UPCOMING AND Recent Events
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Making Waves: Surf Film Screening & Discussion Sunday, June 3, 2012 | 12:30-9PM | Fowler Museum at UCLA 12:30PM: Bustin' Down the Door (Directed by Jeremy Gosch / Produced by Shaun Tomson, Monika Gosch, Rob Traill) 2:00PM: Sea of Darkness (Directed by Michael Oblowitz) 4:00PM: PANELS | Featuring luminaries from the surf world (to be announced) 7:00PM: Reception Free & open to the public. |
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Racializing Assemblages: Race, Bare Life, and the Human Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | 2:30-4:30PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine Talk by Alexander G. Weheliye, Associate Professor, African American Studies and English, Northwestern University. This talk contends that the concepts of bare life and biopolitics severely limit how we understand current uneven global power structures and foreclose the possibility of their abolition. Bare life and biopolitics discourse not only misconstrues the deep anchoring of race and racism in the modern idea of the human, it also overlooks or perfunctorily dismisses theorizations of race, subjection, and humanity found in black and ethnic studies. This dismissal allows bare life and biopolitics discourse to imagine an indivisible biological substance anterior to racialization. The idea of racializing assemblages, in contrast, construes race not as a biological or cultural classification but as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and non-humans. The notion of racializing assemblages foregrounds the centrality of race to the many ways differentiation, hierarchy, exclusion, and social death define the modern human and works toward devising new forms of human life. Hosted by UCHRI's spring 2012 residential research group, Between Life and Death: Necropolitics in the Era of Late Capitalism. Click here to download PDF. |
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Other Iberias: A Symposium on Comparative Iberian Studies Friday, May 4, 2012 | 9:00 AM - 5:45 PM | UC Davis Sponsored by the UC Davis Institute for Humanities Research, the UC Davis Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the UC Humanities Research Insitute. For details: http://uciberianists.wordpress.com |
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Critical Theory at the Present Time: Undergraduate Conference in Critical Theory and Faculty Roundtable Discussion Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM | UC Irvine Sponsored by: Critical Theory Emphasis, UC Humanities Research Institute, The International Center for Writing and Translation, The Center for Law Culture and Society, The Department of Comparative Literature, The Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, The Department of English, Department of Studio Art, UCI French Program, UCI German Program, Program in Jewish Studies, and Postmodern Culture. For details: www.hnet.uci.edu/cte/events |
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What are we doing when we Do the Humanities? Saturday, April 21, 2012 | 1:00 PM | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History Join us for an exploration and celebration of the Humanities at the University of California at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access). Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, and local Santa Cruz businesses. For details: http://ihr.ucsc.edu |
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Gaming the Game: Tweaking, Cheating, Hacking, Creeping April 12-13, 2012 | UC Davis Gaming the Game will address the ongoing impact of new technologies on notions of subjectivity, sovereignty, property, and privacy. Participants from diverse disciplines will respond to the challenges posed simultaneously by new interactive media and new structures of technopolitical power. This two-day conference aims to consider the ludic infrastructure of contemporary culture in order to explore the various ways in which we might begin "gaming the game." Sponsored by UC Davis Technocultural Studies, the Center for Science & Innovations Studies, UC Davis Humanities Innovation Lab, UC Davis Film Studies, and UCHRI. |
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The (Technological) University We Could Be For March 7, 2012 | 3:30-5:30 PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine Panelists: Geof Bowker, Informatics, UC Irvine; Beth Coleman, Comparative Media Studies, MIT; Johanna Drucker, Information Studies, UCLA; Christopher Newfield, English, UC Santa Barbara; and Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, pedagogical delivery, and organizational form. This has understandably prompted both anxiety and critical responses among faculty, students, research and administrative staff. The university has come into question, both within and without. By contrast, there has been much less elaboration about the university to which we should be for, that which we aspire to work together to promote, whether in the tradition of Cardinal Newman's or Jaroslav Jan Pelikan's reflections on "the idea of the university" or in Jacques Derrida's critical conception of the university without condition. There has been considerable discussion about long-distance learning, but but other technological impacts have been arguably more far-reaching and profound. This distinguished panel will lead a discussion of "the university we are for," focusing especially on the impacts new technologies are having on pedagogy and institutional structure, on research and engagement in and across the academy. |
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2012 Digital Media & Learning Conference: "BEYOND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY: LEARNING INNOVATIONS IN A CONNECTED WORLD" March 1-3, 2012 | San Francisco, CA The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. The third annual conference – DML2012 – is organized around the theme “Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World” and will be held between March 1-3, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Details: http://dml2012.dmlcentral.net |
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Digital Media & Learning Competition Research Symposium at DML2012: Join the winners of the Digital Media and Learning Research Competition, "Badges, Trophies, and Achievements," for a conversation about the current state of research on recognition and accreditation systems for informal and interest-driven learning. We will explore some of the opportunities provided by employing badges and other assessment systems in learning communities, some of the dangers, and consider the pressing research questions that need to be addressed. Over the last year, a wide-ranging public conversation about potential future applications of badges and the place of badges in our learning ecosystem has captured the attention of educators, technology makers, and researchers. How can current and past research inform these debates? What are the most important questions we need to raise about the effective design and deployment of badge and reputation systems? |
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Presented by the UCI Department of Comparative Literature: Conversations with Étienne Balibar February 16, 2012 | 1:00-7:00 PM | Humanities Gateway 1010, UC Irvine This event will feature several talks by graduate students and faculty who will engage with the work and contributions of Étienne Balibar. An afternoon of panels will be followed by a casual and general discussion of the state of the humanities today. |
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Urban Sustainability in the Age of Climate Justice Friday, January 13, 2012 | 12-1:30PM UC Irvine, Social & Behavioral Science Gateway (SBSG), Room 1517 Talk and book presentation by Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University. Please RSVP to cethno@uci.edu. For more information about the Center and its events go to: www.ethnography.uci.edu Presented by the Center for Ethnography and co-sponsored by UCHRI. |
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Circulating Stuff: From MilitaryArt to Business Science Presented by the UC Davis Cultural Studies Graduate Group, with support from the Cultures of Militarization UCHRI Working Group. For details: culturalstudies@ucdavis.edu |
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UC Irvine Humanities Collective Presents: Culture, Space, Violence: The Neoliberal Imaginary October 20-22, 2011 | 1030 Humanities Gateway, UC Irvine Plenary speakers include Alberto Moreiras, Wendy Brown and Martin Jay. Organized in coordination with University of Paris, Nanterre, with support fromUCHRI. For details: hctr@uci.edu | www.humanities.uci.edu/collective |
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Off Peak: Reclaiming the Baldwin Hills October 16, 2011 | Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Open Air Pavilion 3:00pm to 5:00pm: Screening/site research walking expedition 5:00pm to 7:00pm: Roundtable forum and discussion A screening, urban hike, and roundtable discussion among cultural workers, researchers, and artists organized to help develop strategies for future cultural work and community action at the Inglewood Oil Field. For details: www.off-peak.org | ken.rogers@ucr.edu |
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Digital Media and Learning Competition 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition Announcement, Panel, and Q&A September 15, 2011 | Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, discuss the potential of Badges for Lifelong Learning. Badges are a new assessment tool that will help identify skills mastered in formal and informal settings, virtually and in physical spaces, and in schools, workplaces and communities. |
