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SUMMARY:Martin Rizzo-Martinez - Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1975\, a 1\,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville\, California\, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force\, leading to an armed confrontation. They were quickly joined by allies\, including representatives from the San Jose AIM office\, local Vietnam Veterans against the War / Winter Soldiers\, and representatives from the Indigenous run Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association from Humboldt County. Fortunately\, a compromise was made and violence was averted. This incident is one piece of a larger book project looking at similar grass roots\, Indigenous led movements to protect sacred spaces in California in the 1970s and early 80s. \nMartin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media department at UCSC. He is a historian and media maker\, author of We are not Animals\, which explores the history of Indigenous peoples of the Santa Cruz area\, as well as co-producer of the podcast Challenging Colonialism. He has worked closely and collaboratively with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, and other local Tribes. \n\n \nWinter 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-rizzo-martinez-wounded-lee-the-red-power-movement-in-1970s-santa-cruz-in-the-wake-of-alcatraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Orientation to Community Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the importance of preserving and documenting the history and culture of our community through archiving. \nWe will discuss how the rise of interest in Community Archives has transformed the way collective memories are curated\, capturing forgotten and suppressed voices\, reshaping our understanding of what archives are and how they function\, and challenging long-held assumptions about the role of professionals in mediating and sharing history. \n\n\nRebecca Hernandez is currently the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, where she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Her academic background includes a PhD in American Studies\, MA in American Indian Studies\, and an MFA in Design. \n \nA virtual option is available. Space is limited. \nMore information available here. \nThis event is presented by the The Humanities Division Employing Humanities Program and UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/orientation-to-community-archiving/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T133000
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SUMMARY:Ying Jin - Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin\, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year\, who will present her talk titled “Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms.” Refreshments will be provided. \n \nThis event is funded by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline Ku Endowed Memorial Fund. For questions email etu6@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ying-jin-nurturing-hearts-and-minds/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nSome constructions in some languages involve expletive negation (EN): negation that seems to not affect the truth conditions of the sentence. For example\, the Italian A è più alto di quanto (non) sia B (“A is taller than B (isn’t)”). I follow others (Greco 2018\, Halm and Huszár 2021) in assuming there are two kinds of EN. For me\, this amounts to the fact that there are two different ways a negation can fail to affect truth conditions: 1) high EN involves negation that targets non-truth-conditional content\, and 2) low EN involves negation that targets clauses that display what I call ambidirectionality: the property of being ambiguous between a proposition and its negation. In this talk\, I focus on the latter\, arguing that ambidirectionality answers two urgent questions in the context of expletive negation: it explains why we only get (low) EN in scalar constructions (cf. Cépeda 2018); and it explains several subtle semantic differences between a given construction and its (expletive-) negated counterpart. \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jessica-rett/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage in your career journey. Join us for a fast-paced and practical workshop where you’ll learn how to create a professional and dynamic LinkedIn profile\, as well as how to use various LinkedIn resources to improve your networking and job search skills! \n \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-workshop-using-linkedin-to-accelerate-your-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Wondering about your career options? Your curiosity is one of your greatest assets for discovering career possibilities\, for building your network\, and for creating a fulfilling professional life. Join this interactive workshop to learn about exploring your career options and growing your network with the practice of informational interviewing. \n \nFree copies of Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for all those who register by Friday 1/31 and attend the event. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-at-work-informational-interviewing/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T100000
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SUMMARY:Ariel Chan - "Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing”\nwith Ariel Chan\, Ph.D.\nStanford University \n\nAbstract \nBilingualism is inherently a social phenomenon with variation. Sociolinguistic research (e.g.\, Chen\, 2008; Lo\, 1999; Milroy & Wei\, 1995) has demonstrated that bilinguals employ code-switching for identity construction. Meanwhile\, recent psycholinguistic research (e.g.\, Beatty-Martinez et al.\, 2020; Kaan et al.\, 2020; Treffers-Daller et al.\, 2020) has emerged to consider individual differences within interactional contexts and social networks. \nHow do sociocultural factors\, such as language experience and cultural identity\, impact bilinguals’ cognitive and language processing?  \nWhat insights about language processing can we gain from cross-disciplinary psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research? \nIn this talk\, Ariel Chan will explore these two questions by examining code-switching among three groups of Cantonese-English bilinguals with diverse language experience and cultural identity from an integrated psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspective. To begin\, she will present behavioral data from three experiments\, examining how language experience and cultural identity modulate code-switching comprehension and production within a controlled laboratory context. In the second part of the talk\, Chan will focus on naturalistic code-switching data in conversations. Using data from a map task\, she will demonstrate how variation in language experience and cultural identity is reflected in the bilinguals’ code-switching patterns. The synthesis of experimental and qualitative data highlights the significant roles of both language experience and cultural identity in shaping cognitive and linguistic processes\, underscoring the importance of incorporating sociocultural contexts into bilingualism research. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ariel-chan-bilingualism-in-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231105
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20231018T220051Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Theory Roundtable Comes to UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Next month the 30th annual Critical Theory Roundtable will take place on UC Santa Cruz’s campus in Humanities 2 Room 259 hosted by HistCon professors Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba. The events will take place on November 3rd & 4th. Find the program below. \nThe Critical Theory Roundtable is a small\, high caliber conference that represents the best of the diverse streams of critical theory in philosophy and the social sciences. In the past it has been hosted at Yale University\, Northwestern\, Dartmouth\, the University of Toronto\, and other venues across the country. It draws participants from across the US and often Europe. The conference now represents a new generation of critical theorists who are focused on diversifying the perspectives and problems in the field. This includes challenges of neoliberalism\, globalization\, and nationalism\, and fostering creative new critical modalities in the social sciences\, humanities\, and arts. \nThis event is sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department\, the Humanities Division\, and The Humanities Institute. \nExplore more about the Roundtable here \nView the full program here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-theory-roundtable-comes-to-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T170000
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SUMMARY:Caste\, Class\, and Race:  Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste\, Class\, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction \nKeynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean?\nSusan Gilman\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Literature \nLectures & Discussions:\nG.S. Sahota\, UCSC\nLaura Brueck\, Northwestern University\nIvy Wilson\, Northwestern University\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, UCSC \nZoom: 99270004783 PW: aurora \nPresented by the Aurora Chair in Sikh/Punjabi Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanitites Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caste-class-and-race-inter-areal-studies-of-socio-cultural-contradiction/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
DESCRIPTION:Junko Ito & Armin Mester\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-junko-ito-armin-mester/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
DESCRIPTION:Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship\, including fellowships\, grants\, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions\, including digital publications\, collaborative research\, translation\, and publicly engaged work. \n \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Arts Research Institute\, the UCSC Office of Foundation Relations\, and the UCSC Office of Research Development
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acls-workshop-with-joy-connolly/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
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SUMMARY:Teach English in Spain
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey\, Spanish Consul in San Francisco\, who will be speaking on the North American Language and Culture Program in Spain (NALCAP 2023-2024). Light refreshments will be provided. \nOrganized by: Spanish Studies\, UC Santa Cruz Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Consulado General de España en San Francisco
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-english-in-spain/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:James H. Mills - South Asia's Lost Cocaine? Coca Leaf and Colonialism in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)\, c. 1870-1894
DESCRIPTION:Doctors and officials in Britain’s South Asian colonies were quick to spot the potential of cocaine. Carl Koller’s influential experiments with the substance in Vienna were first reported in print in October 1884 and yet by December it was already being used in medical practice in Indore. Further experiments with it followed early in 1885\, and by the end of the year druggists across the country were supplying the growing local market for the drug. As the 1880s proceeded it was put to an increasing range of uses\, within colonial hospitals and clinics but also beyond their boundaries. Almost as quick to respond to the appearance of cocaine in south Asia were British officials and others involved in the colonial economy. This paper explores their efforts to establish the coca plant as a crop and to establish a processing capability to produce South Asian cocaine for the global market. Previous explanations have tended to focus on the competing strains of the coca plant and the environmental difficulties of establishing them in local ecologies. However\, this paper examines the more complex forces driving the decisions that meant that the British colonisers lost their early advantage and failed to commit to cocaine production\, leaving the path open for the better-known Dutch operation in Java. \nJames H. Mills is Professor of Modern History at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde. He has research interests in the histories of Asia\, of psychoactive medical commodities\, and of modern imperialism and colonialism. He is currently completing a Wellcome Trust funded research project with the title\, The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals\, consumers & control in South and East Asia\, c.1900-1945\, and recently co-edited Cannabis: Global Histories (2021) with Lucas Richert. His publications include Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain\, 1928–2008 (2012)\, Cannabis Britannica: Empire\, Trade\, and Prohibition (2003) and (edited with Patricia Barton)\, Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication\, c.1500 to c.1930 (2007). \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-h-mills-south-asias-lost-cocaine-coca-leaf-and-colonialism-in-india-and-ceylon-sri-lanka-c-1870-1894/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20191002T180603Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Jesse Harris
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Harris (UCLA) – Title TBD \nJesse Harris is an assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Linguistics\, and director of the UCLA Language Processing Lab. His research investigates how language users develop a sufficiently rich linguistic meaning during online comprehension\, concentrating in particular on three related areas: (a) the formal semantics of context sensitive expressions\, (b) the semantic processing of contextually dependent terms\, and (c) the pragmatic and processing defaults engaged when generating a semantic or discourse representation for an utterance or phrase. \nAbout eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jesse-harris/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200425
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - The Challenge of Diversity: A Conference on Global Minorities
DESCRIPTION:The 3rd Annual Center for World History Grad Student Conference. \nPlease stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/3rd-annual-grad-student-conference-the-challenge-of-diversity-a-conference-on-global-minorities/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200417T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Kevin Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Ryan (Harvard) – Title TBD \nKevin M. Ryan is a phonologist whose research focuses on prosodic systems and the constituents of speech\, especially stress\, weight\, meter\, and phrasal phonology. This work draws on the statistical analysis of speech/text corpora\, experiments\, and studies of particular languages (often Indic or Dravidian). \nAbout eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-kevin-ryan/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Kathryn Davidson
