Fall 2009 Angela Davis Legacies in the Making

The Center for Cultural Studies Fall 2009 Angela Davis lEGaCIES In ThE MaKInG

R ECOGNIZING THE ACADEMIC , ACTIVIST , AND CULTURAL INTERVENTIONS OF A CONTEMPORARY VISIONARY

Saturday, October 31 / 9am & Sunday, November 1 / 10am SChEdUlE Humanities Lecture Hall Room 206 / UC Santa Cruz

For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis’s scholar- SATURDAY , OCTOBER 31 3:45 PM ship and activism has defi ned the meaning and prac- 9 :00 AM PANEL 4: Are Prisons Obsolete? tice of being a public intellectual and has radically Facilitator: Sora Han Welcome and Opening Remarks Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine transformed many sites of knowledge production, 10:00 AM Angela Davis’s contribution to critiques of state including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a PANEL 1: Voices of Resistance violence and the prison industrial complex is con- site of intervention and social transformation. Few Facilitator: Rashad Shabazz siderable; the papers in this panel will explore how professors have had such a broad impact in their George Washington Henderson Postdoctoral Fellow, panelists have drawn on that work to inform their fi elds of expertise or on the world in their lifetimes. Geography, University of Vermont own related projects. This gathering of her former students, in conversa- This panel addresses themes of institutional per- 6:30 PM tion with scholars nationally, maps the impact of secution and individual and collective resistances. Institutions can include, but are not limited to, the Evening Events her vision on issues such as democratic theory, phi- prison industrial complex, the state, schools, the SUNDAY , NOVEMBER 1 losophy, Marxism, cultural studies/popular culture, workplace, and the home, and resistances might social policy, race, class, and feminisms. Professor be anything from direct action to cultural produc- 10:00 AM Davis has also trained students as activist scholars tion and pedagogy. Legacies in the Making for almost four decades in both university systems 11:30 AM Facilitator: Bettina Aptheker Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz in California. We thus convene this conference PANEL 2: Race, Gender, & Politics to examine the poetics and politics of Professor Panelists include M. Jacqui Alexander (Women’s Facilitator: J. Kehaulani Kauanui and Gender Studies, University of Toronto), Saidi- American Studies, Anthropology, Wesleyan University Davis’s pedagogy in California over the past forty ya Hartman ( English and Comparative Literature, years (1969-2009) and to consider how her role as an In this panel presenters will discuss how Angela Columbia University), Neferti X. Tadiar (Women’s activist-scholar-teacher bridges the academy/com- Davis’s framing of race, gender, and politics has Studies, Barnard College; Director, Center for munity divide and dismantles the false dichotomy affected their work. Papers may also address the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia of theory/praxis. history and legacy of Davis’s political affi liations University), and others. by identifying a particular argument or theoretical 12:00 PM One focus of the event will be to highlight cul- a p p r o a c h f r o m D a v i s’s t e x t s o r l e c t ur e s , a n d b y d i s- tural production that has emerged in conversation cussing how their work builds upon that approach. Closing Remarks by Angela Davis with the writing and theorizing that Angela Davis For further information, visit has facilitated and inspired. We are inviting Profes- 2:00 PM http://ihr.ucsc.edu/angela-davis, or write to [email protected]. sor Davis’ colleagues, friends, and family to pro- PANEL 3: Cultural Legacies Facilitator: Kevin Fellezs Sponsored by: UCHRI, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon vide video messages recognizing her considerable School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, Puknat Endowment, the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies, the on-going contributions to academic and activist UC Merced UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC Faculty Against the War, History of Consciousness, UCSC Vice Chancellor for work; these will be compiled into a montage to be Papers in this panel will connect the presenters’ Research, UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Chief Diversity Offi ce, Com- screened at the symposium. The event, as a whole, work with Angela Davis’s analyses of such cul- munity Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino tural productions as the Blues and visual repre- Studies, Merrill College, Oakes College, Philosophy, Porter Col- will be recorded, and we plan to liaise with the Cali- lege, Literature, Cowell College, Languages, Politics, Psychology, fornia Documentary Fund to translate those records sentation, and the complex relationship of culture and Stevenson College. to race, gender, class, and sexuality. into a multi-media resource for education. There will also be an evening of music and poetry in honor of Professor Davis and her contributions to cultural THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. “legacies in the making.” Staff assistance provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

