UNIVERSITY OF , SANTA CRUZ [ Institute for Humanities Research ]

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 research projects, graduate and Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History undergraduate education, and Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies public programs. Established Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies in 1999, the IHR has grown dramatically since its inception ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR and now serves as an umbrella for Irena Polić a multitude of research centers, research clusters, and multi- PROGRAM COORDINATOR campus research projects. Courtney Mahaney

With these and other initiatives, the EVENT COORDINATOR IHR serves as an incubator for new Shann Ritchie ideas and provides crucial support to faculty, graduate students, and GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS undergraduate students at every Jessica Beard, Literature stage of the research process. One Jen Gray-O’Connor, Sociology of our key functions is to identify promising students and help them UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTS become productive researchers Cole Carothers , Feminist Studies & Theater Arts through mentorship programs, Jenna Mohdamin Tamimi, Feminist Studies & Theater Arts fellowships, and internship opportunities. STEERING COMMITTEE Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History 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/ [ Director’s Letter ]

What are we doing when we do the The University of California is the Humanities and why? These basic finest public university system in questions drive our work at the the world. A crucial part of what Institute for Humanities Research (IHR). makes us great—and what makes us The core subjects of the Humanities different from so many universities – ethics, history, language, identity, around the globe—is the central role religion, and so on – are also the core of the Humanities in our educational elements of human experience, in experience, not only in the curriculum general, even if we sometimes talk but also in the vibrant intellectual life 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 in the public square. tradition of innovation, creativity, and collaboration in the Humanities. Over the past year, we have sought in a variety of ways to link what we do Please join us in celebrating this in the university to a wider network heritage and building on this of people, ideas, and activities. We foundation. are especially proud of the second annual University of California Society of Fellows gathering that we hosted at the Museum of Art & History in downtown Santa Cruz, which drew close to two hundred and fifty visitors from the broader community. Nathaniel Deutsch

01 [ Faculty Fellows ]

Faculty Fellows Neda Atanasoski Catherine Jones Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Assistant Professor of History IHR Fellowships provide faculty in the FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, IHR Humanities much needed time and resources to pursue their research. Afterimages of Empire: Adapting Race Intimate Reconstructions: Children in In 2011-12, faculty fellows presented and Freedom in U.S. Cold War Culture, Postemancipation Virginia their research on campus, participated 1950-2000 in conferences, produced publications, Support from the IHR has enabled me and collaborated with scholars at My book project, Imperial Afterlife: to dedicate valuable time to revising other universities. Postsocialist Temporalities of Race, my book manuscript, Intimate Recon- Religion, and Humanitarianism, ad- structions: Children in Postemancipa- In 2011-12, the IHR also hosted two dresses instances of U.S. humanitarian tion Virginia. The dramatic legislative UCSC faculty fellows from the UC intervention in Afghanistan, Bosnia action that usually defines Reconstruc- Society of Fellows. The UC Society and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. I am tion set new boundaries for interac- of Fellows enables the University interested in how the entangled no- tions among southerners but could of California to support excellence tions of humanitarianism and atrocity not do the work of incarnating new among its humanities researchers in U.S. culture and politics produce a freedoms or recalibrating the privileg- while encouraging them to exercise racial map of freedom in the postso- es attached to whiteness. By following leadership in the humanities both cialist era. Although in post-Cold War children through Virginia’s tumultuous within the University and in the public geopolitics “unfreedom” is no longer post-Civil War period, my work uncov- sphere. thought of through the Soviet-com- ers the tangled relationship between munist world, but rather the Islamic the postemancipation reconfiguration world, the U.S. continues to justify of domestic relationships and evolving humanitarian imperialism as a struggle understandings of public responsibil- for global racial and sexual redemp- ity for children. Children shaped the tion by racializing ideological and reconstruction of Virginia not only religious formations conceived of as through purposeful action, but also distant from U.S. modernity. through their capacity to help define community interests in the absence of slavery.

02 Matt O’Hara Dorian Bell Dana Frank Associate Professor of History Assistant Professor of Literature Professor of History FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS FACULTY FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS

The History of the Future in Mexico Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Labor’s Own Empire: The AFL-CIO’s Cold Empire in Nineteenth-Century France War in Honduras, 1954-1980 How has our relationship to the future changed over time? This is a The book project that I am completing During my fellowship year I made fundamental question about human this year, entitled Frontiers of a great deal of progress writing my experience that, surprisingly, historians Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in book about the AFL-CIO’s Cold War have not considered in great detail. Nineteenth-Century France, traces the in Honduras, while conducting final My current book project takes up this intertwined histories of French anti- research and reframing the book to problem, examining the way that Semitism and imperialism. Drawing place it more directly in contemporary historical subjects in eighteenth- and on a body of anti-Semitic newspapers, context. In my role as one of the nineteenth-century New Spain/Mexico treatises, and novels, as well as on few academic experts on modern engaged the future. Using archival representations of empire, the book Honduras I also published an op-ed documents from Spain, Mexico and argues that French colonial expansion in and a cover the , I am researching a helped French anti-Semitism adopt story for The Nation magazine, and diverse range of practices, from topics the political, racializing guise that met with the offices of over thirty U.S. that we usually associate with reli- would haunt the twentieth century. Senators and Members of Congress gious studies (divination, witchcraft, I propose that, conversely, anti- and with the U.S. Ambassador to preaching) to others that are typically Semitism contributed to the imperial Honduras. I was interviewed by the domain of economic historians project’s ideological elaboration and NPR, the Associated Press, BBC, CNN, (budgeting, insurance, demand and public acceptance. By placing into Democracy Now! and many other supply forecasting). The support of conversation scholarship on anti- media outlets. the IHR Fellowship was critical to the Semitism and imperialism, Frontiers successful completion of this project, of Hate offers fresh perspective on since it provided time to analyze these how circulations between metropole research materials and begin writing and colony shaped the emergence of chapter drafts. I look forward to com- modern European racial thought. pleting a draft of the book manuscript in the coming academic year.

03 [ Graduate Fellows ]

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

05 Aliyah Khan Sara Orning Laurel Peacock Literature Literature Literature SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, GRADUATE DIVISION DIVISION DIVISION

“Calling the Magician”: The Fleshly Embodiments: Early Modern The Poetics of Affect in Contemporary Metamorphic Indo-Caribbean Monsters, Victorian Freaks, and Feminist Poetry Twentieth-Century Affective I am a 2012 PhD graduate of Literature Spectatorship Thanks to this award, I completed a and Feminist Studies. My major field chapter about contemporary poet is contemporary world literature, and My dissertation seeks to critique the Brenda Hillman and an article version I specialize in the literatures of the Cartesian mind/body split by way of that will soon be published. I argue Caribbean and the Islamic world. The historicizing and theorizing it. The first that key to understanding Hillman’s IHR Summer Research Fellowship part of the project traces a genealogy important and challenging work is allowed me to complete my first of the split in the relationship between a consideration of how she situates dissertation chapter. I was also the human and non-human in early the contemporary subject within fortunate to be the recipient of the modern European monster accounts an environment that is affected by 2011-12 UC President’s Dissertation- and Victorian medical science texts humans (through climate change), and Year Fellowship. My dissertation and freak shows. The second part that in turn affects them, in a poetics examines twentieth-century proposes a theory of the embodied, of Seasonal Affective Disorder. This Caribbean constructions of race and rather than Cartesian, film spectator. chapter fits within my dissertation, gender in multi-ethnic Trinidad and The generous Summer Dissertation a series of studies of contemporary Guyana. My project has literary and Fellowship from the IHR allowed me poets writing in a feminist political stakes, as it recovers shared to work full-time on my project during experimental tradition that challenges colonial racial histories to counter the summer of 2011, which in turn boundaries of gender, as well as violent ethnic nationalisms. With the ensured that my dissertation was between human and environment. assistance of the IHR, the UC, and completed as planned. I was awarded my department, I was able to give my PhD in June, 2012. back to our community by designing and teaching three UCSC courses: Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Muslim Literature, and Introduction to Creative Writing. I am grateful for their generous support of my work.

06 Elyse Banks Jessica Beard Ryan Bennett History Literature Linguistics SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR

Catholic Interracialism in New Orleans, “Bound--a--Trouble--:” Reading Space in Foot structure and cognitive bias: an 1945-Present: A Historical Survey the Dickinson Archive artificial grammar study with Implications for the Post-Katrina Moment I am a doctoral candidate in the My IHR Summer Fellowship funded Literature program at UCSC. My two weeks of research in Japan. The IHR Summer Research Fellowship dissertation looks at Emily Dickinson’s While there, I ran a series of artificial I received in 2011 allowed me to unpublished manuscripts, theorizing grammar experiments with Japanese travel to New Orleans, Louisiana multiple reading strategies that speakers. These experiments where I began preliminary research emphasize the supposedly isolated established that native speakers of on my dissertation. My dissertation poet’s investigations and interactions Japanese and English learn linguistic focuses on the limits and possibilities with her outside world. One of these stress in very similar ways, despite of Catholic interracial organizing reading strategies relies upon notions the fact that Japanese does not itself from the 1950s to the present. The of publication that move outside of make use of stress (it is a ‘pitch accent’ fellowship supported both my the construct of the book and into language which uses grammatical stay and travel throughout the city a digital edition. Generous funding and lexical tone rather than English- and it also financed the purchase from the IHR last summer enabled my like stress). This finding suggests of documents within a number of enrollment in the Digital Humanities that humans may be predisposed amazing collections housed at three Summer Institute where I undertook to approach the task of language archives, the Amistad Research Center, a week-long intensive course in learning by way of some very Special Collections room at University text-encoding as well as multiple particular strategies. This research of New Orleans and the Archdiocese workshops on digital scholarship. constitutes a major portion of my of New Orleans. Without the funding dissertation. provided by the IHR I would not have been able to complete the research for Chapter 2 of my dissertation on the road to Catholic school integration.

07 Troy Crowder Mark Norris Alicia Romero History Linguistics History SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, IHR

Creeping Blight: A History of Tropical Feature Representation, Manipulation, Portrait of a Barrio: Memory and Popular Agriculture and Pandemic Disease, and Realization: The View from Estonian Culture in Barelas, NM 1900-1969 1850 – 2000 and Icelandic Nominals I had the great opportunity to spend Funds from the Institute for My research focuses on two two months in Albuquerque, New Humanities Research were understudied domains in generative Mexico thanks to the IHR 2011 instrumental in securing archival morphosyntax: 1) agreement between Summer Research Fellowship. During materials for my research on the nominal elements (e.g., nouns and these several weeks, I interviewed history of tropical crop diseases from adjectives), or concord, and 2) the community residents and combed 1850 onward. IHR support allowed me structure of nominals in Estonian through archives at the University to travel to my main archives in the and Icelandic. I argue for a novel of New Mexico, the Albuquerque United Kingdom including the British analysis of concord that formally Museum, and the National Hispanic Library, Cambridge University, the distinguishes it from certain other Cultural Center. This IHR award Royal Agricultural Society of England, forms of agreement (e.g., subject- provided me not only the money, the Kew National Archives, and, verb agreement). My investigation but the time to conduct extensive especially, the Royal Botanical Gardens of nominal morphosyntax focuses research for the dissertation. The at Kew. The Kew Gardens archive is of primarily on constructions like ‘a bag data gathered during my stay in New major importance for my study, and of flour’ or ‘some of the children’ (called Mexico served as the basis for two IHR funding allowed me to secure partitives). The complexity of partitives separate conference papers delivered over 2,600 copies of archival material makes them an ideal domain to test at the American Studies Association on my project, including field reports, the limits of phenomena squarely on meeting in the fall of 2011 and at the epidemiological patterns, colonial the border of syntax and morphology Southwest Oral History Association government notes, crop reports, and (e.g., agreement). meeting in the spring of 2012. scientific advisory notes.

08 Graduate Research [ & Travel Grants ]

Sara R. Smith History In addition to our fellowship programs, the IHR awards grants to humanities 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 Insurgent Labor: Rank-and-File Teachers research, and present their work at national workshops and conferences. Organizing in California After WWII Jessica Barbata, History During the summer of 2011, the Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana IHR Summer Research Fellowship Purpose: Archival research at the American-Italian Research Library and allowed me to complete the archival the University of New Orleans studying the Italian immigrant experience in research for my dissertation chapter Louisiana in the latter part of the nineteenth century on the faculty’s role in the Third World Student Strike at San Francisco State Xiaofei Gao, History College, 1968 – 1969. Last summer I Destination: Manchuria was also able to conduct numerous Purpose: Research on Chinese migration to Manchuria from the late- interviews with faculty and student nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century leaders of the strike. This chapter fits into a larger dissertation that examines Thomas Genova, Literature rank-and-file teachers’ organizing in Destination: Columbia, South Carolina California after World War II. Each of Presented at the “Cultural and Linguistic Intersections of the Transatlantic” my chapters examines an alternative conference at the University of South Carolina kind of unionism, one in which union democracy and the struggle for social Amanda Shuman, History justice are central to union organizing. Destination: Chicago, Illinois Presented at the “Reading the Revolution: Locating and Interpretating Sources on 1950-60’s China” workshop at the University of Chicago

Andrea Thompson, Linguistics Destination: Berlin, Germany Presented at the “(Mis)matches in clause linkage” conference at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

09 [ Reporting from the Field ]

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 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 . disruption to the rest of Beirut’s architecture.

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. sky, hidden from view by the pirated Theory (SECT), this year hosted by As a graduate student focusing on electricity lines which hung like a the American University of Beirut, modern Japanese history, my time ceiling of ink blots, stretched between Lebanon. Now in its eighth year, in Lebanon was a dual learning 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.

10 Humanities Undergraduate [ 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

Jose Guerrero, Literature/ Cory Schiff, History 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

Michael Hinojosa, History Matilda Morrison, Linguistics Jason Truchon, Philosophy ROUTES – Design Group A Dummy in German What is Called Questioning? Mentor: Alan Christy, Associate Mentor: Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Mentor: Abraham Stone, Associate Professor of History Linguistics Professor of Philosophy

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

11 [ Research Clusters ]

Borders, Bodies, and Violence Its members investigate languages as diverse as Arabic, Bulgarian, Estonian, Irish, K’ichee’ (Mayan), Maltese, Russian, In 2011-12, the Borders, Bodies, and Violence (BBV) research and Tz’utujiil (Mayan). cluster had two main purposes: to serve as a forum for the development of members’ research projects and to create Thanks to the IHR’s and nurture a more expansive and vibrant space for the Research Cluster study of migration and violence on our campus. To meet the funding, in 2011-12 the first goal, we organized our activities around readings and group’s UCSC members dialogue, co-sponsoring several campus visits last year with continued conducting the Latino Literary Cultures cluster, the Living Writers Series linguistic research and Feminist Studies. Cluster members (Cruz, Espinosa, with native speakers Ramírez, Rivas, Schaeffer-Grabiel, and Watson) shared some local to the Bay Area 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/ CrISP.html). The group was also able to continue its tradition of inviting a Distinguished Faculty Visitor (Mary Paster, Pomona College) to the campus for two days of intellectual exchange, including talks by both Paster and the group’s graduate students.

In October 2012, CrISP will hold a workshop at Stanford Migration and Ethnic Studies symposium presenters University, funded by the National Science Foundation, where UCSC and Stanford CrISP participants will share their research Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, delivered the with prominent researchers in the field. closing remarks. Both panelists served as discussants for our cluster members’ paper presentations.

Latino Literary Cultures Project / Proyecto culturas literarias latinas Crosslinguistic Investigations in Phonology-Syntax The Latino Literary Cultures Project cluster, in addition to meeting for reading groups and co-sponsoring other events, Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) hosted a one-day symposium, ‘What Are Latinos Reading?’ explores the connection between the structure of words and on Friday, February 10, 2012. Bringing together writers and sentences (morphosyntax) and the sound systems associated editors, it explored the conditions of possibility for US Latino with them (phonology). The group is run jointly by linguistics literature today–its varied audiences, the kinds of literacy it faculty and graduate students at UCSC and Stanford, presupposes or fosters. Speakers included Gustavo Arellano who implement deep comparisons between unrelated (editor of the OC Weekly and author of three books including languages to evaluate theories of syntax-prosody interaction. Taco USA, Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal

12 History); Malín Alegría, a UCSC alumna and the author of This conference fostered discussion about the changing three Young Adult books; and longtime bilingual children’s character of contemporary writing communities and how book publisher turned author Theresa Hamman. Cluster authors and editors build community in their praxis. Invited member (and Kresge Provost) Juan Poblete moderated. This guests and participants included practicing artists, editors, well-attended event provoked a stimulating discussion on publishers, students, academics, and community activists, question such as: How do Latino children and young adults who presented papers, gave evening poetry readings, and come to see themselves as readers or as authors? What shared their publishing projects with an audience of over 70 genres and language modalities are most popular, most members of the Santa Cruz community. We were also proud inventive, most effective in creating a Latino reading public? to showcase undergraduate and graduate student work And in the wake of the controversial Tucson school district during the conference and book fair. All in all, the cluster book banning, what are Latinos *not* reading? created space for lively and passionate conversations about current scholarship in the field.

Gustavo Arellano, author and editor of OC Weekly

The LLCP also hosted a meeting of the new UC-wide Multicampus Research Group, the Latino Cultures Network, in December. This MRG, which also received renewal funding for 2012-13, is engaged in creating a multimedia digital resource on Latino cultural studies.

Tisa Bryant, California Institute of the Arts, one of the presenters at the “Emergent Communities and Contemporary Experimental Writing” conference. Poetry and Politics

The Poetry and Politics Research Cluster brings together faculty and graduate students for whom poetry plays ROUTES an important role as material for study and practice. The readings, conferences, and meetings the cluster facilitates During the 2011-12 academic year, the Center for the Study of help to shape notions of poetry—its histories and its Pacific War memories undertook two major events: a research possibilities—as a dynamic and changing category. trip to Japan and a workshop on the center’s digital projects.

During the 2011-12 academic year, and with assistance from In December 2011, co-Director Christy led sixteen The Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Literature undergraduate students on a twelve-day research tour to Department, , The Graduate Division, and The Japan as the final event of the center’s Nagamine Project. Graduate Student Association, the cluster hosted a successful With the generous support of JASSO (Japan Student Services two-day conference and book fair, “Emergent Communities Organization), Janet Nagamine, the Andromeda Foundation, and Contemporary Experimental Writing,” bringing together a Dominic Martinelli and others, the students travelled to Japan diverse range of contemporary writers, critics and publishers. to hold a series of workshops with students and faculty at

13 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 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 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 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 campus-wide events. In February 2012, Prof. Yoshimi Shun’ya of the University of 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 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 approaches to space and social justice. In addition, we seek to analyze the historically rooted and rapidly changing spatial dynamics that shape our own interurban region in and around Santa Cruz.

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 UCHRI California Studies grant proposal, entitled: “Critical Sustainabilities: Analyzing Competing Discourses of Urban Development in Northern California.”

Alan Christy with his students in Japan

Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group

During this past year, the Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy (SCLP) group hosted Professor Laurence Horn (Yale University) for a two-day visit (November 17, 18, 2011). Professor Horn is one of the great figures in modern pragmatics (the study of language in use), a subfield of linguistics that has its roots in Philosophy of Language. He is, therefore, an excellent choice of visitor for a group like ours, whose aim is to explore connections between those subdisciplines of Linguistics and Philosophy where the two fields overlap. We organized two events during Professor Horn’s visit: a reading group discussion, based on a previously distributed article, and a Linguistics Department colloquium. Both events were well attended and gave rise to lively and spirited discussion. Julie Sze, UC Davis, an Urban Studies speakers series guest lecturer

14 [ Inspiring Achievement ]

“I began working for the IHR four years ago as a first year college student. Since then, I have been able to attend a variety of events and conferences while learning valuable skills in the office that might come in handy if I pursue a career on a campus in the future. Working for the IHR has been one of the most rewarding and supportive experiences and I will truly miss the amazing staff at the Institute and the

Humanities Division! “ Cole Carothers with Event Coordinator, Shann Ritchie

Cole Carothers is driven. I implemented in my experience In the 2011-12 academic year, Cole as an organizer on campus. I have was awarded the Sabrina Greenfield A recent UCSC graduate, Cole never regretted switching my majors Memorial Award and Scholarship. This 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, 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 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 will always hold a special place in my and grow outside the classroom. Since Ten, Feminist Studies major in financial heart for the sciences, I realized quickly 2008 until Cole’s graudation in 2012, need. that my passion for the arts and a Cole worked as an assistant to the critical understanding of the world Event Coordinator for the Institute for This past summer, Cole relocated were crucial to my specific happiness Humanities Research. to New York to join City Year, an as a student. Feminist Studies gave Cole organized in various spaces on education focused, nonprofit me the platform to theorize around campus such as the Filipino Student organization that unites young people and put names to experiences that I Association, Cantu Queer Center, of all backgrounds for a year of full- lived everyday. Coupling this platform The Asian/Pacific Islander Resource time service to keep students in school with theater allowed me to express, Center, Engaging Education (e2), and and on track to graduation. advocate and work through these Rainbow Theater. At Rainbow Theater, critical knowledges. The material that Cole served as an intern, coordinator, I learned through Feminist Studies director, performer and community This article will also appear in the became an integral part of what member. Humanities Dean’s Fall 2012 Newsletter.

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.

16 17 [ Centers & Projects ]

Ancient Studies Center for Cultural Studies

The year 2011-12 saw enduring progress for Ancient Studies at UCSC. Perhaps the most notable of these was the establishment of a library for Ancient Studies; it is now operating, and has become the center of Ancient Studies and Classics, used for small seminars and lectures, for oral examinations, and for informal study groups. Private gifts have made it possible to have more substantial, permanent shelves built.

There has also been progress in the creation of a permanent, ongoing public lecture series in the archaeology of the ancient world, supported by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The series attracts an audience both from university and the town. In the past year Ancient Studies sponsored lectures on Ancient Greece (“Sex Sells But Who’s 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 Literature Michael Ursell 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 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 interdisciplinary inquiry by bringing faculty and graduate students together from across disciplinary divisions at UCSC and beyond for lively discussions in a weekly colloquium series.

This, the fifth and final year of Professor Carla Freccero’s directorship of the Center, featured work from a dynamic cross-section of fields, including science and animal studies, ancient and medieval literature, film, and race and sexuality studies. Speakers were encouraged to present experimental and in-progress work. This informal but structured workshop- like setting consistently led to lively and thought-provoking conversation. Among the many exciting speakers this year were two faculty whose contributions to the Center extend back to its founding. Both Professors Bettina Aptheker and We have seen a continued expansion of courses offered Professor Emeritus Hayden White spoke to capacity crowds. under the aegis of the Classical Studies major to include Presenting work from her current book project, Professor materials in the ancient world outside of Greece and Rome. Aptheker analyzed the history and politics of the Communist These include so far chiefly courses in the ancient Near East, Party of the United States (CPUSA) in relation to homophobia Judeo-Christian culture, and ancient Egypt. Next year we will and the former members who were themselves gay activists. for the first time be able to incorporate some course offerings Professor Emeritus White’s presentation, in complicating how in ancient India. historians fictionalize the past, discussed the many divergent ways we are taught to remember and memorialize the Holocaust.

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

Freccero ensured that the Center for Cultural Studies continued Over the past year, the Center for Jewish Studies hosted a series of events on campus, ranging from musical to flourish through a very difficult period of institutional performance and art exhibition, to film screenings and public lectures, many of them organized by visiting assistant reorganization and budget cuts. The heart of the Center has professor and Jim Joseph Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Paula Daccarett. Highlights included “Every always been the Wednesday colloquium series, at which local Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish 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 and the Q and A is not an afterthought, but rather a central feature of the occasion. For the past five years, Professor Freccero has organized and presided with spirit and verve over these weekly conversations, at the same time using the Center’s limited resources to publicize and incubate intellectual projects that have become conferences, research clusters, and other activities recognized across the campus and beyond. It is not ChaeRan Freeze, Brandeis University, and Nathaniel Deutsch, UC Santa Cruz an exaggeration to say that we in the Greater Humanities (an Deutsch at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery of ; intellectual formation that encompasses many scholars beyond the annual Helen Diller Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture delivered by Professor ChaeRan Freeze of Brandeis the Humanities Division proper) are in her debt for preserving University; and a concert by the Iraqi born Israeli violinist and oud master Yair Dalal. The Center continued to raise funds and expanding our intellectual life.” for the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies in honor of Professor Murray Baumgarten, the founder and – Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, UCSC longtime Director (and now, Co-Director) of Jewish Studies at the university. In addition to his many activities on campus, Professor Baumgarten participated in two international “CCS continues to play a valued role as the convenor of an gatherings this summer, one in on “The Novel and Theories of Love,” and offered a lecture in July, 2012 in Venice, exceptionally effective space for interdisciplinary engagement. Italy, for the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy on “Writing Memory, Performing History: Israel Zangwill and Modern Carla’s energy and wisdom in guiding the Center are appreciated Jewish Fiction;” he also serves on the Board of Directors of The Venice Center for International Jewish Studies (Centro by colleagues across the campus. I look forward to working with Veneziano Di Studi Ebraici Internazionali). Professor Deutsch was named to the Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust the new director to sustain and enhance this tradition.” Studies; published a new book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life 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

19 in the New American Haggadah (Little, Brown and Company, Center for Mediterranean Studies 2012), edited by Jonathan Safran Foer. With the support of major new grants from the David B. Gold Foundation, the The UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Koret Foundation, and the Chaim Schwartz Foundation, we Project has completed an extremely successful second year. look forward to an exciting 2012-2013. Our membership has grown to over 550 scholars world-wide, and we have carried out a number of exciting collaborations. Our core program of workshops and conferences was a Center for Labor Studies great success, with events at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the University of Colorado The UCSC Center for Labor Studies, founded in 2007, at Boulder (a new is dedicated to the study of working people, the labor partner). In addition movement, and the challenge of the broader global economy we organized sessions as it impacts the working people of California and beyond. at major conferences Through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and a range including the meeting of guest speakers, we focus, in particular, on the relationship of the Association between the labor movement (broadly defined), social for Spanish and movements, and democratic practices; on gender, race, and Portuguese Historical ethnic dynamics; and Studies (Lisbon), The Maritime Mediterranean workshop participants, on labor activism in the American UC San Diego international contexts. Historical Association We also address a wide (Chicago), and the American Academy of Religion (San spectrum of questions Francisco). In addition we were co-sponsors/organizers of related to the nature the 3rd Medworlds conference, an international meeting of work and working held in Salerno (Italy), and organized and led a workshop people’s lives and our at the annual Mediterranean Research Meeting convened goal is to serve UCSC at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). students, staff, and Palgrave/Macmillan has given us a new monograph series, faculty while reaching Mediterranean Studies, and we are moving ahead on out to the broader publications, including a book of essays by Perergine Horden community of the Central and Nicholar Purcell, A Companion to Mediterranean History Coast of California and (co-edited by Kinoshita and Horden), the first volumes of beyond. the Mediterranean Seminar and Can We Talk Mediterranean? (edited by Catlos and Kinoshita). Both Catlos and Kinoshita In 2011-12 the Center has focused its activities in two areas: were appointed to UCLA’s Center for Medieval and labor in the food system and immigrant work. Specifically, in Renaissance Studies, and Catlos took up an appointment as February 2012 we organized and hosted a major international Research Associate in Humanities at UCSC, while Kinoshita conference, “Labor Across the Food System,” featuring moved into position as PI. The year concluded with the kick- scholars, activists and several artists who traced the history off of the their third, successful NEH Summer Institute held and issues of food-related labor “from farm to fork.” In 2012, in Barcelona (Spain). This project is now the leader in the we also launched the new UC-wide Working Group on emerging discipline of Mediterranean Studies, and looking Labor, Immigration, and Changing Conceptions of Work, ahead, 2012–13 holds even more promise. funded by the UC Institute for Humanities Research, which explores immigrant work and workers across a broad range of historical periods and localities as well as from multiple disciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

20 Center for World History February, due in large part to a featured article in the New Yorker magazine. Nearly 320 people attended the gathering, Between June 27 – July 22, UCSC’s Center for World History which focused on Bleak House. A two-day mini-conference, hosted a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities called “Dickens! Author and Authorship in 2012” was partially Summer Seminar for Teachers. A total of fifteen participants funded by UCHRI, with matching funds from UCSC Dept. worked with seminar director Edmund Burke III on the theme of Literature, the IHR, Cowell College Sigfried and Elizabeth “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1914.” Puknat Endowment, and the Friends of the Dickens Project. The seminar represents a new approach to understanding the birth of the modern world economy. Participants learned how economic exchanges have transformed the world – Linguistics Research Center for example, by linking the lives of South Asian spinners, textile factory workers in the East Midlands, and consumers Under LRC auspices, UCSC faculty, students, and visitors in Europe, the Americas, and Australasia. Participants conduct research on the nature of language and also worked on individual projects including commodity communicate results and ideas to the larger community. “biographies” to be added to the Center for World History We host visitors, sponsor events, publish online, coordinate website. externally funded projects, and work more generally to enhance the environment for language research at UCSC and beyond. The Dickens Project

The Dickens Project is a multi-campus research consortium centered at UCSC. Established in 1981, consortium members currently include thirty-three American universities and eight overseas. The chief goal of the consortium is to promote research on the life, work, and times of Charles Dickens and to bring the results of this research before both a scholarly audience and the general public. WCCFL 30 conference attendees

During 2011-12, eleven research visitors came to UCSC under LRC sponsorship. They included faculty members and postdocs from Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US, and doctoral students from Argentina, Belgium, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, Norway, and the US. The highlight of our year was a major international conference -- WCCFL 30, the Thirtieth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. That event, sponsored by the LRC, with the help of Stevenson College, the Linguistics Department, and the Institute for Humanities Research, brought some 150 attendees to the campus from countries around the world between April The Project hosted a seminar for sixteen teachers, called 13th and April 15th. The program was selective (just 8% of “Great Adaptations,” in summer 2011, funded by a grant abstracts were accepted) and featured 27 talks in every area from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2012, of current theoretical work, along with two well-attended the Project was part of the worldwide celebration of the poster sessions. The event was especially notable for the large bicentenary of Dickens’ birth. The Project’s Director, Prof. John number of UCSC undergraduates who played an active role. 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

21 Sikh and Punjabi Studies Studies of Food and the Body

Professor Nirvikar The Multi-campus Research Program on Food and the Body Singh, Sarbjit Singh brings together humanities and social sciences faculty and Aurora Chair of Sikh graduate student scholars from across the UC campuses to and Punjabi Studies explore relationships between food, the body, and culture. 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 Associate in the also saw the the fruition of past workshops and retreats with Music Department, the publication of several books and articles that had been co-organized previously discussed by the group and the placement of the inaugural several alum in jobs and postdoctoral fellowships. conference in Sikh Nirvikar Singh, UC Santa Cruz and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz, held on November 10-12, 2011. Teagle Working Group

Leading and emerging scholars from the United States, Established in 2009 with faculty and graduate students in Canada, and England came together for the conference, English and Literature from Mills College, Stanford University, titled Sikh and Punjabi Studies: Achievements and New UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, “What Is A Reader?” studies Directions. Participants also included UCSC faculty, students literacy today in historical perspective and its implications for from several UC campuses, and prominent members of the the college literature classroom. California Sikh community. On January 26, the IHR and McHenry Library hosted a day There were two days of lively discussion of the current of events organized by the “What Is A Reader?” group (Tyrus and future state of the field, including history, philosophy, Miller, Juan Poblete, Deanna Shemek). The program included language, literature, political economy, musicology, and morning papers on teaching students about medieval books contemporary society. Dr. Inderjit Kaur presented some of and readers (Elisabeth Remak-Honnef, UCSC McHenry Library her work on Sikh musicology and Professor Singh served as Special Collections) and on settings for early modern reading discussant for papers on gender and on political economy. (Heidi Brayman Hacken, UC Riverside English). The afternoon Full details of the conference, participants and topics can be featured a discussion of published essays on libraries and found at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/sikhstudiesconference. other settings for reading; and a public talk by essayist, novelist, and historian of reading Alberto Manguel: “Homage The conference was preceded by a dinner at which Professor to Humpty Dumpty or, Can We Make Words Say What We Christopher Shackle of the University of London was honored Want Them to Say?” for his significant contributions to Sikh and Punjabi Studies, and Dr. Inder Mohan Singh, Chairman of the Chardi Kalaa These were the latest in a multi-campus series of events Foundation, gave a keynote presentation on “Guru Nanak’s that began with a conversation in 2008 about recent reports Message for a Flat, Interconnected World.” on the decline of reading in America. Dismayed but also curious and unconvinced, the group sought and won a “Fresh Other activities of the program included a new class, Thinking” and “Big Questions in the Disciplines” grant from “Introduction to the Sikhs,” taught by Professor Singh in Fall the Teagle Foundation (http://www.teaglefoundation.org/). 2011, and a talk by Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal on “Religion and Politics in Sikhism,” on May 16, 2012.

22 [ Living the Humanities ]

“Irena is having a big impact at the university,“ said Dean of Humanities Bill Ladusaw. “Because of her work, the public has a chance to encounter new ideas and have their understanding of familiar things deepened.”

Hanging in the bedroom of Irena pictures of distant galaxies and stores “Irena makes you think about why it Polić’s 4-year-old twins are two digital photos in the cloud. Science matters,” says Jim McCloskey, director long strands of colorful beads, cured Alexa’s cancer. of the Linguistics Research Center. each representing a procedure her “That’s really valuable to us; she gets daughter Alexa endured as she fought But the humanities are a different excited on your behalf.” off the tumor that attacked her liver story. when the girl was just two years old. That excitement was on display April 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 tough toddler, each one could stand an alumna (Cowell ‘01, linguistics; institute hosted “What Are We Doing for a night Polić spent caring for her master’s ‘03). “A lot of people outside When We Do the Humanities?,” a daughter and contemplating what it academia don’t know what the showcase of the best recent research all meant. humanities mean. I find that when in the UC system, and a bit of a I tell people they involve the study pressure cooker for researchers, who Of course this was long after she of linguistics, literature, philosophy, were called on to demonstrate the spent a year living in her basement history, religion, and ethics, they start utility of their work to a non-academic in her native Croatia while the Serbo- to listen because all of these fields are audience. Croatian war raged outside in the extremely relevant to our daily lives.” streets. “Living in war and having a Polić said the event was, in part, an child who faced death, these are the Now, just shy of her 37th birthday and effort to raise the visibility of the times you’re forced to think about having faced down the adversity of disciplines she holds so dear and the your life, your place in the world, and three lifetimes, Polić is a coil of excited worldview she’s passing on to her why all this matters,” says Polić, the energy, so full of enthusiasm one can’t children. associate director of UCSC’s Institute help but want to follow her. In her for Humanities Research. role at the Institute for Humanities “My daughter would not be alive Research, it’s Polić’s mission to help today without the amazing medical These are the questions of poets, the great thinkers in the UC system advances of the last 30 years,” she says. philosophers, and historians. In connect their ideas to the lives of “Now that she’s alive she’ll be doing academia, they are the questions of everyday folks—people promenading what the rest of us are trying to do, the people who study the humanities, on Pacific Avenue, for example. It’s a which is attempting to make sense of and as any of them will tell you, they difficult job full of promise. Academics the human condition and her own life.” are also the questions of everyday life, are so bonded to their work they often though many people may not realize take its importance as self-evident and Matt King is a freelance writer based in it. don’t always excel at explaining its San Jose. This article first appeared in relevance. But they are doing exciting the UC Santa Cruz Spring 2012 issue of People get science. Science sends us and groundbreaking work. Review.

