The University of California Humanities Network and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research present:
“What Are We Doing When We Do The Humanities?”
The Second Annual Gathering of the UC Society of Fellows
Saturday, April 21 / 1 pm / Museum of Art & History at the McPherson Center
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz
FREE MUSEUM ACCESS to members of the community sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities.
For details visit: www.ihr.ucsc.edu
Contact: Courtney Mahaney, cmahaney@ucsc.edu
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Borders, Bodies, and Violence Presents:
A Symposium on Migration and Ethnic Studies
Opening Keynote: Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, School of Transborder Studies, ASU
Closing Remarks: Sandra K. Soto, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, U of Arizona
Thursday, April 12 / 4 pm / and
Friday, April 13 / 9 – 4 pm / 210 Humanities 1
Co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center, Chicano Latino Resource Center, IHR, and Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Contact: Catherine Ramírez, cathysue@ucsc.edu
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WEDNESDAY, April 25
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
7:00, Kresge Town Hall
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
It was in 1973, in the midst of Black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Adrienne Rich wrote and published Diving into the Wreck, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. Rich accepted the award on behalf of all women. In the decades that followed, Rich’s poetry, essays, and books addressed issues of feminist politics, lesbian experience, and Jewish identity, and deeply engaged the critical concerns of racial and imperial oppression, war and environmental degradation. Relentless in her commitment to social justice for all peoples, her work has enlightened and inspired. She is considered, in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, one of our greatest American poets. In this tribute, members of our campus community will read from her work.
Sponsored by Literature Department, Feminist Studies Department, Porter College, Oakes College, Cowell College, Merrill College, Colleges 9 & 10, Stevenson College, Center for Cultural Studies, Living Writers & the Creative Writing Program.
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The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture Series
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
Lecture
“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future”
Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm
Kresge Town Hall
Graduate Student Workshop
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Social Sciences 1, Room 261
Graduate Student and Faculty Reading Seminar
Reading: Immanuel Wallerstein, The Uncertainties of Knowledge (available at the Literary Guillotine)
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: TBA
Pre-registration requested: Please email Allyson Ramage at aramage@ucsc.edu
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein is the pre-eminent theorist of world-systems. His writings have consistently focused on the unequal distribution of resources, power and life chances resulting from world-systems hierarchies. His work on world-systems subsequently led him to analyze the ordering of disciplinary knowledge. Professor Wallerstein is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale and formerly Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at SUNY, Binghamton, where he was also distinguished professor of Sociology.
Professor David Palumbo-Liu co-edited, with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke University Press, 2011). His most recent work is The Deliverance of Others–Reading Literature in a Global Age ( Duke UP, forthcoming).
These events are co-sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies, the Division of Social Sciences and Kresge College.
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The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia Presents:
Amelia Jones, Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University
“Seeing Differently: The Trace of the Subject in Contemporary Art”
Monday, April 9 / 7 pm – 9 pm / Communications Building, Studio C
Readings will be available two weeks prior to talk, request by email below.
Professor Jones’s books include Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998) and Self-Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006).
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Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rhetoric and Gender & Women’s Studies, UCB
A Seminar with optional readings
“Forces and Forms: ‘Where the Road is Alive’”
Monday, April 16 / 7 pm – 9 pm / Communications Building, Studio C
Professor Trinh is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist post-colonial theorist, author of eight books, two large-scale multimedia installations and six feature-length films.
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Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division.
Contact: visualmedia@ucsc.edu
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The Poetry and Politics Research Cluster presents:
Tisa Bryant, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Anna Moschovakis, Vanessa Place, Juliana Spahr and Ronaldo Wilson
Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing
Conference and Book Fair:
Friday and Saturday, May 4-5 / 9 am – 5 pm / Humanities 1, Room 210
Poetry Readings:
Friday, May 4 / 7 pm / Saturday, May 5 / 6 pm
Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz
Co-Sponsored by the IHR, Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Kresge College, and the Literature Department.
Contact: Andrea Quaid, aquaid@ucsc.edu and Juliana Leslie, julianaleslie@gmail.com
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The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents:
Nancy Munn, Professor Emerita, U of Chicago
“The Decline and Fall of Richmond Hill: Commodification and Place-Change in late 18th-early 19th-century New York”
Monday, April 16 / 3:30 – 5 pm / 261 Social Science 1
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Michael Montoya, Assistant Professor, UCI
“Unmaking the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Promise of Community Knowledge”
Monday, April 30 / 3:30 – 5 pm / 261 Social Science 1
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Vincanne Adams, Professor, UCSF
“Post-Katrina Recovery and Disaster Capitalism”
Monday, May 7 / 3:30 – 5 pm / 261 Social Science 1
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Agustín Fuentes, Professor, U of Notre Dame
“Ethnoprimatology and the Anthropology of the Human-Primate Interface”
Monday, June 4 / 3:30 – 5 pm / 261 Social Sciences 1
Contact: Allyson Ramage, aramage@ucsc.edu
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UCSC Spring 2012 Living Writers Series
Thursdays / 6 -7:45 pm / Humanities Lecture Hall
April 5 Hector Tobar
April 12 Meena Alexander
April 19 Laleh Khadivi
April 26 Nalo Hopkinson
May 3 Justin Chin
May 10 Natalie Handal
May 17 Tom Marshal, Rusty Morrison
May 24 Steven Okazaki
May 31 Lysley Tenorio
Contact: Karen Tei Yamashita, ktyamash@ucsc.edu
or visit http://creativewriting.ucsc.edu
Co-sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program.
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All events are free and open to the public.