Location: Museum of Art & History
| 1:00 – 1:15 pm |
Welcome and opening remarks |
| • George Blumenthal, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • David Marshall, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science, UC Santa Barbara | |
| 1:15 – 2:00 pm |
Panel: What Are We Doing When We Do The Humanities? |
| Moderated by William A. Ladusaw, Dean of Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Deborah Gould, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Jennifer A. González, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Tyrus Miller, Literature, and Vice Dean and Provost of Graduate Studies, UC Santa Cruz | |
| 2:00 – 2:45 pm |
Panel: The Power of Language |
| Moderated by Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Shane Butler, Classics, UC Los Angeles | |
| • Maria Mavroudi, History and Classics, UC Berkeley | |
| • Lara Buchak, Philosophy, UC Berkeley | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm |
Break with coffee and tea |
| 3:00 – 3:45 pm |
Panel: Religion and Modernity |
| Moderated by Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, Director of the Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Jacob Dalton, East Asian Languages & Cultures / South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley | |
| • Patrick Hyder Patterson, History, UC San Diego | |
| • Mayfair Yang, Religious Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara | |
| 3:45 – 4:30 pm |
Panel: Nationalism and Empire |
| Gail Hershatter, Professor and Chair of History, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Dorian Bell, Literature, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Dana Frank, History, UC Santa Cruz | |
| • Elisabeth Rose Middleton, Native American Studies, UC Davis | |
| • Nicolas Tackett, History, UC Berkeley | |
| 4:30 – 4:35 pm |
Welcome and Remarks |
| Nina Simon, Executive Director, Museum of Art & History | |
| 4:35 – 6:00 pm |
Graduate Poster Sessions and Reception |
| Vivian Yoonhyong Choi, Anthropology, UC Davis | |
| After Disasters: The Persistence of Insecurity in Sri Lanka | |
| Kelly Feinstein-Johnson, European History, UC Santa Cruz | |
| An Account of Notorious Robbers, Murtherers, and Sporting Ladies: Visual Culture and English Broadside Ballads, 1660-1800 | |
| Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara | |
| Negotiating Authority: The Criminalization of Religious Practice in the United States | |
| Bradford Johnston, World Cultures, UC Merced | |
| Technological Evangelism and Providential Destiny: Ronald Regan, SDI, and American Arms Control Policy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union | |
| Rebecca Kaplan, UC San Francisco | |
| Cows, Cattle Owners, and the USDA: Brucellosis, Populations, and Public Health Policy in 20th Century United States | |
| Samantha Matherne, Philosophy, UC Riverside | |
| Art in Perception: Making Perception Aesthetic Again | |
| Tarun Menon, Philosophy, UC San Diego | |
| An Anthropic Approach to the Arrow of Time | |
| Julia Lehua Panko, English, UC Santa Barbara | |
| Dead-Tree Data: Print Novels, Information Storage, and Media Transition, 1910/2010 | |
| Erin Pearson, English, UC Irvine | |
| Savage Hunger: Metaphors of Cannibalism and U.S. Slavery | |
| Daniel Quirós, Literature, UC San Diego | |
| Culture, Politics and Neoliberalism: New Subjectives and Representation in Argentina and Central America, 1990s-2000s | |
| Josephine Richstad, English, UC Los Angeles | |
| Fashioning the Fashionable Novel | |
| Jan Roselle, English, UC Riverside | |
| Bodies Under Empire: The Territory of American Feminism | |
| Annette Rubado, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine | |
| Dispossession, the People and the Self: Latin American Fiction and Cinema Mapping Modernization | |
| Matt Russell, Spanish, UC Davis | |
| Postmemory, the Holocaust, and the Re-Moralization of the Historical Memory in Contemporary Spanish Cultural Production | |
| Emily Selove, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles | |
| Medieval Arabic Party-Crashing | |