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SUMMARY:Gukha Amin — From the Margins: The Lives and Labor of Yemen’s "Undesirable" Subjects
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa for a presentation by Gukha Amin.  Her talk follows the lives of social outcasts and marginalized Black people who lived and moved across Southern Arabia in the first half of the twentieth century using deportation records\, petitions\, and criminal cases. These include street performers\, sex workers\, sanitation laborers\, and others who colonial officials labeled as “undesirables.” Moving across Somalia\, Djibouti\, Ethiopia\, and Southern Arabia\, these subaltern actors reveal the porous contours of an “Oceanic Yemen\,” a global space that reincorporates Southern Arabia into its historic oceanic networks and makes legible Yemen’s deep links to the Horn of Africa. The talk centers these individuals’ labor\, mobility\, and gendered experience to unpack the complex subject and racial formations unfolding in twentieth-century Southern Arabia and the broader region. It asks who were the men and women that made up the social margins of this global space? How does their labor and gendered experience challenge our understanding of gender and sexuality? And what do these internal outsiders teach us about how categories of race\, Blackness\, and caste overlapped and operated in the twentieth-century Middle East and beyond? \nGukha Amin is a historian of modern Yemen and a current UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz. She is interested in questions of race and racialization in the Middle East and North Africa. Her book project\, The Nesting Margins: Identity and Belonging in Oceanic Yemen is a social history of racial and social minorities living and moving across late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Southern Arabia. Gukha is the founder and curator of The Global Yemen Project\, an ongoing digital humanities project that narrates the global histories of an “Oceanic Yemen” through the lives of those on the margins of Yemeni society. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Lunch will be served during the talk.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-the-lives-and-labor-of-yemens-undesirable-subjects/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rasanblaj as Spirit Turn: Gina Athena Ulysse in Conversation with Jennifer González
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González\, discussing Ulysse’s solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. \nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view at the IAS as an inaugural Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the concept developed by the artist of “rasanblaj”\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas. \nThe artist will be joined in conversation by noted art theorist and scholar Jennifer González\, professor of history of art and visual culture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rasanblaj-as-spirit-turn-gina-athena-ulysse-in-conversation-with-jennifer-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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