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SUMMARY:Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Note that this event has a new date and location: It will take place in person on March 7 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Cowell Conference Room (132) (map). \n  \nPlease join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits\, such as fellowships\, conferences\, research\, and resources\, available to UCSC faculty\, students\, and staff. IA will share a toolkit and creative engagement tools to help organize the people\, projects\, and partners on our campus doing community-engaged work. This discussion will offer strategies for energizing your campus community to engage with community members and uplift public scholarship. \n Lunch will be provided\, register here: \n \nPresenters: Stephanie Maroney\, Managing Director of Imagining America\, and Anuj Vaidya\, Communications Director of Imagining America. \nPublic Scholar Tools Offered by Imagining America\nInspired by a three-year action research project\, the IA public scholar tools are designed to spark conversation about the joys\, contributions\, and struggles of public scholars and artists. The Conversation Cards aim to break the silence surrounding elite academic cultures that value a limited range of understandings of what kinds of knowledge matters and to nurture supportive relationships and environments for public scholars to thrive. The Public Scholar Imagination Guide provides a variety of reflection and action tools for anyone trying to improve their own practice and for those interested in making the university a more hospitable\, caring\, and creative place to nurture public\, engaged\, and activist scholarship\, artmaking\, and design. \nAbout Imagining America\nThe Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars\, artists\, designers\, humanists\, and organizers to imagine\, study\, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional\, disciplinary\, and community divides\, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship\, cultural organizing\, and campus change that inspires collective imagination\, knowledge-making\, and civic action on pressing public issues. Imagining America is guided by 7 values and committed to bringing people together as our full selves in critical yet hopeful spaces to imagine better ways of living\, learning and working together. \nThis event is brought to you by the Art Research Institute\, Campus + Community\, Humanities Institute\, and the Institute for Social Transformation (IST).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/activating-community-engagement-with-imagining-america-at-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slug Book Club Holiday Party with the Deep Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an undergraduate holiday party with the Slug Book Club and the Deep Read. Come for pizza and drinks as well as holiday crafts and a literary white elephant exchange ($10-$15 budget). We’ll be handing out copies of this year’s Deep Read book\, James by Percival Everett\, and discussing opportunities to participate in the Deep Read program. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slug-book-club-holiday-party-with-the-deep-read/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000
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SUMMARY:Deanna Shemek: "Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations"
DESCRIPTION:Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations\nWhen you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art?\nPlease join us for Deanna Shemek’s Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture as she discusses how she and her team are using Isabella d’Este’s personal correspondence to reconstruct Renaissance Italy. Using state of the art technology in virtual and augmented reality along with the work of numerous historians and researchers in the US and in Italy\, Deanna’s work is bringing a whole new meaning to the term bringing history to life. \n  \nIntrigued? Here is a short video about the project: \n \nIsabella d’Este Virtual Studiolo from Future Film Festival on Vimeo. \n  \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deanna-shemek-digital-isabella-deste-new-renaissance-navigations-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T180000
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CREATED:20150424T194501Z
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SUMMARY:To Africa and Back
DESCRIPTION:Angela Elsy is a lecturer specialized in La Francophonie\, the countries and regions around the world where French is spoken. For ten years she served as director of La Maison Francophone\, an academic/residential program at Cowell College. She is in her third year and final year as Licker Chair at Cowell. She will present a public lecture in English on her research in Morocco\, Senegal and Cameroun in 2013 and 2014 and the course she taught based on this work.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/to-africa-and-back-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130523T043000
