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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feb_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race\, Life and Language. \nThis event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM\, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the event. \nJohn R. Rickford  is a member of the National Academy of Science\, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and Fellow\, the British Academy. \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Linguistics\, and the Stevenson Programs Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-r-rickford-stevenson-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
LOCATION:Stevenson College Library\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T133000
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SUMMARY:Tarek El-Ariss - The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
DESCRIPTION:The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image – As I was moving to a new office in October 2020\, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the image\, blurring the top part of the page but leaving the paragraph intact. One can surmise that the copy was taken in haste\, in a doctor’s office in the late ‘90s\, somewhere in Upstate NY. It was a photocopy of a page in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) describing a condition wherein patients experience parasites or insects infesting their surroundings and crawling on their skin. Patients collect what they believe to be evidence of their infestation and bring it to the doctor in search of a cure. Where did this note come from? How did it find its way to that book in particular? And was its revelation during an office move at the height of Covid an accident\, a coincidence\, or a message from another time and place and experience? In this talk\, I investigate the provenance of this note\, embarking on a journey that leads me to the birthplace of the image and photocopying technology with companies such as Xerox and Kodak in Upstate NY. It also leads me to confront the ghosts and monsters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) that crawl into suitcases and possess tightly packed books and items of clothing as they cross oceans and go up rivers and canals. In the process\, I reflect on hauntology and theory more generally\, questioning its potential as a system of meaning that can access the past and reveal the hidden. \nTarek El-Ariss is an author\, a scholar\, and the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990) and trained in philosophy\, literary theory\, and visual and cultural studies\, his work deals with questions of displacement\, modernity\, and the somatic in literature and culture. He has written about disoriented travelers\, outcasts\, queers\, hackers\, and characters with complicated relations to home\, tribe\, nation\, and power. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham\, 2013) and Leaks\, Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton\, 2019)\, and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA\, 2018). In 2021\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a forthcoming book entitled\, “Homo Belum: An Autobiography of War.” \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tarek-el-ariss-the-fallen-note-a-journey-to-the-birthplace-of-the-image/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Resettlement: Chicago Story
DESCRIPTION:What is it like to be forced to leave your home\, deny your heritage\, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, a new short fictional film and educational website\, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War II. \nThe event is part of the annual Night at the Museum hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. It is also co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League and will serve as this year’s Day of Remembrance. The evening will commence with a special performance by the Watsonville Taiko Group\, followed by a screening of the film\, a preview of the larger web experience\, and a Q&A discussion with some of the project’s core creators. Marcia Hashimoto will attend and speak to the enduring legacy of her late and much beloved husband Mas Hashimoto. The event’s panel will feature key members of the project\, including the film’s director and executive producer\, website creators\, and UC Santa Cruz’s Dean of Humanities\, Jasmine Alinder\, who led the research team. \n \nRegistration required. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 22\, 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nPanel participants: \nJasmine Alinder is the Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and a historian of photography\, race\, and civil rights. Beyond her published work and university service\, Dr. Alinder has supported and worked on numerous public history projects\, including Full Spectrum Feature’s The Orange Story\, which is the prequel for Resettlement: Chicago Story. In the creation of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, Dr. Alinder acted as the project’s lead academic advisor. \nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz who specializes in the social\, political\, and environmental history of disaster in modern Japan and East Asia. She worked as one of Resettlement: Chicago Story’s historians and researchers. \n  \n  \n \nPatrick Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently working as a highschool teacher in Kentucky where he teaches U.S. history and social studies. He worked both as a historian and researcher for the Resettlement: Chicago Story project and as an advisor for integrating the project into K-12 curriculum. \n  \nReina Higashitani is a first generation immigrant filmmaker based in NY/LA. She is the film writer and director for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as an Assistant Professor at the New American Film School at Arizona State University. \n  \n  \nJason Matsumoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American producer and musician from Chicago. He is the executive producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as the executive producer of film and the Co-Executive Director at Full Spectrum Features. \n  \nAshley Cheyemi McNeil is a public humanities scholar who is currently acting as the Director of Education and Research at Full Spectrum Features\, a role that she came into after joining the team as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow. Dr. McNeil is the project manager for Resettlement: Chicago Story. \n  \nKatherine Nagasawa is a multimedia journalist who specializes in participatory\, place-based storytelling. Before becoming the web producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story\, she produced a number of interactive web experiences about Chicago Japanese American history\, including Uprooted and Reckoning. \n  \nRJ Ramey is the web designer behind Resettlement: Chicago Story and is the founder & Creative Director of Auut Studio (findauut.com). Based in San Francisco\, he started the company in 2015 to design more compelling materials for high school history teachers and museum audiences. He is known for breaking some of the rules and stale expectations for digital humanities and now teams up with other scholars to do the same. As a public historian\, RJ takes an intersectional approach and centers on stories of people of color. \nCeline Parreñas Shimizu is the Dean of the Division of Arts at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a film scholar and filmmaker whose most recent work includes her book The Proximity of Other Skins (2020) and the film 80 Years Later: On Japanese American Racial Inheritance (2022). She previously worked at San Francisco State University as a professor and Director of the School of Cinema and at UC Santa Barbara as chair of the Senior Women’s Council and as a professor teaching in Asian American\, Feminist\, and Film and Media Studies. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/resettlement-chicago-story-film-screening-and-panel/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides\, organizers\, community members\, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism by extending deliberately truncated invitations to visit Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. The book shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \nProf. Jenny Kelly in conversation with Prof. Nick Mitchell and Prof. Sophia Azeb \nJennifer Kelly is an Associate Professor in FMST and CRES. She graduated from UCSC with a double major in FMST and LIT\, and received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin. \n  \n  \n  \nPresented by Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nJoin in person in Humanities 210\, or on zoom here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invited-to-witness-a-book-talk-with-prof-jenny-kelly/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Sara Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia\, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel\, Tides\, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US)\, Hamish Hamilton (Canada)\, and Granta (UK).\n \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sara-freeman/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T190000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Carlos Ulises Decena\, an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences and whose intellectual projects engage and blur the boundaries among critical ethnic\, queer\, and feminist studies and social justice. His first book\, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men\, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His second book\, Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean will be published in Spring 2023 by Duke University Press. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-drafting-stages-with-carlos-decena/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
DESCRIPTION:There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves\, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education. \nBut how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications have transformed the traditional pathways of publication\, prestige\, and engagement. Academics – experts in so many things – need to be part of the conversation. In fact\, the variety of media voices has only made expertise and authority more important. \nIn this workshop\, journalist and historian David M. Perry will lead you through the process of getting your voice into the public sphere. He will cover pragmatic topics: the art of the pitch\, finding the right venue\, managing social media profiles\, getting paid\, making it count for tenure and promotion\, and protecting yourself from trolls and harassment. He will also talk about strategies to simultaneously maintain academic authority and be accessible to the broader public. \nThrough it all\, you’ll be working on your pitches\, reading essays that embody important traits\, and developing your own ideas. \nOver the last five years\, David – once a mild-mannered medievalist – has become a columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine\, with hundreds of published pieces at venues all over the world\, including the New York Times\, the Guardian\, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Along the way\, he’s learned a lot about how to take academic expertise and share it with a much broader audience. \nGoing public isn’t easy\, but neither is getting into graduate school\, getting a PhD\, or finding an academic job\, so you’ve already traveled some pretty difficult paths. This workshop will start you on your way towards the next challenge. \nPlease come to the workshop with an idea for an essay that you might like to write. Essays could be about your scholarly expertise\, personal experience\, or anything else that interests you. We will mostly focus on traditional “op-ed” essays as a structure\, but will also discuss blogging (iterative essay writing on a site under your control)\, reported pieces\, and narrative/creative non-fiction (memoir\, experimental prose\, features\, etc.). Complimentary lunch provided to attendees. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-david-perry-going-public-a-workshop-on-public-writing-for-academics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
DESCRIPTION:Rajesh Bhatt\, U Mass \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-rajesh-bhatt/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T183000
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SUMMARY:Baptiste Morizot\, Ways of Being Alive
DESCRIPTION:Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway\, Professor Emerita\, History of Consciousness. \n \n  \nBaptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures\, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the author of Ways of Being Alive (Transl. Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2022)\, On the Animal Trail (Transl. by Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2021)\, and most recently Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map (Transl. by Catherine Porter\, SUNY Press\, 2022)\, as well as Rekindling Life: A Common Front (Transl. Catherine Porter\, Polity Books\, 2022). \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications in feminist theory and feminist science studies include Primate Visions: Gender\, Race\, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians\, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@.FemaleMan©- Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997)\, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs\, People\, and Significant Otherness (2003); and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016). \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department\, with the support of Villa Albertine San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baptiste-morizot-ways-of-being-alive/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T150000
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SUMMARY:Elena Vasiliou  – Queer Pleasure\, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Queer pleasure\, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.  \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elena-vasiliou-queer-pleasure-resistance-and-pain-in-ex-prisoners-narratives/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T183000
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America\, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials\, this talk follows Black families as they have journeyed from birthing rooms to burial grounds\, fighting for the ability to birth and nurture healthy babies. In charting the historical landscapes of Black infant death across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, Dr. Muigai will examine the role of cultural practices\, medical theories\, and communal initiatives to explain and address the causes of Black infant death. The talk considers the legacy of these ideas and efforts in ongoing struggles to preserve Black life. \nWangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nParking at the University Center: Please follow the directional signs for “Fighting for Life” from the base of campus to College Nine/John R. Lewis lot 165. Parking attendants will be on site for attendees to buy parking permits. From lot 165\, there will be walking directional signs to the University Center\, which is above the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-for-life-race-and-the-limits-of-infant-survival/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T120000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Personal and Professional Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Navigating UC health insurance and counseling services can be complicated for graduate students. Join the Graduate Student Commons for lunch and a panel with experts from our Student Health and Outreach Promotion office\, UC SHIP insurance office\, and Counseling and Psychological Services. You will leave with a clearer understanding of how to support your wellness in issues like referrals\, bills\, counseling\, and more! \nFood provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives. \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-graduate-student-wellness/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T133000
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SUMMARY:Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
DESCRIPTION:On the Internet\, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag on the supposed ephemeral nature of online existence in the digital cloud: 1) Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press’ PGP Source Code and Internals (1995)\, a printed edition of the source code that forms the basis of all email cryptography; 2) William Gibson’s self-destructing cyberpoem Agrippa (1992)\, a literary work that uses pseudo-cryptography to subvert print culture and which\, by producing an art object consumed (annihilated\, even) within its reading\, recovers a lyrical past against the drag of the future; and 3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s single-copy album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015)\, which by subverting the democratic nature of art\, works against the drag of a speculative art market. The moral of each of these bookworks resides within the materiality of the object. What makes these three examples illustrative is that they all deal—in one way or another—with cryptography. In other words: the book’s secret\, which is\, in the end\, nothing other than the book’s inescapable materiality\, even in the digital era. \nZac Zimmer is Associate Professor of Literature at UCSC. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of literature\, culture and technology in the hemispheric Americas. In addition to his current research on the infrastructure of technosystems\, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group\, part of UCSC’s Astrobiology Initiative. His book First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas is forthcoming. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zac-zimmer-an-internet-built-of-books/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical\, methodological\, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the 1990s wave of research on “minority health” and ethnic health disparities\, revealing how a generation of researchers in the biological\, social\, and epidemiological sciences sought to elucidate the relationship between racism and health. A more recent article places that era of research\, with its attention to the impact of stress on the internal environment of the body\, within a longer genealogy of research on race\, racism\, and health. Among other threads for discussion\, Dr. Muigai hopes we can consider the legacies of these concepts on contemporary scientific\, medical\, and popular discussions of Black health\, including the Black maternal and infant health crisis. \nDr. Wangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-wangui-muigai-reading-group-mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T210000
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SUMMARY:The MARCH Continues\, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Arts Division\, John R. Lewis College\, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues\, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis\, of the award wining graphic novel series MARCH. \nAttendees will receive a free copy of the first book in the MARCH series\, and can have it signed by Andrew Aydin after the show! Capacity is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-march-continues-an-evening-with-andrew-aydin/
LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T200000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies\, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective\, present “Indigenous Border/lands\,” an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples\, scholars and activists across the Americas. \n4:00pm\nAa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee\, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero  – Theresa Gregor\, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies\, California State University Long Beach. Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian women\, sovereignty\, literary and cultural repatriation\, and tribal cultural resiliency and revitalization. \n6:00 pm\nAbolish Border Imperialism: Migration\, Racial Capitalism and Empire – Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2022). Harsha Walia is a migrant justice activist whose work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change\, generating mass dispossession worldwide. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nFor anyone who would like to attend the event virtually\, please register here. \nOn Friday\, March 10\, interdisciplinary scholars from across the country will gather for a day-long\, closed-session symposium to consider the concept of borders and the borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Presentations across several symposium themes will result in publication of an Indigenous Borderlands journal in 2024. Please visit the Feminist Studies Department website for more info on the Friday symposium schedule. If interested in attending any or all of the panels\, please contact Lisa Supple (lsupple@ucsc.edu). Seating is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/indigenous-borderlands-symposium/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T140000
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SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Every other year since 1996\, Zakir Hussain has served as curator\, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series\, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father\, the legendary Ustad Allarakha\, Masters of Percussion began as a platform for both popular and rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. While performing and collaborating in India for a few months every year\, Hussain has sought and unearthed lesser-known folk and classical traditions which feed into the greater stream of Indian music\, playing an educational role in affording them greater visibility\, as well as introducing them to audiences in the West. 2023’s tour will also feature Sabir Khan\, Tupac Mantilla\, Melissa Hié\, and Navin Sharma. \nOver time\, the constantly changing ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions\, including jazz. The 2023 version will be no exception\, presenting American audiences with extraordinary\, exciting and spontaneous combinations of percussive\, as well as melodic\, performances. Past years have included master drummers from Central Asia\, India\, and the U.S. \n \nDoors open at 6:30\, performance begins at 7:30 \nPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute at UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64071/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T120000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Marglin - The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1873\, Nissim Shamama\, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia\, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno\, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama’s riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs\, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean\, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional\, cultural\, and political borders. \nJessica Marglin is Associate Professor of Religion\, Law\, and History\, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean\, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press\, 2016) and the co-editor\, with Matthias Lehmann\, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press\, 2020). Her book The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/61836/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T203000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McKenzie\, The Dog of the North
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie’s highly-anticipated new novel\, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Even funnier\, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last\, The Portable Veblen\, this is a screwball comedy worthy of a Preston Sturgis screenplay. You will be surprised\, delighted\, and grateful to be aboard The Dog of the North with the admirable Penny Rush as she faces every challenge her wild and crazy family can throw at her. A book that lifts the spirits.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of Booth \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. \n  \n \n  \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize; a collection\, Stop That Girl\, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World\, a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel\, The Jane Austen Book Club\, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64326/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T180000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic - Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium \nWords whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ “cognate awareness” means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However\, it is unclear if L2 learners really need to be made aware of cognateness. Another question is whether focusing on L1-L2 similarity is enough\, considering that many students are learning a foreign language not as their L2\, but as their L3. In this talk I will discuss whether raising “cognate awareness” indeed modulates the effectiveness of learning words in a foreign language. First\, I will briefly present two classroom quasi-experiments concerning the acquisition of L2-English cognates and non-cognates by language learners with L1-Polish. Then\, I will move on to a naturalistic classroom experiment on learning words in Italian as L3 by L1-Polish learners with L2-English. The talk will present robust and ecologically-valid evidence on acquiring cognates in a foreign language. \n  \nDr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic\, The University of Warsaw \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-agnieszka-otwinowska-kasztelanic-do-l2-and-l3-learners-benefit-from-training-their-awareness-of-cross-linguistic-similarity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T203000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, The Candy House
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan\, one of the most celebrated writers of our time\, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th)\, her “inventive\, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. \nThis event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus\, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton\, whose company\, Mandala\, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty\, with four kids\, restless\, and desperate for a new idea\, when he stumbles into a conversation group\, mostly Columbia professors\, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade\, Bix’s new technology\, “Own Your Unconscious”–which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had\, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others–has seduced multitudes. \nIn the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination\, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders\,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles–from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices\, an epistolary chapter\, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling\, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection\, family\, privacy\, and love. \n  \n \n  \nJennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach\, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Magazine. Her website JenniferEgan.com. \n  \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jennifer-egan for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-the-candy-house/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T150000
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources\, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. There will also be time for you to pose any questions that you might have. \nStudents are invited to meet with Dr. Hamed over lunch on March 16th. Please email Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to RSVP. \nMohamed Hamed joined the University of California\, Berkeley Library in 2017 as the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian. Mohamed joins the Library from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where\, for the last seven years\, he has been the Middle Eastern & African Studies Librarian. He has earned a BA\, MA\, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University. Previous professional affiliations include The American University in Cairo\, Santa Monica College Library\, and Arabic Language instruction at UNC Chapel Hill. Professionally Mohamed has participated in several key organizations including the Middle East Librarians Association\, the Africana Librarians Council\, and the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information. \nThis event is presented by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mohamed-hamed-arabic-language-resources-in-the-uc-system-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T190000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. \nIn 1935\, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism\, Paul Valéry tried to identify in a lecture the origins of the crisis. Things were better\, he said\, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events\, when “continuity reigned in the minds”. In this lecture\, Juan Gabriel Vásquez will discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is in fact indispensable\, for individuals and societies alike\, and he will suggest that fiction –the literary imagination of the historical past– might be uniquely adept at restoring it when it is broken. \nClick here to register to attend this event in person \nClick here to register to attend this event virtually \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels\, including The Shape of the Ruins\, which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations\, a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling\, a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years living in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now resides between Bogotá and New York City. \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-restoring-continuity-notes-on-history-and-fiction/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T200000
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SUMMARY:Persian New Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration\, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring\, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan “Woman\, Life\, Freedom\, Zan\, Zendegee\, Azadee.” This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music and refreshments. Come with family and friends\, everyone is welcome. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz\, SILCA\, UCSC ISU\, and the UCSC Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/persian-new-year-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-marc-garellek/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Community as Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections\, García Peña  invites us—in particular Black\, Indigenous\, Latinx\, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott\, abolition\, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures. She argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university\, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls “teaching in freedom”: a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge\, silenced histories\, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous\, Black\, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom\, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception\, but also create alternative ways to be\, create\, live\, and succeed through our work. \nCommunity as Rebellion can be accessed here. Please ensure you are logged into your McHenry Library Account. \nDr. Lorgia García-Peña is a writer\, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. Through her writing and teaching\, Dr. García Peña insists on highlighting the knowledge\, cultural\, social and political contributions of people who have been silenced from traditional archives. She is the author of three books \, the award-winning The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race\, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke\, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke\, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket\, 2022). Additionally\, her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, The Boston Review and Harper’s Bazaar. She has appeared on CNN\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Univision and Telemundo and is a regular contributor to NACLA and Asterix Journals. \nAn engaged scholar committed to liberating education and bridging the gaps that separate the communities she comes from (Black\, immigrant\, working) and the university\, Dr. García Peña is also a co-founder of Freedom University Georgia\, a school that provides college instruction to undocumented students and the co-director of Archives of Justice a transnational digital archive project that centers the life of people who identify as Black\, queer and migrant. She has been widely recognized for her public facing work: in 2022 she received the Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship\, in 2021 the Margaret Casey Foundation named her a Freedom Scholar\, and in 2017 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented her a Disobedience Award for the co-founding of Freedom University. Additionally\, her scholarship has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, The Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Future of Minority Studies Fellowship. García-Peña received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Latin American and Latino Literatures from Rutgers University. Currently\, she serves as the Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department in Studies of Race\, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-community-as-rebellion/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Let’s talk about ChatGPT Panel
DESCRIPTION:ChatGPT rolled out as a disruptive and instantly polarizing new technology. Should we see it as an impediment or an asset to student learning? Should we just look to other new technologies to detect student use of ChatGPT\, or could there be pedagogical applications of ChatGPT that could further learning? On campus\, faculty are shaping the future of ChatGPT through their choices in the classroom. We hope you will join us on Tuesday\, March 21\, from 12:00-1:30 to learn about how ChatGPT works and to hear from UC Santa Cruz faculty on how they are thinking about and even incorporating ChatGPT in their course planning. Panelists include Leilani H. Gilpin\, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Zac Zimmer\, Associate Professor of Literature; and Jennifer Parker\, Professor of Art. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Humanizing Technology\, Humanities Division. \nTo attend\, join us in the Teaching and Learning Lab (McHenry Library 2359)\, or register by Zoom. \nCITL event page with more info: https://citl.ucsc.edu/resources/chatgpt/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lets-talk-about-chatgpt/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Taija McDougall  – Plantations Derivations
DESCRIPTION:Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taija-mcdougall-plantations-derivations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and local poet Chris Mattingly for a very special evening of poetry and conversation. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRoss Gay’s newest book is Inciting Joy:\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, prize winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection\, and also\, crucially\, how we can expand it. \nIn “We Kin\,” Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August\, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket\,” he explores skateboard­ing’s reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw\,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. \nIn an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? \nTaking a clear-eyed look at injustice\, political polarization\, and the destruction of the natural world\, Gay shows us how we might resist\, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild\, unpredictable\, transgressive\, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact\, it just might help us survive. \n  \n \n  \nRoss Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights: Essays and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard\, a non-profit\, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/in-store-event-a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEH Funders Panel
DESCRIPTION:To watch this Zoom recording of this virtual discussion with Senior Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, please email Caitlin Charos. \n  \nFeaturing: \nJill Austin is a senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at NEH. She arrived at NEH in 2015 after two decades of work in museums and nonprofits that serve museums. Prior to her role at NEH\, Austin was a curator at the Chicago History Museum for ten years. Her last exhibition\, The Secret Lives of Objects\, featured objects boasting mysterious pasts from the permanent collection and opened in 2015. Another major exhibition\, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads\, opened in 2011 and was the result of a three-year curatorial collaboration with historian Jennifer Brier of the University of Illinois\, Chicago. They also co-edited and contributed to an accompanying anthology of essays of the same title on Chicago LGBT and queer history. With Brier\, she also contributed a chapter to Susan Ferentinos’ anthology Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites. Previously\, Austin served as a curator at Detroit Historical Museums and was an exhibition and publication coordinator at Exhibitions International\, a New York-based traveling exhibitions firm that specialized in design and the decorative arts. She got her start in the museum field as an educator at the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh. A native of southeast Michigan\, she earned a BA in history/classics from Eastern Michigan University\, and received an MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. \nJulia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Julia’s graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South\, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She has published numerous articles on education\, domestic service\, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi\, where she was an assistant professor of history\, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. In the Division of Education Programs\, Julia works with all of the division’s programs and serves at the program lead for Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges\, Hispanic-Serving Institutions\, Historically Black Colleges and Universities\, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neh-funders-panel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 24\, 2023\, and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend the Info Session on March 24th\, 2023 or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:2023 Latino Role Models Conference
DESCRIPTION:This exciting FREE annual conference features Latino/a college students and professionals and performances inspiring students to achieve their dreams for college and career. This year\, we are excited to welcome Olga Talamante as the keynote speaker! The conference is conducted in Spanish with English translation at the Crocker Theater\, Cabrillo College. Please complete the registration below to ensure your spot at this year’s conference on March 25th\, 2023 from 9:00-1:00 PM. \nEsta emocionante conferencia anual GRATUITA presenta a estudiantes y profesionales latinos / a universitarios y representaciones que inspiran a los estudiantes a alcanzar sus sueños universitarios y profesionales. Este año\, esperamos dar la bienvenida a Olga Talamante como oradora principal! La conferencia se lleva a cabo en español con traducción al inglés al teatro Crocker\, Cabrillo College. Complete el registro a continuación para asegurar su lugar en la conferencia de este año el 25 de marzo 9:00-1:00 PM. \n  \n \n  \n \nOlga Talamante is Executive Director Emerita of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003 serving in that position until she retired in March of 2018. \nMs. Talamante’s family migrated from Mexico to Gilroy\, California in the early 1960’s where they worked in the farm fields for several years. Those formative years formed the basis for her activism as an organizer and supporter of the nascent United Farm Workers labor union. She is widely respected for her long-standing community activism and leadership. During the mid-seventies\, she became well known for her experience as a political prisoner in Argentina. As a result of a successful grass-roots campaign\, she was released after spending 16 months in an Argentine prison. After returning to the United States\, she remained active in the Chicana/o\, Latin American solidarity\, LGBTQ and progressive political movements. She serves on several boards and currently co-chairs the Caravan for the Children\, which advocates for the release\, reunification and healing of the children separated at the southern border. She holds a B.A. in Latina American History from UC Santa Cruz and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. During the month of October 2022\, she received the following awards: The Visionary Award from Horizons Foundation\, The Rosario Anaya Community Service Award from The San Francisco Latino Heritage Committee\, The History Maker Award from the GLBT Historical Society and the Distinguished Citizen award from the Commonwealth Club. \nErandi García\, originally from Morelia\, Mexico\, has worked in various media outlets in Mexico and the United States\, such as: TV Azteca Michoacán\, Univision 67 and Telemundo 48 in the Bay Area. She has won the Emmy Award for excellence in news\, among other distinctions. Erandi is the founder of a non-profit organization called Juntos Podemos whose mission is to inform and educate the Spanish-speaking population about public health and safety. She currently works for the Hospice Giving Foundation in Monterey\, California. When she’s not working\, Erandi likes to walk on the beach\, hike\, and plan the next adventure with her family.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-latino-role-models-conference/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/march_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Melissa Johnson\, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies and chair of the Race and Ethnicity Studies program at Southwestern University\, a small liberal arts college near Austin\, Texas. Her research and writing are primarily focused on Belize’s rural Afro-Caribbean communities and the inter-relationship between ecologies\, economies\, and racial formations\, both historically and in the present day in these communities. Along with her book\, Becoming Creole: Race and Nature in Belize (Rutgers 2018)\, she has numerous articles in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals\, and several scholarly projects underway\, including work on the racial history of Southwestern University. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-voces-drafting-stages-with-melissa-johnson/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
DESCRIPTION:In Recording History\, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like\, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present. \nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-silver-recording-history-jews-muslims-and-music-across-twentieth-century-north-africa/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis – A Journey through Border Spaces of the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology  \nThe border is the shared topos of the anthropologist\, the historian\, the archaeologist\, the artist\, the musician and the poet\, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future with the present\, the inside with the outside\, the particular with the general\, ideas with the senses. This lecture explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. Drawing on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork\, writing\, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology\, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native\,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic\, American-trained\, post-Boasian anthropologist. \nC. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of cultural anthropology and the author of seven books including poetry. She is best known for her ethnographies The Senses Still\, The Last Word: Women Death Divination\, and Sensing the Everyday\, written in two languages. Born and raised in Greece\, she studied and taught in New York where she lived for more than two decades and later joined the University of the Peloponnese.  She has conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world and to this day  she divides her life between USA and Europe. \n  \n\n \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-a-journey-through-border-spaces-of-the-everyday-2/
LOCATION:zoom\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Legal Studies Program Annual Distinguished Lecture: Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the “most important Afro-Latina voice on civil rights today\,” Hernández argues that unmasking Latino anti-Black bias is essential for fostering multiracial democracy in the United States. \n \nThis event is open to all. Copies of Racial Innocence will be available for purchase.\nThe UCSC Legal Studies Program and Professor Hernández are making 50 copies of the book available free to UCSC students who attend. \nTanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law\, and an Associate Director of Fordham’s Center on Race\, Law and Justice. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Feminist Studies Department\, History Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Philosophy Department\, Politics Department\, Sociology Department\, and The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/legal-studies-program-annual-distinguished-lecture-coming-to-understand-latino-anti-black-bias/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Humanities Faculty Research Forum
DESCRIPTION:Understanding Your Research Support Ecosystem\nPlease join us in person for a brief presentation about the Research Cycle followed by a meet-and-greet with the team that supports your research. Breakfast will be served. \n \nFor those who cannot attend in person\, the presentation portion of the event will be available on Zoom. \nOpening Remarks \nJasmine Alinder\nDean of Humanities \nJohn MacMillan\nInterim Vice Chancellor for Research \nModerated by \nIrena Polić\nAssistant Dean for Research and Engagement\, Humanities \nFeaturing \nDeirdre Beach\nExecutive Director\, Sponsored Research Administration \nHeather Bell\nDirector of Research Development \nSarah Carle\nExecutive Director of Foundation Relations \nCaitlin Charos\nResearch Development Specialist\, Humanities & Humanistic Social Sciences \nMayra Gonzales-Adler\nProposal Analyst\, Office of Sponsored Projects \nAlison Hansen\nAccounting/Research Manager\, Humanities \nNutan Mellegers\nAssociate Director\, Office of Sponsored Projects \nKatie Novak\nFinance Director\, Humanities \nCaroline Rodriguez\nAssociate Director\, Corporate and Foundation Relations
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/facultyresearchforum/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paromita Vohra – The Lovers’ Argument: What Bollywood Songs Taught Me About Making Documentaries 
DESCRIPTION:As a documentary filmmaker\, working in India\, and especially as one interested in political conversation and social change\, you inherit a form. The documentary form ostensibly exists outside commercial mainstream Indian cinema\, privileges realism\, and is marked by ethical nobility and commitment\, and a willingness to be a little bit bored for a political cause. Shorn of frivolity\, of excess\, of emotional unpredictability and most importantly of pleasure\, such settled pieties of the documentary form are difficult to accept. Instead\, I offer\, a kind of Hindi film duet\, as the basis for thinking about documentary form: the lover’s argument which invokes shared experience\, seduction\, dangerous knowledge\, revelation and pleasure. What kind of politics might this aesthetic suggest\, when the argument is made in the service of connection\, not conquest?\nThe talk will be illustrated with clips from my work. \nParomita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer who works with a range of forms\, including film\, comics\, digital media\, installation art and writing to explore themes of feminism\, desire\, urban life and popular culture. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern\, the Wellcome Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art\, and screened around the world. Her films as director include the documentaries Unlimited Girls\, Q2P\, Where’s Sandra? and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahanai\, among others and a series of short musical films including The Amourous Adventures of Megha and Shakku in the Valley of Consent. She has written the fiction feature Khamosh Pani\, the documentaries Skin Deep\, Stuntmen of Bollywood\, and If You Pause\, the play Ishquiya:Dharavi Ishtyle and the comic Priya’s Mirror. She has published several essays on film\, popular culture\, love and desire as well as short stories and writes a weekly newspaper column\, Paro-normal Activity in Sunday Mid-day. In 2015 she founded the Agents of Ishq\, an award-winning digital platform for conversations on sex\, love and desire in India and is currently its Creative Director. \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. The Center for South Asian Studies is delighted to welcome its first South Asian artist/activist-in-residence\, Paromita Vohra. Paromita will be in residence at UCSC from April 10-April 24\, 2023. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 12\, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paromita-vohra-the-lovers-argument-what-bollywood-songs-taught-me-about-making-documentaries/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for a second information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Zaina Alsous
DESCRIPTION:Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press\, 2019)\, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, and the chapbook Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in Poetry magazine\, Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the southern United States. \n \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-zaina-alsous/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Partner Event: Confronting Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is partnering with Confronting Climate Change\, an annual public lecture series that brings together scientists\, artists\, policy experts\, and community members to discuss our planet’s wellbeing and share solutions for our future. \nThis online event will spark conversation and thought on how research in the natural and social sciences can lead to climate change solutions and preserve the overall environmental health and wellbeing of our planet. \nWe invite members of the community and general public to engage and participate in the Zoom-based event on Thursday\, April 13\, at 6 p.m. \n\n\nPanel Discussion\nPresenters will discuss the social and economic transformations that will be required in order to address the health impacts of climate change\, and together we will think about how climate change might inspire us to work towards a more livable future. \nSpeakers\nJulie Livingston\, New York University\nMatthew Huber\, Purdue University\nBharat Venkat\, UC Los Angeles \nModerator\n Andrew Mathews\, UC Santa Cruz  \nLearn more and register.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-partner-event-confronting-climate-change/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paisley Currah – This Anti-Trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center
DESCRIPTION:The current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new\, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk\, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of (trans)gender governance. \nPaisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He is the co-founder of the leading journal in transgender studies\, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Currah’s book\, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity\, published last year by New York University Press\, reveals the hidden logics that have governed sex classification policies in the United States in the past and shows what the regulation of transgender identity can tell us about society’s approach to sex and gender writ large. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nPlease note: this is a hybrid event. To receive a link\, please RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paisley-currah-this-anti-trans-moment-resisting-the-right-and-the-center/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Bryan Donaldson
DESCRIPTION:Bryan Donaldson\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-bryan-donaldson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support\, including from national funding organizations like the SSRC. \nThe workshop will be led by Catalina Vallejo (Program Director for the SSRC Just Tech Program) and Sharon Kinoshita (Interim Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Literature). As part of the workshop\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications. \nCatalina Vallejo is program director for the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Program. Catalina holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia\, an M.A. in cultural studies from Universidad de los Andes\, and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her doctoral work focused on post-conflict in Colombia and Peru and was funded by the SSRC and the National Science Foundation. Before joining the SSRC\, she worked in development consulting. She is fluent in English and Spanish\, grew up in Bogotá (Colombia)\, and travels frequently to the region.\nhttps://www.ssrc.org/staff/vallejo-pedraza-diana-catalina/ \nSharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project\, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group\, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS\, the Stanford Humanities Center\, the American Academy in Berlin\, and other institutions. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) Fireside Lounge.  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nThis event is being presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Max Weiss: Revolutions Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University)\, who will be discussing his new book on cultural production in Ba’thist Syria\, Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Baʻthist Syria (Stanford University Press\, 2022). Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics\, authoritarianism\, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources—novels\, films\, and cultural periodicals—Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership\, gender and power\, comedy and ideology\, surveillance and the senses\, witnessing and temporality\, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state\, society\, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years. \nLunch will be served.  Any graduate students would like a copy of his book\, please contact muhdavis@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/max-weiss-revolutions-aesthetic/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:What’s Happening in Peru? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Structural Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Peru has been in a state of political and humanitarian crisis since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment. When acting President Dina Boluarte–Castillo’s former vice president—announced that elections would not be held until May 2024\, Peruvians across the country took to the streets first to demand elections and a constitutional assembly and then\, when the national police violently repressed protests\, to demand Boluarte’s resignation. Months later\, more than 60 Peruvians have died\, including 47 protestors killed by state forces\, mostly from Southern Andean regions of the country\, and Boluarte has refused to resign. \nThe current situation in Peru is the latest expression of a deep structural crisis\, rooted in historical relations of dominance since colonial times in the highly centralized country. This is reflected in the long-standing conflictive relationship between the capital\, Lima\, and the other regions\, which has polarized the public debate even more. The role of media and emerging technologies have played a crucial role in how these protests have been represented\, adding fire to this polarization. To understand this multidimensional crisis from multidisciplinary perspectives\, this round table features scholars from both the humanities and social sciences who will reflect on the historical\, social\, cultural\, economic\, and political implications of the ongoing crisis for the future of Peru. \nPanelists \nAldair Mejía (Photojournalist\, Lima) is a photojournalist based in Lima\, Peru. He currently focuses his work on political issues\, social conflicts\, portraits\, concerts\, among other events in the country. During the last years Aldair has been working as a collaborator for the EFE agency of Spain and Diario La República\, his photographs have been published by agencies such as CNN in Spanish\, EFE Agency\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. He is also a member of the Association of Photo Journalists of Peru (AFPP). Finalist in the IPYS contest\, Recognition in the 35 Awards\, Second Place in the Photojournalism category in the Entel contest\, Winner in the PhotoEspaña contest. \nCecilia Mendez (UCSB) is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. A Peruvian historian specialized in the social and political history of Peru in the national period\, she received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and numerous prestigious awards\, including the Howard Cline book prize for her book The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Her work calls the attention on the importance of late eighteenth-century\, and nineteenth-century political developments in shaping modern conceptions nationhood\, citizenship\, and “race” in Peru. She has investigated the historical relationship between the peasants and the militaries\, and the role of war and the army in the construction of the state. She is a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) currently works as an instructor and director of the Quechua Program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has two master’s degrees in Linguistics: one from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2005)\, the other from Rice University\, in Houston\, Texas (2012). He is currently finishing his doctorate in Andean Studies (Linguistics) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His studies of the Quechua languages ​​include varieties spoken in Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurimac\, and Cuzco in Peru. Since 2018\, he has coordinated the QINTI project (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative). With his collaborators he is currently writing Ayni\, which aims to an open access manual for Southern Quechua and intended to help teachers and students of Quechua in the United States and around the world draw on the shared characteristics and diversity of Quechua varieties mutually intelligible in Peru and Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito (Universidad del Pacífico\, Lima) is a Professor of Political Science and of Discrimination and Public Policy at Universidad del Pacifico\, in Lima\, Peru. Her research agenda includes topics of gender equality\, social inclusion policies in Peru\, and how the intersection of different systems of oppression position different groups of people outside of the scope of legal protection. Most recently she is focused on exploring the effectiveness of ethnoracial legislation to promote and protect the rights of Afrodescendants in Peru. She holds a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru\, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania\, and two MA degrees in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of South Florida. Concurrently\, she has held positions in the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Culture in Peru\, and a top advisory position in the Office of Women and Equality of the Metropolitan Municipality of the City of Lima on issues of diversity and social inclusion. \nNelson Pereyra (Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, Ayacucho) is a historian\, graduated from the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, with master’s studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. In addition\, he holds a Ph.D. in History with a Mention in Andean Studies. His lines of research are related to the political participation of peasants in the formation of the Peruvian State and to regional history and culture. He has recently published the books: History\, Memory and Symbolism of Holy Week in Ayacucho\, State\, Memory and Contemporary Society in Ayacucho\, Cusco and Lima (edited together with Claudia Rosas) and Living and Active regions: Knots and Foundations of Contemporary Peru (co-authored with Susana Aldana Rivera). \nModerators \nAlejandra Watanabe Farro (LALS\, UCSC) \nAmanda Smith (Literature\, UCSC) \nCarla Hernández Garavito (Anthropology\, UCSC) \nCo-organized with Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute\, UCSC) \n \nRegistration required to receive the zoom link. \nIn Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Department of Latino and Latin American Studies\, the Spanish Studies program\, Arts Research Institute\, and the Dolores Huerta Research Center. \n\n\n¿Qué está pasando en el Perú? Perspectivas interdisciplinarias para entender una crisis estructural\nDesde principios de diciembre del 2022\, el Perú atraviesa una crisis política y humanitaria cuando estallaron las protestas a raíz del intento fallido del expresidente Pedro Castillo de cerrar el Congreso para evitar la vacancia por incapacidad moral. Cuando la presidenta en funciones Dina Boluarte –exvicepresidenta de Castillo– anunció que las elecciones no se realizarían hasta mayo de 2024\, peruanos de todo el país salieron a las calles primero para exigir elecciones y asamblea constituyente y\, cuando la Policía Nacional y el Ejército reprimieron violentamente las protestas\, exigir la renuncia de Boluarte. Meses después\, más de 60 peruanos han muerto\, incluidos al menos 47 manifestantes asesinados por las fuerzas estatales\, en su mayoría de las regiones andinas del sur del país\, y Boluarte se niega a renunciar. \nLa situación actual del Perú es la expresión más reciente de una profunda crisis estructural\, arraigada en históricas relaciones de dominio desde la época colonial en un país altamente centralizado. Esto se refleja en la conflictiva relación entre la capital\, Lima\, y ​​las demás regiones\, que ha polarizado aún más el debate público. El papel de los medios y las nuevas tecnologías ha jugado un papel crucial en la forma en que se han representado estas protestas\, agregando tensión a esta polarización. Para comprender esta crisis estructural desde perspectivas multidisciplinarias\, esta mesa redonda convoca académicos de las humanidades y ciencias sociales para reflexionar colectivamente sobre las implicaciones históricas\, sociales\, culturales\, económicas y políticas de la crisis actual para el futuro de Perú. \nPanelistas \nAldair Mejía es Fotoperiodista\, en Lima\,Perú\, cuyo trabajo se centra principalmente en coberturas de prensa. Actualmente enfoca su labor en temáticas políticas\, conflictos sociales\, retratos\, conciertos\, entre otros acontecimientos en el país. Durante los últimos años Aldair ha estado trabajando como colaborador para la agencia EFE de España y Diario La República\, sus fotografías han sido publicadas las agencias\, como CNN en español\, Agencia EFE\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. También es miembro de la Asociación de Foto Periodistas del Perú (AFPP). Finalista en el concurso IPYS\, Reconocimieno en los 35 Awards\, Segundo Puesto en la categoria de Fotoperiodismo en el concurso de Entel\, Ganador en el concurso de PhotoEspaña. \nCecilia Mendez es profesora de Historia en la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Historiadora peruana especializada en la historia social y política del Perú en el período nacional\, recibió su Ph.D. de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Stony Brook\, y varios prestigiosos premios\, incluido el premio del libro Howard Cline por su libro The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Su trabajo llama la atención sobre la importancia de los desarrollos políticos de finales del siglo XVIII y del siglo XIX en la formación de las concepciones modernas de nación\, ciudadanía y “raza” en el Perú. Y han investigado la relación histórica entre los campesinos y los militares\, y el papel de la guerra y el ejército en la construcción del Estado. Es columnista del diario peruano La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital se desempeña como instructor y responsable del Programa de Quechua en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign. Tiene dos maestrías en Lingüística: una de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2005)\, la otra de la Universidad Rice\, en Houston\, Texas (2012). Actualmente está terminando su doctorado en Estudios Andinos en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Sus estudios de las lenguas quechuas incluyen variedades habladas en Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurímac y Cuzco en Perú. Desde 2018 coordina el proyecto QINTI (Iniciativa de Innovación y Enseñanza Quechua\, por sus siglas en inglés). Con sus colaboradores está escribiendo actualmente Ayni\, que busca ser un manual de acceso abierto para quechua sureño y destinado a ayudar a profesores y estudiantes de quechua en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo a partir de las características compartidas y la diversidad de las variedades quechua mutuamente inteligibles habladas en Perú y Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito es profesora de Ciencia Política\, y Discriminación y Políticas Públicas en la Universidad del Pacífico. Es abogada por la PUCP; máster en Derecho por la University of Pennsylvania; máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos y máster en Ciencia Política\, con una concentración en Etnicidad en Países Andinos\, por la University of South Florida. Su portafolio de investigación incluye temas de derechos humanos\, igualdad de género y no discriminación\, así como el análisis de políticas públicas de inclusión en el país. Ha sido parte de equipos técnicos en el Ministerio de la Mujer\, el Ministerio de Cultura y la Gerencia de la Mujer de la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima. \nNelson Pereyra es historiador\, egresado de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, con estudios de maestría en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide en España. Además\, es doctor en Historia con Mención de Estudios Andinos. Sus ejes de investigación están relacionados con la participación política de los campesinos en la formación del Estado peruano y con la historia y cultura regional. Recientemente ha publicado los libros: Historia\, memoria y simbolismo de la Semana Santa de Ayacucho\, Estado\, memoria y sociedad contemporánea en Ayacucho\, Cusco y Lima (editado junto a Claudia Rosas) y Regiones vivas y activas: nudos y fundamentos del Perú contemporáneo (en coautoría con Susana Aldana Rivera).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peru/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T133000
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SUMMARY:Kristin Lawler – Surfing\, Capitalism\, and the Refusal of Work
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will examine surfing as a countercultural practice and will consider the ways in which it constitutes a lived refusal of the logic of capital. I will look at several contemporary and historical iterations of the surf image in popular culture to think through its political significance\, and will survey the state of the new field of “surf studies.” \nKristin Lawler is Professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. She is author of The American Surfer\, published in 2011\, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Roll and Flow: the Political Ontology of Surf and Skate. Her work appears in numerous edited collections\, including Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School (forthcoming); Class: the Anthology; Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory; Bohemias in Southern California; and The Critical Surf Studies Reader. She is a contributing member of the editorial board of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Radical Imagination. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristin-lawler-surfing-capitalism-and-the-refusal-of-work/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:Valuing Engaged Scholarship in the Tenure and Promotion Process
DESCRIPTION:Join Campus + Community in a forum with campus leaders about taking stock of engaged scholarship in the tenure and promotion process at UC Santa Cruz and across the UC system. UCSC has developed several new sets of guidelines that will help engaged scholars to talk about and elevate their teaching and research. These guidelines will also help departments\, deans\, the Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP) and senior leadership to evaluate engaged scholar files. Presenters will share the ways that campus is seeking to support engaged scholarship in the merit process and will take questions from the audience about how to move forward. \nRegister to attend virtually \nRegister to attend in person \nFeaturing: \n\nRebecca London – Faculty Direct of Campus and Community and Associate Professor of Sociology\nHerbie Lee – Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\nJasmine Alinder – Dean of Humanities\nSusan Gillman – Professor of Literature and Committee on Academic Personnel\n\nThe workshop starts at 3:30 p.m. with a reception starting at 4:30 p.m. \nFor more information\, visit the Campus and Community website. \nQuestions? Contact Campus + Community: cam_com@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valuing-engaged-scholarship-in-the-tenure-and-promotion-process/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:Karina Walters - Transcending Historical Trauma: How to Address American Indian Health Inequities and Promote Thriving
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, settler colonialism has endeavored to erase the lived experiences and histories of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. Yet\, Indigenous populations\, particularly Indigenous women\, remain strong and resilient pillars of communities. Oftentimes these [her]stories are missed in public health initiatives as a result of settler colonialism’s perpetual drive to erase and silence. In this talk\, Dr. Walters will explore the latest advances in designing culturally derived\, Indigenist health promotion interventions among American Indian and Alaska Native women. The talk will describe the indigenist methodological innovations utilized in the NIH funded Yappalli Choctaw Road to Health\, a culturally focused\, land-based obesity and substance abuse prevention program as well as the national multi-site Honor Project Two-Spirit Health Study. Consistent with tribal systems of knowledge\, both studies illustrate the importance of developing culturally derived health promotion interventions rooted in Indigenist thoughtways and land-based practices to promote Indigenous thrivance and community well-being. \n \nDr. Karina L. Walters (MSW\, PhD) is the recently appointed Director of the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institute of Health. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma\, a Katherine Hall Chambers University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work\, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health\, School of Public Health\, and Co-Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) at the University of Washington. Dr. Walters is world renowned for her expertise in developing behavioral and multi-level health interventions steeped in culture to activate health-promoting behaviors. She has written landmark papers on traumatic stress and health\, historical and intergenerational trauma\, and originated the Indigenist Stress-Coping model. She has led 22 NIH-funded studies\, is one of the leading American Indian scientists in the country\, and is only one of two American Indians (and the only Native woman) ever invited to deliver the prestigious Director’s lecture to the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) at the NIH. She is the first American Indian Fellow inductee into the American Academy of Social Welfare and Social Work (AASWSW).\n \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by April 12\, 2023. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karina-walters-transcending-historical-trauma-how-to-address-american-indian-health-inequities-and-promote-thriving/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230420
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SUMMARY:Black Sound Symposium at Indexical
DESCRIPTION:The Black Sound Symposium at Indexical is a 4-day event full of concerts\, talks\, workshops\, screenings\, and interdisciplinary dialogue rooted in Black sound and Black sonic space. The symposium aims to create and sustain community; to celebrate curiosity\, wonder\, disobedience\, collaboration\, and play in artistic work; to expand anti-racist and activist pedagogy and methodologies in and outside of our institutions; and to honor the long and rich lineages of Black virtuosity that have been diminished and erased from artistic canons and social consciousness. \n“Black studies and anticolonial thought offer methodological practices wherein we read\, live\, hear\, groove\, create\, and write across a range of temporalities\, places\, texts\, and ideas that build on existing liberatory practices and pursue ways of living in the world that are uncomfortably generous and provisional and practical and\, as well\, imprecise and unrealized. The method is rigorous\, too. Wonder is study. Curiosity is attentive.”\n-Katherine McKittrick\, Dear Science and Other Stories \nThe Black Sound Symposium is partially sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz & the Visualizing Abolition public scholarship initiative at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, UC Santa Cruz. Please visit the Black Sound Symposium website for the full symposium schedule and details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/black-sound-symposium-at-indexical/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T133000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Rosario
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Dr. Melissa Rosario (she/they)\, a mixed-race queer nonbinary femme who lives and works in Puerto Rico. Drawing on their training as an anthropologist and her own journey of self-healing\, Melissa founded and leads the Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action (CEPA). CEPA is a practice-based initiative dedicated to the decolonization of mind-body-spirit of organizers\, artists\, and healers. It is a space for diaspora and island-based Boricuas and close allies who want to co-create a culture of reclamation that transforms inheritances and patterns into collective liberation. They understand it to be a tool for healing as it allows us to create new possibilities and agreements for our future while also opening space to speak truths that have remained on the margins of our awareness. She has published in Anthropology and Humanism\, AnthroNow\, and Curriculum Inquiry and is a co-author of Decolonizing for Organizers\, a practice-based manual for activists unlearning and healing from colonization. Her first book is under review and is tentatively titled Another Country: Reclaiming Freedom in Puerto Rico. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-voces-drafting-stages-with-melissa-rosario/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T193000
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SUMMARY:2023 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Partha Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Intense debate has recently been centered on the notion of a cosmopolitanism that arose with colonial era globalization. Cosmopolitanism naturally presupposes travel but what about those who stay at home? The migration of ideas and cross-cultural exchanges made possible by the spread of hegemonic languages and print culture created a virtual cosmopolis that has continued to our day. \nDr. Mitter’s talk will focus on the dynamics\, peculiarities and biases of this world. \n  \n \n  \nIf you are unable to attend in person\, you can join us virtually. Click here to register for the virtual event. \n  \nPartha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture\, specializing in the reception of Indian art in the West\, as well as in modernity\, art and identity in India\, and more recently in global modernism. He studied history at London University and did his doctorate with E. H. Gombrich (1970). He began his career as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College\, Cambridge (1968-69) and Research Fellow at Clare Hall\, Cambridge (1970-74). In 1974 he joined Sussex as a Lecturer in Indian History\, retiring in 2002 as Professor in Art History. He is an Adjunct Research Professor Carleton University\, Ontario\, Canada \nHis publications include Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press\, Oxford\, 1977: Chicago University Press Paperback\, 1992; Oxford University Press\, New Delhi\, 2013); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations (Cambridge University Press\, 1994); Indian Art\, Oxford Art History Series (Oxford University Press\, Oxford\, 2002); The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde – 1922-1947 (Reaktion Books\, London\, Oxford University Press\, New Delhi\, 2007).  \nMitter was Radhakrishnan Lecturer at All Souls College\, Oxford in 1992 and Getty Visiting Professor at Bogazici University\, Istanbul in 2011. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton; Getty Research Institute\, Los Angeles; Clark Art Institute\, Williamstown\, Massachusetts; and CASVA\, National Gallery of Art\, Washington DC. In 2000 he was invited by the Indian Government to set up the School of Art and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.  \nIn 1982 he curated and wrote an introduction to the catalogue of an exhibition on the history of Indian photography for the Photographers Gallery\, London. At present he is Emeritus Professor in Art History\, University of Sussex\, Member of Wolfson College\, Oxford and Adjunct Research Professor\, Carleton University\, Ontario\, Canada. In 2008 he received an Honorary D.Lit. degree from the Courtauld Institute\, London University. \n \nAnuradha Luther Maitra received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University\, and has served UC Santa Cruz in many capacities: Professor of Economics\, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on International Initiatives\, UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and President. In the year 2001\, she established the Sidhartha Maitra Lecture Series on Humanism\, Reason and Tolerance in memory of her late husband “with a little bit of help from my friends”: Vikram Seth delivered the Inaugural Lecture ‘Friendship and Poetry’\, and Kiran and Arjun Malhotra provided the founding endowment. \n  \nThis premier campus event series seeks to enrich the intellectual life of the campus and the community\, and is made possible thanks to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture endowment. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-sidhartha-maitra-memorial-lecture-featuring-dr-partha-mitter/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Christian Ruvalcaba
DESCRIPTION:Christian Ruvalcaba\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-christian-ruvalcaba/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:Karen Feldman - The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg\, Felski\, and Bottomless Critique
DESCRIPTION:–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-feldman-the-reality-of-suspicion-on-blumenberg-felski-and-bottomless-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T133000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies  \nIn Recording History\, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like\, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present. \nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 26\, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-silver-recording-history-jews-muslims-and-music-across-twentieth-century-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T173000
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SUMMARY:Eric Stanley - Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
DESCRIPTION:Eric Stanley in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell & FMST Grad Student Kaiya Gordon. \nPresented by the Feminist Studies Department. \nRecent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans\, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence\, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the US — a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on archives of suicide notes\, AIDS histories\, surveillance tapes\, and prison interviews\, Stanley offers a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies. Calling for trans/queer organizing and world-making beyond these forms\, they point to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures. \nJoin via zoom link here. \nEric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley\, where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-stanley-atmospheres-of-violence-structuring-antagonism-and-the-trans-queer-ungovernable/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T200000
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SUMMARY:"DOLORES" Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on April 26\, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt\, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient\, and view his film DOLORES\, which will be introduced by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. After the screening\, Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón will lead a conversation with Peter. \n \nPeter Bratt (1986 Cowell College\, Politics) is a Rockefeller Fellow\, a Peabody Award winner\, an Emmy-nominated film producer\, writer\, director\, community organizer\, and social justice activist. Born and raised in San Francisco by a strong\, indigenous\, single mother from Peru\, his family was part of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz\, the Wounded Knee stand-off\, and the Farm Workers Movement. \nPeter wrote\, produced and directed DOLORES\, a feature documentary about civil rights icon Dolores Huerta that was executive produced by legendary musician Carlos Santana. DOLORES debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and has won numerous awards\, including a 2018 Peabody Award and a Critic’s Circle Award. \nPresented by the Division of Social Sciences and the Delores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dolores-film-screening-and-distinguished-social-sciences-alumni-award/
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:Roberta Wue - Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
DESCRIPTION:The sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20)\, these curious and vivid portraits function in a new space of intercultural commerce and exchange\, as articulated through their unusual materials\, crafting\, and authorship. \nRoberta Wue works on late Qing and early twentieth-century China\, with a particular interest in painting\, photography\, print culture\, and intermediality. Her work examines issues of audience and picturing\, while analyzing genre\, heterogeneity and hybridity\, seriality\, and movement in modern Chinese art and visual culture. She is the author of Art Worlds: Artists\, Images\, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai. \n\nFree and open to the campus community and the public. \nPresented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roberta-wue-inventing-the-chinese-craftsman-amoy-chinqua-and-the-18th-century-export-portrait/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T172000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Laura Jaramillo
DESCRIPTION:Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens\, New York living in Durham\, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. \n\n\n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-laura-jaramillo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation\, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks\, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks\, our practices of teaching and learning can and should be as transformative and revolutionary as what we teach. More than three decades ago\, not long after she finished her graduate work on this campus\, hooks offered us a roadmap to transform educational practice to be equitable\, student-centered\, relationship-rich\, and dynamically engaged. In this talk\, Jody will revisit hooks’ influence on recent efforts to reshape teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz as it takes up the challenge of being a genuinely minority-serving institution. \nAs CITL comes to the close of its seventh year\, we are marking the end of the first phase of our development. This Spring\, CITL will be merging with Online Education to create a single\, integrated Teaching and Learning Center. In June\, Founding Director Jody Greene will be stepping down to make way for new leadership for the Center in the next phase of its evolution. Please join us at 5:00pm for a reception\, followed by the lecture which will begin at 5:45pm. \nRegister to attend in person – RSVP requested by April 18\, 2023 \nRegister to attend virtually \nJody Greene came to UC Santa Cruz in 1998 and has served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. \nRecent publications include a collection\, co-edited with Sharif Youssef\, The Hostile Takeover: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood (Toronto\, 2020)\, and op-eds in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014). In 2016\, they were appointed the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and they now serve as UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. In 2021\, they were appointed Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. \nEach year\, CITL hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. This event is presented by the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liberation-pedagogy-bell-hooks-and-teaching-learning-as-emancipatory-practice-featuring-jody-greene/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T170000
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SUMMARY:Caste\, Class\, and Race:  Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste\, Class\, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction \nKeynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean?\nSusan Gilman\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Literature \nLectures & Discussions:\nG.S. Sahota\, UCSC\nLaura Brueck\, Northwestern University\nIvy Wilson\, Northwestern University\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, UCSC \nZoom: 99270004783 PW: aurora \nPresented by the Aurora Chair in Sikh/Punjabi Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanitites Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caste-class-and-race-inter-areal-studies-of-socio-cultural-contradiction/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/april_30_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T140000
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SUMMARY:Alev Çinar - The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
DESCRIPTION:After winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922\, Turkey set on a secular\, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology\, Kemalism\, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed the Ottoman system and Islam as inferior\, backward\, and uncivilized. First forms of what I refer to as “Islamic decolonial thought\,” or Islamic decoloniality\, emerged against this backdrop in the 1950s\, which later developed into a collection of diverse intellectual movements constituting the current Islamic intellectual field (IIF) in Turkey. This study examines the Sufi-based political thought of Turkish Muslim poet and writer Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) as one of the pioneers of Islamic decolonial thought in Turkey. Necip Fazıl\, who is current President Erdogan’s main ideological inspiration\, was the founder and lead writer of the The Great East (Büyük Doğu) journal published in 1943-1978\, which is considered to be Turkey’s first Islam-based political journal that was instrumental in inspiring numerous political and intellectual movements currently active in the IIF. \nAlev Çınar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University\, Turkey. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Bogazici University; Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania\, and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the International Center for Advanced Studies\, New York University\, and the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \n\nShe is the author of Modernity\, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies Places and Time; co-editor of Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City\, and of Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt\, Lebanon\, Turkey\, India. She also has articles that have appeared in journals such as the Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Theory\, Culture and Society\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. \nHistory of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details. \nTalk co-sponsored by CMENA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alev-cinar-the-predicament-of-islamic-decoloniality-in-turkey-sufi-political-thought-and-the-great-east-project-of-necip-fazil-kisakurek-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T120000
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SUMMARY:Hanna Musiol – Wounded Landscapes and Maps of Hurt: Breaths\, Scars\, and Tender Story-Sharing
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media \nMaps always sense and often cut. Much has been written about their violence\, as an overture for the genocidal touch\, as a prospecting tool priming landscapes for material and narrative extraction\, or as an instrument of attritional social neglect (Lo Presti). Hegemonic cartographies live off of elisions of “disposable bodies” and on demarcation lines which construct architectures of harm (Lambert). This talk focuses instead on scars\, gasps of pain\, cartographic story-sharing\, and maps of hurt. It is thus an homage to marginalized but not marginal bodies\, stories and breaths\, all demanding oxygen\, care\, delight\, and a “right to co-existence” (Holmes). Drawing on the work of feminist\, diasporic\, and critical race thinkers\, architects\, poets\, human geographers\, and Indigenous Arctic mixmedia practitioners—Katherine McKittrick\, Olga Lehmann\, Pia Arke\, Afaa Weaver\, Laura Lo Presti\, Johnny Pitts\, Eliane Brum\, Viktorija Bogdanova\, among many others—Musiol will center on site-specific cartographic acts of “tender narration” involving artivists\, architects\, mappers\, students\, and literary scholars working together in art galleries\, on the page\, in our classrooms\, and in the streets (Tokarczuk). Specifically\, she will meander across several sites and rehearsals of remapping: Afaa Weavers’s and Viktorija Bogdanova’s poetic maps of spaces that “hurt us” and Sissel Bergh’s textual cartographies of South Sámi coast; monumental\, yet ephemeral urban-scale poetic storytelling actions taking over the streets\, pages\, bodies\, and facades in Trondheim and Hiedanranta; and\, finally\, site-specific pedagogies of cartographic story-sharing\, which draw on the ambulatory\, resuscitative\, biosocial oxygen-delivery affordances of poetry (in polylingual urban poetic ensembles and Søstrene Suse’s Radiokino listening seances). The talk will conclude with reflection about the cartographic acts of “repair\,” tenderness\, and “unlearning” (Azoulay)\, asking\, after Josie Billington and Pia Arke\, how we\, literary and cultural scholars and students\, can attend to the wounded bodies and landscapes “personally\,” using our meager disciplinary tools and “enfleshed” cartographies of hurt (Sharpe). \nHanna Musiol (PhD\, Northeastern University) is Professor of Modern/Contemporary Literature at NTNU (Norway) and a 2022–2023 Human Rights Fellow at SUNY Binghamton (US). Her research interests include transnational literary studies\, site-specific transmedia storytelling and reparative reading practices\, and critical theory\, with emphasis on migration\, environmental humanities / political ecology\, and environmental and human rights. She publishes frequently on aesthetics and justice\, and her work has appeared in DHQ\, ASAP/J\, Environment\, Space\, and Place\, Technology of Human Rights Representation\, Journal of American Studies\, and Writing Beyond the State. Musiol regularly co-organizes city-scale curatorial\, public humanities\, and civic-engagement initiatives and exhibitions\, such as Narrating the City\, Of Borders and Travelers\, Spectral Landscapes\, and Resist as Forest. She is based in Trondheim\, where she frequently collaborates with grassroots urban storytelling initiatives such as Literature for Inclusion & Poetry without Borders. She is currently involved in several transborder research projects devoted to spatial storytelling: Narrating Sustainability\, One by Walking\, Environmental Storytelling\, and Environmental Practices Across Borders. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hanna-musiol-wounded-landscapes-and-maps-of-hurt-breaths-scars-and-tender-story-sharing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T173000
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SUMMARY:Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land  Book Talk and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land\, examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache\, Tohono O’odham\, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Exploring the logic of borders\, Schaeffer turns to Indigenous sacred sciences and ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance\, extraction\, and occupation. \nFelicity Schaeffer is a UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is also the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas\, and co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship. \nThis event is presented by the Feminist Studies Department\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and The Center for Racial Justice \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unsettled-borders-the-militarized-science-of-surveillance-on-sacred-indigenous-land-book-talk-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T173000
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SUMMARY:Labor Hope\, Labor Reality: Organizing Unions in 2023 - An Evening with E. Tammy Kim
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 3\, at 5:30pm in the Namaste Lounge (College Nine)\, New Yorker writer and co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye E. Tammy Kim will be giving a talk on the state of labor activism and organizing\, followed by a panel discussion with writer\, organizer\, and doctoral candidate in Sociology Sarah Mason and Unite Here member and organizer Martha Hernandez. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCSC Library\, with support from the Anthropology Department. \nE. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker who covers labor and the workplace\, arts and culture\, and the Koreas. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, the London Review of Books\, and the Nation\, among many other publications. With Jay Caspian Kang\, she co-hosts the podcast Time to Say Goodbye\, which New York Magazine described as “not just about the concept of ‘Asian America\,’ but\, in many ways\, the broader discourse of race in America\, which it tries to complicate in provocative\, meaningful ways.” A contributing editor at Lux\, she has been an Alicia Patterson fellow and a fellow at Type Media Center\, and she is the current Writer-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. She also co-edited Punk Ethnography\, a book about contemporary world music. \nSarah Mason is a writer\, organizer\, and PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her writing has appeared in the New Left Review\, Logic Magazine\, the Guardian\, and New Politics. She is a head steward in UAW 2865. \nMartha Hernandez is a member of Unite Here. A union leader in the Dream Inn\, where she has worked as a housekeeper for twenty-six years\, Hernandez is a Union Shop Steward and member of the Union Negotiating Committee. She was named Union Member of the Year in 2015.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-hope-labor-reality-organizing-unions-in-2021-an-evening-with-e-tammy-kim/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T190000
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SUMMARY:On Salon: Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:On Salon: A new reading series featuring UCSC’s incredible writers and poets. Join us for a new quarterly reading series sponsored by the Literature Department featuring graduate and undergraduate creative writers: Angie Sijun Lou\, Kristen Nelson\, Alicia Gutierrez\, Fio Harden\, Isla Oyguy\, Charissa Zeigler.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-salon-a-new-reading-series-featuring-ucscs-incredible-writers-and-poets/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230301T182055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T210001Z
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:On May 4\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. \nFaculty Speakers\n\nJorge Menna Barreto\, Environmental Art\nMike Beck\, Marine Sciences\, Director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience\nJody Biehl\, Literature and Science Communication Program\nSikina Jinnah\, Environmental Studies\n\n\n\nNot in Santa Cruz? Register for Zoom access. \nEvent Logistics\nBicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230508
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SUMMARY:The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL\, pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference\, held in the spring at a university in western North America. It is a top international venue for researchers in theoretical linguistics\, studying any aspect of human language from a formal perspective\, including phonology\, morphology\, syntax\, semantics\, and their interfaces. The first WCCFL was held in 1982\, and it has previously been hosted by UC Santa Cruz four times\, most recently in 2012. The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41) will take place on May 5-7\, 2023 at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nInvited speakers:\nLuke Adamson\, Rutgers University\nDorothy Ahn\, Rutgers University\nEva Zimmerman\, University of Leipzig \nAt this time\, all talks in both main and special sessions are planned for in person presentation. In addition to one in-person person session\, there will be one virtual poster session. \nFull conference information can be found at: https://babel.ucsc.edu/wccfl41/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-41st-west-coast-conference-on-formal-linguistics/
LOCATION:Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T120000
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SUMMARY:Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics\, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean\, 1770-1850
DESCRIPTION:“Climate Ledgers” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. \n \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Debjani Bhattarcharyya\, University of Zurich
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debjani-bhattarcharyya-climate-ledgers-atmospheric-politics-risk-and-liability-in-the-indian-ocean-1770-1850/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230505T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
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SUMMARY:Encore Papers & Presentations
DESCRIPTION:This crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress\, or re-deliver papers they have given in professional venues (such as conferences\, workshops\, etc.). Attendees are invited to actively and passively participate\, and speakers will provide notes\, a script\, and/or links to slides for access. The event is presented by the Humanities Institute’s Disability Studies Cluster. \nSCHEDULE \nAutism Life Writing\nCaitlin Flaws\, Literature \nAutoethnography\, Undone: Towards a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism\nMegan Moodie\, Anthropology \nBeyond UDL: Improving Accessibility through Asynchronous Activities\nDr. Brenda Sanfilippo\, Writing Program \nThe Mortification of Harvey Leach\nDr. Michael Chemers\, Performance\, Play & Design \nToward an Access Manifesto for the Food Limited\nDr. Amy Vidali\, Writing Program \nWhat Might a History Course on Disabilities in East Asia Look Like?\nDr. Noriko Aso\, History \nNOTE: This is a scent-free event. If you need a specific accommodation for this event (including professional captioning and/or ASL interpreting)\, please contact Amy Vidali at avidali@ucsc.edu with what you need. (Disclosing why you need this accommodation is not required.)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/encore-papers-presentations/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T150000
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SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T180000
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SUMMARY:2023 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Wendy Brown – After Humanism and the Nation State: More Democracy\, Democracy that is More\, or Democracy No More?
DESCRIPTION:In most accounts of dangers to democracy today\, the value of the object is assumed. At the same time\, we know that the “demos” of Western democracy violently excludes all nonhuman life and much of humanity too. Democracy is no form apart from this content\, no principle floating freely above these histories. Democracy also requires certain cultural\, educational and economic conditions; certain spatialities and temporalities; and modest access to visible levers of power. Absent these\, the vox populi may well become a terrible\, and terrifying\, screech. This talk reflects on these and other predicaments of democracy today. It asks\, without answering\, how to approach this imperiled creature now. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin at 4:00pm\, with a Q&A and reception to follow.\nDoors will open at 3:30pm \n \nVirtual attendance \nWendy Brown (Crown ’77\, Politics and Economics double major) is UPS Foundation Professor in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton and Class of 1936 Chair\, Emeritus\, at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author\, most recently\, of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (2019) and Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (2023). From 1989-99\, Professor Brown taught at UCSC in the Department of Women’s Studies and worked closely with Helene Moglen to build Feminist Studies. \nThis lecture is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies and made possible by the Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities for the Center for Cultural Studies Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Politics. \nIf you have any questions or concerns\, please contact Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-helene-moglen-lecture-in-feminism-and-humanities-with-wendy-brown-after-humanism-and-the-nation-state-more-democracy-democracy-that-is-more-or-democracy-no-more/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230105T175640Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Student & Public Engagement with Historic Sites
DESCRIPTION:3D technologies\, such as LiDAR and photogrammetry\, are being used by archaeologists at sites all over the world\, frequently to record the state of preservation of standing architecture or document field excavations. But 3D and Virtual Reality (VR) can also be used to digitally ‘re-imagine’ or visualize aspects of historic places that are no longer accessible due to landscape change\, the passage of time\, and modern development. Students and the public can ‘virtually travel’ across space and time\, experiencing visualizations of historic sites on different continents or centuries in the past. This one-day event\, Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Public Engagement with Historic Sites\, brings together scholars working on the question of Humanities VR and ‘virtual travel’ for presentations and discussion. The workshop will focus on questions of user experience and interaction\, educational design\, ethics\, and the concept of ‘cultural presence’ when virtually traveling (gaming scholar Erik Champion’s theory of ‘being there\, then’). \n \nPresenters \n\nDr. Rita Lucarelli\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UC Berkeley\nDr. Eiman Elgewely\, School of Design\, Virginia Tech\nDr. Matthias Lang\, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities\, Bonn University\nDr. Vincenzo Lombardo\, Department of Informatics\, Università degli Studi di Torino\nPh.D. Candidate Maureen McGuire\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nDr. Cameron Monroe\, Anthropology\, UCSC\nDr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez\, State Park Historian II & Tribal Liaison Santa Cruz District\, California State Parks\n\nOrganized by Dr. Elaine Sullivan\, History\, UCSC and sponsored by the Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-reality-as-virtual-traveling-for-student-public-engagement-with-historic-sites/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T132000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230404T022458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T022458Z
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Cruz Guttierrez – Vernaculars of Plant Knowing: Woven Transformations in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Gutierrez will share from her first book project on the history of colonial botany in the Philippines. The book argues that vernaculars of plant knowing made and unmade botany at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, when imperial Anglo-European botanists banded together to steady the philosophical and practical tenets of the science under an internationalist banner. Taking as her case study the contrapuntal story of Bagobo weavers and the acceleration of abacá plantations in the Philippines\, Gutierrez demonstrates the disciplinary makings of the science that enabled transformative settler-colonial currents in the Pacific colony’s southern gulf. \nKathleen “Kat” Cruz Gutierrez is Assistant professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2021 and 2022\, she completed Mellon-funded postdoctoral and interdisciplinary residencies at the Humanities Institute of the New York Botanical Garden and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. A specialist of the history of science and the plant humanities\, she is the co-editor of the forthcoming special issue “Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines” in Philippine Studies. Since joining UCSC\, she has also served as co-PI on the interdivisional campus-community research initiative\, Watsonville is in the Heart. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathleen-cruz-guttierrez-vernaculars-of-plant-knowing-woven-transformations-in-the-early-20th-century-davao-gulf/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230427T202831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T200755Z
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SUMMARY:From Symptom to Story: Understanding an Epidemic of Kidney Disease in Central America
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to construct a “cause” of disease? What is the primary source material we consult as we write the narrative of a new disease? When it comes to public health\, how do we fairly and accurately reflect scientific evidence\, personal experience\, and community knowledge? In this talk\, journalist Anna Maria Barry-Jester will use these questions to chart the history of a particular epidemic of chronic kidney disease that\, since the early aughts\, has been recognized as a leading cause of death in parts of Central America. In the two decades that followed\, the global understanding of this condition has expanded to a growing list of communities\, including war-torn parts of Sri Lanka\, agrarian sectors of India and migrant guest workers from Nepal. Drawing from nearly 20 years of reporting — including interviews\, photography\, video\, and scientific literature — Barry-Jester will explore the shifting narratives of the emergence of a disease and interrogate what becomes evidence and how it informs public understanding of disease and its causes. \nPlease email Jennifer Derr (jderr@ucsc.edu) if you would like to RSVP for this event. \nAnna Barry-Jester is a public health reporter with ProPublica. Previously\, she was a senior correspondent covering public health at Kaiser Health News. Her series “Underfunded and Under Threat\,” with colleagues at KHN and The Associated Press\, investigated how chronically underfunded public health departments buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. The project won awards from the Online News Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her reporting on harassment and menacing threats endured by public health officials was the basis of an episode of “This American Life\,” and PEN America later awarded its PEN/Benenson Courage Award to the officials who she profiled. Barry-Jester has lived and worked in Latin America and Southeast Asia\, where she has reported\, photographed and filmed stories in more than a dozen countries. She was a writer at FiveThirtyEight and a producer at Univision and ABC News. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-symptom-to-story-understanding-an-epidemic-of-kidney-disease-in-central-america/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T134500
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230427T203433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T200707Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Barry-Jester Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome Anna Barry-Jester\, who will lead a reading group exploring explanations of the causes of drug-resistant tuberculosis and the subsequent policy implications. One article looks at the history of TB control policy\, and how “cost-effective” strategies bred drug resistance. Two recent commentaries debate the deployment of new TB treatments in absence of sufficient diagnostic capacity. A fourth article examines the legality of a policy framework that gave different treatment protocols for resource-poor and resource-rich countries. Barry-Jester hopes we can draw on past and current policy debates and decisions to discuss the narratives surrounding what causes drug-resistant TB in order to think about policies at scale. \nEmail Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings. \nAnna Barry-Jester is a public health reporter with ProPublica. Previously\, she was a senior correspondent covering public health at Kaiser Health News. Her series “Underfunded and Under Threat\,” with colleagues at KHN and The Associated Press\, investigated how chronically underfunded public health departments buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. The project won awards from the Online News Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her reporting on harassment and menacing threats endured by public health officials was the basis of an episode of “This American Life\,” and PEN America later awarded its PEN/Benenson Courage Award to the officials who she profiled. Barry-Jester has lived and worked in Latin America and Southeast Asia\, where she has reported\, photographed and filmed stories in more than a dozen countries. She was a writer at FiveThirtyEight and a producer at Univision and ABC News. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-barry-jester-reading-group-mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T172000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230404T044608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T045450Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Ryan Eckes
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Other books include Valu-Plus and Old News (Furniture Press 2014\, 2011). His poetry can be found in Tripwire\, Slow Poetry in America Newsletter\, Public Pool\, and elsewhere. He won a Pew Fellowship in 2016. \n\n\n  \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ryan-eckes/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230508T195920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T195920Z
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SUMMARY:Creating Art in/with Community: A Conversation with Josúe Rojas and Professor John Jota Leaños
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public conversation at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences between artist Josúe Rojas and Professor John Jota Leaños (Executive Committee of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas). Josué Rojas is a Salvadoran-American artist from the Bay Area who has done murals throughout the country. Exploring subjects such as identity\, immigration\, and culture in his work\, Rojas will be discussing his artistic practice in/with community. He is the Huerta Center’s artist-in-residence for Spring quarter\, a residency which is being generously cosponsored with the Arts Research Institute’s Arts and Oppression initiative\, the Institute for Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, and the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civil Engagement’s VOICE initiative. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creating-art-in-with-community-a-conversation-with-josue-rojas-and-professor-john-jota-leanos/
LOCATION:The Institute of the Arts & Sciences Gallery\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230513
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20221021T190950Z
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SUMMARY:Future Ancestral Technologies Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Future Ancestral Technologies is an exhibition by Cannupa Hanska Luger with mixed-media sculpture\, regalia\, and video\, all based in myth\, science fiction\, and Indigenous futurism. \nScience fiction has the power to shape collective thinking and serves as a vehicle to imagine the future on a global scale. Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies is Indigenous science fiction. It is a methodology\, a practice\, a way of future dreaming\, rooted in a continuum. Future Ancestral Technologies is an approach to making art objects\, video\, and land based performance with the intent to influence global consciousness. This Indigenous-centered science fiction uses creative storytelling to radically reimagine the future. Moving sci-fi theory into practice\, this methodology conjures innovative life-based solutions that promote a thriving Indigeneity. \nThis Indigenous science fiction is characterized by regalia\, tools\, shelter\, transportation\, and technology which invite the viewer to experience multiple points of entry into Luger’s sci-fi narrative and myth telling through multiple symbiotic landscapes. The ongoing narrative developed by installation and land based work articulates future spaces in which Indigenous people harness technology to live nomadically\, reclaiming hyper-attunement to land and water. Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies is a story\, a methodology\, a practice\, a way of futurism\, that suggests alternative approaches to recognizing the future with reverence. \nUsing art practice to adopt science fiction\, Future Ancestral Technologies is a context for dismantling time to imagine the distant future and dream of sustainable approaches to the lived experiences of the generations to come. Using traditional craft and the act of making creates futuristic potential\, the process imagines\, enacts and prototypes experiences and technologies that promote Indigenous cultures to thrive into the future. \nFuture Ancestral Technologies challenges and empowers humans—from individuals to industries—to visualize an Indigenous future and to practice empathy and resourcefulness in epochs to come. \n“Future Ancestral Technologies looks to customs in order to move us forward\, advancing new materials and new modes of thinking by utilizing science fiction theory\, creative storytelling\, Indigenous technology and contemporary materials and the detritus of capitalism to present time bending landscapes of myth. ” –Cannupa Hanska Luger \nThis exhibition will run from May 12-September 3\, 2023 and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nFor full exhibition information please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/future-ancestral-technologies \nHeader Image: Future Ancestral Technologies ++ a generation of new myth ++ 3 channel video installation\, featuring monster slayer regalia\, mirí aráda + awá ahbáaxi. (image still) Cannupa Hanska Luger 2021. Photo by Gabe Fermin. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/future-ancestral-technologies-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230514
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230314T164437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T163339Z
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SUMMARY:Transnational Turns and the Future of China Studies
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to do China studies at this global conjuncture? What has “transnational” got to do with it\, why now\, and why again? What future promises and possibilities can it still bring? This two-day workshop featuring multi-disciplinary scholars of China and Chinese studies\, as well as a conversation with Rey Chow\, Duke University\, on the thirtieth anniversary of her publication Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (Indiana University Press\, 1993). For full workshop description and program\, please click here. \nThis event will be held in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210. For participants who would like to join the workshop virtually\, please register here. \nOrganized by the Transnational China research hub\, a seed project at the Humanities Institute\, funded by the UCSC Office of Research. Co-sponsored by UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television and the Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/transnational-turns-and-the-future-of-china-studies/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230515
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230426T021709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T164039Z
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SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XXI)
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 21st season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXI)\, May 12\, 13\, and 14\, at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson  Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual performances in French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors.  \nThere is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.  \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of a demonstration of a Taiko performance of “Yashiro no Uta (The Song of the Shrine) composed by Ikuyo Conant/ Artistic Director of Watsonville Taiko Group\, after a brief  explanation of what Taiko is.  \nFrench will be represented by Art (Art)\, a light reflection on the value of art\, adapted and directed\, from the eponymous play by Yasmina Reza\, by Renée Cailloux.  \nFinally\, Spanish will bring us “Rompiendo el hielo” (“Breaking the Ice”)\, an original contemporary comedy piece\, written  and performed by students\, that follows a grocery store staff on a not so ordinary day.  \nOver the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences\, who look forward to experiencing  their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend this year’s  presentation.   \nFor more information\, please contact Renee Cailloux (rcaillou@ucsc.edu)  or consult https://cowell.ucsc.edu/academics/cw-related-programs/meip/index.html.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-20th-season-of-the-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xx/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20221216T174650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T174650Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
DESCRIPTION:Argyro Katsika\, UC Santa Barbara \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-argyro-katsika/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230502T201634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T201942Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz County History Fair
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Santa Cruz County’s diverse history by connecting with local historical and cultural organizations and groups. Enjoy hands-on activities\, artifacts\, photographs\, publications\, and more. Between 20 and 30 local museums\, historians\, historical societies\, and other groups will have displays and activities.  Presented by the San Lorenzo Valley History Museum. Co-sponsored by the Felton Community Hall and the Humanities Institute. Free admission.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-county-history-fair-2/
LOCATION:Felton Community Hall\, 6191 Highway 9\, Felton\, CA\, 95018\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230427T042429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T165642Z
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SUMMARY:Crossing Borders - An Evening of Philosophical Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Large and small\, visible and hidden\, borders weave in and out of our lives along varied dimensions. Some we can see\, many we cannot. Some we celebrate\, others confine us. Some we are aware of\, many remain undiscovered. There are political borders and national borders; psychological\, social\, scientific\, and biological borders. What are borders? Can anything be conceived as involving a border? Come think with us on the evening of May 13 at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences building\, designed for vibrant possibility. Choose among rooms with synchronic presentations and performances\, led by poets\, philosophers\, scientists\, and artists. Muse with us\, ponder with us\, and talk with one another\, as together each of us travels across\, within\, and at the borders calling to us on this particular evening. \nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, with support and participation of The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, and the Philosophical Slug Society. \nFree and open to the public \nTo read more about this event see The Institute of the Arts and Sciences website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crossing-borders-an-evening-of-philosophical-discussion/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T132000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230412T033524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T033955Z
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SUMMARY:Opus Cope: Screening and Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Jae Shim screens his award-winning documentary Opus Cope: An Algorithmic Opera which celebrates the groundbreaking work of algorithmic composer David Cope (UCSC emeritus Professor) and the profound ways in which humans and machines (AI) can be creative. \nDavid Cope has been a firm believer that creativity is everywhere\, and his work reflects these values of compassion and understanding\, where humans and AI are not necessarily at odds with each other. This collaboration between human and machine resulted from his own creative block in the 80’s which led to the first algorithmically composed opera. \nPresented by the Music Department and cosponsored by the Arts Research Institute and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opus-cope-screening-and-dialogue/
LOCATION:DARC 108\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230512T223514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T224114Z
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SUMMARY:Deep Read San Diego Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow Deep Readers for a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station on May 15\, 2023\, to discuss this year’s Deep Read book: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. We’ll learn about the stark changes taking place in the world and explore the efforts to adapt and survive in this era of climate change. \n \nPlease RSVP to reserve your spot at this exciting event\, as space is limited. \nAs part of The Deep Read program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, this event is designed to invite curious minds like yours to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. Even if you haven’t read the book\, we encourage you to come and enjoy the discussion and connect with fellow San Diego alumni. \nBeer and light bites provided by Steve Wagner (Crown)\, a UC Santa Cruz alumnus & co-founder of Stone Brewing! \nTo learn more about The Deep Read\, and to sign up for the program\, please visit https://thi.ucsc.edu/deep-read/. \nFaculty Speaker: Laura Martin (Ph.D. ’08\, literature) began working with The Humanities Institute team in 2019 on the Deep Read Initiative\, a community reading program that brings together undergraduate and graduate students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and members of the community to think deeply about literature\, art\, and important issues of our time. Laura teaches the undergraduate Deep Read course at Porter College\, manages the Deep Read program\, and assists with other THI projects. She is a literary scholar\, writer\, and teacher\, and she holds a PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. \nAbout the host: Steve Wagner (Crown) is a co-founder of the national brewing company Stone Brewing and an alumnus of UC Santa Cruz. He is a strong supporter of the university’s Humanities Institute\, the Literature Department\, and affiliated graduate students. Wagner was transformed by his time as a student at UCSC\, where he studied English literature and was inspired by the radical education system and inspiring professors.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-san-diego-salon/
LOCATION:Stone Brewing Liberty Station\, 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116\, San Diego\, CA\, 92106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T114711
CREATED:20230420T165208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T165208Z
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SUMMARY:Chiara Bottici - Anarchafeminism
DESCRIPTION:History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chiara-bottici-anarchafeminism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Inaugural Lecture by Asif Siddiqi
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend the inaugural lecture for The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series\, taking place on Wednesday\, May 17th\, 2023\, at 2:00pm at the Cowell Provost House.  This event will also be livestreamed and recorded: Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series Inaugural Lecture. \nDrawing on insights from Maya Peterson’s work on water management projects in Central Asia\, this talk focuses on the design and construction of the infamous White Sea-Baltic Canal in the Soviet north in the early 1930s. Known colloquially as the Belomor Canal\, this was the very first infrastructural project to use mass forced labor from the emerging Gulag camp system. Despite the death of some 10\,000 laborers in building the canal\, the project was advertised internationally as a successful monument to the ability of humans to remake the natural world. In his paper\, Professor Siddiqi focuses on the role of scientists and engineers who designed and built the canal\, one which came to represent a form of “hydraulic monumentalism” so emblematic of Soviet modernity. As instruments of a form of internal colonization of Soviet space\, these scientists and engineers embraced\, some under coercion and some freely\, the use of mass forced labor as a solution to large-scale engineering projects across the Soviet Union. The outcome was a deeply damaging but enduring relationship between scientific expertise\, the natural environment\, and the constitution of Soviet empire. \nAsif Siddiqi is a professor of history at Fordhamm University\, and specializes in the history of science and technology and modern Russian history. \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is being sponsored by The Maya K. Peterson Memorial Endowment\, the UCSC History Department\, and The Humanities Institute. \nThe Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series at UCSC honors the life and spirit of a brilliant scholar\, teacher\, and mentor whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 2021. A specialist in Russian\, Central Asian and environmental history\, Maya was a valued member of UCSC’s faculty in the History Department and the Humanities Division. The Explorations in History Seminar Series celebrates Maya’s passions for the study of history\, for dialogue between the humanities and the sciences\, and for innovative scholarship across disciplines—passions that she shared generously with students\, colleagues\, and communities around the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maya-k-peterson-explorations-in-history-seminar-series-inaugural-lecture-by-asif-siddiqi/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alice Yang in Conversation with Cathy Choy: Author of "Asian American Histories of the United States"
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month\, we are pleased to present an engaging opportunity to learn about the histories that make up the Asian and Pacific Islander Diaspora in the United States. Join us for light refreshments and a lively discussion with UCSC Professor of History Alice Yang and Cathy Choy. \nTo register for this event\, visit the Santa Cruz Public Library website. \nCatherine Ceniza Choy is an award-winning Asian American historian and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author of Asian American Histories of the United States  (2022) published by Beacon Press in their ReVisioning History book series. The book features the themes of violence\, erasure\, and resistance in a nearly 200 year history of Asian migration\, labor\, and community formation in the US. It was awarded a 2022 Kirkus Star from Kirkus Reviews for books of exceptional merit; named a Best of 2022 Nonfiction Book by Kirkus Reviews and Ms. Magazine; and featured in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s 2023 National Day of Racial Healing book list and the Texas Library Association’s 2023 Texas Topaz Reading List. \nChoy’s first book\, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (2003)\, explored how and why the Philippines became the leading exporter of professional nurses to the United States. Empire of Care received the 2003 American Journal of Nursing History and Public Policy Book Award and the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. Her second book\, Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (2013)\, unearthed the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia. A CHOICE book review of Global Families concluded: “A useful corrective to one-dimensional\, romantic portraits of adoption that saturate popular culture today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. *** All levels/libraries.” Choy also co-edited the anthology\, Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (2017)\, with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. \nAn engaged public scholar\, Choy has been interviewed and had her research cited in many media outlets\, including ABC 20/20\, The Atlantic\, CNN\, Los Angeles Times\, NBC News\, New York Times\, ProPublica\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Vox\, on topics such as anti-Asian\, coronavirus-related hate and violence\, the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on Filipino nurses in the United States\, and racism and misogyny in the March 16\, 2021 Atlanta spa shootings. \nChoy is Associate Dean of Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, Belonging\, and Justice in UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing\, Data Science\, and Society (CDSS). She is a former Department Chair of Ethnic Studies (2012-2015\, 2018-2019) and a former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies Division (2019-2021). Choy received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA and her B.A. in History from Pomona College. The daughter of Filipino immigrants\, she was born and raised in New York City. She lives in Berkeley with her husband Greg Choy. \nAlice Yang is chair of the History Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz and co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories.  She is also the oral history co-director of the Okinawan Memories Initiative. Between 2010 and 2020\, she served as provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. Alice teaches courses on Asian\, Asian American\, and Pacific Islander history\, transnational memories of the Pacific War\, oral history\, and comparative redress and reparations. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress\, Major Problems in Asian American History (co-editor)\, and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (editor). She is currently completing a manuscript on historical memories of Japanese American women’s activism between 1941 and 2021. She is also preparing an exhibit on Japanese American women’s history that is being funded by a California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund grant. She has served as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American History and an advisory board member for the exhibit Then They Came for Me: Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and the Demise of Civil Liberties. Her research has been funded by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Luce Foundation\, and a UCSC Public Humanities\, Digital\, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alice-yang-in-conversation-with-cathy-choy-author-of-asian-american-histories-of-the-united-state/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Capitola
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Graduate Student Awards Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 19\, 2023 as we acknowledge the achievements of our exceptional graduate students at the inaugural Humanities Division Graduate Student Awards Celebration! This in-person event will take place at the Cowell College Provost House. The program will begin at 4:30 p.m\, with a reception to follow the ceremony. Friends and families of awardees are encouraged to celebrate with us. This event will follow the campus-wide Graduate Symposium and Graduate Alumni Brunch.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-graduate-student-awards-celebration/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230521T160000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Ezra Klein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of the 2023 Deep Read—a live discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and NY Times columnist and podcast host Ezra Klein. We’ll discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, which depicts the stark changes and emerging technologies affecting our climate and world. \nThis event will take place at the UC Santa Cruz Quarry Amphitheater. Students\, staff\, alumni\, and the broader community are invited to join and think deeply with two of the greatest minds working today to explain our complicated world. While this event will not be live streamed\, it will be recorded. Deep Read Community members will be the first to receive the video once it goes live following the event. \n\nSchedule\n3:00pm – Meet our community partners\n4:00pm – Program begins \nAbout the Speakers\n Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, her book about mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field began as an article in The New Yorker. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future was a national bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\, Time\, Esquire\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Publishers Weekly\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Library Journal. \nEzra Klein is an Opinion columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. His podcast\, The Ezra Klein Show\, receives more than a half-million downloads per episode and is routinely in the top 25 podcasts on Apple’s charts. Prior to his work at the Times\, Klein founded and launched Vox\, the popular explanatory news site. As Vox’s editor-in-chief\, and then its editor-at-large\, he helped create Explained on Netflix. In 2020\, Klein published Why We’re Polarized\, a bestselling examination of the forces driving polarization and paralyzing politics in the United States. Klein is a UC Santa Cruz alumnus. \nParking\nFree parking for this event will be in the East Remote Lot 104. There will be free shuttles taking attendees from the parking lot to the venue. \nDeep Read Faculty Salon\nOn May 4\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of the book with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. Learn more here. \n\n\n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-elizabeth-kolbert-in-conversation-with-ezra-klein/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin - Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
DESCRIPTION:In The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy\, Hannah Zeavin shows that\, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic\, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s real use of media in therapies over distance. \nZeavin reads epistolary and postal conventions in Freud’s moment\, intertwined with Freud’s own epistolary self-analysis (in correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess) and the unconventional treatment by correspondence of his only child patient\, the agoraphobic “Little Hans\,” in order to rethink the coincidental origins of psychoanalysis and teletherapy\, and to help us think through narratives of loss that attend current uses of technology to mediate therapy. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. \nPresented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-sigmund-freud-tele-analyst-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by The Center for World History \nFrom the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological studies of Bad Mothers. Newly codified diagnoses of aloof “refrigerator mothers” and overstimulating “hot mothers” were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this talk attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The talk thus elaborates a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” \nHannah Zeavin is a scholar\, writer\, and editor\, and works as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University and a Visiting Fellow at the Columbia University Center for The Study of Social Difference. Zeavin is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press\, 2021) and at work on her second book\, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press\, 2024). Articles have appeared in American Imago\, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies\, Technology and Culture\, Media\, Culture\, and Society\, and elsewhere. Essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming from Dissent\, The Guardian\, Harper’s Magazine\, n+1\, The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, and elsewhere. In 2021\, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis\, a new popular magazine for psychoanalysis on the left\, which will be releasing its first issue in Fall 2022. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-hot-and-cool-mothers-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benoit Challand – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by the THI Research Cluster Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East and Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology \nProviding a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011\, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East\, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation in the region in 2011. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship and marginalization in Yemen and Tunisia\, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation. He argues that a new collective imaginary\, or the collective force of the people\, emerged as a force\, representing itself as the sovereign power that could decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen\, Tunisia\, but also elsewhere in the Middle East\, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence\, representation\, and democracy. It compares the post-2011 efforts to build a decentralized political order in Tunisia with the calls for federalism in Yemen\, and the shared demands for democratic accountability over the means of coercion. \nBenoit Challand is Associate Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research\, New York. He is author of the books Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, and Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been translated into Arabic and he has numerous co-authored publications such as The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance (co-edited with F. Bicchi and S. Heydemann\, Routledge 2016)\, and Imagining Europe: Myth\, Memory and Identity\, co-authored with Chiara Bottici (Cambridge University Press 2013). He is also interested in democratic theory\, Western European Marxism\, and settler colonialism.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/may-25-benoit-challand-violence-and-representation-in-the-arab-uprisings/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers -  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
DESCRIPTION:Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans. Her work\, which focuses on race\, culture\, and immigration\, has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Vogue\, Elle\, The New Republic\, The Daily Beast\, n+1\, The New Inquiry\, and Interview magazine. Born in Ecuador\, she later became one of the first undocumented students admitted to Harvard University. \n \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-karla-cornejo-villavicencio/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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