1 The Queer Theory Research Cluster presents: Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Pollock is the author of numer- ous publications, including: Encounters in a Virtual Feminist Muse- Chandan Reddy um: Time, Space, & the Archive (Routledge, 2007); Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories (Routledge, Department of English, University of Washington 1999); and The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Dif- From Marriage to Milk: Race and ference, edited with Victoria Turvey-Sauron (I.B. Tauris, 2008). Readings will be available from [email protected]. the Political Economy of Sexuality For more information, contact Lucian Gomoll at [email protected]. Thursday, October 15 / 4-6 PM / Humanities 210 Co-sponsored by the Visual and Performance Studies Faculty Research Cluster.

Professor Reddy’s talk intervenes in queer theoretical discussions The Science Studies Research Cluster presents: about queer representation in the political sphere. He engages the “anti- social” turn in queer theory, in which queerness reveals to all social Experiments in STS subjects the loss of particularity and personal liberty that attends social (Science and Technology Studies) and political representation. Professor Reddy takes up the “marriage equality movement” and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008)—the recent cin- Friday, November 20 / 2-5 PM / Humanities 420 ematic portrayal of the emergence of so-called modern gay politics in For our fall event we invite cluster members to informally present the 1970s—as his “cases” for diagnosing the limits of the anti-social nascent work (10 minutes each). We are especially interested in position. He argues that queer of color critique offers an alternative projects that engage one of these three themes: 1) BioArt as activ- understanding of the political economy of sexuality that overcomes the ism and scientific practice; 2) working animals in laboratories and limiting opposition between a politicization of queer marginality and farms; and 3) the role of imagination and imaginaries in scientific the queer anti-social critique of politics. inquiry. Afterwards, we will ask questions and discuss resonances Chandan Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University among the presentations with the goal of creating an experimental of Washington. He has authored a number of essays and articles on collaborative product. Please e-mail Martha Kenney (mkenney@ race, sexuality, and late capitalism, which have appeared in such jour- ucsc.edu) if you are interested in participating as presenter or in- nals as Social Text and Fordham Law Review. He was a founding mem- terlocutor. New cluster members are welcome. ber of the Audre Lorde Project: a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, For more information, contact Martha Kenney at [email protected]. and Two Spirit People of Color Organizing Center, and remains active in queer of color cultural politics. He is completing a book, Desiring Modernity: Race, Sexuality, and Epistemologies of Violence (Duke, The Feminism and Pornography Research Cluster presents: forthcoming). Sh i n e Lo u i s e Ho u s t o n & Sy d Bl a k o v i c , Pi n k & Wh i t e Pr o d u c t i o n s For more information, contact Logan Walker at [email protected]. Queer Feminist Pornography: Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Literature, and the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center. A Look at the Products and

The Museum and Curatorial Studies Research Cluster presents: Politics of Pink & White Productions Tuesday, December 1 / 4-6 PM / Humanities 210 Griselda Pollock Shine Louise Houston is the founder/director and Syd Blakovic Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds is a producer/performer at Pink & White Productions, an award- winning adult entertainment company that explores the complexi- Curating in the Freudian Space ties of queer sexual desire. Pink & White specializes in lesbian of Memory and Migration and transgendered pornography featuring performers of diverse genders and ethnicities. Pink & White’s orientation is feminist, Thursday, November 5 / 2-4 PM / Humanities 210 and many of the performers are also the writers, producers, or What is curation? In contemporary art, the curator functions as an au- directors. Houston and Blakovic can speak to various facets of thor, the exhibition as text, the works as illustrations of a thesis, and pornography production: the economic side of producing and the catalogue as a monument, where the art is a series of photographic distributing alternative pornographies; the labor and performance reproductions. Is there a way to create exhibitions that function as an aspects of the production process; and the artistic, aesthetic, and encounter in their phenomenological moment, the elements of the event creative dimensions of making pornography. They suggest how jointly brought into being by the curator? Professor Pollock studies the feminist and queer provocations can transform pornography history of feminist events as a history of exhibition-events and invites production. Topics include: What makes feminist pornography her students to think about the exhibition as a form of discourse and feminist? How does the content produced by Pink & White dif- research through which to explore unexpected meanings, relations, and fer from mainstream pornography? How does it reflect and re- effects. In June, she curated her fourth exhibition. The talk explores work the heteronormative pornographic imaginary? How is the the coincidence of the chosen site, the Freud Museum in London (as a production process different? Who buys this material and who space of migration and memory), with the artist’s installation in these benefits from the commercial sale of alternative pornographies? spaces. Readings will be available from [email protected]. Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art For more information, contact Natalie Purcell at [email protected]. in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, England, All CCS events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance provided by the where she is also Director of the Center for Cultural Studies and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.