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SUMMARY:Anthony Barbieri-Low: "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” \nThe tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated in our lifetime\, if ever\, imagination will always play a major role in trying to understand what is in the tomb. Ever since the Emperor was first interred\, authors\, artists\, and archaeologists have tried to reconstruct and imagine what lies in his tomb. Such reconstructions allow the imaginer to project his fears\, hopes\, and expectations on the site\, and can tell us even more about the imaginers than it does about the world they imagine. This talk will explore how historians\, poets\, artists\, archaeologists\, movie directors\, and video-game designers have imagined the First Emperor’s underground realm. \nTalk begins at 5:00 pm\, refreshments served at 4:30 pm\, with a reception following lecture.\nAnthony Barbieri-Low is Associate Professor of Early Chinese History at UC Santa Barbara. He graduated from UCSC in 1994 with a degree in History\, and went on to receive his M.A from Harvard and Ph.D. from Princeton. He has wide-ranging research interests in many aspects of Early China\, including technology\, organization of production\, labor history\, gender and social relations\, legal process\, material culture\, and state formation. In 2007\, he published the book Artisans in Early Imperial China\, which went on to receive four major international book prizes in ancient history\, art history\, and Chinese studies. He has just completed a book-length translation and study of ancient Chinese legal texts and is preparing another book on interpretations of the First Emperor of China.\nFree parking for lecture in Cowell-Stevenson parking lots. For more information on the lecture or the AIA\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-barbieri-low-imaging-the-tomb-of-the-first-emperor-of-china-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130212T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130212T120000
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CREATED:20130212T182709Z
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable XV
DESCRIPTION:UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: MARCH 22-24\, 2013\nSession V (9 a.m.-Noon)\nChair: Paul Roth\, UCSC \nAnalytical sociology and rhetoric: Large scale social phenomena arguably triggered by innocuous rhetorical devices\nAlban Bouvier\, Jean Nicod Institute\, Paris \nThe Idea of Philosophy and its Relation to Social Science\nMark Theunissen\, The New School \nThe Concept of a ‘Process’ in Norbert Elias’s Figurational Sociology\nPhilip Walsh\, York University\nThe Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable thanks the following units at UCSC for their financial support of this conference: Institute for Humanities Research; Department of Philosophy; Department of Economics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-of-social-science-roundtable-xv-3-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T190000
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CREATED:20121023T185434Z
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SUMMARY:Learning from the Oak Creek Wisconsin Tragedy: Sikhs and Pluralism in America
DESCRIPTION:The fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August\, and the possible motivation of the shooter\, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues. \n5:30-­6:30 pm – Program and Speakers\nWelcome by Sikh Students Association Introductory Remarks\nDean William Ladusaw\, Humanities Division \nUCSC Panel Discussion\nProfessor Nathaniel Deutsch\, UCSC\nDr. Seema Kaur Sidhu\, United Sikhs\nMs. Amrit Kaur Sidhu\, United Sikhs\nProfessor Nirvikar Singh\, UCSC (Moderator) \n6:30-­7:00 pm – Dinner and Informal Discussion \nAbout the Speakers\nNathaniel Deutsch is Director of the Institute for Humanities Research\, Co-­Director of the Center for Jewish Studies\, and Professor of History at UCSC. \nSeema Kaur Sidhu is the United Sikhs Regional Director for Community Empowerment and Education and Business Development. She works with Sikh youth in promoting health awareness\, empowering new youth leaders and engaging them in education and social justice initiatives. She is also a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist. \nAmrit Kaur Sidhu is a United Sikhs intern\, and graduated from UCSC in June 2012 with a BS in Human Biology and a Politics minor. \nNirvikar Singh is the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics at UCSC. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Sikh Student Association\, the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, and the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sikh-and-punjabi-studies-symposium-on-the-oak-creek-tragedy-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T190000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
DESCRIPTION:Filmed reenactment has a long\, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema\, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité\, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary\, reenactment fell from favor during the 1960s. But in the past decade\, and with\nremarkable alacrity\, reenactment has been revived as a critical figure\, in all manner of film-historical writing\, both in and on film. UCSC Film and Digital Media professors Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig consider some sources and implications of this renewed interest in reenactment as a trope of history\, with reference to and excerpts from two of Lusztig’s reenacted documentaries\, Reconstruction (2001)\, and The Samantha Smith Project (2005). In Reconstruction\, Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation\, when she travels to Bucharest to construct a portrait of her enigmatic grandmother. The title of the documentary is derived from a bizarre government propaganda film that reenacts the crime and trial of a robbery that “starred” her grandmother\, as a member of the infamous Ioanid Gang. Braiding together the story of the briefly-famous ten-year-old girl from Manchester\, Maine who became Yuri Andropov’s penpal at the height of the Cold War and a parallel personal narrative of travel to Russia fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union\, The Samantha Smith Project explores the aftermath of the Cold War and the contemporary Russian landscape\, while meditating on notions of forgetting\, nostalgia\, and the manufacturing and dismantling of political enemies. \nPlease visit our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-kahana-and-irene-lusztig-documentary-reenactment-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120227T170000
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SUMMARY:Angela Elsey\, "Life in Senegal / La Vie senegalaise"
DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nLife in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise \nAngela Elsey\nAngela Elsey Lecturer in French \nPlease join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work\, school\, play\, home life\, language use\, creative activities\, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has made two trips to Senegal during which she studied at the University of Dakar\, traveled the country and spent time with the local people. The talk will be in English.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angela-elsey-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T190000
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Andre Lepecki
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nAndre Lepecki\, \nPerformance Studies\, New York University \nNot as Before\, but Again: Reenactments and “Transcreation” \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-lepecki-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T140000
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CREATED:20120217T001003Z
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SUMMARY:Ory Amitay: "Mary\, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus' Antiquities 18.53-84"
DESCRIPTION:Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. \nThis event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, the departments of Literature and History\, and the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ory-amitay-mary-paulina-and-fulvia-allegorical-history-in-josephus-antiquities-18-53-84-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T190000
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CREATED:20120110T211147Z
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SUMMARY:Maaike Bleeker: "(Un)Covering artistic thought unfolding"
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n \nMaaike Bleeker \nTheatre Studies\, Utrecht University \n(Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding \nFollowing a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover\, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is reenacted being artistic creations by other artists\, as distinguished from the reenactment of historical situations or events. And also how reenacting these works results in new works\, covers. Covers exist in a specific relationship to the original work\, the cover being a remake or response to the original work from the position of another artist at a later moment in time. The notion of cover also points to how this relationship is mediated by recordings and documentation. The term ´cover version´ originates from the 1960´s when it was introduced to describe a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with an already released original version. That is\, the notion of cover is closely connected to recordings and the recording industry\, not to music or songs as live performance. \nMaaike Bleeker is a Professor and the Chair of Theatre Studies. She studied Art History\, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed her PhD on Visuality in the Theatre (2002). Previously\, she lectured at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam\, The Piet Zwart Post-Graduate program in Fine Arts (Rotterdam)\, Media Gn: Centre for Emergent Media (Groningen)\, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam)\, the post graduate program Arts Performance Theatricality (Antwerp)\, and in the IPP Performance and Media Studies Summer School of the Johannes Gutenburg Universität\, Mainz. Since 1991\, she also worked as a dramaturge for various theatre directors\, choreographers and visual artists. She performed in several lecture performances\, ran her own theatre company (Het Oranjehotel) and translated five plays that were performed by major Dutch theatre companies. She was an Artist in Residence at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (2006-2007) and member of the jury of the Dutch National Theatre Festival TF (2007-2008). \nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-bleeker-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T190000