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Davidson (Harvard) – Title TBD \nKathryn Davidson is an assistant professor in Linguistics at Harvard University where her research investigates the unique capacity that we have to understand an infinite number of sentences that we’ve never encountered before (semantics)\, how we incorporate contextual information into these meanings (pragmatics)\, and how we ever learn to do this (development). In her lab they make balanced use of theory for hypothesis creation with psycholinguistic experimental methods for gathering and analyzing behavioral data based on a wide variety of spoken and signed languages. Davidson’s academic background is in math and theoretical linguistics\, and her sign language background began while learning ASL as a student at UCSD and postdoc at UConn. \nAbout eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-kathryn-davidson/
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SUMMARY:Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
DESCRIPTION:Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East\, Islam in America\, race\, culture\, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. \n  \nLeila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR\, covering issues of culture\, diversity\, and race in America. Previously\, Fadel worked as a journalist in the Middle East. She covered the Iraq War for nearly five years working for Knight Ridder\, McClatchy Newspapers\, and later the Washington Post. She also covered the uprisings that comprised the Arab Spring as the Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post and as an international correspondent for NPR. She has won numerous awards for her reporting\, including the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club\, a Gracie award\, and the George. R. Polk award. In 2016\, she was the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow fellow. \nHannah Allam is a national security correspondent for NPR\, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR\, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News\, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race\, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy\, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard. \nPlease RSVP here:\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-coffee-with-leila-fadel-and-hannah-allam/
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SUMMARY:Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
DESCRIPTION:A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute \nThis talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist and transphobic violence and how those intersections are erased or distorted in public discourse. Professor Medina will examine the communicative dysfunctions that exist around gender and racial violence and how sexist\, transphobic\, and racist imaginaries create vulnerabilities that remain unaddressed. He will discuss how we can exercise the imagination in resistant ways and how we can resist those communicative dysfunctions and oppressive imaginaries by imagining otherwise. He  will discuss some specific cases of gender and racial violence and the ways in which they were distorted in the media coverage\, showing how critically engaged publics can resist those distortions and the forms of activism that we can engage in to fight gender and racial violence. \nProfessor José Medina is theWalter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imagining-otherwise-resisting-and-queering-racial-and-gender-violence/
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SUMMARY:Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors
DESCRIPTION:  \nAbout the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for our Humanities classrooms. Faculty will come away with a better understanding of how to protect themselves while at the same time lowering textbook cost for their students. \nAll faculty instructors (Senate and non-Senate) are strongly encouraged to attend this workshop. Graduate student teaching fellows and associate-ins are also welcome to attend. \nWorkshop activities will be facilitated by Phillip Longo\, Lecturer in the Writing Program\, and Annette Marines\, Arts and Humanities Librarian at McHenry Library. \nLunch will be served \nThis workshop is part of a series presented by the Humanities Teaching and Learning Now project of The Humanities Institute. HT&L Now is co-facilitated by Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Founding Director of CITL\, Jody Greene\, and by CITL Associate Director for Programs\, Kendra Dority \nThis event is co-hosted by the Humanities Division\,The Humanities Institute\, and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. \nPlease RSVP Judy Plummer: jplummer@ucsc.edu\nAny questions about the workshop can be address to citl@ucsc.edu \n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/balancing-fair-use-student-access-selecting-course-texts-workshop-instructors/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Symposium Program \n9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson\, Mark Amengual\, Kimberly Adilia Helmer \n9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO \n10:00-10:30 – John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness \n10:30-11:00 – Jason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Enacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education \n11:00-11:30 – Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Language and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy \n11:30-1:30 – Lunch break \n1:30-2:00 – Laura Callahan (Santa Clara University): Symbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper \n2:00-2:30 – Rebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay)\, Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware): The Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country \n2:30-3:00 – Avizia Long (San Jose State University): Intervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish \n3:00-3:30 – Ala Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute): Down the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2 \n3:30-4:00 – Coffee/Tea break \n4:00-4:30 – Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta (University of California\, Santa Cruz): The Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation With Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque. \n4:30-5:00 – Stephen Fafulas (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Cross-linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms \n5:00-5:30 – Don Miller (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Beyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability \n5:30-6:00 – Bryan Donaldson (University of California\, Santa Cruz): Word Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives
6:00- Closing Business Meeting and visit to Humble Sea Brewery \nSpeaker Bios: \nNetta Avineri is TESOL/TFL Associate Professor andIntercultural Competence Committee Chair atthe Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She is the Middlebury Social Impact Corps Scholars Program Director\, co-founded the MIIS Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project\, and teaches Service Learning and Teacher Education courses at CSU Monterey Bay. Netta is an applied linguist and linguistic anthropologist who teaches education\, intercultural competence\, applied linguistics\, research methods\, and service-learning courses. Her research interests include language and social justice\, critical service-learning\, interculturality\, and heritage and endangered language socialization. Netta’s individual and collaborative research has been published in various media outlets\, academic journals\, and books. Netta’s book Research Methods for Language Teaching: Inquiry\, Process\, and Synthesis was published in 2017 and she is one of the five co-editors of the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice. Netta is also the American Association for Applied Linguistics Public Affairs and Engagement Committee Chair. \nLaura Callahan\, formerly Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The City College and Graduate Center-CUNY\, currently teaches courses in Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. Her areas of interest are: codeswitching; language\, race\, and identity; intercultural communication; heritage language maintenance; and linguistic landscapes. Recent publications have appeared in Spanish in Context\, Heritage Language Journal\, and L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teaching. \nBryan Donaldson (PhD\, Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz\, where he currently serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on word order and discourse structure in the acquisition of French as a second language (L2) and in Old French and Old Occitan. In second language acquisition\, his work primarily examines the highest levels of L2 attainment and has shown that near- native speakers frequently converge on native speaker performance benchmarks\, for example in their use of pragmatically marked word orders and variable structures. In Old French and Old Occitan\, he has examined the interplay between word order\, discourse structure\, and diachronic change. He has published in venues such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Language Learning\, Lingua\, Applied Psycholinguistics\, Journal of Linguistics\, andCanadian Journal of Linguistics. \nGorka Elordieta (PhD\, University of Southern California\, 1997) is a Linguistics professor in the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). During the 2018-2019 academic year he is a Visiting Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His area of specialization is phonology\, more concretely prosody\, intonation and the interface of phonology with syntax. He has been the principal investigator of a number of research grants in linguistics\, and has published articles in journals such as Phonology\, Language and Speech\, Journal of the International Phonetic Association or The Linguistic Review and in volumes of Oxford University Press\, John Benjamins and Mouton de Gruyter. \nStephen Fafulas is Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and director of the Study of Communities\, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics (SoCIOLing) Laboratory. Currently\, he is conducting research on U.S. Spanish and teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research incorporates work on Spanish\, English\, and Brazilian Portuguese as well as indigenous languages\, such as Yagua\, which is featured in his forthcoming volume Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution. When not in the classroom or lab\, you are likely to find him with his family\, at the martial arts academy\, or at a local coffee shop. \nA Professor of Applied Linguistics\, John Hedgcock currently teaches in the MATESOL and MATFL Programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). His recent research has focused on literacy development\, genre-oriented literacy instruction\, the socialization of foreign- and heritage-language learners in classroom settings\, and language teacher preparation. He is the co-author of Teaching Readers of English and Teaching L2 Composition. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes\, Applied Language Learning\, and a number of edited volumes. \nJason Martel is an Associate Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey\, where he teaches courses on foreign/second language pedagogy and directs the Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP). He is an active member of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\, for which he currently serves as Chair of the Teacher Development Special Interest Group. Along with Francis Troyan and Laurent Cammarata\, he is a co-recipient of the 2017 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article\, conferred by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). His publications can be found Foreign Language Annals\, Journal of Applied Language Learning\, and the French Review. \nAvizia Long (Ph.D. Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at San José State University. Her research interests include variation in second language Spanish\, the acquisition of Spanish by non- English-speaking learners\, second language Spanish pronunciation\, and pronunciation in task-based language learning and teaching. She is co- author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context (Routledge\, 2014)\, and she has published research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics\, Hispania\, and several edited volumes. \nRebecca Pozzi (Ph.D.\, University of California\, Davis) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at California State University\, Monterey Bay\, where she coordinates Lower Division Spanish\, including the Heritage Language Program\, and teaches courses in Spanish language\, linguistics\, and applied linguistics. Her research focuses on second and heritage language development\, sociolinguistics\, study abroad\, language pedagogy\, language policy\, and language technology. She has published in journals including Hispania and The CATESOL Journal and in edited volumes from Routledge and Multilingual Matters. \nAla Simonchykis Assistant Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey\, CA. Her research interests focus on pronunciation instruction\, experimental phonetics\, and second language speech processing\, specifically on how various domains\, such as perception\, production\, lexical encoding and orthography interact with each other in the acquisition of L2 phonologies. \n  \nDon Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he teaches courses on second language acquisition\, L2 teaching\, and research in Applied Linguistics. His research interests focus on corpus- based approaches to examining academic vocabulary in published and learner writing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing\, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes\, and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. \nMagdalena Romera (PhD\, University of Southern California\, 2001) is a professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Public University of Navarre (Spain) and Visiting Research Associate at the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz for the current academic year. She has also been the Director of the Catedra de Patrimonio Inmaterial de Navarra for the past three years. Her research interests include Language Variation\, Language Contact and Discourse Analysis. She has participated in several research grants in her areas of expertise\, and has published articles in prestigious journals such as Linguistics\, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Discourse and Society. \nThor Sawin is an Associate Professor in the Masters of Teaching Foreign Languages/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Middlebury Language Schools. His research and teaching interests focus mainly on technology in language instruction\, grammar pedagogy\, and multilingualism in social impact settings. He also does consultancy on language policy and language acquisition support for several multinational organizations. His recent publications have appeared in Reconsidering Development\, Journal of Language\, Identity and Education\, and the CALICO Journal\, and he has authored chapters in several volumes published by Multilingual Matters and Cambridge\, as well as several field guides and reference articles. \nAbstracts: \nFrom Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO\nThor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nWestern NGOs\, in their trainings and policy documents\, often display language ideologies honed by years of their personnel’s formal language education. These tend to naturalize the