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SUMMARY:Lital Levy - World Literature\, Translation\, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz\, Warsaw\, Vilna\, Calcutta\, and Tunis. A case study for Levy’s broader project on “Global Haskalah\,” it brings together Sephardic studies\, world literature and translation studies\, transnational literary history\, and Jewish literary studies. Through this project\, Levy argues for two interventions: a rethinking of the nation-centered model of world literature\, and a revision of the Eurocentric narrative of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). The novel’s history begins with a work of minor literature by a Sephardic Englishwoman about a quintessential minority topic: crypto-Jews in the Spanish Inquisition. Originally intended as a refutation of English conversionists\, by the end of the century the novel had appeared in multiple free translations into Hebrew\, Yiddish\, and Judeo-Arabic\, refashioned to instill their readers with pride in historical Jewish nobility and martyrdom. In addition to mapping the book’s journey and elucidating the cultural markers of its myriad translations\, the talk will foreground the Calcutta Judeo-Arabic edition and its social-historical context. \n \nLital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University\, where she teaches comparative literature and theory\, Hebrew literature\, Arabic literature\, and Jewish studies. Her work integrates literary and cultural studies with intellectual history and religious thought. She is the author of Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, which won the MLA Prize for a First Book and awards from the AAJR and AJS. She is currently completing The Jewish Nahda\, an intellectual history of Arab Jews and modernity. \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. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lital-levy-world-literature-translation-and-diaspora-the-intimately-global-journey-of-grace-aguilars-the-vale-of-cedars/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to publish scholarly work\, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian\, University Library) and Erich van Rijn (Director of Journals and Open Access\, UC Office of Scholarly Communication\, UC Press). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Publishing in Academia” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-publishing-in-academia/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T204500
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SUMMARY:A.M. Darke - Games and Play as Social Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Game designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture\, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation\, and our representations of our communities\, through gaming. How are industry representations variously coded as racial\, as gendered? How can aspiring game-makers intervene in their communities and social representations of them? A.M. Darke rejoins our series for the third time\, pivoting from panelist to core/keynote lecturer. His lecture will take shape in two parts; the first an overview of his own work\, and the second a primer on accessible platforms for game-making. \n \n  \nA.M. Darke is an artist\, game designer\, and activist designing games for social impact. He created the award-winning card game Objectif\, which explores the intersection of race\, gender\, and standards of beauty. In 2016 he became an Oculus Launch Pad fellow\, and shortly thereafter wrote An Open Letter to Oculus Founder\, Palmer Luckey in response to reports of Luckey’s alt-right affiliations. The following year\, he curated the exhibition Building Code: Developing Mixed Use Space in Virtual Reality as an artist-in-residence at Laboratory. In 2018\, Darke joined the NYU Game Center Incubator residency\, and is currently a Futurist in Residence with ARVR Women. Darke holds a B.A. in Design (’13) and an M.F.A. in Media Arts (’15)\, both from UCLA. He is an Assistant Professor of Games and Playable Media\, and Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz\, and the founding director of The Other Lab\, an interdisciplinary\, intersectional feminist research lab for experimental games\, XR\, and new media. His work has been shown internationally and featured in a variety of publications\, including Forbes\, Kill Screen\, The Creator’s Project\, and NPR. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-m-darke-games-and-play-as-social-intervention/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating Salary
DESCRIPTION:Practice Mock Interviews and Salary Negotiations. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell\, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Interviewing and Negotiating Salary” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-interviewing-and-negotiating-salary/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T133000
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SUMMARY:Nasser Zakariya - Questions on "Anthroperiphery"
DESCRIPTION:Taking recent discussions of “Copernican Forecasting” as a point of departure\, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly marginal position of humanity. A sketch of some of the genealogies of these arguments and their representations suggest how ill-fitting they might be when set against varying historical conceptions of centrality\, probability\, and forecasting. \n \nNasser Zakariya’s doctorate is in history of science\, with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies. His research interests concern science and narrative\, as well as varied topics in the history and philosophy of science. He has taught and held research fellowships at a number of institutions\, including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and New York University Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic Institute of NYU).\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. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nasser-zakariya/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Teaching at California Community Colleges
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges\, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni\, including: \nBeth Au\, Moderator\nDirector\nCalifornia Community Colleges Registry \nFrancesca (Chesa) Caparas\, Panelist\nM.A. Literature\nEnglish Professor and Faculty Coordinator\, Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies \nDe Anza College \nSarah Gerhardt\, Panelist\nPh.D. Chemistry\nChemistry Instructor\nCabrillo College \nElizabeth Gonzalez\, Panelist\nPh.D. Psychology\nAdjunct Faculty\nPalomar College \nBrian Malone\, Panelist\nPh.D. Literature\nEnglish Professor\nDe Anza College \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Panelist\nPh.D. Education\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College \nNicholas Vasallo\, Panelist\nD.M.A.\nDirector\, Music Industry Studies\, AV Technology\, and Music Composition\nDiablo Valley College \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ workshop on “California Community Colleges” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nClick here to be directed to more information about this workshop on the Division of Graduate Studies’ website. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-teaching-at-california-community-colleges/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T173000
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 12th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Gary Young. Poet Danusha Laméris 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). \n \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. \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\nLen Anderson\, Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Joseph Stroud. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\nphren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nDavid Sullivan\, a poet and faculty member at Cabrillo College\, has honored phren-Z by serving as the judge for this year’s contest. \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading as well as to Poetry Santa Cruz at: http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/ \nMort was a donating member of Poetry Santa Cruz from its inception in 2001. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 11th\, 2021.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Gowri Vijayakumar - Risk and Respectability: Sexuality and the Nation in the Time of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:Gowri Vijayakumar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, affiliated with the South Asian Studies Program at Brandeis. She is the author of At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis\, published by Stanford University Press in 2021. Her articles and essays on gender\, sexuality\, transnational politics\, and the state have appeared or are forthcoming in Gender & Society\, Social Problems\, Qualitative Sociology\, Signs\, and World Development. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gowri-vijayakumar-risk-and-respectability-sexuality-and-the-nation-in-the-time-of-aids/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T133000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Bridget Copley
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-bridget-copley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T150000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the VOCES Graduate Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! This workshop will be led by Andrea Seeger (Director\nVOCES Graduate Writing Center).\n \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Psychology of Writing” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nClick here to be directed to more information about this workshop on the Division of Graduate Studies’ website. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-psychology-of-writing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T203000
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine - The Wrong End of the Telescope
DESCRIPTION:The Wrong End of the Telescope is a “shape-shifting kaleidoscope\, a collection of moments—funny\, devastating\, absurd—that bear witness to the violence of war and displacement without sensationalizing it…The Wrong End of the Telescope is a gorgeously written\, darkly funny and refreshingly queer witness to that seeking.” —BookPage \nMina Simpson\, a Lebanese doctor\, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos\, Greece\, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother\, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years\, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful\, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina’s singular own\, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis. \nRABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I\, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection\, The Perv. In 2019\, he won the Dos Passos Prize. \nThe Swank Hotel is an acrobatic\, unforgettable\, surreal\, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America. \nAt the outset of the 2008 financial crisis\, Em has a dependable\, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister\, Ad\, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible\, salary-backed\, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable\, something impossible\, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed\, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic\, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. \nLUCY CORIN is the author of The Swank Hotel\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses\, and two other books of fiction. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nFREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Award winning author Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman) and acclaimed writer Lucy Corin will read from and discuss their new work: Corin’s The Swank Hotel and Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope. \nThe featured books can be purchased on the Bookshop Santa Cruz event page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabih-alameddine-the-wrong-end-of-the-telescope/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:The World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \n \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155640
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SUMMARY:Capacity Building Workshop for UC Faculty: "Telling Your Research Story Through Film" with Case Creative
DESCRIPTION:Please note this workshop is only available to UC faculty.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/capacity-building-workshop-for-uc-faculty-telling-your-research-story-through-film-with-case-creative/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T200000
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SUMMARY:Monolingualism can be cured! And what does this mean for bilingual speech?
DESCRIPTION:It is by no means a small feat that bilinguals can speak two or more languages. In addition to acquiring a variety of components of the linguistic system\, they must have the ability to produce language-specific acoustic targets in their languages accurately and consistently\, and importantly\, they do it while inhibiting or deactivating the influence of their first or dominant language. In this talk\, I will discuss and dispel several myths about bilingualism and bilingual speech\, offer an overview of the potential cognitive benefits of being bilingual\, and conclude by providing evidence of the resourcefulness of bilinguals and multilinguals to overcome cross-language influence in their speech demonstrating the flexibility of their sound systems. \nMark Amengual is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the director of the UCSC Bilingualism Research Laboratory in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research and teaching interests focus primarily on experimental phonetics\, bilingualism\, and psycholinguistics. He has been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish–Catalan bilinguals\, Spanish– Galician bilinguals\, Spanish heritage speakers in the United States\, English heritage speakers and British immigrants in Spain\, and Spanish–Otomi (Hñäñho) bilingual speakers in Mexico. This work has been published in international venues\, such as Journal of Phonetics\, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America\, Phonetica\, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition\, International Journal of Bilingualism\, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism\, and Applied Psycholinguistics. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/monolingualism-can-be-cured-and-what-does-this-mean-for-bilingual-speech/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211217T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211217T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
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SUMMARY:Japan Circa 1972: Setting The Stage For Reversion
DESCRIPTION:Please join the conversation on Okinawa\, Japan\, and the media in the years leading up to reversion. Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss the contents of his recent book\, Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism in conversation with Drew Richardson (PhD. UCSC)\, and set the stage for a series of OMI events on the 50th anniversary of Okinawan Reversion. \nYoshikuni Igarashi is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture\, 1945-1970 (2000) and Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia\, 2016)\, and recently Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism. \nThis event is made possible by the Gilbert and Margaret Nee Fund in Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/japan-circa-1972-setting-the-stage-for-reversion/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T161750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220112T155825Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Beaman - Suspect Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:Incidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France\, the United States\, and worldwide. Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region\, this talk argues that\, despite France’s colorblind and Republican ethos\, France’s “visible minorities” function under a “suspect citizenship” in which their full societal belonging is never granted. Beaman focuses on the growing problem of state-sponsored violence against ethnic minorities which reveals how France is creating a “bright boundary” (Alba 2005) between whites and non-whites\, furthering disparate outcomes based on race and ethnic origin. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of citizenship and belonging in France\, Beaman demonstrates the limitations of full societal inclusion for France’s non-white denizens and how French Republicanism continues to mark\, rather than erase\, racial and ethnic distinctions. \n \nJean Beaman is Associate Professor of Sociology\, with affiliations with Black Studies\, Political Science\, Feminist Studies\, Global Studies\, and the Center for Black Studies Research\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Previously\, she was faculty at Purdue University and held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration\, and state violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press\, 2017)\, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current book project is on suspect citizenship and belonging\, anti-racist mobilization\, and activism against police violence in France. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal\, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and a Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She is the Co-PI for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant\, “Race\, Precarity\, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context” for 2020-2022. \nJean Beaman’s presentation will be presented remotely\, please register here to receive the Zoom link on Wednesday\, January 12. \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. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-beaman-suspect-citizenship/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220110T164252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T201350Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jane Wong