2 The Center for Cultural Studies Fall 2009 C olloquium S eries

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the De- and The Knot of the Soul (forthcoming) on Wednesday colloquium series, which fea- partment of Anthropology at the University the experience of trauma and madness in the tures current cultural studies work by of Minnesota, specializing in medical an- context of psychiatry and contemporary Is- campus faculty and visitors. The sessions thropology and the social study of science lam. Her anthropological work unfolds at the and technology. He is currently working on interface of psychoanalysis, critical theory, are informal, normally consisting of a 30- a book, The Slumbering Masses: Integral Islamic thought, and local healing traditions. 40 minute presentation followed by discus- Medicine and the Production of American Co-sponsored by the Psychoanalysis and Sexuality Research sion. We gather at noon, with presentations Everyday Life, which focuses on sleep in Cluster. beginning at 12:15pm. Participants are en- American culture and its historical and con- couraged to bring their own lunches; the temporary relations to capitalism. November 4 Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. Ju a n a Ma r í a Ro d r í g u e z October 21 Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley ALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN HUMANITIES 210. No a h Wa r d r i p -Fr u i n Queer Domesticity and the October 7 Computer Science, UCSC Political Imaginary So r a y a Mu r r a y Expressive Processing This presentation, based on Sexual Subjects: Film and Digital Media, UCSC Expressive Processing is the first volume in Sexual Discourse and the Everyday Politics Analytic Borderlands: Visualizations the new Software Studies series from MIT of Queer Cultural Life, focuses on the every- of Globality and the Body Becoming Press. Professor Wardrip-Fruin works to de- day lives of sexual subjects to consider the This presentation investigates bodies under velop a software studies approach for digital ways sex, sexual pleasure, and sexual prac- the duress of globalization and their repre- media by interpreting the computational pro- tices are deployed in political projects that sentation in visual culture. Moving from Lin- cesses at work in digital fictions and games rethink forms of recognition and sociality. da Nochlin’s consideration of the body in in a humanities mode. He looks at works ex- The book considers four distinct areas: inti- pieces as a metaphor for early modernity, it perienced by audiences not just as media in mate sexual practices, kinship relations, pub- examines Homi Bhabha’s “becoming” and the traditional sense, but also as the output of lic cultures, and state deployments of sexual Saskia Sassen’s “analytic borderlands” as computational processes. discourse. frameworks for understanding depictions of Noah Wardrip-Fruin is author of Expres- Juana María Rodríguez is Associate bodies—particularly women’s bodies—in sive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Professor in Gender and Women’s Stud- the matrix of global flux. Games, and Software Studies (MIT, 2009), ies at UC Berkeley and Director of the Soraya Murray holds a Ph.D. from Cor- and has edited four books, including Second Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, nell University in Art History and teaches Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Sexuality. She is the author of Queer at UCSC. She has published on contempo- and Playable Media with Pat Harrigan (MIT, Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive rary art, technology, and globalization in 2007), and The New Media Reader with Nick Space (NYU, 2003). Her recent essays are Art Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary Montfort (MIT, 2003). He is an Assistant included in The Companion to Lesbian, African Art, and PAJ: A Journal of Perfor- Professor with the Expressive Intelligence Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies mance and Art. Professor Murray is complet- Studio in the Department of Computer Sci- (Blackwell, 2007); None of the Above: ing a manuscript on bodies under the duress ence at UCSC. Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (Palgrave, of advanced technologies and globalization 2007); MELUS (2009); and PMLA (2007). and their visual representation in contempo- October 28 Co-sponsored by the Queer Theory Research Cluster. rary art and media culture. St e f a n i a Pa n d o l f o Anthropology, UC Berkeley November 18 October 14 Maladies of the Soul, Islam, Ro b i n Ar c h e r Ma t t h e w Wo l f -Me y e r and the Affirmative Imagination Political Sociology, London School of Economics Anthropology, UCSC Based on conversations with a Moroccan American Exceptionalism and Nonstop Imam on the question of melancholy in a Labor Politics American sleep science has long participated context of social and political dispossession, Why is there no labor party in the United in fantasies of sleep’s eradication. This paper and on ethnographic work with a painter re- States? Elsewhere these parties were estab- examines how this desire for sleep science’s flecting on form, delusion, and destruction, lished in the late 19th or early 20th century, apotheosis depends on science-fictional con- this paper addresses the imagination—affir- and, ever since, this question has been at the ceptions of human biology and society’s re- mative and destructive—in terms of a spe- heart of a major debate about the “exception- ordering. American medicine deploys sleep cific Islamic vocabulary and tradition that is al” nature of American politics and society. as a site for intervention, remaking everyday today mobilized for critique, and in dialogue Drawing on his recently published work, human physiology in accordance with the with a psychoanalytic approach to the Real. Professor Archer will show how a new com- rhythms of American capitalism and con- Stefania Pandolfo is Associate Professor parative approach suggests some unexpected sumer demands. of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her books answers. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Assistant Pro- include Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a fessor of Anthropology, having joined UCSC Moroccan Space of Memory (Chicago, 1997) Continued on Page 6