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Fabian Barba
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012\n\nFabian Barba\nIndependent artist\, Belgium\n\nReenacting the Dances of Mary Wigman \nA Lecture Demonstration (Studio A-105\, Theater Arts Center) \nFriday\, February 3rd at 2pm \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-barba-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20120110T205600Z
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SUMMARY:Visual Performance Studies Presents: Kimberly Jannarone
DESCRIPTION:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series\, 2011-2012 \n\n \n\nKimberly Jannarone \n Theater Arts\, Digital Arts and New Media\, History of Consciousness\, UCSC \nMemory and Mass Performance \nThe recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the “reperformance” of her earlier work\, which had only existed until then as one-time events recorded on film.  Bringing this ephemeral performance work into the museum space as a live artifact raised consciousness of a broader trend currently taking place in contemporary dance\, theatre\, film\, video and performance art.  Reenactment raises questions of the differences between reconstruction\, revival\, adaptation\, reinvention\, quotation\, amplification\, and the kinds of temporalities these strategies to recover past performance signify. But beyond the terminological questions\, issues of artist identity\, authenticity\, and history emerge in direct relationship with performative documentary activity. The question of the event and the document become dramatically foregrounded. The question of trauma and catharsis in relation to reenactment is salient as became clear in our first seminar with Chip Lord and Magaret Morse. \n\n\n\nReenactment of the work of one artist by another has been a form of contemporary creativity in theatre\, film\, dance\, and performance for some time\, but has been gaining momentum as a major trend of artistic production and research.  Clearly\, it evokes the connections of historiography and interpretation to art making that documents the past in a non-literal or even paradoxical yet exacting and rigorous way that evades certain mimetic conventions.  It is time to ask what sorts of temporality are deployed in reenactments\, and how new sorts of temporality reframe notions of documentation\, reconstruction/reinvention\, citation/quotation\, and amplification of an earlier work or event in the contemporary moment. \nThis year-long speaker series will present artists and scholars specializing in this area of contemporary creativity. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vps-jannarone-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111114
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20111020T235117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111020T235117Z
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SUMMARY:Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society 2011 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Kant\nThe Philosophy Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz is proud to host the 2011 Meeting of the Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society November 12-13\, 2011. \nSpeaking events are open to the public and will be held in the Cowell College Conference Room. \nFor more information or to register for this conference please contact Professor Daniel Guevara via email at guevara@ucsc.edu or 831-459-3600. \n2011 Meeting Program\nSaturday November 12: \n1:00 pm David Hills (Stanford University)\n“Of the (Kantian) Standard of Taste” \n2:30 pm  Michelle Grier (University of San Diego)\n“The Transcendental Ideality of the Kantian Sublime” \n4:00 pm Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)\n“Kant’s notion of unconditional goodness” \n5:30 pm Business meeting \n  \nSunday\, November 13: \n8:30 am Light Breakfast \n9:00 am Samantha Matherne (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant and the Art of Schematism”\nWinner of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend \n10:30 am Pierre Keller (University of California\, Riverside)\n“Kant’s Copernican Revolution: Ideas as the Source of Normativity” \n12:00 pm Abe Stone (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Kant on Objects and Things”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pacific-study-group-of-the-north-american-kant-society-2011-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T190000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20111103T220320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111103T220320Z