so-called Herderian triad (one language\, one people\, one territory) by enforcing clear distinctions between reified language-as-systems supported by the tentpole of official written standards. Such ideologies endure even when NGO workers’ host communities are complexly multi- and translingual. This paper examines what did and did not shift in language ideology of NGO staff working with indigenous and displaced minority populations across the Middle East\, and the process of crafting new language policies. The NGO\, previously committed to rigidly serial language acquisition\, contacted the author for training on translingual practice. The needs of the organization favor a language-as-mobile-resource approach and contact zone orientation (Harrison\, 2007; Blommaert\, 2010; Canagarajah\, 2017). Data from the participant-authored blogposts before and conversations during the five-day training revealed narratives of vision and blindness\, and also of freedom through admitting that the language practices of their hosts were less separable and nameable than their training acknowledged. Resistance centered on felt implausibility of learning “more than one language” –a parallelism refuted by neurological and sociolinguistic research. Unless Western ideologies of language are adapted to the language life ways connecting rural-traditional and urban-migrant spaces\, organizations serving\, multilingual minority populations may ironically risk reinforcing nationalistic views through their policies on language acquisition (Ndhlovu\, 2018). \nObstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness \nJohn Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nIn a connected\, digitized world\, language teacher education must prepare teacher candidates to function in a dynamic world of work and communication. Drawing on critical incidents from a U.S. teacher preparation program\, the presenter will explore three obstacles to building teachers’ language awareness. These challenges include: (1) cultivating understanding of the naturalness of linguistic variation; (2) promoting the uptake of teaching skills; and (3) nurturing the ability to use and transform the language and genres of skilled educators. Reflecting on his work with developing teachers\, the presenter will share field-tested strategies and interventions designed to convert these obstacles into opportunities. \nEnacting an Identity Approach in Language Teacher Education \nJason Martel (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nScholars have called for an identity approach to language teacher education\, which involves employing identity as a lens for helping teacher candidates take ownership over their professional development and assert agency in becoming the types of language teachers they aspire to be. Although previous studies have examined specific identity-oriented tools used in language teacher preparation programs\, none has yet addressed a course in which a focus on identity is integrated throughout all assigned activities. The present study thus addresses the experiences of language teacher candidates enrolled in an identity-oriented capstone practicum course as part of a TESOL/TFL master’s degree program. Data were mined from course activities (e.g.\, teaching journals\, post-observation conferences)\, as well as two additional interviews. Findings include ways in which the participants not only processed identity positions they brought to the course\, but also explored new positions related to their experiences during the semester. \nLanguage and Social Justice in Practice: From Classroom Activities to Collaborative Advocacy \nNetta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)\nHow can applied linguists mobilize their expertise\, experience\, and networks to engage in social justice efforts? This talk focuses on collaborations at the intersection of language\, social justice\, and advocacy\, highlighting how applied linguists’ participation in struggles over language are connected to broader justice struggles. First\, I present my model of “nested interculturality”\, a collective of dispositions and practices for ethical engagement in multilingual and intercultural interactions. Language teacher education and critical service-learning course examples will be shared. Next\, I discuss various collaborations in the AAAL Public Affairs and Engagement Committee around immigration and international exchange. Last\, case studies from the 2019 volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (Avineri\, Graham\, Johnson\, Riner\, and Rosa\, Eds.) of collaborative advocacy efforts around the “language gap”\, sports team mascot names\, immigration\, and the US Census will be explored. Overall\, the presentation provides applied linguists with multiple avenues for impactful social justice work. \nSymbolic Uses of Spanish in U.S. Film and Newspaper \nLaura Callahan (Santa Clara University)\nThis presentation will examine the use of Spanish in U.S. English-medium films and newspapers\, with data from over the past 20 years. Examples to be seen range from cases in which the objective seems to be a casual demonstration of the speaker’s power\, with Spanish used as a tool to accomplish that purpose\, to other instances in which the use of Spanish seems to function as a language display signaling the speaker’s claim to a Latinx identity. The corpus provides fodder for a discussion of various issues germane to the teaching of Spanish and Spanish linguistics\, such as Mock Spanish\, language and power\, pragmatics and second language users\, as well as codeswitching and other contact phenomena. \nThe Meta-Pragmatic Awareness of Heritage Speakers Studying Abroad in a Non-Heritage Country \nRebecca Pozzi (California State University Monterey Bay)\, Chelsea Escalante (University of Wyoming) and Tracy Quan (University of Delaware)\nAlthough the number of heritage speakers (HSs) studying abroad is projected to grow in the coming years (Shively\, 2018)\, little is known about the pragmatic choices and development of HSs in this context. This study investigates the impact of a 3-week instructional treatment related to requests\, apologies\, and the use of vos among three HSs of Mexican descent during study abroad (SA) in Mendoza\, Argentina. A written elicitation task was used as a pre/post measure of students’ meta- pragmatic awareness and their accommodation ofvoseo. Following explicit instruction\, HSs increased their meta-pragmatic awareness and their use of vos. Nevertheless\, variation was observed due to individual differences and HS identities. Case studies revealed that participants’ pragmatic choices aligned with their identities\, their interactions with Argentines\, and their future goals. These findings suggest that these HSs benefited from explicit pragmatics instruction\, increased their meta- pragmatic awareness\, and made pragmatic choices that reflected their identities. \nIntervocalic Rhotic Pronunciation by Korean Learners of Spanish \nAvizia Long (San Jose State University)\nPrevious research on the second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish rhotics has focused on the tap- trill distinction in production by native English-speaking learners (e.g.\, Face\, 2006; Major\, 1986; Olsen\, 2012; Reeder\, 1998; Rose\, 2010). There is a lack of research on rhotic pronunciation by learners who speak a non-English first language (L1)\, limiting the generalizability of attested findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by investigating the acquisition of Spanish rhotic production by adult learners whose L1 is Korean. Sixty-six adult Korean learners at four instructional levels of Spanish language study (Long\, 2016) completed an oral picture book description task (dePaola\, 1978) from which words containing intervocalic rhotics were extracted for acoustic analysis. This talk will present the findings of this analysis\, specifically the types of productions observed for the alveolar tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/ at each instructional level sampled. \nDown the Rabbit Hole: From Separate Categories in Production to Fuzzy Phonolexical Representations in L2 \nAla Simonchyk (Defense Language Institute)\nPrevious research suggests that accurate realization of L2 phonemes is not necessarily accompanied by learners’ accuracy in other domains of phonological acquisition. The current talk will investigate whether learners who produce a challenging contrast in their L2 store words with this contrast separately in the mental lexicon. Forty American learners of Russian were evaluated on their production and lexical encoding of highly familiar Russian words with palatalization. The results suggest that learners’ ability to accurately differentiate words with the plain/palatalized contrast in production developed independently of their phonolexical representations\, which appear to merge in the mental lexicon. Moreover\, leaners’ performance was strongly affected by the prosodic position of the target consonants. In intervocalic position\, learners made significantly fewer production mistakes than word-finally. However\, they accepted a substantially greater number of nonwords with the target consonants in intervocalic position than in word-final position on a lexical encoding task. \nThe Falling Intonational Contours of Polar Interrogatives in Basque Spanish and Their Correlation with Language Attitudes and Degree of Contact with Basque \nMagdalena Romera and Gorka Elordieta (Public University of Navarre and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)/University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nThe main goal of this paper is to analyse the prosodic features of Spanish varieties that are in contact with Basque in Northern Spain (Basque Country and Navarre) and to observe to what extent social factors\, particularly the speakers’ attitudes towards the other language\, can determine the degree of linguistic convergence (Romera and Elordieta 2013; Elordieta and Romera in press). We recorded semi-directed conversations in Spanish of a total of 36 speakers (monolingual speakers of Spanish\, L1 Spanish-L2 Basque speakers\, and L1 Basque-L2 Spanish speakers)\, in urban and rural areas in the Basque Country and Navarre. In this talk\, we concentrate on information-seeking yes/no questions\, which present different intonation contours in Basque and in Spanish. In Basque\, yes/no questions end in a low or falling contour (cf. Elordieta and Hualde 2014)\, whereas in Castilian Spanish they end in a rising contour (Navarro Tomás 1918; Quilis 1981; Face 2008; Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto 2008\, 2010; Hualde and Prieto 2015\, among others). Preliminary results from 24 speakers show that all of them present a majority of falling final contours in their Spanish\, regardless of their knowledge of Basque. Speakers differed in their frequency of occurrence of falling contours\, ranging from 66% to 100%. Interestingly\, in urban populations (Bilbao and San Sebastian) a correlation was found between attitudes to Basque among monolingual and L1 Spanish speakers and the degree of prosodic convergence towards Basque found in their speech. In other words\, the more positive the attitudes\, the higher the degree of prosodic convergence shown (i.e. the higher the percentage of yes/no questions ending in a falling contour). Prosody is a trait that strongly identifies Basque speakers; it stands as a fundamental identifying feature. The results indicate then that the adoption of the characteristic prosody of Basque allows these speakers to be recognized as members of the Basque community. In smaller towns\, however\, where the degree of contact with Basque is higher\, no correlation between language and ethnolinguistic attitudes and degree of convergence was found. In general\, a higher percentage of final contours in yes/no questions than in the two cities were observed. We conclude that in towns where the presence of Basque in everyday life is stronger\, the higher degree of contact with Basque is the main factor that can account for the higher frequency of Basque intonational features. Although this investigation is still in progress\, the results obtained so far in this study of a particular aspect of Spanish intonation in contact with Basque reveal the influence of social factors in the degree of convergence between the two languages. \nCross-Linguistic Variation of Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms \nStephen Fafulas (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nAccounts of tense-aspect-mood systems hold that cross-linguistically there is a small set of prototypical functions that have followed similar evolutionary paths. For example\, in languages that mark progressive aspect obligatorily with the present progressive\, the simple present has been edged into habitual territory. However\, there are languages such as Spanish that allow for the use of simple present and present progressive forms to encode “action simultaneous with speech”. Still others\, like English\, show a clearer distinction between progressive and habitual form-function mapping. What is lacking in these accounts is abundant cross-linguistic empirical evidence to substantiate the claims. To address this\, the current study compares the distribution of simple presents and present progressives in an oral corpus of Spanish and English to test whether these languages and forms operate as suggested in the previous literature. \nBeyond Coverage-Based Evidence of Word List Reliability \nDon Miller (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nOver the past two decades\, the greatest efforts in designing and validating corpus-based word frequency lists have gone into three areas: corpus design\, item selection criteria\, and coverage-based demonstrations of list robustness. Corpora are now often much larger and better balanced and\, as a result\, perhaps more representative than ever before; the application of additional distributional statistics allows for better targeting of items with desired distributions (e.g.\, Gardner & Davies\, 2014); and contemporary lexical frequency lists are proving increasingly efficient\, providing ever higher coverage of target texts or achieving such coverage with fewer words (e.g.\, Brezina & Gablasova\, 2015). In this talk\, I argue that researchers should go beyond coverage-based\, indirect evidence of reliability in order to better understand the representativeness of corpora and the generalizability of word lists based on them. \nWord Order and Discourse Structure in Early Old French: Clitic Position in Coordinated Declaratives \nBryan Donaldson (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nThis talk examines clitic position in coordinated declaratives in early Old French. Prior to about 1200\, object and adverbial clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal in this context (Simonenko & Hirschbühler 2012)\, as in (1) and (2).\n(1) É li poples ápluvéit de tutes parz é fud é se teneit od Absalon.\n“And people came in large numbers from everywhere and were with and stood with Absalom.” (Li quatre livre des reis\, Curtius\, 1911: 86)\n(2) Or ne fera mes plus; trop a avant alé\, E pesot li que tant en aveit trespassé.\n“From now on\, he will not do more; he went too far\, and he regretted having gone that far.” (Becket\, v.\n1020)\nAn empirical study reveals that the choice of coordinate structure\, and clitic position\, is\nprincipled and reflects discourse structure. In particular\, cases like (1) occur within a single discourse segment\, whereas examples like (2) correspond to separate discourse segments.
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History\, 1750-2019”
DESCRIPTION:The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution\, war\, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration\, borders\, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens\, non-citizens \, subjects\, refugees\, and exiles in world history. We welcome broad definitions of “border\,” “citizenship\,” and “migration”to include boundaries that migrate even when people themselves do not\, citizenships that are defined by entities other than the state\, and migrations that don’t require physical movement (eg. movement among identities that can affect citizenship\, like race or religion). \nGraduate Student Conference hosted by: The UCSC Center for World History Program \nCommittee: Daniel Joesten\, Muiris MacGiollabhui\, Jackie Schultz\, Crystal Smith \n8:30–9:00 Opening Remarks\, Coffee\, and Pastries \n9:00-10:30 Panel One: “Religion\, Migration\, and the Politics of Citizenship”  \nChair: Crystal E. Smith \n\nJeffrey Turner (University of Utah) – “Polygamy\, Race\, and Religion in the 1891 Immigration Act”\nRobin Keller (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “‘The Only Foreigners We Felt Sorry For:’ Holocaust Refugees and Border Control in World War II Shanghai”\nShimul Chowdhury (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Stitching Solidarity: Collaborative Craft and the Muslim Identity”\n\n10:45-12:15 Panel Two: “Identity\, Family\, and the State” \nChair: Jaclyn N. Schultz \n\nSelena Moon (Independent Scholar) – “ Sexism and Racism in U.S. and Japanese Citizenship Laws ”\nEmma Bellino (University of Wollongong) – “From Citizen to Alien to Citizen Again: Married Women’s Dependent Nationality in Australia\, 1920-1948 ”\nKarina Ruiz (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Cleavages of the State: Legal geographies in the U.S.”\n\n12:15-1:15 Lunch \n1:15- 2:45 Panel Three: “Exile and Banishment across Borders”  \nChair: Muiris MacGiollabhuí \n\nDaisy Munoz (San Francisco State University) – “Viva Reagan: Cuban Republican Partisanship in 1980 & 1984”\nKevan Aguilar (University of California\, San Diego) – “‘Cárdenas was Calling Us:’ Race\, Class\, and Settlement in Mexican & Spanish Exile Imaginaries”\nLily Hindy (University of California\, Los Angeles) – “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees\, Emigrés\, and Exiles Confront a New National Identity”\n\n3:00-4:15 Panel Four: “Culture\, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism” \nChair: Daniel Joesten \n\nHardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) – “‘Popularly Understood ’ : U.S. Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century ”\nAmelia Flood (St. Louis University) – “Marooned on American Shores: Migrating Between Citizen and Subject in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”\nAlberto Ganis (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Sub-State Nationalisms and the Other(s) : The Mediated Identities of Friuli”\n\n4:30-6 Keynote \nHarry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Africa and Atlantic History) – “Edward W. Blyden: The Afropolitan Dreams of an Atlantic Denizen” \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies\, Cowell College\, UCSC History Department\, and our generous donors from UCSC Giving Day!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2nd-annual-grad-student-conference-citizenship-flux-migration-exclusion-world-history-1750-2019/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T133000
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SUMMARY:Breanne Fahs: "Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism"
DESCRIPTION:Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson\, Kathie Sarachild\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, and Dana Densmore.\nThis colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance\, particularly around the subjects of feminist rage\, sex and love\, tactics of feminist resistance\, and intergenerational knowledge- making. \nLunch will be provided
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breanne-fahs-burn-firebrand-feminism-legacy-second-wave-radical-feminism/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20190111T200450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T200450Z
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SUMMARY:Nadine Theiler: "A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles"
DESCRIPTION:English has several additive particles\, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also\, a\ncommon choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions\, (1a-b). It has been\nsuggested that this particle can’t appear in a wh-question without triggering a so-called\nshow-master interpretation (Umbach\, 2012)\, in which the speaker already has a certain answer in\nmind when asking the question\, (1c).\n(1) Mary danced all night.\na. John also danced.\nb. Did John also dance?\nc. #Who also danced?\nIn this talk\, I will challenge this generalization based on a previously unnoticed class of\nquestions\, which I call summoning questions. To account for the resulting more differentiated\nempirical picture\, I will generalize Beaver and Clark (2008)’s QUD-based account of additive\nparticles by lifting it to an inquisitive semantics setting (Ciardelli et al.\, 2018). This allows us to\ncapture the contribution of also in declaratives and interrogatives in a unified way\, while still\naccounting for its distributional restrictions.\nAdditive particles are just one example of expressions that can appear with declarative and\ndifferent kinds of interrogative clauses. In the remainder of the talk\, I will briefly walk through\ntwo other examples—clause-embedding verbs like know\, and the German discourse particle\ndenn—to show how the proposed account of additive particles forms part of a larger research\nprogram that aims to develop formally unified accounts of expressions in this family. \n  \nNadine Theiler is a PhD student at the Institute for Logic\, Language and Computation in Amsterdam\, where she is a member of the Inquisitive Semantics group. \nTheiler’s research interests broadly relate to information exchange through linguistic communication\, with a focus on question semantics. She is interested in the nature of questions as semantic objects as well as in the role that questions play in the structuring and interpretation of discourse.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nadine-theiler-unified-semantics-additive-particles/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20190109T223550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T223550Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Jess Law
DESCRIPTION:Jess Law\, Constraints on distributivity\nAbstract
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-jess-law/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20190109T223145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T223145Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Naomi Francis
DESCRIPTION:More details available here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-naomi-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20181107T185303Z
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SUMMARY:Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey\, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall\, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola\, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families. \nPlease RSVP by completing this short survey.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/don-rothman-endowed-award-first-year-writing-ceremony/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180125T193231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T172227Z
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Bosch Santana: "The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain"
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her work\, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation\, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the 1950s to the present. It argues that writers from South Africa\, Malawi\, Zambia\, and Zimbabwe have developed new genres of fiction in these media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space. \nThis Cultural Studies Colloquium is part of the UCHRI Junior Faculty Lecture Circuit. \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/cs-colloquium-ucla-junior-faculty-exchange-talk-stephanie-santana/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180309T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180309T134500
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180227T182733Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Kiki Loveday
DESCRIPTION:What You Love: The Library at Alexandria\, Quotation\, and Survival \nThe figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and sexual deviance in Western Civilization\, yet neither her work nor her story has survived. Between 1896 and 1931 over twenty cinematic versions of Sappho were produce for the screen\, making it one of the most ubiquitous texts of the silent film era. Yet this once wildly popular and frequently re-made text has been all but erased from cinema history. How might we reimagine the parameters of cinema and media history and theory by reimagining and remaking the parameters of the archive? Drawing examples from What You Love\, an archive of contemporary queer feelings produced in residency at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles\, this presentation will rethink the history of cinema and sexuality\, questioning contemporary conceptions of romantic love\, the loss of queer female voices from the historical imagination\, and the parameters of the archive. \nKiki Loveday is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media. She is an experimental filmmaker obsessed with deconstructing (and reconstructing) cinematic conventions: rethinking genre\, mixing mediums\, and practicing alternative production paradigms. Much of her work is concerned with isolation\, people’s sometimes silly and heartbreaking inability to fit-in\, connect with each other\, or figure out how to live in a culture they didn’t create. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-kiki-loveday/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T134500
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180227T183436Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum: Elizabeth Goldman
DESCRIPTION:Once Helpful\, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios \nThe present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder across multiple scenarios. Infants saw three familiarization events where an agent consistently helped or hindered another agent. In test\, infants saw two test trials (consistent or inconsistent with the behavior in familiarization) in a new scenario. Experiment 1 showed that infants tracked a person’s helping behavior across scenarios and expected the person to be helpful again in the future. However\, generalizing a person’s tendency to hinder proved more challenging. Experiment 2 replicated the positive results in Experiment 1 and showed that with the stronger cues of hindering intent\, tracking hindering behavior across events appeared easier for infants. \nElizabeth Goldman is Psychology PhD student who works in the Infant Development Lab. Her research\nprimarily focuses on children’s understanding of prosocial (helping) behavior. This project looks at whether\nchildren expect a person’s helping or hindering behavior to continue and carryover to other situations. \nFriday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Friday Forum is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments: HAVC\, Literature\, and History of Consciousness.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-elizabeth-goldman/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180206T191917Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Group: Cathy Davidson "The New Education"
DESCRIPTION:The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday\, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson’s visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday\, March 2 at 2-4 pm in 1 HUM 202. \nFor copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education\, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-learning-humanities-now-cathy-davidson/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180130T201430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T225123Z
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SUMMARY:Sora Y. Han: "Poetics of MU"
DESCRIPTION:The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure\, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race\, colonialism\, and the limits of translation. Slave law\, Oedipus\, kinship\, and language as forms of law contain two essential a-genealogical characteristics. The first concerns the perverse logics of law\, and the fact that submission to or refusal of law offers no protection against its violence and judgment; and the second\, where genealogy can neither be named nor established\, what issues forth can only\, in the present circumstances\, be described as an obscene obliteration of law’s reference. This peculiar co-presence of law and non-referentiality\, differentially explored by Edouard Glissant\, David Marriott\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Fred Moten\, and Theresa Had Kyung Cha\, can only be grasped by a transversal writing\, the “poetics of mu\,” not simply at the limits of translation\, but also\, transliteration and utterance. \n  \nSora Han is Associate Professor of Criminology\, Law and and the School of Law at UC Irvine. She also is core faculty of the Culture and Theory Ph.D. program\, and affiliate faculty of African American Studies. Professor Han is the author of Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015) and she has two books in-progress: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness\, which brings together poetics\, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu\, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet\, an experimental text which offers a speculative meditation on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Her most recent publication on this new line of research\, “Slavery as Contract\,” was published by Law and Literature (2016)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sora-y-han-poetic-mu/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180219T171235Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
DESCRIPTION:Crossings Film Series \nOver 2017-18\, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present “Crossings\,” a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary\, “Io sto con la sposa\,” winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films are subtitled and screenings are free and open to the public. \nIo sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet\, 2013) \nTwo outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker Andrea Segre. Shun Li (Zhao Tao) is a thirtysomething single mother from China who has come to Italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. However\, Shun Li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it difficult for her to pay her fees so she can make enough money to bring her son to Italy. She works as a barmaid in a shabby waterfront tavern in the fishing village of Chioggia; there\, she meets Bepi (Rade Serbedzija)\, an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and pens doggerel verse himself. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan\, China’s most celebrated poet\, and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However\, the Chioggia natives make it clear that they don’t approve of Shun Li and Bepi’s budding relationship\, especially given their suspicions about her Chinese heritage. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/io-sono-li-shun-li-poet/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20180116T192255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T202346Z
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SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla: "The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico"
DESCRIPTION:The Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: \n“Dr. Yarimar Bonilla\, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nDr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University.\nHer research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race\, citizenship\, and nation\nacross the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of\nDisenchantment (2016). \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wait-disaster-hurricanes-politics-recovery-puerto-rico/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T024000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T154000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20161004T212534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T212534Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-susan-lin-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20170321T185337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T185337Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution\, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts\, not only on their own\, but in conversation with one another. Geographically\, these contexts include Iran\, Iraq\, Israel and Palestine\, Egypt\, Russia\, Hungary\, Egypt\, Morocco\, and the United States of America. Thematically\, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left\, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics\, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms\, historiography and state memory\, and much more. \n2:00-5:00pm \nAfternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nAfternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nConcluding remarks \nDinner \nRSVP required – Please register for the event here \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, History Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and Institute for Humanities Research. \nScholar Bios: \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC\, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies\, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners\, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History\, and recently published a scholarly piece\, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls\, Fall 2016. \nOrit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual\, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004)\, writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim\, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation\, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history\, the history of Iraqi Jews\, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century\, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature.  Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq\, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq\, New Babylonians\, A history of Iraqi Jews\, and Impossible Exodus\, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago\, she teaches classes on nationalism\, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East\, on modern Islamic civilization\, and on Israeli history. \nJoel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt\, Palestine\, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East. \nArie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history\, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking\, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial\, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle. \nPeter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions. \nLior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century\,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century\, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism\, Zionism\, and constitutionalism\, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East. \nBob Weinberg  is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa\, anti-Jewish pogroms\, blood libel\, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union\, and Birobidzhan \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:Ecology & the Rise of Capitalism Nature\, Power\, and the Origins of Our Times
DESCRIPTION:A colloquium by\nAssociate Professor Jason W. Moore\nFernand Braudel Center\nBinghamton University\n\n\nJason W. Moore is an environmental and world historian at Binghamton University\, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso\, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History\, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press\, 2016). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things\, written with Raj Patel\, will be published this fall (University of California Press). He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network.\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Rachel Carson College\, the UCSC Humanities Research Institute\, and the Sociology and Environmental Studies Departments.  Professor More will also be speaking at EXTRACTION: A Two-Day Conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene\, May 12-13\, sponsored by the Center for Creative Ecologies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-the-rise-of-capitalism-nature-power-and-the-origins-of-our-times-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:"What's Left of Progressive Politics?"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Emerging Worlds presents \n“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”\n Roundtable Discussion with\nDr. Vijay Prashad\, Dr. Lisa Rofel\, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando\, and Asad Haider \nDr. Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies and South Asian History at Trinity College\, Connecticut and a renowned journalist. He was trained as a historical anthropologist and received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. Prashad’s work addresses issues like race and imperialism\, race and immigrant communities in the US\, geopolitical changes in the global South after 9/11\, the propagation of policies that produce and exacerbate income inequalities\, the possibilities of political solidarities among social movements committed to progressive change in the world\, and the role of national governments and regional alliances in the context of economic and political changes in the world.    He is the author of numerous books. Some of them are – The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2016 and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2016). No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2015). The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (London: Verso and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2013). Arab Spring\, Libyan Winter (Baltimore: AK Press and New Delhi: LeftWord Books\, 2012). The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\, (New York: New Press and New Delhi: LeftWord\, 2007). Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press\, 2001). Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2000). Untouchable Freedom: The Social History of a Dalit Community (New Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 1999). His articles appear in media organization s like the Guardian\, the Hindu\, Frontline\, jadaliyya\, and AlterNet. \nFor more information\, contact sjetha@ucsc.edu \nThese events are free and open to the public
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/whats-left-of-progressive-politics-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T130000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Alumni Panel Discussions
DESCRIPTION:Join us for lively panel discussions: Careers and Resources for Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students in the Santa Cruz Region\, San Francisco to Monterey (1p-2:15p); Graduate Student Alumni Leaders in Santa Cruz Region\, San Francisco to Monterey (2:30p-3:45p) and\, Life after Graduate School. Panelists will share their stories and work experience in academic career\, non-academic career\, government\, and startups. Refreshments will be provided. \nRegistration link:\nREGISTER HERE \n  \nPanel 1: Careers and Entrepreneurship for Graduate Students \n1:00–2:15 p.m.\, Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Room 259. \nJ Guevara\, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Economic Development Manager\, Santa Cruz Economic Development Office\, and Municipal Broadband and Right-of-Way Manager\, City of Santa Cruz \nAdam Siepel\, Ph.D. Computer Science 2005; Professor\, Watson School of Biological Sciences\, and Chair\, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology\, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory\, Cold Spring Harbor\, NY \nEmily Sloan-Pace\, Ph.D. Literature 2012; Professor in Residence\, Zoho Corp.\, Pleasanton\, CA\, and Chennai\, India \n  \nCoffee and Light Refreshments between panels\, 2:15–2:30. \n  \nPanel 2: Leadership Opportunities for Graduate Students \n2:30–3:45 p.m.\, Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Room 259. \nClaudio Campagna\, Ph.D. Biology 1987; Marine Conservationist\, Argentina and Marine Programs\, Wildlife Conservation Society\, and Adjunct Professor and Research Associate\, UC Santa Cruz \nDan Heller\, M.F.A. Digital Arts and New Media 2013; CEO\, Two Pore Guys\, Inc.\, Santa Cruz \nBetsy Herbert\, Ph.D. Environmental Studies 2004; Earth Matters international columnist\, Santa Cruz Sentinel\, and Chair\, Science Advisory Panel\, Sempervirens Fund \nAdam Siepel (see bio info above) \nEmily Sloan-Pace (see bio info above) \n  \nNetworking Mixer\, April 29\, 4:00–6:00 p.m.\, Cafe Iveta \nImmediately following the second panel discussion on leadership\, please join the panelists and other visiting graduate student alumni at the networking mixer. Sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies and administrative and faculty representatives from the five academic divisions in welcoming back to campus our five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees\, panelists\, and other returning graduate student alumni at this social gathering to celebrate our fantastic graduate programs and network with other graduate students from UCSC. \n  \nGraduate Alumni Honored\, 2016-17 \nThe UC Santa Cruz Division of Graduate Studies and the divisions of the Arts\, Engineering\, Humanities\, Physical Sciences\, and Social Sciences will honor five distinguished graduate student alumni representing each division at an award luncheon on April 29\, 2017\, during UCSC’s Alumni Weekend. Click here to read more
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-alumni-panel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T170000
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SUMMARY:Spanish Colloquium: Ximena Briceño\, "A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y Arguedas"
DESCRIPTION:A vuelo de pájaro: Vallejo y ArguedasA talk in Spanish by Ximena Briceño\nXimena Briceño enseña literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Culturas Ibéricas y Latinoamericanas de Stanford University desde 2008. Es doctora por la Universidad de Cornell y egresada de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su trabajo de investigación se enfoca en teorías de animalidad en la literatura moderna de América Latina\, especialmente de la zona andina. Ha sido becaria del Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín y es coordinadora del grupo de investigación materia en Stanford. \nExploro el arco trazado por el ave guanera desde Trilce de César Vallejo hasta El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas. Quiero discutir la presencia de una poética excrementicia en la vanguardia andina desde una perspectiva post-antropocéntrica. Tomando como punto de partida la idea clásica de la vanguardia latinoamericana como crítica a la modernidad\, esta ponencia extrema esta postura para mostrar que\, más bien\, la línea excrementicia que comunica la escritura de Vallejo y Arguedas marca cómo esa temporalidad colapsa en un tiempo catastrófico que borra la frontera de lo humano y lo no humano. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spanish-colloquium-ximena-briceno-a-vuelo-de-pajaro-vallejo-y-arguedas-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T154000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-junko-ito-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T150000
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SUMMARY:Writing Here → Writing There: A Transfer Model for Teaching and Learning
