BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170809T181003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T164914Z UID:10005396-1516190400-1516195800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELED: Roddey Reid: "Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France\, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek of Doing Science + Culture; and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California\, France\, and Japan. His latest writing has been on trauma\, daily life\, and the culture of intimidation and bullying in the U.S. and Europe. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-7-2/ 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:20180112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180112T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170925T191408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194318Z UID:10006549-1515754800-1515760200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: "Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics" DESCRIPTION:“Undisciplining Your Research: A Hands-On Workshop to Translate Academic Humanities Research for Multiple Publics” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPanelists:  \n– Sarah Papazoglakis\, PhD Candidate\, Literature \n– Kara Hisatake\, PhD Candidate\, Literature & MLA Public Engagement Fellow \nAbout: As doctoral students in the humanities\, how do we communicate the importance of our work outside of our disciplines without it sounding reductive? How do we communicate what we do and why it matters to people outside of academia\, including prospective employers?   \nIn this workshop\, you will: \n– Hear from several hiring managers in the private and nonprofit sectors about what turns them on and off when humanities PhDs apply for jobs at their organizations. Learn to avoid common pitfalls. \n– Create a one-page draft cover letter for a job in the private or public sector. \n– Make an informal 3-minute video about your research using your smartphone or computer. Enter the video into the UCSC Grad Slam competition for a chance to win $3000! \nChoose from sample job descriptions and cover letter templates provided at the workshop. Or bring a job description that interests you and your own sample cover letter. \nKara Hisatake is a PhD Candidate in Literature and a 2018-2019 MLA Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp Fellow. Sarah Papazoglakis is a PhD Candidate in Literature and part of the 2018 UCSC Chancellor’s Graduate Internship Program Cohort. \nPhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees \n*Stay tuned for more information. \n\nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-undisciplining-your-research-a-hands-on-workshop-to-translate-academic-humanities-research-for-multiple-publics/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170918T180148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194204Z UID:10006538-1512126000-1512131400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Proposal Writing - Framing Your Research for Fellowship and Grant Proposals DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis workshop is devoted to developing a fellowship and grant strategy that will assist you in making your research proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss how the jargon of field-specific descriptions can affect both the clarity and persuasiveness of funding proposals\, and focus instead on teasing out the larger humanistic stakes of individual research projects. Please upload an abstract of your own by Friday\, November 24 to the shared Google Drive folder at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YR76sm_j34z5-0i3NOIsAVgLNHgMhTMP\, and bring a hardcopy with you to the workshop. A portion of our conversation will be devoted to revising current and/or future research proposals in order to appeal to scholars from a variety of humanistic departments and programs. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \n  \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-competitive-proposals-for-ihr-funding-framing-your-research-for-fellowship-and-grant-proposals-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170809T180821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T180821Z UID:10005394-1511956800-1511962200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon\, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity\, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices\, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology\, the history of biology\, science studies\, feminist and critical race studies\, and the sociology of science\, technology and medicine. \nDr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/ 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:20171118T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20171004T000900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T211102Z UID:10005417-1510999200-1511024400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThis is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017)\, called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”\, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes\, from different directions\, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word\, phrase\, and clause)\, and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research\, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax\, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure\, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968\, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals\, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure. \nBesides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments\, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers. \nMore information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/ \nPROGRAM \nSPOT Program: Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017 \n9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea\, bagels\, pastries and fruit \n10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)\nShinichiro Ishihara (Lund University) \n11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch \n1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nLisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst) \n2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nNicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nRyan Bennett\, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Emily Elfner (York University) \n4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception \nFor more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-syntax-prosody-in-ot-workshop-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/SPOT-for-event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20171004T000415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T000415Z UID:10005416-1510934400-1510941600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics presents: \nBrian Dillon \n“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”\n \nAbstract:\nIntuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze\, 1996). Despite their centrality\, there remain many open issues in the collection\, analysis\, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics\, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart\, 1997)\, to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability. \nIn this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly\, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end\, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler\, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman\, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability\, such as judgments in a rating task. \nTo illustrate this approach\, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton\, Christopher Hammerly\, Joshua Levy\, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First\, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second\, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow\, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler\, 2010). Third\, and perhaps most interestingly\, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular\, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak\, 2007; Wagers et al.\, 2009)\, rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard\, Cutting & Bock\, 2005). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-brian-dillon-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/brian.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170809T180153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T180153Z UID:10005392-1510747200-1510752600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:On Barak\, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDespite feigning perpetuity\, “energy” is a child of its time\, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race\, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context\, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century\, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels\, including ethical\, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate. \nBarak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/ 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:20171108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170809T174852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T174852Z UID:10005388-1510142400-1510147800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Nirvikar Singh\, "The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nWhat is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group\, & the lessons of that diversity\, and concludes by exploring some of the challenges that Indian Americans face as a minority in the contemporary United States & the implications of events in contemporary India. \nNirvikar Singh holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also directs the UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative within the Division of Social Sciences. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-4-2/ 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:20171103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 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:20171103T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170913T162739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T194049Z UID:10006536-1509706800-1509712200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities - an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC DESCRIPTION:This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH\, resources to continue building upon this project\, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop\, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. She will also share the resources available through the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) and discuss the range of digital skills sought on the academic job market. Following this workshop and discussion\, Zac Zimmer will talk about his personal experience with DH communities as well as the need to engage with digital concerns in traditional scholarly pursuits. Together\, they present DH not as a set of tools or skills\, but as a way of learning about and developing a critical vocabulary for a understanding the contemporary digital world. This includes the network interfaces we use daily\, the tools we employ to collect and organize research materials\, etc. For this session\, advance registration  (below) will be required. Please review this handout: https://docs.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/document/d/1u1CQq2SNOj-wVduFclQTQcLGSckE46MpJ1ifnhRH2mU/edit?usp=sharing\, and bring the requested materials to the session. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \n\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-gateway-to-digital-humanities-an-introduction-to-digital-methodologies-resources-on-the-ucsc-campus-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170809T175937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T175937Z UID:10005390-1509638400-1509645600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents:\nMarina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”  \nThe Cairo Geniza\, a cache of 400\,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue\, has yielded many unexpected finds\, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the archives of the Fatimid caliphs (969–1171). How did papers from a state archive in Cairo find their way into the hands of the Jewish scribes who reused them as scrap paper for compositions in Hebrew script? Did Jews who handled government documents know what they were looking at? This is a period from which only a tiny number of documents is believed to have survived. The very abundance and ubiquity of documentation in the Geniza suggest otherwise\, and have much to say about the largest Jewish community in the medieval world and about the culture of legal and political rights in the Middle East. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nMarina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History at Princeton University\, where she also directs the Princeton Geniza Lab. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008). In 2015\, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. \n  \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \n  \nPlease direct any questions or disability accommodation requests to ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-1274. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marina-rustov-the-cairo-geniza-and-the-middle-easts-archive-problem-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/2017/08/Marina-Rustow-11.2.17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20170809T174604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T174604Z UID:10006527-1509537600-1509543000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Najat Abdulhaq\, "Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the 'Arab Jew' in Contemporary Arabic Literature" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nFor decades\, two official nationalist narratives\, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli\, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently\, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere\, with documentaries\, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? \nNajat Abdulhaq is the author of Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser (I. B. Tauris). \nThis week’s Cultural Studies colloquium is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-3-2/ 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:20171025T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173417 CREATED:20171019T205544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T205544Z UID:10006556-1508950800-1508958000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27\, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1\, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford\, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3\, 5\, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if you can). Please note that Hardt himself will not be there; this is simply an occasion to discuss his and Negri’s work in anticipation of his talk. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and Center for Emerging Worlds URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/informal-reading-seminar-on-assembly-by-michael-hardt-and-antonio-negri-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:20171025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170809T172929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172929Z UID:10006525-1508932800-1508938200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carla Freccero\, "Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity" DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise\, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms? \nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness\, and Professor of Feminist Studies\, at UC Santa Cruz. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-2-2/ 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:20171020T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20171004T000026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T000026Z UID:10005415-1508515200-1508522400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nJudith Aissen is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics Department at UCSC. Her research focuses on morphosyntax\, especially in the Mayan languages\, especially Tzotzil\, a language spoken in Chiapas\, Mexico. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-judith-aissen-uc-santa-cruz-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170809T172433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172433Z UID:10006524-1508328000-1508333400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:María Inés La Greca: "The Collective Shout of 'Ni una menos' ('Not one less') in the Streets\, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina" DESCRIPTION:María Inés La Greca’s research focuses on the relationship between narrativity\, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work\, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative\, psychoanalysis & subject formation\, her aim is to offer a critical reflection on discourse\, embodiment & identity constitution in gender theory and feminist writing. \nInés La Greca is an adjunct professor at Tres de Febrero National University in Argentina. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-professor-la-greca-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:20171017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20171002T230104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171002T230104Z UID:10005413-1508256000-1508261400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Taking Scholarship Public: White Supremacy\, Medieval Studies\, and Mass Media DESCRIPTION:The “unofficial medievalist to CNN\,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Los Angeles Times\, Rolling Stone\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Salon\, Chicago Tribune\, and many other venues. In addition to commenting on Medieval History in the news\, he focuses on issues of history\, higher education\, and disability rights. He is currently at work on Cult of Compliance: Disability Is Not A Crime\, expected from Beacon Press in 2018. \nTrained as a medieval historian\, Perry was formerly Associate Professor of History at Dominican University. His book Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade was published by Penn State University Press in 2015. \nSponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research\, Cowell College\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taking-scholarship-public-white-supremacy-medieval-studies-and-mass-media-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:20171013T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170912T181022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193915Z UID:10006535-1507892400-1507897800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom - Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design DESCRIPTION:“Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design” is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities at UC Santa Cruz will will discuss their careers in curriculum development and instructional design and offer insights into transferring skillsets and content knowledge into this field of work. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nPanelists\nJoanna Meadvin\nPhD Literature\, 2016\nSobrato Early Academic Language Model Trainer\nSobrato Foundation \nLaura Rosenzweig\nPhD History\, 2013\nInstructional Designer\nUniversity of California Office of the President \nMichele Ryan\nPhD History\, 2003\nInstructional Design Consultant\nGoogle Inc. \nModerator\nSarah Papazoglakis\nPhD Candidate\, Literature \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, and much more. \nLunch provided to all attendees. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-pedagogy-beyond-the-college-classroom-careers-in-curriculum-development-instructional-design-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20171004T185503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185503Z UID:10006550-1507821300-1507827600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen\, "Many Molyneux Questions" DESCRIPTION:“Many Molyneux Questions”\nMohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen \nMolyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone\, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of representations of (not just shape\, but) any arbitrary feature shared by any two modalities. Our starting point is that this is over-simple. The scientific literature contains investigations of many such questions; some are answered positively\, others negatively. The answer to each question is empirical and each has to be investigated separately. Given this fragmentation\, we suggest that the most fruitful approach to MQ is “dimensional:” we identify and organize the problem around parameters that pose processing difficulties for various modalities\, and ask how these difficulties affect MQ. This approach yields many novel MQs\, some new\, others re-applications of problems posed in other contexts. \nJonathan Cohen is a Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. He specializes in Philosophy of mind\, language\, and perception\, particularly as these are informed by the cognitive sciences; color and color vision. \nAdvanced Reading: Molyneux Questions\, p. 364 (pdf p. 186) to p. 399 (pdf p. 203). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-jonathan-cohen-many-molyneux-questions-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:20171011T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20171004T213701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T213701Z UID:10006553-1507730400-1507737600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi DESCRIPTION:Fatima Mojaddedi\, “Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier” \nThis talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration\, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of language (particularly a language that demands its own translation (English) into one that signifies what Afghans do not know (Persian/ Pashto)\, doubles as a harbinger of wartime death and surveillance.  It illustrates how military translators mediate the exchange of words and sense-making\, and participate in the construction of a dangerous rural subjectivity as the exemplification of ineradicable danger. \nLinguistic and biometric practices deployed in intercultural translation within military campaigns\, while newly commodified and bearing much greater and more devastating consequences\, are also the ideological heirs of an earlier imperial discourse on nomadism and irregular frontier movement in the subcontinent. This now transpires in contexts of counterinsurgency\, and speech has come to signify collaboration or guilt (apostasy or terrorism). It informs the contemporary fear about the status of dialect in the Afghan countryside\, where rural subjects are thought to be especially (and dangerously) itinerant\, taking their dialect with them in order to evade military interrogation and biometric capture. \nFatima Mojaddedi\, a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at UCBerkeley\, completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2016. Her ethnographic research\, based in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, considers the nature of contemporary warfare\, language\, and questions of cultural representation and catastrophe. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-fatima-mojaddedi-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.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170809T172137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172137Z UID:10006523-1507723200-1507728600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Carrie Smith\, "Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance\, Art Activism\, & the Affects of Political Practice" DESCRIPTION:Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism\, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity\, intersectional community-building\, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. \nSmith-Prei Associate Professor of of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-carrie-smith-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:20171010T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171010T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20171009T184359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T184359Z UID:10006555-1507631400-1507647600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Calamities\, Prose\, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman DESCRIPTION:Please join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman–featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman’s work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson\, Cathy Thomas\, and David Buuck. \nThis event is part of Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today\, a joint UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley conference on the legacy of New Narrative–a literary movement emerging from the Bay Area in the 1970s. For a full schedule of UC Berkeley readings\, film showings\, walks\, and talks\, see: https://communalpresence.com/ \n+ \nRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines\, crossings\, thresholds\, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works\, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants\, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010)\, The Ravickians (2011)\, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013)\, and Houses of Ravicka (forthcoming fall 2017)—as well as the recently released Prose Architectures\, her first monograph of drawings\, and Calamities\, a collection of linked essay-fictions on the intersections of writing\, drawing\, and community\, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Harper’s\, Stonecutter\, and Poetry Magazine. A 2014-15 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa\, TX\, she makes work in New England. \n​This event is sponsored by the Department of Literature\, Living Writers\, and the Puknat Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/calamities-prose-houses-the-art-and-writing-of-renee-gladman-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/unnamed-7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20171003T235709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T235709Z UID:10005414-1507305600-1507312800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nAshwini Deo\, “Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish” \nAbstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk\, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive to properties of the circumstances at which the truth of the copular sentence is evaluated. On the proposed analysis\, estar presupposes that the prejacent is boundedly true at the evaluation circumstance. The prejacent’s bounded truth at a circumstance i at a given context of use c depends on two conditions: \n(a) there are no-weaker alternative circumstances i′ accessible at c where the prejacent is false\, and \n(b) i is a maximal verifying circumstance at c. \nCentral to the analysis is the notion of a strength ordering over alternative circumstances of evaluation — a circumstantial counterpart to the more familiar ordering over alternative propositions. Assuming that this content is conventionally associated with estar allows for an account of its distinct flavors and readings with a range of predicates. ser is shown to be associated with its own inferences that derive from its status as the presuppositionally weaker\, neutral member of the pair. \nAshwini Deo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. Unless otherwise stated\, talks take place on Fridays in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 4 p.m. during the fall quarter 2017 and at 2:30 p.m. during winter and spring quarters 2018. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-deo-alternative-circumstances-of-evaluation-and-the-serestar-distinction-in-spanish-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170809T171349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T171349Z UID:10006522-1507287600-1507302000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World" Symposium DESCRIPTION:“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World”\nIn the past decade\, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects\, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative\, have traced epistolary networks that spanned continents and oceans. But what about the cross-cultural movement of textual artifacts that weren’t books or letters? This symposium will explore the limits of book history. At what point does an object shade into being a textual artifact? How can we make space for a less Eurocentric book history by following the itineraries of objects\, like textiles\, tattoos\, or mummies\, which encoded information in ways that differed from the format of book or the letter?\n\n\n\nGuest Speakers:\nChris Heaney – University of Texas\, Austin – “Dead Archives: Inca Bodies as the Lost Founding Texts of Peru?”   – In 1989\, the social anthropologist Paul Connerton highlighted how Western scholarship privileges inscriptive   practices of history—which write\, photograph\, record\, and trap information “long after the human organism has   stopped informing”—over incorporative practices: gestures\, ceremonies\, rituals that invoke and transmit the past and   its continuities via the human body. Inspired by Connerton\, the cultural anthropologist Frank Salomon subsequently   observed that when the Spanish invaded in 1532\, they encountered a Peruvian dead that “transmit[ted] both kind of   messages”: a society headed by the ancestral mummies of Inca emperors and other pre-conquest Andeans who were   seated\, dried\, and dressed as if they were alive—arms posed in authoritative gesture—and paraded in ceremonies   whose commemorative ballads further made legible their sanctity\, nobility\, and orders of descent and importance. This   paper explores how the earliest Spanish managed their illiteracy when faced with those mummies’ inscribed   historicity; it shows how they moved from attempting to inscribe the corpse of Atahualpa as a founding text of   Christian  Peru\, to outright confiscating what we might call the ‘banned books’ of the Inca dead\, the mummies   themselves\, 27 years after the conquest begun. While other scholars have asked what the loss of those mummified   ancestors meant socially and religiously for the Inca and other Andeans\, this paper ultimately asks what their loss as ‘texts’ meant for the foundational histories of Peru written by both Spaniards and Incas between 1533 and the early seventeenth century\, many of which attempted to reproduce the absent and illegible imperial bodies at their core.\n\n\nMairin Odle – University of Alabama – Marin Odle is Assistant Professor of American Studies and teaches courses in Native American Studies and early American culture. Her research interests include   Native-newcomer relations\, the history of the body\, and how selfhood\, experience\, and identity were   narrated in early America. Her current book project investigates how cross-cultural body modification in   early America remade both physical appearances as well as ideas about identity. Focusing on indigenous   practices of tattooing and scalping\, the book traces how these practices were rapidly adopted and   transformed by colonial powers\, making them key sites of cultural contestation. \nProfessor Odle’s talk “Reading Their ‘Marckes’: English Perceptions of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy” explores early English interpretations of Native American tattooing\, focusing on writing and art produced in response to late sixteenth-century voyages. Artists and scholars on such expeditions paid close attention to bodily appearance and inscription. Lines marked on Native bodies were then transferred—and translated—as lines within European books. Colonial observers conceived of indigenous tattooing as an important communication system\, and one that they hoped to employ for their own goals—even as they simultaneously claimed that Natives were people with “no letters”. \n  \nHosted by the Center for World History \nCo-sponsored by the “Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Books School” URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-breen-rare-books-conference-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/2017/08/Oct-6-2017-Writing-Across-Cultures.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170821T045621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170821T045621Z UID:10006532-1507118400-1507123800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Briohny Doyle\, "Postapocalypse Now" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBriohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin\, the virus\, & the nomad. ​ \nBriohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. Her debut novel\, The Island Will Sink\, is the critically acclaimed first book published by The Lifted Brow. Her first book of nonfiction Adult Fantasy is out through Scribe in 2017. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-briohny-doyle-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;VALUE=DATE:20170612 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170613 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170503T153101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T153101Z UID:10006511-1497225600-1497311999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics DESCRIPTION:Guest Speakers:\nEric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara)\nEmiliana Cruz (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\nChristian DiCanio (State University of New York\, Buffalo) \n  \nOrganized by the Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America. \n  \n*Stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/symposium-on-oaxacan-linguistics-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;VALUE=DATE:20170609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170610 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161220T202052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161220T202052Z UID:10006444-1496966400-1497052799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:OpEd Project Workshop: "Write to Change the World" DESCRIPTION:Write to Change the World\nThe “Write to Change the World” program builds participants’ capacity to translate their research for the public and to engage in debate at a national level based on their areas of
 expertise. This program focuses on increasing the number of underrepresented voices in the media and bringing the humanities to bear on public debates. Working in partnership with the OpEd Project\, we will host three one-day workshops led by OpEd Project facilitators\, with approximately 20 fellows in each workshop\, from nine participating campuses (UCSF\, UCSB\, UCI\, UCR\, UCSD\, UCSC\, UCD\, UCM\, UCLA)\, for a total of 60+ fellows. After the 1-day workshop\, fellows will have access to a yearlong mentorship with media mentors through the OpEd Project. This program provides extraordinary resources\, access and support\, including cutting edge game-based\, research-driven programming\, and access to a prestigious network of fellows at peer institutions nationwide. Apply now for Spring 2017 workshops at UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz\, or UC Irvine. \nAbout the OpEd Project\nThe Op-Ed Project envisions a world where the best ideas – regardless of where they come from – will have a chance to be heard\, and to shape society and the world. Working with top universities\, foundations\, think tanks\, nonprofits\, corporations and community organizations\, the OpEd Project scouts and trains under-represented experts to take thought leadership positions in their fields; the OpEd Project connects them with national networks of high-level media mentors; and vets and channels the best new experts and ideas directly to media gatekeepers who need them\, across all platforms. For more on the OpEd Project\, visit their website. \nOur fellows will:\n1) Attend a 1-day workshop\n2) Draft an Op-Ed within three months following the workshop\n3) Connect with a media mentor through the OpEd Project within three months following the workshop \nDates and Locations:\nUC Merced: April 14\, 2017\nUC Santa Cruz: June 9\, 2017\nUC Irvine: June 16\, 2016 \nApply\nFaculty and postdoctoral fellows can apply online for Spring 2017 workshops here by Feb. 1\, 2017.\nFor more information\, contact the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced at humanities@ucmerced.edu. \nUCSC OpEd Workshop Participants\nClick here to read about the faculty fellows at the UCSC workshop  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/oped-project-workshop-write-to-change-the-world-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/2016/12/oped_poster_2017.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161215T195352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193822Z UID:10006443-1496401200-1496406600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Thinking Ahead: Grants and Fellowships Workshop for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nThis year-end workshop is devoted to developing your fellowship / grant strategy to support your graduate career. We’ll focus on year-long prestigious fellowships such as American Council of Learned Societies\, Ford Foundation\, American Association of University Women\, Fulbright\, and others\, as well as smaller grants\, including UC MEXUS\, designed to fund small\, short-term\, field-specific projects. This workshop will assist you in thinking through your funding timeline for next year and beyond. Please bring any and all of your questions as a significant portion of this year-end meeting will function as an open forum for your questions and ideas. \nPresenters / Facilitators:\nStephanie Moore\, Director of Research Development\, Arts Division\nIrena Polic\, Managing Director\, Institute for Humanities Research\nSamuael Topiary\, Graduate Research Development Fellow \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below. \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-research-development-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170519T180259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T180259Z UID:10006517-1496325600-1496329200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mat Callahan\, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams” DESCRIPTION:Presented by The History of Consciousness\, The Center for Cultural Studies\, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives\, with support from Logo’s Books. \nWith special musical guest Dry Days \nAs the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan’s new book\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965–1975 (PM Press\, 2017) offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mat-callahan-the-explosion-of-deferred-dreams-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/2017/05/MatCallahan-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170507T175944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175944Z UID:10005379-1496232000-1496237400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shahzad Bashir\, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues” DESCRIPTION:This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project\, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations\, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language\, historiography\, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. \nShahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic Studies and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shahzad-bashir-islamic-pasts-and-futures-conceptual-issues-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:20170524T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170507T175721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175721Z UID:10005378-1495627200-1495632600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Johan Mathew\, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East” DESCRIPTION:Johan Mathew’s current project\, Opiates of the Masses: Labor\, Narcotics\, and Global Capitalism\, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange\, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. \nJohan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent Photos: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johan-matthew-smoke-on-the-water-hashish-smuggling-and-imperial-surveillance-between-asia-and-the-middle-east-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:20170519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170322T210234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T210234Z UID:10006485-1495209600-1495215000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton\, Claudia Lopez\, and Tsering Wangmo DESCRIPTION:  \nWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free\, public forum\, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what their awards allowed them to achieve and their plans for the future. \n  \n Geographies of Imperial Citizenship\nEmily Mitchell-Eaton\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, Chicano Latino Research Center \nThis talk addresses the modes of imperial citizenship and non-citizenship that have emerged for subjects of non-sovereign U.S. territories. An examination of the legal statuses held by these subjects reveals the margins of formal legal citizenship to be quite blurry. As imperial subjects attempt to cross U.S. borders\, pursue employment\, access public benefits and services\, and resist deportation\, these practices often result in precarious mobility and different forms of exclusion. Drawing on a case study of Marshall Islanders who have migrated to Arkansas\, Dr. Mitchell-Eaton explores how Marshallese immigrants’ unique legal status is produced through their encounters with three groups: law enforcement and legal actors; social service providers; and activists. \n  \nThe Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: Partial Citizenship and Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellín\, Colombia\nClaudia Lopez\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Sociology \nIn this presentation\, Claudia discusses the dynamics of internal and forced migration of rural peasant farmers\, focusing on their urban resettlement and integration into the city of Medellín\, Colombia. Using this case study of conflict-induced displacement in Colombia—which has the largest population of internally displaced persons in the world—her research brings new attention to internal and forced migration\, viewing the resulting displacement as a serial process that constitutes what she calls the life­cycle of forced migration. She draws from ethnographic interviews and surveys with rural internally displaced persons\, as well as interviews with representatives of government agencies and NGOs\, to argue that\, across the lifecycle\, the state marginalizes displaced peasants and does not consider them capable urban citizens due to their rural origin and inability to contribute through formal labor practices in the city\, thereby rendering them Partial Citizens. Ultimately\, Claudia contends that this research demonstrates the limits of integration and national citizenship\, offers a more nuanced lens for examining citizenship as a spectrum\, and prompts us to examine belonging beyond the binary categories of citizen/non-citizen and included/excluded. \n  \nBelonging in Exile: The Exclusionary Agenda of Unity\nTsering Wangmo\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Literature \nTsering Wangmo’s dissertation\, “From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora\,” juxtaposes the external struggle for international recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile with the internal struggle to command Tibetan unity since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. It presents a nuanced understanding of how the project of nation building within the conditions of exile must be seen as a constant negotiation between deference and dissent and between unity and difference. In her talk\, Tsering argues that unity was presented simultaneously as the moral and political responsibility of the modern Tibetan “refugee-citizen\,” as well as the traditional duty of a Tibetan Buddhist\, and that\, ultimately\, unity was an exclusionary discourse. \n  \nThis free\, public forum is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-finale-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:20170518T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T164500 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170505T190006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T190006Z UID:10005377-1495098000-1495125900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m.