The Center for Cultural Studies presents:
History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Hsia discusses the articulation of scientific personae in the context of the Jesuit mission to late imperial China. Author of Sojourners in a Strange Land (Chicago, 2009), she explores the early modern encounter between Europe and China.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
Professor Godzich examines how the elevation of knowledge into a motor of economic activity affects the status and organization of knowledge. It is his hypothesis that a knowledge-driven economy poses a challenge to a capital-driven one, and that it foreshadows the advent of a knowledge-centered society. His research examines the role of universities within such a society.
Professor Godzich is Distinguished Professor of General and Comparative Literature and Critical Studies at UCSC.
Photo by James Clifford, Professor of History of Consciousness at UCSC.
The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents:
The study of megacities in the global South has come to be dominated by two contrasting paradigms: an apocalyptic vision of a “planet of slums” and a populist vision of entrepreneurial “shadow cities.” This talk will critically examine such paradigms, calling into question the ways in which “subaltern urbanism” is currently framed. Drawing on postcolonial theory, it will present an alternative framework for the understanding of urbanism in the global South and make the case for new geographies of theory.
Bio: Ananya Roy is a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development. She is Professor of City and Regional Planning at U.C. Berkeley, and also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies and as co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Center at Berkeley. Roy is author of numerous books, including: City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (2003), co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (2004), and co-editor (with Aihwa Ong) of the forthcoming Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global.
Seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Feminist Studies, and Colleges 9 & 10.
The Poetry & Politics Research Cluster presents:
Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics
This conference invites participation in a series of dialogues about the role of the poet-scholar. As a practitioner of poetry or other “imaginative” writing and more theoretical or critical work, the poet-critic or poet-scholar works both inside and outside the university. How do these two activities come together to affect the reading and writing practices of poet-critics and their readership? Since many poet-critics are read within college classrooms or are themselves professors or teachers, we are interested in the pedagogical implications of their writing practices. The conference is an occasion for dialogue across genres, disciplines, readerships and pedagogical practices and focuses on the ways writing practices can encourage creative and critical thinking.
The conference consists of six panels with three papers and invited respondents; a pedagogy colloquium and short paper workshop; and poetry readings. Respondents will consist of invited guests and UCSC faculty.
SCHEDULE
Daytime Panels: Humanities 210, UCSC
Evening Poetry Readings: Felix Culpa Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
10:30-12:00pm — Panel 4: Writing and Thinking Between Genres
12:00-1:00pm — Lunch and Informal Poetry Reading
1:00-2:30pm — Panel 5: Poetic Conceptualisms and Poetic Productions
3:00-4:30pm — Panel 6: Poetry and Pedagogy
6:30-8:00pm — Poetry Reading, Felix Culpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz
Guest Respondents:
CRAIG DWORKIN is the author of Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti, 1997), Reading the Illegible (Northwestern, 2003), Dure (Cuneiform, 2004), Strand (Roof, 2005), and Parse (Atelos, 2008), and the editor of, among others, The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (Chicago, 2009). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two online archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
VANESSA PLACE is a writer and lawyer. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Le Figues, 2005), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), Statement of Fact (Publishing the Unpublishable/Ubu, 2008), Notes on Conceptualisms with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling, 2009). Other work has appeared in Northwest Review, Northridge Review, Film Comment, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Five Fingers Review, and n/Oulipo. She is a co-founder of Les Figues Press.
SINA QUEYRAS is the author of Slip (ECW, 2001), Teethmarks (Nightwood, 2004), Lemon Hound (Coach House, 2006), and Expressway (Coach House, forthcoming). Lemon Hound won the Lambda and the Pat Lowther awards for poetry. She is also the editor of Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (Persea, 2005). She teaches at Concordia University in Montreal, is a contributing editor for the online literary journal Drunken Boat, and maintains Lemon Hound, a blog of contemporary arts and letters.
JULIANA SPAHR has published three books of poetry, including Response (Sun & Moon, 1995), This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (California, 2005), and Well Then There Now (Salt, forthcoming). She is the author of a book of criticism, Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (Alabama, 2001), and a memoir, The Transformation (Atelos, 2007). She is an Associate Professor at Mills College.
For more information, contact Jessica Beard at jbeard@ucsc.edu or Andrea Quaid at aquaid@ucsc.edu.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, the Puknat Endowment, and the Literature Department.
The Poetry & Politics Research Cluster presents:
Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics
This conference invites participation in a series of dialogues about the role of the poet-scholar. As a practitioner of poetry or other “imaginative” writing and more theoretical or critical work, the poet-critic or poet-scholar works both inside and outside the university. How do these two activities come together to affect the reading and writing practices of poet-critics and their readership? Since many poet-critics are read within college classrooms or are themselves professors or teachers, we are interested in the pedagogical implications of their writing practices. The conference is an occasion for dialogue across genres, disciplines, readerships and pedagogical practices and focuses on the ways writing practices can encourage creative and critical thinking.
The conference consists of six panels with three papers and invited respondents; a pedagogy colloquium and short paper workshop; and poetry readings. Respondents will consist of invited guests and UCSC faculty.
SCHEDULE
Daytime Panels: Humanities 210, UCSC
Evening Poetry Readings: Felix Culpa Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
9:00-9:30am — Welcome
9:30-11:00am — Panel 1: Historicizing the Poet as Intellectual
11:00-12:00pm — Lunch and Informal Poetry Reading
12:00-1:30pm — Panel 2: Poetics and Reading Methodologies
2:00-3:30pm — Poetry in the Classroom: Pedagogy Colloquium and Short Paper Workshop
4:00-5:30pm — Panel 3: Poetic Epistemologies and Alternative Forms of Scholarship
7:30-9:00pm — Poetry Reading at Felix Culpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz
Guest Respondents:
CRAIG DWORKIN is the author of Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti, 1997), Reading the Illegible (Northwestern, 2003), Dure (Cuneiform, 2004), Strand (Roof, 2005), and Parse (Atelos, 2008), and the editor of, among others, The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (Chicago, 2009). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two online archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
VANESSA PLACE is a writer and lawyer. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Le Figues, 2005), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), Statement of Fact (Publishing the Unpublishable/Ubu, 2008), Notes on Conceptualisms with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling, 2009). Other work has appeared in Northwest Review, Northridge Review, Film Comment, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Five Fingers Review, and n/Oulipo. She is a co-founder of Les Figues Press.
SINA QUEYRAS is the author of Slip (ECW, 2001), Teethmarks (Nightwood, 2004), Lemon Hound (Coach House, 2006), and Expressway (Coach House, forthcoming). Lemon Hound won the Lambda and the Pat Lowther awards for poetry. She is also the editor of Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (Persea, 2005). She teaches at Concordia University in Montreal, is a contributing editor for the online literary journal Drunken Boat, and maintains Lemon Hound, a blog of contemporary arts and letters.
JULIANA SPAHR has published three books of poetry, including Response (Sun & Moon, 1995), This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (California, 2005), and Well Then There Now (Salt, forthcoming). She is the author of a book of criticism, Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (Alabama, 2001), and a memoir, The Transformation (Atelos, 2007). She is an Associate Professor at Mills College.
For more information, contact Jessica Beard at jbeard@ucsc.edu or Andrea Quaid at aquaid@ucsc.edu.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, the Puknat Endowment, and the Literature Department.
The UCSC Women’s Center and the Feminism & Pornography Research Cluster present:
“Internet Art and the Economies of Porn”
The intersection of art and pornography on the radically dispersive Internet activates multiple discourses surrounding nudity, obscenity, feminism, voyeurism and exhibitionism, as well as the increasingly warring agendas of corporate profit and community and amateur ideals. As one commentator acknowledges, “[t]he debate over Internet porn isn’t community standards vs. free speech. It’s community standards vs. a free market.” Even as pornography is enviously acknowledged as a communications technology pioneer by the corporate sector, many artists are attuned to the implications of this envy. Though the artists that I will discuss deal ostensibly with pornography, they also negotiate many of the terms of pornography’s own negotiation of the Internet: its economies, its communities, its sexisms, and its surveillance.
Kelly Dennis is Associate Professor of Art History & the History of Photography at the University of Connecticut Storrs and is author of Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching (Berg, 2009). Her work on photography, pornography, performance, and feminist art has appeared in several books and journals. She is currently at work on her second book, The Politics of the Sublime: Landscape Photography and the West.
This event was made possible by the financial support and co-sponsorships of the departments of Sociology; Literature; Art; History of Art & Visual Culture; Digital Arts & New Media; and American Studies. For accessibility information or accommodations, contact the Women’s Center at 459-2072 women@ucsc.edu or the Feminism & Pornography Research Cluster at npurcell@ucsc.edu.
The Asia Pacific Americas Research Cluster (APARC) and the Pacific Islands Research Cluster present:
Spatial Imaginaries and Critical Geographies Across the Pacific: A Graduate Student Conference
The Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster (APARC), in collaboration with the Pacific Islands Research Cluster, hosts its fifth annual graduate student conference, engaging graduate students in a dialogue on the historical production of space and place across Asia Pacific America. We examine these sites in the context of global capital, diasporic and transnational flows of people, commodities, and ideas, dominant and emergent cultures, and past and present counter-hegemonic struggles. There will be a conversation with Chamoru poet and scholar, Craig Santos Perez, and a keynote by Hsuan Hsu.
Hsuan L. Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at UC Davis. He works on 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, Asian American Literature, cultural geography, visual culture, comparative racialization, and theories of globalization. His forthcoming book, Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge), examines the representation of spatial scales in authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Sui Sin Far.
Readings and further information available from aparc.ucsc@gmail.com.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Literature, the Department of Anthropology, and the Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity.
Professor Bivens examines socialist literature in Germany, 1918 to 1989, through a discussion of narrative, ideology, and the built environment. Grounding the structures of feeling and narrative topoi central to East German literature in the proletarian experience of classical modernity, he moves from the factories and tenements of the Weimar Republic to the socialist cities and peoples’ enterprises of the GDR and back to the contested spaces of the “globalizing” Berlin Republic.
Hunter Bivens is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
The Pacific Islands Research Cluster presents:
POETRY READING, LECTURE, & DISCUSSION:
“Militarism, Tourism, and Oceanic Voices”
Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, is co-founder of Achiote Press and author of all with ocean views (Overhere, 2007) and preterrain (Corollary, 2008). Reading from his book, from UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY (Tinfish, 2008), Perez discusses visual, spatial and narrative strategies in his work that address the Chamoru relationship with Guahan (Guam) and U.S. military and tourist industries.
For more information, contact Dina El Dessouky at deldesso@ucsc.edu.
Co-sponsored by History of Art and Visual Culture, the Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity, and the Campus Curriculum Initiative through the President’s Task Force on Faculty Diversity. (Poetry Reading, Lecture, & Discussion in conjunction with HAVC 10E are open to the public).
Professor Rutherford’s work focuses on West Papua. Raiding the Land of the Foreigners (Princeton, 2003) focused on alterity and the limits of the nation in Biak. She is now finishing a book on audience and sovereignty in West Papua, working on a book on technology and colonial experience in the Dutch New Guinea highlands, and beginning projects on secular belief and kinship and modernity in the U.S.
Danilyn Rutherford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz.
Photo by Tim Laman.