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SUMMARY:Sumud Behind Bars: Palestinian Women and the Politics of Everyday Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Samah Saleh: \nThis talk examines resistance inside Israeli prisons through the experiences of Palestinian women who practice sumud (steadfastness) as an everyday form of political agency. Rather than an abstract idea\, sumud emerges as a lived reality within the prison’s suspended time\, where women confront isolation\, violence\, and attempts at erasure. Through collective organization\, shared learning\, embroidery\, reading\, writing\, and emotional solidarity\, everyday survival becomes a form of resistance. Despite gendered violence such as strip searches and harassment\, women reclaim dignity and political identity by supporting one another and creating informal spaces for learning and memory-sharing. Drawing on testimonies of former Palestinian women prisoners\, this talk highlights how solidarity itself becomes a powerful strategy for survival\, resistance\, and the continuation of political struggle. \nSamah Saleh is Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA and Assistant Professor at An-Najah National University in Palestine. \n  \n  \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, People’s University\, UCSC Sociology\, CSAS\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Center for Racial Justice\, CRES\, Feminist Studies\, Institute for Social Transformation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sumud-behind-bars-palestinian-women-and-the-politics-of-everyday-resistance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathan Osorio
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nNathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry\, Querida (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize selected by Shara McCallum\, was a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry\, and was selected by Phillip B. Williams as a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Norma Faber First Book Award. He was selected as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine and his work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, The\nSlowdown\, and elsewhere. He is the 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-nathan-osorio/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Communications (Studio C) \nReception:  7-8:30pm\, Communications 139 \nGabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes\, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered “The Paradise of the World” has been transformed into an economic\, social\, and ecological catastrophe by the construction\, in the 1970s\, of an industrial chemical complex that has deprived local farmers of their water\, arable land\, economic well-being\, and personal dignity. \nJoin us for a screening of this film by Habib Ayeb\, followed by a discussion with Jennifer Derr (UCSC) and Hossein Ayazi (UCB) on how models of development influence the lived environment\, public health\, and political contestation from California to North Africa. As climate change and rising temperatures dramatically alter landscapes around the world\, professors Derr and Ayazi will discuss how local populations adapt to these challenges and organize to demand accountability from the state. Reception to follow. \nHossein Ayazi\, PhD\, is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research\, teaching\, and policy work examine the U.S. and global political economy of agri-food systems and environmental change and their relationship to antiracist\, anticolonial\, and revolutionary-socialist movements from the twentieth century to the present. He has authored reports and peer-reviewed articles on U.S. and global agri-food and environmental policy\, state and corporate power\, trade and development\, labor and migration\, climate impacts and resilience strategies\, and food sovereignty and climate reparations. He is currently coordinating lead author on the California Fifth Climate Assessment topical report on Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration and has recently advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on “Global Recommendations to Prevent Loss of Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.” He holds a PhD in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has held resident fellowships and visiting professorships at Tufts University\, Williams College\, and Santa Clara University. \nJennifer L. Derr is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, where she also served as the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Her research explores the intersections among medicine\, science\, the environment\, and capitalism\, particularly in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Derr’s book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, was awarded the 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-crisis-in-gabes-agriculture-and-revolt-in-tunisia/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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