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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
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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
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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
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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
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CREATED: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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T140000
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170502T150000
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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
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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:20260531T042851
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
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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
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
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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:20260531T042851
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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:20260531T042851
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
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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:20260531T042851
CREATED:20151009T224532Z
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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
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CREATED:20151009T224010Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
CREATED:20150505T000940Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
CREATED:20150320T185846Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
CREATED:20150212T175209Z
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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:20260531T042851
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:20260531T042851
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
CREATED:20140421T201812Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140502T173000
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
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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
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
CREATED:20140319T185613Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260531T042851
CREATED:20140212T000953Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131104T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131104T190000
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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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CREATED:20131009T222535Z
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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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