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis conference invites graduate students\, faculty\, staff\, and administrators to participate in a series of roundtables and presentations that showcase our current successes in developing an innovate\, locally-responsive writing curriculum. Participants will also contribute to moving our vision forward so that we set a broader\, campus-wide agenda that accounts for the needs of all stakeholders–from students to WASC. \nNew Keynote Speaker:\nDr. Kara Taczak\, Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Denver\, will deliver the keynote and a half-day workshop on her award-winning “Teaching for Transfer” curriculum. Her research centers on the transfer of knowledge and practices. Her current project\, The Transfer of Transfer Project\, examines the efficacy of the Teaching for Transfer curriculum in multiple courses across multiple institutional sites. This research is the second phase of the study described in her co-authored book\, Writing Across Contexts\, which was awarded the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Impact award and the 2016 Council of Writing Program Administrators Book Award. Taczak’s other publications have appeared in Composition Forum\, Teaching English in a Two-Year College\, and Across the Disciplines. \nClick here to Register \nSchedule:\n8:45-9:10: Coffee and Pastries \n9:10-9:30: Opening Remarks\nHerbie Lee\, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor\nHeather Shearer\, Writing Program Chair\nTonya Ritola\, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator \n9:30-10:00: Keynote Address: Kara Taczak\, “Teaching for Transfer: Shifting from How to What” \n10:00-10:10: Break \n10:10-11:00: Graduate Student Panel\nFacilitator: Veronica Flanagan\, Writing Program Faculty\nElizabeth Goldman\, Psychology\, “Make Your Course More than Just a Graduation Requirement: Teaching Transferable Skills in Your Classroom”\nLindsay Weinberg\, History of Consciousness\,”Rhetorics of Censorship: A Transferrable Interdisciplinary Pedagogy”\nHeather Schlaman\, Education\, “Analysis of Education: Teaching Students About Writing through the Study of Schooling”\nLara Galas\, Literature\, “Engaged Pedagogy and Teaching for Transfer: Helping Students Re-Member Themselves Through Writing”\nKylie Kenner\, Education\, “Utilizing Everyday Genres to Scaffold Writing in New Disciplines” \n11:00-11:10: Break \n11:10-12:00: Staff and Faculty Panel\nFacilitator: Tonya Ritola\nAnna Sher\, Institutional Research\, Assessment\, and Policy Studies\, “Learning Outcomes Assessment of Written Communication Skills: Methods and Results”\nTerry Terhaar\, Writing Program\, “Transfer of Knowledge and Practice Across Multiple Writing Contexts: A Key Term Perspective”\nDeborah A. Murphy and Kenneth Lyons\, University Library\, “Laying the Groundwork for Disciplinary Communication: Library Information Literacy Tools for Writing Students” \n12:00-1:00: Lunch in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n1:10-2:45: Interactive Workshop: Kara Taczak\, “Key Terms and a Reflection Framework: How to Encourage Successful Transfer” \n2:45-3:00: Closing Remarks\nTonya Ritola\, Writing Program Assessment Coordinator \nSponsors:\nInstitute for Humanities Research\, Division of the Humanities\, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, University Library\, Division of Student Success\, Division of Undergraduate Education\, Division of Graduate Studies\, and the Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-here-writing-there-conference-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T130000
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SUMMARY:Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
DESCRIPTION:Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship\, UC Santa Cruz’s 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture\, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing’s concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African Studies takes part in a half-day symposium on labor mobility and precarity with Alejandro Grimson of Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and Biao Xiang of the University of Oxford on Tuesday\, February 7\, 2017\, at the Merrill Cultural Center. \nSession II of Non-citizenship focuses on global labor mobility and rising precarity\, two concepts that highlight the broad and tiered spaces between citizen and non-citizen and their consequences. Linking labor mobility and precarity and holding them in dynamic tension is the notion of denizenship (residence without citizenship). Precarity—the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion—is also central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens\, something short of full members. They are differentially incorporated into host societies that desire their labor\, but reject their presence. From Irish helots\, to Chinese “coolies\,” to Mexican Braceros\, to Silicon Valley’s high-tech guest workers\, mobile laborers with limited rights face new opportunities abroad\, along with new forms of vulnerability\, contingency\, and expendability. Meanwhile\, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of labor precarity as social rights (for example\, education\, health care\, and retirement protection) and access to their benefits are increasingly privatized and made contingent. \n*Steve McKay\, Associate Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, will moderate the seminar with Professor Paret. \n  \n\nMarcel Paret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah and Senior Research Associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research examines the politics of class formation and how they vary over time and across space. He is especially interested in globalization and marketization\, race and migration\, labor and social movements\, protest and community politics\, and the causes and consequences of precarity. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of “Politics of Precarity: Critical Engagements with Guy Standing\,” a speical issue of Global Labor Journal (Vol. 7\, No. 2 [2016]). \nSteve McKay is an internationally renowned scholar of labor\, migration\, globalization\, and race; and author of the award-winning Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands: The Politics of High-tech Production in the Philippines (Cornell University/ILR Press\, 2006) and co-editor with Sukanya Bannerjee and Aims McGuinness of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana University Press\, 2012). He is the principal investigator of Working for Dignity\, a project on low-wage labor in Santa Cruz County\, and is now working on a study of the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County. In addition to serving on the CLRC Steering Committee\, he directs the Center for Labor Studies and is also a co-principal investigator of Non-citizenship. \n  \n\nPlease make sure to register here by Monday November 21\,2016.  \nAttendees are also asked to read the following essays prior to the seminar: \nGuy Standing\, “Denizens and the Precariat\,” in A Precariat Charter:  From Denizens to Citizens (London:  Bloomsbury Academic\, 2014)\, 1-32. \nMarcel Paret\, “Politics of Solidarity and Agency in an Age of Precarity\,” Global Labor Journal Vol. 7\, No. 2 (2016): 174-188. \nJudith Butler\, “Performativity\, Precarity and Sexual Politics\,” AIBR Vol. 4\, No. 3 (2009): 1-13.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-precarity-a-seminar-with-marcel-paret-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T154000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nNov 18: Kie Zuraw\, UCLA \nWinter 2017 \nFebruary 7: TBA \nMarch TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-kie-zuraw-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T143000
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SUMMARY:The Immigrant Youth Movement and the Fight Against Deportations: A Talk with Dr. Kent Wong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kent Wong is the author and editor of DREAMS DEPORTED: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation\, a UCLA student publication featuring stories of deportation and of the courageous immigrant youth and families who have led the national campaign against deportations and successfully challenged the president of the United States to act. \n  \nKent Wong is the director of the UCLA Labor Center\, where he teaches labor studies and ethnic studies. For more than 50 years\, the UCLA Labor Center has played a critical role as a research\, education\, and policy center on work and labor. Kent previously worked as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union in Los Angeles\, and was the first staff attorney for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center\, now Advancing Justice. Kent Wong served as the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance\, AFL-CIO\, and the founding president of the United Association for Labor Education. He is co-chair of the California Speaker’s Commission on Labor Education\, and is a vice-president of the California Federation of Teachers. Kent has published numerous books on immigrant workers\, immigrant students\, organizing\, popular education\, and the new U.S. labor movement. He frequently speaks at labor\, civil rights\, university\, and student conferences in the United States as well as internationally. He has been involved in global labor initiatives in the Pacific Rim\, including China\, Vietnam\, Japan\, Korea\, Canada\, Mexico and Central America. Kent Wong’s most recent publications are Dreams Deported – Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation\, and Nonviolence and Social Movements\, the Teachings of Rev. James L. Lawson Jr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-immigrant-youth-movement-and-the-fight-against-deportations-a-talk-with-dr-kent-wong-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161101T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161101T190000
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SUMMARY:Ronaldo V. Wilson: "Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other"
DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008)\, Poems of the Black Object (2009)\, and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry\, Fiction\, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nFarther Traveler is an expansive\, complex hybrid of poetry\, prose\, and memoir. Wilson writes of loss\, desire\, abjection and radical possibility\, traversing and transgressing boundaries of genre to produce a searing meditation on race\, sexuality\, and contemporary culture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ronaldo-v-wilson-reading-from-farther-traveler-poetry-prose-other-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161023
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SUMMARY:California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
DESCRIPTION:CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22\, 2016. Established in 2009\, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas and receive feedback in a small\, friendly\, collaborative environment. \nFor more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-cusp-california-universities-semantics-pragmatics-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161007T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161007T154000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
DESCRIPTION:Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children \nIt is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based on partial sentence input\, the parser uses linguistic knowledge and multiple sources of information to assign interpretations. However\, it has largely remained unknown how\nsuch incremental processing mechanisms emerge during development\, or how the immature\nparsing mechanisms affect the course of grammar acquisition. In this talk\, I will present recent\nstudies in my lab that explore these questions for wh-dependencies. In the first part of the talk\, I\nwill discuss how the mis-adoption of wh-scope marking grammar in English-speaking children\n(Thornton\, 1990) could derive from incremental processing of wh-dependencies. I argue that\nwhile this is theoretically feasible\, the apparent scope-marking grammar may be a production-\nspecific phenomenon\, and that it does not result from a mis-set parameter\, at least in English. In\nthe second part of the talk\, I will explore how incremental mechanisms for wh-dependency\nprocessing develop through language experience. Our visual world eye-tracking studies show\nthat 5-year-old children do not complete wh-dependencies incrementally\, but incremental\ndependency processing emerges after production (but not comprehension) priming of such\ndependencies. I will discuss implications of these findings for theories of language acquisition\nand language processing. \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nOct 21 & Oct 22: CUSP (California Universities Semantics & Pragmatics) \nNov 18: Kie Zuraw\, UCLA \nWinter 2017 \nFebruary 7: TBA \nMarch TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-akira-omaki-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160513T180000
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SUMMARY:Cathy Park Hong: "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde"
DESCRIPTION:UCSC’s Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event\, “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong.” \nPlease join us on Friday\, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty\, lecturers\, and graduate students\, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park Hong (poet and professor at Sarah Lawrence College). Presenters will include Chris Chen\, Vanessa Fernandez\, David Lau\, Rob Sean Wilson\, and Ronaldo Wilson. Coffee\, snacks\, and refreshments will be offered. \nCathy Park Hong’s latest poetry collection\, Engine Empire\, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, A Public Space\, Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Baffler\, Boston Review\, The Nation\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. \n\n  \nSYMPOSIUM \n1:45 p.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks \n2:00 p.m.: Panel 1\nWhitney De Vos\nVanessa Fernandez\nKenan Sharpe\nRob Sean Wilson \nModerator: To be announced \n3:45 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served) \n4:00 p.m.: Panel 2\nChris Chen\nRonaldo Wilson\nDavid Lau \nModerator: To be announced \n4:30 p.m.: Break (coffee and tea served) \n4:45 p.m.: Keynote Reading by Cathy Park Hong \n6:00 p.m.: Conference ends; please join us for a reception (snacks and wine served)\nLocation TBA \nFor more information on the symposium\, please see our website: www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cathy-park-hong-stand-up-a-symposium-on-race-and-the-avant-garde-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T174500
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SUMMARY:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong "Implicit Moral Attitudes"
DESCRIPTION:Most moral philosophers and psychologists focus on explicit moral beliefs that people give as answers to questions. However\, much research in social psychology shows that implicit moral attitudes (unconscious beliefs or associations) also affect our thinking and behavior. This talk will report our new psychological and neuroscientific research on implicit moral attitudes (using a process dissociation procedure) and then explore potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for philosophical theories of moral epistemology\, responsibility\, and virtue. If there is time\, I will discuss practical uses of these findings in criminal law\, especially regarding the treatment of psychopaths and prediction of their recidivism. \nWalter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has published widely on ethics (theoretical and applied as well as meta-ethics)\, empirical moral psychology and neuroscience\, philosophy of law\, epistemology\, philosophy of religion\, and informal logic. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/walter-sinnott-armstrong-implicit-moral-attitudes-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160422T123000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:PhD+: Eric Hayot: "Writing for Publication in the Humanities"
DESCRIPTION:PODCAST:  \n“Writing for Publication in the Humanities” \nEric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Hayot will present strategies–both psychological and practical–for writing for publication in the humanities from his recent book\, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia UP\, 2014). His talk will offer specific insights into how to write literary scholarship in the mode that was born out of the influence of philosophy and cultural studies on literary criticism over the last three decades. \nProfessor Hayot is the author of Chinese Dreams (Michigan\, 2004)\, The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy\, Modernity\, and Chinese Pain (Oxford\, 2009)\, and On Literary Worlds (Oxford\, 2012). He edits the “Global Asias” series for Oxford and serves as Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information. Learn more at erichayot.org. \nSponsored by: IHR\, the Graduate Student Association\, the Graduate Student Commons\, the Departments of Literature\, Politics\, History of Art & Visual Culture\, Latin American & Latino Studies\, Anthropology\, and Film & Digital Media. \n\n  \nPhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the launch of PhD+\, our new series! We will meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, online identity issues\, internship possibilities\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, grants/fellowships and much\, more more. \nOctober 9\, 2015: Alternative Academia Panel\nNovember 6\, 2015: Internship Info Session\nDecember 4\, 2015: Coding for Humanists\nJanuary 8\, 2016: Research Tools and Methods\nFebruary 5\, 2016: Online Identity\nMarch 4\, 2016: Work-Life Balance\nApril 22\, 2016: Writing and Publishing in the Humanities\nMay 13\, 2016: Research and Grants\nJune 3\, 2016: End of Year Luncheon \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-studies-workshop-with-eric-hayot-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
DESCRIPTION:Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine\, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade\, profit accumulation\, and private property. And in so doing\, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life\, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict. \nProfessor Sheren Seikaly is a historian of capitalism\, consumption\, and development in the modern Middle East. She is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo. She is Co-founder and Co-editor of the important journal Jadaliyaa. \nUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present this new series\, “Book Talks\,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Please visit the Center for Emerging Worlds’ website for more information on their work.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-sherene-seikaly-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160309T193000
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SUMMARY:Anna Tsing: "The Mushroom at the End of the World"
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series\, “Book Talks\,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from “The Mushroom at the End of the World.” \nA tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes\, “The Mushroom at the End of the World” follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. In all its contradictions\, the matsutake mushroom offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi\, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination in to the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes\, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth. \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC and a Neils Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark\, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is author of “Friction” and “In the Realm of the Diamond Queen.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-tsing-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T174500
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20160122T213621Z
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SUMMARY:Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
DESCRIPTION:This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control\, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation\, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation\, which have been regarded as central both in the traditions in which the practices arose and in the scientific literature on meditation. I analyze them in terms of their characteristic intentions\, distingush them from concentration and mindfulness in general\, and examine the relations between them. Concentration involves keeping the mind focused on a single object\, while mindfulness requires noticing whatever mental states occupy the focus of one’s consciousness. In the course of the investigation I examine the role of phenomenology and volition in the activity of meditating\, and how they change as meditative capacities develop. \nAbout: \nNoa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Action\, Philosophy of Mind
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noa-latham-meditation-and-self-control-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T133000
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
DESCRIPTION:Literature graduate students\, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.\n  \nKatie Trostel\,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”  \nThis digital mapping project centered on Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004) stems from larger questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC; the group has undertaken the project of thinking through the meaning of the ghetto in the context of its 500th anniversary. Through digital mapping\, I trace the complexity of ways in which Jewish spaces\, including that of the ghetto\, are revisited\, re-inscribed\, entangled\, and recycled in Agosín’s poems\, as she simultaneously works through her experience of exile in the period of the Chilean post-dictatorship. The space of the ghetto\, as well as globalized Jewish spaces as a broader category\, are ways of thinking through the more expansive themes of exile\, displacement\, national belonging\, and exclusion. Through her prose-poems\, Agosín complicates the idea of a static geography\, weaving personal place-based memories into a complex web of Jewish sites of global significance. Reflecting upon her travels across four continents\, she explores both the category of exile and a certain longing for home. I use this work to think about the re-inscription of meanings of place\, and how sites of memory can come to embody overlapping stories that span both space and time. I question: How do these sites of memory travel? How can a digital representation of literary space help to visualize and make deeper the layers of history and tangled webs of place-based belonging encoded in the pages of Agosín’s text? \n  \nErica Smeltzer\, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague” \nThis project uses a digital mapping platform to represent the many spatial characteristics attributed to Jewish experience: exile\, sequestration\, and diaspora. Beginning with the Jewish ghetto in Prague\, the “Story Map” will begin with Egon Erwin Kisch’s Tales from Seven Ghettos\, following the reportage as it describes place\, space\, and history in the Jewish quarter. This project evolved from the larger theoretical and comparative questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC. The group considers the Venice Ghetto “a memory space that travels.” In this spirit the digital map attempts to represent the intersections between stories of the ghetto\, their reiterations\, and the dispersal of their authors. In this way the mapping project begins with Egon Erwin Kisch\, but it does not end with him. The map slowly expands as his text touches on different nodes (legends\, landmarks\, and histories) and begins to oppose a purely insular vision of the ghetto through a specialized and expanding network of intertext.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mapping-liminal-spaces-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T123000
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
DESCRIPTION:Interested in coding\, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna\, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media\, will walk us through the basics of coding for the web. Following Hanna’s short introductory workshop in December\, this more intensive session will offer instruction for writing in HTML\, styling with CSS\, and building dynamic web content using Java Script. \nThis introduction will not make you into expert coders – but it will provide you with insight into coding that you can apply to customize existing sites and work within easy-to-use platforms (like WordPress\, Drupal). You will also gain an understanding of next steps so you can continue developing your coding skills. \nJoin us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with coding necessary. \nBe sure to bring a LAPTOP (not a tablet).  \n*Registration Required. Reserve a seat today. *
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/workshop-coding-for-humanists-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:Casey O'Callaghan "The Multisensory Character of Perception"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: My thesis is that perceptual awareness itself is richly multisensory. I argue for this conclusion on the grounds that certain forms of multisensory perceptual experience are incompatible with the claim that each aspect of a perceptual experience is associated with some specific sensory modality or another. First\, I explicate what it is for some feature of a conscious perceptual episode to be associated with a given modality\, or to be modality specific\, since no clear criterion yet exists in the literature on multisensory perception. Then\, I argue based on philosophical and experimental evidence that some novel intermodal features are perceptible only through the coordinated use of multiple senses. The cases to which I appeal involve consciously perceptible feature instances and feature types that could not be perceptually experienced through the use of individual sense modalities working on their own or simply in parallel. Thus\, not every feature of a conscious perceptual episode is associated with some specific modality or another. Finally\, I offer an account of how to type perceptual experiences by modality that makes room for richly multisensory experiences. The key is rejecting the presumption that perceptual experiences apportion neatly into modality-specific components – an experience’s being visual does not preclude its being auditory. \nPre-reading: The Multisensory Character of Perception \nAbout: Casey O’Callaghan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Research Interests: Focus on philosophical questions about perception\, auditory perception and the nature of its objects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/casey-ocallaghan-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
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SUMMARY:Imogen Dickie "Proper Names: Transition to the End Game"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nI shall prove a principle which brings out the significance for accounts of aboutness and reference of the fact that justification is truth conducive; use this principle to develop an account of reference-fixing for proper names which presents an alternative to the tired menu of traditional causalisms\, descriptivisms\, and crosses between; and identify two questions around which the next phase in discussions of reference-fixing for proper names should be structured. \nAbout: \nImogen Dickie is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Research Interests: Philosophy of language and mind: theory of reference\, metasemantics\, acquaintance\, perception\, communication\, singular thought. Some topics in epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of action. \nacademia.edu: Imogen Dickie academic page \nhttp://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/dickie.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imogen-dickie-proper-names-transition-to-the-end-game-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T190000
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SUMMARY:Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity. \nBooks in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres. Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death. The project also highlights intellectual “perversities” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n  \n3:00-3:30 PM Introduction (Lisa Lowe and J. Jack Halberstam)\n3:30-5:00 PM Panel I: Temporality\, Violence\, and the Problem of Rights: Neda Atanasoski\, Elizabeth Freeman\, Chandan Reddy\, Lisa Lowe\n5:00-5:30 PM Break\n5:30-7:00 PM Panel II: Modernity\, Perversion\, and Queer/Trans Survival: Marcia Ochoa\, Cindy Cruz\, Lisa Rofel\, J. Jack Halberstram
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/perverse-modernities-conversations-in-critical-race-and-ethnic-studies-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150430T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150430T174500
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SUMMARY:Shelly Wilcox: "Immigration Justice in Nonideal Circumstances"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn recent years\, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill-suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically\, critics have raised three related objections to so-called ideal theory: (1) ideal theory cannot help us understand current injustices in the actual\, nonideal world; (2) ideal principles are not sufficiently action-guiding; and (3) ideal theory is counterproductive or even dangerous because it tends to reflect and perpetuate illicit group privilege. \nThis paper explores recent work on the ethics of immigration in light of these methodological criticisms\, focusing on the open borders debate. The central question in this debate is whether liberal states have a moral right to restrict immigration. I argue that prominent arguments on both sides of this issue are subject to the standard criticisms of ideal theory\, and thus that a nonideal normative approach to immigration in urgently needed. I then develop several methodological desiderata for such an approach and draw upon these criteria to outline the broad contours of an adequate nonideal theory of justice in immigration. \n*** \nBiography: \nShelley Wilcox is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works in the areas of social and political philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, and applied ethics\, with a special interest in immigration\, global justice\, and urban environmental issues. She has published articles on the ethics of immigration and globalization in Philosophical Studies\, Social Theory and Practice\, Journal of Social Philosophy\, Philosophy Compass\, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\, as well as in numerous anthologies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on urban environmental ethics and serving as Book Review Editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelly Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\n  \nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shelley-wilcox-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T180000