3 2009-2010 R esearch C lusters

Research clusters are groups of fac- Gender & Political Economy sexuality, and culture. The cluster has spon- ulty and graduate students pursuing a Focuses on the role of gender in political sored seminar series, colloquia, graduate collaborative research effort. Clusters economic transitions and transformations. conferences, and discussion groups. are encouraged to share elements of The topic for this year is feminism and neo- Contacts: liberalism, but interests include gender and Michael Holohan, [email protected] their work with the larger community David Marriott, [email protected] and to work toward the production of the division of labor, feminism and social- ism, the family and capitalism, and sexuality a tangible scholarly event such as a Queer Theory and political economy. workshop, conference, speaker series, Brings together graduate students and fac- Contact: Laura Martin, [email protected] or publication. Most of the clusters in- ulty members to discuss recent, innovative clude reading groups. All clusters are Jews & Modernity work and foundational texts and movements actively interested in new members. Explores the ways Jews have contributed to in the fields of lesbian, gay, trans, and queer thought and culture in the modern period and theory. The cluster also hosts quarterly visit- Asia-Pacific-Americas the effects of modernity on Jewish life. In- ing speakers. Explores issues relating to the people and cludes participants from History, Literature, Contacts: places around the Pacific; organizes read- Philosophy, Art History, and Anthropology. Logan Walker, [email protected] Trevor Sangrey, [email protected] ing group discussions, lectures by visiting Contact: Polly Zavadivker, [email protected] researchers, and an annual graduate research conference. Museum & Curatorial Studies Religion, Culture & Social Movements Contacts: Explores interdisciplinary topics related to Stephanie Chan, [email protected] the collection and display of art and artifacts. Explores the interrelation of religious stud- Jeremy Tai, [email protected] This year’s research theme is Critical Cura- ies, cultural studies, and social movements. tions and includes a speaker series, a winter Through attention to the intersections of Bodies & Embodiment graduate practicum, and a spring conference multiple historical, social, linguistic, and Investigates research on bodies and embodi- entitled “The Task of the Curator.” Please somatic cultural moments, the cluster facili- ment across a variety of disciplines, includ- see: http://people.ucsc.edu/~lgomoll/macs/ tates discussions of religion as it relates to ing critical theory, visual culture, literature, Contact: Lucian Gomoll, [email protected] group formation and power. philosophy, film studies, performance stud- Contact: ies, political theory, and media studies. The Pacific Islands Joshua Brahinsky, [email protected] cluster will host a one-day conference in Produces research, knowledge, and schol- spring quarter. arship about Oceania. PIRC explores sov- Science Studies Contact: Sara Orning, [email protected] ereignty movements, tourism, militarism, Explores technoscience, with an emphasis on environmental issues, globalization, nego- nurturing an interdisciplinary community of Colonial Atlantic Worlds tiations of identity and indigeneity, migra- scholars interested in science, technology, Moves beyond the limitations of national tion, and diaspora in the Pacific Islands and and the environment. This year’s activities and linguistic boundaries to consider the around Oceania. focus on three themes: 1) BioArt as activism colonial period in the Americas and the Contacts: and science; 2) working animals in laborato- Caribbean from a cultural-historical stand- Dina El-Dessouky, [email protected] ries and farms; and 3) the role of imagination point as an experiment in transversal history. Stacy Kamehiro, [email protected] in scientific inquiry. The cluster plans two reading-group sessions Poetry & Politics Contacts: a quarter coordinated with speakers in the Martha Kenney, [email protected] Brings together students and faculty for winter and spring. Mary Weaver, [email protected] whom poetry plays an important role as ma- Contacts: terial for study and for the development of Susan Gillman, [email protected] Urban Studies Kirsten Gruesz, [email protected] theoretical frameworks. Considers poetry Takes a transdisciplinary approach to the as a category constituted not only by poems study of cities, exploring relationships be- Feminism & Pornography and poetics but also by the historical struggle tween nature and the city and the cultural, Builds feminist understandings of pornog- over their social function and meaning. spatial, and political-economic dynamics in raphy and revisits the “sex wars” debates. Contacts: urban life. The cluster hosts scholars and ac- Research foci include: content analyses of Andrea Quaid, [email protected] Jessica Beard, [email protected] tivists for panels and presentations and runs pornographic material; consideration of por- a monthly meeting for cluster members to nography’s sociopolitical impact; and inves- Psychoanalysis & Sexuality share new work. tigations of pornography’s role in represent- Brings together graduate students and fac- Contact: Miriam Greenberg, [email protected] ing and constituting sexuality and gender. ulty in the humanities committed to foster- Contact: Natalie Purcell, [email protected] ing research in the fields of psychoanalysis,

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Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) presents: Th e Li v i n g Wr i t e r s Re a d i n g Se r i e s Difficult Dialogues: All presentations are at 7pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Sites/Sights of Trauma Wednesday, September 30 expression, not just those found in mainstream in Visual Culture Kip Fulbeck literature and art. He is also the editor of the journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. Curated by Boreth Ly Kip Fulbeck is Professor of Art at the University History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC Wednesday, November 18 of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Trauma has been defined as a psychic Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; Part Asian, 100% Maxine H. Kingston and emotional wound caused by a violent Hapa; Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiogra- Maxine H. Kingston is Professor Emeritus at experience, with its lingering traces made phy; and an upcoming work, Mixed: Portraits UC Berkeley and the author of many acclaimed manifest in both verbal and visual lan- of Multiracial Kids, in addition to several short works, including The Woman Warrior: Mem- guage. Although already explored in vari- films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me. oirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts; China Men; ous disciplines, trauma remains to be thor- Hawai’i One Summer; and Tripmaster Monkey: Wednesday, October 7 oughly investigated in visual culture and nterest His Fake Book. She is the recipient of awards performance. With the war on terror and Monique Truong such as the National Book Critic’s Circle the collapse of the global economy, it is Award, the National Book Award, and the Na- Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt and timely to focus on a series of difficult dia- tional Humanities Medal. A documentary on co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American logues on trauma and all facets of its visual her life, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story, Poetry & Prose, lives in New York City. Her work manifestations and inscriptions on images has been published in literary journals and an- produced by Gayle K. Yamada, was released in and the body. thologies such as the Amerasia Journal; Vietnam: 1990. Her most recent work includes The Fifth Book of Peace and an edited anthology, Veter- Diaries in Dialogue; Bold Words: A Century of VPS Fall 2009 Asian American Writing; and An Interethnic ans of War, Veterans of Peace. Companion to Asian American Literature. For more information, contact Erin Schmalfeld, Speaker Series Creative Writing Program Coordinator, 459-2167, Wednesday, October 14 [email protected], or [email protected]. All events are 5-7 PM in the Cowell College Conference Room 132. Sesshu Foster Sponsored by the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, the Laurie Sain Creative Writing Fund, the W e d n es day, o C To ber 14 Sesshu Foster has taught writing in East Los Center for Cultural Studies, the Porter College George Hitch- Angeles for 20 years in addition to teaching cock Poetry Fund, the James Irvine Foundation, the Chancel- Judith Rodenbeck Art History, Sarah Lawrence College at the University of Iowa, the California Insti- lor’s Diversity Award (Kip Fulbeck & Monique Truong), Po- etry Santa Cruz (Lucille Clifton), the Center for Labor Studies tute for the Arts, and UC Santa Cruz. He is the (Monique Truong), the Institute for Humanities Research Once More, With Feeling: author of Atomik Aztex; World Ball Notebook; (Monique Truong), and the Asian American/Pacific Islander The Perils of Obedience Resource Center. American Loneliness: Selected Poems; and City W e d n es day, o C To ber 21 Terrace Field Manual, a finalist for the PEN Symposium Center West Poetry Prize. He also co-edited Kristine Stiles Art, Art History, and Visual Culture, Duke University Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry. The Art of Collaboration: Processes, Technologies, Authorship Mind Control and Remote Viewing, Wednesday, October 21 Uses and Abuses of Traumatic Thursday/Friday, October 22-23 Lucille Clifton UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), Dark Lab Dissociation Lucille Clifton has played an important role at This symposium investigates collaboration as a key W e d n es day, N ovember 4 many universities, including Coppin State Col- concept in contemporary art and creative production. Griselda Pollock lege, Columbia University, George Washington The meanings and cultural aspirations associated with Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, collaboration, including non-hierarchical production, Trauma and Aesthetic Dartmouth, and UC Santa Cruz. She is the au- shared authorship, and ownership will be addressed as Inscription/Encryption in thor of thirteen works of poetry over the span well as cross-disciplinary and trans-cultural approaches the Virtual Feminist Museum of forty years, from her first work,Good Times, to research. Collaborative work among artists, curators, programmers, designers, scholars, students, activists, For more information, contact to her most recent, Voices. She has also penned Trevor Sangrey at [email protected]. a memoir, Generations: A Memoir. Clifton was and others will be considered as an alternative to the no- Co-sponsored by the UCSC Arts Research Institute, Maryland’s Poet Laureate from 1979-1985 and tion of the individual as locus of intellectual and creative endeavors. the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, Cowell College, Asian Studies, and the UCSC Center has been the recipient of countless awards. Keynote Speaker: for Cultural Studies. Wednesday, November 4 Mark Nowak Grant Kester Mediterranean Studies presents: Art History and Visual Arts, UC San Diego Mark Nowak is a poet, social critic, labor activ- Fred Astren Conference organized by Margaret Morse, B. Ruby Rich, Soraya ist, and author of, among others, Coal Moun- Chair of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University tain Elementary and Shut Up Shut Down, a New Murray, and the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program. Af- filiated Departments: Social Documentation and Community York Times “Editor’s Choice.” His work has also Studies Department, Film and Digital Media, and Digital Arts Medieval Jewish History and the been included in Goth: Undead Subculture and and New Media (DANM). New Mediterranean Studies American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Sponsored by the Porter Festival Grant, the Arts Research Monday, November 9 / 4-5 PM / Humanities 210 Poetics. Nowak is “regenerating the rich tradi- Institute, the Academic Senate Committee on Research, and For more information, contact the UC Santa Cruz Foundation. Michael Ursell at [email protected]. tion of working-class literature,” encouraging For more information, contact Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies. students to engage in all forms of poetry and Soraya Murray at [email protected].

5 Colloquim Series Continued from Page 3 Center for Cultural Studies Robin Archer is Director of the Graduate

Program in Political Sociology at the London Ke r r Ha l l • Un i v e r s i t y o f Ca l i f o r n i a • Sa n t a Cr u z , Ca l i f o r n i a 95064 School of Economics. He was previously (831) 459-1274 / fax (831) 459-1349 Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi Col- [email protected] • http://www2.ucsc.edu/culturalstudies/ lege at Oxford. His publications include the co-edited Out of Apathy: Voices of the New ounded in the spring of 1988 as a part of the University of California’s President’s Left 30 Years On (Verso, 1989); Economic Humanities Initiative, the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz is now in its Democracy (Oxford, 1995); and the recent Ftwenty-first year. Emerging from challenges posed to traditional humanist and social Why Is There No Labor Party in the United science areas of inquiry, the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz develops new multi- States? (Princeton, 2008). disciplinary research. Through an ensemble of international scholarly partnerships, cross- December 2 divisional faculty-graduate student Research Clusters, major conferences, workshops, guest speakers, colloquia, film series, a Resident Scholars Program, and selected publications, the Mi r i a m Gr e e n b e r g Sociology, UCSC Center fosters innovative interdisciplinary research that cuts across academic divisions in Progressive Branding? An Examination the university and extends outward to the public domain. of Marketing on (and of) the Left The Center for Cultural Studies questions traditional academic disciplinary boundaries to do the most important work in the Humanities: ask questions, explore cutting-edge modes of Professor Greenberg focuses on the social- thinking, and open up new areas of knowledge. Tackling issues of colonialism and history, bor- spatial dynamics of crisis, with particular ders and boundaries, the politics of knowledge, the nature of sexuality, the idea of civilization, interest in the political economy and media and many other matters of world-wide concern, the Center creates—for scholars at UCSC framing of “crisis” and “recovery” in cities and around the globe—a culture of lively conversation and a space for dialogue conducted in over the last forty years. Her talk examines a spirit of experimentation, collegiality, and open-ended inquiry. Involving faculty from the the recent turn in left circles, particularly Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts; guided by a faculty advisory board; and centrally since Obama’s victory, to “progressive- involving graduate student research in its ongoing programming, the Center for Cultural branding.” She traces the emergence of this Studies creates and sustains new knowledges and new collaborations among scholars. concept and points to some of its potential complications and contradictions. All CCS events are free and open to the public. Miriam Greenberg is Assistant Professor Staff assistance provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. of Sociology at UCSC, with emphases in urban sociology, media studies, and social theory. Her book, Branding New York: How We Invite Your Support a City in Crisis was Sold to the World (Rout- STAFF New experimental and interdisciplinary work re- ledge, 2008) won the Robert Park Award for Carla Freccero Director quires extra help. Your contribution helps launch the best book in Urban Sociology in 2008- [email protected] / 459-3342 innovative conferences, supports lectures and 09. She is developing a collaborative project, Humanities I, 637 colloquia, and offers students and faculty opportunities for collaborative creativity and research. Crisis Cities, comparing the marketing of Vanita Seth Acting Director, Fall 2009 For more information on giving opportunities, recovery in New York post-9/11 and post- [email protected] / 459-4443 please contact Liz Sandoval or Suzanne Willis, Katrina New Orleans. Merrill Academic Bldg 119 Division of Humanities, [email protected] and wil- [email protected]. Natalie Purcell, GSR All colloquia are free and open to the pub- [email protected] / 459-1274; Kerr 118 To make an online gift, visit our secure web site: lic. Staff assistance provided by the Insti- giving.ucsc.edu. Select “Humanities” from Director’s Fall Office Hours tute for Humanities Research. the “Gift To” box, then select Center for Cultural Monday 10am -12pm Studies from the “Area of Interest” box. 2009-2010 Advisory Board Please make checks payable to UCSC Foundation, Christopher Connery (Literature, Fall) with Center for Cultural Studies in the memo line, Rosa-Linda Fregoso (LALS) and mail to: Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness, Spring) UCSC Gail Hershatter (History) 1156 High Street Sharon Kinoshita (Literature) Mail Stop: Humanities Dean’s Office Eric Porter (American Studies) University of California B. Ruby Rich (Community Studies) Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Vanita Seth (Politics; Acting Director Fall 2009)