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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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