DESCRIPTION:Jane Wong’s poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\, Best American Poetry 2015\, American Poetry Review\, POETRY\, AGNI\, Third Coast\, New England Review\, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Black Warrior Review\, Ecotone\, The Common\, The Georgia Review\, Shenandoah\, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.\n \nA Kundiman fellow\, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program\, Artist Trust\, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room\, 4Culture\, the Fine Arts Work Center\, Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, Willapa Bay\, the Jentel Foundation\, SAFTA\,  Mineral School\, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, and others. \nShe is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James Books (2021) and Overpour from Action Books. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jane-wong/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T162250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T162250Z
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SUMMARY:Caitlin Keliiaa - Occupational Risk: Sexual Surveillance and Federal Regulation of Native Women’s Bodies
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how bodily regulation unfolded on Native women domestic workers in the early 20th-century Bay Area and how sexual surveillance in the Bay Area Outing Program affected Native women. To this end\, I analyze cases of sexual surveillance\, presumed delinquency\, sexually transmitted infections and policing of Native women’s bodies. Through these intimate stories\, I demonstrate the ways in which the settler state attempted to and at times succeeded in managing and controlling Native women. \n \nCaitlin “Katie” Keliiaa is Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is an interdisciplinary feminist historian specializing in 20th-century Native experiences in the West. Her scholarship engages Indian labor exploitation\, dispossession and surveillance of Native bodies especially in Native Californian contexts. Her book project examines how Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged an early 20th-century Indian labor program based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this work\, Professor Keliiaa centers Native women’s voices uncovered from federal archives. \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. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caitlin-keliiaa-occupational-risk-sexual-surveillance-and-federal-regulation-of-native-womens-bodies/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
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SUMMARY:Mona El-Ghobashy - "Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation"
DESCRIPTION:Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt’s 2011 revolutionary mobilization\, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos\, military communiqués\, open letters\, constitutional contentions\, protest slogans\, parliamentary debates\, and court decisions. A rich trove of political arguments\, the sources reveal a range of actors vying over the fundamental question in politics: who holds ultimate political authority. The revolution’s tangled events engaged competing claims to sovereignty made by insurgent forces and entrenched interests alike\, a vital contest that was terminated by the 2013 military coup and its aftermath. Now a decade after the 2011 Arab uprisings\, Mona El-Ghobashy rethinks how we study revolutions\, looking past causes and consequences to train our sights on the collisions of revolutionary politics. She moves beyond the simple judgments that once celebrated Egypt’s revolution as an awe-inspiring irruption of people power or now label it a tragic failure. Revisiting the revolutionary interregnum of 2011–2013\, Bread and Freedom takes seriously the political conflicts that developed after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak\, an eventful thirty months when it was impossible to rule Egypt without the Egyptians. \n \nMona El-Ghobashy is a scholar of Egyptian politics whose research focuses on law and politics\, varieties of protest\, and limited elections in contemporary Egypt. Her work brings out the dynamics of political contestation before and after the 2011 uprising. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Politics Symposium.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mona-el-ghobashy-bread-and-freedom-egypts-revolutionary-situation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20210920T184347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220113T192003Z
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SUMMARY:Bishnupriya Ghosh - Multispecies Distributions in the Epidemic Episteme
DESCRIPTION:Bishnupriya Ghosh teaches at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She has published two monographs\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke Up\, 2011) on global media cultures. Her current work on media\, risk\, and globalization includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge 2020) and a new monograph\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (under contract\, Duke UP). \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bishnupriya-ghosh-multispecies-distributions-in-the-epidemic-episteme/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20211116T002729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T002729Z
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SUMMARY:Demystifying Book Publishing for FirstGen Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel with first-gen authors about their publishing experiences\, followed by a presentation and Q&A with UC Press editors about common publishing topics\, such as choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions. A recording will be made available after the event. \nSponsored by: UC Press and the UC Collaborative of Humanities Centers and Institutes \nLearn more at the UC Press FirstGen Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/demystifying-book-publishing-for-firstgen-scholars/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T181500
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220124T214230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T214934Z
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SUMMARY:Pamela Z - Seminar in Composition
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, January 24\, at 4:00 PM\, for our keynote event in Pamela Z’s 2022 UC Santa Cruz residency\, jointly funded by the University Library\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Institute for Arts and Sciences’ Surge: Afrofuturism Festival. Pamela Z’s residency begins with her January 24 seminar on composition\, and culminates with a May 14 concert undertaken in collaboration with the Institute of Arts and Sciences\, and UC Santa Cruz graduate students. \nThe January lecture-seminar\, delivered remotely via Zoom\, will address a range of issues arising in her approach to composition\, including but not limited to interactions of fixed media and ‘real-time’ elements in performance\, and approaches to composition with voice and text. The lecture portion will be followed by presentations by UC Santa Cruz composers Alexander Wand and Seth Glickman\, on their new works-in-progress\, and finally by discussion and dialogue among the participants. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pamela-z-seminar-in-composition/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T162631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T174837Z
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SUMMARY:Xavier Livermon - Safe Houses? Queerness\, Performance\, and the Land Question in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:During the height of COVID restrictions in 2020\, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B. They intended to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa\, and the particular ways that the continuation of apartheid urban planning created disproportionate vulnerabilities for Black queer folk in Cape Town. In this talk\, I will consider the political implications of joining queerness with the land question in post-apartheid South Africa through direct political action and performance. \n \nXavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC \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. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/xavier-livermon-safe-houses-queerness-performance-and-the-land-question-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T192133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T192346Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
DESCRIPTION:After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThe Living Writer Series is sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n \nKaren Tei Yamashita is an award-winning writer who was born in Oakland\, California. For many years she was Professor of Literature at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her works\, several of which contain elements of magic realism\, include novels I Hotel (2010)\, Circle K Cycles (2001)\, Tropic of Orange (1997)\, Brazil-Maru (1992)\, and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990). Yamashita’s novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot\, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age\, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity. She has also written a number of plays\, including Hannah Kusoh\, Noh Bozos and O-Men which was produced by the Asian American theatre group\, East West Players. Her most recent book is the story collection\, Sansei and Sensibility (2020). Karen Tei Yamashita: The Complete Works is now available from Coffeehouse Press. In 2021\, Yamashita was named the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \nEric Wat’s first book\, The Making of a Gay Asian Community (2002)\, has been described as a “foundational text in queer Asian American historiography.” Almost twenty years later\, he wrote a follow-up about AIDS activism in the Asian American community\, Love Your Asian Body (2021). But his first love was fiction. In 2016\, after his grandmother passed away\, he quit the best job in the world to write his novel\, Swim (2019). He wrote Swim for queer folks whose main concern in life isn’t coming out\, for people who are dealing with addiction (or know loved ones who are)\, and for adult children who are struggling to take care of their aging parents (and in so doing are confronted by their imperfect relationships). Wat lives and writes in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-and-eric-wat/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20211209T213608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T022705Z
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SUMMARY:The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
DESCRIPTION:The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery brings you a remarkable collection of Sikh art from Narinder S. and Satinder K. Kapany. Narinder S. Kapany established an endowed chair in entrepreneurship\, the Narinder Kapany Professorship in Entrepreneurship\, based initially at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering in support of the school’s leadership in the establishment of a comprehensive entrepreneurship program for the campus. This was the second endowed chair funded by Kapany\, who was a Regents Professor at UC Santa Cruz from 1977 to 1983 as well as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee. In 1999\, he endowed the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics at the Baskin School of Engineering. Kapany\, a Sikh\, was a research scientist\, entrepreneur\, art collector and philanthropist\, he is widely acknowledged as the father of fiber optics. \nThis unique exhibit introduces both Sikh art and ethos as well as a historical look at the Sikh migration and history from Punjab to America\, and more specifically California. It is our objective to enlighten the audience as to what and who the Sikh religion and people represent and their relevance\, not just here\, but around the world. \nThe main gallery displays a rare collection of both antique and contemporary art which does well to establish the history of the Sikh religion beginning with the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak\, the first Guru (1469–1539)\, and of the nine Sikh gurus who succeeded him. Works reflect the gurus\, gurdwaras\, the Golden Temple–preeminent spiritual site of Sikhism\, rituals and religious communities. Three phulkaris\, loosely translated as  ”flower work”\, (large embroidered textiles in silk and cotton) draw inspiration from the wheat\, corn and barley farmed in much of Punjab. Lastly\, a set of intricately painted miniatures\, portraits on bone and ivory of the court and family\, often given to visiting dignitaries.\nThe Ann Dizikes Annex features a graphic timeline depicting the migration of the Sikhs in the late 1800’s to the present day. It presents a rich story of the important events and people that brought to life the current Sikh population we see today with its gurdwaras\, community\, agricultural and scientific contributions. \nThis is an exhibit not to be missed. We encourage all to come enjoy the magnificent art and the interesting\, rich culture and history of the Sikh people and their religion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-kapany-collection-sikh-art-in-america/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220113T203748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220113T203748Z
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SUMMARY:Watsonville is in the Heart Online Screening: Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance
DESCRIPTION:ONLINE SCREENING: Talk Story II: Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance screening\, and community discussion. \nOn Sunday\, January 30\, the Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) project team rings in 2022 with a screening of Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz’s Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance (1984). The documentary offers a portrait of Filipino agricultural workers\, who traveled to California in the early through the mid-twentieth century. \nJoin community members for a conversation between director Geoffrey Dunn\, local philanthropist and activist George Ow\, and Steve McKay\, professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and co-Principal Investigator of WIITH. \n \nThis event is part of the larger community-engaged public oral history project Watsonville is in the Heart (led by UCSC historian Kat Gutierrez and labor sociologist Steve McKay)\, in collaboration with the Tobera Project. \nFor general information\, please contact toberaproject@gmail.com. The event will be live-streamed and will be live-captioned. A recording of the event will be made available through YouTube. \nThis project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-online-screening-dollar-a-day-ten-cents-a-dance/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220202
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220119T172741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220127T174320Z
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SUMMARY:"Just Futures" Opens
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. \n Just Futures\, a highly anticipated exhibition featuring the works of Arthur Jafa\, Martine Syms\, and Black Quantum Futurism\, curated by Professor T.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, opens at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery February 1- March 19\, 2022. We are excited to welcome the public back to the Sesnon Art Gallery after a nearly two-year hiatus. \nAgainst the present’s seemingly endless backdrop of deep political unrest\, environmental emergency\, and racialized injustice\, Just Futures highlights poignant creative experiments in futurity and justice\, directed at emancipatory worlds-to-come. With artworks by Black Quantum Futurism\, Arthur Jafa\, and Martine Syms\, Just Futures considers how time itself is a site of struggle and a horizon of liberation. The centerpiece of the exhibition\, Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death (2016)\, was screened simultaneously over 48 hours across art museums in 2020 as an international response to racial justice uprisings and civil unrest. Far from homogenous\, inherently progressive\, or equitable\, dominant time expresses the 24/7 chronologies of capital\, long synchronized to racialized\, gendered violence and oppression. The seemingly endless meter of production encloses people in temporal holds\, defuturing communities\, and imposing time-traps of debt and deadlines. \nThe artworks included in Just Futures powerfully reveal and challenge such temporality\, including its seeming fixity and policed regimentation. In doing so\, they build on the critical resources of Afrofuturisms of decades past—experiments in sonic and visual futurity that draw together Afro-diasporic cultures of creativity and the chronopolitics of coming liberation. Expanding horizons of the possible\, the artists presented in Just Futures reveal new singular experiments in time travel. They cultivate space agency that dismantle the “Master(s) Clock(work Universe)” (Black Quantum Futurism); present a stunning cinematic exploration of African-American image archives opposing police brutality with scenes of freedom dreams and anti-racist struggle (Arthur Jafa); and offer a “Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto” contesting the entire edifice of racial capitalism (Martine Syms). Each inclusion provokes compelling and urgent recalibrations of justice and futurity. \nThis exhibition forms part of Beyond the End of the World\, which comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU.  \nPlease note: Exhibition includes violent imagery and content. \nVisitors must be in compliance with Covid-19 protocols. Please complete a symptom check before or upon arrival. \nJust Futures is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery\, Center for Creative Ecologies\, and The Humanities Institute. Education programming is developed by Darren Wallace\, PhD student in Film and Digital Media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/just-futures-opens/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