\nDeanna Shemek\, Chair\, Literature Department\nPanel One: Translating Tradition\n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Christopher Chen\nVictoria Jones: Ion\nElli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno\, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles \nJessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation \nAlexander Pérez: The Nation in You \nPanel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nModerator: Martin Devecka \nMarcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems \nSavanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner \nPang Yang Embellishing Lia \nFREE! LUNCH BUFFET\n12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nPanel Three: Practices of Reading\n12:45 – 1:45 p.m.\nModerator: Amanda Smith \nSarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction\nSamantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries\nHarold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft \nPanel Four: Rock and Romanticism\n2:00 – 3:00 p.m.\nModerator: Rob Wilson \nSylvester Cruz On the English Disease\nIsaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison\nJohn Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman” \nPanel Five: The Time of Slavery\n3:15 – 4:15 p.m.\nModerator: Dorian Bell\nIsla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time\nFiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives\nCarina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power \nClosing Remarks 4:15 p.m.\nA. Hunter Bivens\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-eighteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-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/2017/05/Mail-Attachment1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20170515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170503T154026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T154026Z UID:10006512-1494856800-1494871200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies DESCRIPTION:The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. \nFeaturing: \nChristopher Chen\, Literature\nJim Clifford\, History of Consciousness\nChristopher Connery\, Literature\nT.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies\nCarla Freccero\, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies\nSusan Gilman\, Literature\nAsad Haider\, History of Consciousness\nDonna Haraway\, History of Consciousness\nSandra Harvey\, Politics\nGail Hershatter\, History\nLaurie Palmer\, Art\nWarren Sack\, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media \n  \nCoffee and refreshments will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conjuncture-crisis-critique-a-symposium-on-cultural-studies-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/2017/05/Conjuncture-Crisis-Critique-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170426T103156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103156Z UID:10006506-1494417600-1494423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension" DESCRIPTION:“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension” \nOut of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake\, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects. \nDebbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debborah-battaglia-roots-in-air-peopleplantsethics-in-suspension-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:20170508T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170428T213517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T213517Z UID:10006510-1494250200-1494255600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" DESCRIPTION:Center for World History Presents \nBrett Rushforth\n“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic” \nMay 8\, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public \nBrett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American\nand Atlantic history who specializes in slavery\, race\, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His\nmost recent book\, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”\, uncovered the\nhidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s\,\nsending captive Sioux\, Apache\, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal\, Quebec\, and even the\nFrench Caribbean. In 2013-14\, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history\nby the Organization of American Historians\, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the\nFrench Colonial Historical Society\, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum\non European Expansion and Global Interaction\, and the best book in French Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brett-rushforth-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/Brett-Rushforth-Daily-Trafficke.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161215T195131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193742Z UID:10006442-1493982000-1493987400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Mentorship DESCRIPTION:Mentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within\, alongside\, and outside the academy\n\nThis PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty\, administration\, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship relationships in humanities graduate programs. We’ll open with brief introductory comments before moving into a moderated panel discussion addressing:\n\nthe benefits and challenges associated with establishing a mentor/mentee relationship with different types of individuals who may serve in the mentor role\, e.g.\, faculty advisers (intra- and inter-department)\, non-academic professionals\, peer graduate student mentors\, etc\nthe goals of a mentor/mentee relationship\, discussing achievable milestones or benchmarks\, and setting corresponding expectation\nthe processes for “managing up” in a mentor/mentee relationship in terms of navigating successful accomplishment of the expected milestones and how to resolve conflict\, overcome obstacles or inertia\, etc.\n\n\nEach question will be followed by a brief response from the panelists meant to generate a larger discussion including the members of the audience.  The Planning Committee hopes to use the feedback and discussion to inform its strategic proposals for further discussion\, development\, and possible implementation to better serve the UCSC humanities community.\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served\, as always. \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-mentorship-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170426T122104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T122104Z UID:10006509-1493823600-1493830800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Earl Jackson: "Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice" DESCRIPTION:Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea. \nCo-Sponsored by Cultural Studies\, Cowell College\, and the Literature Department. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/earl-jackson-critical-conditions-japanese-film-theory-and-practice-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/unnamed-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170426T102852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T102852Z UID:10006505-1493812800-1493818200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape" DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape” \nThis talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate\, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy\, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life\, intellectual and critical work\, ideological formation\, cultural production\, social movements\, political action\, and social space. \nChris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-connery-contemporary-chinese-capitalism-and-its-critical-landscape-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:20170426T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170321T222251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T222251Z UID:10006484-1493215200-1493222400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traci Brynne Voyles: "Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Presents \nTraci Brynne Voyles \nTuesday April 25\, 3-5pm\nWastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\n(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)\nHumanities 1\, room 210\nContact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings \nWednesday April 26\, 2-4pm\nCan a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History\nHumanities 1\, room 210 \nDr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/voyles-can-a-sea-be-a-settler-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/2017/03/Voyles-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170412T231106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T231106Z UID:10005352-1493208000-1493213400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eric Porter\, "'The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising': The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO" DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical\, social\, and imagined urban space. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-eric-porter-the-future-appears-both-bleak-and-promising-the-politics-of-jet-noise-around-sfo-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:20170425T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170321T221830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T221830Z UID:10006483-1493132400-1493139600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traci Brynne Voyles: "Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Presents \nTraci Brynne Voyles \nTuesday April 25\, 3-5pm\nWastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\n(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)\nHumanities 1\, room 210\nContact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings \nWednesday April 26\, 2-4pm\n“Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (justice) History\nHumanities 1\, room 210 \nDr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/voyles-wastelanding-legacies-of-uranium-mining-in-navajo-country-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/2017/03/Voyles-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170413T163955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T163955Z UID:10005360-1492794000-1492801200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lothar Von Falkenhausen: "Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents \nLothar Von Falkenhausen\nProfessor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History\, UCLA \nTrying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage:\nOne Committee Member’s Tale \nFriday\, April 21 at 5:00 p.m.\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public\nRefreshments at 4:30 p.m. and reception to follow the lecture \nProfessor Von Falkenhausen will give an account of his service as a member of President Obama’s\nCultural Property Advisory Committee. He reflects upon the purpose of the committee and its\ncomposition and the nature of its work\, as well as the wider impact of the United States\ngovernment’s efforts to contribute to cultural-heritage preservation worldwide.\nLothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA\, where\nhe heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. His research\nconcerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age\, focusing on large interdisciplinary and\nhistorical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. He has\npublished copiously on musical instruments; Chinese bronzes and their inscriptions; Chinese\nritual; regional cultures; trans-Asiatic contacts; the history of archaeology in East Asia; and\nmethod and theory in East Asian archaeology. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius\n(1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American\nArchaeology Book Award. Since 2012\, Professor Von Falkenhausen has served on the\nPresidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee\, charged with implementing the 1970\nUNESCO convention in order to curb the illegal inflow of cultural property into the United States. \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu \nMetered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lothar-von-falkenhausen-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/VonFalkenhausenTalkLegal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161215T194718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193649Z UID:10006441-1492772400-1492777800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty DESCRIPTION:Last year\, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division\, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short presentation about our NEH grant\, as well as to provide an opportunity in which to share ideas\, thoughts\, and concerns about the state\, and future of\, humanities graduate education at UCSC–and in general. We hope to integrate the feedback we receive into the strategies that each of our working groups are in the process of developing in order to better serve the UCSC humanities community. After a short introduction about the grant\, an informal panel discussion will provide some groundwork for a larger\, audience-based conservation regarding topics such as community building within/among graduate students and faculty\, skills development opportunities for humanities students\, and understanding/defining expectations for mentor/mentee relationships.  As part of our town hall discussion\, we provide a modest and optional selection of articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education as background reading for those who would like to participate. \nPlease RSVP below. Lunch will be served. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-humanities-townhall-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170310T193748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170310T193748Z UID:10005345-1492689600-1492693200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Earth Day DESCRIPTION:Please join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 – 1:00pm in Humanities 1\, Room 210. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-earth-day-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/2017/03/Earth-Day-Flyer-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161129T224751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T224751Z UID:10006430-1492617600-1492624800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on “Ghetto: Invention of a Place\, History of an Idea” \nLecture at 4:00pm – Humanities 1\, RM 210 \nReception to follow \nParking – Free to attendees – Please follow “Diller Lecture” signs to Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 109 and 110 – Parking attendants will be on hand to issue parking permits URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/diller-lecture-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/2016/11/UC_IHRDillrPstr_2016_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170412T230458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T230458Z UID:10006491-1492603200-1492608600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zac Zimmer: “Conquest\, Contact\, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas” DESCRIPTION:Conquest\, Contact\, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas \nZac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres\, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction\, creating a point of contact between the contemporary world and the hemispheric American colonial encounter. \nZac Zimmer is Assistant Professor of Literature and LALS at UCSC. \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-zac-zimmer-conquest-contact-and-cosmovision-sf-rewritings-of-the-conquest-of-the-americas-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:20170418T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T163000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170413T043952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T043952Z UID:10005356-1492527600-1492533000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest DESCRIPTION:Comparative urban studies are on the rise\, raising new questions about translation\, fungibility\, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This talk\, moderated by Feminist Studies doctoral candidate and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy\, will feature Bucharest-based housing justice activist\, artist\, and scholar Veda Popovici. Veda will share more about the Bucharest’s direct action collective\, the Common Front for the Right to Housing\, as well as histories of postsocialist neoliberal housing restitution laws that have incited current Romanian spatial struggles. Erin and Veda will discuss a growing call to think both global capital formations and comparative urbanism in Romania through decolonial analytics. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/common-front-for-the-right-to-housing-in-bucharest-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/Romanian-UCSCposter-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170316T002718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T002718Z UID:10006479-1492516800-1492524000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series) DESCRIPTION:Focusing on gender\, deportation\, and labor\, the third and final session of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture\, approaches citizenship\, denizenship\, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words\, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as people of various statuses interact with each other. \nPlease join us for this free\, public seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza\, Professor of Sociology at UC Merced\, and Rhacel Parreñas\, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.  To reserve your lunch and to access the pre-circulated readings\, please register here: \n \nFollowing the seminar\, Professors Golash-Boza and Parreñas will take part in The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship\, Deportation\, and Indentured Mobility\, a public conversation at the Museum of Art & History at 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz.\n\n \nTanya Golash-Boza is the author of five books\, including Deported: Immigrant Policing\, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press\, 2015)\, which explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis; Due Process Denied (Routledge\, 2012)\, which describes how and why non-citizens in the United States have been detained and deported for minor crimes\, without regard for constitutional limits on disproportionate punishment; and Immigration Nation (Paradigm\, 2012)\, which provides a critical analysis of the impact that US immigration policy has on human rights.  In addition\, she has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations\, racial identity\, and human rights and has written on contemporary issues for Al Jazeera\, The Boston Review\, The Nation\, Counterpunch\, The Houston Chronicle\, Racialicious\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, and Dissident Voice. \nRhacel Parreñas‘ book\, Illicit Flirtations: Labor\, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, won the Distinguished Book Award in the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association. Probing the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration\, her current research analyzes the constitution of unfree labor among migrant domestic workers in Dubai and Singapore. Her other books include Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor (Open Society Institute\, 2014)\, The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (New York University Press\, 2008)\, and Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work (second edition\, Stanford University Press\, 2015). Her current research focuses on the unfree labor of migrant contract workers in Asia and the Middle East.\nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-fluidity-of-status-a-seminar-with-tanya-golash-boza-rhacel-parrenas-non-citizenship-series-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:20170414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170308T171204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170308T171204Z UID:10005343-1492178400-1492191000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nEthics and Language of Conservation \nWhat is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct?\nA Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life \nFriday\, April 14\, 2017\n2:00-5:30pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 210 \n \nSpeakers:\nClaudio Campagna\nAdjunct Professor\, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UCSC\nWildlife Conservation Society \nDaniel Guevara\nChair\, Department of Philosophy\, UCSC \nPaul Koch\nDean of Physical and Biological Sciences\, UCSC\nDistinguished Professor\, Earth and Planetary Sciences \nBeth Shapiro\nAssociate Professor\, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, UCSC \nSponsored by:\nIHR Research Cluster on The Language of Conservation Project\, Center for Public Philosophy\, Dean of Humanities\, Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences \nFor more information visit:\nThe Language of Conservation Project\nCenter for Public Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethics-and-language-of-conservation-colloquium-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/2017/03/poster-colloquium-4.14.17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170328T203917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T203917Z UID:10006488-1492009200-1492016400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jewish Studies Open House DESCRIPTION:Come discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students\, learn about classes\, internship opportunities\, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community. \nWednesday\, April 12\, 3-5pm\nHum 1\, 210 \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-open-house-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:20170405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170328T195604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T195604Z UID:10006487-1491393600-1491399000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller "In Praise of Plasticity" DESCRIPTION:About the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAbout “In Praise of Plasticity”: Plasticity\, in neurology\, is the ability to adapt\, change\, grow and find new forms at multiple scalar levels whilst retaining\, rerouting or developing function. Professor Fuller examines the notion of plasticity as it is articulated by cybernetics\, machine learning\, and anarchism. \nMatthew Fuller will be presenting and is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths\, University of London URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-matthew-fuller-in-praise-of-plasticity-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:20170315T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170307T200950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T200950Z UID:10005342-1489579200-1489584600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio" DESCRIPTION:Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry\, philosophy\, and science in 13th-14th century Italy\, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender\, religious\, and social boundaries. \nAkash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 15th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-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:20170310T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170310T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161215T193659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193529Z UID:10005309-1489143600-1489149000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources DESCRIPTION:Open Access\, Data Management and Library Resources \nWhat does Open Access mean for you? How can you organize and manage your research materials to best support your writing? And\, what kinds of resources are available to graduate students for accessing data and information?This PhD+ panel features librarians who will discuss a range of issues\, including depositing your dissertation\, data management\, and the ethics of sharing your work in an Open Access world. We will discuss: \n\nThe Presidential Open Access Policy\, and how it pertains to graduate research\nPublishing in Open Access journals and the potential impact on book contracts and job searches (academic + beyond)\nand\, Open Access as Social Justice\n\nTake the opportunity to get to know your librarians and to engage in a graduate student specific conversation about Open Access. The panelists will also answer questions about ILL\, digital research methodologies\, citation software\, library-based subscriptions\, and other related research tools. Check out these library services and resources and join us to learn more. \n  \nLunch will be served\, as always. \n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-open-access-library-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T110000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170301T200559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T200559Z UID:10006474-1489057200-1489057200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days DESCRIPTION:Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful\, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott\, Chair\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Isaac Blacksin\, Ph.D. candidate\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJames Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000\, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives\, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/why-im-reading-joseph-conrad-these-days-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/2017/03/Jim-Cllifford-poster-v2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170301T200532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170301T200532Z UID:10006473-1488988800-1488996000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alan Craig: "VR\, AR\, and the Brain: Teaching\, Learning\, and Research With Virtual and Augmented Reality" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAlan B. Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Science sSpecialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). His work centers on the continuum between the physical and the digital. He has done extensive work in virtual reality\, augmented reality\, and personal fabrication\, as well as educational applications of data mining\, visualization\, and collaborative systems. He has authored three books (Understanding Augmented Reality\, Developing Virtual Reality Applications\, and Understanding Augmented Reality)\, and holds three patents. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alan-craig-vr-ar-and-the-brain-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:20170308T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T193828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T193828Z UID:10005305-1488974400-1488978000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled for March 15\, 2017 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-all-the-world-on-a-board-chess-and-cultural-crossings-in-dante-and-boccaccio-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;VALUE=DATE:20170303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170305 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170224T214017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170224T214017Z UID:10006471-1488499200-1488671999@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nFriday\, March 3\nLaw and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts\, 
Contemporary Questions\, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop)\nMorning\n9:00 Coffee and Introduction \n9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas\, Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives” \n11:00 Marc Andre\, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes\, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The Army during the Algerian War in France through the Fortress Montluc” \n12:30 Lunch \nAfternoon\n1:30 Lia Brozgal\, French and Francophone Studies\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, “‘Heureux les kabyles blonds’: Reading Race in the October 17 Archive” \n3:00 Break \n3:15 Alma Heckman\, History and Jewish Studies\, UCSC\, “The Rights and Obligations of Divorce: Jews and Moroccan Independence” \n4:45 Concluding Remarks \n6:00 Dinner \nSaturday\, March 4\nAndalusī Musical Traditions of the Western Mediterranean
(The Spain-North Africa Project)\nMorning\n9:00 Coffee and Introduction \n9:30 Rachel Colwell\, Music\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “al-Jaww al-Malouf al-Tounsi\, an Acoustemology of Listening” \n10:30 Jonathan Glasser\, Anthropology\, College of William and Mary\, “The Problem of Muslim-Jewish Musical Borderlands at Algeria’s Spanish-Ottoman Frontier” \n12:00 Lunch \nAfternoon\n1:00 Chris Silver\, History\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, “Marching (and Waltzing) toward Independence: North African Jewish Musicians at Mid-Century” \n2:30 Break \n2:45 Dwight Reynolds\, Religious Studies\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, “Al-Andalus in the Musical World of the Medieval Mediterranean” \n4:15 Brain-Storming Session on Follow-up \n5:00 End! \n  \nContact: \nCamilo Gómez-Rivas\n831.205.9001\ncgomezri@ucsc.edu \nFunded by: \nUniversity of California Humanities Research Institute 
