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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T143000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T160000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T120000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150127T170000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150120T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150120T183000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150113T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150113T183000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150106T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150106T183000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140603T170000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130515T190000
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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