, transnational and global? Finally\, what are the challenges to create a North-South dialogue? This presentation will try to address these questions and present some hypotheses\, but its main objective is not to give any final answer or present a solution. The idea is to promote the discussion about how knowledge committed to subalternized people and social change can reproduce – and even reinforce – unfair power relations outside the borders in which it is created. \nRichard Miskolci is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo state\, Brazil\, and Researcher at Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu\, UNICAMP. A key figure in the debate on queer theory in Brazil\, Miskolci has authored several books\, including Thomas Mann\, the Mestizo Artist (2003)\, O desejo da nação: masculinidade e branquitude no Brasil de fins do XIX (2012) and is the editor of Dissident Sexualities (2007)\, the first Brazilian Queer Studies anthology. Dr. Miskolci is a Visiting Scholar in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz this year. \nAdditional Reading: “Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge” \nMiskolci Event Flyer URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-miskolci-undisciplined-studies-the-geopolitics-of-knowledge-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20130425T233557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130425T233557Z UID:10005403-1367427600-1367434800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Scott Lauria Morgensen: "Idle No More\, Indigenous Feminism & Allied Critiques of Settler Colonialism" DESCRIPTION:Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule\, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance. \nAs explained by participants\, the leadership of Idle No More by Indigenous women as founders and spokespersons exposes heteropatriarchy in Indigenous communities for change by challenging racial and sexual legacies of Canadian colonization. These legacies include the Indian Act\, which preferentially exiled over four generations of Indigenous women and their descendants from their nations and lands; and in the everyday landscapes of gender and sexual violence faced by Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people. \nMorgensen interprets these effects of Idle No More by writing as an allied critic in Canada who answers calls to support Indigenous leadership in transforming colonial rule. Feminist\, queer\, and trans critiques of racialization\, sexualization\, and colonization can resonate with Idle No More as it pursues indigenist and decolonial transformation on behalf of all Indigenous people in Canada. \nScott Lauria Morgensen is an ethnographer and historian of social movements. He is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada. His work examines how politicalcommunities struggle over differences\, challenge or reproduce oppressions\, and confront solidarity and alliance. His past and present research examines how racism and settler colonialism shape queer / trans communities in North America. An interdisciplinary scholar trained in Feminist Studies (PhD 2001 Anthropology [Women’s Studies]\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\, Morgensen engages the theories and methods of Indigenous\, women of color\, and transnational feminisms in his work. His first book\, Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization\, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011\, and won the 2012 Ruth Benedict Book Prize “Honorable Mention” from the Association for Queer Anthropology. He is co-editor of the collection Queer Indigenous Studies\, and of “Karangatia: Calling Out Gender and Sexuality in Settler Societies\,” a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies. He is co-editor of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry and a proud UCSC Feminist Studies alum. \nAdditional Reading: Dr. Morgensen will present work in dialogue with a recent blog on jadaliyya.com:\nhttp://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11016/settler-colonialism-and-alliance_comparative-chall URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scott-lauria-morgensen-idle-no-more-indigenous-feminism-allied-critiques-of-settler-colonialism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20130401T173307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130401T173307Z UID:10005386-1367071200-1367085600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry\, Empowerment & Passion" DESCRIPTION:Please join Women’s Studies / Feminist Studies alumni\, classmates\, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. \n2:00-3:00 PM: Reception\n3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: “Feminism & Poetry\, Empowerment & Passion”\n4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss “The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department” to discuss the launching of the Feminist Studies graduate program\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, current curriculum\, faculty research\, and more. \nBrenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry\, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press\, September 2012.) Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar\, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and Interior with Sudden Joy\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Harpers\, McSweeney’s\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Yale Review and elsewhere. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University at Newark. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \nThe series of events is organized and sponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Living Writers Reading Series. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For further information\, including disabled access\, please contact Shann Ritchie\, sritchie@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brenda-shaughnessy-feminism-poetry-empowerment-passion-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130404T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20130404T154834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130404T154834Z UID:10005391-1365076800-1365084000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon: Practicing Domestic Violence Law DESCRIPTION:The Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz Presents: \nA Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon\nPRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW \nFeaturing distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women’s Studies Alumna\nNANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law\, Boalt School of Law) \nWith an introduction by\nProf. D. Kelly Weisberg\, Hastings College of Law \nNancy Lemon was a student founder of UCSC’s Women’s Studies Program and graduated from the Program in 1975. She subsequently graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law\, U.C. Berkeley\, in June 1980 and was admitted to the California Bar in December 1980. Prof. Lemon\, who is a Lecturer in Domestic Violence Law and Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum at Boalt\, introduced and has now taught Domestic Violence Law continuously for 25 years at the school. She authored Domestic Violence Law\, the first U.S. textbook on this topic\, which Austin & Winfield Publishers published in 1996 and for which West Group has published four additional editions\, the most recent in 2009. She has also co-authored Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety (Sage Publications\, 2003) and Working Together to End Domestic Violence (Mancorp Publishing\, 1996) as well as authoring dozens of amicus briefs\, law review articles\, affidavits and books chapters about domestic violence issues. Since 1983\, she has worked on numerous pieces of California state legislation and has conducted hundreds of trainings on domestic violence topics for many different professional groups. Since 1995\, working as an expert witness\, Prof. Lemon has consulted on hundreds of family law\, tort\, asylum and other cases and testified in sixty. She is a Co-founder and Legal Director of the Berkeley Family Violence Appellate Project. \nSeating is limited – please email fmst@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-2461 to reserve a space at the luncheon. \nFeminist Studies wishes to make this event accessible to all. Please contact (831) 459-2461 for accommodations. This event is free and open to the public\, but reservations are required. \nGenerously sponsored by Cowell College\, The Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Department of Feminist Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-feminist-studies-legal-luncheon-practicing-domestic-violence-law-2/ LOCATION:Unnamed Venue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T220000 DTSTAMP:20260501T054825 CREATED:20121129T171115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121129T171115Z UID:10005251-1354561200-1354572000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WILDNESS: Film Screening and Discussion with Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar DESCRIPTION:Click on image to enlarge flyer.\nThe Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present: \nWILDNESS\na film by Wu Tsang \nScreening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar \nReception to follow screening and discussion\nABOUT THE FILM \nRooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife\, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter\, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical realist flourish\, the bar itself becomes a character\, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness\, which explodes into creativity and conflict. \nWhat does “safe space” mean\, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter\, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations. \nThe film will be screened in conjunction with Prof. Marcia Ochoa’s courses FMST 41 and Soc Doc 204\, and to foster campus dialogue on Transgender Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \nFeminist Studies wishes to make this program accessible to people with disabilities. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact Marti Stanton at (831) 459-3981. \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nWU TSANG is a filmmaker\, artist\, and performer based in Los Angeles. As a transgendered second-generation Chinese American\, he explores human stories at at the intersection of complex identities. He was named one of 2012’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. His first feature WILDNESS won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest 2012 [World Premiere: MoMA Documentary Fortnight (New York\, NY)\, SXSW (Austin\, TX)\, Hot Docs (Toronto\, Canada)\, SANFIC8 (Santiago\, Chile)]. WILDNESS was also featured with a companion multi-channel video installation called /GREEN ROOM at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. \nROYA RASTEGAR is a writer and curator living in Los Angeles. She received a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness\, from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Through the guidance of advisors Angela Y. Davis and B. Ruby Rich\, her scholarship traces the productive conflicts and coalitions that flourish within cultural spaces. She has curated within both film and art contexts. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2008-9\, a Director of the Santa Cruz Women of Color Film & Video Festival\, and has participated in the programming of a number of film festivals\, including the Sundance Film Festival and as a Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival from 2008-2011. She has served on the juries of Outfest and the Santiago Festival International de Cine. Rastegar is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA\, and writes about film and performance for various publications. Her current book project offers a critical study of American film festivals and the radical possibilities of film and new media curatorial practices. WILDNESS is her feature film writing debut.\nCosponsored by the Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Arts Division; the Office of Campus Life and Dean of Students; El Centro – Chicano Latino Resource Center; the Cantú Queer Center; Kresge College; the UC Presidential Chair in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wildness-film-screening-and-discussion-with-wu-tsang-and-roya-rastegar-3/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR