UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ [ Institute for Humanities Research ] [ Director’s Letter ]

The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at UC Santa Cruz is a laboratory for theorizing and implementing new visions of the Humanities via faculty DIRECTOR What are we doing when we do the The University of California is the research projects, graduate and Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History Humanities and why? These basic finest public university system in undergraduate education, and Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies questions drive our work at the the world. A crucial part of what public programs. Established Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies Institute for Humanities Research (IHR). makes us great—and what makes us in 1999, the IHR has grown The core subjects of the Humanities different from so many universities dramatically since its inception ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR – ethics, history, language, identity, around the globe—is the central role and now serves as an umbrella for Irena Polić religion, and so on – are also the core of the Humanities in our educational a multitude of research centers, elements of human experience, in experience, not only in the curriculum research clusters, and multi- PROGRAM COORDINATOR general, even if we sometimes talk but also in the vibrant intellectual life campus research projects. Courtney Mahaney about these things differently in the of our campuses. Here at UC Santa university then we do in our home or Cruz, we possess an especially rich With these and other initiatives, the EVENT COORDINATOR in the public square. tradition of innovation, creativity, and IHR serves as an incubator for new Shann Ritchie collaboration in the Humanities. ideas and provides crucial support Over the past year, we have sought in to faculty, graduate students, and GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS a variety of ways to link what we do Please join us in celebrating this undergraduate students at every Jessica Beard, Literature in the university to a wider network heritage and building on this stage of the research process. One Jen Gray-O’Connor, Sociology of people, ideas, and activities. We foundation. of our key functions is to identify are especially proud of the second promising students and help them UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTS annual University of California Society become productive researchers Cole Carothers , Feminist Studies & Theater Arts of Fellows gathering that we hosted through mentorship programs, Jenna Mohdamin Tamimi, Feminist Studies & Theater Arts at the Museum of Art & History in fellowships, and internship downtown Santa Cruz, which drew opportunities. STEERING COMMITTEE close to two hundred and fifty visitors Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History from the broader community. Nathaniel Deutsch As the designated humanities Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics center of UC Santa Cruz, the IHR is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History part of the University of California Catherine Ramírez, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies systemwide Humanities Network Deanna Shemek, Professor of Literature and is able to leverage the human Nathaniel Deutsch, Ex-Officio Member and intellectual resources of the finest public university system in FIND US the world. http://ihr.ucsc.edu/

01 [ Faculty Fellows ]

Faculty Fellows Neda Atanasoski Catherine Jones Matt O’Hara Dorian Bell Dana Frank Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Assistant Professor of History Associate Professor of History Assistant Professor of Literature Professor of History IHR Fellowships provide faculty in the FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS FACULTY FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS Humanities much needed time and resources to pursue their research. Afterimages of Empire: Adapting Race Intimate Reconstructions: Children in The History of the Future in Mexico Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Labor’s Own Empire: The AFL-CIO’s Cold In 2011-12, faculty fellows presented and Freedom in U.S. Cold War Culture, Postemancipation Virginia Empire in Nineteenth-Century France War in Honduras, 1954-1980 their research on campus, participated 1950-2000 How has our relationship to the in conferences, produced publications, Support from the IHR has enabled me future changed over time? This is a The book project that I am completing During my fellowship year I made and collaborated with scholars at My book project, Imperial Afterlife: to dedicate valuable time to revising fundamental question about human this year, entitled Frontiers of a great deal of progress writing my other universities. Postsocialist Temporalities of Race, my book manuscript, Intimate Recon- experience that, surprisingly, historians Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in book about the AFL-CIO’s Cold War Religion, and Humanitarianism, ad- structions: Children in Postemancipa- have not considered in great detail. Nineteenth-Century France, traces the in Honduras, while conducting final In 2011-12, the IHR also hosted two dresses instances of U.S. humanitarian tion Virginia. The dramatic legislative My current book project takes up this intertwined histories of French anti- research and reframing the book to UCSC faculty fellows from the UC intervention in Afghanistan, Bosnia action that usually defines Reconstruc- problem, examining the way that Semitism and imperialism. Drawing place it more directly in contemporary Society of Fellows. The UC Society and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. I am tion set new boundaries for interac- historical subjects in eighteenth- and on a body of anti-Semitic newspapers, context. In my role as one of the of Fellows enables the University interested in how the entangled no- tions among southerners but could nineteenth-century New Spain/Mexico treatises, and novels, as well as on few academic experts on modern of California to support excellence tions of humanitarianism and atrocity not do the work of incarnating new engaged the future. Using archival representations of empire, the book Honduras I also published an op-ed among its humanities researchers in U.S. culture and politics produce a freedoms or recalibrating the privileg- documents from Spain, Mexico and argues that French colonial expansion in the New York Times and a cover while encouraging them to exercise racial map of freedom in the postso- es attached to whiteness. By following the United States, I am researching a helped French anti-Semitism adopt story for The Nation magazine, and leadership in the humanities both cialist era. Although in post-Cold War children through Virginia’s tumultuous diverse range of practices, from topics the political, racializing guise that met with the offices of over thirty U.S. within the University and in the public geopolitics “unfreedom” is no longer post-Civil War period, my work uncov- that we usually associate with reli- would haunt the twentieth century. Senators and Members of Congress sphere. thought of through the Soviet-com- ers the tangled relationship between gious studies (divination, witchcraft, I propose that, conversely, anti- and with the U.S. Ambassador to munist world, but rather the Islamic the postemancipation reconfiguration preaching) to others that are typically Semitism contributed to the imperial Honduras. I was interviewed by world, the U.S. continues to justify of domestic relationships and evolving the domain of economic historians project’s ideological elaboration and NPR, the Associated Press, BBC, CNN, humanitarian imperialism as a struggle understandings of public responsibil- (budgeting, insurance, demand and public acceptance. By placing into Democracy Now! and many other for global racial and sexual redemp- ity for children. Children shaped the supply forecasting). The support of conversation scholarship on anti- media outlets. tion by racializing ideological and reconstruction of Virginia not only the IHR Fellowship was critical to the Semitism and imperialism, Frontiers religious formations conceived of as through purposeful action, but also successful completion of this project, of Hate offers fresh perspective on distant from U.S. modernity. through their capacity to help define since it provided time to analyze these how circulations between metropole community interests in the absence of research materials and begin writing and colony shaped the emergence of slavery. chapter drafts. I look forward to com- modern European racial thought. pleting a draft of the book manuscript in the coming academic year.

02 03 [ Graduate Fellows ]

Graduate Fellows Kelly Feinstein-Johnson Trevor Joy Sangrey Matthew Tucker Thomas Genova Martha Kenney History Feminist Studies Linguistics Literature The IHR supports graduate student DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, IHR DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, IHR DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE research by providing a variety of GRADUATE FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS DIVISION DIVISION fellowships. Over the years, IHR Put One More ‘S’ in the USA: The Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax Dissertation Fellowships have enabled An Account of Notorious Robbers, Productive Fiction of the Black Nation of Syntactic Binding Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Fables of Attention and Response-ability: dozens of humanities students to Murtherers, and Sporting Ladies: The Thesis Literature, and Citizenship in the Storytelling for Livable Technoscientific complete their dissertations. The Visual Culture of English Broadside I spent the 2011-12 year researching Nineteenth-Century Americas Worlds top awardee is designated as a Ballads, 1660-1800 With the generous support of the subject-verb and object-verb Graduate Fellow of the UC Society IHR, I completed my dissertation, agreement phenomena in several The IHR fellowship allowed me to With the financial support of the IHR of Fellows, a program of the UC As an Institute for the Humanities “Put One More ‘S’ in the USA: understudied languages as part of research and draft a dissertation and the Graduate Division, I was able Humanities Network, and represents Research Dissertation Fellow, I have Communist Pamphlet Literature and my dissertation, including Maltese chapter on the entanglement to complete a draft of one dissertation UCSC at the annual gathering spent the past year finishing my PhD the Productive Fiction of the Black (Semitic; Republic of Malta), Acehnese of the Haitian Émile Nau’s 1854 chapter and adapt that chapter of fellows. Recently, the IHR has dissertation in European History, Nation Thesis.” This dissertation brings (Austronesian; Aceh Province, Histoire des caciques d’Haiti and the into a article, which I submitted to partnered with the UCSC DIvision of “A Notorious Account of Robbers, together social movement studies with Indonesia), and Arabic. This research Dominican Manuel de Jesús Galván’s Social Studies of Science, a leading Graduate Studies in creating summer Murtherers, and Sporting Ladies: insights from critical media, ethnic, has led to a provisionally accepted 1882 Enriquillo: Leyenda histórica peer reviewed journal in my field. I research and dissertation fellowship English Broadside Ballads and Visual and gender studies to interrogate the research article in the journal Syntax dominicana, both of which use also attended and presented at the opportunities, which have been critical Culture, 1600-1800.” My project rhetoric of the CPUSA’s Black Nation and was the focus of my IHR Fellow Hispaniola’s early colonial history to Seminar for Experimental Critical to the student’s progress toward their analyzes broadside ballads, a form of Thesis. The work extends the growing Lecture in May 2012 entitled “Variable discuss the importance of the Haitian Theory summer school in Honolulu degree. inexpensive and sensational prints scholarship on black radical organizing Agreement in Natural Language: What Revolution to the island’s identity. and the Society for Literature, sold in the 16th-18th century England, by looking at the archived ephemera, Reflexives and Questions Can Tell Drawing on colonial chronicles and Science and the Arts Annual Meeting from an interdisciplinary perspective. specifically a collection of over 300 Us about Agreement.” In the coming early republican political texts, I in Kitchener, Canada. Overall, I demonstrate that ballads combined pamphlets, to probe how radical year, I will teach a course at UCSC in demonstrate Nau’s impact on Galván, Summer 2011 was a productive text, image, and song in order to visions and dreams grow and spread, the Linguistics Department while treating Haiti as a subject –rather than period for dissertation writing create a multimedia experience reading pamphlets as an imaginative continuing my fieldwork with the an object-- of transnational dialogue. and professionalization activities, for their readers and to appeal to a and pedagogical space for social Maltese community in the Bay Area. A preliminary version of the chapter preparing me to finish on time and consumer base of varying levels of movements. was presented at the 2011 Jornadas enter a competitive job market. literacy. I presented a poster on my Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana research at the UC President’s Society de Estudiantes in Lima, Peru. of Fellows in the Humanities (April 2012) and the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Symposium (May 2012) where I won the first place prize for a poster in the Humanities.

04 05 Aliyah Khan Sara Orning Laurel Peacock Elyse Banks Jessica Beard Ryan Bennett Literature Literature Literature History Literature Linguistics SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR DIVISION DIVISION DIVISION Catholic Interracialism in New Orleans, “Bound--a--Trouble--:” Reading Space in Foot structure and cognitive bias: an “Calling the Magician”: The Fleshly Embodiments: Early Modern The Poetics of Affect in Contemporary 1945-Present: A Historical Survey the Dickinson Archive artificial grammar study Metamorphic Indo-Caribbean Monsters, Victorian Freaks, and Feminist Poetry with Implications for the Post-Katrina Twentieth-Century Affective Moment I am a doctoral candidate in the My IHR Summer Fellowship funded I am a 2012 PhD graduate of Literature Spectatorship Thanks to this award, I completed a Literature program at UCSC. My two weeks of research in Japan. and Feminist Studies. My major field chapter about contemporary poet The IHR Summer Research Fellowship dissertation looks at Emily Dickinson’s While there, I ran a series of artificial is contemporary world literature, and My dissertation seeks to critique the Brenda Hillman and an article version I received in 2011 allowed me to unpublished manuscripts, theorizing grammar experiments with Japanese I specialize in the literatures of the Cartesian mind/body split by way of that will soon be published. I argue travel to New Orleans, Louisiana multiple reading strategies that speakers. These experiments Caribbean and the Islamic world. The historicizing and theorizing it. The first that key to understanding Hillman’s where I began preliminary research emphasize the supposedly isolated established that native speakers of IHR Summer Research Fellowship part of the project traces a genealogy important and challenging work is on my dissertation. My dissertation poet’s investigations and interactions Japanese and English learn linguistic allowed me to complete my first of the split in the relationship between a consideration of how she situates focuses on the limits and possibilities with her outside world. One of these stress in very similar ways, despite dissertation chapter. I was also the human and non-human in early the contemporary subject within of Catholic interracial organizing reading strategies relies upon notions the fact that Japanese does not itself fortunate to be the recipient of the modern European monster accounts an environment that is affected by from the 1950s to the present. The of publication that move outside of make use of stress (it is a ‘pitch accent’ 2011-12 UC President’s Dissertation- and Victorian medical science texts humans (through climate change), and fellowship supported both my the construct of the book and into language which uses grammatical Year Fellowship. My dissertation and freak shows. The second part that in turn affects them, in a poetics stay and travel throughout the city a digital edition. Generous funding and lexical tone rather than English- examines twentieth-century proposes a theory of the embodied, of Seasonal Affective Disorder. This and it also financed the purchase from the IHR last summer enabled my like stress). This finding suggests Caribbean constructions of race and rather than Cartesian, film spectator. chapter fits within my dissertation, of documents within a number of enrollment in the Digital Humanities that humans may be predisposed gender in multi-ethnic Trinidad and The generous Summer Dissertation a series of studies of contemporary amazing collections housed at three Summer Institute where I undertook to approach the task of language Guyana. My project has literary and Fellowship from the IHR allowed me poets writing in a feminist archives, the Amistad Research Center, a week-long intensive course in learning by way of some very political stakes, as it recovers shared to work full-time on my project during experimental tradition that challenges Special Collections room at University text-encoding as well as multiple particular strategies. This research colonial racial histories to counter the summer of 2011, which in turn boundaries of gender, as well as of New Orleans and the Archdiocese workshops on digital scholarship. constitutes a major portion of my violent ethnic nationalisms. With the ensured that my dissertation was between human and environment. of New Orleans. Without the funding dissertation. assistance of the IHR, the UC, and completed as planned. I was awarded provided by the IHR I would not have my department, I was able to give my PhD in June, 2012. been able to complete the research back to our community by designing for Chapter 2 of my dissertation on the and teaching three UCSC courses: road to Catholic school integration. Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Muslim Literature, and Introduction to Creative Writing. I am grateful for their generous support of my work.

06 07 Graduate Research [ & Travel Grants ]

Troy Crowder Mark Norris Alicia Romero Sara R. Smith History Linguistics History History In addition to our fellowship programs, the IHR awards grants to humanities SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR graduate students for research and research-related travel. In 2011-12, students used these grants to complete dissertations, conduct new field Creeping Blight: A History of Tropical Feature Representation, Manipulation, Portrait of a Barrio: Memory and Popular Insurgent Labor: Rank-and-File Teachers research, and present their work at national workshops and conferences. Agriculture and Pandemic Disease, and Realization: The View from Estonian Culture in Barelas, NM 1900-1969 Organizing in California After WWII 1850 – 2000 and Icelandic Nominals Jessica Barbata, History I had the great opportunity to spend During the summer of 2011, the Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana Funds from the Institute for My research focuses on two two months in Albuquerque, New IHR Summer Research Fellowship Purpose: Archival research at the American-Italian Research Library and Humanities Research were understudied domains in generative Mexico thanks to the IHR 2011 allowed me to complete the archival the University of New Orleans studying the Italian immigrant experience in instrumental in securing archival morphosyntax: 1) agreement between Summer Research Fellowship. During research for my dissertation chapter Louisiana in the latter part of the nineteenth century materials for my research on the nominal elements (e.g., nouns and these several weeks, I interviewed on the faculty’s role in the Third World history of tropical crop diseases from adjectives), or concord, and 2) the community residents and combed Student Strike at San Francisco State Xiaofei Gao, History 1850 onward. IHR support allowed me structure of nominals in Estonian through archives at the University College, 1968 – 1969. Last summer I Destination: Manchuria to travel to my main archives in the and Icelandic. I argue for a novel of New Mexico, the Albuquerque was also able to conduct numerous Purpose: Research on Chinese migration to Manchuria from the late- United Kingdom including the British analysis of concord that formally Museum, and the National Hispanic interviews with faculty and student nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century Library, Cambridge University, the distinguishes it from certain other Cultural Center. This IHR award leaders of the strike. This chapter fits Royal Agricultural Society of England, forms of agreement (e.g., subject- provided me not only the money, into a larger dissertation that examines Thomas Genova, Literature the Kew National Archives, and, verb agreement). My investigation but the time to conduct extensive rank-and-file teachers’ organizing in Destination: Columbia, South Carolina especially, the Royal Botanical Gardens of nominal morphosyntax focuses research for the dissertation. The California after World War II. Each of Presented at the “Cultural and Linguistic Intersections of the Transatlantic” at Kew. The Kew Gardens archive is of primarily on constructions like ‘a bag data gathered during my stay in New my chapters examines an alternative conference at the University of South Carolina major importance for my study, and of flour’ or ‘some of the children’ (called Mexico served as the basis for two kind of unionism, one in which union IHR funding allowed me to secure partitives). The complexity of partitives separate conference papers delivered democracy and the struggle for social Amanda Shuman, History over 2,600 copies of archival material makes them an ideal domain to test at the American Studies Association justice are central to union organizing. Destination: Chicago, Illinois on my project, including field reports, the limits of phenomena squarely on meeting in the fall of 2011 and at the Presented at the “Reading the Revolution: Locating and Interpretating Sources epidemiological patterns, colonial the border of syntax and morphology Southwest Oral History Association on 1950-60’s China” workshop at the University of Chicago government notes, crop reports, and (e.g., agreement). meeting in the spring of 2012. scientific advisory notes. Andrea Thompson, Linguistics Destination: Berlin, Germany Presented at the “(Mis)matches in clause linkage” conference at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

08 09 Humanities Undergraduate [ Reporting from the Field ] [ Research Awards]

The IHR provides research awards to support and encourage undergraduate research in the humanities. Each year, up to ten awards are given to the strongest proposals. The top proposal receives the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize (*).

Nicholas Gancedo, Philosophy Ruebi Jimenez, Anthropology/ Nataliya Munishkina, Conceptual Foundations of Intervention Ethnography Linguistics Ecology: Towards a New Environmental * Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient Interaction Across Grammatical Worldview Technology and Storytelling in the Life of Categories: Verbs and Prepositions Mentor: Rasmus Winther, Assistant Celia Fritz Mentor: Donka Farkas, Professor of Professor of Philosophy Mentor: Donald Brenneis, Professor of Linguistics Anthropology From this vantage, the billboard appears equal to the mosque. Rafic Hariri, the former Prime Minster who was assassinated in a car bombing in 2005, is entombed inside. One of our conference organizers described the mosque as something Jose Guerrero, Literature/ Cory Schiff, History Dustin Wright at Beaufort Castle, a Crusader fortress dating back to the 12th century. that looks like it came down from outer space, demonstrating the giant mosque’s In the far distance is an Israeli settlement. disruption to the rest of Beirut’s architecture. Creative Writing Shawna Mattison, Linguistics The House of La Mirada: Uncovering A “I Once Was Lost”: The (Found) Poetics of New Methodologies in Psycholinguistics New Perspective on the Early History of Salvaging and Recycling (Capitalism) Research California Mentor: Gary Young, Lecturer in Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Mentor: Mark Traugott, Professor of Literature Professor of Linguistics History While walking through the refugee and the Department of History, architects, and critical geographers, camp of Shatila in southern Beirut, I I was able to participate in the among others, offered incredibly rich was struck by the near absence of the Seminar in Experimental Critical grounds for comparative research. Michael Hinojosa, History Matilda Morrison, Linguistics Jason Truchon, Philosophy sky, hidden from view by the pirated Theory (SECT), this year hosted by As a graduate student focusing on ROUTES – Design Group A Dummy in German What is Called Questioning? electricity lines which hung like a the American University of Beirut, modern Japanese history, my time Mentor: Alan Christy, Associate Mentor: Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Mentor: Abraham Stone, Associate ceiling of ink blots, stretched between Lebanon. Now in its eighth year, in Lebanon was a dual learning Professor of History Linguistics Professor of Philosophy the layer upon layer of concrete SECT is organized by the UC-wide experience. Not only was the seminar apartment blocks that occupied Humanities Research Institute and is an intensive theoretical laboratory, every possible open space. Even undoubtedly one of the great secrets but it was also a crash-course on with the oppressive heat and limited of the University of California. A Lebanese history and the revolutions space, Shatila was alive: pet birds truly interdisciplinary collection of that have been collectively dubbed chirped from balconies above, power participants and presenters came the Arab Spring. Seminars were often generators sputtered and roared, food from institutions inside and outside followed by several more hours of carts attracted groups of children, of California, and indeed from around walking tours or site visits. For anyone and in one of many small shops that the globe. This year’s seminar theme remotely interested in critical theory lined the sidewalks, I saw young was “Living in a Critical Condition: and its ability to help us rethink men constructing exquisite wooden Spaces of Resistance” and was tasked our own humanistic inquiries, SECT foosball tables. For a place that has with exploring “forms of resistance, provides an enriching and invigorating seen its share of war, Shatila shows inscriptions of resistance, and the opportunity. that the spaces in which people live, impact of commemorative sites and love, labor, struggle, and survive are spatial imaginaries as resistance.” Dustin Wright is a Ph.D. Candidate in overlapping, complex, and never fixed. the Department of History. For more With support from the UCSC’s The opportunity to participate in information about SECT, please visit: Institute for Humanities Research seminars taught by urban planners, http://sect.uchri.org. Top left: Alicia Romero, Matthew Wagers, Mark Traugott, Jon Daehnke, Bruce Thompson, Mark Traugot; bottom left: Nicholas Gancedo, Shawna Mattison, Michael Hinojosa, Matilda Morrison; center: Cory Schiff with mentor Mark Traugott; top right: Jose Guerrero, Nataliya Munishkina; bottom right: Ruebi Jimenez, Jason Truchon

10 11 [ Research Clusters ]

Borders, Bodies, and Violence Its members investigate languages as diverse as Arabic, History); Malín Alegría, a UCSC alumna and the author of This conference fostered discussion about the changing Bulgarian, Estonian, Irish, K’ichee’ (Mayan), Maltese, Russian, three Young Adult books; and longtime bilingual children’s character of contemporary writing communities and how In 2011-12, the Borders, Bodies, and Violence (BBV) research and Tz’utujiil (Mayan). book publisher turned author Theresa Hamman. Cluster authors and editors build community in their praxis. Invited cluster had two main purposes: to serve as a forum for the member (and Kresge Provost) Juan Poblete moderated. This guests and participants included practicing artists, editors, development of members’ research projects and to create Thanks to the IHR’s well-attended event provoked a stimulating discussion on publishers, students, academics, and community activists, and nurture a more expansive and vibrant space for the Research Cluster question such as: How do Latino children and young adults who presented papers, gave evening poetry readings, and study of migration and violence on our campus. To meet the funding, in 2011-12 the come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What shared their publishing projects with an audience of over 70 first goal, we organized our activities around readings and group’s UCSC members genres and language modalities are most popular, most members of the Santa Cruz community. We were also proud dialogue, co-sponsoring several campus visits last year with continued conducting inventive, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? to showcase undergraduate and graduate student work the Latino Literary Cultures cluster, the Living Writers Series linguistic research And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district during the conference and book fair. All in all, the cluster and Feminist Studies. Cluster members (Cruz, Espinosa, with native speakers book banning, what are Latinos *not* reading? created space for lively and passionate conversations about Ramírez, Rivas, Schaeffer-Grabiel, and Watson) shared some local to the Bay Area current scholarship in the field. of the fruits of their labor at our symposium on Migration and and abroad; many of Ethnic Studies on April 12-13, 2012. This lively and extremely these investigations well attended gathering brought together students, faculty, involved little studied or and community members concerned about recent laws endangered languages. targeting undocumented immigrants and ethnic studies, This research became such as Arizona’s SB 1070 and HB 2281. Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, the foundation for Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State several Qualifying University, opened the symposium with a public lecture on Papers, dissertations Mary Paster, Pomona College April 12 and Sandra Soto, Associate Professor of Gender and in progress, and proceedings and journal publications (a full list can be found on the group’s website: http://www.stanford.edu/~gribanov/ Gustavo Arellano, author and editor of OC Weekly CrISP.html). The group was also able to continue its tradition of inviting a Distinguished Faculty Visitor (Mary Paster, The LLCP also hosted a meeting of the new UC-wide Pomona College) to the campus for two days of intellectual Multicampus Research Group, the Latino Cultures Network, in exchange, including talks by both Paster and the group’s December. This MRG, which also received renewal funding for graduate students. 2012-13, is engaged in creating a multimedia digital resource on Latino cultural studies. In October 2012, CrISP will hold a workshop at Stanford Migration and Ethnic Studies symposium presenters University, funded by the National Science Foundation, where Tisa Bryant, California Institute of the Arts, one of the presenters at the “Emergent Communities and UCSC and Stanford CrISP participants will share their research Contemporary Experimental Writing” conference. Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, delivered the with prominent researchers in the field. Poetry and Politics closing remarks. Both panelists served as discussants for our cluster members’ paper presentations. The Poetry and Politics Research Cluster brings together faculty and graduate students for whom poetry plays ROUTES Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto an important role as material for study and practice. The culturas literarias latinas readings, conferences, and meetings the cluster facilitates During the 2011-12 academic year, the Center for the Study of Crosslinguistic Investigations in help to shape notions of poetry—its histories and its Pacific War memories undertook two major events: a research Phonology-Syntax The Latino Literary Cultures Project cluster, in addition to possibilities—as a dynamic and changing category. trip to Japan and a workshop on the center’s digital projects. meeting for reading groups and co-sponsoring other events, Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) hosted a one-day symposium, ‘What Are Latinos Reading?’ During the 2011-12 academic year, and with assistance from In December 2011, co-Director Christy led sixteen explores the connection between the structure of words and on Friday, February 10, 2012. Bringing together writers and The Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature undergraduate students on a twelve-day research tour to sentences (morphosyntax) and the sound systems associated editors, it explored the conditions of possibility for US Latino Department, , The Graduate Division, and The Japan as the final event of the center’s Nagamine Project. with them (phonology). The group is run jointly by linguistics literature today–its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy it Graduate Student Association, the cluster hosted a successful With the generous support of JASSO (Japan Student Services faculty and graduate students at UCSC and Stanford, presupposes or fosters. Speakers included Gustavo Arellano two-day conference and book fair, “Emergent Communities Organization), Janet Nagamine, the Andromeda Foundation, who implement deep comparisons between unrelated (editor of the OC Weekly and author of three books including and Contemporary Experimental Writing,” bringing together a Dominic Martinelli and others, the students travelled to Japan languages to evaluate theories of syntax-prosody interaction. Taco USA, Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal diverse range of contemporary writers, critics and publishers. to hold a series of workshops with students and faculty at

12 13 [ Inspiring Achievement ]

Yokohama National University. Prof. Hiroyuki Matsubara of Urban Studies YNU organized several productive exchanges of research presentations, collaborative learning sessions and museum Over the last two years, the Urban Studies Research Cluster “I began working for the IHR four years ago as a first tours. In addition, the UCSC team conferred with Prof. Araragi has provided a space for faculty and graduate students Shinzô at Sophia University and Satô Ryô at Ritsumeikan across all major fields at UC Santa Cruz to explore the year college student. Since then, I have been able University about the study of postwar Asian migration. urban dimension of their research, engage with emerging Finally, Christy and the students established forward-looking approaches in the field of urban studies, and address pressing to attend a variety of events and conferences while collaborative relationships with a number of museums in the urban issues, both locally and globally. We have done this Tokyo and Kyoto area. through workshops, reading groups, a speaker series, and learning valuable skills in the office that might come campus-wide events. In February 2012, Prof. Yoshimi Shun’ya of the University of in handy if I pursue a career on a campus in the Tokyo and Prof. Gregg Herken of UC Merced gave invaluable In particular we strive to develop a ‘UCSC approach’ to urban feedback and advice on the Eternal Flames multi-lingual web studies by connecting urban questions to strengths on our future. Working for the IHR has been one of the most project at a workshop held in the new FITC labs at McHenry campus. This has led us to new scholarly trajectories in urban Library. environmental studies, urban cultural studies, and critical rewarding and supportive experiences and I will approaches to space and social justice. In addition, we seek to analyze the historically rooted and rapidly changing spatial truly miss the amazing staff at the Institute and the dynamics that shape our own interurban region in and around Santa Cruz. Humanities Division! “ Cole Carothers with Event Coordinator, Shann Ritchie

This year, we were busy hosting three speakers, holding five brown bag workshops, and conducting a bi-weekly interdisciplinary reading group devoted to the emerging field of urban political ecology and water. Out of this work, and with our ‘UCSC approach’ in mind, we crafted a successful Cole Carothers is driven. I implemented in my experience In the 2011-12 academic year, Cole UCHRI California Studies grant proposal, entitled: “Critical as an organizer on campus. I have was awarded the Sabrina Greenfield Sustainabilities: Analyzing Competing Discourses of Urban A recent UCSC graduate, Cole never regretted switching my majors Memorial Award and Scholarship. This Development in Northern California.” successfully completed a challenging because I absolutely enjoyed being a award was established to honor the double major in Theater Arts and part of such an outstanding program memory of Sabrina Marie Greenfield, Alan Christy with his students in Japan Feminist Studies, earning stellar grades with the most brilliant scholars inside who was a sophomore and evaluations. When asked why the and outside of the classroom.” majoring in Feminist Studies when double major, Cole replied, “When I her life was tragically cut short in Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group started my courses at UC Santa Cruz, Over the past four years at UCSC, Cole September 2006. It is intended to help I was a Marine Biology major. While I seized many opportunities to learn an academically deserving College During this past year, the Santa Cruz Linguistics and will always hold a special place in my and grow outside the classroom. Since Ten, Feminist Studies major in financial Philosophy (SCLP) group hosted Professor Laurence Horn heart for the sciences, I realized quickly 2008 until Cole’s graudation in 2012, need. (Yale University) for a two-day visit (November 17, 18, that my passion for the arts and a Cole worked as an assistant to the 2011). Professor Horn is one of the great figures in modern critical understanding of the world Event Coordinator for the Institute for This past summer, Cole relocated pragmatics (the study of language in use), a subfield of were crucial to my specific happiness Humanities Research. to New York to join City Year, an linguistics that has its roots in Philosophy of Language. He as a student. Feminist Studies gave Cole organized in various spaces on education focused, nonprofit is, therefore, an excellent choice of visitor for a group like me the platform to theorize around campus such as the Filipino Student organization that unites young people ours, whose aim is to explore connections between those and put names to experiences that I Association, Cantu Queer Center, of all backgrounds for a year of full- subdisciplines of Linguistics and Philosophy where the two lived everyday. Coupling this platform The Asian/Pacific Islander Resource time service to keep students in school fields overlap. We organized two events during Professor with theater allowed me to express, Center, Engaging Education (e2), and and on track to graduation. Horn’s visit: a reading group discussion, based on a previously advocate and work through these Rainbow Theater. At Rainbow Theater, distributed article, and a Linguistics Department colloquium. critical knowledges. The material that Cole served as an intern, coordinator, Both events were well attended and gave rise to lively and I learned through Feminist Studies director, performer and community This article will also appear in the spirited discussion. Julie Sze, UC Davis, an Urban Studies speakers series guest lecturer became an integral part of what member. Humanities Dean’s Fall 2012 Newsletter.

14 15 On April 20, 2012 the IHR hosted the second annual gathering of the UC Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Close to 250 members of the public gathered to hear leading scholars discuss their work and examine the following questions:

What does it mean to do the humanities? Why do the humanities matter? What’s public about the humanities?

Panel topics included the power of language, religion and modernity, and empire and nation. Poster presentations covered research on the ethnography of disasters, feminist art, slavery and cannibalism, the criminalization of religious practice, party-crashing in Arabic medieval literature, the inevitable fate of the novel, and more.

The event was sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC Humanities Division, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Logos Books and Records, Literary Guillotine, Friends of the Library, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, L’Atelier Salon, Pacific Cookie Company, and many other local businesses.

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Ancient Studies Center for Cultural Studies “With ingenuity, perseverance, and sheer hard work, Carla Center for Jewish Studies

The year 2011-12 saw enduring progress for Ancient Freccero ensured that the Center for Cultural Studies continued Over the past year, the Center for Jewish Studies hosted Studies at UCSC. Perhaps the most notable of these was a series of events on campus, ranging from musical the establishment of a library for Ancient Studies; it is now to flourish through a very difficult period of institutional performance and art exhibition, to film screenings and operating, and has become the center of Ancient Studies public lectures, many of them organized by visiting assistant and Classics, used for small seminars and lectures, for oral reorganization and budget cuts. The heart of the Center has professor and Jim Joseph Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish examinations, and for informal study groups. Private gifts Studies, Paula Daccarett. Highlights included “Every have made it possible to have more substantial, permanent always been the Wednesday colloquium series, at which local Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish shelves built. Pale of Settlement,” a collaborative exhibition of prints by scholars and visitors are invited to present work in progress artist Debra Olin and text by Center Co-Director Nathaniel There has also been progress in the creation of a permanent, ongoing public lecture series in the archaeology of the and the Q and A is not an afterthought, but rather a central ancient world, supported by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The series attracts an audience both from feature of the occasion. For the past five years, Professor Freccero university and the town. In the past year Ancient Studies sponsored lectures on Ancient Greece (“Sex Sells But Who’s has organized and presided with spirit and verve over these Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases”); West Africa Carla Freccero with former CCS Graduate Student Researcher, (“Elephants for Want of Towns? New Light on Old Cities in Visiting Assistant Professor of LiteratureMichael Ursell weekly conversations, at the same time using the Center’s West Africa’s Atlantic Age”); and early Christianity (the “Secret Gospel of Mark”). In conjunction with the Classics major, Founded in the spring of 1988 as a part of the UC President’s limited resources to publicize and incubate intellectual projects we sponsored a fourth lecture on Egypt (“Obelisks: Exotic Humanities Initiative, the Center for Cultural Studies (CCS) just Continuity and Change”). celebrated its twenty-fourth year of fostering cutting-edge that have become conferences, research clusters, and other interdisciplinary inquiry by bringing faculty and graduate students together from across disciplinary divisions at UCSC activities recognized across the campus and beyond. It is not and beyond for lively discussions in a weekly colloquium ChaeRan Freeze, Brandeis University, and Nathaniel Deutsch, UC Santa Cruz series. an exaggeration to say that we in the Greater Humanities (an Deutsch at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery of ; This, the fifth and final year of Professor Carla Freccero’s intellectual formation that encompasses many scholars beyond the annual Helen Diller Family Foundation Distinguished directorship of the Center, featured work from a dynamic Lecture delivered by Professor ChaeRan Freeze of Brandeis cross-section of fields, including science and animal studies, the Humanities Division proper) are in her debt for preserving University; and a concert by the Iraqi born Israeli violinist and ancient and medieval literature, film, and race and sexuality oud master Yair Dalal. The Center continued to raise funds studies. Speakers were encouraged to present experimental and expanding our intellectual life.” for the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and in-progress work. This informal but structured workshop- in honor of Professor Murray Baumgarten, the founder and like setting consistently led to lively and thought-provoking – Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, UCSC longtime Director (and now, Co-Director) of Jewish Studies at conversation. Among the many exciting speakers this year the university. In addition to his many activities on campus, were two faculty whose contributions to the Center extend Professor Baumgarten participated in two international back to its founding. Both Professors Bettina Aptheker and “CCS continues to play a valued role as the convenor of an gatherings this summer, one in Israel on “The Novel and We have seen a continued expansion of courses offered Professor Emeritus Hayden White spoke to capacity crowds. Theories of Love,” and offered a lecture in July, 2012 in Venice, under the aegis of the Classical Studies major to include Presenting work from her current book project, Professor exceptionally effective space for interdisciplinary engagement. Italy, for the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy on “Writing materials in the ancient world outside of Greece and Rome. Aptheker analyzed the history and politics of the Communist Memory, Performing History: Israel Zangwill and Modern These include so far chiefly courses in the ancient Near East, Party of the United States (CPUSA) in relation to homophobia Carla’s energy and wisdom in guiding the Center are appreciated Jewish Fiction;” he also serves on the Board of Directors of Judeo-Christian culture, and ancient Egypt. Next year we will and the former members who were themselves gay activists. The Venice Center for International Jewish Studies (Centro for the first time be able to incorporate some course offerings Professor Emeritus White’s presentation, in complicating how by colleagues across the campus. I look forward to working with Veneziano Di Studi Ebraici Internazionali). Professor Deutsch in ancient India. historians fictionalize the past, discussed the many divergent was named to the Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust ways we are taught to remember and memorialize the the new director to sustain and enhance this tradition.” Studies; published a new book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life Holocaust. and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University – William A. Ladusaw, Dean of Humanities, UCSC Press, 2011), and also provided one of the four commentaries

18 19 in the New American Haggadah (Little, Brown and Company, Center for Mediterranean Studies Center for World History February, due in large part to a featured article in the New 2012), edited by Jonathan Safran Foer. With the support of Yorker magazine. Nearly 320 people attended the gathering, major new grants from the David B. Gold Foundation, the The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Between June 27 – July 22, UCSC’s Center for World History which focused on Bleak House. A two-day mini-conference, Koret Foundation, and the Chaim Schwartz Foundation, we Project has completed an extremely successful second year. hosted a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities called “Dickens! Author and Authorship in 2012” was partially look forward to an exciting 2012-2013. Our membership has grown to over 550 scholars world-wide, Summer Seminar for Teachers. A total of fifteen participants funded by UCHRI, with matching funds from UCSC Dept. and we have carried out a number of exciting collaborations. worked with seminar director Edmund Burke III on the theme of Literature, the IHR, Cowell College Sigfried and Elizabeth Our core program of workshops and conferences was a “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1914.” Puknat Endowment, and the Friends of the Dickens Project. Center for Labor Studies great success, with events at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the The seminar represents a new approach to understanding University of Colorado the birth of the modern world economy. Participants learned The UCSC Center for Labor Studies, founded in 2007, at Boulder (a new how economic exchanges have transformed the world – Linguistics Research Center is dedicated to the study of working people, the labor partner). In addition for example, by linking the lives of South Asian spinners, movement, and the challenge of the broader global economy we organized sessions textile factory workers in the East Midlands, and consumers Under LRC auspices, UCSC faculty, students, and visitors as it impacts the working people of California and beyond. at major conferences in Europe, the Americas, and Australasia. Participants conduct research on the nature of language and Through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and a range including the meeting also worked on individual projects including commodity communicate results and ideas to the larger community. of guest speakers, we focus, in particular, on the relationship of the Association “biographies” to be added to the Center for World History We host visitors, sponsor events, publish online, coordinate between the labor movement (broadly defined), social for Spanish and website. externally funded projects, and work more generally to movements, and democratic practices; on gender, race, and Portuguese Historical enhance the environment for language research at UCSC and ethnic dynamics; and Studies (Lisbon), The Maritime Mediterranean workshop participants, beyond. on labor activism in the American UC San Diego The Dickens Project international contexts. Historical Association We also address a wide (Chicago), and the American Academy of Religion (San The Dickens Project is a multi-campus research consortium spectrum of questions Francisco). In addition we were co-sponsors/organizers of centered at UCSC. Established in 1981, consortium members related to the nature the 3rd Medworlds conference, an international meeting currently include thirty-three American universities and eight of work and working held in Salerno (Italy), and organized and led a workshop overseas. The chief goal of the consortium is to promote people’s lives and our at the annual Mediterranean Research Meeting convened research on the life, work, and times of Charles Dickens and goal is to serve UCSC at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). to bring the results of this research before both a scholarly students, staff, and Palgrave/Macmillan has given us a new monograph series, audience and the general public. WCCFL 30 conference attendees faculty while reaching Mediterranean Studies, and we are moving ahead on out to the broader publications, including a book of essays by Perergine Horden During 2011-12, eleven research visitors came to UCSC community of the Central and Nicholar Purcell, A Companion to Mediterranean History under LRC sponsorship. They included faculty members and Coast of California and (co-edited by Kinoshita and Horden), the first volumes of postdocs from Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US, beyond. the Mediterranean Seminar and Can We Talk Mediterranean? and doctoral students from Argentina, Belgium, Hong Kong, (edited by Catlos and Kinoshita). Both Catlos and Kinoshita Northern Ireland, Norway, and the US. The highlight of our In 2011-12 the Center has focused its activities in two areas: were appointed to UCLA’s Center for Medieval and year was a major international conference -- WCCFL 30, the labor in the food system and immigrant work. Specifically, in Renaissance Studies, and Catlos took up an appointment as Thirtieth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. That February 2012 we organized and hosted a major international Research Associate in Humanities at UCSC, while Kinoshita event, sponsored by the LRC, with the help of Stevenson conference, “Labor Across the Food System,” featuring moved into position as PI. The year concluded with the kick- College, the Linguistics Department, and the Institute for scholars, activists and several artists who traced the history off of the their third, successful NEH Summer Institute held Humanities Research, brought some 150 attendees to the and issues of food-related labor “from farm to fork.” In 2012, in Barcelona (Spain). This project is now the leader in the campus from countries around the world between April we also launched the new UC-wide Working Group on emerging discipline of Mediterranean Studies, and looking The Project hosted a seminar for sixteen teachers, called 13th and April 15th. The program was selective (just 8% of Labor, Immigration, and Changing Conceptions of Work, ahead, 2012–13 holds even more promise. “Great Adaptations,” in summer 2011, funded by a grant abstracts were accepted) and featured 27 talks in every area funded by the UC Institute for Humanities Research, which from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2012, of current theoretical work, along with two well-attended explores immigrant work and workers across a broad range the Project was part of the worldwide celebration of the poster sessions. The event was especially notable for the large of historical periods and localities as well as from multiple bicentenary of Dickens’ birth. The Project’s Director, Prof. John number of UCSC undergraduates who played an active role. disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. O. Jordan gave a keynote address as part of the “Tale of Four The conference proceedings will be published by Cascadilla Cities” conference and participated in a special wreath-laying Press. ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London. The annual Dickens Universe week-long summer conference sold out in

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Sikh and Punjabi Studies Studies of Food and the Body “Irena is having a big impact at the university,“ said Dean of Humanities Bill Ladusaw. Professor Nirvikar The Multi-campus Research Program on Food and the Body Singh, Sarbjit Singh brings together humanities and social sciences faculty and “Because of her work, the public has a chance to encounter new ideas and have their Aurora Chair of Sikh graduate student scholars from across the UC campuses to and Punjabi Studies explore relationships between food, the body, and culture. understanding of familiar things deepened.” and Professor of Much of our work together involves workshopping works-in- Economics, and progress: proposals, chapters, and articles. This year the MRP Dr. Inderjit Kaur, held our annual dissertation retreat at Westerbeke ranch, Advisor in Sikh and hosted two meetings to workshop faculty work, and was a Punjabi Studies co-sponsor of the Labor Across the Food System conference and Research held at UCSC, which many of our members attended. We Hanging in the bedroom of Irena pictures of distant galaxies and stores “Irena makes you think about why it Associate in the also saw the the fruition of past workshops and retreats with Polić’s 4-year-old twins are two digital photos in the cloud. Science matters,” says Jim McCloskey, director Music Department, the publication of several books and articles that had been long strands of colorful beads, cured Alexa’s cancer. of the Linguistics Research Center. co-organized previously discussed by the group and the placement of each representing a procedure her “That’s really valuable to us; she gets the inaugural several alum in jobs and postdoctoral fellowships. daughter Alexa endured as she fought But the humanities are a different excited on your behalf.” conference in Sikh Nirvikar Singh, UC Santa Cruz off the tumor that attacked her liver story. and Punjabi Studies when the girl was just two years old. That excitement was on display April at UC Santa Cruz, held on November 10-12, 2012. Teagle Working Group There are more than 200 beads, and in “We have a PR problem in the 21 at the Museum of Art & History addition to marking the resilience of a humanities,” says Polić, who is also in downtown Santa Cruz, where the Leading and emerging scholars from the United States, Established in 2009 with faculty and graduate students in tough toddler, each one could stand an alumna (Cowell ‘01, linguistics; institute hosted “What Are We Doing Canada, and England came together for the conference, English and literature from Mills College, Stanford University, for a night Polić spent caring for her master’s ‘03). “A lot of people outside When We Do the Humanities?,” a titled Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, “What Is A Reader?” studies daughter and contemplating what it academia don’t know what the showcase of the best recent research Directions. Participants also included UCSC faculty, students literacy today in historical perspective and its implications for all meant. humanities mean. I find that when in the UC system, and a bit of a from several UC campuses, and prominent members of the the college literature classroom. I tell people they involve the study pressure cooker for researchers, who California Sikh community. Of course this was long after she of linguistics, literature, philosophy, were called on to demonstrate the On January 26, the IHR and McHenry Library hosted a day spent a year living in her basement history, religion, and ethics, they start utility of their work to a non-academic There were two days of lively discussion of the current of events organized by the “What Is A Reader?” group (Tyrus in her native Croatia while the Serbo- to listen because all of these fields are audience. and future state of the field, including history, philosophy, Miller, Juan Poblete, Deanna Shemek). The program included Croatian war raged outside in the extremely relevant to our daily lives.” language, literature, political economy, musicology, and morning papers on teaching students about medieval books streets. “Living in war and having a Polić said the event was, in part, an contemporary society. Dr. Inderjit Kaur presented some of and readers (Elisabeth Remak-Honnef, UCSC McHenry Library child who faced death, these are the Now, just shy of her 37th birthday and effort to raise the visibility of the her work on Sikh musicology and Professor Singh served as Special Collections) and on settings for early modern reading times you’re forced to think about having faced down the adversity of disciplines she holds so dear and the discussant for papers on gender and on political economy. (Heidi Brayman Hacken, UC Riverside English). The afternoon your life, your place in the world, and three lifetimes, Polić is a coil of excited worldview she’s passing on to her Full details of the conference, participants and topics can be featured a discussion of published essays on libraries and why all this matters,” says Polić, the energy, so full of enthusiasm one can’t children. found at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/sikhstudiesconference. other settings for reading; and a public talk by essayist, associate director of UCSC’s Institute help but want to follow her. In her novelist, and historian of reading Alberto Manguel: “Homage for Humanities Research. role at the Institute for Humanities “My daughter would not be alive The conference was preceded by a dinner at which Professor to Humpty Dumpty or, Can We Make Words Say What We Research, it’s Polić’s mission to help today without the amazing medical Christopher Shackle of the University of London was honored Want Them to Say?” These are the questions of poets, the great thinkers in the UC system advances of the last 30 years,” she says. for his significant contributions to Sikh and Punjabi Studies, philosophers, and historians. In connect their ideas to the lives of “Now that she’s alive she’ll be doing and Dr. Inder Mohan Singh, Chairman of the Chardi Kalaa These were the latest in a multi-campus series of events academia, they are the questions of everyday folks—people promenading what the rest of us are trying to do, Foundation, gave a keynote presentation on “Guru Nanak’s that began with a conversation in 2008 about recent reports the people who study the humanities, on Pacific Avenue, for example. It’s a which is attempting to make sense of Message for a Flat, Interconnected World.” on the decline of reading in America. Dismayed but also and as any of them will tell you, they difficult job full of promise. Academics the human condition and her own life.” curious and unconvinced, the group sought and won a “Fresh are also the questions of everyday life, are so bonded to their work they often Other activities of the program included a new class, Thinking” and “Big Questions in the Disciplines” grant from though many people may not realize take its importance as self-evident and Matt King is a freelance writer based in “Introduction to the Sikhs,” taught by Professor Singh in Fall the Teagle Foundation (http://www.teaglefoundation.org/). it. don’t always excel at explaining its San Jose. This article first appeared in 2011, and a talk by Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal on “Religion and relevance. But they are doing exciting the UC Santa Cruz Spring 2012 issue of Politics in Sikhism,” on May 16, 2012. People get science. Science sends us and groundbreaking work. Review.

22 23 [ Calendar ]

Every Protection: Exploring Sex Sells, But Who’s Buying? Affect Across the Disciplines: A On Transfiguration JUNE-JULY 2011 27 Pregnancy and Childbirth in OCTOBER 2011 22 Erotic Imagery on Athenian 24 Faculty & Graduate Workshop 09 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES the Jewish Pale of Settlement Vases AFFECT WORKING GROUP Speaker: Cary Howie, Associate Production and Consumption in CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Rethinking Humanism: Horses, ANCIENT STUDIES The Affect Working Group brings Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell World History, 1450-1914 Images by Debra Olin, printmaker; Text 05 Honor, and Virtue in the Italian Speaker: Kathleen Lynch, Associate together faculty and graduate University CENTER FOR WORLD HISTORY by Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Renaissance Professor of Classics, University of students from across the University History, Co-Director of the Center for CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Cincinnati who are interested in the felt Achievements and New Jewish Studies, Director of the Institute Speaker: Juliana Schiesari, Professor dimensions of social life. Themes that 10 Directions for Humanities Research. of Italian, Professor and Chair of participants are currently addressing SIKH AND PUNJABI STUDIES Comparative Literature, UC Davis. include: how race is lived now; the In this inaugural conference for the conditions of possibility for political Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at Pasolini’s Acceptance hope and despair; and the affective the University of California, Santa Cruz, 12 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES dimensions of computer games. leading and emerging scholars took Between June 27 – July 22, UCSC Speaker: Rei Terada, Professor of stock of the state of the field and its hosted a 2011 National Endowment Comparative Literature, UC Irvine. Monotheism and Empire II future direction, in the areas of their for the Humanities Summer Seminar 26 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES expertise. Sessions covered history, for School Teachers. A total of fifteen From Civil Defense to Civil Speaker: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer philosophy, language and literature, participants worked with seminar 12 Rights: The Growth of Jewish in History, UC Santa Cruz political economy, musicology and director, Edmund Burke III, on the American Interracial Activism contemporary society. theme “Production and Consumption in Los Angeles in the 20th Erotic imagery appears in early Attic Poetry Reading and Exhibition in World History, 1450-1914.” Century black-figure vases but becomes quite 28 of Poetry Paintings CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES popular in red-figure from about POETRY AND POLITICS RESEARCH CLUSTER Great Adaptations: Teaching Dickens Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Speaker: Shana Bernstein, Associate 520-475 B.C. The setting of these Poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson, Through Literary and Cinematic Empire were restricted to a region Professor of History, Southwestern often-graphic images of heterosexual Visiting Professor of Literature, and Adaptations called the Pale of Settlement, where University and homosexual encounters is usually Lauren Shufran, Literature Graduate THE DICKENS PROJECT they created their own distinctive folk the symposium, the all-male drinking Student; Exhibition of poem paintings The Dickens Project hosted a National culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist Studies of Visual Perception: party. Nearly all studies assume that by Matt Landry, Literature Graduate Endowment for the Humanities revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. 19 A Window into Brain and these images are produced for and Student, UC Santa Cruz four-week seminar for sixteen school An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish Behavior about Athenians, and thus must teachers on the literary and film ethnographic questionnaire to CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES represent Athenian views on sexuality adaptations of Charles Dickens’s document this culture, including many Speaker: Eugene Switkes, Professor and morality. Yet a closer look at the Pacific Study Group of the enduring novels, Great Expectations questions concerning Jewish customs of Chemistry and Psychobiology, UC archaeological evidence shows that NOVEMBER 2011 12 North American Kant Society, and A Christmas Carol. and beliefs connected to pregnancy Santa Cruz; Affiliate Professor of Vision very few vases with graphic sexual 2011 Meeting and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Sciences and Optometry, UC Berkeley. images come from Athens itself; Masculinities Afloat: The PHILOSOPHY / IHR Continent: Life and Death in the instead, vases with erotic images were 02 Fragile Gender of Filipino The Philosophy Department at the Russian Pale of Settlement, Nathaniel Among the Missing: sold on the export market, and more Migrant Sailors University of California, Santa Cruz SEPTEMBER 2011 Deutsch has translated An-sky’s 19 Operations in Recovering specifically to Etruria. Thus we must CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES is proud to have hosted the 2011 questionnaire into English for the first Bodies re-evaluate the use of these images Speaker: Steve McKay, Associate Meeting of the Pacific Study Group Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian time, placing it within a rich historical HUMANITIES DIVISION / IHR in assessing Athenian values: we find Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz of the North American Kant Society 24 Philosophy of Non-dualism & context. Collaborating with Deutsch Speaker: Lisa Jean Moore, medical an Athenian pottery industry with an November 12-13, 2011. its Modern Transformation and inspired by her deep interest sociologist and Professor of Sociology astute marketing sense that distorts The Missing Body: Authority, SATYAJIT RAY FILM AND STUDY CENTER in Jewish women’s folk traditions, and Gender Studies at Purchase Athenian cultural identity to appeal to 03 Immunity, and Objectivity in Speaker: Karan Singh, President, Indian Debra Olin has created illuminating College, State University of New York. foreign perceptions of Greek culture. Early Greek Medical Writing Council of Cultural Relations, New artworks that represent and explore The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics ANCIENT STUDIES Most events are free and open to Delhi; Poet; Philosopher; Musician; the dangerous, magical, and, above all, Lecture is a lively forum for the Presented by the UCSC Society of the Speaker: Brooke Holmes, Assistant the public. If you are interested in Former Governor of Kashmir; Indian powerful experience of pregnancy and discussion and exploration of Archaeological Institute of America Professor of Classics, Princeton joining our mailing list, please Cabinet Member; and Ambassador to childbirth in the Pale of Settlement. ethics-related challenges in human and the UC President’s Chair in Ancient University send an email to [email protected] the U.S. endeavors. Studies

24 25 What You See Is What You Get: On the Contrary: Pragmatic “What Is a Reader?” Day of Situating Sustainability Queering the History of the 14 Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and 18 Strengthening and Disjunctive 26 Events FEBRUARY 2012 06 Discourse in Shanghai: 15 Communist Left in the United the Secret History of Aesthetic Syllogism TEAGLE WORKING GROUP Global Flows and Urban States in 1970s LA SANTA CRUZ PHILOSOPHY & LINGUISTICS What Is a Reader? is a multi-campus Can the President be the Transformations in a Warming CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH CLUSTER RESEARCH CLUSTER project supported by the Teagle 01 Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, World Speaker: Bettina Apthekar, Speaker: Scott Saul, Associate Speaker: Laurence R. Horn, Professor of Foundation’s Big Questions in the Executive Authority and URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH CLUSTER Distinguished Professor of Feminist Professor of American Studies and Linguistics, Director of Undergraduate Disciplines initiative. Established in Historical Memory Speaker: Julie Sze, Professor of Studies and History, UC Santa Cruz English, UC Berkeley Studies, Yale University 2009 by faculty members in English CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES American Studies, UC Davis and Literature departments from Speaker: Alice Yang, Associate Urban Form, Minority Identity, At the Limit of Representation: Mills College, Stanford University, UC Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz Faces of the Self 17 and Narrative Drift in Altaf 30 Neoliberalism, Media, and Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, the group 08 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Tyrewala’s No God In Sight African American Visibility seeks to understand undergraduate Bridge to Babylon: Lecture on Speaker: Vanita Seth, Associate LITERATURE DEPARTMENT / IHR CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES literacy today in historical perspective 02 Jewish Middle Eastern Music Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz Speaker: Gautam Premnath, Assistant Speaker: Herman Gray, Professor of and its implications for the study of CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Professor of English, UC Berkeley Sociology, UC Santa Cruz literature at the college level. Please Speaker: Yair Dalal, composer, violinist, What Latinos Are Reading see: whatisareader.stanford.edu. oud player, and singer 10 LATINO LITERARY CULTURES PROJECT / We Were Adivasis: Collective Choosing Venice: Seduction, PROYECTO CULTURAS LITERARIAS LATINAS 22 Aspiration in an Indian 30 Henry James, and the Wings of Labor Across the Food System Bringing together writers and Scheduled Tribe the Dove 03 CENTER FOR LABOR STUDIES editors, this symposium explored the CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Food system workers are often conditions of possibility for Latino Speaker: Megan Moodie, Assistant Gershom Gorenberg: Speaker: Alide Cagidemetrio, Professor a glaring absence in discussions of literature today, focusing on its less- Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa 14 Distinguished Alumni Lecture of Anglo-American Literature, the contemporary global food system, Cruz STEVENSON COLLEGE / IHR University of Venice Ca’ Foscari even though they are employed in Speaker: Gershom Gorenberg, some of the most labor-intensive Phonologically Conditioned American-born Israeli historian, industries within the entire economy, 24 Morphology journalist, and blogger among them agricultural field work, CROSSLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS IN JANUARY 2012 food processing, food distribution, and PHONOLOGY-SYNTAX RESEARCH CLUSTER Digital Princess: Towards an restaurants of all kinds. The new food Speaker: Mary Paster, Assistant 16 Open-Access Online Archive of Critical Description After localism privileges questions of “where Professor and Chair of the Department Renaissance Correspondence 18 Progress food comes from” over “how” and of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES “who” questions about the conditions Pomona College Speaker: Deanna Shemek, Professor of Speaker: Anna Tsing, Professor of under which food is grown, shipped, explored popular edges. Panelists Literature, UC Santa Cruz Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz processed, cooked, served, and sold. discussed the conditions of a U.S. Elephants for Want of Towns? Latino literature–its varied audiences, 28 New Light on Old Cities in West A Public Dialogue with Jean Colonial Erotopolitics: the kinds of literacy it presupposes Africa’s Atlantic Age 16 Baumgarten 25 Customary Law and Migrant or fosters. Panelists explored the ANCIENT STUDIES CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Labor Sexuality following questions: How do Latino Speaker: J. Cameron Monroe, Assistant Jean Baumgarten, Professor and CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES children and young adults come to see Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre Speaker: Neville Hoad, Associate themselves as readers or as authors? Cruz National de la Recherche Scientifique, Professor of English and Women’s and Labor Across the Food System What genres and language modalities Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives, Gender Studies, University of Texas at advanced research and advocacy by are most popular, most inventive, Sowing the Seeds of Civil Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Austin bringing key scholars and advocates most effective in creating a Latino 29 Society: Russia’s Garden Sociales; Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor to Santa Cruz for discussions of the reading public? And in the wake of the Democracy of History, Co-Director of the Center critical role of labor and social justice controversial Tucson school district CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES for Jewish Studies, Director of the in remaking the global food system. book banning, what are Latinos not Speaker: Melissa Caldwell, Professor of Institute for Humanities Research, UC reading? Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz

26 27 The Politics of Work Women of Melos How to Conceptualize Extreme Trickster’s Children: Jewishness Crafting an Elite Russian- 29 POETRY AND POLITICS RESEARCH CLUSTER 07 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES APRIL 2012 11 Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern 17 and the Generations of 25 Jewish Identity: Subjectivity Speaker: Craig Dworkin, Speaker: Peter Euben Theodicies Anthropology and Gender in Diaries of Professor of English, University of Utah Emeritus Research Professor, Political The Secret Mark: Second CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Zinaida Poliakova Science and Classical Studies; 02 Edition or Forgery? Speaker: Isabelle Delpla, Assistant Speaker: Jonathan Boyarin, Leonard CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow ANCIENT STUDIES Professor of Philosophy, University of and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Speaker: ChaeRan Freeze, Associate Emeritus, Duke University Speaker: Charles Hedrick, Sr., Emeritus Montpellier III Professor of Jewish Thought, University Professor in Jewish History, Brandeis MARCH 2012 Distinguished Professor of Religious of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: Studies, Missouri State University Migration and Ethnic Studies Real Food vs. Affordable Food: 08 Interfaith Perspectives on 12 BODIES, BORDERS, AND VIOLENCE Pig Patients and their All I Want is Some Honest 07 Can we have both? Economic Justice, and its Why Jews left Morocco: RESEARCH CLUSTER 18 Personalities 25 Answers to My Questions: STUDIES OF FOOD AND THE BODY MRP implications for the worldwide 03 Different Narratives CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Tracking Argumentation and Speaker: Tracie McMillian, freelance Occupy movement CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Speaker: Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl, Stance in Online Politican journalist; Senior Fellow at the HUMANITIES DIVISION / IHR Speaker: Emanuela Trevisan-Semi, Ph.D. Fellow at the Center for Medical Debate Schuster Institute for Investigative Speakers: Ched Myers, Bartimaeus Professor of Modern Hebrew and Science and Technology Studies, STEVENSON COLLEGE / IHR Journalism, Brandeis University. Cooperative Ministries; Rabbi and Jewish Studies, Ca’ Foscari University University of Copenhagen, and Visiting Speaker: Pranav Anand, Assistant Congregational Cantor Paula Marcus, Fellow of the Science and Justice Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Temple Beth El; Imam Zaid Shakir, Fictions of the Holocaust Working Group, UC Santa Cruz American Muslim scholar; Dr. Inder 04 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Santa Cruz to Wall Street Mohan Singh, Chardi Kalaa Foundation Speaker: Hayden White, Rabindranath Tagore 150th 27 HUMANITIES DIVISION & THE IHR Professor Emeritus of History of 21 Anniversary with Aparna Sen East Coast Distinguished Alumni Lives in the Balance: The Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz SATYAJIT RAY FILM & STUDY CENTER Lecture Speaker: Craig Schiffer, Finance 13 United States, the Dominican Speaker: Aparna Sen, actress and and Investment Banker; Cowell, Class Republic, and the Rescue of This symposium brought together feminist filmmaker of 1978 Jews during World War II scholars roused by recent legislation CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES targeting migrants and ethnic studies, Decolonizing Queer Space: Speaker: Allen Wells, Roger Howell, such as Arizona’s SB 1070, one of the 25 Race, Sexuality and the Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin most draconian anti-immigration Production of the Real College measures in the United States, and CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES HB 2281, the 2010 prohibition on Speaker: Pedro di Pietro, Visiting Like Cats and Dogs ethnic studies in public schools. Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz; 14 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Topics addressed included language, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Speaker: Akira Mizuta Lippit, labor, indigeneity, nativist populism, Humanities and Townsend Fellow, Tracie McMillan discussed her work for Professor, Comparative Literature, state surveillance, violence, trauma, UC Berkeley; Research Affiliate, The American Way of Eating: Undercover East Asian Languages and Cultures, displacement, culture wars, and Center for the Interdisciplinary Study at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and University of Southern California; Chair education. Taken together, the works of Philosophy, Interpretation, and the Dinner Table, which chronicled her of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic The Jew in the Crown presented shed light on the nexus of Culture, Binghamton University experience in three undercover jobs Arts 04 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES migration and Latino studies, assess across the American food system: Speaker: Clive Sinclair, Fellow of the state of this field, and explored the Cormac McCarthy, Roberto California farmworker, produce clerk in the Royal Society of Literature possibilities for its future. 25 Bolaño, and the Natural History a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City of Destruction MAY 2012 Applebee’s kitchen wretch. Weaving Secret Mark: The Scholarly West Coast Conference on LITERATURE DEPARTMENT / IHR policy and agricultural economics into 05 Firestorm that Followed... 13 Formal Linguistics Speaker: Stephen Tatum, Professor personal narrative, McMillan explored ANCIENT STUDIES LINGUISTICS RESEARCH CENTER of English and Director of the Children and the Problem of what it would cost to grow food fairly. Speaker: Charles Hedrick, Sr., Professor The 30th West Coast Conference on Environmental Humanities Graduate 02 Agency Emeritus of Religious Studies, Missouri Formal Linguistics, was hosted by the Program, University of Utah CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES State University Department of Linguistics and the Speaker: Catherine Jones, Assistant Linguistics Research Center. Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz

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Humanities Undergraduate Variable Agreement: The An Evening with David Talbot 03 Research Award (HUGRA) 04 Morphosyntax of Syntactic 22 HUMANITIES DIVISION AND THE IHR Presentations Binding Speaker: David Talbot, founder INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH and CEO of the San Franciso based HUGRA awards support and Speaker: Matthew Tucker, IHR Fellow, web magazine Salon, author of Season Deanna Shemek, Professor of Literature encourage undergraduate research Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistics, UC Santa of the Witch. in the humanities. See page 11 for Cruz details Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Deanna Shemek, a scholar of the period, from statecraft to child rearing, Renaissance Studies at the University Vaclav Havel and the Politics 23 Geopolitics Italian Renaissance, has been teaching and they convey this information from of Toronto. She has also written a Emergent Communities in 09 and Practice of Hope CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES in UCSC’s Literature department the perspective of a female participant companion book, which considers 04 Experimental Writing CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Speaker: Anjali Arondekar, since 1990. With broad interests in observer with a passion for human the archive thematically and takes POETRY AND POLITICS RESEARCH CLUSTER Speaker: Loren Goldman, Assistant Associate Professor of Feminist the early modern period, she studies relations. on the challenge of interpreting the This conference was organized around Professor, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Studies, UC Santa Cruz the emergence of women as writers, formulaic art of letter writing in early experimental writing and its many, in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow, artists, and rulers in the context of The project of delving into Isabella modern Italy. While these two books varying communities including UC Berkeley Surviving Humanism: Italian humanism, Italian city states, d’Este’s archive has been a huge will greatly contribute to public performance art collaborations, 30 Petrarchan Autobiography and and the new merchant middle class. undertaking. Isabella is most famous knowledge, the 800 letters that will small press publishing and editorial ‘Put One More “S” in the USA’: Ecology Her first book, Ladies Errant: Wayward as a female version of the multi- appear in print constitute only 5% of projects, virtual and digital work, 10 Pamphlet Literature and the CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Women and Social Order in Modern talented “Renaissance man.” Her the outgoing letters and none of the academic affiliations, and intersecting Productive Fiction of the Black Speaker: Michael Ursell, Visiting Italy (Duke University Press, 1998) construction of a personal studiolo incoming correspondence. aesthetic, social and political identities Nation Thesis Assistant Professor of Literature, UC examined literary, historical, artistic, where she displayed Renaissance and representations. The goal of INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH Santa Cruz and legal accounts of female knights, books, cameos, antiquities, and In order to preserve the archive, this conference was to embrace Speaker: Trevor Joy Sangrey, IHR prostitutes, and poets as figures who paintings that have since made improve accessibility, and provide the productive and generative Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Graphic Novelists on Film seemed to pose a threat to the social their way to internationally famous enhanced visualization, Shemek has connotations of these two terms as Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz 31 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES order of 16th-century Italy. Shemek museums such as the Louvre in Paris created the Digital Princess Project, innovative acts and encounters that Speaker: Sam Ball, film maker then turned her attention to the non- put her in touch with artists such which aims to bring the entire corpus are always in the process of both The Burdens of Aspiration: literary writings found in the archive as Michelangelo and Leonardo da of Isabella’s letters into the digital venturing to do something previously 14 Schools, Youth, and Success in belonging to Isabella d’Este (1474- Vinci. Shemek’s work also focuses on realm. Heading up an international untried, and questioning and testing the Divided Worlds of Silicon 1539), princess of the early modern Isabella’s chancery, the office that team of scholars from the United the very boundaries and mores, Valley Italian city state of Mantua. Isabella’s filed her incoming correspondence States, Italy, Scotland, Australia, and however contingent, established by URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH CLUSTER surviving letters shed precious light and produced her contracts, decrees, Italy, Shemek is currently finalizing the those attempts. Of particular interest Speaker: Elsa Davidson, Assistant on virtually all aspects of life in the and other official papers. Isabella’s software platform for Digital Princess. was how writing communities might Professor of Anthropology, Montclair archive offers an unusually Funders thus far include the Italian be changing historically in the early State University detailed example of how Ministry of Culture, UCHRI (UC Irvine twenty-first century, and how writers a 16th-century court Humanities Research Institute), the theorize and make use (or not) of Dismantling the Plutonium functioned. It contains 53 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, various conceptualizations and 16 Curtain: Local Knowledge and volumes of copybooks, and the UCSC Committee on Research. practices of community. the Great Soviet and American comprising a total of 15,884 Ultimately, the project will translate Plutonium Disasters of Isabella’s letters plus her materials from manuscript culture CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES JUNE 2012 incoming mail. Shemek has into digital media, create world- Speaker: Kate Brown, Associate read all of the copybooks wide access to Italian Renaissance Professor of History, University of in manuscript form, and documents, foster a virtual community Maryland, Baltimore Blood Libel in Late Imperial she has transcribed, edited, of teachers and learners, and ensure 05 Russia: Popular Antisemitism, and translated 800 letters the virtual longevity of historical Religion and Politics in Sikhism the Occult and the Trial of for a print edition that subjects who, on the model of the 16 SIKH AND PUNJABI STUDIES Mendel Beilis will be published by the ancients, desired nothing so much as Speaker: Tarlochan Singh Nahal, CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES An autograph letter of Isabella to her husband, dated 6 April 1490. Archivio di Stato, Centre for Reformation and their own immortality. Sikh historian; Senior Staff Technical Speaker: Robert Weinberg, Professor of Mantova, printed with permission. Writer, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. History, Swarthmore College

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Academy of Martial and Internal Arts Judith Haas and Gordon Bigelow Brian Peter Raisbeck Alan and Ellen Alquist Tom and Marlene Haskell Sondra Ricar Naomi Andrews and Daniel Levin Helen and Will Webster Foundation Larry Robinson and Cynthia Kishi Andromeda Foundation Gail Hershatter Donna and Paul Saffren Bettina Aptheker and Kate Miller Isa Howard-Cohen Jeremy M. Samuels Jean Gary Barowy Intertidal Farms L. Kim Saunders June Beittel Charles and Debra Ivons Daniel Schorr FUNDING SOURCES Bertha N. Melkonian Trust Linda Johnson Barbara and Mark Schultz Elizabeth Bethel Barry Katz Marc Shaffer and Karen Eisenberg Extramural Funds * $563,322 51% Jennifer and Michael Bethel Stephanie Klein and Larry Baer SkinCare by Alanna UCSC Division of Humanities $164,802 15% Bhandari Foundation Tehya Kopp and Kenneth Little Eric Krabbe Smith UC Humanities Network $100,000 9% Adam Christopher Brown Kuumbwa Jazz Center Gregory and Jessica Sterling Jocelyn and David Brown Thomas and Julia La Grua Christy and David Story Gifts, Contributions, Other Funds ______$269,930 25% Matt W. Chew Spence L’Atelier Salon Janet and Alex Sydnor $1,098,054 Barbara Christy Timothy and Barbara Leach Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa Matthew J. Ciranni Literary Guillotine Robert E. Thaler Ronnie Cohen Logos Books and Records Georges Y. Van Den Abbeele Coldspring Healing Arts Hans Mattingly Robert and Joylene Wagner Richard and Alison Crowell David Morrell and Kirsten Silva Gruesz Miriam Wallace and Ron Silver Barbara Brinson Curiel David Morrison Michael Weber and Frances Spivy-Weber Teresa de Lauretis Museum of Art & History Melinda Ann Weinstein Robert and Gerilyn Diamond Akira and Hideko M Nagamine Philip Eric Whalen Vincent R. DiGirolamo and April Masten Janet Nagamine Howard Winant and Debbie Rogow Chelsea Digumarthi Dolores Therese Osterhoudt Rebecca Wolff Annette Emery and Patrick Cody Jason Ow Yang Xue Arthur and Pam Evans Pacific Cookie Company PROGRAM EXPENSES Farmers Insurance Group Marilyn and Gary Patton University Support: Carla A. Frecerro Margaret Poppino and Gary McDonald Division of Humanities, UCSC Faculty Research Support (Fellowships, Research Clusters) $60,400 6% Dale Friedman and Joan Bradus Praxis Project Executive Vice Chancellor, UCSC Graduate and Undergraduate Research Support $119,495 11% Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Prevention Institute Vice Chancellor for Research, UCSC Co-sponsorships $12,500 1% Linda and Robert Gordon Peter and Rita Prindle Dean of Graduate Studies, UCSC Leslie Hamanaka and Tania Gornik Public Health Institute UC Humanities Network Extramurally Funded Programming $718,752 65% Christine Anne Gunlogson Jose M. Rabasa Administration ______$186,907 17% $1,098,054

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