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SUMMARY:Massimiliano Tomba - Revolutions/Restorations
DESCRIPTION:Reading revolutions through the prism of a concept of history that is not teleological or unilinear but is instead structured as a pluriverse of historical temporalities\, this talk shows how different temporalities and semantic stratification of revolution are reactivated in historical revolutionary moments. From this perspective\, the ancient notions of revolution and restoration are not erased but coexist as temporal stratifications. Tomba’s analysis is articulated through historical cases\, from the German peasant war of 1525 to the Water War in Bolivia in 2000. \n \nMassimiliano Tomba is the author of Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer: Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken (2005); La vera politica: Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia (2006); Marx’s Temporalities (2013); Attraverso la piccolo porta: Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin (Mimesis\, 2017); Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (2019). \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. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/massimiliano-tomba-revolutions-restorations/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220124T213030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T185259Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Introduction to Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the first meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 to learn about what digital humanities means\, how digital tools empower humanities scholarship\, the role of technology in higher education as a tool of communication and research as well as an expressive and creative medium\, and the new opportunities and career paths that digital skills can open for humanists. The first workshop is presented by the Humanities Computing Services in partnership with the Digital Scholarship Commons and The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ series. \nThe Digital Humanities Workshop series will continue throughout 2022 with a range of sessions led by digital humanists at UC Santa Cruz who will discuss their experiences “doing DH” and their insights on how the digital environment is changing the landscape of higher education in general and humanities in particular. We will also explore together digital humanities tools that are widely used in research\, teaching and learning. Our goal is to provide as many perspectives on digital humanities as we can fit in and empower you to advance humanities through digital means. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting. \nDaniel Story is a historian and digital humanist. He works as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz\, supporting and collaborating with students and faculty who seek to engage digital methods in their teaching\, research\, or learning. He is the lead producer of the ten-part documentary podcast Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County\, California. He also currently serves as a consulting editor for The American Historical Review and produces the journal’s podcast\, AHR Interview. Daniel received his Ph.D. in History from Indiana University\, Bloomington. \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/introduction-to-digital-humanities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T035413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T171713Z
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later - Reading Dante\, Seeking Freedom\, Fleeing Racism
DESCRIPTION:African American culture has been attentive to Dante Alighieri\, the man and his writing\, since the mid-19th century. Dante’s Divine Comedy has proved to be an effective primer on issues of justice for the broader community. This talk will present the work of African American authors from the 19th century to today who have turned to Dante and amplified his voice that speaks truth to power\, that calls out for justice without compromise\, that seeks a better community for us all. \n \n  \nDennis Looney served as director of the Office of Programs and director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association from 2014-2021. From 1986 to 2013\, he taught Italian at the University of Pittsburgh\, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. He was chair of the Department of French and Italian for eleven years and assistant dean of humanities for three years at Pitt. Publications include Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Wayne State UP\, 1996)\, which received honorable mention\, MLA Marraro-Scaglione Award in Italian Literary Studies\, 1996-97; and Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (U Notre Dame P\, 2011)\, which received the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (general category) in 2011. He co-edited and co-translated Ludovico Ariosto’s Latin Poetry (Harvard UP\, 2018) with D. Mark Possanza. \n  \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-reading-dante-seeking-freedom-fleeing-racism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220119T021853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T175747Z
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SUMMARY:Isebill Gruhn\, "From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nSetting the stage for the era in which Red Letter Days takes place\, Professor Emerita “Ronnie” Gruhn will describe world events during the 1950’s and developments leading up to current day. She will define the various “isms”(authoritarianism\, socialism\, etc) that are often misused in today’s political discussions and explore the similarities\, if any\, of the McCarthy era to today. \nProfessor Gruhn arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1969 as a member of the Political Science department and an affiliate of Stevenson College. Gruhn served in diverse capacities at UC Santa Cruz over the past four decades. She twice chaired the Political Science department (1973-1975 and 1980-1981) among other accomplishments\, and today is a regular lecturer for the Osher Lifelong Learner Institute. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads” and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isebill-gruhn-from-mccarthyism-to-today-demagoguery-then-and-now/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T165016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T194915Z
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SUMMARY:Jorgge Menna Barreto - Voicescapes for the Landless
DESCRIPTION:This project expands traditional oral history methodologies by recording the voices of farmers of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) embedded in the soundscapes of the food forests they cultivate. The resulting situated multispecies voicescapes will be used in the creation of pedagogical material for students in rural schools and beyond. \n \nJorgge Menna Barreto\, Ph.D. is a Brazilian artist and educator\, whose practice and research have been dedicated to site-specific art for over 20 years. In 2014\, he worked on a postdoctoral research project at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina\, Brazil\, where he collaborated with a biologist and an agronomist to study relations between site-specific art and agroecology\, centring around agroforestry. In 2020 he completed a second postdoctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University\, England\, which led to the work presented at the Liverpool Biennial in 2021. Menna Barreto approaches site-specificity from a critical and South American perspective\, having taught\, lectured\, and written on the subject. He has translated authors from English into Brazilian Portuguese\, including Miwon Kwon\, Rosalyn Deutsche\, Hito Steyerl and Anna Tsing. Menna Barreto has participated in art residencies\, projects and exhibitions worldwide. In 2016\, he took part in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial with his award-winning project Restauro: a restaurant set up to work as a system of environmental restoration in collaboration with settlements of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement [MST]. The project travelled to the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2017\, where the artist worked with a wild edibles expert\, a botanical illustrator and local organic growers. In 2020\, as a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie\, Netherlands\, he launched a periodical called Enzyme in collaboration with artist Joélson Buggilla. In Geneva\, Switzerland\, he has collaborated on the MFA in Socially Engaged Art at HEAD – Haute École d’Arts Appliqués\, where he is working on a research project focused on ecopedagogy. In 2021\, Menna Barreto joined the Art Department of University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he also teaches at the new MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice. \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. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jorgge-menna-barreto-dehydrated-landscapes/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220110T164800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T201247Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC Tolbert (he/him/hey grrrl) is a trans and genderqueer monkey-goat who never ceases to experience a simultaneous grief and deep love any time s/he pays attention to the world. S/he writes poems\, works with wood\, learns\, teaches\, and wanders. In 2019\, TC was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellowship for his work with trans\, non-binary\, and queer folks as Tucson’s Poet Laureate. Publications include Gephyromania (originally published by Ahsahta Press in 2014\, to be re-released by Nightboat Books in 2022) and five chapbooks. TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). TC lives in Tucson\, AZ where s/he is the current Poet Laureate. www.tctolbert.com \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tc-tolbert/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220110T232619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T182843Z
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 1: February 10th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent sessions are held on Feb 17 and Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all three sessions here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \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. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T163656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T033729Z
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SUMMARY:Althea Wasow - Policing Blackness and Black Bodies in Bert Williams’s "A Natural Born Gambler" (1916)
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URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/althea-wasow-policing-blackness-and-black-bodies-in-bert-williamss-a-natural-born-gambler-1916/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220127T203604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220127T203604Z
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SUMMARY:Black Liberation and Pedagogies - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take\, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair\, more just society. “ ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nSavannah Shange \nDavid Henry \nAnthony III \nCat Brooks \nAndrea del Carmen Vázquez \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/black-liberation-and-pedagogies-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220120T182313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T185823Z
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 2: February 17th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent session is held on Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \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. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220127T205307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T214323Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
DESCRIPTION:In this poetry reading and community conversation\, Alan Pelaez Lopez will reflect on what it means to create art in the middle of legal and political violence. They’ll read from their book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, and a manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled trans*imagination in the hope that the work can invite questions about abolition\, migrant futures\, and the radical trans imaginary. \n \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented migrants in the United States\, the Black condition in Latin America\, and the intimate kinship units that trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence. Their debut visual poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are also the author of the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement. \nThis event is organized by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-protest-writing-amidst-chaos-with-poet-alan-pelaez-lopez/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220106T041104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T214202Z
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
DESCRIPTION:During Dante’s lifetime\, the maritime city-states of northern Italy consolidated their position at the center of Mediterranean transit and trade. Thanks to broader trends in the centuries before his birth – the Crusades\, increasing trade in essential foods and luxury goods\, and swift advances in naval architecture and financial supports for trade\, for instance – Genoa and Venice became important hubs for trade and travel between western Europe and the greater Mediterranean world. Florence grew dramatically during the thirteenth century\, but it wasn’t yet the dynamic financial and artistic center that it would become after Dante’s death. Dante’s exile exposed him to cultural trends and technologies reaching northern Italy from the broader Mediterranean world that were still little known in Florence. The works he wrote after his exile – especially the Commedia – reveal his fascination with the technological and intellectual innovations that he learned about as he traveled through northern Italy. This talk addresses Dante’s discovery of the material culture of the Mediterranean – like the shipyards in Venice\, which he may or may not have visited in person; paper and watermarks; dice and dice games; and carpets from the east – and intellectual trends\, like Islamic teachings and legends about the afterlife\, after his exile from Florence. \n \n  \nKarla Mallette is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily\, 1100-1250: A Literary History (2005) and European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean (2010); she co-edited A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (2013). Her most recent book\, Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval Mediterranean\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. She has directed the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Center for European Studies and is currently chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-dantes-mediterranean-awakening/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Engseng Ho - Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics\, Global Logistics\, Company Rule
DESCRIPTION:Dubai and Singapore are emblematic of the contemporary global moment\, embodying dizzying success\, frenetic excess\, spectacular crash. Are they global cities or port-states? Are they Asian nations or corporations descended from the East India Companies that became colonial governments? Their iconic status today as global cities is not simply a function of globalization\, but can be understood in terms of dynamic currents that shape and reshape places in the Indian Ocean\, the original Asian venue of an international economy. Dubai and Singapore are two tiny places that have seen success because they have understood those currents\, and acted in accordance with changes in their dynamics. What are these dynamics – their constants over the long term\, and their recent shifts? \n \nEngseng Ho is a professor of Anthropology and History at Duke University. He is also the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arabia Asia Studies at the Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore. He is a leading scholar of transnational anthropology\, history and Muslim societies\, Arab diasporas\, and the Indian Ocean. His research expertise is in Arabia\, coastal South Asia and maritime Southeast Asia\, and he maintains active collaborations with scholars in these regions. He is co-editor of the Asian Connections book series at Cambridge University Press\, and serves on the editorial boards of journals such as American Anthropologist\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, History and Anthropology. He has previously worked as Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Senior Scholar\, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Country and Profile Writer\, the Economist Group; International Economist\, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation/Monetary Authority of Singapore; Director\, Middle East Institute\, National University of Singapore. He was educated at the Penang Free School\, Stanford University\, and the University of Chicago. \nThis event is co-sponsored by SEACoast (Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions) \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. \nTo attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nPlease note: this event will be fully remote\, with no in-person attendance. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engseng-ho-dubai-and-singapore-asian-diasporics-global-logistics-company-rule/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas\, 1619-1807
DESCRIPTION:During the American slave trade\, more than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. For many\, the forced migration didn’t end when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them from colony to colony for resale. This phase of the slave trade within the Americas not only added to enslaved people’s traumatic journeys\, it also reveals the centrality of slavery to early American life. Black History Month\, celebrated each year during February\, is a chance for Americans to learn details of their nation’s history that are far too often neglected and pushed to the wayside. This month’s University Forum is a difficult\, yet crucial\, conversation about the spread of the slave trade within the Americas and how slavery became an American institution. Join this University Forum with Professor Greg O’Malley\, moderated by Professor Vilashini Cooppan\, and followed by a question and answer period led by Professor Gina Dent and Professor Cooppan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/university-forum-beyond-the-middle-passage-slave-trading-within-the-americas-1619-1807/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, received great critical acclaim in 2015 and was included in many Best-of-Year lists. Yuri is a political scientist\, editor and contemporary Mexican writer who teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. His prose was described as “stunning” and his novel as an entrance “to the golden gate of Mexican literature” by Elena Poniatowska. Born in Acopan\, Mexico\, Yuri resides in New Orleans\, Louisiana. \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThis event is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series Events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-yuri-herrera/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T203000
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 3: February 24th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nRegister for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \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. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker\, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor - "Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nGrowing up closer to home than the London scenes depicted in “Red Letter Days\,” three “red diaper babies” discuss how their lives were impacted by the McCarthy era and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). They will share some of the lessons learned that they have carried into the present. \nBettina Aptheker: Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies Department\, UCSC. Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006) and The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (2nd edition\, 1999). My book to be published in 2023 is called Communists in Closets; Queering the History\, 1930-1990s. \nJulie Olsen Edwards: Cabrillo College Early Childhood faculty (retired)\, writer\, Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves (NAEYC)\, consultant\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). \nDena Taylor: Cabrillo College Program Manager (retired)\, author\, poet. Dena’s most recent books are Tell Me the Number Before Infinity: the story of a girl with a quirky mind\, an eccentric family\, and oh yes\, a disability (co-authored with Becky Taylor) and Exclamation Points: collected poems. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-julie-olsen-edwards-and-dena-taylor-red-diaper-babies-growing-up-during-the-huac-years-of-the-1950s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T120000
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SUMMARY:Meena Kandasamy - Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
DESCRIPTION:Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is an anti-caste activist\, poet\, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma and violence\, while spotlighting the militant resistance against caste\, gender\, and ethnic oppressions. She explores this in her poetry and prose\, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010)\, as well as her three novels\, The Gypsy Goddess (2014)\, When I Hit You (2017)\, and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her latest work is a collection of essays\, The Orders Were to Rape You: Tamil Tigresses in the Eelam Struggle (Navayana\, 2021). Activism is at the heart of her literary work; she has translated several political texts from Tamil to English including the works of Dravidian ideologue Periyar and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader Dr.Thol.Thirumavalavan\, and previously held an editorial role at The Dalit\, an alternative magazine documenting caste-related brutality and the anti-caste resistance in India. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, the International Dylan Thomas Prize\, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize. She holds a PhD in sociolinguistics\, and was Gallatin Global Faculty in Residence at New York University (NYU) in Fall 2018 where she co-taught a course on feminist writers from the neo-colonial world. Her op-eds and essays have appeared in The White Review\, Guernica\, The Guardian and The New York Times. \n \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meena-kandasamy-caste-fanaticism-and-misogyny-the-hate-politics-of-internet-hindutva/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork\, Bleak House. \n \nThe Dickens Project is a multi-campus research consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz and consisting of over 40 colleges and universities from across the United States and overseas. The chief goal of the Dickens Project is to promote research on the life\, work\, and times of Charles Dickens and to bring the results of this research before both a scholarly audience and the general public. The Project is also an important center for research on nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies more generally.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dickens-project-and-santa-cruz-pickwick-club-bleak-house/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Craig Haney - Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Craig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and corrections. Drawing on social histories of crime and punishment\, as well as the environments of public media and representation in which opinions and beliefs and crime and justice are formed\, Haney and his students examine the personal and social histories\, the psychological effects of incarceration\, and the complex mechanisms in which criminal justice occurs. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge. \nKresge College\, the University Library\, and The Humanities Institute work together each year with an interdisciplinary group of faculty\, staff\, and students\, to build a series of conversations that help fulfill a charge of media literacy and media engagement at UC Santa Cruz. In this year’s series — celebrating Kresge’s 50th year — we focus on creative media\, the visual and aural spectacle of race and racism\, and dialogues on abolition and transformative justice. \nJoin the zoom link here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/craig-haney-media-and-criminal-justice-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput - Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
DESCRIPTION:Following the untimely death in 2019 of curator Okwui Enwezor\, Mark Nash was charged with developing a platform for exploring the work of Enwezor’s Documenta11 (2002) for which Mark was a co-curator. This talk will present several related projects including the Platform 6 website. Vladimir Seput\, who is visiting scholar at UCSC\, is collaborating on the Platform 6 project and will also contribute to the presentation. \n \n Mark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde and world cinema. He is currently a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. Nash has taught at Birkbeck College\, University of London; the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; New York University; Harvard University; Nanyang Technological University of Singapore’s Centre for Contemporary Art; and the Royal College of Art in London. As a curator\, Nash has collaborated with Isaac Julien on numerous film and art projects. He also collaborated regularly with the late Okwui Enwezor\, including on Documenta11\, on The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa\, 1945–1994\, and most recently on The Arena project at the Venice Biennial 2015 which featured an epic live reading of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. In addition to his curatorial work\, Nash edited and contributed a critical introduction to Red Africa: Affective Communities in the Cold War. \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. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-nash-and-vladimir-seput-documenta-11-revisited-platform-6/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Solidarities for Justice - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“We are one people\, one family\, the human family\, and what affects one of us affects us all.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nJohn Brown Childs \nSteve McKay \nChristine Hong \nSylvanna M. Falcón \nDaniel “Nane” Alejandrez \nChisato Hughes \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/solidarities-for-justice-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T093000
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SUMMARY:Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents Práxedes Rabat Makambo\, Secretary of Academic Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española\, and Daniel Owono Sima\, Dean of the School of Linguistics and Information Sciences at the National University of Equatorial Guinea\, speaking on “Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial.” \nEcuatorial Guinea is the only country in Africa where Spanish is the official language since 1982. However\, this variety remains understudied and overlooked by L2 Spanish-language textbooks. This presentation seeks to highlight the unique features of of Equatorial Guinean Spanish\, and to bring attention to the country’s sociocultural history and sociolinguistic reality.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/guineanismos-y-el-espanol-de-guinea-ecuatorial/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2022-2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 3\, 2022\, and learn about summer and year-long opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 25\, 2022. Final applications are due on April 14\, 2022 \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-fellowship-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T183000
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SUMMARY:LASER Talks with Paula Arai\, Kyle Robertson\, and Ruth Murray-Clay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online LASER Talk ​featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai\, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay\, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting\, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life\, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. \n \nPaula Arai received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University\, specializing in Japanese Sōtō Zen. She is author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press)\, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals (University of Hawai’i Press)\, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra––The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo (Shambhala Publications). Her research has received a range of support\, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She trained at Aichi Senmon Nisōdō under the tutelage of Aoyama Shundō Rōshi. Arai is currently a professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University\, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. \nRuth Murray-Clay is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz who studies the formation of planetary systems\, including our solar system. Her theoretical work investigates the birth of planets in gas disks orbiting young stars\, dynamical evolution of planetary orbits\, and the evolution of atmospheres due to escape over cosmic time. Her goal is to determine the processes that shape the diversity of planetary systems we see today and to place our solar system in cosmic context. \nKyle Robertson is a lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz philosophy and legal studies departments. In 2015 he co-founded the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. An attorney\, he has a passion for all things public philosophy. He is involved with high school Ethics Bowl programs\, teaching as part of Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin State Prison\, and philosophy for children. He regularly speaks on public philosophy and publishes on the challenges of doing public philosophy. \nLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program bringing together artists\, scientists\, and scholars for presentations and conversations. This event is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-talks-with-paula-arai-kyle-robertson-and-ruth-murray-clay/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \n \nSponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T130000
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SUMMARY:Aslı Bâli - "From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East"
DESCRIPTION:This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. I argue that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law\, where she is a core faculty member of the International and Comparative Law Program and the Critical Race Studies Programs. She previously served as the Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and\, before that\, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, Cornell International Law Journal\, International Journal of Constitutional Law\, University of Chicago Law Review\, ICLA Law Review\, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law\, Virginia Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of International Law among others; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, From Revolution to Devolution: Experiments in Decentralization in the MENA Region is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. Her current research examines questions of federalism and decentralization for the purposes of addressing identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Recently\, she has served as the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School\, the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School\, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Legal Studies Seminar.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T133000
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SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: Background\, Context\, Prospects and Implications
DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022\, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine\, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent\, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty\, PhD students\, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine\, tension with NATO\, broader Russian efforts at territorial expansion and destabilization\, and responses by Ukrainians and the global community. Topics include the geopolitical history of the region\, Russian media politics\, the legacy of Soviet ideals of multinationalism and “brotherhood\,” shifting registers of “Europeanness\,” and responses by the European Union\, other formerly Soviet republics\, and China. Speakers include Jonathan Beecher\, Rikki Brown\, Melissa L. Caldwell\, Peter Kenez\, Tanya Merchant\, Lincoln Mitchell\, Ben Read\, April L. Reber\, Daria Saprynika\, and Roger Schoenman.  \nFor more information\, please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine/ \n \nCo-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Arts Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine-background-context-prospects-and-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool\, Kepler.gl\, to create maps to support research and pedagogy. In the hour-long workshop\, you will get hands-on experience creating interactive maps such as line maps\, arc maps\, and cluster maps. No prior computer knowledge is required. Please see the flyer for more details or register for the event. \nWe want to hear from you! Please fill out this quick survey to let us know what digital humanities topics are of interest to you. \nThank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the workshops. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-digital-mapping/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
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SUMMARY:Okinawa Memories Initiative\, "Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:The Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event\, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective\,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University and Dr. Fumi Inoue\, a recent doctoral graduate from Boston College\, in conversation with OMI Directors\, Professors Alan Christy and Dustin Wright. This is the second event in our series on Okinawan Reversion\, in which the speakers will be focusing on Reversion from a geo-political perspective\, and the politics behind the Reversion Agreement between the United States and Japan. \n \nThis year’s programming is focused on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. After 27 years of U.S. Occupation\, and 66 years of being a Japanese semi-colony\, Okinawa was formally returned to Japan on May 15\, 1972. But this was not simply a singular moment. When we say ‘Reversion’\, we envision the lived experiences of thousands of Okinawans across the country who experienced a major political\, economic and social shift. \nAt OMI\, we believe that speaking about Okinawa is to speak about the world. The political ramifications of Okinawa’s new status as a Japanese Prefecture rippled across the world’s waters. Beyond that\, the everyday lives of Okinawans changed irrevocably\, not only in large ways\, but in small ways as well. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/okinawa-memories-initiative-mobilizing-the-reversion-a-geo-political-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T180000