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SUMMARY:Martin Puchner: "Re-Enactment and Site-Specific Performance"
DESCRIPTION:Martin Puchner\nWhile re-enactment has long been a popular art\, it has entered performance art in two ways: through site-specific performances such as the ones orchestrated by Mike Pearson or David Levine\, which often explore the history of a place; and the re-enactment of performance art\, as in the recent case of Marina Abramovic. In both cases\, performance art and theater intersect in unexpected ways. I confront these re-enactments with a brief discussion of the New Globe\, where historical reconstruction provides the frame for the established art of theatrical revival. \nMartin Puchner is Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. After studying philosophy\, history\, and literature at the University of Konstanz\, the Università di Bologna\, UC Santa Barbara\, and UC Irvine\, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1998. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University from 1998 until 2010\, before moving to Harvard University in the summer of 2010.  \nThis event has been made possible by The Center for Visual and Performance Studies.\nFor more information on this speaker series please see our website: http://artsresearch.ucsc.edu/vps/reenactment \nContact Jenna Purcell at vpsucsc@gmail.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-puchner-re-enactment-and-site-specific-performance-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20111031T012408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111031T012408Z
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SUMMARY:Brooke Holmes\, "The Missing Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes\, Princeton University\, ‘The Missíng Body: Authority\, Immunity\, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing” \nBrooke Holms\nBrooke Holmes’ paper arises from a simple question: Why doesn’t the physician draw on his experience of his own body as a source of knowledge and authority in early Greek medical writing? In trying to answer it\, Professor Holmes argues that the very absence of the physician’s body represents an early phase in the history of disembodied authority in Western medicine and science. \nBrooke Holmes works at the intersections of Greek literature\, science and medicine\, and philosophy\, with particular interests in the history of subjectivity and the body\, materialism\, tragedy\, ethics\, critical theory\, and reception studies. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia and her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton in 2005. She has taught since 2007 at Princeton\, where she is the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship\, Her first book\, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece\, was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brooke-holmes-the-missing-body-authority-immunity-and-objectivity-in-early-greek-medical-writing-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20111025T003442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20111025T003442Z
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SUMMARY:Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy"
DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Frame\nThe Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”\, a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. \nThe Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco\, 1975\, that resulted in a 24 minute video work about the JFK assassination. At the center of this work was a re-enactment of the tragedy produced and performed for the camera\, but unexpectedly many by-standers showed up to watch and were interviewed. \nChip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn  and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac  Ranch sculpture in Amarillo\, Texas. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres\, often mixing the two\, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX.   He is Professor Emeritus in Film & Digital Media. \nMargaret Morse studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video art to new media and digital culture. Her hundred plus publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/temporalities-of-reenactment-a-speaker-series-the-eternal-frame-an-artists-reenactment-of-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-3/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110525T190000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20110514T180455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110514T180455Z
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SUMMARY:Nancy Hornberger: "Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties (Grounded in Indigenous Experience)"
DESCRIPTION:Ethnic diversity and inequality\, intercultural communication and contact\, and global political and economic interdependence are acknowledged realities in today’s world. Multilingual education\, too\, is a fact of life\, and though there are a great variety of contexts\, models\, contents\, and developmental trajectories in multilingual education policy and practice\, it is possible to discern continuities that characterize successful multilingual education wherever it is found. My emphasis here is on what we know and are sure of\, analytically formulated as ten certainties and illustrated by empirical research.\nThis talk is presented by the Language Program Colloquium Series.\n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-hornberger-multilingual-education-policy-and-practice-ten-certainties-grounded-in-indigenous-experience-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110512T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20110311T211833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110311T211833Z
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SUMMARY:Kuan-Hsing Chen: "Asia as Method"
DESCRIPTION:Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies; coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; and co-executive editor of the journal\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements. His most recent book is Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialiazation (Duke\, 2010). \nReadings available at:  http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/files/2011/03/Asia_as_Method.pdf \nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies with co-sponsorship by the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster of the IHR\, Film and Digital Media Department\, and the Nee Fund of the Dept of History\, UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kuan-hsing-chen-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110501
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20110329T233405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110329T233405Z
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SUMMARY:Pasolini's Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet\, film director\, screenwriter and theatre critic\, playwright\, essayist\, journalist\, graphic artist\, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century.  Since his mysterious murder in 1975\, Pasolini has been reviled; then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. This conference focuses on configurations of the body and gesture that arise in Pasolini’s performative\, visual\, and poetic practices with respect to the artist image\, the ‘popular body’\, the Third World\, narrative and choreographic movement\, Pasolini’s life\, and his conceptions of the political and eroticism as they intersect history\, culture\, and myth. \nThursday \n7:30-10 pm – Film Screening: Arabian Nights \nIntroduction: Peter Limbrick\, UCSC \nLocation: Studio C\, Communications Building \nFriday  \n8:30-9:00 – Coffee  \n9:00-9:30 – Opening Remarks\nDavid Yager\, Dean of the Arts\,\nMark Franko\, Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies \n9:30-11:30 – Panel: Corporeal Poetics\nTyrus Miller\, UCSC\n“Transhumanize and Organize: Pasolini’s Crossing of Philology and Biopolitics” \nArmando Maggi\, U. Chicago\n“Norman O. Brown’s Love’s Body and Pasolini’s Calderón” \nColleen Ryan-Scheutz\, Indiana U.\n“Pasolini’s Final Word(s): From the Divina Mimesis to Petrolio and Salo” \nModerator: Deanna Shemek\, UCSC \n11:30-1:00 – Lunch  \n1:00-3:00 – Panel: Visualizing the Body  \nGian Maria Annovi\, Columbia\n“Pasolini’s Cinematographic Body” \nMark Franko\, UCSC\n“Notes on Pasolini and the ‘Language’ of Dance” \nSilvestra Mariniello\, U. Montreal\n“Myth and the Pace of Life. Pasolini’s Poetics of History” \nModerator: Cathy Soussloff\, UBC \n3:00-3:30 – Break  \n3:30-5:30 – Panel: Political Kinesthetics  \nStaisey Divorski\, UCLA\n“The Heretical Absence of the Word: Pasolini’s Teorema” \nEvan Calder Williams\, UCSC\n“A Vital Desperation: On Rage and Communist Pessimism” \nWlad Godzich\, UCSC\n“Body\, Narrative\, and Politics” \nModerator: Karen Bassi\, UCSC \n5:30-7:30 – Reception & Film Screening: Notes on an African Orestes \nIntroduction: Peter Limbrick\, UCSC \nLocation: Studio C\, Communications Building \nSaturday \n10:00-10:30 – Coffee  \n10:30-1:00 – Panel: Postcolonial Figurations \nDavid Pendleton\, Harvard\n“Pasolini on the Beach: Semiosis\, Erotics and the Politics of the Image” \nDerek Duncan\, U. Bristol\n“Graceless: Pasolini’s Postcolonial Body” \nGiovanna Trento\, French Center for Ethiopian Studies\n“Il corpo popolare according to Pier Paolo Pasolini: body\, sexuality\, subalternity\, reality\, resistance\, agency and death” \nLuca Caminati\, Concodria\n“Notes on Pasolini’s Third World” \nModerator: Peter Limbrick  \nSponsored by UCSC Arts Division\, UCSC Arts Research Institute\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco\,  Cowell College\, Theater Arts Department\, Literature  Department\, Film and Digital Media Department\, History of Art and Visual Culture Department\,  History of Consciousness Department\, Feminist Studies Department\, and History Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pasolinis-body-vps-conference-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110414T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20110411T162950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110411T162950Z
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SUMMARY:Hans Sluga: “From Normative Theory to Diagnostic Practice”
DESCRIPTION:From the Greeks to the present our moral and political philosophizing has been preoccupied with a search for the timeless and the universal: timeless norms of moral action and universal principles of political life. Where this may once have seemed to be a plausible undertaking\, it is not obviously so any longer. A clear understanding of the nature of our rapidly changing world should alert us to the need for another form of philosophical thinking – one that pays attention to the condition in which we find ourselves and that seeks to reach practical conclusions\, if any\,on the basis of a proper diagnosis of the present. In place of the usual normative theorizing we need to foster\, what I will call\, a diagnostic practice in moral and political philosophy. \nProfessor Hans Sluga will be speaking at 4:00PM on Thursday\, April 14\, 2011 at the invitation of the Philosophy Department. This event is free and open to the public. \nHans Sluga studied at Oxford University\, where he became familiar with the writings of Wittgenstein. Sluga credits Sir Michael Dumment with influencing his extensive interest in Frege’s contribution to the development of modern logic and philosophy of language. During his time at Oxford he also studied under R.M. Hare and Isaiah Berlin\, stirring his interest in questions of ethics and politics. \nProfessor Sluga’s overall philosophical outlook is radically historical as he believes that “we can understand ourselves only as being with a particular evolution and history”.  As such he is drawn to the works of Nietzsche and Foucault. Sluga claims to be “attracted to a realist and naturalistic view of things rather than any sort of formalistic rationalism”. \nHe has recently taught courses on Political Philosophy\, Nietzsche\, and Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hans-sluga-from-normative-theory-to-diagnostic-practice-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110331T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110331T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20110331T015657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110331T015657Z
UID:10004572-1301587200-1301594400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Colin Koopman: "Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault's Self-Transformative Ethics"
DESCRIPTION:Michel Foucault’s late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault.  I offer a distinction between ethical ‘orientations’ and ethical ‘commitments’.  Rather than offering substantive normative content\, I argue\, Foucault’s ethics are an attempt to specify a formal mode or style of ethical practice which can gain determinate normative content only in contexts of actual ethical practice.  The guiding ethical orientation in Foucault’s late writings is\, I argue\, self-transformation as a practice of freedom.  After defending Foucault along these lines\, I discuss how self-transformation helps us understand the relatively more determinate ethical conceptions of pleasure and parrhesia (fearless speech) developed in Foucault’s late writings.  I conclude with some sharp questions about the lack of sufficient determinate ethical content in these conceptions\, thus opening the possibility for supplementing Foucault’s ethics with the work of other self-transformative moral philosophers\, including for\ninstance William James. \nProfessor Colin Koopman (BA Evergreen State College 1998\, MA Leeds University 1999\, PhD McMaster University 2006) will be speaking at 4:00 on Thursday\, March 31\, 2011 at the Philosophy department colloquium held in the Cowell Conference Room. This event is free and open to the campus community. His area of specialty includes but is not limited to Pragmatism & American Philosophy\, Genealogy & Critical Theory\, Political & Social Philosophy\, etc.  Professor Koopman was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship (04-06) and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (06-08) for his work with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. More recently he received the Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship\, as well as the Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship (11-12). He has taught at UC Santa Cruz (08-09) and currently resides as a Assistant Professor at University of Oregon. He has also given courses as a visiting lecture at UC Berkeley’s School of Information (09).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colin-koopmanpleasure-and-parrhesia-in-foucaults-self-transformative-ethics-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20110210T193454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20110210T193454Z
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SUMMARY:Kaija Mortensen:"Thought Experiment Intuitions: Rational or Animal?"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is presented as part of the Philosophy Graduate Student Works in Progress series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kaija-mortensenthought-experiment-intuitions-rational-or-animal-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110207
DTSTAMP:20260519T181715
