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SUMMARY:Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break - Info Session
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars \nIn Winter 2025\, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield\, CA in archival processing during Spring Break 2025 (March 24-28\, 2025). \nAttend the virtual information session on Tuesday\, October 15th at 3pm to learn more. Register via Zoom below. \n \nThe Huerta Center Graduate Scholars will be trained in CART for up to 20 hours during Winter quarter\, then travel to Bakersfield to participate in an “alternative spring break” program from March 24-28\, 2025. There they will work alongside the UCSC Archivist and engage in archival processing of the Dolores Huerta Papers and the Huerta Foundation records. \nEligibility: Currently enrolled in a graduate program at UCSC at least through June 2025 (at least five credits\, not on leave or filing fee\, in good academic standing\, within normative time). Priority will go to graduate students in the Humanities Division and the Latin American and Latino Studies department. \nLearn more at: https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/cart/apply AND https://thi.ucsc.edu/call-for-applications-huerta-center-graduate-scholar/ \nThis program is funded by The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz\, administered by the Huerta Center and the Latin American and Latino Studies department\, and is part of a Mellon Foundation grant to establish new public archives preserving the legacy of social justice activist Dolores Huerta through a partnership with the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cart-program-info-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moving-money-and-moving-power-philanthropy-isnt-neutral/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters - Academic Conference
DESCRIPTION:Rising from the darkness\, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice\, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture. \nHeld on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus\, the 2024 Festival includes the conference\, plus a performance\, a live podcast recording and the Monsters Ball. This year’s academic conference includes panels on monstrous ecologies\, black monstrosity\, zombies\, body horror and more. Independent video game designer and activist mattie brice and Professor Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (author of Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction) will give the keynote talks. \nFor more information\, please visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024fest \nThe 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Crown College; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-3/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Lisa will present ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied knowledge and planetary hydrologies by arguing for the generative role of art in igniting multiscalar engagements with liquid ecologies. Drawing on projects developed through the entre—ríos collective\, she will situate engaged curatorial practice as a response to calls in the environmental humanities to contribute aesthetic forms that support a reclaiming of common waters. \nLisa Blackmore is a researcher\, curator and educator\, working with water cultures in Latin America. Since 2018\, she has been directing entre—ríos\, a research and artistic platform for collaborative methodologies connecting communities to bodies of water. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management at UC Berkeley and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex\, UK. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Hydrocommons Cultures: Art\, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (2024) and “Water” in Handbook to Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (2023). entre-rios.net / lisablackmore.net \nCo-sponsored by UCSC’s More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory. \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/lisa-blackmore-hydrocommoning/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
DESCRIPTION:Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet\, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 16\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or Oct 30\, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nLisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an art director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years\, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to Fortune 500 clients\, her adventures in marketing have built a depth of knowledge that she likes to share. Lisa is in her second decade at UC Santa Cruz as marketing director\, overseeing a creative team of writers\, videographers\, and designers. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/curating-your-digital-reputation-with-lisa-nielsen/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T133000
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SUMMARY:WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. \nGet design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 17\, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 6\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design-with-jason-chafin/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Stacey D'Erasmo
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nStacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea\, A Seahorse Year\, The Sky Below\, Wonderland\, and The Complicities. She is also the author of the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry. D’Erasmo’s work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, New York Times Magazine\, Ploughshares\, Interview\, The New Yorker\, and the Los Angeles Times. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009\, and won the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012. \nShe is currently a Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in NYC. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-stacey-derasmo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History\, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“The most important book on the Great Depression in a generation. Dana Frank skillfully shows how working-class people experimented with new forms of organizing based on traditions of struggles against racism as well as class and gender oppression. Our understanding of the Great Depression and its contested legacies will never be the same thanks to this brilliant and timely book.” —Paul Ortiz\, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nDrawing on little-known stories of working people\, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four stories of resilience\, mutual aid\, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression\, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to: \n\nThe 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination.\nThe groups who used mutual aid\, cooperatives\, eviction protests\, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs.\nThe million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory\, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined.\nThe Black Legion\, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism\, antisemitism\, anti-Catholicism\, and fascism as the cure to the Depression.\n\nWhile capitalism crashed during the Great Depression\, racism did not and was\, in fact\, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted\, too\, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people\, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. \nWhat resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread\, beans\, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal\, when it arrived\, provided vital resources to many\, but others were cut off from its full benefits\, especially if they were women or people of color. \nWhat Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy. \nDana Frank is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. A well-regarded senior historian\, she is the author of many books on labor\, women\, and social justice in the US and Honduras. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Guardian\, The Nation\, Foreign Affairs\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dana-frank-what-can-we-learn-from-the-great-depression/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop\, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding\, attracting partners\, or landing clients.  \nParticipants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision\, project\, or business in just a few sentences\, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and real-world examples\, participants will develop the skills they need to present their ideas confidently and spark interest in any professional setting. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 21\, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 4\, 2:00-3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nNada Miljković is an experienced educator and digital arts expert with over a decade of teaching at UCSC. As a project manager and instructor at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED)\, she focuses on fostering creativity\, storytelling\, and entrepreneurial skills in students. Passionate about empowering students with real-world tools\, Nada prepares future leaders in both their professional and personal lives while pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Arts at the University of Arts\, Belgrade. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mastering-the-elevator-pitch-with-nada-miljkovich/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power\, historical development\, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be in conversation with graduate students from the departments of History and Sociology. \nA limited number of both books are available for graduate students – please contact kgalinde@ucsc.edu to receive a copy. Books are available for sale via the UC Press website for 30% off using the code UCPSAVE30. \nAbout the Authors and Books \nToxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco explores the impact of green gentrification in Bayview-Hunters Point\, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. Lindsey examines how revitalization efforts often threaten to displace long-time residents who have fought for toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment as a means of reparative justice. She links these struggles to broader issues of environmental racism and the legacy of slavery\, arguing for a vision of environmental justice within the context of reparations. Lindsey Dillon is author of Toxic City and a critical human geographer and Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nA People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport examines the history of San Francisco International Airport to uncover a rich narrative of development and power in the Bay Area from the eighteenth century to today. Eric highlights SFO’s pivotal role in the region’s evolution as a hub of commerce\, innovation\, and influence. By examining the airport’s colonial roots and its impact on trade\, social dynamics\, and environmental change\, Porter reveals how individual actions intersect with larger systems of power. The book concludes by confronting the climate crisis and the challenges it poses to SFO and the surrounding community. Eric Porter is Professor of History and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he also holds appointments in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music Departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US urban and cultural history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. Porter is author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport (University of California Press\, 2024). \n\nHosted by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies (CUES). Co-Sponsored by the departments of History of Consciousness and Sociology\, the Division of Social Sciences\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Science & Justice Research Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-celebration-toxic-city-and-a-peoples-history-of-sfo/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Burnout: Recognizing\, Preventing\, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
DESCRIPTION:Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work\, personal lives\, health\, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms\, and learn strategies to recognize\, prevent\, and manage burnout. \nThis event is on Oct 22\, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \nPrior to joining UCSC CAPS in 2001\, Audrey Kim\, Ph.D.\, worked in the corporate and nonprofit sectors and understands how burnout can be different and yet similar across various settings. Kim likes helping students gain insight into their problems and learn practical strategies for overcoming them. She especially enjoys working with graduate students and facilitating the Graduate Women’s Group at UCSC. \nNicolette “Niki” Severson\, LCSW\, has been on the team at CAPS since January 2021. She came to her work as a therapist by way of a background in academia\, education\, and research in public health and social work. Previous to UCSC\, Severson worked with underserved populations in community mental health. She has firsthand experience with burnout from a variety of demanding work environments and is excited to talk about this critical topic. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/burnout-recognizing-preventing-mitigating-with-audrey-kim-and-nicolette-severson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-digital-democracy-tools-to-recognize-political-dis-and-mis-information/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T121500
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SUMMARY:Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for\, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters\, but also what we have done\, the worlds we have made in our teaching and in our shaping of the forms of the university itself. Two portraits stand at the center\, each from public universities\, each cases in which scholars themselves had an unusual degree of influence: the founding of the University of Berlin in the years before 1809 and the formation of the History of Consciousness program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz over the course of the 1970s-80s. Both institutions were established during periods of academic reform and state-building ambition. In both cases we find the imprint of a peculiarly Romantic myth—the idea of an intimate relation among three sets of maps: maps of a school\, maps of culture\, and maps of the mind. \nNoreen Khawaja teaches in the Religion and Modernity program at Yale University. Her work examines the ideas\, practices\, and institutions of secular reason. She is the author of The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre (University of Chicago Press\, 2016) and is currently at work on a history of the research university. \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/noreen-khawaja-what-is-a-university-humboldt-and-histcon-in-perspective/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T160000
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SUMMARY:Mjriam Abu Samra - "Intergenerational\, Anticolonial Vanguards: The Palestinian Transnational Student Movement in Historical Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in Europe and USA.  It compares student political engagement namely by examining the formation and development of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) during what is regarded as the “golden age” of the Palestinian revolution (1960s-1970s) with contemporary initiatives\, efforts and strategies of mobilization amongst Palestinian youth in shatat (Diaspora). By looking to the past through a historical continuum that has molded present-day Palestinian youth activism\, I propose that new futures can only be made through methodologies that tether together time and space. \nAbout the Speaker \nMjriam Abu Samra is a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow at the department of Anthropology at UC Davis with ties to the program in Middle East/South Asian Studies through the cooperation with her host institution University of Venice Ca Foscari in Italy. \nMjriam received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford\, UK and her MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, UK. Her research focuses on Palestinian transnational student and youth politics and Third World solidarities. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees\, colonialisms\, social movements and it is grounded on critical theories on subalternity and decolonization. As a MSC Postdoctoral Fellow Mjriam will be exploring the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in the United States and Europe through an historical comparative lens. \nBefore joining UC Davis\, Mjriam was based in Amman\, Jordan\, where she worked as gender expert for the Center of Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and as Senior researcher and coordinator at the Al Nahda research center. She taught courses on international politics\, developments\, and history of colonialism at the University of Jordan and American education abroad programs in Amman. \n\nThis talk is presented by the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at UC Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by Feminist Studies\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine\, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Politics Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and People’s University. \nIt is the first talk in a year-long speaker series\, “Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement.” For more information \, please visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/possibilities-of-palestinian-refusal-speaker-series-mjriam-abu-samra/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T183000
