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Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
Event Photos by Jessica Guild: Samuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA ASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. Blending vocals, oud, violin, nay, and plenty of percussion, with songs in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Ladino, this trio ensemble traverses several North African song traditions. Drawing upon a rich intercultural […]
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CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih – The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih – The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
There are many approaches to modeling lexically-conditioned phonology in current formal theories, including lexically-indexed constraints and cophonologies. Nearly all of these existing approaches assume categorical membership in the lexical classes that condition differential phonotactics or phonological behaviors: for example, a lexical item is either a noun or a verb, or of one gender class or […]
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Savannah Shange – Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness, Anthropology and Ethics
Savannah Shange – Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness, Anthropology and Ethics
This talk draws on Savannah Shange's recently published book, Progressive Dystopia, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum ‘abolition’ has as a political critique of prisons and policing, what does it offer us as scholars trying to apprehend the broad set of violences […]
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
The Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture In this talk, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture, development, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and show how economic and […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
Not sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the […]
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Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
Using photography, video, and sound installation, Hong-An Truong engages questions about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, her work explores historical and political themes, especially around war, violence, and race. Truong's talk will focus on several recent projects that explore how citizenship and […]
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Carlos Motta – We The Enemy
Carlos Motta – We The Enemy
In We The Enemy, Carlos Motta will present a series of recent and past works, including those exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. Motta’s work documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge dominant and normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. As a historian […]
SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx – You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx – You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the bestselling team of New Yorker illustrator Roz Chast and New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx for a presentation of their hilarious illustrated guide to love and relationships, You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. Everyone knows the tired, clichéd advice for a healthy relationship: […]
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation […]
Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality – Two Case Studies
Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality – Two Case Studies
Much work in syntax suggests that there is a strong preference --- given two or more options --- for shorter dependencies over longer dependencies, often referred to as a locality condition. Cases where these conditions are apparently violated are therefore a general topic of interest. This talk presents two case studies of apparent violations of locality in […]
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Public Fellowship Info Session
Public Fellowship Info Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
Kate McDonald – The Society of Wheels: Rethinking the History of Technology and Labor in Modern Japan
Kate McDonald – The Society of Wheels: Rethinking the History of Technology and Labor in Modern Japan
Humans power transport. This is obviously true for the early twentieth century. It's easy to find images of rickshaws on city streets in Tokyo and other major cities in Asia. But it's equally true for the twenty-first century. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-building staircases. Despite the continuity […]
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Public Fellowship Info Session
Public Fellowship Info Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
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Robert Nichols – Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
Robert Nichols – Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
In his recent publication, Theft is Property! (Duke 2020), Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of examining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth […]
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Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax
Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax
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Living Writers: Jess Arndt
Living Writers: Jess Arndt
Jess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence, BOMB, Aufgabe, and the art journal Parkett, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press, and lives in Los Angeles. More information about Jess Arndt is available here
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Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020
Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020
Oradora Principal: Reyna Grande La galardonada autora de La Distancia Entre Nosotros ADMISIÓN GRATUITA para estudiantes (6th grado hasta la universidad) y sus familias Se ofrece almuerzo Sorteo Mesas de información Esta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés Keynote Speaker: Reyna Grande Award-winning author of The Distance Between Us FREE ADMISSION for students […]