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SUMMARY:Slow Seminar: More-than-Human Water Engineers
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) at University of California\, Santa Cruz and Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) invite you to join us for our Spring Slow Seminar “More-than-Human Water Engineers” \nProfessor Anna Tsing (Anthropology\, UCSC) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of scholarship on more-than-human water engineering in wetland environments. In our reading and discussion\, we will consider the following questions: Can nonhumans be ecosystem engineers? Are sago palms “the beavers of Southeast Asia”? What agents shape the salt/freshwater line? How is Southeast Asia relevant to understanding wetlands around the world? \nPlease register for the Slow Seminar. Registered guests will receive copies of the selected readings via email. \n \nThis is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person at UCSC or Aarhus or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out at least 1 hour before the event. Registration will close at midnight on May 10\, 2026. \nNew to Slow Seminars? Check out SEACoast’s definition here. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slow-seminar-more-than-human-water-engineers/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Alexander Ghedi Weheliye - Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life
DESCRIPTION:The final guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday\, May 11th. This event brings Alexander Ghedi Weheliye to give their talk “Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life”. \nSchwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life establishes the different ways Blackness operates as the ontological mattering of ungendering. This allows me to conceptualize Blackness as integral to being as such and imagine how its compound manifestations matter and reverberate both through and beyond the category of the human. \n \nJoin us in-person or register to attend virtually. \nAlexander Ghedi Weheliye is a writer\, professor\, and curator focusing on Black Studies\, critical theory\, gender and sexuality studies\, social technologies\, and popular culture. They are Malcolm S. Forbes Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. They are the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005)\, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages\, Biopolitics\, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014)\, and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (2023). Currently\, Weheliye is working on two projects. The first\, Between Continents\, is a critical memoir about their early life in East Germany and Somalia. The second\, Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life\, reimagines the periodic table of elements from the vantage point of Black queer life. They are co-curator of the group exhibition\, Exposure: Black Queer Visual Constellations at Cohen Gallery\, Brown University (April-June 2026).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/schwarz-sein-elements-of-black-life-with-alexander-ghedi-weheliye/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande - Migrant Heart
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón\, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nMigrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It is an essential\, moving read that continues to expand what we understand about the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is a book for anyone seeking to understand the true price of belonging and the enduring power of finding one’s voice. \n \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs Migrant Heart\, The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. \nSylvanna Falcón is a Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the winner of the 2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association and of a teaching award from the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Reyna Grande \n\nThis event is cosponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-migrant-heart/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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