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SUMMARY:Employing Humanities - Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-humanities-at-work-making-a-meaningful-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241026
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form\, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford\, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords\, dialogues\, reflections by former graduate student affiliates\, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter. \nEvents begin Thursday\, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and the Oakes College Mural Room. For more information\, view or download the full program. \n \nFor over three decades\, the Center for Cultural Studies has hosted a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. Read more about the colloquium and the Center for Cultural Studies legacy here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-cultural-studies-35th-anniversary-conference/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
DESCRIPTION:How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 24\, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom\, or Oct 29\, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library\, Martha Stuit provides author services\, which cover publishing theses\, dissertations\, and academic articles and books; open access; and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Division of Graduate Studies. Prior to becoming a librarian\, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan. \nErich van Rijn is executive director at the University of California Press where he leads book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing\, sales\, operations\, and finance. Prior to joining the press\, he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/academic-publishing-with-martha-stuit-and-erich-van-rijn/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T185000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nCarolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland\, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants\, she received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and obtained her Master’s degree in Education at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is currently an elementary school teacher whose pedagogy centers critical race theory at the primary education level. Shut Up\, This is Serious is her debut novel. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-carolina-ixta/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T130000
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SUMMARY:Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department presents “Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation” with Alice Barale\, University of Milan as part of the 2024-2025 HistCon Speaker Series.  \nJoin us Monday\, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: \n \nIt has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie’s in 2018. In the meantime\, new types of artificial intelligence have emerged\, enabling artists to conduct different experiments. However\, the presence of AI in the artistic process continues to raise significant questions. How should its role be understood? And\, more importantly\, what new chances does it offer within the artistic field and beyond? \nAlice Barale is a scholar of Aesthetics and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. She has extensively researched Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin\, authors to whom she has dedicated several essays and two monographs (“La malinconia dell’immagine\,” FUP\, 2009\, and “La prima impresa: Shakespeare in Warburg e Benjamin\,” Jaca Book\, 2021). For Benjamin\, she has edited and translated a new Italian version of “Origin of the German Trauerspiel” (Carocci\, 2018). Among her most recent research interests are the philosophy of color (“Il giallo del colore\,” Jaca Book\, 2020) and the relationship between art and artificial intelligence. She has curated the collected volume “Arte e intelligenza artificiale. Be my GAN” (Jaca Book\, 2020) and has just completed a new book on the subject\, which will be published in November 2024. \nCo-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/art-and-artificial-intelligence-a-philosophical-investigation-with-alice-barale/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T150000
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SUMMARY:Proactive Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
DESCRIPTION:How do you proactively promote diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student\, a researcher\, a teaching assistant\, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. \nRecommended Reading: Ely\, Robin J.\, and Thomas\, David A. “Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case.” Harvard Business Review\, November-December 2020 Magazine Issue. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 29\, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Oct 31\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs director of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. \nLorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/proactive-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-with-lorato-anderson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T130000
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SUMMARY:Sandhya Shukla - Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
DESCRIPTION:When Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel\, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built through migrancy and racialization in cities like London. US cultural studies\, by contrast\, underemphasized that local-global dynamic\, perhaps because the crossings of daily experience that inspired scholars like Stuart Hall were hard to see through post-1970s America’s balkanization of racial and ethnic identities. And while Hall and others advocated an  interdisciplinarity that took seriously the inextricability of representation and social life\, this was not always fully attended to by the literary criticism that assumed the task of translating British cultural studies for the US academy. This cross-cultural talk brings together the earlier approaches of Hall and the Birmingham school with the histories and stories told about Harlem in order to propose working-class cosmopolitanism as a useful conceptual frame for the political present. \nSandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her most recent work is Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Columbia University Press\, 2024).  She is also the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton University Press\, 2003)\, and a co-editor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press\, 2007).  Her work has appeared in publications such as American Quarterly\, symploke\, and Annual Review of Anthropology. \n The 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/sandhya-shukla-cosmopolitanism-and-relationality-the-logic-of-the-cultural-studies-we-need-now/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T143000
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SUMMARY:Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford
DESCRIPTION:A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus\, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees\, down in the ravines\, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental\, social\, cultural\, technological and architectural history\, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers that constitute a unique environment. Meet in front of Humanities 1 at 2:30pm \nJim Clifford is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department. Since his retirement he has photographed the campus\, co-curated an exhibition about its history and published a book of Images and texts\, In the Ecotone\, that evokes the site’s “poetics of space\,” its planning/design history\, and its utopian potential. \nCo-sponsored by: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations in the History of Consciousness Department and the Science and Justice Research Center \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/walking-in-the-ecotone-with-jim-clifford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T190000
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SUMMARY:Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories\, Misinformation\, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decoding-the-headlines-top-news-stories-misinformation-and-the-2024-presidential-campaign/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241102T190000
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SUMMARY:"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?": Spooky Reading Group Potluck
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 2 from 6-7pm\, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park. \nOn theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead\, Alisa Puga Keesey will lead us in a discussion of the essay “What is it like to be a bat?” (We think we can observe bats at dusk at West Lake!). Alisa wants the community to know that the essay is heavily philosophical and dense. In our first meeting\, Flora Lu called for inclusivity in our group so that we can speak across disciplinary divides without alienating any of our members\, so the discussion will welcome perspectives\, questions\, and confusions from all of our members. \nPlease sign up to bring a dish to share here. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED! \nPresented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster\, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spooky-reading-group-potluck/
LOCATION:Westlake Park\, 149-111 Bradley Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T130000
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SUMMARY:A Post-Election Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the CCS community as we process what just happened. We will be discussing electoral politics\, the role of media in the election\, political affects\, and what is to be done. With: Liz Beaumont\, Jody Biehl\, and Daniel Wirls. \nLiz Beaumont is Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores the politics and law of citizenship and constitutional democracy\, with particular interests in problems of unequal citizenship\, how citizens\, civic groups\, and movements seek to use\, challenge\, and transform rights and law. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Civic Education in Polarized Times\, New York University Press (2024). \nJody K. Biehl is an award-winning journalist and journalism educator. She spent 15 years as a reporter and editor\, including at Germany’s Der Spiegel\, before joining the faculty at SUNY Buffalo\, where she redesigned the journalism program curriculum. She came to UCSC in 2021 and is a Humanities Divisional Associate Teaching Professor. She is interested in the role that community and local journalism play in society and serves as the Community Voices editor at Lookout Santa Cruz. In 2024\, she was part of the Lookout team to win the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. \nDaniel Wirls is Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz and author of numerous works on the history of Congress and the Senate as well as U.S. military policy and American political thought. His most recent book is The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (University of Virginia Press\, 2021). Dan also serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World\, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee. \n The 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/a-post-election-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \nUnfortunately we have had to cancel this event\, Ellen has caught Covid. \nPhoto by: Irene Young\nEllen Bass’s most recent collection\, Indigo\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Among her other books are Like a Beggar\, The Human Line\, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, The NEA\, and The California Arts Council\, The Lambda Literary Award\, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks!\, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets\, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz\, California jails\, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nPurchase both poets’ works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \n\nParking Information \nThe Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \n\nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Farnaz Fatemi\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nMorton Marcus Memorial Poetry Contest: Every year\, the annual reading coincides with the The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize\, a national poetry contest which honors Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” The contest is hosted by The Hive Poetry Collective. The Hive is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets and seeks to bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people. This year’s contest will be judged by Brad Crenshaw. For more information visit: https://hivepoetry.org/morton-marcus-prize/ \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading is made possible due to campus and community co-sponsorships and generous contributions from members of our community\, like you. To ensure we can continue to offer this poetry reading free and open to the public in honor and memory of Morton Marcus\, and to have our lives deeply enriched by exceptional poetry\, please consider making a gift to The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading Fund: thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nDonna F. Mekis\nThe Hive Poetry Collective\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nMerrill College\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSide By Side Press\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 31.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ellen-bass-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jim McCloskey: Clauses without verbs - The Irish landscape and beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) speaking on Clauses without verbs – The Irish landscape and beyond. \nPlease join us Friday\, November 8 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210 or virtually via Zoom: \n \nOne of the ways (perhaps the principal way) in which contemporary Irish departs from the typological profile of a Standard Average European (SAE) language is in its intricate and rich subsystem of finite verbless clauses. This subsystem will be the focus of my talk. \nThere is existing work on the topic\, but that work focuses almost exclusively on clauses which express copular relations (predicative\, identificational\, specificational). This talk will focus instead on the very large (and largely unstudied) class of predications which are verbless in their syntax but not copular in their semantics. It turns out that this sub-grouping includes many kinds of predication which have been of interest and importance in contemporary formal semantics and philosophy of language — almost all of the familiar modal expressions\, comparative clauses\, propositional attitude predicates\, subjective attitude ascriptions\, structures of weak quantification\, predicates of temporal duration and frequency\, predicates of knowledge\, acquaintance and many other psychological states (but not physical states). \nThe first goal of the talk will be descriptive — to provide an overview (syntactic and semantic) of these predication types — with a view ultimately of answering the typological-theoretical question of what predication-types can in principle be expressed in a verb-free syntactic frame. \nThe second goal will be to develop a syntactic framework which can accommodate these patterns and make the correct distributional predictions and connections within the language. \nThe third goal will be to consider theoretical implications (some syntactic\, some semantic)\, especially for the theory of extended projection and for the question of how roots are integrated into larger structures.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-mccloskey-clauses-without-verbs/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Online Platforms for Presenting Research with Kayla Isenberg
DESCRIPTION:Ready to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Threads\, Mastodon\, and others. We’ll cover how to use each platform\, how each works\, how to communicate effectively on each platform\, and how to pick the right platform for you and your goals. \nThis event is on Nov 12\, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nKayla Isenberg is the senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz\, where she runs digital strategy for the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and social media\, working for a variety of companies\, from startups to Fortune 500. She was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros Records. In her work in higher education\, she has won multiple CASE awards for her work in digital marketing and social media at UC Santa Cruz and has been a featured speaker at CASE social media conferences. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/online-platforms-for-presenting-research-with-kayla-isenberg/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Director's Discussion: Chaityabhumi
DESCRIPTION:Chaityabhumi is a holy site that holds immense importance for the Dalit movement in India\, as it is where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s last rites were performed after his passing on December 6\, 1956. Dr Ambedkar\, often called the father of the Indian Constitution\, dedicated his life to fighting the chains of caste oppression and bringing revolutionary change. He was a guiding light for the oppressed who dismantled discriminatory barriers and empowered them to reclaim their dignity and their rightful place in society. \nThis musical film will bring to light the history and cultural politics of how people commemorate December 6 at Chaityabhumi\, Mumbai\, and the relevance of this public event in contemporary India. It explores how the Dalit community comes together to honor this day and the political implications it holds for their identity and empowerment. \nSomnath Waghmare is a Mumbai-based\, Dalit-Buddhist film researcher and documentary filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the Ambedkarite Dalit song documentation project\, ‘The Ambedkar Age Digital Bookmobile\,’ for which he was awarded the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art Public Art Grant in 2020. He is also the founder of Begumpura Productions. His recent documentary\, Chaityabhumi\, has been screened globally\, including at the London School of Economics and Columbia University. His past films include I am not a Witch (2016)\, The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey (2017)\, Memories of Mangaon (2022)\, and There is No Caste Discrimination in IITs? (2023). He is currently working on a documentary biopic on American born Indian sociologist Gail Omvedt. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-and-directors-discussion-chaityabhumi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hive Live! Featuring Gary Young & Elizabeth Robinson
DESCRIPTION:The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Gary Young and Elizabeth Robinson at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nGary Young is a poet\, artist\, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry\, among them That’s What I Thought\, and American Analects\, both from Persea Books. His other books include Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese; Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese; Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the California Arts Council\, among others. His print work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the Getty Center for the Arts. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nElizabeth Robinson is the author\, most recently\, for Excursive (Roof Books)\, Thirst & Sufeit (Threadsuns Press)\, and\, collaboratively with Susanne Dyckman\, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press). In the past five years\, Robinson has received Editors’ Choice Awards from Scoundrel Time and New Letters\, and a Pushcart Prize. Vulnerabiity Index is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2025. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hive-live-featuring-gary-young-elizabeth-robinson/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dolly Kikon – Abundance: Living with a Forest
DESCRIPTION:We welcome Dolly Kikon for a screening of her film Abundance: Living with a Forest and a talk about her work on Indigenous ecology in the Eastern Himalayan region. \nAbundance: Living with a Forest (2024) is a filmic biography of foraging\, forest\, and jhum cultivation in Nagaland\, a hill state in Northeast India where approximately 60% of the population depend on jhum cultivation. Jhum cultivation and foraging have been recognized as community practices of indigenous knowledge. However\, both these practices and the forest to which they are intrinsically linked have been threatened by the plantation\, monocropping\, and infrastructure activities that have surged with the ongoing ceasefire between Naga armed groups and the government. \nAbundance: Living with a Forest follows Zareno\, a Lotha forager in the forest of Khumtsü\, and traces the foraged edible plants as they make their way to the market in Wokha town. The film gestures to an impending loss that Indigenous communities encounter across the world. \nWatch the trailer here:  \n \nListen to the Title Song from the documentary: \n \nDolly Kikon is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and director of the Center for South Asian Studies. She is the author of Experiences of Naga Women in Armed Conflict: Narratives from a Militarized Society (2004); Life and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (2015); Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (2019); with Bengt G. Karlsson\, Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India (2019); with Duncan McDuie-Ram\, Ceasefire City: Militarism\, Capitalism\, and Urbanism in Dimapur (2021); with Dixita Deka\, Joel Rodrigues\, Bengt G. Karlsson\, Sanjay Barbora\, and Meenal Tula\, Seeds and Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences (2023). \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/72419/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Christian Alvarado - "The Storm in Kenya": The Mau Mau Uprising and pan-Africanist Thought in the mid-20th Century
DESCRIPTION:The History Department invites you to an upcoming talk by Dr. Christian Alvarado entitled “The Storm in Kenya:” The Mau Mau Uprising and pan-Africanist Thought in the mid-20th Century. \nJoin us in person from 1:30 – 3:00 pm (PT) in Humanities 1\, Room 202 or join via Zoom here. \nHistorical work on the event most commonly known as the “Mau Mau Uprising”—which roiled late-colonial Kenya in the 1950s and captivated audiences the world over—has long been preoccupied with examining the political and economic origins of anticolonial resistance in the colony\, the operations of British counter-insurgency efforts\, and the legacy of each of these for post-independence Kenyan society. In distinction to these orthodox approaches to the study of Mau Mau\, Alvarado’s current book project considers how this event impacted the political\, economic\, and cultural history of other parts of the African continent\, as well as Europe and the Americas. This talk presents an account of the role “myths of Mau Mau” played in pan-Africanist thought both within and far beyond the borders of the colony during this period. Across the globe\, understandings of this event served as a key touchstone in the attempt to forge international solidarities among communities both in support of colonial rule and those who sought to bring about its end. This talk focuses in particular on debates about Mau Mau as they arose in two important contexts in the contemporary pan-Africanist movement. First\, an array of conferences\, forums\, and political meetings held on the continent during the late 1950s and early 1960s; second\, in contemporary Garveyite political thought both in Africa and abroad. Considered together\, these visions of what George Padmore called “the Storm in Kenya” illuminate new dimensions in the transnational history of not only Mau Mau\, but African decolonization more broadly. \nDr. Christian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in African American and African Studies at the University of California\, Davis. His wide-ranging research situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader history of decolonization in 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, this work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into global dimensions in the history of African decolonization. These frameworks include\, but are not limited to\, the history of the social sciences\, notions of African ‘race relations\,’ pan-Africanism\, diverse memory communities\, and conspiracist discourses. Across these seemingly disparate realms\, Alvarado argues that Mau Mau serves as a way of probing contemporary and current debates regarding the ethics of (anti)colonial violence\, the relationship between tradition and modernity\, and the nature of decolonization. A historian by training\, Dr. Alvarado’s interdisciplinary work is also in conversation with the fields of cultural studies\, comparative literature\, and political theory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-christian-alvarado-the-storm-in-kenya/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Public Speaking with Catherine Carlstroem
DESCRIPTION:These interactive in-person workshops provide an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking\, including managing anxiety\, key delivery techniques\, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches\, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations. \nThis event has two sessions: Nov 13\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 19\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nUCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching\, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-speaking-with-catherine-carlstroem/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso - Episode Sixteen – The Futures of Dante's Paradiso: Reading Forward
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Prof. Alison Cornish (New York University) and Prof. Arielle Saiber (Johns Hopkins University)\, about the challenges and opportunities of reading Dante’s Paradiso today\, particularly in\, but not limited to\, the academic context. They will explore innovative future directions to take this poem to as many readers and diverse audiences as possible\, and also why this should be done\, especially in view of the textbook that will be complied as a result of this year-long webinar series. \n \nThis event will be will be in person at Oakes Acad 105 and via Zoom (registration required). \nDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers. This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars took readers on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \nFeaturing: \nAlison Cornish\, Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante’s Stars (Yale\, 2000)\, Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Cambridge\, 2011) a commentary on Dante’s Paradiso\, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett\, 2017)\, and Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction (Cambridge\, 2022); as well as a number of essays on Dante\, Petrarch and Boccaccio. During the seventh centenary of the poet’s death\, she organized a crowd-sourced series of video conversations between members of the Dante Society of America\, entitled “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time.” \nArielle Saiber\, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Saiber’s books include Images of Quattrocento Florence: Writings on Literature\, History and Art co-edited with Stefano U. Baldassarri (Yale\, 2000); Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language (Ashgate/Routledge\, 2005); and Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press\, 2017). \nSaiber publishes primarily on Dante\, on the intersections between premodern Italian literature and mathematics/science\, and visual interpretations of Dante’s Commedia. She has also published on early print history\, science fiction\, and experimental electronic music. Her current research is on “altered states of consciousness” in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature. \nShe has co-edited a number of special issues of academic journals: for Configurations\, “Mathematics and the Imagination” (2009) with Henry S. Turner; for Dante Studies\, “Longfellow and Dante” (2010) with Giuseppe Mazzotta; for California Italian Studies\, “Sound” (2014) with Deanna Shemek; and for Science Fiction Studies\, “Italian Science Fiction” (2015) with Salvatore Proietti and Umberto Rossi.  She is currently co-editing with Proietti an anthology of Italian science fiction in English for Wesleyan University Press’s Early Classics of Science Fiction series. \nHer doctoral dissertation on Giordano Bruno won Yale’s Field Prize (2000)\, and in 2004 she received the Karofsky Prize for teaching at Bowdoin.  She has been a fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples\, Italy (1998-1999)\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-2004)\, and Villa I Tatti – Harvard’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence\, Italy (2008-2009).  She also received an NEH Fellowship (2008-2009)\, the MLA’s Scaglione Publication Award (2016)\, the Newberry Library’s Weiss-Brown Publication Award (2017)\, the American Initiative for Italian Culture’s Bridge Book Award (2018)\, and the Society for Literature\, Science\, and the Arts’ Kendrick Book Prize (2019) for her book Measured Words.  \nIn 2006 she built the web-based archive\, Dante Today: Sightings and Citings of Dante’s Work in Contemporary Culture\, which she now co-edits with Beth Coggeshall. \nShe co-edits the new book series Proximities: Experiments in Nearness with David Cecchetto for the University of Minnesota Press. \n\nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-episode-sixteen-the-future-of-dantes-paradiso-reading-forward/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Crafting the CV with Veronica Heiskell
DESCRIPTION:Applications for academic positions require a CV\, and some industry\, government\, and nonprofit employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume\, about hybrid CV-resumes\, what goes on a CV\, and what order to put information depending on the type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position. \nThis event is on Thu\, Nov 14\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over fourteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crafting-the-cv-with-veronica-heiskell/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T170000
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SUMMARY:Archives in Action
DESCRIPTION:2 PM  |  “Getting Into the Archive: Tales from Inside”\nPaul Erickson\, Director of the Clements Library\, University of Michigan \nThis presentation will seek to demystify the process of applying for support for humanities research from libraries and archives by explaining it from the inside. It will offer suggestions for how to increase your chances of receiving fellowship support for your work. \nPaul Erickson is the Randolph G. Adams Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan\, a leading collection of early Americana. In 1993 Paul got his first experience administering fellowship programs for scholars from the humanities and social sciences\, and that is work that he has done for most of the past 20 years. \n3 PM  |  “Gloria Anzaldua and her Spectral Archives”\nBrenda Lara\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, UC Santa Cruz \n4 PM  |  “Archives in Dos Hemisferios: Reading Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Newspapers in Havana\, New York\, and Paris”\nDavis Luis-Brown\, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English\, Claremont Graduate University \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Director of Hispanic-Serving Research Initiatives. It is organized in conjunction with the Literature Department’s graduate course\, “Print Culture and Archives.” \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/archives-in-action/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
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SUMMARY:Jasbir Puar - Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to host Jasbir Puar\, Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor\, Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia\, presenting Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies. \nJasbir Puar’s research focuses on how the liberal state\, sexuality\, and bio-politics bear on our understanding of disability. In her most recent book\, The Right to Maim\, Prof. Puar uses the concept of “debility”— bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors — to disrupt the category of disability\, and shows how debility\, disability\, and capacity constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Interrogating Israel’s policies toward Palestine\, she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. \nJasbir Puar is a Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor of Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book\, The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability (2017\, Duke University Press) explores how the liberal state\, sexuality\, and biopolitics bear on our understanding of disability\, culminating in an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasbir-puar-field-notes-colonial-power-at-the-thresholds-of-gender-studies/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T120000
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SUMMARY:Wenyi Shang - Moving Beyond the Streetlight: How Computational Methods Can Open Up New Directions in Humanities Research
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging talk by Wenyi Shang\, titled Moving Beyond the Streetlight: How Computational Methods Can Open Up New Directions in Humanities Research. \nThe “streetlight effect” describes an observational bias relevant to the humanities and social sciences\, where researchers tend to focus on the questions limited by the scales of materials they can directly comprehend. The application of computational methods in the humanities research has the potential to transform this landscape\, providing interpretative tools to offer new insights into the macroscopic trends that studies at the individual and microscopic scale often fail to reveal. This talk presents two case studies to demonstrate how computational methods can open up new directions in humanities research. The first uses machine learning models to classify English poetry by lexicon and prosody\, shedding new light on the distinction between “genre” and “form.” The second applies social network analysis to explore the structural characteristics of political networks in Northern Song (960–1127 C.E.) China\, revealing changes in political culture during the period. \nPlease join us in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 or via Zoom \nWenyi Shang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his bachelor’s degree from Peking University\, China. His research focuses on digital humanities\, addressing scholarly inquiries in history and literature through computational methods. He has employed network analysis to investigate social structures and transformations in political culture in premodern Chinese societies\, and used text mining to study literature\, uncovering novel perspectives on cultural changes reflected in literary texts. Both methods frequently intersect with machine learning models.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-wenyi-shang/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T163000
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SUMMARY:LinkedIn with Eric Curiel
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn is a powerful tool to network and search for jobs. We will go over tips to update your LinkedIn profile to help recruiters find you\, explore ways to identify alumni with similar career paths and interests on LinkedIn\, and show you how to connect effectively with them to expand your network. We will also go over best practices for searching for jobs. \nThis event is on Mon\, Nov 18\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nEric Curiel has worked for over ten years in supporting college students in pursuing successful careers and currently serves as associate director of career engagement in Career Success. He is passionate about supporting students\, especially those from underrepresented populations\, to be successful. He completed his bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolution from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. Eric enjoys being outdoors\, photography\, and watching soccer. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linkedin-with-eric-curiel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T133000
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SUMMARY:Contributions to Diversity Statement with Judith Estrada
DESCRIPTION:Judith Estrada\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Vice Chancellor\nOffice for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (ODEI) \nThis event has two sessions: Nov 19\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom\, or Nov 20\, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contributions-to-diversity-statement-with-judith-estrada/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba
DESCRIPTION:In her directorial debut\, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution\, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s\, which held the promise of a popular revolution and\, with it\, of women’s emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition\, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt\, asking of the past how we might transform the present. FIPRESCI International Critics Prize Winner at the 2017 Berlinale Forum.\n– Malgorzata Sadowska \nMary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore labor movement histories\, connections among unstable landscapes and legacies of colonialism in the Arab World\, Latin America and Turtle Island and the ever-present resilience of everyday life. Her debut feature film A Feeling Greater Than Love (2017) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum where it received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize\, making several “Best of 2017” lists. From 2006-2008\, she produced the community broadcast television program\, Via Comunidad with art collective Vientos del Sur in Ibarra\, Ecuador. A avid producer of anonymous and collective agitprop\, her latest film Mahdi Amel in Gaza (2024) is screening in community spaces\, protest sites\, and sometimes festivals. Saba is a member of UAW Labor for Palestine\, the People’s CDC and a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media. \nPreceded by a workshop: Mon. November 18\, 4 – 7 PM\, Comm. 139 \nIn this workshop filmmaker and scholar Mary Jirmanus Saba will discuss her recent work on films made in the aftermath of the Arab Spring\, exploring the emergence of the “character driven resilience documentary.” Using her own work as an example\, Saba will facilitate a discussion about the political economy of arts funding and social movements. \nTo join the workshop\, RSVP to ilusztig@ucsc.edu. \n\nPresented by Film and Digital Media and co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-film-screening-and-filmmaker-qa-a-feeling-greater-than-love-with-mary-jirmanus-saba/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:Giving Day 2024
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendar for Wednesday\, November 20 and join us for UC Santa Cruz’s annual Giving Day—a 24-hour online fundraising event dedicated to supporting projects that enrich the UCSC student experience. \nGiving Day is an opportunity to unite the entire UCSC community—students\, alumni\, faculty\, and friends—to create a lasting\, positive impact on our students\, the community\, and the world. Let’s show our Banana Slug pride and rally together to support the next generation of changemakers. \nWhether supporting student success\, funding cutting-edge research in the sciences or technology\, or advancing humanities and the arts\, your gift on November 20 will help fuel programs and initiatives that make UCSC a unique place. You can make an impact in a way that resonates with you. \nOur mission to provide high quality educational and research experiences for our students\, regardless of their backgrounds and financial circumstances is more important than ever. Your support is crucial to ensuring we deliver on that mission. \nLearn more at give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2024/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Lara Sheehi - "The Imperative to Refuse Psychic Intrusion in Palestine-Lebanon Solidarities"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will discuss the ways psychic intrusions are central features of settler colonial logics and how they are used with specific intent to disrupt solidarities. Palestine-Lebanon solidarities will be used as a “case study” to read the psycho-politico-affective forces that demobilize. \nAbout the Speaker \nLara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies\, Qatar\, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Prof. Sheehi’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis\, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge\, 2022)\, which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Prof. Sheehi is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA\, Division 39)\, co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality\, co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis\, Culture and Society\, and an advisory board member for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is currently working on a new book\, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press). \n\nThis talk is presented by the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at UC Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by Feminist Studies\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine\, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Politics Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, People’s University\, and Institute for Social Transformation. \nThis talk is a part of the year-long speaker series\, “Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement.” For more information \, please visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lara-sheehi-the-imperative-to-refuse-psychic-intrusion-in-palestine-lebanon-solidarities/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry\, Beth Au\, moderator of the panel\, and a panel of UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc\, all of whom currently work for a CCC. \nThis event is on Thu\, Nov 21\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \n\nModerator\nBeth Au \nDirector\, California Community Colleges Registry \nBeth Au has a master’s degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. She has been director of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Registry since 2002. As director\, she oversees and manages cccregistry.org and hosts annual job fairs for the college system every January. \nThe CCC Registry is the state chancellor’s job board for faculty\, management and staff opportunities at all 73 districts and 116 colleges across California. The CCCs are the largest higher education employer in the world with over 60\,000 faculty\, administrators and staff across the state. \nIn her role as a recruiter\, she frequently works with UC graduate students and postdocs through UC Career Centers and Graduate Divisions to host CCC interest panels. During Covid\, she pivoted the informational panels and 1:1 sessions with job seekers to a virtual format and has continued recruitment in the online environment. She has counseled over 400 job seekers in Zoom sessions since May 2020 and continues to use Zoom to maintain outreach and recruitment. Several of the job seekers she has coached have been offered full-time\, tenure track positions at a CCC since 2022. \nBeth is available for 1:1 Zoom sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to offer CCC application and career advice. Reach out to her directly at aub@yosemite.edu to schedule a session. \n\nPanelists\nFrancesca “Chesa” Caparas\nInstructor\, English\, Women’s Studies\, and Asian American Studies\nDe Anza College\, Cupertino \nChesa Caparas (she/they) has a B.A. and M.A. in modern literature from UC Santa Cruz. She is faculty in English\, Women’s Studies\, and Asian American Studies at De Anza College. In her classes she explores literature and pop culture\, the intersections of technology with race and gender\, and the ethical applications of artificial intelligence. In 2022\, she was a Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines where she researched media and information literacy. She is currently pursuing a master’s in Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University. \n\nJasmeet Dhaliwal\, Ph.D.\nInstructor\, Geology\, Earth and Environmental Sciences\nChabot College\, Hayward \nJasmeet Dhaliwal received her Ph.D. in earth science from UC San Diego and held a postdoctoral researcher position at UC Santa Cruz until accepting a position as a geology and earth and environmental sciences instructor at Chabot College. She worked with Beth Au to prepare the application to Chabot. \n\nSarah Gerhardt\, Ph.D.\nChemistry Department Chair and Instructor\nCabrillo College \nSarah started teaching immediately after receiving her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCSC. She started as a lecturer at Santa Clara University teaching general and physical chemistry and moved to Cabrillo College to teach general\, introductory\, and biological chemistry\, the last for allied health sciences. She also participated in the ACCESS program at UCSC as a community college liaison for several summers. After having two children (teaching while pregnant and at night while her children were young) and several years as a lecturer\, Sarah did a postdoctorate in molecular\, cell\, and developmental biology under Professor Harry Noller at UCSC. She returned to teaching general and introductory chemistry full-time at Monterey Peninsula College 2011 to 2017. Since August 2017\, she has taught general chemistry full-time at Cabrillo College and is currently chair of Cabrillo’s Chemistry Department. \n\nBrian Malone\, Ph.D.\nProfessor of English\nDe Anza\, Cupertino \nBrian Malone (he/him) is a tenured professor of English at De Anza College in Cupertino. He teaches classes in composition and English literature\, in addition to serving on the leadership team for Guided Pathways and as project director for a Title III: Strengthening Institutions Program grant. He previously served as tenure review coordinator for the college. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.A. from the University of Virginia. He received a Ph.D. in literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2014\, with a dissertation focusing on the nineteenth-century novel in England and France. \n\nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Ph.D.\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College\, San José \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a full-time ethnic studies professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. She obtained her A.A. in sociology from Southwestern College\, B.A. in sociology from UC San Diego\, M.A. in Asian American studies from San Francisco State University\, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in education from UC Santa Cruz. She is co-editor of the Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader (2018)\, and a contributing author to the anthologies Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (2019)\, the SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (2022)\, as well as Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice (2023). Her work draws from women-of-color radical thought to address how intersectional struggles of racism\, classism\, cisheteropatriarchy\, and body terrorism impact us every day. \n\nAndrea Seeger\, A.B.D.\nLecturer\, Social Justice\, Literature\, Writing\nOakes College\, UCSC\nFaculty\, English Department\nCabrillo College\, Aptos \nAndrea Seeger\, a Santa Cruz native\, returned a few years ago to her hometown after academic wandering. She received her undergraduate education at UCSC\, first studying mathematics\, then completing her B.A. in literature. She has an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder and is A.B.D. in English at UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in The Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at Oakes College and writing through the UCSC Writing Program. She also lectures in English at Cabrillo College. Andrea recently served as the director of the UCSC Writing Center and its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, an HSI Initiative. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a deep\, quality education. \n\nRandy Villegas\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\, Political Science\nCollege of the Sequoias\, Visalia \nA product of public education institutions\, Randy Villegas is an associate professor of political science at College of the Sequoias and a trustee for the Visalia Unified School District Board of Education. Before beginning graduate school\, Villegas worked as a journalist and an organizer in Bakersfield\, CA. He has been a recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2020 CARE-UC Innovation Fellowship and the American Political Science Association (APSA) Fund for Latino Scholarship. He is currently featured in the Unity Exhibit of the California State Capitol Museum for his work around social justice issues in the Central Valley. After being appointed to the Visalia Board of Trustees in December 2021\, he was elected by the voters of area 6 to continue serving in November 2022. Randy is honored to serve our students\, families\, and community. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-community-colleges-panel-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T183000
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SUMMARY:Christmas Carol Dramaturgy Talk with Santa Cruz Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare for a presentation and talk by their brilliant Christmas Carol dramaturgs Dr. Renee Fox (UC Santa Cruz)\, Dr. Michael Chemers (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Charles Pasternak (SCS Artistic Director). Renee and Michael will discourse on Dickens and his marvelous novella. Q&A to follow. Expertise breeds love; don’t be a Scrooge; join SCS in nerding out over this beautiful story!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-christmas-carol-dramaturgy-talk/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
CREATED:20241003T195646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T200406Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor - Charging Forward
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Chris Brenner and Manuel Pastor for a reading and signing of their new book Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future—a clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. \n“Charging Forward brilliantly uses the Valley to illustrate what’s at stake as we move to a clean energy world. Clear-eyed that we cannot change the way we deliver power until we change who wields power\, Benner and Pastor offer both hard-headed analysis and hope for a just future.” —Van Jones \n \nChris Benner is the director of the Institute for Social Transformation and the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a professor of environmental studies and sociology. He has co-authored five books with Manuel Pastor\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, and Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nManuel Pastor is the director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California where he is also a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity and the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. He has co-authored five books with Chris Benner\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter\, and Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future (The New Press). Pastor is also the author of State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future (The New Press). He lives in Los Angeles. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-manuel-pastor-charging-forward/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T134500
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:Kunal Purohit - H-Pop\, The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars
DESCRIPTION:Can a song trigger a murder?\nCan a poem spark a riot?\nCan a book divide a people? \nAway from the gaze of mainstream urban media\, across India’s dusty\, sleepy towns\, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions\, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics to poetry recited in public gatherings to social media influencers shaping opinions with their brand of “breaking news” to books rescripting historical events\, “Hindutva Pop\,” or H-Pop\, is steadily creating societal acceptability for Hindutva’s core beliefs. Award-winning\, independent journalist Kunal Purohit travels through India\, profiling some of H-Pop’s most prolific and popular creators\, inquiring whether they are driven by ideology or commerce and asking what motivates the audience to consume its daily dose of bigotry. \nKunal Purohit is an award-winning\, independent journalist\, documentary film-maker\, and podcast creator. Over the past two decades\, Kunal has written on issues of development\, politics\, and inequality. More recently\, his work has focused on hate crimes and the rise of Hindu nationalism. He is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism (2012)\, the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting (2014)\, and the UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Reporting (2014 and 2019). \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and co-sponsored by the Music Department\, the Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-h-pop-the-secretive-world-of-hindutva-popstars/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T153000
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SUMMARY:Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used\, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation.  \nPrior to attending this workshop\, review this slide design page. \nThis event is on Mon\, Nov 25\, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \nSonya Newlyn provides professional development programming for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for the Graduate Division. In addition to the Professional Communication Certificate Program\, she organizes the winter quarter Graduate Student Leadership Certificate Program and schedules individual professional development events available to all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She also organizes the annual Grad Slam and the Graduate Symposium. She received her master’s degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Emory University\, where she also minored in anthropology. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slide-design-with-sonya-newlyn/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
DESCRIPTION:Learn interviewing strategies to land a job offer. Then\, learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer.  \nThis class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises\, job reclassifications\, and title and responsibility changes. \nThis event is on Tue\, Dec 3\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over thirteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interviewing-and-negotiating-the-job-offer-with-veronica-heiskell/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Marilynne Robinson: Noel Q King Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Marilynne Robinson\, a prolific novelist and essayist\, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and a National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama applauded “her grace and intelligence in writing.” Her most recent book\, Reading Genesis\, is a meditation on the origins of humankind and the meaning of God’s enduring faith in humanity. \nThis year\, Marilynne Robinson will deliver the Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Humanities Institute and explore the Institute’s annual theme: Humanity. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture honors the life and work of Noel King\, a founding faculty member of Merrill College and advocate for the comparative study of world religions. \n \nMarilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal\, awarded by President Barack Obama\, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” She is the author of Gilead\, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home\, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel\, Housekeeping\, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 2021\, all four Gilead novels were selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Robinson’s nonfiction books include Reading Genesis\, What Are We Doing Here?;The Givenness of Things\, When I Was a Child I Read Books\, Absence of Mind\, The Death of Adam\, and Mother Country. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and Porter College and co-sponsored by Merrill College\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Shakespeare Workshop. \nNoel Q. King came to UCSC in the late Sixties as a “founding father” of Merrill College. Born in India and educated in England\, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at Santa Cruz. Professor King was a prominent and beloved figure here on the hill. After he died in 2009\, the Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture Series was started as a way to keep religious studies\, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit\, alive at UCSC. This year\, Marilynne Robinson will deliver the Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-marilynne-robinson-noel-q-king-memorial-lecture/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laliv Melamed – On Intimacy and Other Sovereignties
DESCRIPTION:How can we explain decades of Israeli civil society’s consensus around a regime of oppression and impunity? What mediated attachments and disavowals mandate settler colonial violence? This talk follows what the private media complex in order to articulate the intimate channels through which state sovereignty is distributed\, structured and internalized. A prerequisite to the current genocidal moment\, this research analyzes the seamless paths of mundane violence in the post-Oslo Jewish-Israeli public sphere. \nLaliv Melamed is a Professor of Digital Film Cultures at the Goethe University\, Frankfurt. Her work focuses on media and forms of governance in Israel-Palestine. Melamed is the author of Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence (University of California Press\, 2023). \n  \nCo-sponsored with the Film and Digital Media Department and the Institute of Arts and Sciences. \n The 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/laliv-melamed-on-intimacy-and-other-sovereignties/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Discussion of Mike Wilson’s book\, What Side Are You On?\, with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Mike Wilson’s book What Side Are You On? with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer on Wednesday\, December 4th\, from 4:00-6:00pm at Merrill Provost’s House\, Public Living Room. Light refreshments will be provided. \nMike Wilson is a dedicated humanitarian and co-author of What Side Are You On? with Dr. Jose Antonio Lucero. His work addresses the intersections of poverty\, racism\, and colonialism\, with a focus on migrant rights and humanitarian aid along the border. Known for establishing water stations for migrants on tribal lands\, Mike’s advocacy often places him at odds with both the U.S. government and his own Indigenous community. His recent book offers a profound examination of these critical issues. \nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor of the Feminist Studies Department and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, as well as an Affiliate Faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nCo-sponsored by the UCSC History Department\, the Feminist Studies Department\, the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Peggy And Jack Baskin Foundation\, Cowell College\, Merrill College\, Porter College\, Rachel Carson College\, Stevenson College\, and the Council of Provosts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-discussion-of-mike-wilsons-book-what-side-are-you-on/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-fall-2024/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event with composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez and UC Santa Cruz scholar Amy Argenal to discuss the complex experiences of migrants\, the many challenges of seeking asylum and refuge in the United States\, and the power of music as a tool for social change. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, the event features “Casting the Dice\,” an orchestral work narrated and composed by Rodríguez and based on stories collected from migrants around the world. The piece\, which premiered at the Cabrillo Festival in Summer 2024\, examines the lived experiences of people who have been displaced\, delving into the connections of immigrants and refugees with their homelands\, and their personal journeys as they navigate rebuilding their lives in a new country. \nRodríguez will discuss his process composing this orchestral piece with Argenal\, a scholar of migration\, human rights educator\, and active collaborator with local immigrant and refugee rights organizations. Alongside the conversation\, attendees will get a chance to connect with groups that offer resources to migrants in Santa Cruz County and advocate for just immigration policies\, providing an opportunity to learn about ways to support local efforts in our community. \nThis event is free and open to the public but we ask that you please register. \n \n \nDr. Iván Enrique Rodríguez\, a Puerto Rican composer\, is acclaimed for his gripping\, dramatic music rooted in social justice and Puerto Rican heritage. His notable works include A Metaphor for Power\, addressing Latinx and equality issues\, and Casting the Dice\, about refugees and immigration\, commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival. His music has been performed in major venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, as well as in refugee camps across Europe. Rodríguez received the 2019 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award and the 2023 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize. He earned his doctorate from The Juilliard School. \nDr. Amy Argenal is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Community-Engaged Research and Learning in the Sociology Department. She completed her doctorate in International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco\, where she also received her Master’s in the same area of study. She received her second Masters in Human Rights from Mahidol University in Thailand. Her current research focuses on the root causes of migration from Central America and explores methodologies that bring the narratives of migrant communities to the forefront. \nEvent Logistics\nParking is available in UCSC Lot #115 or 116 but we also encourage bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation. To reach the UCSC 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. Overflow parking is available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n  \n\n \nCo-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Sociology\, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Arts Research Institute\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Santa Cruz Welcoming Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/casting-the-dice-a-dialogue-on-migration-through-music/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slug Book Club Holiday Party with the Deep Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an undergraduate holiday party with the Slug Book Club and the Deep Read. Come for pizza and drinks as well as holiday crafts and a literary white elephant exchange ($10-$15 budget). We’ll be handing out copies of this year’s Deep Read book\, James by Percival Everett\, and discussing opportunities to participate in the Deep Read program. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slug-book-club-holiday-party-with-the-deep-read/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:American Analects: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the release of American Analects\, poems by Gary Young and Feasting on the World\, an exhibition at MK Contemporary Art Gallery\, paintings by Gene Holton paired with poems by Gary Young. Gary Young will be reading from his new book inspired by his friend and mentor Gene Holton. \nPresented by MK Contemporary Art Gallery and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, UC Santa Cruz: Special Collection Archives\, UC Santa Cruz: The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History; Bookshop Santa Cruz; The Hive Poetry Collective; and Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore info at: www.mkcontemporary.art. \nAmerican Analects uses the Analects of Confucius as an inspiration to mediate upon the life\, death\, and the subsequent loss of the poet’s influential\, beloved mentor—the painter Gene Holtan. These poems are juxtaposed with poems about other losses—of parents\, of friends and friends of friends. Still\, this is not a dour book. Many poems celebrate our ability to inspire\, to comfort\, and to nurture one another. In the end\, American Analects is about resiliency\, about moving on from personal loss\, from the pandemic\, and from catastrophic fires\, to rejoice in what remains. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feasting-on-the-world-book-launch-and-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:m.k. contemporary art\, 703 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Renee Fox and Professor Elaine Sullivan - The Curse of the Mummy
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on a new UCSC Humanities course called “The Curse of the Mummy\,” co-taught by Associate Professor of Literature Renée Fox and Associate Professor Elaine Sullivan. Combining analysis of 19th-century Egyptology’s transformation of ancient Egypt into a European fantasy with study of ancient Egyptian culture itself\, the course relies on the collaborative expertise of an Egyptologist and a Victorian studies scholar to discover how and why the ancient past can become integral to contemporary identity\, society\, and aesthetics. \nThe talk will focus on the genesis of the course\, some of the bizarre mummy literature it covers\, the ways it relates to Professor Fox’s and Professor Sullivan’s current (and very different) research\, and why mummies are a perfect subject to think about the intersections and divergences between different Humanities disciplines. \n \nRenee Fox is Associate Professor of Literature\, the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies\, Co-Director of the Dickens Project\, and Co-Director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature (The Ohio State University Press\, 2023)\, co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (Routledge\, 2021)\, and co-editor of the forthcoming Race\, Violence\, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool University Press\, 2025). Her other publications include essays and articles on topics ranging from Victorian acrobats to Dracula’s gothic realism to epitaphic form in Irish poetry\, and she’s currently at work on a new book entitled Violent Reading: 19th-Century Ireland and the Politics of Genre. \nElaine Sullivan (M.A. and Ph.D. in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her born-digital publication\, Constructing the Sacred (Stanford University Press\, 2020\, awarded prizes by the American Historical Association and the Archaeological Institute of America)\, utilizes a geo-temporal 3D model of the necropolis of Saqqara (near modern Cairo) to investigate questions of ritual landscape at the site. She was the project coordinator of the Digital Karnak Project\, a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-renee-fox-and-professor-elaine-sullivan-the-curse-of-the-mummy/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Graduate Awards Make-up
DESCRIPTION:Dean Jasmine Alinder will recognize Kimberly Tallbear (Ph.D. ’05\, History of Consciousness) with the 2023-2024 Distinguished Humanities Graduate Alumni award. Professor Tallbear will give remarks\, and we will recognize graduate student awards from last year\, with a reception following. \nThe event will take place at the Merrill Provost House from 4 – 6 pm. We also plan to display graduate student publications and other research projects completed since 2021. Information about how to display work is included in the RSVP form below. \n \nPlease RSVP by Tuesday December 3rd to attend. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-graduate-awards-make-up/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250106T180000
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SUMMARY:Global Soccer Culture: How Immigrants Created the World's Game
DESCRIPTION:Global Soccer Culture\nHow Immigrants Created the World’s Game \nProf. Laurent Dubois (U. of Virginia) in Conversation with Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani\nMonday\, January 6\, 2025\n6 pm || Cultural Center @ Merrill \n \nKick off your winter quarter with this inspiring conversation between renowned global soccer historian Dr. Laurent Dubois and Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani\, Vice Chancellor of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion. \nHow have immigrants and immigration created a culture of soccer that spans the globe? What is at stake in current struggles over immigration for the future of soccer as “the world’s game”? \nLaurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of seven books\, including Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010) and The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (2018). \nAnju Reejhsinghani is Inaugural Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer\, UC Santa Cruz. A former tenured history professor in the University of Wisconsin System\, Dr. Reejhsinghani is a scholar of race\, gender\, sport\, and diaspora in the Americas. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Merrill College\, the UCSC Office for Diversity and Inclusion\, the History department\, The Center for World History\, the Council of Provosts\, and the Merrill Programs and Leadership Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/global-soccer-culture-how-immigrants-created-the-worlds-game/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zionism: Past\, Present\, Future?
DESCRIPTION:Zionism is one of the most fraught terms in contemporary politics. But what exactly is Zionism\, what is its history\, and what have been (and are today) its many meanings to diverse groups? Why have so many embraced different versions of Zionism\, and\, on the flip side\, why and how has Zionism been critiqued\, both among its proponents as well as its detractors? What is the future of Zionism\, particularly in the wake of Israel’s devastating assaults on Gaza and Lebanon following the Hamas organized massacres of Israelis on Oct. 7\, 2023? Please join the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies in a panel conversation featuring\, Liora Halperin (University of Washington)\, Shaul Magid (Dartmouth)\, and Dov Waxman (UCLA); prominent scholars of the history of Zionism\, who will address these questions and many more. \n \nRegistration required for event entry. Seating will be first come\, first served. \n Prof. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington. She is an historian of Israel/Palestine with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, Jewish cultural and social history\, language ideology and policy\, and the politics of colonization and settlement. She is the author of The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021)\, a study of the European Jewish agricultural colonies established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine and the politics of their twentieth-century commemoration and Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine\, 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015)\, which was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She is currently working on a book about the diverse urban Jewish communities of late 19th/early 20th century Ottoman Palestine and the way a wide range of later groups and political movements\, both Zionist and anti-Zionist\, have commemorated and promoted narratives about this history. \nShaul Magid is a rabbi\, Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School\, and Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. He teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School and is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard. He has written extensively on Zionism\, anti-Zionism\, Diasporism\, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He is the author of many books and essays\, most recently Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) and The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (2023). His present book project is The Political Theology of Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – Zionism as Anti-Messianism. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, and many other publications. \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by Porter College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zionism-past-present-future/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Kim Tallbear – Settler Love Is Breaking My Heart: Sex\, Kin\, and Country
DESCRIPTION:Settler sexuality\, family\, and “love” are key to sustaining settler property relations in the US and Canada. In this in-process book chapter (a shorter version was previously published in a 2024 edited volume)\, I draw on the work of historians\, anthropologists\, and science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have investigated the history of state- sanctioned marriage and monogamy in the US\, Hawai’i\, Canada\, and Europe. I also build on popular and academic polyamory literatures\, Native American and Indigenous Studies and critical race theory. In addition\, (auto)ethnographic examination of eco-erotic\, polyamorous\, and other more-than-monogamous relating inform alternative concepts of anticolonial relating after the unsettling of settler sex and family. Finally\, I center the role of country—both music and place—to think through and beyond unsustainable settler- colonial practices of making relations with human loves and more-than-human loves. Decolonization is more sustainable with music. \nKim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience\, and Society\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions\, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast. She is also a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples\, science\, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter\, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs\, cultural politics & (de)colonization at https://kimtallbear.substack.com. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kim-tallbear-settler-love-is-breaking-my-heart-sex-kin-and-country/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Andrea Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nAndrea Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections; her latest is The Sorrow Apartments (2024). You can also find her writing in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Threepenny Review\, and The New York Review of Books\, etc. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies at MacDowell. Over the years\, she has taught at The University of Iowa\, Emerson College\, UMASS-Boston\, The Fine Arts Work Center\, and Merrimack College; starting this spring\, she will teach at Boston University. She also directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series. Her hometown is Atlanta\, Georgia. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The 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-with-andrea-cohen/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marc Matera - Race After Empire: Racial Capitalism in Southern Africa and “Race Relations” in Britain
DESCRIPTION:“Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and\, ultimately\, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However\, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean\, South Asian\, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s\, race relations served as a means of conceptualizing and grappling with “problems of the end of Empire\,” and efforts to study and manage them focused on centers of extractive industries in British settler colonies in Africa. \nThis talk demonstrates how white liberals and business leaders in colonial Africa provided institutional models and much of the personnel and start-up capital for a race relations industry in Britain that depoliticized racism and delegitimated anticolonial and Black Power politics by attributing them to racial identification. Studies of and policies targeting race relations in 1960s Britain emerged alongside and in connection with efforts to manage\, co-opt\, or divert the transformative potential of decolonization and to shape postcolonial futures with neoliberal solutions. From this perspective\, when it comes to liberal politics of race\, as the South African artist William Kentridge suggests (“Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)\,” 1988)\, “London is a suburb of Johannesburg”. \nMarc Matera is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (University of California Press\, 2015). He coauthored The Global 1930s: The International Decade (Routledge\, 2017) with Susan Kingsley Kent and The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012) with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. He recently contributed to and coauthored introductory and concluding essays for a thematic issue of Modern British History\, “Marking Race in Twentieth Century Britain”. The research for Professor Matera’s talk was supported in part by a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-matera-race-after-empire/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambika Aiyadurai - Caring for Humans and Nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies\, this talk examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and case studies from across the country\, Professor Aiyadurai will discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people\, the talk asks how and in what ways the notions of care for humans and nonhumans among these groups vary\, overlap\, and sometimes compete against each other. How do we reconcile the conflicts emerging through the hierarchical nature of the ethics of care in wildlife conservation? \n \nAmbika Aiyadurai is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar. Her research interests include human-animal relations and community-based wildlife conservation. \nThis talk is a part of the Center for South Asian Studies Ecologies of Care 2024-25 Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caring-for-humans-and-nonhumans/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Venita Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nWorks by Venita Blackburn have appeared in The New Yorker\, NY Times\, Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, Story Magazine\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Paris Review\, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction\, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories\, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes\, in 2017 and earned a place as a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award among other honors. Blackburn’s second collection of stories is How to Wrestle a Girl\, 2021\, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NY Times editor’s choice. Her debut novel\, Dead in Long Beach\, California\, is about the mania of grief\, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world and was selected as one of the NYTimes and NPR’s best books of 2024. She is the founder and president of Live\, Write\, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Her hometown is Compton\, California\, and she is an Associate Professor of creative writing at California State University\, Fresno. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The 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-with-venita-blackburn/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With support from Santa Cruz County and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz—an exhibition that pays tribute to the world of travel photography\, community\, and adventure\, where architecture\, design\, and aesthetics converge in stunning symmetry reminiscent of the iconic filmmaker’s visual style. \nThe exhibit will run from January 24th – May 18th. \nThis is an adventure. Join us to discover the most interesting places on Earth\, both near and far\, inspired by the eponymous director’s cinematic vision. Produced in collaboration with brand and social media community Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA)\, this exhibition takes guests on a visual journey to the most beautiful\, idiosyncratic locations around the globe—including Santa Cruz County—all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of filmmaker Wes Anderson. \nFrom impossibly grand hotels and chateaus to idyllic lighthouses\, cable cars\, and train carriages\, AWA explores the filmmaker’s distinct aesthetic\, whether a perfectly symmetrical landscape or a European city brimming with technicolor structures. The MAH exhibition\, which will include a selection of community-sourced images of quirky places and locales in Central Coast California\, is also presented as homage to the centennial celebration of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Giant Dipper roller coaster\, an Anderson-esque vintage wooden coaster that debuted in 1924. \nBorn off the back of a viral online phenomenon and community of the same name\, AWA celebrates the undeniable visual vernacular of one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson. Bright\, vivid\, and often slightly jarring to reality\, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors\, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location. Authorized by Anderson himself\, the exhibition and its companion books celebrate much of the weird and wonderful architecture that exists in our unique world\, paying tribute to travel\, photography\, community\, and adventure. \nAWA photo contributors have been called “adventurers” who range from travelers\, architects\, history buffs\, artists\, editors\, photographers\, to teachers\, students\, and all walks of life intrigued by the wonders of the world and civilization. \n\nBanner Image: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk\, photo by Ludwig Favre\, @ludwigfavre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/accidentally-wes-anderson-adventures-in-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series: Francesca Orsini — Varieties of Realism
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 24th at 10am PST for Varieties of Realism\, a lecture by Francesca Orsini with discussants: G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-varieties-of-realism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth\, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever\, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book\, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who would like to participate. \n \nPlease sign up here for a free copy of the book. If you would like a copy to read over the winter break\, please sign up by December 2nd. Registrations received after December 2nd will receive their books in January. \nProfessor Amanda Smith will email all the registrants with a time to pick up their book. \nAn American Library Association Notable Book\, We Are the Middle of Forever draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities\, generations\, and geographic regions\, who share their knowledge and experience\, their questions\, their observations\, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis\, We Are the Middle of Forever will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster. \nStan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing\, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain\, Diaspora’s Children\, and (with Dahr Jamail) We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (The New Press). He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/we-are-the-middle-of-forever/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250127T130000
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SUMMARY:Dan Zimmer - From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics
DESCRIPTION:The first guest of the Winter ’25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday\, January 27th\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout From Left/Right to Up/Down:\nRecent years have seen a growing number renounce the anthropocentrism of the modern Left/Right political spectrum to champion nothing less than the cause of Life itself. This talk charts how the totality of Life became a source of political concern and maps the consequences. It traces the beginning of these developments back to mid-20th century cybernetics before proceeding to show how the environmental crises of the 1970s split the servants of Life into competing camps: one wing striving to ensure that human beings do not overstep Life’s planetary boundaries and the other seeking to use artificial intelligence to free Life from all earthly limits to growth. The talk introduces an Up/Down dichotomy as a heuristic tool to help observers better parse this growing opposition. It concludes by warning that the growing struggle between Life’s partisans may come to resemble less the human-scale conflicts of Western political modernity than a new war of religion. \nDan Zimmer is a political theorist who studies the planet-scale application of human power\, with a transdisciplinary focus on nuclear weapons\, global warming\, and artificial intelligence (AI). He received a doctorate in political science from the Government Department of Cornell University and has since studied contemporary issues in climate science and AI with STS scholar Paul Edwards as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He now works as a lecturer in the Stanford Civic\, Liberal\, and Global Education Program and is currently completing a book manuscript that traces the emergence of the human species as a political object from Aristotle to the atom bomb to the Anthropocene. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-dan-zimmer/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture
DESCRIPTION:Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan\, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional\, continental\, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue essay composed alongside The Art Institute of Chicago’s current exhibition\, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica\, this talk navigates a genealogy of similarly unsettled anticolonial solidarities throughout Africa and its diaspora during the Non-Aligned era. By narrowing in on the contentious relationship between “North” and “Sub-Saharan” African artistic production in this period – particularly during the 1969 “First” Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers – I explore how varying articulations and mis/translations of Blackness\, Arabness\, and Africanness in the political and cultural realm ultimately elude a stable and coherent Pan-African sensibility. However\, I also contend that the necessarily fleeting nature of these cultural encounters did still chart routes towards an African diasporic relation of difference that strives towards the most emancipatory possibilities of a transnational and anticolonial practice of solidarity. \nSophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sophia’s current book project\, Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab\, explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American\, Afro-Caribbean\, African\, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz\, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Sophia is a frequent contributor to The Funambulist magazine. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sophia-azeb-mapping-the-arab-in-pan-african-political-culture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi:  Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 31st at 10am PST for a discussion with Francesca Orsini on East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature\, in conversation with G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. This event is part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-east-of-delhi/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical\, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. \n \nThe first 20 students who register for the full day will receive\ntheir choice of one of the speakers’ books. \n\n11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World \nAsli Zengin – Assistant Professor\, Rutgers University\nIn Violent Intimacies\, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the ethnographic history of trans communal life in Istanbul\, Zengin develops an understanding cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex\, gender and sexuality. \n12:30 | Lunch provided \n1:30pm | Defiant Disrobing and Double Dissent in Feminist Thought \nNaminata Diabate – Associate Professor\, Cornell University\nNaminata Diabate is a scholar of sexuality\, race\, biopolitics\, and postcoloniality\, whose research explores African\, African American\, Caribbean\, and Afro-Hispanic literatures\, cultures\, cinema\, and new media. Her book\, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa\, won the African Studies Association Best Book Award in 2021 and the African Literature First Book Prize in 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-dissent-a-trans-feminist-dialogue/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:American Patchwork Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Friday\, January 31\, 2025 at 7:00PM! \nJoin the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet’s mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. \n \n \nAmerican Patchwork Quartet (APQ)\, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross\, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication\, country twang\, West African hypnotics\, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation\, transcending culture\, politics\, and ideology. \nA southern-born roots music aficionado\, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ\, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah\, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist\, Yasushi Nakamura\, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist\, and Clarence Penn\, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. \nAPQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that\, from a collage of varied backgrounds\, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned. Mirroring America’s cultural mosaic\, APQ stitches together a story that’s both intricate and resilient. The fabric of their music is genuine—it neither feigns tolerance nor presents an overly-embellished image of unity. Instead\, each carefully chosen piece dives deep into America’s patchwork soul and shares the joys\, sorrows\, and unwavering hope of a nation crafted by shared dreams and diverse histories. \nFar from being a haphazard collection of musical scraps\, APQ is a deliberately designed homage to America’s past and a showcase of its dynamic present. It beckons listeners to meditate upon our shared identity and relish in the musical threads that bind us. Just as an intricately designed quilt becomes a cherished family heirloom\, when the distinct patterns of APQ’s music align in perfect harmony\, the result is both a blanket of warmth and a timeless treasure. \nSponsored by The Humanities Institute at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-patchwork-quartet-2/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Zhongmin Chen — "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language"
DESCRIPTION:The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents\, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the ‘One-center Multi-Layer’ Development Hypothesis.” This talk will take place Monday\, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210. \nLanguage is humanity’s most vital tool for communication\, making the study of its evolution inherently linked to the dynamics of human activity\, society\, history\, and other influencing factors. Based on the historical and cultural contexts of language development\, the evolution of language can be broadly categorized into three models: \n1. The Family Tree Model – exemplified by Indo-European languages.\n2. The Polycentric Mixed Model – observed in regions such as Australia\, Papua New Guinea\, and the Balkans.\n3. The One-Center Multi-Layer Model – characteristic of East and Southeast Asian languages\, including Chinese. \nThis presentation delves into the historical and social contexts underlying these evolutionary models and highlights their defining characteristics. It also demonstrates the methodology used to analyze historical linguistic layers\, with examples drawn from the lexical\, syntactic\, and phonetic features of various Chinese dialects and East Asian languages. \nZhongmin Chen (陈忠敏) is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Fudan University (Shanghai). He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California\, Berkeley. He works on experimental phonetics\, historical linguistics\, and Chinese dialectology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhongmin-chen-re-evaluating-the-development-of-the-chinese-language/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer\, Dr. Persis Karim
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film\, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life\, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer\, Persis Karim\, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate\, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students\, refugees\, and exiles in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted by and contributed to the region. The event is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa and the Department of Film and Digital Media. \nPersis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diasporic literature\, and she has published numerous articles about Iranian diasporic literature and culture for academic journals as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora. She co-directed and co-produced the film with Soumyaa Behrens. Karim received her Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UT Austin. She is also a poet.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dawn-is-too-far/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Paul North & Paul Reitter – Notes on Translating Marx’s Capital
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will discuss the history of Anglophone translations of Capital (Vol. 1) Karl Marx’s magnus opus\, paying particular attention to the different circumstances that have shaped important translation decisions. It will also identify some of the major translation challenges the text poses and ask how the meaning of the Capital varies according to how we respond to those challenges. \nThis event will be held in Humanities 1 Room 210\, as well as via Zoom. Register here for the Zoom link. \nPaul Reitter teaches in the German department at Ohio State University. He is the author\, most recently\, of Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (cowritten with Chad Wellmon). His articles and essays have appeared in venues ranging from Representations to The New York Review of Books. \n  \nPaul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. He teaches and writes critical theory. His books include The Problem of Distraction (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Stanford University Press\, 2015)\, Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, and a new translation and critical reading edition of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press\, 2024). \nThis talk is hosted in collaboration with History of Consciousness and is co-sponsored by the UC’s Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group (IMWG)\, the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR)\, UC Berkeley’s Department of German Languages and Literatures\, UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities\, UC Berkeley’s Department of English and Program in Critical Theory. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-reitter-notes-on-translating-marxs-capital/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Wondering about your career options? Your curiosity is one of your greatest assets for discovering career possibilities\, for building your network\, and for creating a fulfilling professional life. Join this interactive workshop to learn about exploring your career options and growing your network with the practice of informational interviewing. \n \nFree copies of Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for all those who register by Friday 1/31 and attend the event. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-at-work-informational-interviewing/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T153000
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan — “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2025 Anthropology Colloquium Series\, “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India with Radhika Govindrajan. \nThis talk draws on ethnographic research in Himalayan India to explore how majoritarian feeling creeps into the legal domain by exploring the contingent production of sentiment among state officials who legislate inter-religious relationships. \nRadhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores how the question of the village in contemporary India is tangled up with the political economy of sex and sexuality. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-govindrajan-its-not-love-its-deception/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dixita Deka--After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India
DESCRIPTION:Since India’s independence in 1947\, militarization\, the extractive regime\, and capital have significantly transformed the agrarian landscape in Northeast India. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic work in Assam among the former insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who have taken up farming. Reclaiming the fields and the commons has been a mammoth task for communities and surrendered insurgents alike. In the absence of a state rehabilitation program\, grassroots farming initiatives started by former ULFA insurgents in rural Assam allow them to reconnect with the community\, earn a livelihood\, and work with dignity. In doing so\, insurgents and communities are paving the path for a sustainable ecosystem in the aftermath of insurgency. \nDixita Deka is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Agrarian Studies at MacMillan Center\, Yale University\, New Haven\, CT. Her research interests include insurgency in Northeast India\, gender studies\, and food cultures in the Eastern Himalayas. \n\nThis talk will be in person and online.  To attend on Zoom\, register here.  Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, this event is part of the Ecologies of Care Lecture Series. Learn more about the series here: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2024-25-events/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dixita-deka-after-insurgency-farming-journeys-and-rehabilitation-in-northeast-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Neko Case | THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
DESCRIPTION:Beloved Grammy-nominated musician Neko Case will share her new book\, THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU — a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood\, obsessive desires\, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith\, NYT bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful). \n \nSinger\, songwriter\, music producer\, visual artist\, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records\, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers and has recorded a collaborative album with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs. She currently authors the popular bi-weekly Substack newsletter “Entering the Lung” and is writing the music for a high-profile Broadway production. \nNeko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists\, whose authenticity\, lyrical storytelling\, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics\, musicians\, and lifelong fans. In THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU\, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. \nIn luminous\, sharp-edged prose\, Case shows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child\, to take refuge in the woods around her home\, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music\, camaraderie\, and shared experience into art. \nTHE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption\, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world\, despite the obstacles we face. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Neko Case \nCo-sponsored by Streetlight Records and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neko-case/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova\, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists) will give their talk “Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday\, February 10\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration:\nIn the last decades there has been a large debate of what may be referred to as the “gender question” and the “nature question”. Large parts of feminism and ecologism have been critical of the Marxian approach\, while Marxists have never really engaged in a debate\, either seen the encounter as unproblematical or dismissing it altogether. Discussing also aspects of the Italian debate\, we argue that feminism and ecologism need finally to meet Marx\, at least the Marx where the centrality of the working condition in capitalism is at the same time a criticism of the overwhelming centrality of production. Common misconceptions of what is the meaning of the “primacy of labour” point of view\, as well as about domestic labour and social reproduction\, need to be clarified and dispelled. \nRiccardo Bellofiore\, formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the Marxian theory of value and crisis\, the development and crisis of capitalism\, the endogenous theories of money\, the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. He has published ‘The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung’ (in Consecutio Rerum\, 2018) and\, with Giovanna Vertova\, The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). He has recently co-edited\, in English with Tommaso Redolfi Riva\, Marx: Key Concepts ((Edward Elgar\, 2024) and\, with Stefano Breda\, the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [Science of Value] (Pgreco\, 2024). With Giovanna Vertova he runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe. \nGiovanna Vertova\, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the spatial dimension of economics\, with a focus on the globalization debate; the economics of innovation\, especially in reference to national innovation systems; gender and feminist economics\, especially in relation to the labor market. With Riccardo Bellofiore she has published The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). She has recently published chapters for Spinger’s and Elgar’s collective volumes and articles in scientific journals\, on the themes of the permanent catastrophe of capitalism\, gender mainstreaming\, and the so-called Great Resignation. With Riccardo Bellofiore she runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nature-women-and-capital-a-critical-reconsideration/
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:Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature" with Douglas E. Christie
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie\, Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. \n“Primary wonder.” Poet Denise Levertov describes this as the feeling that sometimes arises within us when we encounter “the mystery/that there is anything\, anything at all/let alone cosmos\, joy\, memory\, everything\,/rather than void.” It is an idea resonant with spiritual meaning\, but sometimes more accessible to us through art\, poetry and nature than through traditional religious practice. This lecture will consider the role art and poetry can play in helping us recover a spirituality of primary wonder–beyond traditional religious practice–especially in relation to the natural world. \nProfessor Christie is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford\, 1993)\, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Note for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford\, 2013)\, and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism\, Loss and the Common Life (Oxford\, 2022). He has been awarded fellowships from the Luce Foundation\, the Lilly Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2013-2015 he served as Co-director of the Casa de la Mateada study abroad program in Córdoba\, Argentina\, a program rooted in the Jesuit vision of education for solidarity. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book on the desert as spiritual landscape. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Council of Provosts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar-lecture-with-douglas-e-christie/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armen Khatchatourov - Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a thought-provoking talk with Armen Khatchatourov on “Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems.” \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can attend virtually via Zoom. \nThe rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to normativity. Drawing on Foucault’s insights\, Armen Khatchatourov will explore how social norms are translated into dynamic\, adaptable AI systems and how these technologies redefine our relationship with normativity through their opacity and adjustability. This talk will present a heuristic approach to unpacking the ways normative concepts operate within AI technologies and their implications for society and governance. \nArmen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab\, University Gustave Eiffel\, Paris\, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology\, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities\, privacy\, smart cities\, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He is the author of Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley\, 2019) and Corps Connectés. Figures\, Fragments\, Discours (Presses des Mines\, 2022)\, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/armen-khatchatourov-truths-and-rewards-of-algorithmic-governmentality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain scholar\, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain’s novel in the context of 19th-century popular literature and political history and explore its broader cultural influence and reach as our American idol and target. She’ll help lay the groundwork for understanding this year’s Deep Read book\, Percival Everett’s James\, a rewriting of Huckleberry Finn that engages with both Twain’s novel and legacy. After delivering a brief lecture\, Prof. Gillman will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan (UCSC Professor of Literature\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead) and Laura Martin (UCSC Lecturer\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead). \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-talk-on-mark-twains-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T121500
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SUMMARY:La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love\, Open Sky
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is culled from The Afromantic: Black Love Out Yonder\, a book-length cultural history\, critical theory\, aesthetic expression\, and existential assertion of B/black love outside. The project will follow black love to cookouts\, carnivals\, rooftops\, rallies\, jazz funerals\, cruising spots\, garden plots\, hush harbors\, distant stars\, and forest clearings—emphasizing ways of loving that escape and exceed normative enclosures of Western modernity. In a public sphere overrun with spectacles of black death outside\, I plan to compile a counter-archive and counter-narrative of B/black love that can breathe under open sky\, in the open air. \nLa Marr Jurelle Bruce is a philosopher\, fever dreamer\, interdisciplinary humanities scholar\, first-generation college graduate\, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Much of his scholarship explores and activates B/black\, queer\, and mad expressive cultures—spanning literature\, music\, film\, theatre\, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian life. Dr. Bruce’s writing is featured or forthcoming in African American Review\, American Quarterly\, The Black Scholar\, GLQ\, Social Text\, TDR\, and several anthologies. His debut book\, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (2021)\, earned the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/la-marr-jurelle-bruce-come-outside/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T143000
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SUMMARY:Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage in your career journey. Join us for a fast-paced and practical workshop where you’ll learn how to create a professional and dynamic LinkedIn profile\, as well as how to use various LinkedIn resources to improve your networking and job search skills! \n \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-workshop-using-linkedin-to-accelerate-your-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \n \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250213T180000
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SUMMARY:Derek Penslar - Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
DESCRIPTION:Due to the atmospheric river event effecting  Santa Cruz County\, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP’d for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using the “register” button.  \n\nThe Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies featuring Derek Penslar. Derek Penslar will be presenting his talk titled Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? \n \nSince the 1960s\, referencing Israel as settler-colonial has been a common polemical practice\, a means of delegitimization of the state of Israel and those who believe in its right to exist. But over this same period\, scholars have done serious work on the relationship between Zionism\, Israel\, and settler-colonialism. This talk will separate the analytical from the polemic threads in the discourse on Israel and settler-colonialism. It will propose a new vocabulary\, both more flexible and precise\, to describe Israel and that can be more conducive to a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. \nDerek Penslar Harvard University\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published a dozen books\, most recently Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. \n  \n\nEvery year\, the Jewish Studies Department honors Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. See a full list of previous Diller lectures here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-featuring-derek-penslar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Thomas Haigh--Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn't Die
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this undergraduate-facing event at the Merrill Cultural Center featuring leading historian of computing\, Thomas Haigh. He will contextualize the current Artificial Intelligence hype in the longer history of boom and bust for for the AI brand\, critiquing claims made for large language models. Pizza will be served and all are welcome. Presented by Merrill College/Ming Ong Tech Cluster and co-sponsored by Humanizing Technology and the Humanities Division. \nThomas Haigh is lead author of A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press\, 2022) and ENIAC In Action: Making & Remaking the Modern Computer (MIT Press\, 2016) and a regular contributor to Communications of the ACM. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-haigh-artificial-intelligence-the-brand-that-wouldnt-die/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Katie Shilton - Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI
DESCRIPTION:This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker\, Katie Shilton speaking on “Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI.” \nAs the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies\, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic development of automated technologies. But how should we think about how and whether participatory methods increase trust in\, and the trustworthiness of\, AI systems? This talk will report on a systematic examination of the landscape of methods and theoretical lenses used in global participatory AI projects\, and connect those methods and lenses to trust building. The talk will explore differences in theoretical frameworks\, participation methods\, and the details of shared tasks within the AI lifecycle across sectors and geographies. Our findings reveal an evolving definition of PAI\, with actors implementing diverse methods and shared tasks. Focusing on shared tasks also provides a lens for analyzing how participation can build trust in\, and trustworthiness of\, AI systems. Our analysis reveals that participation alone is not necessarily a straightforward approach to building public trust in AI technologies\, but that the promise of participation lies in trustworthiness by increasing the diversity of expertise engaged in alignment and decision-making within AI technologies. \nKatie Shilton is a professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, and is currently visiting faculty in Computational Media at UCSC. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Law & Society (TRAILS) and a co-PI of the UMD Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project\, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College\, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/katie-shilton-trust-trustworthiness-and-participation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and The Alumni Association\, Kresge’s Media and Society Series presents an evening with acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi\, who will speak to the nuts and bolts of regionally rooted reporting\, and survey several of his most impactful stories. \nJoe Eskenazi is the managing editor of Mission Local\, and has written for the Guardian\, San Francisco Public Press\, San Francisco Chronicle\, San Francisco Examiner\, and SF Weekly\, where he was a regular columnist from 2007 to 2015. He has also served as a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-joe-eskenazi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T093000
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SUMMARY:Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Valentin Lopez\, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for his talk “Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship.” \nValentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the indigenous descendants forcibly taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Chairman Lopez is also the President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust which was established in 2012. He is a Native American Advisor to the University of California\, Office of the President. He is also a Native American Adviser to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The Amah Mutsun are currently working to restore their traditional indigenous knowledge regarding land stewardship and ensuring that truthful history is taught. Consequently\, the Amah Mutsun are very active in conservation and protection efforts within their traditional tribal territory. Chairman Lopez is working to restore the Mutsun Language and is a traditional Mutsun singer and dancer. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valentin-lopez-amah-mutsun-tribal-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T133000
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SUMMARY:Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements\,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern Studies project is driven by a subaltern intimation of freedom—a freedom that recognizes that domination takes the form of not only exploitation but oppression\, and a freedom that\, even as it exits subalternity\, seeks not to make a new group subaltern in either way. Revisiting my 1999 book\, Hybrid Histories\, I explore this subaltern intimation of freedom by focusing on 1) how it played a role in the turn away from a focus on subaltern autonomy; 2) how the community constituted by it differs from those constituted by claims to oppression such as those made by Hindu nationalists or white nationalists; and 3) how it allows us to read differently the claim to indigeneity involved in the identity “Adivasi.” \nAjay Skaria studied Political Science and History at Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, during which he also worked as a journalist for Indian Express. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. A member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective from 1995 till its dissolution\, he is one of the co-editors of Subaltern Studies Vol. XII\, and the author of Hybrid Histories: Forests\, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (1999) and Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance (2016). He is currently completing a collection of essays\, Thinking With Gandhi and Ambedkar\, and is also working on another book\, Ambedkar’s Buddhism. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ajay-skaria-the-part-of-the-indigenous-adivasis-and-the-subaltern-intimation-of-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T190000
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 2
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130423
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome G.S. Sahota—Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for a conversation on Equality of the Minor: Ambedkar’s Critical Legacy Today. This engaging discussion will take place on February 20\, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 202. You can also join us virtually via Zoom: \n \nThis event is a part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fall-2024-aurora-lecture-g-s-sahota/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T100000
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SUMMARY:Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
DESCRIPTION:From ancient times through abolition\, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead\, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time\, however\, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison with other dominated groups. Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this talk investigates whether theories of race and racism can elucidate the social\, political\, and economic dimensions of slavery in the Mediterranean\, while also asking how studying slavery in the Mediterranean might provide a different understanding of racialization during the early modern period. \n \nM’hamed Oualdi is a Professor at the European University Institute\, Florence. Before joining the EUI\, he taught at Sciences Po-Paris and Princeton University. He is supervising a European Research Council-funded project about the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2011) and A Slave between Empires (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nShreya Parikh is a lecturer and affiliated researcher at Sciences Po Paris. She received a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science and in Sociology from Sciences Po and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation\, Mirages of Race: Blackness\, Racialization\, and the Black Movement in Tunisia\, examines the intersections of race\, migration\, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently working on adapting her dissertation manuscript into a book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-in-conversation-with-shreya-parikh/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \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. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) Alma Heckman (Steering Committee Member at The Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History & Jewish Studies)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute). \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T133000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images\, Synthetic Media\, and Evolving Critical Impulse
DESCRIPTION:What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact\, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments\, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? \nThis talk invites one to consider how our language might move with ‘intelligent’ systems and beings that simulate liveness and likeness. To navigate a present and future dominated by synthetic media\, and created by predictive systems\, we take up a practice of seeing through systems. This talk first explores the craft of developing a hybrid\, strategic\, collective and dissident criticism of technology. It second reviews cases of baffling\, seemingly inarticulable experiences from early software experiments and artists’ interventions\, into AI/ML. Third\, it explores the evolution of language in response to material and symbolic systems that dramatically shape our creative approaches and cognition. Throughout\, the talk explores evolving critical methods that help us better situate ourselves to identify a vast range of hidden fictions and beliefs about what technology is meant to do and be. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nora-khan-discernment/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T180000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Humanities Campus to Career:  Law Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for a new date! \n\nAre you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. \nAppetizers and light refreshments will be served. \n \nSarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz\, where she majored in French Literature. After law school\, she worked in large and small law firms and in-house at Levi Strauss. Most recently she spent a dozen years at the Career Development Office at Berkeley Law school\, where she supported students in their job searches\, with a special affinity for students with humanities backgrounds. \nChris Khasho (he/him) graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2013 with a B.A. in Philosophy and is now a successful young attorney in Los Angeles. Chris represents clients in a broad array of business litigation matters and counsels them in corporate and transactional matters at Cypress LLP\, a premier business litigation firm in Century City. Chris is passionate about giving back to his community and helping clients resolve their legal issues. \nRitu Goswamy (they/them) is a Staff Attorney with the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center and serves UC Santa Cruz. They are a graduate from Barnard College\, Columbia University and Boston College (Joint J.D./M.S.W. degrees). Prior to joining the Center\, Ritu worked as a child welfare worker in Oakland\, and as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid at Work) and Legal Advocates for Children & Youth (part of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley). \nJalyn Mitchell (she/her) is a proud UCSC College Ten Alum and majored in English Language Literature with a minor in Legal Studies. She graduated from Law School from Loyola University in Chicago and went to work in San Jose at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she represented people on long term psychiatric holds with their due process right to a hearing to leave the hospital. Currently and for the last 2.5 years\, she has represented young people on a variety of issues including restraining orders\, traffic tickets\, education law\, and guardianships. \nLearn more about the panelists here. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-campus-to-career-law-panel/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 3
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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