23 [ Calendar ]

Every Protection: Exploring JUNE-JULY 2011 27 Pregnancy and Childbirth in OCTOBER 2011 the Jewish Pale of Settlement Production and Consumption in CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Rethinking Humanism: Horses, World History, 1450-1914 Images by Debra Olin, printmaker; Text 05 Honor, and Virtue in the Italian CENTER FOR WORLD HISTORY by Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Renaissance History, Co-Director of the Center for CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Jewish Studies, Director of the Institute Speaker: Juliana Schiesari, Professor for Humanities Research. of Italian, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, UC Davis.

Pasolini’s Acceptance 12 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Between June 27 – July 22, UCSC Speaker: Rei Terada, Professor of hosted a 2011 National Endowment Comparative Literature, UC Irvine. for the Humanities Summer Seminar for School Teachers. A total of fifteen From Civil Defense to Civil participants worked with seminar 12 Rights: The Growth of Jewish director, Edmund Burke III, on the American Interracial Activism theme “Production and Consumption in Los Angeles in the 20th in World History, 1450-1914.” Century CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Great Adaptations: Teaching Dickens Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Speaker: Shana Bernstein, Associate Through Literary and Cinematic Empire were restricted to a region Professor of History, Southwestern Adaptations called the Pale of Settlement, where University THE DICKENS PROJECT they created their own distinctive folk The Dickens Project hosted a National culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist Studies of Visual Perception: Endowment for the Humanities revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. 19 A Window into Brain and four-week seminar for sixteen school An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish Behavior teachers on the literary and film ethnographic questionnaire to CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES adaptations of Charles Dickens’s document this culture, including many Speaker: Eugene Switkes, Professor enduring novels, Great Expectations questions concerning Jewish customs of Chemistry and Psychobiology, UC and A Christmas Carol. and beliefs connected to pregnancy Santa Cruz; Affiliate Professor of Vision and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Sciences and Optometry, UC Berkeley. Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, Nathaniel Among the Missing: SEPTEMBER 2011 Deutsch has translated An-sky’s 19 Operations in Recovering questionnaire into English for the first Bodies Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian time, placing it within a rich historical HUMANITIES DIVISION / IHR 24 Philosophy of Non-dualism & context. Collaborating with Deutsch Speaker: Lisa Jean Moore, medical its Modern Transformation and inspired by her deep interest sociologist and Professor of Sociology SATYAJIT RAY FILM AND STUDY CENTER in Jewish women’s folk traditions, and Gender Studies at Purchase Speaker: Karan Singh, President, Indian Debra Olin has created illuminating College, State University of New York. Council of Cultural Relations, New artworks that represent and explore The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Delhi; Poet; Philosopher; Musician; the dangerous, magical, and, above all, Lecture is a lively forum for the Former Governor of Kashmir; Indian powerful experience of pregnancy and discussion and exploration of Cabinet Member; and Ambassador to childbirth in the Pale of Settlement. ethics-related challenges in human the U.S. endeavors.

24 Sex Sells, But Who’s Buying? Affect Across the Disciplines: A On Transfiguration 22 Erotic Imagery on Athenian 24 Faculty & Graduate Workshop 09 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Vases AFFECT WORKING GROUP Speaker: Cary Howie, Associate ANCIENT STUDIES The Affect Working Group brings Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell Speaker: Kathleen Lynch, Associate together faculty and graduate University Professor of Classics, University of students from across the University Cincinnati who are interested in the felt Achievements and New dimensions of social life. Themes that 10 Directions participants are currently addressing SIKH AND PUNJABI STUDIES include: how race is lived now; the In this inaugural conference for the conditions of possibility for political Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at hope and despair; and the affective the University of California, Santa Cruz, dimensions of computer games. leading and emerging scholars took stock of the state of the field and its Monotheism and Empire II future direction, in the areas of their 26 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES expertise. Sessions covered history, Speaker: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer philosophy, language and literature, in History, UC Santa Cruz political economy, musicology and contemporary society. Erotic imagery appears in early Attic Poetry Reading and Exhibition black-figure vases but becomes quite 28 of Poetry Paintings popular in red-figure from about POETRY AND POLITICS RESEARCH CLUSTER 520-475 B.C. The setting of these Poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson, often-graphic images of heterosexual Visiting Professor of Literature, and and homosexual encounters is usually Lauren Shufran, Literature Graduate the symposium, the all-male drinking Student; Exhibition of poem paintings party. Nearly all studies assume that by Matt Landry, Literature Graduate these images are produced for and Student, UC Santa Cruz about Athenians, and thus must represent Athenian views on sexuality and morality. Yet a closer look at the Pacific Study Group of the archaeological evidence shows that NOVEMBER 2011 12 North American Kant Society, very few vases with graphic sexual 2011 Meeting images come from Athens itself; Masculinities Afloat: The PHILOSOPHY / IHR instead, vases with erotic images were 02 Fragile Gender of Filipino The Philosophy Department at the sold on the export market, and more Migrant Sailors University of California, Santa Cruz specifically to Etruria. Thus we must CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES is proud to have hosted the 2011 re-evaluate the use of these images Speaker: Steve McKay, Associate Meeting of the Pacific Study Group in assessing Athenian values: we find Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz of the North American Kant Society an Athenian pottery industry with an November 12-13, 2011. astute marketing sense that distorts The Missing Body: Authority, Athenian cultural identity to appeal to 03 Immunity, and Objectivity in foreign perceptions of Greek culture. Early Greek Medical Writing ANCIENT STUDIES Most events are free and open to Presented by the UCSC Society of the Speaker: Brooke Holmes, Assistant the public. If you are interested in Archaeological Institute of America Professor of Classics, Princeton joining our mailing list, please and the UC President’s Chair in Ancient University send an email to [email protected] Studies

25 What You See Is What You Get: On the Contrary: Pragmatic “What Is a Reader?” Day of 14 Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and 18 Strengthening and Disjunctive 26 Events the Secret History of Aesthetic Syllogism TEAGLE WORKING GROUP in 1970s LA SANTA CRUZ PHILOSOPHY & LINGUISTICS What Is a Reader? is a multi-campus URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH CLUSTER RESEARCH CLUSTER project supported by the Teagle Speaker: Scott Saul, Associate Speaker: Laurence R. Horn, Professor of Foundation’s Big Questions in the Professor of American Studies and Linguistics, Director of Undergraduate Disciplines initiative. Established in English, UC Berkeley Studies, Yale University 2009 by faculty members in English and Literature departments from At the Limit of Representation: Mills College, Stanford University, UC 30 Neoliberalism, Media, and Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, the group African American Visibility seeks to understand undergraduate CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES literacy today in historical perspective Speaker: Herman Gray, Professor of and its implications for the study of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz literature at the college level. Please see: whatisareader.stanford.edu. Choosing Venice: Seduction, 30 Henry James, and the Wings of the Dove CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Gershom Gorenberg: Speaker: Alide Cagidemetrio, Professor 14 Distinguished Alumni Lecture of Anglo-American Literature, STEVENSON COLLEGE / IHR University of Venice Ca’ Foscari Speaker: Gershom Gorenberg, American-born Israeli historian, journalist, and blogger JANUARY 2012 Digital Princess: Towards an 16 Open-Access Online Archive of Critical Description After Renaissance Correspondence 18 Progress CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Speaker: Deanna Shemek, Professor of Speaker: Anna Tsing, Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