CREATED:20101013T013217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T013217Z
UID:10004625-1296777600-1297036799@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Paul Bowles Centennial Festival
DESCRIPTION:Bowles at 100: A Celebration of Multi-Artistry\nUCSC’s Paul Bowles Centennial Festival presents an international group of scholars\, writers\, filmmakers\, and performers to celebrate the multi-faceted artistry of Paul Bowles. Festival highlights include: concerts of Bowles’ orchestral and vocal music; an exhibition of images and artifacts from Bowles’ six-decade career; a conference with presentations on Bowles’ activities as a writer\, composer\, translator\, ethnographer\, and traveller. The festival provides a unique opportunity to experience the depth and range of the works of this fascinating American master. \nSponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Porter College\, Cowell College\, Office of Research\, Division of the Arts\, Division of Graduate Studies. \nProgram\nFriday\, February 4\nCONFERENCE: COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM \n9:00–9:15 am   Introductory Remarks\nTyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann \n9:15–10:45 am   Paul Bowles as a Modernist: Making Strange\, Making it New\nAllen Hibbard\, “Paul Bowles and Modernism”\nRob Wilson\, “Bowles\, the Beats\, and ‘Fellaheen Orientalism’”\nJimmy Fazzino\, “Bowles’ World Beats” \n10:45–11:15 am   Coffee Break \n11:15–12:45 pm   Paul Bowles in North Africa\nBrian Edwards\, “Paul Bowles in Moroccan Circulation”\nJeffrey Miller\, “Publishing Paul Bowles: Cross-cultural Complexities”\nMichael Wolfe\, “Layachi\, Mrabet\, and Bowles: Some Memories & Reflections” \n12:45–2:00 pm   Lunch Break \n2:00–3:30 pm   Bowles’ Resistant Biographies\nMillicent Dillon\, “Paul Bowles and the Perils of Biography”\nMargaux Cowden\, “Seriously Queer: Reflections on the Earnest Intimacies of Jane and Paul Bowles”\nIrene Herrmann\, “Notes on Musical Friendship” \n3:30–4:00 pm   Coffee Break \n4:00–5:30 pm   Ten Minutes Walk from Bowles’ Apartment\nKeynote presentation by filmmakers Karim Debbagh and Frieder Schlaich \nCONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL \n6:00-7:30 pm   Manhattan Skyline \nEnsemble Parallèle – Nicole Paiement\, conductor\nMichael McGushin\, spoken word \nThe Dancer (West Coast Premiere)\nRomantic Suite (West Coast Premiere)\nThree Pastoral Songs (West Coast Premiere)\nSelected Songs for Voice and Piano \nSaturday\, February 5\nCONFERENCE: COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM \n9:00–9:10 am   Introductory Remarks \nTyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann \n9:10–10:40 am   Bowles’s Other Personae\nRodrigo Rey Rosa\, “Paul Bowles as Translator”\nTimothy Mangan\, “Paul Bowles as Music Critic”\nPhilip Schuyler\, “The Composer as Collector” \n10:40–11:00 am   Coffee Break \n11:00–12:00 pm   Excavating Paul Bowles\nFilm footage and presentation by Timothy Murray and Francis Poole \n12:00–12:30 pm   You are Not I\nFilm screening with filmmaker Sara Driver \n12:30–1:30 pm   Lunch Break \nEXHIBITION: ELOISE PICKARD SMITH GALLERY\, COWELL COLLEGE \n1:30–3:30 pm “Bowles in Black and White\,” Exhibition Opening and Reception \nKEYNOTE PRESENTATION: HUMANITIES LECTURE HALL \n3:30–5:00 pm   The Desert and Fatality: Learning from Paul Bowles\nEdumund White \nCONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL \n5:30–6:30 pm   A Musical Portrait \nBrian Staufenbiel\, Patrice Maginnis\, voice\nMichael McGushin\, Irene Herrmann\, piano\nJohn Dizikes\, spoken word \nTwo-Piano Sonata\nMexican Dances for Two Pianos (West Coast Premiere)\nBlue Mountain Ballads\nTwo Gertrude Stein songs (West Coast Premiere)\nSongs with Texts by Jane Bowles\, Paul Bowles\nCuatro Canciones de Garcia Lorca\nSelected Readings from Paul Bowles texts \nSunday\, February 6\nCONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL \n11:00–12:00 pm   The Unknown Bowles\nDizikes Music Event\, cosponsored by Cowell College \nAriose Vocal Ensemble – Michael McGushin\, conductor\nRodrigo Rey Rosa\, spoken word \nSonata for Oboe and Clarinet\nFolk Song Settings (arranged by Irene Herrmann)\nTornado Blues (West Coast Premiere)\nThree Choral Settings of Bowles Songs (arranged by Michael McGushin)\nSongs from the Sierras\nReadings about Paul Bowles by his friends \n12:00–1:00 pm   Bowles Festival Closing Remarks\nTyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann \nLight reception to follow. \n\nFor more information visit: http://bowles.ihr.ucsc.edu/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-bowles-centennial-festival-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101028T160000
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SUMMARY:CHRISTOPHER DURT: "Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy"
DESCRIPTION:Philosophy graduate student Christopher Durt will give the following talk\, “Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy\,” as a Work in Progress. \nCome join us!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-durt-galileo-and-the-emergence-of-modern-philosophy-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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