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SUMMARY:Erik Larson\, The Splendid and the Vile
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Erik Larson for a discussion of his #1 New York Times bestseller The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz. Larson will be in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Politics Professor Daniel Wirls. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. This event is ticketed and tickets includes entry to the event and a paperback copy of The Splendid and the Vile (publication date: February 15\, 2022). \n \nErik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers\, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz\, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story\, No One Goes Alone\, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment\, in association with Netflix. His Thunderstruck has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series. Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife\, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters. \nDaniel Wirls is a Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1988 and has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz ever since. Dan’s research interests range across American politics\, institutions\, public policy\, and political history. His five books include The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (2021); Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama\, and The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development. Dan served as a congressional fellow in 1993-94\, working for a member of the House and the Senate\, and currently serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World\, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee. \nTickets include entry to the in-person event\, plus a paperback copy of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE (signed or with bookplate—see below)\n-This event will be hosted on the The University of California\, Santa Cruz campus\, which requires that all visitors must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire the day of the event. Attendees must also provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event.\nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time and the event will not be recorded.\nBOOKS: \nBooks will become available for pickup beginning on publication date and may be picked up at Bookshop Santa Cruz prior to the event if desired\, however:\n-PLEASE NOTE that due to COVID-19 there will be no public signing line at the event; the author will be pre-signing books (with optional personalization) on the day of the event.\n-If you would like your book to be signed and/or personalized\, it cannot be collected before the event. (Indicate personalization request on the Order screen when purchasing.)\n-If you would like to collect your book ahead of time\, you’ll receive a signed bookplate\, and personalization will not be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erik-larson-the-splendid-and-the-vile/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T200000
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SUMMARY:Karen Joy Fowler\, Booth
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Man Booker finalist and bestselling local author Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) for a discussion of her highly-anticipated novel Booth—an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. Fowler will be in conversation with award-winning writer Elizabeth McKenzie. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nAll attendees must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire on the day of the event\, provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event. \nThis event is ticketed–masks and proof of vaccination are required. \n \nAbout the book: \nIn 1822\, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore\, to farm\, to hide\, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner\, celebrated Shakespearean actor\, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive\, as year by year\, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. \nAs the tenor of the world shifts\, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced\, multiple scandals\, family triumphs\, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll\, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. \nBooth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make\, and break\, a family. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels\, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, which was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \n \nElizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize and her novel\, The Portable Veblen\, was long listed for the National Book Award. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-joy-fowler-booth/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T193000
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SUMMARY:Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: "People Love Dead Jews"
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been rescheduled for March 9th\, 2022. \nThe King Lecture Series\, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King\, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture features award-winning author Dara Horn. You are invited to join us in person or virtually this year. \n \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books and\, most recently\, an essay collection\, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, and The Jewish Review of Books. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nAbout Noel Q. King  \nNoel Q. King was 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 UC Santa Cruz\, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies\, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit\, alive at UCSC. \n  \n*Please note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. When you arrive\, please provide proof of vaccination OR a recent negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of the start of the event (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). Parking attendants will be onsite selling permits in lot 119. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noel-q-king-annual-lecture-people-love-dead-jews/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sandra Lim
DESCRIPTION:Sandra Lim is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton\, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton\, 2014)\, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück\, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press\, 2006). Her writing has appeared in a range of literary journals\, including The New York Review of Books\, Poetry\, The New Republic\, The Baffler\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others. Her poems and essays are anthologized in Counterclaims (Dalkey Archive Press\, 2020)\, The Poem’s Country (Pleiades Press\, 2018)\, The Echoing Green (The Modern Library\, 2016)\, and Among Margins (Ricochet Editions\, 2016). \nSandra’s honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness\, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell\, the Vermont Studio Center\, and the Getty Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and also serves on the poetry faculty in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz (where the authors’ books are available for purchase) \nPlease note: this event is scheduled to be in-person in Humanities Lecture Hall and the location/in-person feature is subject to change. \n \n  \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sandra-lim/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Careers in Academic Publishing\, featuring Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2021 cohort of the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship to hear more about their career trajectories in publishing. The six panelists will discuss topics including their experiences in graduate school\, their journeys into the academic publishing world\, and their broader experiences with careers beyond the tenure track. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nChad M. Attenborough\, University of Washington Press\nChad M. Attenborough joined the University of Washington Press from Vanderbilt University\, where he is a PhD candidate studying black responses to the British abolition of the slave trade in the Caribbean. While completing his research\, Chad worked for Vanderbilt University Press as a graduate assistant where his passion for publishing developed in earnest and during which he helped process works for VUP’s Critical Mexican Studies series\, their Black Lives and Liberation series\, alongside their Anthropology and Latin American list. Chad received his MA from Vanderbilt in Atlantic History and his BA from Bowdoin College in French. His areas of interest include black diaspora studies\, imperial and intellectual histories\, global migration studies\, and critical geographies. \nFabiola Enríquez\, University of Chicago Press\nFabiola Enríquez joined the University of Chicago Press after having served as Managing Editor for the Cambridge University Press journal International Labor and Working-Class History. She received her BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Columbia University\, where she is writing a dissertation on the intersection between religion and politics in late-nineteenth century Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her interest in publishing comes as a continuation of these academic pursuits\, seeing in acquisitions editing a platform from which to facilitate the global dissemination of knowledge and rescue perspectives that have thus far been underrepresented in historical discussions. Born and raised in Puerto Rico\, she has been living in Chile for the past two years\, and is the proud human to a reformed Chilean street dog. \nSuraiya Anita Jetha\, MIT Press \nSuraiya Anita Jetha is a former contributing editor of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology’s AnthroNews column. She has extensive experience in academic programming\, most recently with the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She received a BA in Anthropology from Yale University\, an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London\, and an MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently writing a dissertation to complete a PhD in Anthropology and Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her research interests include anthropology\, science and technology studies\, feminist studies\, and ethnography. \nRobert Ramaswamy\, Ohio State University Press\nRobert Ramaswamy joined the Ohio State University Press from the University of Michigan\, where he is a PhD candidate in American Culture. He recently completed an internship with Michigan Publishing\, during which he worked on title selection and user access for the American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities Ebook Collection (HEB). At HEB\, he coordinated with scholars in learned societies across the humanities to include more work from scholars\, subfields\, and presses that have historically been excluded from “the canon.” His scholarly interests include feminist theory\, histories of capitalism\, and twentieth-century African American history. He lives in Ann Arbor with his partner\, Anna\, two dogs\, and nine chickens. \n\nJacqulyn Teoh\, Cornell University Press \nJacqulyn Teoh joined Cornell University Press after working as an apprentice at the Feminist Press at CUNY and a part-time acquisitions assistant at the University of Wisconsin Press\, where she was a member of UW Press’s Equity\, Justice\, and Inclusion working group and helped to prepare a demographic survey of authors as a baseline understanding of diversity\, representation\, and inclusion. She holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University\, an MA from the University of Leeds\, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation looked at the structures of the contemporary literary marketplace with a focus on Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American writing. \nJameka Williams\, Northwestern University Press\nJameka Williams is a MFA candidate at Northwestern University in poetry. She received her BA in English from Eastern University in St. Davids\, PA. After supporting herself as a pastry chef during her graduate studies\, she is transitioning into pursuing a career in book publishing\, having interned with independent publisher\, Agate\, in Evanston\, IL. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and she is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist\, published by University of Virginia Press annually. She is currently completing her first full-length poetry collection. \n\nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n\n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-careers-in-academic-publishing-featuring-mellon-university-press-diversity-fellows/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T123000
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Virtual 2022 Conference: Dolores Huerta
DESCRIPTION:We are honored that Dolores Huerta\, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union will be our keynote speaker this year. \n \nSenderos specializes in teaching Latino culture and history through the artistic expression of dance and music\, hosts an annual Guelaguetza\, and offers other performances in local and far-reaching places.  Our organization serves children\, youth and adults of all ages\, including English Language Learners and economically disadvantaged people\, free of cost. We keep alive our native cultures and languages\, represent our countries of origin with pride\, share our culture and contribute to the larger community\, promote harmony\, and break stereotypes.  We are healthy\, successful\, focused on fulfilling our dreams\, and safe from gang influence. We create a college going culture by providing tutoring\, awarding scholarships\, fostering youth leadership\, promoting bi-literacy\, and creating opportunities for community service. We work together to create a thriving\, welcoming\, family-oriented community that values all contributions\, provides help when needed\, and engages all participants in group decisions. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-virtual-2022-conference-dolores-huerta/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220107T214627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T164118Z
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SUMMARY:Agnes Callard - "Inquisitive Politics"
DESCRIPTION:The public intellectual space seems to be dominated by various forms of bullying\, in various kinds of disguise. One person wants to “call out” your bad assumptions; another commands you to concede their point of view. The overall effect\, for participants\, is of being in a tug of war for one’s attentions\, emotions\, allegiance. Is there another way to conduct public intellectual activity? When the matters under discussion are of pressing\, vital importance\, is it really possible to be inquisitive about them? \nAgnes Callard is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (Oxford University Press\, 2018). She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and is also noted for her popular writings and work in public philosophy. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nRegister here for in-person attendance. \nRegister here for virtual attendance via Zoom.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/agnes-callard-inquisitive-politics/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20211006T201126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T203836Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Mara Breen
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-mara-breen/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220222T180415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T180415Z
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SUMMARY:The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
DESCRIPTION:HSP2022 will interrogate the connection between prosody\, gesture and meaning. We are delighted to welcome the following researchers to address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. By what mechanisms are these multimodal communication channels integrated with\, or segregated from\, other aspects of linguistic cognition\, such as syntax\, compositional semantics and pragmatics? How does our ability to process gestural or prosodic features develop in first- and second-language? \nSpeakers include: \nMara Breen Psychology and Education – Mt Holyoke\nAoju Chen Languages\, Literature and Communication – Utrecht\nKathryn Davidson Linguistics – Harvard\nJesse Harris Linguistics – UCLA\nSotaro Kita Psychology – Warwick\nPilar Prieto ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Dept of Translation and Language Sciences)\, Catalonia \n \n  \nHSP2022 will operate as a virtual conference. \nVirtual core\nThere will be a virtual “core” scientific program organized centrally by UC Santa Cruz. It will consist of invited presentations\, peer-reviewed plenary presentations\, and poster sessions. Anyone will be able to participate fully just virtually. \nSelf-organized satellite gatherings\nAlthough we have canceled the in-person events in Santa Cruz\, folks may wish to gather with other HSP-ers in-person. We encourage any individual or group to self-organize a gathering local to themselves\, where safe and feasible. These can be of any size and scope and formality. \nWe will maintain and publish a clearinghouse of known self-organized satellite gatherings. We’ve also created a sourcebook of ideas. \nFor more information\, please visit: hsp2022@ucsc.edu or contact chusp@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-35th-annual-conference-on-human-sentence-processing/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220310T180321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220310T181021Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: "Night Walks" by Charles Dickens
DESCRIPTION:For its next meeting\, the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club will read Dickens’s short\, semi-autobiographical essay\, “Night Walks.” Professor John Jordan will lead the discussion. Originally published in 1860 in Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round\, the essay is a good example of Dickens’s work as a journalist\, social activist\, and observer of the modern metropolis. It is also a powerful piece of writing in its own right. \nIn “Night Walks\,” Dickens assumes the identity of a man who suffers from insomnia and whose remedy for this affliction is to walk at night through the streets of the city until dawn before returning home exhausted to fall asleep. The essay describes the people he encounters and the places he sees on these walks. \nA nocturnal walking tour through the heart of London\, “Night Walks” engages our sympathies and enlarges our social vision. It invites the reader to look at familiar places with fresh eyes\, to see people who might otherwise remain invisible\, and to imagine what we may have in common with those less fortunate than ourselves. \nShort\, accessible\, and highly relevant to social problems still facing us today\, “Night Walks” for these reasons may interest schoolteachers in particular as a useful text for introducing Dickens to their students. \nThe Dickens Project has produced an electronic version of this essay. A link to this edition is included below. Only a dozen or so pages long\, the essay comes with notes\, a map of London indicating principal landmarks mentioned in the essay\, and a brief introduction by Professor Jordan. \n \nRecommended Edition: Click here to download a PDF of the Dickens Project’s edition of this essay.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-night-walks-by-charles-dickens/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220314T205034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T205128Z
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SUMMARY:John W. Reid\, "Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga\, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal\, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon\, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo\, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea\, twice the size of California. \nThese megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity\, thousands of cultures\, and a stable climate\, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere–the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers\, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels–and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis. \nReid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face\, from vastly expanding protected areas\, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards\, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them\, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey. \n \n \nJohn W. Reid is a conservationist and economist whose writing has appeared in outlets including the New York Times and Scientific American. He is the founder and former head of Conservation Strategy Fund\, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. He currently serves as senior economist for the nonprofit Nia Tero and lives in Sebastopol\, California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-w-reid-ever-green-saving-big-forests-to-save-the-planet/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220127T204118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220127T204118Z
UID:10007053-1648656000-1648659600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Social Movements for a Just Society - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” — John Lewis said of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nVeronica Terriquez \nHiroshi Fukurai \nElizabeth Beaumont \nRekia Gina Jibrin \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/social-movements-for-a-just-society-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220403
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220311T003931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220331T190606Z
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SUMMARY:Sensoria of al-Andalus & the Western Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The Spain North-Africa Project is pleased to announce “Sensoria of al-Andalus & the Western Mediterranean\,” a multidisciplinary workshop and conference to be held at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. This two-day conference will explore the medieval\, early modern\, and modern legacy of al-Andalus and its afterlives across the world through historical\, cultural\, sociological\, and aesthetic approaches towards human sensoria. \nThemes include auditory\, visual\, gustatory\, olfactory\, tactile\, and proprioceptive perception in soundscapes\, music\, language\, foodways\, smellscapes\, visual culture\, and architecture. The goal of this conference is to deepen our understanding of the cultural history of these complex and multifarious cultural formations and to draw connections across time\, place\, and sensory channels by sharing and discussing the work of historians\, art historians\, anthropologists\, scholars of literature\, ethnomusicologists\, and others. \nThe in-person event will occur in Room 210\, Humanities 1. Join Zoom link here for virtual attendance. \nClick here to download the Sensoria of al-Andalus & the Western Mediterranean Digital Program \nThis event is supported by UCHRI\, The Humanities Institute\, The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and the UC San Diego Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sensoria-of-al-andalus-the-western-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220121T210817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T200036Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Publishing
DESCRIPTION:As co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective\, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission\, review\, and publishing process; and dealing with rejections. We will also discuss the process of submitting to journal special issues\, such as ours–including how to pitch your work to a special issue\, how to work with editors on your piece during revise-and-resubmit\, and how to propose a guest-edited special issue. \n \nPanelists: \n\nCamilla Hawthorne (Assistant Professor\, Sociology)\nJenny Kelly (Assistant Professor\, Feminist Studies)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster \n  \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-publishing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20211006T201903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T203915Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Maria Gouskova
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-maria_gouskova/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220314T211716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220331T165346Z
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SUMMARY:Rosa Vallejos\, "Heritage Languages and the Outcomes of Revitalization Efforts in the Amazon"
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Vallejos is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. In her talk\, she examines the role of two indigenous languages in higher education in the Amazon of Peru. It looks at efforts to implement Kukama and Kichwa as key components in the teacher training model developed by the Programa de Formación  de Maestros Bilingües de la Amazona Peruana (www.formabiap.org). At present\, Kukama and Kichwa are at different points of UNESCO’s endangerment scale. Teaching them in higher education is part of a more comprehensive commitment to build culturally and linguistically appropriate education for Amazonian indigenous groups. The study looks at a sample of eight participants\, five Kukamas and three Kichwas\, to reflect on the outcomes of their learning process. An important finding of this study is that endangered languages can be relearned by heritage speakers in a combination of naturalistic and well-structured instructional settings. We conclude that the assessment of these relearning processes needs to be holistic\, going far beyond linguistic proficiency. In the Amazonian context\, at the center of it all are language attitudes\, sense of cultural membership\, and the learners’ positioning with respect to the aspirations of their communities and indigenous organizations. Although the general teaching components can be planned for several groups\, the implementation of the proposals and the evaluation of the outcomes must capture the uniqueness of each sociolinguistic context. \n \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.  \nThis event can be attended remotely via Zoom\, as well as in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-department-of-languages-and-applied-linguistic-presents-rosa-vallejos-heritage-languages-and-the-outcomes-of-revitalization-efforts-in-the-amazon/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220307T153551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T230853Z
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture: Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two years\, the German public sphere has been roiled by a series of debates concerning the uniqueness and comparability of the Holocaust. These debates have called up older controversies\, especially the Historikerstreit (the Historians’ Debate) of the 1980s in which the left-liberal philosopher Jürgen Habermas took on conservative historians who sought to relativize the Nazi genocide. Despite certain similarities\, however\, the new debates cannot be reduced to a repetition of that earlier moment. The Historikerstreit turned on the relation between Nazi and Stalinist crimes and the question of German responsibility for the Holocaust; today’s controversies involve instead the relation between colonialism and the Holocaust and between racism and antisemitism as well as the ongoing crisis in Israel/Palestine. In this talk\, Michael Rothberg will reflect on these ongoing debates\, including the particular place in them of his book Multidirectional Memory\, which was translated into German in early 2021. As the current debates reveal\, the dominant Holocaust memory regime in Germany is based on an absolutist understanding of the Holocaust’s uniqueness and a rejection of relational and multidirectional approaches to the genocide. While that memory regime represented a major societal accomplishment of the 1980s and 1990s\, it has reached its limits in Germany’s “postmigrant” present. Yet\, as examples of migrant engagement with the Holocaust illustrate\, German society already includes more relational models of memory that have the potential to transform the German model of coming to terms with the past in productive ways. \n*Please note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. When you arrive\, please provide proof of vaccination OR a recent negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of the start of the event (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). Guests are also required to complete a symptom check form online the day you arrive on campus. Masks are required indoors. \nClick here to register for in-person attendance. \nClick here to register for remote attendance via Zoom. \n  \nMichael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies\, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature\, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019)\, published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. Previous books include Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009)\, Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000)\, and\, co-edited with Neil Levi\, The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). The translation of Multidirectional Memory into German in 2021 helped launch a national debate about the current state of German Holocaust memory. With Yasemin Yildiz\, he is currently completing Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance for Fordham University Press. \nFor more information\, please visit: The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hayden-v-white-distinguished-annual-lecture-debating-holocaust-memory-the-politics-of-comparison-in-contemporary-germany/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
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SUMMARY:Nasser Zakariya - Questions on "Anthroperiphery"
DESCRIPTION:Taking recent discussions of “Copernican Forecasting” as a point of departure\, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly marginal position of humanity. A sketch of some of the genealogies of these arguments and their representations suggest how ill-fitting they might be when set against varying historical conceptions of centrality\, probability\, and forecasting. \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nasser-zakariya-questions-on-anthroperiphery/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220127T204323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220127T204323Z
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Thriving Communities - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“These young people are saying we all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe\, in the water we drink\, and the food we eat. It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener. That must be our legacy.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nAlicia Riley \nNancy N. Chen \nJames Doucet-Battle \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pathways-to-thriving-communities-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220322T235828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220323T000215Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Haigh - Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk about Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press\, 2022)\, co-authored by Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi. Professor Haigh will introduce the book and discuss the challenges involved in creating a comprehensive\, synthetic narrative about the history of computing between 1945 and 2020. \nFor more about Becoming Universal\, visit: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-history-modern-computing. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Computational Media\, the Baskin School of Engineering\, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-haigh-becoming-universal-a-new-history-of-modern-computing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20220309T212335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T212839Z
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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande\, "A Ballad of Love and Glory"
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande will be in conversation with Micah Perks and Sylvanna Falcón about her highly-anticipated new novel\, A Ballad of Love and Glory\, at an in-person event at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time\, and the event will not be recorded. \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. \nTickets: \nA limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for UCSC students\, please use this link: \nTickets for UCSC students \nAll other community members can purchase their tickets at the link below: \nGeneral Tickets \nFree event parking will be available on campus. The book signing will take place at the end of the event and will be outdoors (weather permitting). \n  \nTickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-a-ballad-of-love-and-glory/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155641
CREATED:20210920T185850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T191939Z
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SUMMARY:Rohit De - Lawyering in Times of Lawlessness: Defending Dissenters in India and Sri Lanka (1947-1971)
DESCRIPTION:Rohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. A lawyer and a historian of South Asia and the common law world\, he is the author of A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press\, 2018). He is currently working on two book projects. The first is a history of decolonization and rebellious lawyering and the second\, co-authored with Ornit Shani\, looks at how thousands of ordinary Indians\, read\, deliberated debated\, and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing. In 2020\, Rohit De was elected a Carnegie Fellow. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the Davis Centre for Historical Studies at Princeton University\, the Melbourne Law School\, and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. Prior to starting at Yale\, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He clerked for Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and has worked with constitution reform projects on Nepal and Sri Lanka \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rohit-de-lawyering-in-times-of-lawlessness-defending-disasters-in-india-and-sri-lanka-1941-1971/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:James H. Mills - South Asia's Lost Cocaine? Coca Leaf and Colonialism in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)\, c. 1870-1894
DESCRIPTION:Doctors and officials in Britain’s South Asian colonies were quick to spot the potential of cocaine. Carl Koller’s influential experiments with the substance in Vienna were first reported in print in October 1884 and yet by December it was already being used in medical practice in Indore. Further experiments with it followed early in 1885\, and by the end of the year druggists across the country were supplying the growing local market for the drug. As the 1880s proceeded it was put to an increasing range of uses\, within colonial hospitals and clinics but also beyond their boundaries. Almost as quick to respond to the appearance of cocaine in south Asia were British officials and others involved in the colonial economy. This paper explores their efforts to establish the coca plant as a crop and to establish a processing capability to produce South Asian cocaine for the global market. Previous explanations have tended to focus on the competing strains of the coca plant and the environmental difficulties of establishing them in local ecologies. However\, this paper examines the more complex forces driving the decisions that meant that the British colonisers lost their early advantage and failed to commit to cocaine production\, leaving the path open for the better-known Dutch operation in Java. \nJames H. Mills is Professor of Modern History at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde. He has research interests in the histories of Asia\, of psychoactive medical commodities\, and of modern imperialism and colonialism. He is currently completing a Wellcome Trust funded research project with the title\, The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals\, consumers & control in South and East Asia\, c.1900-1945\, and recently co-edited Cannabis: Global Histories (2021) with Lucas Richert. His publications include Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain\, 1928–2008 (2012)\, Cannabis Britannica: Empire\, Trade\, and Prohibition (2003) and (edited with Patricia Barton)\, Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication\, c.1500 to c.1930 (2007). \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-h-mills-south-asias-lost-cocaine-coca-leaf-and-colonialism-in-india-and-ceylon-sri-lanka-c-1870-1894/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Watsonville is in the Heart: Digital Archive Launch & Community Talk Story
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, come celebrate the launch of the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive. The new archive features oral history recordings\, original documents\, and family artifacts that capture the rich history of Filipino life and labor in California’s Pajaro Valley. Learn more about the UCSC Watsonville is in the Heart research initiative and its partnership with The Tobera Project\, and share in conversation with Watsonville community members working to uplift stories of the manong generation\, the first wave of Filipino workers to arrive in the United States at the start of the twentieth century. \nThe digital archive launch will include a Talk Story panel\, “Women of the Pajaro Valley\,” to highlight three community members at the forefront of this memory-preservation work: Juanita Sulay Wilson\, Eva Alminiana Monroe\, and Antoinette DeOcampo Lechtenberg.  \n \nThe evening will include pop-up exhibits\, interactive archive stations\, and a chance to meet with members of the Watsonville is in the Heart team and of The Tobera Project. For more information\, contact wiith@ucsc.edu. \nThis event is sponsored by the University Library\, California Humanities\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-digital-archive-launch-community-talk-story/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: David Brundage - The Easter Rising and New York: How Ireland's Revolution Triggered a Fight Against Empire
DESCRIPTION:This talk will assess the impact of the 1916 Easter Rising on a variety of anticolonial movements beyond Ireland and the Irish diaspora\, focusing on New York City\, long recognized as the overseas capital of Irish nationalist agitation and mobilization. But New York played a similar role for a variety of other descent groups and diasporas as well. After an overview of some of these non-Irish groups in the city (including African Americans and South Asians)\, this topic will be placed in the context of World War I and post-war efforts to end colonialism and foster self-determination for nations around the world. While some historians have emphasized the role of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s ideas in these efforts\, this talk will demonstrate the centrality of the Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish Revolution\, as understood by both Irish and non-Irish intellectuals and political activists in the increasingly cosmopolitan city of New York. \n \nDavid Brundage is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and is currently Chair of UCSC’s Academic Senate. He has published widely in the areas of U.S. immigration and labor history and the history of the Irish diaspora\, and is the author\, most recently\, of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile\, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, selected as a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” of the year and described by the Irish Times as a major work that “challenges us to rethink the history of Irish nationalism and its far-flung supporters\, and to ponder its present and future.” He is finishing up a new book\, tentatively entitled New York Against Empire: Challenging British Colonialism in a Time of War and Revolution\, 1910–1927\, which investigates New York City as a “contact zone” that brought together anticolonial activists from across the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-david-brundage-the-easter-rising-and-new-york-how-irelands-revolution-triggered-a-fight-against-empire/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Robert Alter - The Psalms as Literature
DESCRIPTION:This is the first event of Shakespeare’s Psalms: A community seminar series. \nShakespeare cited the Psalms more than any other book of the Bible. What did the psalms mean to him? This series\, co-hosted by Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Julia Lupton (UCI) explores the presence of psalms in Shakespeare’s poetic imagery\, psychological insights\, and contributions to wisdom. The series consists of seven Wednesday meetings\, starting at 12:00 PT\, and is free and open to all. The series launches with a special appearance by Prof. Robert Alter\, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English and the author of several books on the Bible as literature. \n \nRobert Alter is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1967. He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present\, on contemporary American fiction\, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding\, Stendhal\, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into ten different languages. Among his publications over the past twenty-five years are “Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka\, Benjamin\, and Scholem” (1991)\, “The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel” (1999)\, “Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture” (2000)\, “The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary” (2004)\, “Imagined Cities” (2005)\, “The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary” (2007)\, “Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible” (2010)\, “The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary” (2010)\, and “Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets.” \nCo-sponsored by The Shakespeare Workshop\, UC Santa Cruz\, and UCI Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robert-alter-the-psalms-as-literature/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin - Hot and Cool Mothers
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled due to illness and will be rescheduled for Fall 2022. “Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous\, if not persistent\, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not the only bad model of maternality that midcentury psychiatry discovered\, however; overstimulating mothers\, called in this study “hot mothers\,” were identified as equally problematic. From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature. Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this article attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The author argues that these newly codified diagnoses were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-hot-and-cool-mothers/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Students as Agents of Transformative Change - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nXavier Livermon \nStudent Speakers TBD \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/students-as-agents-of-transformative-change-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Series: Arvind-pal Mandair - Epistemic Empowerment: Sikh Philosophy and Cognitive Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:‘Sikh philosophy’ is a nascent field of knowledge in the sense that it has not yet emerged but shows signs of future potential. It lies at the intersection of several fields including World Philosophies\, Sikh and/or Asian studies\, and Philosophy of Religion. Although literature on Sikh philosophy has existed for over a century (in several languages)\, it has never been recognized within the Western academy. In this presentation I examine some of the reasons why this has been the case. What can a potential turn towards Sikh philosophy achieve? Why does it matter? To whom? Rather than providing a conventional objective analysis of the history of Sikh philosophy\, its literature (etc etc)\, however\, I’d like ask a slightly different question: what is Sikh philosophy for? To do this\, I’d like to bring my own scholarly quest for recognition of Sikh philosophy within the academy into dialogue with autotheory. This is to some extent already a hint about the nature of Sikh philosophy and the politics of framing non-Western ideas and concepts within the global knowledge system. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arvind-pal-mandair-epistemic-empowerment-sikh-philosophy-and-cognitive-decolonization/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Janice A. Lowe
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nJanice A. Lowe\, is a compoer and poet. Her music LIL BUDDA\, text by Stephanie L. Jones\, was presented by the NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the O’Neill Musical Theater Conference. Lowe’s music-poetry works have been performed with ensembles and collaborations at The Poetry Project\, Bop Stop\, Jazz Festival Berlin\, University of Cambridge and the Arts for Art Peace & Justice Celebration. She composed music for the plays DOOR OF NO RETURN by Nehassaiu DeGannes (Shakespeare & Co.) and Jenni Lamb’s 12th & CLAIRMOUNT (Stage West-Chicago.) Lowe has performed with bands including Anne Waldman & Fast Speaking Music\, Digital Diaspora and Julie Ezelle Patton’s Rock\, Paper Twister. She composed musical settings for the McKoy Twins section of Tyehimba Jess’s OLIO\, (joint Creative Capital award.) She is also the composer of LEAVING CLE SONGS\, a song cycle based on her debut poetry collection. Lowe’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writings\, Interim Poetics\, and Solidarity Texts: Radiant Re-Sisters. Lowe was a co-founding member of The Dark Room Collective. She performs and records with her ensemble\, NAMAROON. Her work has been recognized by The Rauschenberg Foundation and City Artists Corps. For more\, visit https://www.janicelowe.com/ \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-janice-a-lowe/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Universe in Verse: A Charitable Celebration of Science and Nature Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Universe in Verse—an annual charitable celebration of science and nature\, winged with poetry and music\, created and hosted by Maria Popova (The Marginalian) in collaboration with astronomer and UC Santa Cruz Director of Astrobiology Natalie Batalha. \nIn the majestic Quarry Amphitheater in the redwoods\, we will explore the marvel and mystery of life\, from the creaturely to the cosmic\, with stories from the history of science and our search for truth\, illustrated with poems about entropy and evolution\, trees and mushrooms\, consciousness and dark matter\, the birth of flowers and the death of stars\, performed by a constellation of extraordinary humans: pioneering astronomers Jill Tarter and Natalie Batalha\, writers Rebecca Solnit and Roxane Gay\, musicians Zoë Keating and Joan As Police Woman\, artists Debbie Millman and Wendy MacNaughton\, poet Diane Ackerman\, cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander\, cognitive scientist and writer Alexandra Horowitz\, physicist and writer Alan Lightman\, and On Being creator Krista Tippett. There will be live music and stargazing\, and some thrilling surprises. \nTo make The Universe in Verse maximally open to all\, tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis at three levels. Please contribute the maximum you are able\, knowing that it would make the experience possible for someone else of humbler means. All proceeds from the show will benefit The Nature Conservancy and a new scholarship at UCSC honoring the life and legacy of astronomer and search-for-life pioneer Frank Drake. \nGeneral Admission:\nContribution level 1: $ 25.00\nContribution level 2: $ 50.00\nContribution level 3: $100.00\n—\nStudent tickets: $ 15.00\n(Current students only) \n \nWe are grateful for the generous support from the UC Santa Cruz Foundation\, UCSC Astrobiology Initiative\, the Bond and Gunderson Family Fund\, and The Humanities Institute. We appreciate the participation of our local community\, including Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Amateur Astronomy Club. \nFor additional logistics\, including directions and information about parking\, please see the event website. \n\nEvent News: \nUC Santa Cruz Hosts ‘Universe In Verse’ April 16 In The Quarry Amphitheater
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-universe-in-verse-a-charitable-celebration-of-science-and-nature-through-poetry/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Student Success in the Humanities with Dean Jasmine Alinder
DESCRIPTION:Join Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder for a discussion on her plan to “play offense” in positioning UC Santa Cruz proactively\, making strong arguments for the relevance and value of the humanities as an essential\, core component of a 21st-century liberal arts education. \nLearn more about Dean Alinder’s Employing Humanities Initiative designed to prepare career-ready humanities majors and infuse STEM degrees with meaningful humanities instruction\, emphasizing ethics\, equity\, and racial and social justice. \n \nYour participation is welcome in this open conversation about how we can leverage UCSC’s global reputation as an innovator of interdisciplinary study\, rooted in questions of social justice\, to educate our students with the critical and creative thinking skills necessary to bolster our democracy and build a future based on equity with students who are culturally competent\, globally versed\, and historically informed.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/student-success-in-the-humanities-with-dean-jasmine-alinder/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brandi Thompson Summers - Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Summers explores the history of unhoused populations in Oakland\, the cyclical displacements of Black locals\, and the appearance and reappearance of parking lots in these stories of disruption. She tells the story of West Oakland\, in particular\, as a testing ground for speculative urbanism–an urbanism based not in speculator’s profit or the spectacles of a city’s self-branding\, but in the utopian and dystopian possibilities that unfold in an ongoing (implicitly and explicitly racialized) housing emergency. This event will be fully remote\, with attendance only via Zoom. \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brandi-thompson-summers-spatial-temporalities-the-future-pasts-of-black-dispossession/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Stories from the Field
DESCRIPTION:While humanities doctoral programs tend to focus on training students for tenure track faculty positions\, many PhDs pursue jobs outside of a university setting. According to the UC Humanities Research Institute’s recent report\, Stories from the Field\, more than a quarter of UC humanities doctoral alumni reported that they did not seek a tenure track faculty position when they started their PhD programs\, and this percentage increased during the isolation of the dissertation writing process and the challenges of the academic job market. UC humanities PhDs go into a wide range of careers – from positions in the non-profit sector to marketing and communications work and jobs in the tech industry. Stories from the Field considers the economic and professional outcomes of humanities PhDs\, to better track where humanists end up\, how they apply their expertise\, and the ways they are contributing to society. Examining faculty positions alongside other careers\, the report promotes a broader definition of what success looks like for humanities PhDs. \nJoin us for a conversation with Kelly Anne Brown (Literature Ph.D.\, ’11)\, Associate Director of UCHRI\, and UC Santa Cruz Literature alumni to discuss findings from Stories from the Field and the diverse range of careers that humanities PhDs pursue. Our Literature graduate alumni panelists include J. Josh Guevara (Ph.D. ’12)\, Warren Hoffman (Ph.D.\, ’04)\, Andrea Quaid (Ph.D.\, ’14)\, and Cathy Thomas (Ph.D.\, ’19). Many PhD alumni are eager to keep in touch with graduate program networks as well as support current students and this event provides an opportunity to further those connections. The workshop is being held during Alumni Week to encourage faculty\, graduate students\, and alumni to all engage in this important discussion and reflection about graduate humanities training at UC Santa Cruz and opportunities beyond. \nPanelists: \nAs the Associate Director of UCHRI\, Kelly Anne Brown manages a diverse portfolio of projects\, including the UC-wide competitive grants program\, Humanists@Work\, and Horizons of the Humanities\, among others. She holds a BA in English from Lewis & Clark College and a PhD in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, where her scholarship centered on modernist publicness and interwar art and performance. Her professional background includes experience in public policy and administration\, with a focus on children and family issues at the city\, county\, and state levels of California government. Her recent scholarship addresses issues of professionalization\, the work of the humanities\, and the future of graduate education. \nDr. Cathy Thomas is an assistant professor in the English Department at UCSB. She is a creative writer and scholar invested in womanist and black feminist pedagogy\, practice\, critique\, and play. She studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres\, especially speculative fiction\, Caribbean literature & culture\, comic books\, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism. She received her PhD in Literature at University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Prior to academia\, she work in a genetics lab\, at a neuropsychiatric center focused on mindfulness\, in Hollywood\, and on HIV clinical research. \n  \n \nAndrea Quaid (she/her) is a writer\, editor and teacher. Her work focuses on poetry and poetics\, pedagogy\, and feminist studies. She is co-editor of Acts + Encounters\, a collection about experimental writing and community\, and Urgent Possibilities\, Writings on Feminist Poetics and Emergent Pedagogies (both from eohippus labs). Currently\, she is co-editing a collection called Migrating Pedagogies (Forthcoming). Her work appears in albeit\, American Book Review\, BOMBlog\, Entropy\, Feminist Spaces Journal\, Full Stop\, Jacket2\, Lana Turner\, LIT\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Manifold and Syllabus. With Harold Abramowitz\, she curates RAD! Residencies at the Poetic Research Bureau. She teaches in the Bard College Language & Thinking Program and Institute for Writing and Thinking. She also teaches in the Critical Studies Department at California Institute of the Arts. She co-founded and directs Humanities in the City\, an education nonprofit that hosts public programs committed to education equity and the transformational power of interdisciplinary humanities study in classrooms and communities.  \n\nWith more than fourteen years of public sector experience\, J. Guevara has a proven record of solving wicked problems\, working with diverse\, cross-functional teams\, and achieving results at scale in local government. J. is an expert in broadband\, civic innovation\, and protecting the value of infrastructure to catalyze community impact especially through public-private partnerships. \n\n\nIn 2020\, he joined the City of San José Public Works Department as Deputy Director\, responsible for nearly 150 employees in the Development Services and Engineering Services divisions. His portfolio includes private development such as Google’s 80-acre Downtown West campus and also the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $7-$9 billion dollar expansion of BART rail system with over 5 miles of single-bore tunnel and two new stations in Downtown San José as the biggest public capital investment in the Bay Area in over a generation. J. is also responsible for the San José Small Cell team delivering one of the fastest 5G deployments in the nation through public-private partnerships with AT&T\, Verizon\, and T-Mobile\, where he launched the San Jose Digital Inclusion Fund\, dedicated to connect and sustain adoption to 50\,000 households over ten years through a collective impact model. \n\n\nUsing Scrum\, OKRs\, and a multiplier leadership approach\, J. coaches new civic innovators and builds transformative teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz with a dissertation all about the unexpected cultural work of the bicycle as a form of equitable technology. You can learn more about J. at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjoshguevara/ \n\nWarren Hoffman currently serves as the executive director for the Association for Jewish Studies in New York where he leads the largest membership organization of Jewish studies scholars\, teachers\, and students in the world. Warren brings more than 15 years of experience in the Jewish\, arts\, academic\, and nonprofit sectors. In Philadelphia\, he was the associate director of community programming for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and was also the senior director of programming for the Gershman Y in Philadelphia. Warren also served as the literary manager and dramaturg for Philadelphia Theatre Company and was the associate artistic director of Jewish Repertory Theatre. Warren holds a PhD in American literature from the University of California–Santa Cruz and has taught at multiple universities. He earned rave reviews for his book The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture. The second edition of his critically acclaimed book The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical hit bookstores February 2020. His most recent book\, for which he served as co-editor\, Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century\, was released in late 2021. warrenhoffman.com \n\n\nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-from-the-field/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Roald Hoffman\, "Returning\, Remembering\, Forgiving"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann\, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize\, and a Holocaust survivor.\nThis lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s course “The Holocaust: A Global Perspective.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-twentieth-annual-joseph-f-bunnett-lecture-roald-hoffman-returning-remembering-forgiving/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T140000
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SUMMARY:Dickens Day of Writing
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Project is the premier center in the United States for the study of Charles Dickens and nineteenth-century studies. Founded in 1981 and based at UC Santa Cruz\, the Project is an international consortium made up of over 40 universities and colleges\, including universities in Britain\, Canada\, Australia\, and Israel. \nAs part of our mission to promote the study of Victorian texts\, we strive to assist young scholars in examining the cultural relevance of nineteenth-century literature to the twenty-first-century world. The Dickens Day of Writing will focus on “Night Walks\,” a Dickens essay that examines the homeless endemic in Victorian England\, to cultivate greater awareness about social justice issues like homelessness and housing instability in Santa Cruz County. \nThe Dickens Day of Writing is both a writing retreat and a writing competition designed to support junior and senior high school students in their futures as college students and professionals. Through reflecting on a short essay by Charles Dickens\, the students will reinforce skills learned in the classroom\, such as critical reading\, analytical reasoning\, argumentative writing\, creative production\, and cultural history to prepare them for life beyond high school. \n  \n                  \n  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nto strengthen literary analysis skills\nto develop strong critical thinking skills\nto prepare students for timed writing tests\nto foster social engagement between students and the Santa Cruz community\n\nBenefits and support for teachers and schools: \n\nhonoraria of $50 to participating teachers\nfunding for substitute teachers and travel assistance the day of the event\nan annotated edition of “Night Walks” by Charles Dickens and lesson plans\na visiting guest lecture by a Dickens Project scholar\nwriting support for students\nfree registration to attend the Dickens Universe\n\nBenefits and support for students: \n\nexposure to the campus and culture of a major research university to support college preparation work\nthe publication of their Day of Writing Essay in a printed volume\nindividual mentorships with faculty and students at the university level\nthe chance for extra timed-writing test preparation\nwriting support to develop strong writing skills\nthe chance to win a cash prize\nthe chance to receive a fellowship to attend the Dickens Universe and a corresponding Department of\nLiterature course for 5 UC credits\nfree registration to attend the Dickens Universe\n\nThe top three essayists will receive cash prizes. 1st Place: $500\, 2nd Place: $300\, 3rd Place: $150 \nAdditionally\, the first place essayist will be invited to attend the Dickens Universe conference (July 24-30\, 2022)\, and will be eligible to receive 5 UC quarter units of undergraduate credit through UCSC Summer Session (upon completion of course assignments). \nCollaborators & Co-sponsors: Julie Minnis\, The Friends of the Dickens Project\, The Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, UCSC’s Department of Literature\, Education Department\, University Library\, The Humanities Institute\, Sentinel Printers\, and David A. Perdue and The Charles Dickens Page
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dickens-day-of-writing/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T133000
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SUMMARY:Michelle C. Velazquez-Potts - Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
DESCRIPTION:Since 2002\, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking\, prompting the question of how to understand the feeding tube’s various uses as both a form of medical treatment and torture instrument. By placing force-feeding practices at Guantánamo Bay within a larger history of medicalized punishment\, this talk tracks how the functions of the feeding tube are altered and reimagined by the US military. The talk also explores end-of-life politics at Guantánamo Bay by investigating the recent possibility of palliative care for aging prisoners at the camps. I consider how the military’s plans for hospice is made possible by humanitarian logics of war that continue to centralize care in similar ways to that of force-feeding. Please note: this event will be fully remote\, with attendance only via Zoom. \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michelle-c-velazquez-potts-force-feeding-and-the-suspended-animation-of-torture/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samuel Ace
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nSamuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books\, most recently Our Weather Our Sea and the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry\, as well as a multi-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry\, ARC Poetry\, PEN America\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-a-Day\, Poetry Daily\, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\, and many other journals and anthologies. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samuel-ace/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T120000
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SUMMARY:Suryakant Waghmore - Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
DESCRIPTION:Suryakant Waghmore is a Public Sociologist\, Academic and Writer. Currently a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, IIT-Bombay\, he earned his PhD in Sociology as a Commonwealth Scholar from University of Edinburgh (2011). He is author of Civility against Caste (2013) and Co-editor of Civility in Crisis (2020). He was recently awarded the New India Foundation Fellowship (2021) to work on his book tentatively titled\, Is a Post Caste City Possible? He was previously Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance\, TISS (Mumbai) and has held visiting faculty positions at Fudan University\, University of Hyderabad\, Stanford University and Göttingen University. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suryakant-waghmore-being-an-ambedkarite-under-hindu-rashtra/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Nicole Holliday
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-nicole-holliday/
LOCATION:TBD\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T170000
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SUMMARY:The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night featuring Maysoon Zayid
DESCRIPTION:The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the College Nine & John Lewis College Programs Office and the College Nine Student Senate present: The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night Featuring Maysoon Zayid at College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room! \nOur doors open at 4:00 PM. If you are joining in person\, we invite you all to arrive early to meet with organizations and departments who will be tabling before the show starts. \n \nReal Time Captioning will be available. If you have a disability-related accommodation for this event\, please contact drc@ucsc.edu. Requests should be made as soon as possible to allow time for coordination. To increase access for everyone\, please refrain from wearing heavy scents\, such as perfume. For more information about scent free inclusion check out this article. \nCo-sponsored by: Disability Resource Center\, Womxn’s Center\, & Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \nMaysoon Zayid is an actress\, comedian\, writer\, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of and a Guest Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. Maysoon is a Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2021-23 and will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has most recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey Networks In Deep Shift\, 60 Minutes\, and ABC News. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of 2015 by BBC. As a professional comedian\, Maysoon has performed in top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Muslims Are Coming Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan and has written for VICE. She limped in New York Fashion Week\, is a recurring character on General Hospital\, and is the author of Audible’s Find Another Dream.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-8th-annual-aa-pirc-comedy-night-featuring-maysoon-zayid/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED - Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
DESCRIPTION:** This event has been rescheduled for July 24th ** \nOf all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years\, probably the least known are the Croatians of the Dalmatian Coast. Often identified as Austrians\, Slavonians\, or Dalmatians\, they came from a glorious background of international traders\, sailors\, and political thinkers few people in America knew about\, and brought with them knowledge that would change the way the United States did business. At the same time\, they transported their customs and beliefs to their new home and established a way of life that was vibrant and rich in traditional folkways. Join the authors of Blossoms into Gold for a discussion of this community’s fabled past and economic innovations in the Pajaro Valley. \nDonna F. Mekis holds degrees in both Anthropology and Education from UC Santa Cruz. She had a forty-year career in higher education\, working at both UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College. At Cabrillo\, Donna developed and directed both the Transfer Center and the Honors Transfer Program. Recently\, she served as the President of UCSC’s Alumni Association and is currently a Trustee on the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board. \nKathryn Mekis Miller did her undergraduate and graduate work at UC Berkeley. She and her husband Marshall Miller opened their first retail store in Santa Cruz in 1971. They have developed a number of successful businesses under the umbrella name Sun Shops\, which has now become a second-generation Santa Cruz business. In 2009\, Sun Shops were honored as the Business of the Year by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce. \nFor more information\, please visit Blossoms into Gold. \nFree with museum admission. Sponsored by UC Santa Cruz University Library and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/blossoms-into-gold-the-croatians-in-the-pajaro-valley/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami\, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs\, for an online discussion of her new\, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night\, in which she demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable\, insightful\, and talented novelists. Kawakami will be in conversation with acclaimed author Ruth Ozeki at this special event presented by Europa Editions. \n“Her most accomplished novel yet… A contemporary Japanese master continues her meteoric rise into our literary firmament.” —Oprah Daily (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022) \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/mieko-kawakami for more information. \n \nMieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020; and the highly-acclaimed Heaven\, her second novel to be translated and published in English\, which Oprah Daily described as written “with jagged\, visceral beauty.” Born in Osaka\, Japan\, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006\, and in 2007 published her first novella\, My Ego\, My Teeth\, and the World. Known for their poetic qualities\, their insights into the female body\, and their preoccupation with ethics and modern society\, her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Kawakami’s literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize\, the Tanizaki Prize\, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo\, Japan. \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the best-selling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, longlisted for the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, winner of the LA Times Book Prize and finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film\, Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foun­dation. She is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College. \nTICKETING INFORMATION: \nChoose from several ticket options! \nentry-only ticket: $5 (no book included)\nentry + book ticket package: $32—$62 (book included\, with signed bookplate while supplies last)\nFor entry + book\, select IN-STORE PICKUP or have the book SHIPPED to you either in the U.S. or internationally. \nEVENT ACCESS: \nThe link to join the virtual event will be sent to the email address you register upon purchase. It will also be available for ticketholders here on Eventbrite.\nCan’t make the event? A replay will be available to customers afterwards! \nThis event is presented by Europa Editions and Bookshop Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mieko-kawakami-in-conversation-with-ruth-ozeki/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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