(UCHRI) Faculty Working Group grant and the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maghrib-workshop-and-the-spain-north-africa-project-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:20170302T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20170301T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T193457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T193457Z UID:10005304-1488369600-1488373200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hillary Angelo: "Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the 'Green Screen'" DESCRIPTION:Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region\, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology\, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. \nHillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n\nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hillary-angelo-manufacturing-gesellschaft-urbanized-nature-and-the-green-screen-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:20170227T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170227T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170216T234139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T234139Z UID:10006467-1488207600-1488214800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: "Streetopia and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Presents: \nStreetopia and Beyond\nA Talk by Eric Lyle \n3-5 pm\nMonday\, February 27\nHumanities 1\, 210 \nWhat does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era\, cities like Los Angeles\, New York\, and San Francisco have rushed to reassure that their governments intend to oppose new restrictive federal immigration policies and to reinforce these cities’ status as Sanctuary Cities. But as homeless sweeps and evictions continue to endanger communities of working class and people of color\, we have to ask what does “sanctuary” mean in the era of rampant displacement? Author Erick Lyle suggests the path to resisting Trump Administration policies lies in doubling down on existing anti-gentrification efforts and organizing on a hyperlocal basis to seize community control of development\, housing\, planning\, and utilities. Join Lyle for a discussion of the possibilities for resistance in neighborhood organizing and for a look at the author’s work on Streetopia\, a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in San Francisco in 2012\, and brought together residents of the city’s Tenderloin with over a hundred artists and activists to actualize mutual aid-based community projects and to consider utopian aspiration for the city. \nErick Lyle is a writer\, curator\, musician\, and underground journalist. His work has appeared in Art in America\, Vice\, California Sunday Magazine\, Huck\, LA Weekly\, Brooklyn Rail\, and on NPR’s This American Life. Since 1991\, he has written\, edited\, and published the influential punk/activist/art/crime magazine\, SCAM\, and he was a frequent contributor to the arts and literary section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has played on some 30 records by at least a dozen bands. He currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-talk-erick-lyle-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:20170223T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170208T194826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170208T194826Z UID:10006459-1487862900-1487869200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susanna Schellenberg "Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nI argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities\, such as discriminatory\, selective capacities. This is a radical view\, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view\, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual consciousness is analyzed in terms of (sensory awareness relations to) peculiar entities\, such as\, phenomenal properties\, external mind-independent properties\, propositions\, sense-data\, qualia\, or intentional objects. \nAbout:\nSusanna Schellenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and an Executive Council Faculty Member of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Her work focuses on a range of topics in epistemology\, philosophy of mind\, and philosophy of language. She is particularly interested in the nature of perceptual content\, the epistemic role of perceptual experience\, and mental capacities. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susanna-schellenberg-perceptual-consciousness-as-a-mental-activity-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/2017/02/schellenberg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170217T003914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T003914Z UID:10006468-1487851200-1487856600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier DESCRIPTION:Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier\nRuth Mostern \n  \nAbstract: Beginning in the eleventh century\, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years\, environmental scientists and historians have converged on a set of insights about the timing and processes that brought about these changes. All of the evidence confirms that the primary cause of upstream erosion and downstream flooding was the intensification of human activity in the grasslands of the Ordos basin\, the loess soil region contained within the great bend of the Yellow River. This paper introduces environmental science research about the long history of human impacts on the loess plateau during the entire Holocene. In addition it uses historical sources\, spatial analysis and soil science to focus particular particular attention on the northern and western Ordos region during the eleventh century\, explaining why these decades created a tipping point in social and ecological life in north China. \n  \nLunch will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/loess-is-more-a-spatial-and-ecological-history-of-erosion-on-imperial-chinas-northwest-frontier-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/2017/02/Loess-is-More_-A-Spatial-and-Ecological-History-of-Erosion-on-Imperial-Chinas-Northwest-Frontier..jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T192953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T192953Z UID:10005303-1487764800-1487768400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rick Prelinger: "Silence\, Cacophony\, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points" DESCRIPTION:Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians. \nRick Prelinger is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC; Founder of Prelinger Archives; and board member of Internet Archive. \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rick-prelinger-silence-cacophony-crosstalk-archival-talking-points-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:20170221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170218T014243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170218T014243Z UID:10006469-1487696400-1487700000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sturt Manning: "Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East" DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Presents: \n  \nProfessor Sturt Manning \nDepartment of Classics\, Cornell University \n  \nTree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East: Creating an Independent\, Robust and Precise Timeframe for Archaeology and History \nProfessor Manning will discuss his efforts to combine radiocarbon (C14) and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) to rewrite the chronologies of the civilizations of the Bronze and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. His original and fundamental work has forced a reassessment of some of the linchpin events of this period\, including the famous eruption of the Santorini volcano (which some scholars had linked to the end of the Minoan civilization) and the chronology of Mesopotamia. \n  \nSturt Manning is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. He is internationally known for his work in archaeological science\, above all in dendrochronology and radiocarbon chronology. He has published many articles and books\, including A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid Second Millennium BC (second edition 2014). \n  \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be at 4:30 p.m. and a reception will follow the lecture. \n  \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tree-rings-and-radiocarbon-in-the-east-mediterranean-and-near-east-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/2017/02/ManningTalkLegal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170201T210731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T210731Z UID:10006457-1487689200-1487692800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project DESCRIPTION:Join the Digital Humanities working group for a presentation about 3D Modeling\, Digital Humanities\, and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves\, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn more about Digital Humanities and how 3D modeling can be integrated into your teaching. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angel-nieves-3d-modeling-and-the-soweto-historic-gis-project-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:20170217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161215T193418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161215T193418Z UID:10005308-1487329200-1487334600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics DESCRIPTION:Philosophy@Work: Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis in Educational Consulting and Applied Ethics \nAre you interested in learning more about how graduate training in the humanities can lead to successful and intellectually stimulating careers in consulting? Consulting is an expansive and evolving field\, one that many values-driven PhDs are currently shaping by challenging organizational tenets based on profit-motive. PhD alumni in Philosophy Ben Roome and Jake Metcalf discuss how their doctorates prepared them to become independent and influential consultant-scholars in the fields of data analysis and management\, (educational) technology\, and applied ethics. They’ll also address the ways in which their experiences as UCSC PhDs continue to influence the type of work they accept\, seek out\, and perform\, and how such decisions influence their career trajectories in general. Jacob (Jake) Metcalf is a consultant and independent scholar specializing in data and technology ethics. Ben Roome is an entrepreneur\, an ed tech and data ethics consultant\, a researcher and data analyst. \n  \nLunch will be served\, as always. \n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss: possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \nPlease RSVP below.\nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-philosophy-panel-on-consulting-and-entrepreneurship-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:20170215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T192504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T192504Z UID:10005302-1487160000-1487163600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Gary Wilder: "Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nGary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism.” \nGary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology\, History\, and French; and Director\, Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-wilder-black-radicalismradical-humanism-w-e-b-du-boiss-cooperative-commonwealth-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/2017/02/Gary-Wilder.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20170206T172153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170206T172153Z UID:10006458-1486574100-1486580400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: "Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education" DESCRIPTION:Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents \nProfessor Emeritus Andrew Cohen\nEnhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education \nWednesday\, February 8\n210 Humanities Bldg 1\n5:15PM \nLight refreshments will be served \nThe talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners\, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of vocabulary and grammar rules\, sometimes or even often without the knowledge of how to make appropriate use of this information in actual communicative situations. The talk will highlight certain specific areas in TL pragmatics that are teachable but often neglected in TL instruction\, as well as some of the challenges involved in teaching this information. The talk will also include brief comment regarding the assessment of the pragmatics that is taught and strategies for students in the learning and performance of pragmatics. The speaker has been studying his 12th TL (Mandarin) for the last five years\, so he can speak from experience about pragmatic failures.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enhancing-the-role-of-pragmatics-in-teacher-education-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/2017/02/LAAL-colloquium-flyer-Feb-8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T191611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T191611Z UID:10005301-1486555200-1486558800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Camillo Gomez-Rivas: "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier" DESCRIPTION:Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions\, the project is based on readings of multiple sources\, including Arabic\, Castilian\, and Catalan legal\, historiographical\, and literary sources. \nCamillo Gomez-Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC\, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camillo-gomez-rivas-the-ransom-industry-and-the-expectation-of-refuge-on-the-medieval-western-mediterranean-muslim-christian-frontier-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:20170206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161129T222303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T222303Z UID:10006425-1486382400-1486389600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Labor Mobility and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing\, Alejandro Grimson\, and Biao Xiang DESCRIPTION:Precarity\, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion\, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Session II of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar\, focuses on precarity\, labor mobility\, and denizenship (the status of being a denizen or inhabitant\, as opposed to a full citizen)\, concepts that highlight the tiered and sometimes overlapping spaces between citizen and non-citizen. Juan Poblete will moderate the seminar with Guy Standing\, Alejandro Grimson\, and Biao Xiang as they discuss migrants\, denizens\, and the precariat in Europe\, the Americas\, and Asia. This seminar\, while self-standing and based on pre-circulated readings\, is meant in preparation for our symposium\, “Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale\,” to be held Tuesday\, February 7\, 2017\, 12:00-5:30pm\, at the Stevenson Event Center. \n  \nPlease check back to access the pre-circulated readings. \n  \nLunch will be served. \n  \nPlease register here prior to attending the seminar. \n  \nAlejandro Grimson\, an expert on south-south migration\, is dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. He is the author of many books\, including Relatos de la diferencia y la igualdad: los bolivianos en Buenos Aires (Eudeba\, 1999) and Los límites de la cultura: crítica de las teorías de la identidad (Siglo XXI Argentina\, 2011)\, winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano for best book of the year. \nJuan Poblete is Professor of Literature and Co-principal Investigator of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. His broad and myriad research interests include nineteenth-century Latin American literature\, nation and nationalism\, and popular culture in the Americas. His most recent publications include Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin\, Palgrave\, 2015) and Humor in Latin American Cinema (with Juana Suárez\, Palgrave\, 2016). \nGuy Standing\, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London\, is a scholar of labor\, globalization\, citizenship\, and social movements. His most recent books include A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (Bloomsbury Academic Press\, 2014) and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic Press\, 2011). From 1999 until March 2006\, he was director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva\, Switzerland. \nBiao Xiang\, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford\, specializes in labor\, migration\, and social change in Asia. An ethnographer\, he has studied migration from rural China to Beijing\, migrant Indian information technology engineers in Australia\, and unskilled labor migration from China to Japan\, South Korea\, and Singapore. He is the author of The Intermediary Trap (Princeton University Press\, forthcoming)\, Global Bodyshopping (Princeton University Press\, 2007)\, Transcending Boundaries (Chinese edition by Sanlian Press\, 2000; English edition by Brill Academic Publishers\, 2005)\, and the co-editor of Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia(Duke University Press\, 2013). \n  \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.   URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-with-3-speakers-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:20170202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T063024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T063024Z UID:10006439-1486054800-1486062000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Newfield: "After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration" DESCRIPTION:Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara) new book\, “The Great Mistake\,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in every arena? Newfield argues that universities should use this period to rebuild their public purpose from the ground up\, with special attention to the non-college voters that allegedly turned the election towards Donald J. Trump. \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Santa Cruz Faculty Association. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-newfield-after-the-great-mistake-fixing-public-universities-in-the-trump-administration-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:20170202T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20170201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T170824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T170824Z UID:10005300-1485950400-1485954000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Regina Kunzel: "In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality" DESCRIPTION:Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives\, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny\, stigma\, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality. \nRegina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director\, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/regina-kunzel-in-treatment-psychiatry-and-the-archives-of-modern-sexuality-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:20170201T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T113000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160901T183948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T183948Z UID:10006385-1485941400-1485948600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education DESCRIPTION:Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine\, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop\, focusing on practical techniques for translating work in the humanities into statements\, programs\, and publications that engage a wider public. Readings include texts by Hannah Arendt\, Leonard Cassuto\, and William Shakespeare. \nSpace is limited: Twelve seats are available. \nHumanities 1- Room 210\n9:30am-11:30am \nFor more information contact Sean Keilen at keilen@ucsc.edu \nWorkshop Readings: \nArendt\, Crisis in Education (1954)  \nCassuto\, In Search of an Ethic \nShakespeare Readings URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-and-the-common-good-3/ 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:20170125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T170246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T170246Z UID:10006440-1485345600-1485349200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emily Mitchell-Eaton: "What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands" DESCRIPTION:Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites of diaspora where imperial migrants resettle\, exposing new racial formations\, modes of (un)belonging\, and immigrant solidarities. \nEmily Mitchell-Eaton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Non-citizenship\, LALS/Chicano Latino Resource Center at UCSC. \n  \n\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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-mitchell-eaton-whats-free-about-freely-associated-statehood-preserving-colonial-legacies-in-the-marshall-islands-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:20170119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T062056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T062056Z UID:10006437-1484841600-1484848800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future” DESCRIPTION:Susan Buck Morss\, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University\, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia. \nCultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”\nJanuary 18th 12-1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210\nSusan Buck-Morss’s current project\, Year 1\, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses)\, and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-buck-morss-seminar-prolegomena-to-any-future-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/2016/12/susan-buck-morss.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161212T165736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T165736Z UID:10006438-1484740800-1484744400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susan Buck-Morss: "History as Translation" DESCRIPTION:Susan Buck-Morss’s current project\, Year 1\, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses)\, and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way). \nSusan Buck-Morss is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center and a Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Departments of History of Consciousness\, Literature\, and Politics \n  \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. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-buck-morss-history-as-translation-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:20170112T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20170110T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170110T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161208T204901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161208T204901Z UID:10006435-1484047800-1484055000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents \nFilm\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record\nA reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman \nWe will read two chapters by Gregg Mitman and Faye Ginsburg from Documenting the World: Film\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record\, edited by Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder (University of Chicago Press\, 2016). Documenting the World concerns the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Mitman’s chapter investigates the many lives of a 1926 Harvard expedition film shot in Liberia; Ginsburg’s chapter explores the repurposing of Nazi medical films by disability activists. Both chapters examine what can happen when colonial and totalitarian impulses to collect\, classify\, and control are repurposed by those whose ancestors were once the objects of that documentary gaze. \nFor the readings and more information\, contact mfernan3@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-photography-and-the-scientific-record-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:20161202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161115T193945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193256Z UID:10006420-1480676400-1480681800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nThe 9 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward. \nIHR Public Fellows: \nDavid Donley\, Philosophy (Santa Cruz County Jail)\nKendra Dority\, Literature (Public Scholar funded by IHR and UCHRI and associated with the UC Davis Mellon-funded program)\nAshley Herum\, Literature (Santa Cruz Shakespeare)\nKara Hisatake\, Literature (Japanese American Museum of San Jose)\nSarah Papazoglakis\, Literature (California Humanities)\nKatie Trostel\, Literature (The Center for the Study of the Holocaust & Religious Minorities in Oslo)\nVivian Underhill\, Feminist Studies (Northern Alaska Environmental Center)\nClaire Urbanski\, Feminist Studies (Arizona State Museum)\nTaylor Wondergem\, Feminist Studies (Cabrillo College) \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP below. \n  \nLoading… \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss:\npossible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-meet-our-public-fellows-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20161201T122000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161128T202326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161128T202326Z UID:10006422-1480594800-1480600800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:WHAT GOES UP\, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship DESCRIPTION:We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness\, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies.\n\nAK Thompson\nEpistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization \nThursday\, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM 210; UCSC\n+\nFriday\, DECEMBER 2 | 6-8pm | SUB ROSA 703 Pacific Ave\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nSince the visual turn in the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century\, images have become important points of engagement both as objects and as modes of analysis. For this reason\, along with its 50+ entries exploring the keywords used by contemporary activists\, Keywords for Radicals (AK Press 2016) incorporates data visualization to show how the “vocabulary” shared by radicals constitutes a kind of self-supporting small world network. \nSuch visualizations can help readers to map how the project’s vocabulary “works” and how struggles over word usage and meaning might most effectively be carried out. But while data visualization of this kind can be useful\, it also raises significant epistemological questions about the relationship between representation and what’s real. \nIn this presentation\, Keywords for Radicals editor AK Thompson will discuss the theoretical and aesthetic foundations of the project’s data visualization in order to evaluate the promise and perils of this technique in the age of the infographic. \nAK Thompson got kicked out of high school for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist\, writer\, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University\, his publications include Black Bloc\, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012\, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1865000727120347/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-goes-up-must-come-down-contemporary-activist-scholarship-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/2016/11/AK-Thompson-UCSCposter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T184500 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161124T210003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161124T210003Z UID:10006421-1480526100-1480531500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jordi Aladro "Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta" DESCRIPTION:Desde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina\, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese\, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos\, fantasía de misóginos\, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad\, la cristiandad la ha representado como espejo y reflejo de sus contradicciones. \n  \nJordi Aladro-Font is a professor of Spanish literature in the Literature Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is most recently the author of Fray Blas y Verdú\, San Raimundo de Peñafort y La Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2012) and Pedro de Chaves\, Libro de la Conversión de Santa María Magdalena (2009). \n  \n*This talk will be in Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jordi-aladro-maria-magdalena-de-la-santa-a-la-prostituta-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/2016/11/SpanishStudiesColloquium.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T191815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191815Z UID:10006401-1479298500-1479303000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design\, Art\, Games & Playable Media at UCSC” DESCRIPTION:Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding\, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective\, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play. \nHunicke is Associate Professor of Digital Arts & New Media at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robin-hunicke-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/2016/09/Robinhunicke-300x300.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161114T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161103T233040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T233040Z UID:10006419-1479144600-1479150000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: "One City\, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home" DESCRIPTION:Event Podcast:\n \n  \n“In my time I have seen many Shylocks …..\n But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” \nClive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award\, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth – a work in progress – is a collection of stories\, each orbiting the Merchant of Venice. He lives in London with the artist Haidee Becker. On the 21st of October his article on the Ghetto and the performance of Merchant of Venice and the mock trial of Shylock vs Antonio presided over by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was published in the London Times Literary Supplement. \nThe Ghetto of Venice by Clive Sinclair \nFree and open to the public \nSponsored by: Shakespeare Workshop\, Literature Department\, Center for Jewish Studies\, and the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-one-city-seven-shylocks-venices-most-famous-son-comes-home-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/2016/11/Clive-Sinclair-flyer-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T191704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191704Z UID:10006400-1478693700-1478698200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism” DESCRIPTION:Joan Wallach Scott’s recent books\, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011)\, focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment in anti-Muslim campaigns. \nScott is Professor Emerita of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University. \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-wallach-scott-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/2016/09/1249-joan-wallach-scott.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161026T221921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193207Z UID:10005287-1478257200-1478262600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track DESCRIPTION:November’s PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA\, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director\, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling\, meaningful\, and impactful research can take. We will discuss what research looks like in non-traditional academic jobs\, exploring the potential of collaborative projects\, negotiating research time\, and being an intellectual partner other people’s research. \nLunch will be served\, as always. \nPlease RSVP below. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss:\npossible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-research-off-the-tenure-track-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20161102T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T191558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191558Z UID:10006399-1478088000-1478093400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain” DESCRIPTION:Written by Anna Tsing\, Isabelle Carbonell\, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan)\, Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail\,” imported to Taiwan in 1979\, which is now major pest of rice agriculture. Whereas farmers in the Green Revolution’s legacy use poison to exterminate snails\, a new generation of “friendly farmers” attempts to insert farming as one among many multispecies life ways within the paddy. \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and Co-Director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). \nIsabelle Carbonell is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and a documentary filmmaker. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-tsing-isbelle-carbonell-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/2016/09/AnnaTsingBio-300x300.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160907T182820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T193106Z UID:10006386-1477652400-1477657800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present \nPhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD \nFriday\, October 28\, 2016\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\n11 am – 12:30 pm \nPanelists:\nChristina Hall\, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities\, Career Center\nWhitney deVos\, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR\, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor\, Career Center \nNetworking. It can seem like an ugly word\, conjuring up images of used car salesman and shady political quid pro quo. Yet\, no tool is more powerful when it comes to conquering the competitive academic job market or navigating the unfamiliar world of work within private industry. This interactive\, discussion-based workshop will focus on helping you develop concrete strategies to develop your social capital while still remaining your authentic self. \nWe’ll also spend time exploring the Versatile PhD\, an online networking and information site geared to PhDs looking for opportunities in private industry\, non-profit\, and government sectors\, as well as The Professor is In\, From PhD to Life\, and other resources that can help you explore a variety of post-PhD career paths\, within\, alongside\, and outside of the academy. \nWhat kinds of professionalization and career preparation should the University provide? We want to hear your thoughts! \nLunch will be provided. Open to all graduate students but limited to 50 attendees. Please register below. \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the second year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss:\npossible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLoading… URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-versatile-phd-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T175312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T175312Z UID:10006391-1477569600-1477576800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia DESCRIPTION:Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John’s University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad:  In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014\, dir. Tony Buba)\, the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker’s powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history\, The Amistad Rebellion:  An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin\, 2012).  Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer join Greg O’Malley\, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, in a conversation on why scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences should share our research with audiences beyond academia and how we can do so–for example\, via film\, museum and digital exhibitions\, and public databases\, such as Professor O’Malley’s NEH-funded “Final Passages Intra-American Slave Trade Database.” \nDue to limited space\, this event is open to UC Santa Cruz faculty\, students\, and staff.  UC Santa Cruz faculty\, students\, and staff should register here for the roundtable by Thursday\, October 20.  \nMembers of the campus and community are invited to a free\, public screening of Ghosts of Amistad at the Del Mar Theatre (1124 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz) on Thursday\, October 27\, at 7:00pm.  Professor O’Malley will moderate a Q&A with Professors Misevich and Tuchscherer immediately following the screening.  PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE FILM SCREENING. \nThis event is co-sposored by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research\, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roundtable-discussion-research-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-beyond-academia-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/2016/09/slave-trade-map-760.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T163000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20161026T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T191326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191326Z UID:10006398-1477484100-1477488600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus" DESCRIPTION:Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” \nHeckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Date \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alma-heckman-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/2016/09/alma-300x300.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161011T205808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161011T205808Z UID:10006409-1476976500-1476982800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Landy: "Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume's Treatise" DESCRIPTION:In the Appendix to his Treatise\, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented\, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue that such scholars have largely overlooked an important clue: the fact that Hume twice presents the problem as one with any theory that purports\, “to explain the principles\, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness.” The key here\, I will suggest\, lies in understanding Hume’s notion of explanation. The two most prominent accounts of Hume on explanation lie at the extreme ends of an interpretive spectrum\, and are both philosophically and exegetically untenable. The first is that scientific explanation aims at nothing more than subsuming particular observations under inductively-established universal generalizations. The second is that Hume makes explanatory appeals to certain substances and causal powers that we cannot in any way represent\, but to which we can nonetheless refer. The first gets right Hume’s insistence on the connection of explanation to experience. The second gets right that it is the universal regularities of experience that stand in need of explanation\, not that do the explaining. So\, I will present a new account of Hume’s understanding of explanation that takes these successes and failures into account\, and will show that this interpretation perfectly predicts everything that Hume finds wrong with his account of personal identity. \nDavid Landy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He works primariy on the history of Modern philosophy\, especially Hume and Kant\, and also has interests in German Idealism and the work of Wilfrid Sellars. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-landy-explanation-and-personal-identity-in-the-appendix-to-humes-treatise-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/landy-150.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T191101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191101Z UID:10006397-1476879300-1476883800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere\, Anthropocene\, Geostory” DESCRIPTION:Paul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures\, the history of climate science\, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010). \nEdwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History at University of Michigan. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates \nOctober 26 Alma Heckman \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-23/ 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/2016/09/edwards.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 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:20161012T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20160913T190901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T190901Z UID:10006396-1476273600-1476280800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bernard Stiegler: "Beyond the Anthropocene" DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to think in a state of emergency? \nThis is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled – live in a permanent state of emergency\, universal\, and unpredictable. \nLunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1\, Room 202. \nTwo theses will be addressed:\n– On the one hand\, to think in the Anthropocene\, one must rethink the Anthropocene itself\, and to rethink the Anthropocene\, we must think beyond the Anthropocene\, which is a dead end.\n– On the other hand\, beyond the Anthropocene\, there is the Neguanthropocene\, a coming era in which thinking means taking care (in French\, « panser » ; in German « sorgen »).\nThis is what will be expressed by an untranslatable neologism\, a neologism not unrelated to Jacques Derrida’s concept of « differance » : in the Anthropocene\, thought becomes « la p(a)nsée ». \nBernard Stiegler will also have an event at 4pm in Porter 245 were he will talk about digital studies at the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium. \nRespondents: Hayden White\, Wlad Godzich\, and Anna Tsing. \nSponsored by: Computation\, Culture\, and Games Research Cluster\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Arts Division\, DANM\, and Film & Digital Media. \nBernard Stiegler directs the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and is president of the Ars Industrialis association. He is affiliate faculty at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne\, distinguished professor at Nanjing University\, and visiting professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. \n  \n\n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates: \nOctober 19 Paul N. Edwards \nOctober 26 Alma Heckman \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bernard-stiegler-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/2016/09/photoBStiegler2015-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161008T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T173418 CREATED:20161004T214250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T214250Z UID:10006407-1475917200-1475946000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop\, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public\, but please RSVP by writing to cgomezri@ucsc.edu in order for us to have a head count and circulate the papers for discussion. \nFour scholars will share and discuss their work with us: \n– Muriam Haleh Davis\, UCSC\n– Jessica Marglin\, USC\n– Susan Slyomovics\, UCLA\n– Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri\, UCSD \nSchedule: \n9:00 am Coffee and Introduction\n9:30 Muriam Haleh Davis\, “‘Algiers and the Algerian Desert:’ Decolonization and Territorial Planning in France\, 1958-1962”\n11:00 Susan Slyomovics\, “French Mediterraneans En Miroir: Virgin Mary Statues Between France and Algeria”\n12:30 Lunch\n1:30 Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri\, “Orientalism and Technology: A Dutch Embassy in Early Seventeenth-Century Morocco”\n3:00 Break\n3:15 Jessica Marglin\, “Nationality on Trial: International Private Law across the Mediterranean”\n4:45 Concluding remarks\n6:00 Dinner at Merrill Provost’s House \nThe aim of this project is to explore the historical and contemporary development of population flows and other kinds of human movement into\, out of\, through\, and within North Africa and the intersection of that movement with systems of negotiation\, adjudication\, policing\, and control. The theme of “Law and Movement” will provide the framework for an interdisciplinary collaborative investigation by a group of 12-15 UC and California scholars of the Maghrib (broadly understood) with the secondary aim of establishing a wider scholarly network bringing together scholars from across the West Coast. https://uchri.org/awardees/maghrib-workshop/ \nThe meeting is funded by a University of California Humanities Research Institute Multi-Campus Faculty Working Group grant and by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nFor directions to UC Santa Cruz Humanities\, please go to: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/  \nFor more information\, contact Camilo Gómez-Rivas (cgomezri@ucsc.edu). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maghrib-workshop1-2/ 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/maghrib-workshop-full.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR