BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260414T210135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T210135Z UID:10007916-1776873600-1776879000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bibliography as Biography - Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures DESCRIPTION:The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. \nCarmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature\, Translation\, and Historiography (Oxford University Press\, 2021; 2025 paperback release) which won the MLA Prize in Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies and the Latin American Studies Association Latinx Studies Book Award. She is the co-editor of the critical edition Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885\, 1886) by Eusebio Guiteras (Calambur 2023). Her work has appeared in various journals and edited volumes\, and she is a co-founding editor of Pasados: Recovering History\, Imagining Latinidad\, a new open-access journal published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Literature Department and the Spanish Studies Major URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bibliography-as-biography-recovering-early-nineteenth-century-latinx-figures/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260303T214046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T194254Z UID:10007864-1775660400-1775660400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Documentación Lingüística en México DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation on “Children’s role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico“. \nCuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística\, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación\, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan muchos elementos clave para el proceso de registro de la lengua y la cultura que se está documentando. En esta charla platicaremos sobre algunas experiencias con niñas y niños que colaboraron en diferentes etapas del trabajo de campo que se realizó para la documentación de la lengua otomí de Santa Ana Hueytlalpan\, en el municipio de Tulancingo de Bravo\, en México. \nMaría de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez Doctora en Estudios Mesoamericanos por la UNAM\, Maestra en Lingüística con Línea Terminal en Lingüística Teórica-Descriptiva y Licenciada en Lenguas Modernas en Inglés\, ambas por la UAQ. Es profesora de la Facultad de Lenguas y Letras y de la Facultad de Filosofía en la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Es investigadora asociada del Laboratorio de Educación y Mediación Intercultural (LEMI) y es responsable del programa de Prácticas Profesionales “Prácticas Universitarias de Traducción”\, que se ofrece en el LEMI. Da clases a nivel licenciatura y posgrado en ambas facultades. Se dedica particularmente a la enseñanza de la historia de la lengua inglesa y sus líneas de investigación son: la documentación y descripción de lenguas originarias mexicanas en peligro de extinción (particularmente el otomí del estado de Hidalgo\, México)\, procesos de traducción de documentos en inglés antiguo y medieval y procesos de traducción en/de lenguas originarias mexicanas. Ha sido becaria del Programa Santander Universities en la Universidad de Surrey y del Programa “Endangered Languages Documentation Programme” (ELDP) en la Universidad de Londres\, ambos en el Reino Unido. \nThis talk will be in Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentacion-linguistica-en-mexico/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/andrew-ebrahim-zRwXf6PizEo-unsplash-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260218T205808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T175508Z UID:10007853-1773327600-1773327600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Latinos\, Language\, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). \nThe U.S. South has emerged as a major new destination for Latino populations\, reshaping local communities in ways that are still not fully understood. In this talk\, I draw on over a decade of community-based research to examine language choice and patterns of linguistic variation among Latinos in the U.S. South\, highlighting how local social contexts shape bilingual practices. \nDr. Stephen Fafulas is Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on sociolinguistics\, bilingualism\, and language variation. \n  \n  \n\nSponsored by the University of Mississippi Faculty Laureates program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latinos-language-and-change-in-new-destination-communities-of-the-u-s-south/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Fafulas-with-students_website_Event_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260304T203632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T203706Z UID:10007868-1773061200-1773061200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe DESCRIPTION:Cymene Howe\, the final guest of the Winter 2026 HistCon Research Colloquium will be joining us next week to give her talk “Elemental Encounters: how water\, ice and fire + earth\, spin and chemicals become us”. \nFrom chemical relations to the sweep of stormfronts\, the elements render a series of sensory\, scientific and semiotic coordinates that reveal material intimacies. The classical forms of western philosophy (earth\, air\, fire\, water) and the periodic table of chemical elements operate as tools of categorization. Eastern elemental philosophies and the many Indigenous elemental entities of world-making\, in their multiple capacities\, represent forces of encounter\, interaction and transformation. In this discussion\, I explore the analytic possibilities afforded through an engagement with elemental forms and I offer a preliminary set of coordinates to evaluate socioenvironmental phenomena through ethnographic engagement with elemental dispositions. Drawing from Alaimo and Starosielski’s conviction that the elements represent ‘lively forces that shape culture\, politics\, and communication\,’ I consider how human and nonhuman encounters through (and with) the elements can help us surface both the punctuations and the cadences of our times and how the elements themselves\, when heard as ethnographic interlocutors\, have much to tell us about our place in the world. \n \nThis event is in-person with a virtual option to join available. Register above to join virtually. \nCymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Founder of the STS Program at Rice University. Her most recent books include Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene; Anthropocene Unseen; Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Contemporary Theory. She has conducted field research in Nicaragua and Mexico\, Iceland and Greenland\, the U.S. and South Africa and has been awarded The Berlin Prize for Transatlantic Dialogue in the Arts\, Humanities\, and Public Policy as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residential Fellowship. Her current research focuses on the social impacts of glacier loss and sea level rise in coastal communities globally and she has co-created many public-facing events and art installations to raise climate awareness including the Okjökull Memorial (Iceland\, 2019). She is currently at work on a book entitled The Elemental Turn. \n\nThis event is part of the 2026 Winter Research Colloquium Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elemental-encounters-with-cymene-howe/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260203T210515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T204313Z UID:10007846-1772544600-1772544600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity DESCRIPTION:Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times\, which offers a framework for conceiving of our own complicity in the presence of toxicity\, climate change\, and other ongoing crises. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book. \nAlexis Shotwell will join us on Zoom to answer your questions and discuss the impact of the book: Zoom link \n \nThe first 15 registrants will recieve free copies of the book from Professor Hannah Cole. Subsequent registrants can access a digital copy of the book through the UCSC Library. \nPlease arrive ready to discuss your questions\, thoughts\, and responses. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-reading-group-against-purity/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260302T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260224T200044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T203019Z UID:10007855-1772456400-1772456400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel DESCRIPTION:Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it\, he meditates on a 2\,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus\, the invention of gunpowder\, the drafting of the Magna Carta\, and on. By running his fingers over the rings\, he recalls histories not commemorated by these markers\, in particular revolts and egalitarian movements. From there\, Stephen’s daydreams carry him back deeper in time\, all the way back to the first woody trees some 385 million years ago. \n \nThis event is in-person and online. Register for the virtual option here. \nStephen David Engel is a transdisciplinary scholar who thinks across big scales of history and time and who writes about them using creative genres. His writing has appeared in Rethinking History\, ROAR Magazine\, The Anthology of Babel\, and other publications. He holds a PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he received the Hayden White dissertation fellowship for excellence in historical theory. This spring\, he will serve as Visiting Professor at Deep Springs College\, an alternative liberal arts college in the California desert. \n\nThis event is presented by HisCon and part of the 2026 Winter Research Colloquium Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/timescape-of-rings-with-stephen-david-engel-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260218T205000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T205000Z UID:10007851-1772199000-1772204400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Restitution Beyond Return - Who names the Objects in Museums? DESCRIPTION:The Department of History invites you to join their talk about African Arts\, Western Museums\, and the debate over restitution. \nThis lecture examines restitution as an ethical and epistemic process that goes beyond the physical return of objects from Western museums to African institutions. While repatriation often functions as a diplomatic practice\, restitution is framed here as historical repair that requires transforming the narratives\, classifications\, and meanings assigned to museum objects. Drawing on case studies\, the lecture analyzes how sacred African objects were historically renamed as “fetishes” through colonial vocabularies. It argues that museums bear an ongoing responsibility to revise these narratives\, making restitution a process of reinterpretation\, accountability\, and public education. \nProf. Vanicleia Silva-Santos is the curator of the African Collection at Penn Museum\, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in History from the University of São Paulo and teaches at the Department of Africana Studies at UPenn. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/restitution-beyond-return-who-names-the-objects-in-museums/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260220T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260220T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260211T204215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T204244Z UID:10007848-1771593600-1771599600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole’s talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. \nIn this talk\, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are “related” and stand in a c- command relationship at LF\, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free\, bound/bound\, bound/free\, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under this pattern: Dahl’s Puzzle\, SCO effects\, the Nested DP Constraint\, exceptional de dicto\, de re blocking\, and certain restrictions on fake indexicals. Building on Drummond 2014\, Poole proposes that these phenomena reflect a minimality-style constraint on variables: (roughly) a variable may not be bound across a related free variable. The notion of “related”\, we define in terms of overlap in value and counterparts\, an extension of Reinhart’s (2006) covaluation. He argues that this “semantic minimality” does not straightforwardly reduce to the garden-variety syntactic minimality; rather\, he suggests that syntactic and semantic minimality are separate\, convergent consequences of pressure for shorter dependencies. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-with-ethan-poole/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260209T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260209T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20260203T204512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T205814Z UID:10007845-1770642000-1770642000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba\, Ariella Patchen\, and Shaun Terry DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. \nThis talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his philosophy of political time. Tomba argues that modernity consists of dynamic and overlapping temporal layers and that revolutionary change occurs when oppressed groups draw on forgotten or suppressed forms within these layers—commons\, councils\, sanctuary—to move beyond prevailing institutions. For Tomba\, every social form is an open totality\, shot through with contradictions and tensions\, and therefore subject to radical change from within. The political horizon of revolutionary practice is\, then\, a form of relative transcendence that activates resources of justice already sedimented in the historical field. Understanding this method as revolutionary stratigraphy illuminates how concepts such as democratic excess and insurgent universality arise from the layered morphology of political life and how the past becomes a source of practical intervention in the present. \n \nThis event is both in-person and virtual. Register above to attend virtually. \nMassimiliano Tomba is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His publications include Marx’s Temporalities (Brill\, 2012; Haymarket\, 2013)\, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford\, 2019; paperback 2021)\, and Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism (Fordham\, 2025). \n  \nAriella Patchen is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her work engages primarily with political theology\, affect theory\, archival research\, and histories of the construct of race and ethnicity. \n  \n  \nShaun Terry is a PhD student in History of Consciousness and a communication scholar and political theorist. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/revolution-and-restoration-a-conversation-with-massimiliano-tomba-ariella-patchen-and-shaun-terry/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251121T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251121T143000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20251021T181731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T184541Z UID:10007768-1763730000-1763735400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Liv Hoversten DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Liv Hoversten’s talk “Is Language Control in Comprehension Applied Within or External to the Lexicon?” \nBilinguals need to continually monitor and select the appropriate language(s) for the current context in order to communicate efficiently. Prominent models of bilingual word recognition posit that this selection process\, known as language control\, occurs externally to the lexicon based on the output of the word recognition system. According to these models\, lexical representations from both languages are activated in parallel regardless of task demands or contextual cues that signal the relevance of each language. Only after this cross language activation has unfolded can nontarget language representations be suppressed\, via a task/decision module separate from the lexicon. \nIn this talk\, Hoversten will argue instead that task instructions and contextual cues\, such as the prevalence of each language\, operate directly within the lexicon to modulate the activation strength of lexical representations before and during word recognition. Using data from isolated word recognition and naturalistic sentence processing with eye- tracking and electroencephalography (EEG/ERPs) measures\, she shows that the earliest signatures of lexical activation already reflect suppression of representations from the nontarget language. These findings challenge the assumption in models like BIA+ and Multilink that top-down language control is applied only post-lexically\, suggesting instead that contextual relevance shapes lexical activation itself. While both languages remain potentially active\, she proposes that they are dynamically weighted within the lexicon to restrict cross-language activation early during word recognition. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. \nLiv Hoversten is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Department of Psychology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UC Davis and a B.A. in Chemistry from St. Olaf College. Liv Hoversten’s current work in progress examines the role of parafoveal processing (i.e.\, the word to the right of the currently fixated word) during reading in native and non-native readers. Her research aims to answer questions about how readers with different linguistic backgrounds extract information from text for successful comprehension. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-with-liv-hoversten/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20251028T174556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T223110Z UID:10007772-1763474400-1763474400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Vietnamerica - A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion DESCRIPTION:Due to the planned strike activities on campus\, this event has been cancelled. \nFollowing the wars in Vietnam\, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus\, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying while in flight\, battling the elements\, starvation\, and pirates. Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Having fled Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends\, Hoa was the only survivor. \nEach semester GETSEA brings together 20+ universities from across North America to watch a documentary film together\, simultaneously\, and then connect via Zoom for a discussion with the filmmakers afterwards. This fall\, they are showing Vietnamerica to coincide with the upcoming 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War / 4th Vietnamese Civil War. \nFor more information please visit: GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening. \n\nThis event is presented by SEACoast. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vietnamerica-a-simulcast-film-screening-and-discussion/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Vietnamerica.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20251021T175155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T181345Z UID:10007767-1761312000-1761318000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Elsi Kaiser DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Elsi Kaiser’s talk\, “Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Exploring Interpretation and Dissimilation of Third Person Pronouns in English and Finnish”. \nTransitive clauses with two personal pronouns in coargument position (e.g. “she saw her”\, “he helped him”) are perfectly natural in English. But perhaps surprisingly\, such two-pronoun sequences are highly dispreferred in Finnish. To further our understanding of the notion of ‘prominence\,’ I report a series of psycholinguistic studies and corpus analyses on two-pronoun sequences in English and Finnish. My recent work with Jina Song on English two-pronoun sequences shows that pronoun interpretation depends on referential structure in ways that cannot be reduced to Binding Theory: Interpretation of a subject pronoun depends on whether the clause contains a second pronoun. In other words\, two-pronoun sequences exhibit distinct patterns\, which we show are not reducible to semantic or syntactic parallelism. Furthermore\, in striking contrast to English\, I propose that Finnish is subject to a Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint: When two expressions in the same local domain are referentially distinct\, realizing both as personal pronouns is dispreferred (and crucially\, replacing one with an anaphoric demonstrative yields an acceptable sentence). I present evidence showing that the Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint cannot be reduced to a pure disambiguation phenomenon\, nor to linear proximity\, phonological similarity\, or the presence of another option in the language’s anaphoric paradigm. I explore this phenomenon from a typological perspective in relation to other dissimilation phenomena\, as well as obviation phenomena in languages with obviative-proximate systems. Time permitting\, I will also present new data from English exploring the notion of prominence in transitive clauses from the perspective of spatial orientation effects\, using a drawing task. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. \nElsi Kaiser is a professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Elsi Kaiser’s primary research focus is in language processing and psycholinguistics. She investigates the processes and representations involved in comprehension and production\, especially in domains that involve multiple aspects of linguistic representation (syntax\, semantics\, pragmatics)\, such as reference resolution. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguists-colloquium-with-elsi-kaiser/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250929T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250929T120000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20250923T194859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T200846Z UID:10007746-1759140000-1759147200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Doreen Lee - The Urban Grotesque DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to a Slow Seminar on the new book: The Urban Grotesque: Jakarta’s Financial Lives by Prof. Doreen Lee\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Northeastern University. Opening comments will be made by Dr. Kirsten Keller. \n \nAdvance copies of the reading will be made available to those who R.S.V.P. indicating that they plan to attend. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slow-seminar-the-urban-grotesque-with-prof-doreen-lee/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Urban-Grotesque-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20250520T193428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250520T193428Z UID:10007697-1748006400-1748012400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Elena Anagnostopoulou - Rethinking Clitics: A View From Greek DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete and IMS-FORTH)\, speaking on Rethinking Clitics: A View From Greek. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nIn this talk\, Elena Anagnostopoulou will revisit the relationship between clitic doubling and object agreement in connection to the syntax of clitics\, via an assessment of three recent proposals on Greek clitic doubling. She will offer novel evidence based on co-ordination resolution supporting the view that clitic doubling involves a dependency between a clitic with iφ and a DP with iφ. Finally\, she will highlight arguments that\, in her view\, are crucial to decide between different versions of movement analyses. \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-elena-anagnostopoulou-rethinking-clitics-a-view-from-greek/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250510T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250510T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20250429T213603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T213631Z UID:10007680-1746869400-1746900000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:BayPhon 2025 at UCSC DESCRIPTION:UCSC Linguistics is hosting BayPhon\, a workshop on Phonetics and Phonology\, on Saturday\, May 10\, 2025. BayPhon brings together faculty and students from linguistics departments in the region\, including Stanford\, UC Berkeley\, San José State\, and UCSC. \nBayPhon is part of a tradition known as “Phrend” (and before that\, “Trend”)\, where linguistics departments in the broader Bay Area (San José State\, Stanford\, UC Berkeley\, UC Santa Cruz) come together at one of our institutions to stay in touch about research and provide opportunities for students and faculty to present their work on phonetics and phonology. \nPlease see this website for the program and more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bayphon-2025-at-ucsc/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20250415T183741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T193106Z UID:10007664-1746010800-1746016200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tricia Rose - Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives - And How We Break Free DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker\, award-winning writer\, and leading scholar of African American culture\, racial inequality\, and gender—for a conversation about her book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. \nOn May 2nd\, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department will also host Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making – a roundtable discussion with Tricia Rose\, UCSC Humanities Professor Gina Dent\, and UCSC Music Professor and hip hop artist akua naru. More information available here. \n \nTricia Rose is the Director of the Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study\, and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Rose is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994)\, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (2003) and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters (2008). Her most recent book\, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives-And How We Break Free (2024)\, is part of a larger public engagement and learning project featuring the How Systemic Racism Works interactive website (release in 2025). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tricia-rose-metaracism/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T132000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20250424T210941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T211041Z UID:10007673-1745587200-1745587200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Matt Wagers - Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Matt Wagers\, speaking on Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nNearly 20 years ago\, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. McElree (2000) and McElree\, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved to be hugely influential because it offered a general theory of dependency resolution which could be made precise by reference to any particular theory of linguistic features. Both strands of thought reoriented thinking in the field away from models of working memory that required serial search procedures and\, generally\, the discovery of widespread interference effects has vindicated that shift. \nMuch recent research has made progress in delineating what the representations are (Yadav et al. 2023\, Keshev et al. 2025) and how they can be learned in an unsupervised manner (Ryu & Lewis\, 2021). Relatively unexplored is how to characterize the information that can be attended to simultaneously\, sometimes called the “focus of attention” (Oberauer & Hein\, 2012). This is an important commitment of models like ACT-R and provides an attractive point of articulation to theories of locality or linguistic domains. In this talk\, I will survey what we know (and don’t know) about the focus of attention in language processing (Wagers & McElree\, 2013\, 2022) and relate it to recent thinking about the dynamics of context encoding (Healey\, Long & Kahana\, 2019; Balachandran\, Wagers & Rich\, 2025). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-matt-wagers/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20250211T234219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T000448Z UID:10007602-1741190400-1741195800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session DESCRIPTION:Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our first ever “Share Session.” Three of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal\, interactive conversation. Snacks will be served! \nAbout Our Presenters: \nJoan Chia-en Chiang – “‘I Won’t Fight For You’: Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII” \n  \n  \n\n \n  \nAnia Mah Gricuk – “Diasporic Medicine: A Modern History of Chinese Herbal Tea\, 1880s-present” \n\n\nTracy Liu – “Reimagining the Technological Frontier: Posthuman Entanglements across China\, Peru\, and Mexico” \n\n\nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-early-career-scholars-share-session/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20241022T215039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T193726Z UID:10007527-1731592800-1731603600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Archives in Action DESCRIPTION:2 PM  |  “Getting Into the Archive: Tales from Inside”\nPaul Erickson\, Director of the Clements Library\, University of Michigan \nThis presentation will seek to demystify the process of applying for support for humanities research from libraries and archives by explaining it from the inside. It will offer suggestions for how to increase your chances of receiving fellowship support for your work. \nPaul Erickson is the Randolph G. Adams Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan\, a leading collection of early Americana. In 1993 Paul got his first experience administering fellowship programs for scholars from the humanities and social sciences\, and that is work that he has done for most of the past 20 years. \n3 PM  |  “Gloria Anzaldua and her Spectral Archives”\nBrenda Lara\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, UC Santa Cruz \n4 PM  |  “Archives in Dos Hemisferios: Reading Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Newspapers in Havana\, New York\, and Paris”\nDavis Luis-Brown\, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English\, Claremont Graduate University \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Director of Hispanic-Serving Research Initiatives. It is organized in conjunction with the Literature Department’s graduate course\, “Print Culture and Archives.” \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/archives-in-action/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Archives-in-Action-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T183000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20240915T183942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T183942Z UID:10007471-1729702800-1729708200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Employing Humanities - Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-humanities-at-work-making-a-meaningful-career/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T120000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20240926T222417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T223008Z UID:10007481-1728558000-1728561600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mizanur Rahman--The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization\, Political Possibility\, and Precarity DESCRIPTION:Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat\, Sheikh Hasina\, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising\, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform\, unfold\, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie ahead for post-uprising Bangladesh? What united people of different religions\, regions\, castes\, classes\, and generations to fight against authoritarian rule? What inspired them to fearlessly confront state violence and sacrifice their lives? This talk will treat these questions about recent and unfolding political events in Bangladesh and suggest that the mass uprising has been a struggle to reclaim people’s sovereignty and to recover their right to speak and reinstate their dignity. \nMd Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on liberalism and its critics\, Islamic political thought\, and religion and politics in South Asia. He is particularly interested in Bangladesh politics and has written on debates concerning Islam\, modernity\, and the politics of Islamic seminaries in Bangladesh. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Cultural Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mizanur-rahman-the-mass-uprisings-in-bangladesh-youth-mobilization-political-possibility-and-precarity/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T143000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20240915T183305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T183540Z UID:10007470-1728394200-1728397800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop DESCRIPTION:Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time\, full-time\, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. \nRegister on Handshake here! \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-resume-and-cover-letter-career-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T123000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20240915T084625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T084625Z UID:10007468-1727956800-1727958600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #1 DESCRIPTION:Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications\, timelines\, and program details. \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-internships-and-research-info-session-1/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240417T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240417T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20240409T172842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T192004Z UID:10007401-1713375000-1713375000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Stephanie Lain - Spanish Vowel and Consonant Contributions to Talker Identification and Lexical Contrast DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents: \nSPANISH VOWEL AND CONSONANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO TALKER IDENTIFICATION AND LEXICAL CONTRAST\nwith Dr. Stephanie Lain\n(UC Santa Cruz) \n\nAbstract \nAcoustic properties of the input determine how speech sounds are processed\, categorized\, and encoded in memory. This information is used to identify words and convey information about the speaker. The series of experiments described in this talk were undertaken with the goal of clarifying the roles vowels and consonants play in lexical decision making and talker identification in Spanish. Participants in the study were 101 listeners who self-identified as native speakers of Spanish. They performed one of six same-different auditory discrimination experiments which varied according to task (lexical decision or talker identification) and condition (unaltered stimuli\, vowels excised\, consonants excised). Responses from each participant were used to calculate a D prime score (evaluating the participant’s ability to discriminate between tokens)\, as well as a language dominance score (participants were Spanish/English bilinguals). Reaction times and null responses were also recorded. Results were analyzed using a multivariate 2 x 3 factorial analysis with language dominance as a co-variate\, followed by univariate analyses to further examine the effects of independent variables. Findings from the current study largely confirm results from previous studies conducted in English which suggest a greater reliance on consonants when performing lexical decision tasks and vowels when performing talker identity tasks. From this\, we may infer that variation observed in response to the acoustic properties of vowels and consonants appears be universal to linguistic processing and not a result of the interaction between speech sounds within a given language system. These results have implications for theories of speech perception\, particularly with regard to the role of listener experience in the perception of phonemes and talker-specific acoustic properties. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-dr-stephanie-lain/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032110 CREATED:20240110T215559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T165849Z UID:10007360-1710261000-1710266400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Book Discussion with Professor James Laine DESCRIPTION:Join Professor James Laine for a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (2014) in conversation with G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. \nProfessor James Laine will also be presenting the Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture on March 11th. For more information about this event\, please visit Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-book-discussion/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Aurora-Lecture-2024-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20240110T215458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T165813Z UID:10006216-1710174600-1710180000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture: Professor James Laine DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Winter Aurora Lecture featuring Professor James W. Laine\, Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies\, Macalester College. \nJoin Professor James Laine for a lecture\, entitled “Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: Steps on the Road to an Idea of Religious Tolerance” with discussants Anna Bigelow – Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University and G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. \nProfessor James Laine will be presenting the lecture on March 11th\, as well as leading a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History on March 12th. \nFor more information about the book discussion visit: Aurora Lecture Book Discussion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2024-aurora-lecture/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Aurora-Lecture-2024-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20240129T203032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T211630Z UID:10006220-1709220600-1709226000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Caitlin Charos (Research Development Specialist\, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences). Clara Bergamini (PhD candidate in History) will discuss her role as Research Development GSR and how to set up a meeting to discuss funding opportunities. As part of the workshop\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications. \n  \nPranav Anand\, professor of the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz\, is THI’s new Faculty Director. Anand was awarded the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities\, and earlier this year served as co-principal investigator on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create a certificate program for engineering students to better understand the impact of technology on the world. \n  \n  \nCaitlin Charos grew up in Stockton\, California and earned degrees from University of Pennsylvania (B.A.\, English)\, University of York\, U.K. (M.A.\, Cultures of Empire\, Resistance\, and Postcoloniality)\, and Princeton University (M.A.\, A.B.D.\, English). While pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton University\, Caitlin established herself as a researcher\, teacher\, and persuasive grant writer\, and was awarded a fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for scholarship on global migration. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures\, particularly literatures from southern Africa\, gender and sexualities\, race and ethnicity\, and the novel. Caitlin began her career in research development as a fellow in Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations\, where she helped connect faculty members to foundation funders with shared missions. She has supported faculty in securing significant grants from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and University of California Office of the President. She is a member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Caitlin loves talking with faculty about their research and is dedicated to applying her experience in support of humanities and social sciences research at UCSC. \n  \n \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute (THI). In her role\, she manages research projects\, graduate and undergraduate student programs\, communications\, and public humanities initiatives at the institute. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Research Advisor for the UCSC Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas. Before moving to UCSC\, she was an inaugural research affiliate at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and yearlong National Science Foundation fellow at the Center for Conflict\, Displacement\, and Peacebuilding at the University of Cartagena\, Colombia. Alongside her scholarship\, she has directed Global Youth Connect’s Colombia Human Rights Delegation\, worked at the International Peace and Security Institute’s The Hague Symposium on Post-Conflict Transitions and International Justice\, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga. \n  \n\nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate in history and Research development GSR at UC Santa Cruz. She is working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster.” My research centers around how people’s experiences with and memories of crises and catastrophes shape society over time through moments of memory-making. Specifically\, my research focuses on how the annual anniversaries of the 1923 Great Kantō Disaster and other disasters were used for various political and social programming during Japan’s imperial period. \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T111500 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20240131T202915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T203234Z UID:10006222-1707818400-1707822900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wei Wang - “The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language” DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence:\nListener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”\nwith Wei Wang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Houston \n\nAbstract \nThis study investigates whether classroom instruction is effective in promoting L2 Chinese learners’ interactional competence (IC) as indexed by learners’ use of listener responses (LRs). LR refers to a response produced by a non-primary speaker\, which provides information about how the just-prior utterances were understood by the listener. \nSix types of LRs are examined in this study: \na) response particle such as o\, a\, en\nb) reactive expression\, e.g. dui ‘right’\, shi ma ‘really’\nc) repetition\nd) assessment\ne) tying expression\nf) follow-up action \nThis study takes a quasi-experiment design\, with an Experimental Group (n=17) receiving a semester-long IC instruction including LRs and a Control Group (n=11) with no IC instruction. All learners were asked to video-tape two unscripted conversations with a same L1 interlocutor\, one at midterm and one at semester-end. Comparing the two groups’ changes in LR frequency\, statistical tests reveal that they differ significantly in reactive expression and follow-up action; no significant effect is observed in the other four LRs. Subsequent qualitative analyses\, guided by the conversation analysis framework\, discover that LRs produced by the Experimental Group display increased linguistic complexity and variety as well as heightened sensitivity to intersubjectivity. The quantitative and qualitative evidence combined points to a likely positive effect of classroom instruction on L2 Chinese learners’ IC development as indexed by their use of LRs. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 10:00 am! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wei-wang-the-effect-of-instruction-on-l2-learners-interactional-competence/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T183000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20240131T201013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T203544Z UID:10006221-1707411600-1707417000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ying Yang - "Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’" DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context:\nThe Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”\nwith Ying Yang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison \n\nAbstract \nFace-to-face conversation is the primordial form of human interaction and language is inherently a form of social behavior. However\, spontaneous natural conversation remains one of the least explored discourse domains in linguistics. Using corpora compiled from transcriptions of spontaneous conversations\, Yang’s research program investigates how language structures and grammatical patterns can be seen as emergent from interactional exigencies of ordinary conversation. \nThis particular talk focuses on the grammar of 那na in Mandarin Chinese conversation. Based on a 416\,000-character conversational database\, Yang examines how a demonstrative can shift from marking spatial deixis to signaling speaker stance. \nThis talk proposes a new perspective on demonstratives on a novel investigation focusing on their non-referential usages. Ying Yang shows that non-referential na is routinely used by speakers to express contrastive meaning\, encode attitudinal stances that are often disaffiliative\, taking the form of disagreements\, challenges\, or criticisms. The analysis also illustrates that the non-referential usages of na\, though highly grammaticalized\, are linked to the deictic meanings of the demonstrative. In doing so\, this talk elucidates how looking at language in everyday conversation affects our understanding of the intricacies of grammar. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 5:00pm! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ying-yang-grammar-interaction-and-social-context/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T183000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20240124T200750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T201641Z UID:10006218-1706806800-1706812200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zhiying Qian - “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing” DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”\nwith Zhiying Qian\, Ph.D.\nFlorida State University \n\nAbstract \nThe influence of the properties of a first language (Mandarin\, Korean) on the comprehension of sentences in a second language (English) was investigated in a series of self-paced reading experiments. \nExperiment 1 compared advanced native Mandarin- and Korean-speaking learners of English with native English speakers on how they resolved a temporary ambiguity (e.g.\, The referees warned [that] the spectators would probably get too rowdy.). The temporary ambiguity concerned whether the noun (the spectator) following the verb (warned) was the direct object or the subject of an embedded clause. Results showed that both higher and lower proficiency L1-Mandarin learners could use verb bias cues\, but only higher proficiency L1-Korean learners could do so\, indicating that L1 word order (Mandarin SVO; Korean SOV) influences how quickly L2 learners learn word-order-dependent cues about L2 structures. \nExperiment 2 added plausibility manipulation\, and the results showed that neither native speakers nor L2 learners used plausibility cues\, challenging the claim that L2 learners rely primarily on lexical-semantic cues during real-time sentence processing. \nExperiment 3 examined how native Mandarin speakers process this type of sentence in Mandarin and showed that Mandarin speakers were sensitive to verb bias but not to plausibility\, contrasting claims that Mandarin speakers rely heavily on plausibility. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhiying-qian-verb-bias-and-plausibility/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20231222T180810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T002643Z UID:10006208-1704895200-1704898800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCHRI Grants Workshop DESCRIPTION:Please join us on January 10\, 2024 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for information about and a chance to workshop proposal ideas for UCHRI grants. The session will be led by Research Development Specialist for the Humanities\, Caitlin Charos and Sara Černe\, Research Grants Manager for the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nSara will give a brief introduction to UCHRI\, and Caitlin will provide an overview of UCHRI-specific best practices. Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, THI Research Programs and Communications Manager\, will provide information on how THI can support a successful proposal. \nIntroductory remarks will be followed by faculty questions and a brief workshopping of ideas. \n  \nWe hope to see you there! \nPlease register in advance here: \n \n  \n*UCHRI proposals do not need to go through OSP\, but we encourage you to reach out to Caitlin for assistance in developing your application. Proposals to the following programs are due to UCHRI on January 31\, 2024: \n\n\n\nPROGRAM NAME\nELIGIBILITY\nDEADLINE\n\n\nSupplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Care & Repair Funding\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMulticampus Faculty Working Groups\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nJr. Faculty Manuscript Workshop\, 2024-25\nUC junior faculty (tenure track but not yet tenured) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first book project\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nGraduate Student Dissertation Support\, 2024-25\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy and completed at least one chapter of their dissertation\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nFaculty Summer Research Funding\, 2024\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nEngaging Humanities Grant\, 2024–25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nConference Grant\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nUC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nSupplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nShort-Term Collaborative Research Residency\, 2024–25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMulticampus Graduate Student Working Groups\, 2024-25\nUC humanities PhD students in good standing throughout the 2024-25 academic year\, in conjunction with a faculty member who has agreed in advance to serve in the role of Principal Investigator (PI)\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMedicine & Humanities: The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship\, 2024–25\nUC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in good standing working on a medicine-focused dissertation project\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nClimate Action Training and Summer Dissertation Fellowship\, 2024-25\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nExperimental Critical Theory Seminar\, Spring 2024\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing \nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uchri-grants-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/UCHRI-Grants-Workshop-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221216T174939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T165938Z UID:10007187-1685107200-1685113200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Julia Swan DESCRIPTION:Julia Swan\, SJSU \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-julia-swan/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221216T174650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T174650Z UID:10006049-1683897600-1683903600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika DESCRIPTION:Argyro Katsika\, UC Santa Barbara \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-argyro-katsika/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T091500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20230105T175640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T212227Z UID:10007189-1683710100-1683734400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Student & Public Engagement with Historic Sites DESCRIPTION:3D technologies\, such as LiDAR and photogrammetry\, are being used by archaeologists at sites all over the world\, frequently to record the state of preservation of standing architecture or document field excavations. But 3D and Virtual Reality (VR) can also be used to digitally ‘re-imagine’ or visualize aspects of historic places that are no longer accessible due to landscape change\, the passage of time\, and modern development. Students and the public can ‘virtually travel’ across space and time\, experiencing visualizations of historic sites on different continents or centuries in the past. This one-day event\, Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Public Engagement with Historic Sites\, brings together scholars working on the question of Humanities VR and ‘virtual travel’ for presentations and discussion. The workshop will focus on questions of user experience and interaction\, educational design\, ethics\, and the concept of ‘cultural presence’ when virtually traveling (gaming scholar Erik Champion’s theory of ‘being there\, then’). \n \nPresenters \n\nDr. Rita Lucarelli\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UC Berkeley\nDr. Eiman Elgewely\, School of Design\, Virginia Tech\nDr. Matthias Lang\, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities\, Bonn University\nDr. Vincenzo Lombardo\, Department of Informatics\, Università degli Studi di Torino\nPh.D. Candidate Maureen McGuire\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nDr. Cameron Monroe\, Anthropology\, UCSC\nDr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez\, State Park Historian II & Tribal Liaison Santa Cruz District\, California State Parks\n\nOrganized by Dr. Elaine Sullivan\, History\, UCSC and sponsored by the Humanities Institute URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-reality-as-virtual-traveling-for-student-public-engagement-with-historic-sites/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Elaine_VR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221216T174523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T174523Z UID:10006048-1682083200-1682089200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Christian Ruvalcaba DESCRIPTION:Christian Ruvalcaba\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-christian-ruvalcaba/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221216T174356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T174356Z UID:10006047-1681478400-1681484400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Bryan Donaldson DESCRIPTION:Bryan Donaldson\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-bryan-donaldson/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20230310T171101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230310T171101Z UID:10007230-1679059200-1679065200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-marc-garellek/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20230217T063843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T063939Z UID:10006078-1678899600-1678903200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic - Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity? DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium \nWords whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ “cognate awareness” means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However\, it is unclear if L2 learners really need to be made aware of cognateness. Another question is whether focusing on L1-L2 similarity is enough\, considering that many students are learning a foreign language not as their L2\, but as their L3. In this talk I will discuss whether raising “cognate awareness” indeed modulates the effectiveness of learning words in a foreign language. First\, I will briefly present two classroom quasi-experiments concerning the acquisition of L2-English cognates and non-cognates by language learners with L1-Polish. Then\, I will move on to a naturalistic classroom experiment on learning words in Italian as L3 by L1-Polish learners with L2-English. The talk will present robust and ecologically-valid evidence on acquiring cognates in a foreign language. \n  \nDr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic\, The University of Warsaw \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-agnieszka-otwinowska-kasztelanic-do-l2-and-l3-learners-benefit-from-training-their-awareness-of-cross-linguistic-similarity/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T183000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20230228T050538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T050641Z UID:10006085-1678118400-1678127400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Baptiste Morizot\, Ways of Being Alive DESCRIPTION:Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway\, Professor Emerita\, History of Consciousness. \n \n  \nBaptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures\, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the author of Ways of Being Alive (Transl. Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2022)\, On the Animal Trail (Transl. by Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2021)\, and most recently Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map (Transl. by Catherine Porter\, SUNY Press\, 2022)\, as well as Rekindling Life: A Common Front (Transl. Catherine Porter\, Polity Books\, 2022). \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications in feminist theory and feminist science studies include Primate Visions: Gender\, Race\, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians\, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@.FemaleMan©- Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997)\, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs\, People\, and Significant Otherness (2003); and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016). \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department\, with the support of Villa Albertine San Francisco. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baptiste-morizot-ways-of-being-alive/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221216T174218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T174218Z UID:10006046-1677849600-1677855600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt DESCRIPTION:Rajesh Bhatt\, U Mass \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-rajesh-bhatt/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20220927T191539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T200245Z UID:10007152-1675430400-1675436400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek\, UC San Diego \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-4/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221216T173553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230105T171830Z UID:10006044-1674220800-1674226800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis DESCRIPTION:Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-fernanda-ferreira-uc-davis/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230113T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20220927T191408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230105T190235Z UID:10007151-1673616000-1673622000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor\, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel\, UC Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Uri Mor\, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20221011T191907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T234522Z UID:10006022-1667316600-1667322000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis DESCRIPTION:*Charla en español* “Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/historias-de-accion-accion-comunitaria-frente-al-racismo-en-america-latina-con-natalia-barrera-francis/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20210930T180720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T180720Z UID:10007014-1634054400-1634061600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:History and Modern Media - book talk with John Mraz DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Professor John Mraz\, Research Professor\, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades\, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla\, Mexico on “History and Modern Media”\, will discuss his most recent book published in 2021 by Vanderbilt University Press. John is a distinguished scholar on Mexican photo history and visual culture in Mexico. He is also the author of “Photographing the Mexican Revolution” (2012) and “Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity” (2009). Moreover\, John is a UCSC alum and obtained his Ph.D from the Department of History at UCSC in the mid-1980’s. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor Pedro Castillo\, Professor of History Emeritus\, UCSC. \n \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Humanities Division. \n***UC Santa Cruz COVID-19 protocols state that all on-site indoor events with expected attendance of 25 or more attendees will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the start of the event) for admittance. \nThese entrance requirements can be met in the following ways: \n1) Any attendee can show their CDC Vaccine Card (phone image acceptable) or digital vaccine record from the State of California. International attendees may show their translated vaccine record. \nOR \n2) Any attendee can show a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). \n***Prior to arriving for this event\, all visitors must complete a symptom check survey\, which can be accessed here: https://ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24vMSiDcxZp6VRX \nQuestions regarding this event can be directed to Pedro Castillo: pcastle@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/history-and-modern-media-book-talk-with-john-mraz/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20210930T180318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T180318Z UID:10007013-1634040000-1634047200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Feminism in Mexico: Intergenerational and Transnational DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion will be led by Distinguished Professor Eli Bartra\, Professor of Feminist Studies at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco\, Mexico City. Professor Bartra is the author of “Feminism and Folk Art” (2018) and “Women in Mexican Folk Art” (2011)\, and is a leading activist on feminist issues in Mexico City. Also on the panel is Anna Lee Mraz Bartra\, an independent scholar from Mexico who holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico\, with a focus on women in Mexico and cross cultural social activism. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor Norma Klahn\, Professor of Literature Emerita\, UCSC. \n \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Humanities Division. \n***UC Santa Cruz COVID-19 protocols state that all on-site indoor events with expected attendance of 25 or more attendees will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the start of the event) for admittance. \nThese entrance requirements can be met in the following ways: \n1) Any attendee can show their CDC Vaccine Card (phone image acceptable) or digital vaccine record from the State of California. International attendees may show their translated vaccine record. \nOR \n2) Any attendee can show a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). \n***Prior to arriving for this event\, all visitors must complete a symptom check survey\, which can be accessed here: https://ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24vMSiDcxZp6VRX \nQuestions regarding this event can be directed to Pedro Castillo: pcastle@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminism-in-mexico-intergenerational-and-transnational/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20200114T184619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200414T202212Z UID:10005687-1588608000-1588615200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Nancy Luxon - Switch Points of Power: Psychodynamics of state legitimation and neoauthoritarianism DESCRIPTION:Recent political trends not just in the United States but globally have led to speculation about the resurgence of authoritarianism and an “authoritarian personality.” As the usual orientations of Left and Right held in place by a liberal status quo begin to falter\, social science looks for new frameworks through which to describe these political phenomena and to analyze the kind of challenge they pose to existing liberal or neoliberal institutions. With this paper\, I argue that these contemporary political currents revive older debates about state legitimation and the terms on which to construe “the people.” In the wake of a neoliberalism has reduced political and moral vocabularies to a financial language of risk and exposure\, politics seeks new sources of psycho-social investment that would reframe classic relations of care and obligation. To think through this political conjuncture\, I draw on Michel Foucault and the relational school of psychoanalysis. I argue that these contemporary political trends direct us towards those “switch points of power” in which relations of power have become unstable and thus capable of being redirected. These switch points potentially open up for revision those authorial practices that sustain or undo the status quo. \n\nNancy Luxon is an associate professor in Political Science at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power\, subjectivity\, and truth-telling. She came to these themes from a preoccupation with those practices that organize the interstices of political spaces – namely\, the spaces between personal and political practices\, between political conditions of possibility and psychic interiority\, and between past and future. Her first book\, Crisis of Authority (2013)\, considers political authority as a political and psychological process in which individuals come to author themselves\, and so to act within and against relations of hierarchy. More recently\, she has edited a translation of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families (2017)\, along with a companion scholarly volume\, Archives of Infamy (2019)\, and Foucault’s lectures at Berkeley\, Discourse and Truth (2019). Her current work is on Fanon and désaliénation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-luxon/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20200205T173304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T173304Z UID:10005697-1580995800-1580995800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease see the Linguistics Department website for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-nikos-angelopoulos/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20200128T215923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200128T220558Z UID:10006826-1580391000-1580396400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see visit the Linguistics Department Website. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bronwyn-bjorkman-realizing-syntax/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20200122T183813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200122T183813Z UID:10005696-1579786200-1579786200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality - Two Case Studies DESCRIPTION:Much work in syntax suggests that there is a strong preference — given two or more options — for shorter dependencies over longer dependencies\, often referred to as a locality condition. Cases where these conditions are apparently violated are therefore a general topic of interest. This talk presents two case studies of apparent violations of locality in A-movement which prove problematic for current approaches to the phenomenon. In both Luganda and Haya [Bantu\, Uganda/Tanzania]\, as well as Tongan [Austronesian\, Tonga]\, A-movement is able to cross no more than one other argument. This pattern proves to be a serious problem for the state-of-the art\, which cannot be straightforwardly emended to capture this particular restriction. The analysis developed involves a mechanism of conflict resolution between two conflicting requirements: the aforementioned locality condition\, and an “anti-locality” condition\, which mitigates against dependencies which are in some sense too short. When these conditions come into conflict\, the locality condition may be minimally violated\, so that the anti-locality condition may be maximally satisfied.\nIn this talk\, we will see that this analysis straightforwardly delivers the “skip no more than one” pattern observed in both case studies\, and discuss how the analysis answers a number of “big picture” questions about the architecture of the grammar. \nKenyon Branon is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at NUS. He graduated from MIT with a PhD in linguistics and works on syntax and its interface with PF\, using data from understudied languages for theory construction. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kenyon-branon-locality-and-anti-locality-two-case-studies/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20190911T180217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190920T183205Z UID:10006771-1574434800-1574442000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Discussion with Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss excerpts from Mother Winter\, a memoir by Sophia Shalmiyev and A Girl Goes Into The Forest\, a collection of short stories by Peg Alford Pursell. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest\, (Dzanc Books\, July 2019)\, and of Show Her A Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Permafrost\, Joyland\, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently\, her microfiction\, flash fiction\, and hybrid prose have been nominated for Best Small Microfictions and Pushcart Prizes. She is the founder and director of WTAW Press\, a nonprofit publisher of literary books\, and of Why There Are Words\, the national literary reading series. She is a member of the SF Writers Grotto. See more at: www.pegalfordpursell.com \nSophia Shalmiyev is an immigrant from the Soviet Union and the author of Mother Winter (2019\, S&S)\, which Kirkus Reviews describes as “a rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” Shalmiyev has an MFA from Portland State University and a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Her latest work can be found at Lit Hub and Guernica. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/discussion-with-sophia-shalmiyev/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20191104T234133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191104T234215Z UID:10005659-1574166600-1574172000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eve Zyzik: Spanish Studies Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Spelling is an aspect of literacy that causes significant difficulties for Spanish heritage language learners. The current research study targets one of the most problematic areas of Spanish orthography: substitution of “s” and “c” letters to represent /s/. Participants (n=72) were young adults\, heritage speakers of Spanish\, who completed a dictation task in addition to a standardized measure of proficiency. The results indicate a main effect for cognates (Spanish/English cognates are spelled more accurately)\, but no effect for letter. In other words\, the data show that “s” is not the default letter for representing /s/\, contrary to what had been found in a number of previous studies. These results are discussed in the broader context of pedagogical proposals for targeting orthography among college-aged heritage language learners. \n  \nEve Zyzik (PhD\, UC Davis) is currently Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. She has published over twenty-five articles and chapters related to second language acquisition\, heritage language development\, and language pedagogy. Her articles appear in journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics\, Language Learning\, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism\, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. She has also published two books: El español y la lingüística aplicada (with Robert Blake) and Authentic Materials Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching (with Charlene Polio). \n  \nNote: Event will be given in Spanish URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eve-zyzik-spanish-studies-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20191014T224713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T224713Z UID:10006789-1573830000-1573837200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:After Ursula Discussion DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss excerpts from authors Karen Joy Fowler\, Molly Gloss\, Nisi Shawl\, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. \nKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy\, and more recently Red Moon\, New York 2140\, Aurora\, Shaman\, Green Earth\, and 2312. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995\, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute\, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop\, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages\, and won a dozen awards in five countries\, including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels\, including Sarah Canary and The Jane Austen Book Club\, and three short story collections\, including What I Didn’t See. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, was published by Putnam in May 2013 and won the Pen Faulkner award that year. She currently lives in Santa Cruz. \nMolly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek\, The Dazzle of Day\, Wild Life\, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses\, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic fiction and science fiction\, and her novels have received\, among other honors\, a PEN West Fiction Prize\, an Oregon Book Award\, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards\, the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. \nNisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach\, a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Asimov’s SF Magazine\, and many other publications. She edited the anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; and co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; Strange Matings: Science Fiction\, Feminism\, African American Voices\, and Octavia E. Butler. Shawl is a Carl Brandon Society founder and a Clarion West board member. She lives in Seattle near an enticingly large lake. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/after-ursula-discussion/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20190909T181823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T222755Z UID:10006768-1571155200-1571162400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation - On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans DESCRIPTION:Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book\, Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press\, 2019)\, co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice\, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration\, displacement\, diaspora\, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties\, from depression\, suicide\, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype\, transnational adoption\, parachute children\, colorblind discourses in the United States\, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout\, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena\, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race\, sexuality\, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora. \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies\, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory\, and the Program in Gender\, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. After receiving his B.A. in English from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley\, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway)\, King’s College London\, Harvard University\, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. In 2016\, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American literature\, Asian American studies\, Asian diaspora\, critical race theory\, psychoanalysis\, queer studies\, gender studies\, and visual culture. \nEng is author with Shinhee Han of Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke\, 2019)\, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke\, 2010)\, and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke\, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California\, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple\, 1998\, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award). In addition\, he is co-editor of two special issues of the journal Social Text: with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen\, “China and the Human”  (2011/2012)\, and with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz\, “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (2005). \nCurrently\, he is co-editing with Jasbir Puar a third special issue of Social Text\, “Left of Queer” as well as completing a monograph\, “Reparations and the Human\,” which investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, Literature\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Feminist Studies departments. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T183000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20190515T172458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T172714Z UID:10006742-1558630800-1558636200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania DESCRIPTION:Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk\, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts\, these are stories that could have been\, but never happened…feminist unions\, Eastern European migrants antifascist organizing\, anticapitalist campaigns\, solidarity movements between students and coal miners. \nBased in Bucharest\, Veda Popovici holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the National University of Art. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/veda-popovici-history-not-repeat-speculative-histories-post-revolutionary-romania/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SSRC-DPD-UCSC.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20190409T174335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T191250Z UID:10006735-1555427700-1555434000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts\, Print Media\, and the Urgency of the Humanities DESCRIPTION:An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar\, launching a podcast\, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scholarship-public-podcasts-opeds-urgency-humanities/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20190402T174943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T175137Z UID:10006727-1554995700-1555002000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Barry Lam - Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice DESCRIPTION:At different stages of the criminal justice system\, from policing\, bail hearings\, and sentencing\, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police\, who to arrest\, who goes to jail\, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work\, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation\, and how the future of criminal justice depends on decisions we make now about the risks we are willing to tolerate for public safety. \nOrganized by the Humanities Institute\, Data and Democracy Initiative\, and Center for Public Philosophy URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-future-philosophy-predictive-algorithms-criminal-justice/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T120000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20190214T175852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T200118Z UID:10006713-1550829600-1550836800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People! DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: \nALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front \nFeaturing TWLF veterans Bruce Occena\, Vicci Wong\, and Emil de Guzman \nBreakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials *\nFriday\, February 22\, 2019\, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.\nHumanities 202 \n* For access to materials\, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) \nSee also: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel – Thursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 5-7 p.m. – Kresge Town Hall \nGenerously sponsored by CRES\, the Dean of Students\, AA/PIRC\, Education\, The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Labor Studies\, Stevenson College\, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breakfast-seminar-power-people-asian-american-radicalism-bay-area-universities-third-world-liberation-front/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2-21-19_CRES.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20181101T215322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181101T225319Z UID:10006676-1543503600-1543510800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine DESCRIPTION:“Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism”\nJennifer Kelly\, Associate Professor\, UCSC  \nIn between Israeli military incursions\, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse\, satirize\, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position Gaza as solely a site of suffering\, a site where tourism could never flourish; they instead ask what it would mean if Palestinians in Gaza could actually invite tourists\, host their own tours\, and control their own borders. Through virtual tours that simultaneously describe suffering and create joy\, Palestinians in Gaza are combating not only the siege but also the representations of Palestinians in Gaza as under siege and nothing more. \n  \n“Revisiting the Question of Palestine”\nNoya Kansky\, FMST Graduate Student\, UCSC \nIn this paper\, I revisit Edward Said’s “Question of Palestine\,” with specific attention to the activation of Palestine as object of study in contemporary humanities-focused research agendas. How are these research choices shaped by institutions and the left-leaning ethos of scholar activism\, contemporary post-colonial and settler colonial studies and additionally political theory\, and current debates on research ethics and epistemic production? What violences does this practice reinscribe and in what ways does the contemporary university contain and re-direct questions that frame Palestine as a stable object – often exceptionalized as a research site that is productive to those thinking about oppression and violence? \n  \nPizza and drinks provided! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invitation-object-reframing-study-palestine/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20181119T204912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T205442Z UID:10005549-1543339800-1543345200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Presentation: Jai Sen's The Movements of Movements DESCRIPTION:Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS)\, Deborah Gould (UCSC)\, and Patrick King (UCSC).\n\n\n\nJai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer\, then a researcher into popular movement\, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote critical engagement with the World Social Forum and emerging world movement – as moderator of the listserv WSFDiscuss and as coeditor of several books including World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and World Social Forum: Critical Explorations. He helped found and remains associated with CACIM and with OpenWord.\n\n\n\nThe Movements of Movements (PM Press/OpenWorld\, 2017/18):\nOur world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement\, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local\, national\, transnational\, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. These two volumes\, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas\, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste\, class\, gender\, religion\, and indigeneity\, and move from the local to the global.\n\n\nRefreshments will be served. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-presentation-jai-sens-movements-movements/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jaisenf.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180515T210329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T210351Z UID:10006635-1527614100-1527620400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jeff Michno: "Nicaragua Y ¿Vos\, tú o usted?" DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this talk\, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos\, tú\, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community\, providing evidence that locals use tú\, a variant reported as virtually absent from Nicaraguan Spanish\, with both outsiders and other locals. Utilizing local commentary\, I show that this practice coincides with a sense of prestige attributed to the tú form\, and stigma\, to vos\, the form reported as ubiquitous in Nicaraguan Spanish. In addition\, through an interactional analysis\, I identify several functions of pronoun switching (e.g. from vos to tú) by a given speaker with the same conversational partner\, including: flirting\, enhancing or reducing deference\, emphasizing youthfulness\, and negotiating identity status and stance in new relationships. Most notably\, I show how locals systematically switch pronouns to shift from direct address (e.g. ¿Cómo te llamas? ‘What is your[tú] name?’) to an impersonal stance (e.g. Tenés que trabajar para comer. ‘You[vos] have [one has] to work to eat.’). The evidence supports the view that impersonal use of second-person pronouns implies some type of generalization\, which can serve to create solidarity between conversational partners. \nJeff Michno is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville\, SC. Professor Michno’s research focuses on language and culture contact\, examining both well-established contact settings\, such as the Texas-Mexico region\, as well as more recent scenarios rooted in migration\, globalization and tourism. He is currently investigating a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact due to tourism. His primary research goal is to highlight ways in which language varies according to the social characteristics of individuals as well as their moment-to-moment communicative moves (i.e. variation according to both social and pragmatic factors). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-michno-nicaragua-y-vos-tu-o-usted/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-21.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T190000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180509T222821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T222821Z UID:10006634-1527089400-1527102000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Applied Linguistics Colloquia DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/applied-linguistics-colloquia/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0001-17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180427T231248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T150538Z UID:10005500-1525965300-1525971600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer DESCRIPTION:“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” \nIs there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics and aim to delineate a well-motivated thesis about a priori access to such. After examining a few approaches that don’t succeed\, I introduce and defend a positive thesis of “semantic rationalism.” The relevance of that thesis for the topics of metaphysical necessities and essences is then explored\, with attention in particular to whether the rationalism in question has enough bite to be of interest. \nGene Witmer is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Florida. His research focuses on metaphysics and philosophy of mind\, with a special focus on physicalism. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-gene-witmer/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180427T231428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T231428Z UID:10005501-1525360500-1525366800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen DESCRIPTION:“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” \nOri Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he’s been working on metasemantics\, or foundational semantics\, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think about intentionality (or aboutness) in light of the pronouncements of contemporary semantic theory. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/philosophy-colloquium-ori-simchen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180410T130000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180326T170136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T170136Z UID:10006618-1523361600-1523365200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program on Tuesday\, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows\, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations. \nIn addition\, we are launching a new public fellows program that will allow students to work as public fellows during the school year (we will cover tuition\, fees\, and stipends for selected applicants). \nThese fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nThe 8 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward: \nDanielle Crawford\, Literature\, Project: “Planning and Conservation League”\nAndrew Hedding\, Linguistics\, Project: “Senderos”\nRyan King\, Feminist Studies\, Project: “Digital NEST”\nAmani Liggett\, Literature\, Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare\nPriscilla Martinez\, History\, Project: “Tucson Chinese Cultural Center”\nJason Ostrove\, Linguistics\, Project: “Barra Heritage Centre”\nKirstin Wagner\, Literature\, Project: “Catamaran Literary Reader” \nWe hope to see you there! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-institute-public-fellows-info-session/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T120000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180321T201630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180321T201714Z UID:10006616-1522663200-1522670400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana's Transpacific Ecological Imagination DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University\, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press\, 2015). He is currently writing a book entitled Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Environmental Memory in the Asian-Pacific Diaspora.  \nFor pre-circulated readings\, please email Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cres-reading-seminar-jeffrey-santa-anas-transpacific-ecological-imagination/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Critical-Race-and-Ethnic-Studies-CRES-is-pleased-to-present-two-events-with.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T191500 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180307T215333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T215333Z UID:10006601-1521048600-1521054900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments” \nJill Pellettieri\, Ph.D. \nThis workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy beer\, it pairs well in some settings but not in others. We will critically examine the IPA with an eye towards identifying its strengths and weaknesses as a tool for assessment in university language courses and programs. Participants will learn general principles for designing authentic\, integrated language tasks and specific guidelines for modifying and adapting the ACTFL IPA for their language courses. It is unclear at this time whether we will actually be sampling craft brews. \n  \nJill Pellettieri is an Associate Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish applied linguistics with a Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of California\, Davis. Her areas of specialization include oral and computer-mediated interaction\, task-based language learning\, and community-based learning. Prior to joining the faculty at SCU\, she was an Associate Professor of Spanish\, Graduate TA trainer and supervisor\, and chair of the Dept. of World Languages at Cal State San Marcos. She has published several articles and book chapters in her areas of specialization\, and she has authored and coauthored several textbooks for the teaching of Spanish at the university level\, including Palabra abierta\, an advanced composition text\, and Rumbos\, a textbook for intermediate Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ipas-like-hoppy-craft-beer-acquiring-taste-task-based-language-teaching-integrated-performance-assessments/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Colloquium-Flyer-Mar-14-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20171113T191052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T233233Z UID:10006561-1519999200-1520006400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Cathy Davidson Workshop DESCRIPTION:Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster\, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities\, Social Sciences\, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into. \nFor copies of Cathy Davidson’s book The New Education\, please email the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at citl@ucsc.edu \nPresented by UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute and Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning \nPlease note that the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday\, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss Cathy Davidson’s book “The New Education” in preparation for Davidson’s event on March 1. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cathy-davidson-seminar-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20180110T191919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T201409Z UID:10006573-1516288500-1516294800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ram Neta: "Puzzle of Transparency" DESCRIPTION:The Puzzle of Transparency\nAs you and I are out for a walk\, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you “do you believe that it’s going to rain?” In response to this question\, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind\, but rather to the way the sky looks and the air feels. But if I’m asking about what you believe\, then shouldn’t you pay attention to your own state of mind\, instead of to your perceptible environment? Some philosophers claim that\, when I utter the interrogative sentence “do you believe that it’s going to rain?”\, I’m not curious about your state of mind\, but only about the weather. But this is false: I could ask you the very same question even if I happen to know perfectly well that it’s going to rain\, and I’m just curious what you make of the current weather conditions. So\, if I’m asking about your beliefs\, why do you normally answer me by paying attention to the weather instead of paying attention to your state of mind? In order to answer this question\, I argue\, we will have to admit that the capacity to represent one’s own mental states can make a metaphysical difference to the nature of those states. \n  \nRam Neta is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in epistemology and is currently at work on a book on the nature of knowledge. In particular\, he is trying to understand what knowledge is by examining the various ways in which knowing some things depends upon knowing other things. \n  \nAdvanced Reading: The Puzzle of Transparency URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ram-neta-puzzle-transparency/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20171129T185746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171129T185746Z UID:10005436-1512658800-1512666000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CRES: Works in Progress featuring Sheeva Sabati & Nick Mitchell DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cres-works-in-progress-featuring-sheeva-sabti-nick-mitchell-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170414T212057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T212057Z UID:10006501-1496404800-1496412000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen DESCRIPTION:“Mom\, can you help me with my homework?” Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children \nThe collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access to resources for contextualizing and deconstructing these lived realities. I discuss my reflexive process while interviewing my family about their experiences with the American-Vietnam War and how this ongoing dialogic process has transformed my relationships to my family and community\, as well as highlighted sociopolitical tensions within Vietnamese American communities. I identify possible tools for intergenerational dialogue and emphasize the need to engage with these loud silences to support communities displaced by war in negotiating “the ending that are not over” (Espiritu\, 2014). \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-angela-nguyen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T153000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170522T183344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T183344Z UID:10006518-1495809000-1495812600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress DESCRIPTION:“Delinquency As Labor”\nChrissy Anderson-Zavala \nChrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation\, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth\,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level archives to explore how narratives of young people as “trouble” (threat) or “troubled” (at-risk) inform the limits and possibilities of schooling. \n  \n  \n“BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect”\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer \nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer is an Associate Professor in the Feminist Studies Department here at UCSC. Her book\, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas\, was published in 2013 with NYU Press. She is working on a new project called “Tracking Migrants: Biosecurity Across Erotic Borders” that follows the de-humanization of Latina/o migrants branded as biothreats\, or deviant and criminal threats. In this project I follow the ways state surveillance remakes relations between technology-the-body-and nature\, and then decolonizes these state regimes through an Anzalduan approach to what I call an erotic cosmology: using the body as a technology to hone our senses deeper into the sensual relationality of human-animal-cosmic ontologies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-race-ethnic-studies-works-in-progress-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CRES-event-with-bios.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170414T211244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T211244Z UID:10006500-1495800000-1495807200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi DESCRIPTION:“This is Your Life”: Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War \nIn 1955\, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto Kiyoshi\, this project was supported on multiple fronts in the United States. This paper analyzed the American capitalistic mode of generosity from the TV program\, “This is Your Life” aired on May 11\, 1955\, which featured the Japanese minister Tanimoto\, who recently arrived in the United States with Hiroshima Maidens. The TV program and its host successfully collected $56\,000 in donations by asking its viewers to show their “American way”. This American way generosity demonstrated multiple problematic viewpoints in the ways of how the Americans constructed their superiority through the victims’ radicalized and gendered bodies. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kara-hisatake-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170512T173620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170512T173620Z UID:10006513-1495546200-1495551600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. \nNikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures\, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke\, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai\, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people. \nThe IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-nikhil-anand-waterlines-uncertainty-and-the-future-urban-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170424T190755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T190755Z UID:10006503-1495197000-1495202400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake DESCRIPTION:Pidgin Comedy in Hawai’i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture \nIn 1970s Hawai’i\, Pidgin\, also known as Hawai’i Creole english\, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language\, visual culture\, and attitude of the islands\, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 TV special Rap’s Hawaii\, which addressed local culture\, politics\, and tourism. Analyzing Reiplinger’s TV special\, I claim that his Pidgin comedy resignifies settler culture and in doing so\, queers dominant settler norms. Reiplinger’s comedy thus becomes a place where Pidgin values are embodied through queer performative-it reiterates to critique. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kara-hisatake-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170508T173444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170508T173444Z UID:10005380-1495120500-1495126800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maudemarie Clark "Nietzsche's Nihilism" DESCRIPTION:Nietzsche claims that in realating the “advent of nihilism\,” he is relating “the history of the next two centuries.” He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist\, but that he had now left it behind\, “outside of [him]self.” In this paper\, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how to understand his own (early and middle-period) work as nihilistic. I argue (against Bernard Reginster) that the nihilism of interest to Nietzsche is not\, or at least not mainly\, a philosophical position\, but a cultural condition. The upshot of my account is two-fold: first\, that it was only in overcoming the naturalistic orientation that it has become standard to attribute to him (and that I once attributed to him) that Nietzsche left nihilism behind\, and\, second\, that our current cultural and political situation is well on its way to the kind of nihilism that Nietzsce was particularly concerned with. \nAbout:\nMaudemarie Clark is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside. She specializes in 19th Century German philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. \nAdvanced Reading:\nThe Will to Power – first 20 pages \nGenealogy of Morality URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maudemarie-clark-nietzsches-nihilism-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Clark.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170414T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T205600Z UID:10006499-1494592200-1494597600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste DESCRIPTION:From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle \nThe double portrait of cousins\, entitled\, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray\, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women\, one back and one white\, the painting inspired the 2014 film\, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of period dramas\, the creators of Belle fabricated a largely fictional account\, envisioning Dido with a generous measure of agency and influence despite being black and female. This is evident in the portrait revealed in the movie. Though the original painting and film version are nearly identical\, this presentation examines the two\, considering the implications of the alterations made in the latter. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kristen-laciste-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170414T190440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T190440Z UID:10005366-1493987400-1493992800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford DESCRIPTION:Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now \nThis presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979)\, which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood’s shooting of cameras and the U.S. military’s shooting of weapons\, and the ways these forms of violence intertwine on the set of this Vietnam War film. While the film attempts to blur the geographic boundaries between Vietnam and the Philippines by using Philippine “jungles” as substitute\, I argue that Apocalypse Now ultimately blurs the boundaries between real U.S. warfare and the cinematic reproduction of warfare through its military collaborations and its production of ecological ruin. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-danielle-crawford-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170414T184141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T184141Z UID:10005364-1493382600-1493388000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Baizhu Chen DESCRIPTION:Do Lenders Value the Right Characteristics?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending \nUsing a unique dataset of peer-to-peer lending with detailed loan and borrower information\, I study the following research questions:|1) What are the borrower characteristics that lenders value when choosing which loans to fund?; and (2) Do lenders value the correct characteristics with respect to minimizing to probability of default? In this online context\, the researcher observes everything that the lender does\, enabling unbiased estimation of the borrower characteristics that lenders favor. Estimating the characteristics that predict loan default is problematic due to selection at the funding state. I consider three potential strategies to address this issue:(1) restricting attention to borrower characteristics for which there is no evidence of selection in the first stage; (2) bounding the default estimates in the style of Lee (2009) and (3) exploiting variation in the probability of funding caused by contemporaneous competition on the platform. The evidence suggests that lenders give the correct weight to verified income levels\, underestimate the importance of verified education level and marital status\, and overestimate the importance of verified employment industry. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:30-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-baizhu-chen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T122000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170414T174620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T174620Z UID:10005362-1492777200-1492783200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jaclyn N. Schultz DESCRIPTION:Advertising Female Futurity: Children’s Books Printed as Advertisements in the U.S.\, 1850-1870 \nIn this presentation\, I examine children’s books printed as advertisemtns between 1850 and 1870 that were directed at female children. Beginning around 1850\, companies produced books that served as advertisements but took the shape of children’s primers\, rhymes\, or storybooks. This presentation carefully studies these books to uncover consumerist lessons directed at children as well as contemporaneous understandings of the women of the future. By examining how female child readers were trained to become a certain kind of women through these advertising books\, my presentation illuminates the distinctive understanding of gendered labor\, consumerism\, and futurity that existed in the U.S. between 1850 and 1870. \nFriday Forum Spring quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 21\, 2017: Jaclyn N. Schultz\, History \nApril 28\, 2017: Baizhu Chen\, Economics \nMay 5\, 2017: Danielle Crawford\, Literature \nMay 12\, 2017: Kristen Laciste\, HAVC \nMay 19\, 2017: Kara Hisatake\, Literature \nMay 26\, 2017: Yuki Obayashi\, Literature \nJune 2\, 2017: Angela Nguyen\, Psychology URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-jaclyn-n-schultz-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-winter-FFPoster11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T110000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170307T200551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T200551Z UID:10005340-1488967200-1488970800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1 DESCRIPTION:IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS \nDeadline: April 30\, 2017 \nAmount: Up to $5\,000 \nNumber of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) \nThese fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. Majority of the work should be completed during Summer 2017. Students are welcome to find their own partner organizations or to pursue opportunities from organizations listed below. \nBefore applying\, students are required to attend one of Info Sessions below: \nSession I. March 8\, 10am\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nSession II. March 9\, 2pm\, Humanities 1\, Room 402 \nMore information available at ihr.ucsc.edu/programs/fellowships URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ihr-public-fellows-info-session-1-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170130T204228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T204228Z UID:10005333-1488542400-1488547800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries DESCRIPTION:Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy \nThis presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of “creative ecologies of practice” enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought\, multiple modes of encounter\, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are imaginative and speculative\, require resonance and creative response\, and include practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics to foster sites of refuge\, sites of agency and cities response-ablitiy. They enable collaborative inquires into urgent social\, political and ecological challenges\, exploring elements that help to activate\, integrate and support collaborative endeavors that challenge current (neoliberal capitalistic) representations\, foster (multi species) agency and create new knowledge(s). \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-chessa-adsit-morries-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170227T202559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170227T202559Z UID:10006472-1488467700-1488474000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning DESCRIPTION:Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast\, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning\, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic\, emotional reactions (sometimes termed “institutions\,” e.g. Greene\, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that people are sometimes unable to justify their moral evaluations and that such evaluations are sensitive to factors presumed morally irrelevant. In this talk\, I will argue that these studies have a number of methodological and theoretical limitations. Research without these limitations\, for instance on responses to so-called trolley dilemmas\, indicates that reasoning plays important roles when individuals make moral judgments. Furthermore\, this research suggests a realistic view of moral reasoning that is not premised on the dichotomy between reasoning and emotional reactions. \nAbout:\nAudun Dahl is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates early moral development. One line of work deals with the emergence of infant helping behavior and a second line deals with how young children acquire an aversion to harming others. His research combines naturalistic and experimental methods to study how infants’ everyday social interactions contribute to these developments. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/audun-dahl-the-empirical-reality-of-moral-reasoning-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/audahl.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170224T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170130T202712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T202712Z UID:10005331-1487937600-1487943000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander DESCRIPTION:“Its Ok\,  We’re Safe Here”: Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) \nSince 2008\, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural\, political\, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film\, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$)\, highlights how social inequalities experienced every day in Aboriginal communities are inseparable from environmental destruction. Both issues are intertwined in Australia’s colonial history; due to the centrality of landscape and environment in Aboriginal worldviews and identities\, the destruction of the former necessarily impacts the latter. Windjarrameru responds to this colonial legacy by subverting ethnographic representations of Aboriginal peoples and the Australian landscape\, while the role of ancestral spirits makes visible the impact of mining on the living beings in this landscape. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-maggie-wander-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T163000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170210T184454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170210T184454Z UID:10006463-1487777400-1487781000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina DESCRIPTION:Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina:\nA Talk by Héctor Hoyos \nSe propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales\,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales\, discutiendo obras críticas de Ericka Beckman y Fernando Ortiz\, así como el cuento “Historia de un computador” del chileno Alejandro Zambra y el policial Coltán del español Alberto VásquezFigueroa. \n  \nHéctor Hoyos es Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Culturas Iberoamericanas\nde la Universidad de Stanford. Es autor de Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin\nAmerican Novel (Columbia University Press\, 2015). Ha sido becario de la Fundación\nHumboldt en Berlín y prepara el manuscrito Things with a History: Transcultural\nMaterialism in Latin America. \n  \nNote: This talk will be in Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spanish-studies-colloquium-neo-extractivismo-y-cultura-en-america-latina-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Héctor-Hoyos-Talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170217T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170130T195351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T195351Z UID:10005329-1487332800-1487338200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yulia Gilichinskaya DESCRIPTION:Israel and Palestine: The Landscape of Separation \nThe Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank not only live under the occupation of Israel but also\, contained behind the Wall that Israel erected\, populate a space of physical\, social\, and cultural isolation. The Wall severs communities\, people’s access to services\, livelihoods and religious and cultural amenities. It fragments not only the land\, but also the very social fabric of the Palestinian people. \nIn search for a landscape of hope\, Yulia Gilichinskaya through her research and artwork looks for way to subvert the walls and barriers\, address the issue of separation\, and to amend the dictated borders imposed on the Palestinians. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-yulia-gilichinskaya-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170130T194406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T194406Z UID:10005327-1486728000-1486733400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kyuhyun Han DESCRIPTION:Sewing the Forest like a state: Forest Management\, Wildlife Conservation\, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China\, 1949 – 1965 \nMy research aims to counter the prevalent premise that Mao-era China (1945-1976) was devoid of environmental consciousness or concern with environmental protection\, and places Chinese policy in the context of the international development of environmental consciousness during that time. It will show the ways in which early Mao-Era Chinese scientists actively participated in and were influenced by the global discussion of pollution\, extinction\, natural conservation\, and biodiversity. It also traces incipient state-initiated conversation policies in the early 1960s. I will explore the ways in which center- periphery tensions and the role of local indigenous people reflected and altered state-initiated conversation policy\, which led to a devastating loss of biodiversity in Heilongjiang province. \n\n\nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kyuhyun-han-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170130T212959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T212959Z UID:10006456-1486573200-1486576800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Spanish Studies Colloquium: Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank DESCRIPTION:Human Rights and US Policy in Post-Coup Honduras: a talk by Dana Frank\nDana Frank is professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and the author of Bananeras:Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America\, among other books. Since the 2009 coup her articles about human rights and US policy in Honduras have appeared in the New York Times\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, World Policy Review\, Politico Magazine\, Los Angeles Times\, Miami Herald\, Houston Chronicle\, The Nation\, The Baffler\, Jacobin\, and elsewhere\, and she has been interviewed by the New Yorker\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, Associated Press\, National Public Radio\, BBC World News\, ABC/Fusion\, and regularly for Democracy Now! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spanish-studies-colloquium-human-rights-and-us-policy-in-post-coup-honduras-a-talk-by-dana-frank-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dana-Frank-Talk-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170203T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170130T193058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T193058Z UID:10005325-1486123200-1486128600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies  \nCalifornia dairy advertisements often feature happy cows\, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently\, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought\, regulation of methane emissions from cows\, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies\, and future implementation of more robust framework labor laws. These converging pressures challenge the industrial mode of dairy production utilized by many California dairies\, and may pave a path toward sustainable transformation. In this talk I focus on whose interests are represented as this heavily industrialized sector responds to social and environmental pressures\, and what this means for future sustainability of the sector. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-rachel-shellabarger-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170127T133000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20170125T202311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170125T202311Z UID:10005319-1485518400-1485523800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis DESCRIPTION:American Philanthropy and “Aggressive Altruism” in Richard Wright’s Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias’ The Green Pope \nMy dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of the United States’ rise as a global superpower in the twentieth century. For this presentation\, I will present an excerpt of a chapter that considers how philanthropy permeates representations of hemispheric American relationships in the interwar period. I read Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) and Miguel Angel Asturias’s El Papa Verde (1952) that center the “Black Metropolis” as the financial engine of the United States and the nucleus of transnational corporate expansion. \nFriday Forum Winter quarter 2017 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 27\, 2017: Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature \nFebruary 03\, 2017: Rachel Shellabarger\, Environmental Studies \nFebruary 10\, 2017: Kyuhyun Han\, History \nFebruary 17\, 2017: Yulia Gilchinskaya\, Film & Digital Media \nFebruary 24\, 2017: Maggie Wander\, HAVC \nMarch 3\, 2017: Chessa Adsit-Morris\, HAVC URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-sarah-papazoglakis-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20161013T200227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T200227Z UID:10006416-1480681800-1480687200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer DESCRIPTION:“Writing Hawai’i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain’s Letter’s s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation” \nThis portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai’i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in\, and imaginings of\, Hawai’i as a space for continuing expansion westward. In viewing the letters through the lens of cartography\, their function as re-making Hawai’i into an American space by re-drawing the imagined boundaries of the US to extend to the islands highlights the importance of narrating place as an essential step in the violence of colonial inclusion via dis-recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stelder\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-nicole-vandermeer-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20161013T194722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T194722Z UID:10006415-1479472200-1479477600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sophie PappenheimBlack DESCRIPTION:“Black Storm Clouds and a Queer Yellow Light: Reading the Affective Edges of Symbolism in Maru” \nMy project is to read postcolonial novels that have typically been analyzed as representations of postcolonial politics and instead attend to the nonrepresentational aspects of their language: namely\, their affect and literariness. In this talk I focus on Bessie Head’s novella Maru (1971)\, which itself is concerned with identity\, racial prejudice\, and tribal politics\, as well as representation as mode of signification and figuration\, and which has often been read as an allegorical romance. I argue that reading the effect of the novel’s language against its symbolism troubles this allegory and thus appeals for a new mode of politics. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stelder\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-sophie-pappenheimblack-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20161013T193626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T193626Z UID:10006414-1478262600-1478268000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Hahkyung Darline Kim DESCRIPTION:“Historicizing Interviews: A Mode of (Re)living and (Re)writing Memories of the Korean War through Documentary” \nHow can we write a history of the officially unsaid and the unsayable? My talk focuses on the case of the Korean War whose language of antagonism and ideological conflict remains very much alive in Korean society today. I will present parts of MemoRandom\, my most recent documentary project based on inconsistent accounts of events during the war involving an alleged communist family\, and examine the potential to simulate the perception/ production of historical knowledge through artful mediations of interviews. The project explores the allegorical dimension of interviews- ‘indicated’ stories of/by the individual-as a historiographical tool in documentary. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stelder\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-hahkyung-darline-kim-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20161013T184948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T184948Z UID:10006412-1477657800-1477663200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mitchell Winter DESCRIPTION:“Polemics of Disintegration: Advaita Metaphysics in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky” \nThe Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929) often engages with non-linearity and non-sense as narrative devices in his work. Throughout his career Jodorowsky’s thematic repertoire has adopted elements of the Kabbalistic science of the Marseille tarot\, European alchemy\, and New Age formulations of Hindu and Zen Buddhist thought. I attempt to trave the genealogical articulation of Jodorowsky’s brand of filmmaking and artistic practice by working through his depiction of Hindu\, specifically Advaita (non-dualist)\, philosophy in two films\, The Holy Mountain (1973) and The Dance of Reality (2013). Far from appealing to an Orientalist aesthetic\, Jodorowsky incorporates Advaita conceptions of indeterminacy which “uses this disintegration {of meaning} and constructs order out of it. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stelder\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-mitchell-winter-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20161013T185236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T185236Z UID:10006413-1477053000-1477058400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii DESCRIPTION:“Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah” \nHotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah\, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of this epidemic is diluted by ongoing war\, layers of chemical toxicity\, and mass displacement/destruction of doctors\, patients\, and medical facilities; the surrounding enviro-medical discourse is informative. It indexes a broader debate about the politics of scientific research: guilt\, responsibility\, and the question of reparations to the Iraq people in the ongoing “aftermath” of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq are all at intimate play in the epidemiological research. This paper explores the story of a scientific debate\, tracing not only the trajectories of toxicity that arrived in Anbar since 2003\, but also the trajectories of political interest surrounding major epidemiological studies conducted on the subsequent “sea of birth defects” in Fallujah. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stelder\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 4th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-kali-rubaii-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161014T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161014T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20161013T181353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T181353Z UID:10006411-1476448200-1476453600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mikki Stelder DESCRIPTION:“Homozionism: ‘From the Closet into the Knesset'” \nMy project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel’s settler colonial occupation of Palestine\, international (queer) complicities\, and anti-colonial queer resistance. For this presentation I look forward to discuss the first chapter of my dissertation that charts the globally celebrated genealogy of Israel’s gay movement from “the closet into the Knesset” (Kama 2011). I argue that this move enabled what Palestinian queer activist call Israel’s pinkwashing campaign to emerge. Pinkwashing describes a government sponsored branding campaign that seeks to present Israel in a positive light because of its gay rights achievements. Rather than situate pinkwashing as a post-9/11 phenomenon that can fit neatly into narratives of contemporary homonationalism\, Islamphobia and anti-Arab racism in the Global North\, I turn to this genealogy as one that I call homozionism. \n\nFriday Forum Fall 2016 Schedule: \nFridays 12:20-2pm\nHumanities 1 Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nOctober 14th- Mikki Stedler\, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness\nOctober 21st- Kali Rubaii\, Anthropology\nOctober 28th- Mitchell Winter\, HAVC\nNovember 6th- Hahkyung Darline Kim\, Film and Digital Media\nNovember 18th- Sophi Pappenheim\, Literature\nDecember 2nd- Nicole Vandermeer\, History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-mikki-stelder-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160603T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160603T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20160406T201149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T201149Z UID:10005232-1464957000-1464962400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Veronika Zablotsky DESCRIPTION:Veronika Zablotsky \n“Dealing with the East: Orientalism and the Ideas of Eurasia in Contemporary Geopolitics” \nIn this talk\, I mobilize Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism (1978) as a Europrean “style of thought\,” a “corporate institution” and a “systematic discipline” that produces\, manages and deals with the “Orient” by means of discourse to think about the idea of “Eurasia” and its uses in contemporary geopolitics. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronika Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-veronila-zablotsky-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016-corrected-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20160524T180434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160524T180434Z UID:10005246-1464357600-1464368400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance DESCRIPTION:BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance \nFeaturing Guest Speakers:\nSimone Browne and Simon A. Cole \nFriday May 27th\, 2-5 pm\, Humanities 1 Room 202 \n\n  \nSimone Browne\, Draw a black line through it: On the Surveillance of Blackness \nSituating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies\, this talk questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness— the historical\, the present\, and the historical present can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance. \nSimone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. \n  \nSimon A. Cole\, Identity or “Mere Identification”? Biometric Databases from Fingerprinting to DNA. \nThis talk traces the history of biometric identification technologies from their origins through to the present and the ethical and humanistic issues that have persistently been raised by them. It then discusses how we should understand these issues in the present moment of rapid technological advancement. It focuses in particular on the relationship between “mere” identification and broader notions of identity—behavioral\, racial\, and so on\, and implications for the increasing expansion of genetic databases. \nSimon Cole is Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society and Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California\, Irvine. \nThese talks will be followed by a conversation about research projects\, new issues and directions\, information exchange and coffee and cookies. The colloquium is open to the public\, and graduate students are encouraged especially to attend. This colloquium is sponsored by the UC Biosurveillance Working Group\, the UC Humanities Research Institute and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bios-research-colloquium-historicizing-surveillance-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/May-27th.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20160406T200241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T200241Z UID:10005231-1464352200-1464357600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Ora \n“Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction” \nCiting her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers\, I discuss the ability of performative nonfiction to map new geographic territories through ethical panic and identity-loss responding to diasporic relationships with Israel-Palestine. This paper cults from theorizations of documentary as well as Joseph Roach’s writings on surrogation and Circum-Atlantic performance. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-rebecca-ora-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T140000 DTSTAMP:20260510T032111 CREATED:20160406T194024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T194024Z UID:10005230-1463747400-1463752800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Trung Nguyen \n“War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity” \nHong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory\, subjectivity\, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of inhabiting a subjectivity constituted by the material remainders of war. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Spring 2016 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nApril 8th- Andrew Woods\, Politics\nApril 15th- Claudia Lopez\, Sociology\nApril 22nd- Jordan Reznick\, HAVC\nApril 29th- Erin McElroy- Feminist Studies\nMay 6th- Raul Tadle- Economics\nMay 13th- Cathy Thomas\, Literature\nMay 20th- Trung Nguyen\, History of Consciousness\nMay 27th- Rebecca Ora\, Film of Digital Media\nJune 3rd- Veronica Zablotsky\, Feminist Studies URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-trung-nguyen-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FFPoster_SP2016.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR