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Watsonville is in the Heart Online Screening: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance
Watsonville is in the Heart Online Screening: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance
ONLINE SCREENING: Talk Story II: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance screening, and community discussion. On Sunday, January 30, the Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) project team rings in 2022 with a screening of Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz’s Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance (1984). The documentary offers a portrait of […]
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“Just Futures” Opens
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. Just Futures, a highly anticipated exhibition featuring the works of Arthur Jafa, Martine Syms, and Black Quantum Futurism, curated by Professor T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Culture, opens at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery February […]
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Massimiliano Tomba – Revolutions/Restorations
Massimiliano Tomba – Revolutions/Restorations
Reading revolutions through the prism of a concept of history that is not teleological or unilinear but is instead structured as a pluriverse of historical temporalities, this talk shows how different temporalities and semantic stratification of revolution are reactivated in historical revolutionary moments. From this perspective, the ancient notions of revolution and restoration are not […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Introduction to Digital Humanities
PhD+ Workshop – Introduction to Digital Humanities
Join us for the first meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 to learn about what digital humanities means, how digital tools empower humanities scholarship, the role of technology in higher education as a tool of communication and research as well as an expressive and creative medium, and the new opportunities and career […]
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From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Reading Dante, Seeking Freedom, Fleeing Racism
From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Reading Dante, Seeking Freedom, Fleeing Racism
African American culture has been attentive to Dante Alighieri, the man and his writing, since the mid-19th century. Dante's Divine Comedy has proved to be an effective primer on issues of justice for the broader community. This talk will present the work of African American authors from the 19th century to today who have turned […]
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Isebill Gruhn, “From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now”
Isebill Gruhn, “From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now”
The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in […]
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Jorgge Menna Barreto – Voicescapes for the Landless
Jorgge Menna Barreto – Voicescapes for the Landless
This project expands traditional oral history methodologies by recording the voices of farmers of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) embedded in the soundscapes of the food forests they cultivate. The resulting situated multispecies voicescapes will be used in the creation of pedagogical material for students in rural schools and beyond. Jorgge Menna Barreto, Ph.D. […]
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Living Writers Series: TC Tolbert
Living Writers Series: TC Tolbert
TC Tolbert (he/him/hey grrrl) is a trans and genderqueer monkey-goat who never ceases to experience a simultaneous grief and deep love any time s/he pays attention to the world. S/he writes poems, works with wood, learns, teaches, and wanders. In 2019, TC was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellowship for his work with […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10, 17, and 24), we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point […]
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Black Liberation and Pedagogies – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
Black Liberation and Pedagogies – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society. “ […]
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Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10, 17, and 24), we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point […]
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Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
In this poetry reading and community conversation, Alan Pelaez Lopez will reflect on what it means to create art in the middle of legal and political violence. They'll read from their book, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien, and a manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled trans*imagination in the hope that the work can invite questions about […]
From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
During Dante’s lifetime, the maritime city-states of northern Italy consolidated their position at the center of Mediterranean transit and trade. Thanks to broader trends in the centuries before his birth – the Crusades, increasing trade in essential foods and luxury goods, and swift advances in naval architecture and financial supports for trade, for instance – […]
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Engseng Ho – Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics, Global Logistics, Company Rule
Engseng Ho – Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics, Global Logistics, Company Rule
Dubai and Singapore are emblematic of the contemporary global moment, embodying dizzying success, frenetic excess, spectacular crash. Are they global cities or port-states? Are they Asian nations or corporations descended from the East India Companies that became colonial governments? Their iconic status today as global cities is not simply a function of globalization, but can […]
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University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
During the American slave trade, more than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. For many, the forced migration didn’t end when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them from colony […]
Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, received great critical acclaim in 2015 and was included in many Best-of-Year lists. Yuri is a political scientist, editor and contemporary Mexican writer who teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. His prose was described as “stunning” and his novel as […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The Humanities Institute, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10, 17, and 24), we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point […]
Bettina Aptheker, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor – “Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s”
Bettina Aptheker, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor – “Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s”
The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in […]
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Meena Kandasamy – Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
Meena Kandasamy – Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma and violence, while spotlighting the militant resistance against caste, gender, and ethnic oppressions. She explores this in her poetry and prose, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), as […]
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The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork, Bleak House. The Dickens Project is a multi-campus research consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz and consisting of over 40 […]
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Craig Haney – Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Craig Haney – Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Craig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and corrections. Drawing on social histories of crime and punishment, as well as the environments of public media and representation in which opinions and beliefs and […]
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Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput – Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput – Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
Following the untimely death in 2019 of curator Okwui Enwezor, Mark Nash was charged with developing a platform for exploring the work of Enwezor’s Documenta11 (2002) for which Mark was a co-curator. This talk will present several related projects including the Platform 6 website. Vladimir Seput, who is visiting scholar at UCSC, is collaborating on […]
Solidarities for Justice – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
Solidarities for Justice – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
“We are one people, one family, the human family, and what affects one of us affects us all.” ― John Lewis Ready for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Division of Social Sciences, Colleges Nine and Ten, […]
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Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents Práxedes Rabat Makambo, Secretary of Academic Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española, and Daniel Owono Sima, Dean of the School of Linguistics and Information Sciences at the National University of Equatorial Guinea, speaking on "Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial." Ecuatorial Guinea is the only country in […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information 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 […]
LASER Talks with Paula Arai, Kyle Robertson, and Ruth Murray-Clay
LASER Talks with Paula Arai, Kyle Robertson, and Ruth Murray-Clay
Join us for an online LASER Talk featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. Paula Arai […]
Living Writers Series: Student Reading
Living Writers Series: Student Reading
Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation - A Living Writers Series After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to […]
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Aslı Bâli – “From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East”
Aslı Bâli – “From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East”
This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. I argue that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in […]
War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications
War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_13RXbJpNw&ab_channel=UCSantaCruzArts%2CLectures%2CandEntertainment On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty, PhD students, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine, tension with NATO, broader Russian efforts […]
Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
Join us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool, Kepler.gl, to create maps to support research and pedagogy. In the hour-long workshop, you will get hands-on experience creating interactive maps such as line maps, arc maps, […]
Okinawa Memories Initiative, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective”
Okinawa Memories Initiative, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective”
The Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University and Dr. Fumi Inoue, a recent doctoral graduate from Boston College, in conversation with OMI Directors, Professors Alan Christy and Dustin Wright. This is the […]