A Public Dialogue with Jean Colonial Erotopolitics: 16 Baumgarten 25 Customary Law and Migrant CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Labor Sexuality Jean Baumgarten, Professor and CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre Speaker: Neville Hoad, Associate National de la Recherche Scientifique, Professor of English and Women’s and Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives, Gender Studies, University of Texas at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Austin Sociales; Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Director of the Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz

26 Situating Sustainability Queering the History of the FEBRUARY 2012 06 Discourse in Shanghai: 15 Communist Left in the United Global Flows and Urban States Can the President be the Transformations in a Warming CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES 01 Torturer in Chief? John Yoo, World Speaker: Bettina Apthekar, Executive Authority and URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH CLUSTER Distinguished Professor of Feminist Historical Memory Speaker: Julie Sze, Professor of Studies and History, UC Santa Cruz CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES American Studies, UC Davis Speaker: Alice Yang, Associate Urban Form, Minority Identity, Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz Faces of the Self 17 and Narrative Drift in Altaf 08 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Tyrewala’s No God In Sight Bridge to Babylon: Lecture on Speaker: Vanita Seth, Associate LITERATURE DEPARTMENT / IHR 02 Jewish Middle Eastern Music Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz Speaker: Gautam Premnath, Assistant CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Professor of English, UC Berkeley Speaker: Yair Dalal, composer, violinist, What Latinos Are Reading oud player, and singer 10 LATINO LITERARY CULTURES PROJECT / We Were Adivasis: Collective PROYECTO CULTURAS LITERARIAS LATINAS 22 Aspiration in an Indian Labor Across the Food System Bringing together writers and Scheduled Tribe 03 CENTER FOR LABOR STUDIES editors, this symposium explored the CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Food system workers are often conditions of possibility for Latino Speaker: Megan Moodie, Assistant a glaring absence in discussions of literature today, focusing on its less- Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa the contemporary global food system, Cruz even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive Phonologically Conditioned industries within the entire economy, 24 Morphology among them agricultural field work, CROSSLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS IN food processing, food distribution, and PHONOLOGY-SYNTAX RESEARCH CLUSTER restaurants of all kinds. The new food Speaker: Mary Paster, Assistant localism privileges questions of “where Professor and Chair of the Department food comes from” over “how” and of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, “who” questions about the conditions Pomona College under which food is grown, shipped, explored popular edges. Panelists 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 the kinds of literacy it presupposes Africa’s Atlantic Age or fosters. Panelists explored the ANCIENT STUDIES following questions: How do Latino Speaker: J. Cameron Monroe, Assistant children and young adults come to see Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa themselves as readers or as authors? Cruz Labor Across the Food System What genres and language modalities advanced research and advocacy by are most popular, most inventive, Sowing the Seeds of Civil bringing key scholars and advocates most effective in creating a Latino 29 Society: Russia’s Garden to Santa Cruz for discussions of the reading public? And in the wake of the Democracy critical role of labor and social justice controversial Tucson school district CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES in remaking the global food system. book banning, what are Latinos not Speaker: Melissa Caldwell, Professor of reading? Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

27 The Politics of Work Women of Melos 29 POETRY AND POLITICS RESEARCH CLUSTER 07 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES APRIL 2012 Speaker: Craig Dworkin, Speaker: Peter Euben Professor of English, University of Utah Emeritus Research Professor, Political The Secret Mark: Second Science and Classical Studies; 02 Edition or Forgery? Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow ANCIENT STUDIES Emeritus, Duke University Speaker: Charles Hedrick, Sr., Emeritus MARCH 2012 Distinguished Professor of Religious Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: Studies, Missouri State University Real Food vs. Affordable Food: 08 Interfaith Perspectives on 07 Can we have both? Economic Justice, and its Why Jews left Morocco: STUDIES OF FOOD AND THE BODY MRP implications for the worldwide 03 Different Narratives Speaker: Tracie McMillian, freelance Occupy movement CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES journalist; Senior Fellow at the HUMANITIES DIVISION / IHR Speaker: Emanuela Trevisan-Semi, Schuster Institute for Investigative Speakers: Ched Myers, Bartimaeus Professor of Modern Hebrew and Journalism, Brandeis University. Cooperative Ministries; Rabbi and Jewish Studies, Ca’ Foscari University Congregational Cantor Paula Marcus, Temple Beth El; Imam Zaid Shakir, Fictions of the Holocaust American Muslim scholar; Dr. Inder 04 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Mohan Singh, Chardi Kalaa Foundation Speaker: Hayden White, Professor Emeritus of History of Lives in the Balance: The Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz 13 United States, the Dominican Republic, and the Rescue of Jews during World War II CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Speaker: Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College

Like Cats and Dogs 14 CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Speaker: Akira Mizuta Lippit, Tracie McMillan discussed her work for Professor, Comparative Literature, The American Way of Eating: Undercover East Asian Languages and Cultures, at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and University of Southern California; Chair the Dinner Table, which chronicled her of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic The Jew in the Crown experience in three undercover jobs Arts 04 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES across the American food system: Speaker: Clive Sinclair, Fellow of California farmworker, produce clerk in the Royal Society of Literature a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee’s kitchen wretch. Weaving Secret Mark: The Scholarly policy and agricultural economics into 05 Firestorm that Followed... personal narrative, McMillan explored ANCIENT STUDIES what it would cost to grow food fairly. Speaker: Charles Hedrick, Sr., Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Missouri State University

28 How to Conceptualize Extreme Trickster’s Children: Jewishness Crafting an Elite Russian- 11 Evil: Eichmann’s Trial & Modern 17 and the Generations of 25 Jewish Identity: Subjectivity Theodicies Anthropology and Gender in Diaries of CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Zinaida Poliakova Speaker: Isabelle Delpla, Assistant Speaker: Jonathan Boyarin, Leonard CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Professor of Philosophy, University of and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Speaker: ChaeRan Freeze, Associate Montpellier III Professor of Jewish Thought, University Professor in Jewish History, Brandeis of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University Migration and Ethnic Studies 12 BODIES, BORDERS, AND VIOLENCE Pig Patients and their All I Want is Some Honest RESEARCH CLUSTER 18 Personalities 25 Answers to My Questions: CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Tracking Argumentation and Speaker: Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl, Stance in Online Political Ph.D. Fellow at the Center for Medical Debate Science and Technology Studies, STEVENSON COLLEGE / IHR University of Copenhagen, and Visiting Speaker: Pranav Anand, Assistant Fellow of the Science and Justice Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Working Group, UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz to Wall Street Rabindranath Tagore 150th 27 HUMANITIES DIVISION & THE IHR 21 Anniversary with Aparna Sen East Coast Distinguished Alumni SATYAJIT RAY FILM & STUDY CENTER Lecture Speaker: Craig Schiffer, Finance Speaker: Aparna Sen, actress and and Investment Banker; Cowell, Class This symposium brought together feminist filmmaker of 1978 scholars roused by recent legislation targeting migrants and ethnic studies, Decolonizing Queer Space: such as Arizona’s SB 1070, one of the 25 Race, Sexuality and the most draconian anti-immigration Production of the Real measures in the United States, and CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES HB 2281, the 2010 prohibition on Speaker: Pedro di Pietro, Visiting ethnic studies in public schools. Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz; Topics addressed included language, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the labor, indigeneity, nativist populism, Humanities and Townsend Fellow, state surveillance, violence, trauma, UC Berkeley; Research Affiliate, displacement, culture wars, and Center for the Interdisciplinary Study education. Taken together, the works of Philosophy, Interpretation, and presented shed light on the nexus of Culture, Binghamton University migration and Latino studies, assess the state of this field, and explored the Cormac McCarthy, Roberto possibilities for its future. 25 Bolaño, and the Natural History of Destruction MAY 2012 West Coast Conference on LITERATURE DEPARTMENT / IHR 13 Formal Linguistics Speaker: Stephen Tatum, Professor LINGUISTICS RESEARCH CENTER of English and Director of the Children and the Problem of The 30th West Coast Conference on Environmental Humanities Graduate 02 Agency Formal Linguistics, was hosted by the Program, University of Utah CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Department of Linguistics and the Speaker: Catherine Jones, Assistant Linguistics Research Center. Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz

29 [ Digital Princess ]

Deanna Shemek, Professor of Literature

Deanna Shemek, a scholar of the period, from statecraft to child rearing, Renaissance Studies at the University Italian Renaissance, has been teaching and they convey this information from of Toronto. She has also written a in UCSC’s Literature department the perspective of a female participant companion book, which considers since 1990. With broad interests in observer with a passion for human the archive thematically and takes the early modern period, she studies relations. on the challenge of interpreting the the emergence of women as writers, formulaic art of letter writing in early artists, and rulers in the context of The project of delving into Isabella modern Italy. While these two books Italian humanism, Italian city states, d’Este’s archive has been a huge will greatly contribute to public and the new merchant middle class. undertaking. Isabella is most famous knowledge, the 800 letters that will Her first book,Ladies Errant: Wayward as a female version of the multi- appear in print constitute only 5% of Women and Social Order in Modern talented “Renaissance man.” Her the outgoing letters and none of the Italy (Duke University Press, 1998) construction of a personal studiolo incoming correspondence. examined literary, historical, artistic, where she displayed Renaissance and legal accounts of female knights, books, cameos, antiquities, and In order to preserve the archive, prostitutes, and poets as figures who paintings that have since made improve accessibility, and provide seemed to pose a threat to the social their way to internationally famous enhanced visualization, Shemek has order of 16th-century Italy. Shemek museums such as the Louvre in Paris created the Digital Princess Project, then turned her attention to the non- put her in touch with artists such which aims to bring the entire corpus literary writings found in the archive as Michelangelo and Leonardo da of Isabella’s letters into the digital belonging to Isabella d’Este (1474- Vinci. Shemek’s work also focuses on realm. Heading up an international 1539), princess of the early modern Isabella’s chancery, the office that team of scholars from the United Italian city state of Mantua. Isabella’s filed her incoming correspondence States, Italy, Scotland, Australia, and surviving letters shed precious light and produced her contracts, decrees, Italy, Shemek is currently finalizing the on virtually all aspects of life in the and other official papers. Isabella’s software platform for Digital Princess. archive offers an unusually Funders thus far include the Italian detailed example of how Ministry of Culture, UCHRI (UC Irvine a 16th-century court Humanities Research Institute), the functioned. It contains 53 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, volumes of copybooks, and the UCSC Committee on Research. comprising a total of 15,884 Ultimately, the project will translate of Isabella’s letters plus her materials from manuscript culture incoming mail. Shemek has into digital media, create world- read all of the copybooks wide access to Italian Renaissance in manuscript form, and documents, foster a virtual community she has transcribed, edited, of teachers and learners, and ensure and translated 800 letters the virtual longevity of historical for a print edition that subjects who, on the model of the will be published by the ancients, desired nothing so much as An autograph letter of Isabella to her husband, dated 6 April 1490. Image courtesy of Centre for Reformation and their own immortality. the Isabella d’Este Archive

30 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 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 Vaclav Havel and the Politics 23 Geopolitics Emergent Communities in 09 and Practice of Hope CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES 04 Experimental Writing CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES Speaker: Anjali Arondekar, POETRY AND POLITICS RESEARCH CLUSTER Speaker: Loren Goldman, Assistant Associate Professor of Feminist This conference was organized around Professor, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Studies, UC Santa Cruz experimental writing and its many, in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow, varying communities including UC Berkeley Surviving Humanism: performance art collaborations, 30 Petrarchan Autobiography and small press publishing and editorial ‘Put One More “S” in the USA’: Ecology projects, virtual and digital work, 10 Pamphlet Literature and the CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES academic affiliations, and intersecting Productive Fiction of the Black Speaker: Michael Ursell, Visiting aesthetic, social and political identities Nation Thesis Assistant Professor of Literature, UC and representations. The goal of INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH Santa Cruz this conference was to embrace Speaker: Trevor Joy Sangrey, IHR the productive and generative Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Graphic Novelists on Film connotations of these two terms as Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz 31 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES innovative acts and encounters that Speaker: Sam Ball, film maker are always in the process of both The Burdens of Aspiration: venturing to do something previously 14 Schools, Youth, and Success in untried, and questioning and testing the Divided Worlds of Silicon the very boundaries and mores, Valley however contingent, established by URBAN STUDIES RESEARCH CLUSTER those attempts. Of particular interest Speaker: Elsa Davidson, Assistant was how writing communities might Professor of Anthropology, Montclair be changing historically in the early State University twenty-first century, and how writers theorize and make use (or not) of Dismantling the Plutonium various conceptualizations and 16 Curtain: Local Knowledge and practices of community. the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES JUNE 2012 Speaker: Kate Brown, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore Blood Libel in Late Imperial 05 Russia: Popular Antisemitism, Religion and Politics in Sikhism the Occult and the Trial of 16 SIKH AND PUNJABI STUDIES Mendel Beilis Speaker: Tarlochan Singh Nahal, CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Sikh historian; Senior Staff Technical Speaker: Robert Weinberg, Professor of Writer, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. History, Swarthmore College

31 [ Financial Overview ]

FUNDING SOURCES

Extramural Funds * $563,322 51% UCSC Division of Humanities $164,802 15% UC Humanities Network $100,000 9% Gifts, Contributions, Other Funds ______$269,930 25% $1,098,054

PROGRAM EXPENSES

Faculty Research Support (Fellowships, Research Clusters) $60,400 6% Graduate and Undergraduate Research Support $119,495 11% Co-sponsorships $12,500 1% Extramurally Funded Programming $718,752 65% Administration ______$186,907 17% $1,098,054

* Funding agencies include: David B. Gold Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Teagle Foundation, UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Office of the President, private gifts.

32 [ Acknowledgements ]

Gifts from individuals and organizations provide support for the humanities research at UCSC. We gratefully acknowledge our donors.

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