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Futuristic Musical Poetry with Luciano Chessa
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Italian composer\, performer\, and musicologist Luciano Chessa. Chessa will perform Piedigrotta (a Futurist musical poem). Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo\, Futurist: Noise\, Visual Arts\, and the Occult (UC\, 2012)\, the first English-language monograph dedicated to Russolo and the art of Noise. He has been performing futurist sound poetry for well over 10 years. He has been active in Europe\, the U.S.\, Australia\, and South America as a practitioner of world avantgarde music; his scholarly areas include both 20th-century and late-14th-century music. Compositions include a piano and percussion duet after Pier Paolo Pasoliniʼs “Petrolio.” \nReception to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-of-futuristic-musical-poetry-with-luciano-chessa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150312T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150312T174500
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SUMMARY:Felipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMany philosophers of memory have wondered whether or not it is indispensible to postulate the existence of memory traces to explain remembering. In this talk I will offer an argument in favor of the explanatory indispensability of memory traces. To that end\, I will begin by demonstrating that the main arguments in favor of the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering share the logical structure of a inference to the best explanation. As a result\, most arguments against the claim that we need memory traces to explain remembering aim to show that we can have equally successful explanations that do not require the postulation of such entities. My argument aims to show that there is a large number of memory phenomena for which explanations that do not postulate the existence of memory traces would be inadequate. \n*** \nAbout: \nFelipe De Brigard\nAssistant Professor\nCenter for Cognitive Neuroscience\nPhilosophy\, Arts & Sciences\nDuke University \n*** \nResearch Interests: Philosophy of Mind\, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience; Neurophilosophy; Moral Psychology \nMost of my research focuses on the way in which memory and imagination interact. So far\, I have explored ways in which episodic memory both guides and constrains episodic counterfactual thinking (i.e.\, thoughts about alternative ways in which past personal events could have occurred)\, and how this interaction affects the perceived plausibility of imagined counterfactual events. I also explore the differential contribution of episodic and semantic memory in the generation of different kinds of counterfactual simulations\, as well as the effect of counterfactual thinking on the memories they derive from. In addition\, my research attempts to understand how prior experience helps to constrain the way in which we reconstruct episodic memories. Finally\, I am also interested in the role of internal attention during conscious recollection. To address these issues I use behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques\, as well as the conceptual rigor of philosophical analysis. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelley Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/felipe-de-brigard-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150219T173000
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress: Abe Stone
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Abe Stone. \nAt least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served. \n\n  \nReviving Philosophy of History \nPaul Roth\nTuesday\, January 20\, 2015 \n*** \n“Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?” \nAbe Stone\nThursday\, February 19\, 2015 \n*** \nErnst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Physics \nSamantha Matherne\nThursday\, April 9\, 2015
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/works-in-progress-abe-stone-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T174500
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20141016T223354Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
DESCRIPTION:Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not\, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior\, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models of the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (boosterism\, epiphenomenalism\, rationalization\, and inert discovery). I then present convergent evidence from studies of about a dozen different types of moral behavior. The results suggest that ethicists behave no morally better on average or any more consistently with their espoused values\, compared to other groups of professors. Using a combination of direct observation and self-report measures\, I examine: the misappropriation of library books\, voting in public elections\, courtesy at professional meetings\, responsiveness to student emails\, charitable donation\, organ and blood donation\, staying in touch with one’s mother\, vegetarianism\, honesty in responses to surveys\, nonpayment of conference registration fees\, Nazi party membership in the 1930s\, and peer evaluation of overall moral behavior. The overall results will be compared with the predictions of the four models. \nEric Schwitzgebel is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. He has written extensively on consciousness\, self-knowledge\, attitudes\, and moral psychology. His most recent book is Perplexities of Consciousness. He blogs at The Splintered Mind. \n  \n\n  \nThe campus community and interested public are welcome at all Philosophy Department sponsored colloquia\, conferences and workshops. \nSpring 2015 \n\nShelley Wilcox\, San Francisco State\n\nWinter 2015 \n\nRebecca Kukla\, Georgetown\nFelipe De Brigard\, Duke\n\nFall 2014 \n\nEric Schwitzgebel\, UC Riverside: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors\n\nMore info at: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-schwitzgebel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141107T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T074109
CREATED:20141009T171818Z
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SUMMARY:Amena Coronado: "The Discipline of Suffering"
DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n*November 7th forum will be in Humanities 2\, Room 259. \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amena-coronado-the-discipline-of-suffering-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Mikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective\, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today\, this absolutistic view of mathematics has been challenged by a number of different theories. Most noticeably\, social constructivists such as David Bloor and Donald MacKenzie have stress the influence social factors have had on the development of mathematics\, and Bloor simply describes mathematics as a social institution. Other theorists such as Rafael Núñez and George Lakoff have claimed mathematics to be embodied and fundamentally shaped by sensory-motor experience and certain cognitive strategies. In my talk I will report from a qualitative study of the practice of working mathematicians. The study shows that the production of mathematical knowledge is clearly conditioned both by social factors and by our experience of and ability to actively use the material world. Thus\, the study confirms some of the basic ideas of the two approaches mentioned above. However\, the study also gives reason to questions the reductionism inherent in both the social constructivistic and the embodiment approach. Mathematics cannot be reduced either to the social or to sensory-motor experience. \nADVANCE READING: Whats in a diagram? \nMikkel Willum Johansen is an assistant professor at the faculty of science\, University of Copenhagen. He has a PhD in the philosophy of the mathematical sciences and has worked extensively with mathematical cognition and with the different version of naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics. In 2014 he published the book Invitation til matematikkens videnskabsteori (Eng: Invitation to the philosophy of the mathematical sciences). \nPlease click here for more information
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mikkel-johansen-material-and-social-conditions-for-the-development-of-mathematics-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140502T160000
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SUMMARY:Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals\, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs)\, from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily counterfactual; (iii) the negation does not anti license PPIs; (iv) the negation does not license NPIs. Drawing on work by Schwarz (2006) and Schwarz and Bhatt (2006)\, I will call the negation that occurs in NCs light negation (LN) and I will argue that (a) LN is a strengthening operator modifying the modal operator and forcing an “iff” interpretation; (b) for interpretability reasons\, LN must move close to the modal and it can do that overtly (as in Chinese) or covertly (as in German and English); (c) LN is factive. This analysis will allow us to explain the facts above as well as other interesting properties of NCs such as their incompatibility with the pro form then in the consequent\, the impossibility of a “backtracking” NC and the rhetorical flavor of questions formed with NCs.\n  \nMichela Ippolito is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. \nLecture sponsored by the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group. Please stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-michela-ippolito-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T180000
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SUMMARY:Ned Block: "Conscious\, Preconscious\, Unconscious"
DESCRIPTION:There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious\, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in the light of the close conceptual tie between conscious perception and first person authority. \nAdvance reading: Consciousness\, accessibility\, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience \nProfessor Block is the Silver Professor of Philosophy\, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ned-block-conscious-preconscious-unconscious-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T173000
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SUMMARY:Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision\, in isolation\, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance\, figure\, magnitude\, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not\, strictly speaking\, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an universal language of the Author of nature.” For typical humans\, this language of vision comes naturally. Berkeley identifies two sorts of objects of vision: primary (light and colors) and secondary (distance\, figure\, magnitude\, situation). But Berkeley also appeals to a third class of a different sort: visible figure\, magnitude\, and situation\, constituting the vocabulary of the language of vision. By considering two perceivers who lack this vocabulary we may better understand this third category and the difference between those who must learn the language of vision and those for whom it is a natural endowment. \nRead the paper here: Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision\n  \nRebecca Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College\, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy\, Thomas Reid\, and Philosophy of Mind. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy\, Res Philosophica\, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly\, Philosophical Quarterly\, History of Philosophy Quarterly\, The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and The Oxford Handbook on British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. She is co-author with Brian P. Copenhaver of From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy\, 1800 – 1950 (University of Toronto Press\, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Thomas Reid’s theory of mind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/becko-copenhaver-berkeley-on-the-language-of-nature-and-the-objects-of-vision-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror"
DESCRIPTION:Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire\, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins University Press\, 2006) and a forthcoming book titled Dangerous Intersections: Complicity\, Trauma and Holocaust Memory. She has recently published articles on Alain Resnaiss\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Albert Camus\, Jonathan Littell\, Giorgio Agamben\, the memory of World War II\, and Holocaust memory. She has also co-edited a 2-volume issue of the Yale French Studies issue titled Noueds de mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in French and Francophone Literature (2010).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debarati-sanyal-camuss-afterlives-from-the-holocaust-to-the-age-of-terror-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131015T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Albert Camus\, 1913-2013
DESCRIPTION:Beginning on October 15\, UC Santa Cruz will be one of 500 venues worldwide to host an exhibit commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus. \nThe new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology. \nThe exhibit was conceived and produced by the Institut Francais\, an arm of the French State Department in partnership with Camus’ publisher\, Gallimard and Ecole Normale Superieure. \n“There are over 100 images\, and more than 15 minutes of audio and video recordings linked to the various QR codes\,” noted Douglas Hull\, a board member of the Silicon Valley branch of the Alliance Francaise. \n“The exhibit works chronologically\, and is divided into five major periods of his life. Some of the images were never published before\, particularly from his life in Algeria\,” Hull added. \nCoded QR codes allow the viewer to select the nature of the information experienced (magenta equals context/background; codes with a symbolic eye equal zoom in; with a quotation mark equal citations; and with an arrow in a white circle equal audio or video). \nRecordings include Camus’s Nobel acceptance speech in Stockholm\, and zooms include articles he wrote anonymously during WWII for an underground paper and copies of manuscript pages. \nHull added that viewers will also have the chance to upload their own picture with a time and location stamp onto a  global mosaic which will be scrollable and accessible to anyone who has downloaded the exhibit’s app. \nThis exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs through November 14. Open hours are 9 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-albert-camus-1913-2013-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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