The Humanities Institute

Reyna Grande, "A Ballad of Love and Glory"
2022-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.
The event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time, and the event will not be recorded.
Reyna 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.
Tickets:
A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for UCSC students, please use this link:
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Free 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).

Tickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit.
This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Rohit De - Lawyering in Times of Lawlessness: Defending Dissenters in India and Sri Lanka (1947-1971)
2022-04-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
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

Presented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.

James H. Mills - South Asia's Lost Cocaine? Coca Leaf and Colonialism in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), c. 1870-1894
2022-04-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
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.
James 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).
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for World History.

Watsonville is in the Heart: Digital Archive Launch & Community Talk Story
2022-04-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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.
The 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.

The 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.
This event is sponsored by the University Library, California Humanities, The Humanities Institute, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Slugs & Steins: David Brundage - The Easter Rising and New York: How Ireland's Revolution Triggered a Fight Against Empire
2022-04-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
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.

David 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.

Robert Alter - The Psalms as Literature
2022-04-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual Event
This is the first event of Shakespeare’s Psalms: A community seminar series.
Shakespeare 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.

Robert 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.”
Co-sponsored by The Shakespeare Workshop, UC Santa Cruz, and UCI Jewish Studies.

Hannah Zeavin - Hot and Cool Mothers
2022-04-13 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
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.”

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Students as Agents of Transformative Change - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
2022-04-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual Event
“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
Ready 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.
Featured Speakers:
Xavier Livermon
Student Speakers TBD
At 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.

Aurora Lecture Series: Arvind-pal Mandair - Epistemic Empowerment: Sikh Philosophy and Cognitive Decolonization
2022-04-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
‘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.
Join Zoom here.
Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Janice A. Lowe
2022-04-14 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual Event
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS
CELEBRANT: 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.

Janice 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/
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.

The Universe in Verse: A Charitable Celebration of Science and Nature Through Poetry
2022-04-16 19:00 - 21:30 | Quarry Amphitheater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
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.
In 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.
To 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.
General Admission:
Contribution level 1: $ 25.00
Contribution level 2: $ 50.00
Contribution level 3: $100.00
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Student tickets: $ 15.00
(Current students only)

We 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.
For additional logistics, including directions and information about parking, please see the event website.

Event News:
UC Santa Cruz Hosts ‘Universe In Verse’ April 16 In The Quarry Amphitheater

Student Success in the Humanities with Dean Jasmine Alinder
2022-04-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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.
Learn 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.

Your 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.

Brandi Thompson Summers - Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
2022-04-20 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
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.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

PhD+ Workshop - Stories from the Field
2022-04-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
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.
Join 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.
Panelists:
As 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.
Dr. 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.

Andrea 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.

With 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.

In 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.

Using 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/

Warren 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

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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join 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.

Roald Hoffman, "Returning, Remembering, Forgiving"
2022-04-25 10:40 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
Please join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, and a Holocaust survivor.
This lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s course “The Holocaust: A Global Perspective.”

Dickens Day of Writing
2022-04-27 08:00 - 14:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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.
As 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.
The 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.

Learning Objectives:

to strengthen literary analysis skills
to develop strong critical thinking skills
to prepare students for timed writing tests
to foster social engagement between students and the Santa Cruz community

Benefits and support for teachers and schools:

honoraria of $50 to participating teachers
funding for substitute teachers and travel assistance the day of the event
an annotated edition of “Night Walks” by Charles Dickens and lesson plans
a visiting guest lecture by a Dickens Project scholar
writing support for students
free registration to attend the Dickens Universe

Benefits and support for students:

exposure to the campus and culture of a major research university to support college preparation work
the publication of their Day of Writing Essay in a printed volume
individual mentorships with faculty and students at the university level
the chance for extra timed-writing test preparation
writing support to develop strong writing skills
the chance to win a cash prize
the chance to receive a fellowship to attend the Dickens Universe and a corresponding Department of
Literature course for 5 UC credits
free registration to attend the Dickens Universe

The top three essayists will receive cash prizes. 1st Place: $500, 2nd Place: $300, 3rd Place: $150
Additionally, 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).
Collaborators & 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

Michelle C. Velazquez-Potts - Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
2022-04-27 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
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.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Samuel Ace
2022-04-28 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual Event
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS
CELEBRANT: 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.

Samuel 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.
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Suryakant Waghmore - Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
2022-04-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
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.

Presented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.

Linguistics Colloquia: Nicole Holliday
2022-04-29 13:20 - 15:00 | TBD, CA, United States
About eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night featuring Maysoon Zayid
2022-04-30 17:00 - 18:15 | Virtual and In Person
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!
Our 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.

Real 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.
Co-sponsored by: Disability Resource Center, Womxn’s Center, & Center for the Middle East and North Africa.
Maysoon 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.

RESCHEDULED - Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
2022-05-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
** This event has been rescheduled for July 24th **
Of 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.
Donna 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.
Kathryn 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.
For more information, please visit Blossoms into Gold.
Free with museum admission. Sponsored by UC Santa Cruz University Library and The Humanities Institute.

Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
2022-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
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.
“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)
Visit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/mieko-kawakami for more information.

Mieko 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.
Ruth 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.
TICKETING INFORMATION:
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This event is presented by Europa Editions and Bookshop Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Filippo Gianferrari - Dante and Boccaccio vs. Medieval Education: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Pastoral
2022-05-04 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Readers have always been fascinated by Dante’s distinctive habit of placing episodes from Scripture side by side with ancient pagan myths, as though the latter had a comparable authority. As my reading shows, a popular medieval school text, known as the Eclogue of Theodulus (Ecloga Theoduli), supplied a fitting precedent and model for this practice and might have suggested some specific series of examples that Dante stages in his Purgatorio. By constructing a system of parallel mythological and biblical examples, the Ecloga Theoduli featured a syncretic account of universal history that suggested mythology was a prefiguration of the events recounted in the Bible. Whereas the Ecloga depicts a clash between Christian and pagan cultures, however, dismissing the latter as a lie, Dante harmonizes the two traditions, providing a syncretic program for the moral instruction of the Christian reader. Although the Purgatorio’s syncretic discourse constituted a remarkable innovation, which exerted long-lasting influence on later authors, it nonetheless retained some of the cultural limitations imposed by the Ecloga—as, for instance, in the representation of Virgil’s inability to cross the river Lethe in Eden. The chapter goes on to argue that first in Paradiso 19 and then in his last work, the second Egloga to Giovanni del Virgilio, Dante obliquely criticizes the Ecloga Theoduli’s condemnation of ancient poetic wisdom. The case of the Ecloga, therefore, well encapsulates Dante’s conflicting attitude toward his own education. The paper ends by showing that Boccaccio’s eclogue Olympia (Buccolicum Carmen 14) provides a sophisticated parody and refutation of the Ecloga Theoduli that takes as its model and interlocutor Dante’s wrestling with the same text in his own oeuvre.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Deep Read 2022 Faculty Salon
2022-05-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for a discussion with campus faculty and the Deep Read community at the 2022 Deep Read Salon where we’ll discuss Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive—an accomplished bioanalytical chemist—will be joined by Vilashini Coopan (Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) and Gina Athena Ulysse (Feminist Studies), for an evening of discussion and depth.
Community members in Santa Cruz are encouraged to join us in person at the Hay Barn. Everyone else will be able to participate remotely over Zoom.

Salon Faculty Lineup
Chancellor Cynthia Larive not only leads our campus, but also is an accomplished bioanalytical chemist and first-generation college graduate. Her academic experience closely tracks to the professional story arc of the novel’s narrator-protagonist.
Vilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She’ll bring her scholarly approach to comparative and world literature, postcolonial studies, memory studies, affect theory, and genre theory to our reading and understanding of Transcendent Kingdom.
Gina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She will focus on how the novel negotiates the narrator’s cultural divide as a young Ghanian-born immigrant to the US, discussing howshe is seeking to self-actualize from a Black feminist standpoint.
About The Deep Read
This salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature, art, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres, exploring their implications on our politics, inner lives, and communities.

Harjeet Grewal - Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
2022-05-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
The Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the lives of Sikhs across the globe today. This talk reviews scholarly debates about Janamsakhi’s and argues that examining the Janamsakhis from a critical literary perspective helps better determine their role in Sikh intellectual and ethical life. Their longevity and continuing importance, Grewal argues, is better understood from such a perspective.
Join Zoom here.
Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Linguistics Colloquia: Katy Carlson
2022-05-06 13:20 - 15:00 | TBD, CA, United States

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: A Tale of Two Cities
2022-05-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
June 22: Book the Second: The Golden Thread, Chapters 6-24
Its central themes–cultural and historical difference, the nature of political revolution and change, the identity and narration of the self, sacrifice, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles, split identities, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death.
Join Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels.

Supplemental Readings are available upon request. Contact Courtney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.
Recommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, but other versions are fine. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org.
The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Meets on the fourth Sunday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM (Pacific).
Questions? Call (831) 459-2103
or email dpj@ucsc.edu.

Kyle Parry - Generativity Across Scales
2022-05-11 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Toni Morrison said a book is not “This is what I believe,” because that would be “just a tract.” Rather, a book is “I don’t know what it is, but I am interested in finding out what it might mean to me, as well as to other people.” This talk’s “I don’t know” is a concept that has been used to describe everything from language to a life stage to the creative power of the internet: generativity. Arguing against uncritical visions of generative AI, I frame generativity as a fact and a force at work across multiple scales of networked life. It is something people do together, and that might yet be done differently.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Living Writers: Soham Patel
2022-05-12 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual Event
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS
CELEBRANT: 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.

Soham Patel, daughter of immigrants to the U.S. by way of Uganda, India, and the United Kingdom, Patel was born in Lincoln, England and raised in rural North Dakota. She is the author of the poetry collections to afar from afar (The Accomplices), ever really hear it (Subito, [winner of the 2017 Subito Prize, chosen by Mathias Svalina]), the forthcoming all one in the end—water (Delete, 2022), and the chapbooks and nevermind the storm, New Weather Drafts (Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs), and in airplane and other poems (oxeye press). She is an editor at The Georgia Review and Fence.
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Karen Tei Yamashita Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration
2022-05-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Cowell Provost House, Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Please join us in a celebration of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation. Karen’s books will be for sale at the event through Bookshop Santa Cruz. For more information contact: meperks@ucsc.edu.
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and Cowell College.

Jed Buchwald - "Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization"
2022-05-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual Event
Isaac Newton, who renovated the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century, aimed also to overturn the entire history of civilization. By the late 1690s Newton had become convinced that the natural rate of population growth implied that elaborately organized social life had not arisen until near the time of Solomon’s kingdom. He canvassed ancient texts for words that could be pruned and transformed into supporting evidence – deploying in the process the earliest known procedures for handling discrepant data, and reconstructing the very plan of Solomon’s temple. Here we will find Newton’s unorthodox religious convictions interacting in complex ways with the new methods that he had introduced into experimental science. And we will also see how the most sophisticated of techniques can produce error when data is massaged to fit a strongly-held conviction.
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, this year’s event will only be held online. Join us by registering for the webinar here:

Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. After earning degrees in physics and science history at Princeton and Harvard, Professor Buchwald taught for twenty years at the University of Toronto. After several years as director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he moved to the California Institute of Technology in 2001. He has authored or co-authored six books in the history of science and, more recently, on the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Buchwald is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the International Academy of the History of Science, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also a MacArthur Fellow in 1995.

Inaugural Nauenberg History of Science Lecture
The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields, including particle physics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics, chaos theory, fluid dynamics, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries.
Amongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks, Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton. In 2013, he became the only scientist to receive the University of California Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, an honor normally given to Professors in the Humanities and Social Sciences. When Professor Nauenberg passed away in 2019, the UCSC Emeriti Association and the Nauenberg family established a History of Science Lecture series in the spirit of his 1999 proposal.
You can support the lecture series by contributing here.
The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UCSC Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Santa Cruz County History Fair
2022-05-14 12:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Celebrate local history by connecting with historical organizations and groups throughout Santa Cruz County. Enjoy hands-on activities, artifacts, photographs, publications, and more.
The 2022 Santa Cruz County History Fair is generously sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
Participating Organizations:
Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
California State Parks
Capitola Historical Museum
Castro Adobe State Park
Davenport Jail
Evergreen Cemetery
Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks
Friends of the Cowell Lime Works, UCSC
Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County
History Forum
Historic Preservation Commission
London Nelson Legacy Initiative
MAH Publications Committee & Historic Landmark Committee
Native Daughters of the Golden West
Otter B Books
Pajaro Valley Historical Society
Researchers Anonymous
San Lorenzo Valley Historical Society
Santa Cruz Daughters of the American Revolution
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society
Scotts Valley Historical Society
Special Collections & Archives at UCSC
Watsonville is in the Heart
Watsonville Public Libraries

Pamela Z - Concert and Panel Discussion
2022-05-14 19:00 - 20:45 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Pamela Z is a composer, technologist, mixed-media and performance artist specializing in real-time synthesis, voice and vocality, and the framing of found objects and found texts as opportunities for unexpectedly visceral engagements— engagements with the interiorities and exteriorities of our identities and communities. She will complete a two-part residency at UC Santa Cruz, engaging with artists, and then in public dialogue with our music- and media-curious communities on the future of performance and multi-modal creativity.

Media 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.

Each 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.

The Deep Read: A Conversation with Yaa Gyasi
2022-05-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Quarry Amphitheater
Join us for a live discussion May 15 at the Quarry Amphitheater with novelist Yaa Gyasi and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita, as we close the book on the 2022 Deep Read exploration of Transcendent Kingdom. We’ll discuss the conditions of cultural assimilation for immigrants to the United States, religious faith vs. scientific inquiry, and the experience of first-generation students in higher education.

Parking
Free parking for this event will be in the East Remote Lot 104. There will be free shuttles taking attendees from the parking lot to the venue.
Schedule
3:30 – 4:00pm: Doors open. UCSC Music Lecturer Francis Akotuah will perform Ghanian drumming with an ensemble
4:00 – 5:00pm: Yaa Gyasi and Karen Tei Yamashita in conversion
5:00 – 5:30pm: Q&A with Yaa Gyasi

About The Deep Read
This event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature, art, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres, exploring their implications on our politics, inner lives, and communities.

The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
2022-05-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Event
Pilipinx Historical Dialogue: The purpose of this course is to foster an interactive conversation and space of political education amongst participants regarding Pilipinx history, diaspora, organizing, and culture.

Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.

Adom Getachew - Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
2022-05-18 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
From the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth, Africa for the Africans was the banner under which a range of pan-Africanists imaginaries and political projects were articulated. This lecture charts the transformations of this pan-African motto, examining in particular the shifting conceptions of “Africa” in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. Please note: this event is fully remote, with attendance only via Zoom.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Madhavi Murty - Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
2022-05-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual and In Person
Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book by Feminist Studies Prof. Madhavi Murty, in conversation with Prof. Gina Dent.
Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (Rutgers University Press) examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism backed by the authority of the state, and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. Through its focus on India and its complex media landscape, the book reveals that this intersection has a narrative form, which Prof. Murty labels “spectacular realism.” Studying stories told through film, journalism, and popular non-fiction, Murty argues that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberalism are conjoined, and that consent for this political economy project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture.

Attendance is hybrid and can be in-person in Humanities 1 210 or virtually via Zoom.

Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading
2022-05-19 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS
CELEBRANT: 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.
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Festival of Monsters
2022-05-20 - 2022-05-22 | UC Santa Cruz
The 2022 UCSC Festival of Monsters is a weekend of scholarship, social events, and art focused on monsters and their hidden meanings. Anyone interested in monsters, those tantalizing creatures that lurk in our collective cultural psyches, will enjoy this investigation and celebration of the strange and macabre. Scholarly presentations are framed by a film screening, a play reading, a horror writing contest, and a fabulous Halloween-in-May Monsters’ Masquerade Ball.
For more information and tickets, please visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/festival
The Festival of Monsters is presented by the UCSC Center for Monster Studies and made possible through the support of The Humanities Institute, the Department of Performance, Play & Design, Oakes College, Porter College, and the generosity of James Gunderson and Peter Coha. Special thanks to the staff of the Center for Monster Studies – Labris Willendorf, David Crellin, and Jen Mahal.

Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
2022-05-20 20:00 - 2022-05-22 21:30 | Stevenson Event Center
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 20th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XX), May 20, 21, and 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC.
Several fully-staged theater pieces in different languages (TBA), with English supertitles, performed by Language students and directed by their instructors.
No admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.
Interested in participating? Contact us:
Renée Cailloux, co-producer and director of the French Play: rcaillou@ucsc.edu
Sakae Fujita, co-producer and director of the Japanese Play: sakaefuj@ucsc.edu

Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie.
2022-05-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Quarry Amphitheater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist scholars Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie as they discuss their new book, Abolition. Feminism. Now.
This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets available online. Tickets and admission details to be announced. Please familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission.
As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color—organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated from vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. surfaces necessary historical genealogies, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and futures. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is available for purchase online or in person at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
This conversation is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, The Humanities Institute, Feminist Studies, and Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of the Andrew W. Mellon funded Visualizing Abolition initiative UC Santa Cruz.
About the Speakers:
Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, is a renowned activist and scholar. The author of numerous monographs, including most recently, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, 2015, for decades Davis has been for decades at the forefront of research and activism on prison abolition and the related intersections of race, gender, and class.

Gina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. The editor of Black Popular Culture, and a prison abolition activist for more than 25 years, Dent is also the director of UC Santa Cruz’s groundbreaking public scholarship initiative, Visualizing Abolition, an art and education project aimed at shifting the social attachment to prisons.

Erica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and author most recently of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State, 2016. Meiners has collaboratively started and works alongside a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation, particularly movements that involve access to free public education for all, including people during and after incarceration, and other queer abolitionist struggles.

Beth E. Richie is Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, and Professor of Black studies and criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richie’s most recent publication, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation, 2012 demonstrates the emphasis of both her scholarly and activist work on how race/ethnicity and social position affect women’s experience of violence and incarceration, focusing on the experiences of African American battered women and sexual assault survivors.

Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship: A Tale of Two Cities
2022-05-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
Its central themes–cultural and historical difference, the nature of political revolution and change, the identity and narration of the self, sacrifice, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles, split identities, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death.
Join Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels.

Conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas
2022-05-24 14:30 - 16:30 | Virtual Event
The Center for Racial Justice presents a conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas.
In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community of Filipino Americans in northern California. Filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu, finding kinship with Navarro’s long-lost story, exhumes her tragic life story while trying to unravel the mystery of her murder. This documentary paints a vivid portrait of the early Filipino migrant community, creating space not just for a reckoning with the haunting violence of Navarro’s murder, but also belated community grief.

Please view the film in advance. After registering, you will receive two links that will enable you to do the following:

View The Celine Archive (available from 5/12-5/26)
Join the May 24 webinar

The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
2022-05-24 18:00 | Virtual Event
Please join us The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, which promises to be a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli, award-winning author of the new book, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel, and Nathaniel Deutsch, Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Taking place on May 24th at 6:00 PM.
RSVP to attend virtually here.
Twelve Tribes explores tribalism in Israel and Palestine by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life, revealing the land’s extraordinary, polyphonic diversity as well as its volatility. An American Jew with close family in Israel, Michaeli used his background and language skills to gain access to Israelis and Palestinians of all sectors during his travels across the country over four crucial years. Michaeli met with the aging revolutionaries who founded Israel’s kibbutz movement and the young people working for the country’s booming Big Tech companies, Ethiopian Jews and ultra-Orthodox Haredim. Twelve Tribes examines Israeli-Palestinian relations at the grassroots level with portraits of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in the territory ruled by the Palestinian Authority, as well as Israeli settlers and soldiers, illuminating how the conflicts there have global consequences. The book also explores the rapidly changing relationship between Israel and the United States, whose political interactions are increasingly fraught even as their military industries and even legal systems are more enmeshed.
Ethan Michaeli is an award-winning author, educator and publisher whose latest book, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel (Custom House, 2021), was praised by The New York Times Book Review, which noted that “…illuminating conversations with a wide variety of ordinary people — ultra-Orthodox Jews, Holocaust survivors, aging kibbutzniks, Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, Arab citizens of Israel, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank — fill the pages of this richly descriptive book.” The New York Times applauded Ethan’s first book The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) as “a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.” The Defender was named a Notable Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Amazon, awarded the Best Non Fiction of 2016 prizes from the Chicago Writers Association as well as the Midland Authors Association, and placed on the short list for the Mark Lynton Prize.

This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Barbara McCullough in Conversation with Lior Shamriz
2022-05-25 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
A native of New Orleans, Barbara McCullough has spent most of her life in southern California. Her initial interest was in photography but the moving image, immediacy, and possible forum for ideas set her on a path of exploration. McCullough’s work progressed to examining the creative process of artists but always maintaining a fascination with experimental film and video. McCullough sees herself as part of the continuum of African American storytellers whose aim is to preserve knowledge by capturing the essence of her culture — its life, spirit, and magic. She states, “I am dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of the African American artist/cultural worker by documenting her/his achievements for future generations to keep the music and visual poetry alive.” Her work has been shown in galleries, museums, and film festivals nationally and internationally and she is associated with UCLA filmmakers known as the LA Rebellion.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Socialist World Cultures Conference
2022-05-26 - 2022-05-27 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Keynote Lecture: Monica Popescu, McGill University – “Cold War Internationalism and Frayed Alliances,” Thursday, May 26, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Join us virtually at by clicking here.
Click here to download the Socialist World Cultures Conference Program.
Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (2020), South African Literature beyond the Cold War (2010) and The Politics of of Violence in Post-Communist Films (1999).
Hosted by The Humanities Institute (THI) at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).

Living Writers: Gina Athena Ulysse
2022-05-26 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
LIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS
CELEBRANT: 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.

Gina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies. In her ongoing crossings and dialogues between the arts, humanities, and the social sciences, she engages in a practice of rasanblaj– the gathering of ideas, things, people, and spirits. Her last book, Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD (2017) was long-listed for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award and received the 2018 Best Poetry Connecticut Center for the Book Award. She was the invited editor of “Caribbean Rasanblaj,” a double issue of e-misférica journal. Her articles, essays, and creative work have been published in Feminist Studies, Gastronomica, Interimpoetics, Liminalities, Meridians, Third Text, etc. She has also performed at The Bowery, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Gorki Theatre, LaMaMa, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall, MoMA Salon, and the MCA. In 2020, she was an invited artist to the Biennale of Sydney, Australia. More info on: ginaathenaulysse.com
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Ronaldo V. Wilson and Gina Athena Ulysse - choose to begin/from the ground up/literally:
2022-06-01 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
“choose to begin/ from the ground up, literally:” is a conversation whose title is borrowed from Ulysse’s mixed-media assemblage, “Woodswork/Rasanblaj,” digital photos—tree roots, exposed by sun, open field, capturing frey of feeling, living and striated bark— and poetry, where—“No One Could/Save me but you.” This presentation operates between urgencies, where Ronaldo V. Wilson will reflect on and with Gina Athena Ulysse’s meditations, work that leads and pulls from the earth into what Ulyssee describes as the “ancestral imperative,”—here: material forms, sonic lineages, and images begin.

Gina Athena Ulysse is based in Santa Cruz, California where she is professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC. A photographer, poet, chanteuse, and a cultural anthropologist who is always writing something, she has presented her works in numerous colleges, and universities nationally and internationally. She has also performed in artistic venues including: The Bowery, Brecht Forum, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Court Theatre, Gorki Theatre, House of World Cultures in Berlin, LaMaMa, Lyric Stage Theatre, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall, MoMA Salon, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia among others. In 2020, she was invited to the Biennale of Sydney.
Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of: Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2014), finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2018). His latest books are Carmelina: Figures (Wendy’s Subway, 2021) and Virgil Kills: Stories (Nightboat Books, 2022). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is also an interdisciplinary artist. A recent, MacDowell, and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellow, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at UC Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
For 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).
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

The Center for Racial Justice Presents: War Against Our Schools: Film Screening and Collaborative Viewing Guide Launch
2022-06-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual Event
Please join us for a screening of La Guerra Contra Nuestras Escuelas/ War Against our Schools, a documentary project exploring the short and long term impact of school closings and privatization in Puerto Rico. After the screening, we will unveil the collaborative viewing guide created by Defend Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Syllabus to accompany the film. The guide features a microsyllabus exploring topics from the film, teaching tools, and advocacy resources that can be used in educational and community settings. Together, the film and viewing guide explore and historicize threats to public education in Puerto Rico and provide avenues for action needed to defend our schools.

Featured Speakers:

Marisol Lebron
Yarimar Bonilla
Isabel Guzzardo
Mikey Cordero
Sarah Molinari
Frances Medina

Bilingual Interpretation Provided By: Babilla Collective

PhD+ Workshop – Research Development
2022-06-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
Research Development
Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience.
The workshop will be led by Sharon Kinoshita (Professor, Literature). Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Program Manager), Hannah Jasper (Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute), and Eric Sneathen (THI Research Development GSR).
Sharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS, the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Academy in Berlin, and other institutions.
Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Program Manager at THI. She joined THI in 2019 to manage the Mellon-funded Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project. This project supports graduate student success and public scholarship through a range of events, workshops, and initiatives. Saskia is a humanistic social scientist and holds a PhD in sociology from UCLA.
Hannah Jasper is a Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute. She is an arts administrator, curator, researcher, and writer who has worked for the last ten years helping to preserve and uplift critically important and yet unexamined stories. Hannah has contributed to developing new and ongoing projects at many distinguished arts and cultural organizations throughout the United States, including the University of Chicago, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, The Children’s Museum of Art and Social Justice, The Ed Paschke Art Center, and Culture Saving.
Eric Sneathen is the Arts and Humanities Research and Development GSR for 2021-2022. He is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. From 2019-2020, he was a THI Public Fellow working with the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to complete the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project, funded by California Humanities. His writing and scholarship have been supported by a number of grants and fellowships from UCSC, UC San Diego, and the University of Buffalo. In June he’ll be graduating with a PhD in Literature, with a concentration in Creative-Critical Studies.

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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join 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.

Humanities Division Spring Awards
2022-06-03 17:30 - 19:30 | Virtual and In Person
Join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz.
The 2021–22 Spring Awards ceremony will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn or via Zoom. Friends and family are welcome.
We will join together to honor the outstanding accomplishments of our students and faculty with remarks from Chancellor Larive, Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder, and the 2022 Humanities Distinguished Undergraduate Alumni Awardee.
Wherever you’re celebrating, join us in congratulating our exceptional scholars!

Please contact Sadie Lynn via sklynn@ucsc.edu with questions.

Japanese Cultural Fair
2022-06-04 11:00 - 17:00 | 103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz, 103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Since its founding in 1986, the fair has provided an opportunity for members of the Santa Cruz County community to increase their awareness and understanding of Japanese culture, both traditional and contemporary. Through the arts, crafts, and culture of Japan, the fair has brought together thousands of people, improving their understanding of our Pacific Rim neighbor, as well as enriching community life.
Tandy Beale was among the first collaborators to bring the idea of a Japanese themed cultural fair to Santa Cruz. Since then, The JCF has increased the activities and events it provides to the community and continues to do so, transforming itself, through the support of our community, from a minor cultural gathering to the annual event we know today.
View the Fair’s schedule here.
The JCF is currently working in collaboration with the Aptos Public Library in a monthly meeting of the Origami Club, the first Saturday of every month from 1-3 pm. All are invited to attend. All are encouraged to have fun. Whether you are a beginner or a master at the art of origami, you are invited.
The Covid-19 Pandemic brought a major halt to normal life worldwide. It was with great sadness and trepidation, and the first time in our history, the Fair could not be presented to the Santa Cruz Community. Although operations halted, and fear for the future of the Fair presented itself, community support and the loyalty of its support network will allow for the return of the Fair in 2022.
We urge our participants, and anybody who has enjoyed the fair in the past, to support the Fair. Through the continuing support of our community, both voluntary and financial, the Japanese Cultural Fair will continue! We strive to improve every year and will continue doing so.
Our volunteers are a major reason the festival has succeeded in becoming what it is today. Please consider being a part of that tradition. Volunteer today!

Slugs & Steins: Jennifer Lynn Kelly - Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine
2022-06-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
Drawing from her research on solidarity tours in Palestine, Jennifer Kelly shows how solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy, and an emergent industry, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism to the region by extending deliberately truncated invitations to tourists to come to Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. She shows how Palestinian organizers both extend and redefine this invitation to witness, as well as intervene in tourist demands for evidence and desire for performances of trauma by asking tourists to instead confront the violence of their own desire in Palestine. She also details the conditions that have led Palestinians to make their case through solidarity tourism in the first place, describing the ways in which tourists travel to Palestine to see the effects of Israeli occupation for themselves despite the volumes of literature Palestinians have produced on their own condition. In this way, Kelly shows how Palestinian organizers, under the constraints of military occupation, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative, wrest both the capacity to invite and, in Edward Said’s words, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control.

Jennifer Lynn Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, U.S. empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. Her first book, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press, Spring 2023), is a multi-sited interdisciplinary ethnographic study of solidarity tourism in Palestine. In it, she analyzes the ways in which solidarity tourism has emerged in Palestine as an organizing strategy that is both embedded in and working against histories of sustained displacement. Her next project, co-edited with Somdeep Sen (Rothskilde University) and Lila Sharif (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine, an edited volume in the Detours Series at Duke University Press.

2022 CART Fellows Exhibit
2022-06-16 16:00 - 18:00 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Please join us for the opening reception for this year’s exhibits in the Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART)
These exhibits, curated by the 2022 CART Fellows, feature the following new acquisitions to Special Collections & Archives:
the Miriam C. and Raymond Rice Papers exhibit curated by Sienna Ballou and Joseph Finkel and the Yamashita Family Papers exhibit curated by Anny Mogollón and Jacob Stone.
Please RSVP by June 13, 2022. Refreshments will be served
Parking Information.
Please note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. Visitors must complete the UCSC Visitor COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire prior to entering the campus.
We strongly recommend indoor masking regardless of an individual’s vaccination status.

Historias de Cultura presents Lenguas Indígenas
2022-06-19 14:00 - 15:30 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States

Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022: Virtual & Augmented Reality
2022-06-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
Join us for the fourth meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022. Learn how to use AR/VR for your projects to enhance your user’s experience. This event covers available game engines, software, and services; using VR/AR for exhibits or teaching; and a demonstration on how to create an interactive, digital environmentNo prior experience is necessary to attend this event.
Speaker: Yuri Cantrell, Humanities UX/Digital Media Specialist
Sponsored by the Humanities Division, The Humanities Institute, Information Technology Services (ITS)

Dickens Universe: Iola + David
2022-07-24 - 2022-07-30 | UCSC
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens.
In 2022, the Dickens Universe will pair one of the best-known novels of Dickens, David Copperfield, with the most famous of all nineteenth-century African-American novels, Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted. Reflections on how personal histories of coming of age play out through and against the mysteries and brutalities of history; confrontations with the claims of familial and community loyalties, as these come to be fractured, exposed, and reconfigured: through these and other ways of reading, Universe participants will explore what happens when the novels of these two extraordinary novelists, reformers, orators, poets, and journalists are brought into conversation.
Now in its 41st year of operation, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference, a festival, a book club, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, retirees, young professionals, high school teachers, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels.
Here are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience.

The college lifestyle: participants live on campus, eat together in the student dining hall, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.
Everyone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.
The range of activities—formal lectures, small discussion groups, films, daily Victorian teas, performances, and Victorian dancing.

View the preliminary schedule.
Questions? Call (831) 459-2103 or email dpj@ucsc.edu for assistance.
We are thrilled to offer discounts to all Dickens Fellowship members. In the registration form, please provide your branch affiliation. Enter FELLOWSHIP50 for $50 off virtual registration in the discount code field, or FELLOWSHIP100 for $100 off in-person options (registration with housing and commuter).
We can’t wait to see you this summer!

The Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading, talking with one another, and bringing Victorian culture to life.
The Dickens Project is a Multi-campus Research Unit (MRU) of the University of California. Its research activities have been supported by extramural grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, the California Council for the Humanities, the California Arts Council, the Exxon Education Foundation, dues from member schools, and private gifts. Activities for the general public are supported in part by contributions to a private, non-profit organization, the Friends of the Dickens Project.

Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
2022-07-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Of 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.
Donna 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.
Kathryn 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.
For more information, please visit Blossoms into Gold.
Free with museum admission. Sponsored by UC Santa Cruz University Library and The Humanities Institute.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music: Let Me See The Sun
2022-07-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Four composers will join you in the audience for our second night as Maestro Măcelaru leads the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in the West Coast premiere of Iván Enrique Rodríguez’ A Metaphor for Power—reflecting on our ideals of equality in America, as seen through the lens of the composer’s Latinx experience.
Iván Enrique Rodríguez: A Metaphor for Power (WCP)
Stacy Garrop: The Battle for the Ballot (WCP | Festival Commission)
(Texts from seven suffragists; Valerie Joi, narrator)
Paola Prestini: Let Me See the Sun (Lara Downes, piano)
John Harbison: The Great Gatsby Suite (WCP)

Stacy Garrop’s The Battle for the Ballot was commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival in 2020 to commemorate the centenary of women’s suffrage in America and incorporates the words of seven prominent Black and white suffragists, read by narrator Valerie Joi. It receives its West Coast premiere performance tonight, after a spectacular virtual premiere in 2020.
A second work celebrates voting rights and the passage of the 19th Amendment: Paola Prestini’s piano concerto Let Me See the Sun, which features trailblazing pianist Lara Downes. Prestini is hailed by the New York Times as an “imaginative composer,” as Let Me See the Sun demonstrates with an infusion of folk music, virtuosity, dissonance, and vocal simplicity. The concerto is about the human impulse to remain hopeful, structured as a dialogue between piano and orchestra, at times contentious and at times unified.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison is an 84-year old American master who has yet to be featured at Cabrillo Festival—until now. Harbison’s music is “rich with lyrical outpourings” (New York Times) that are filtered through his “rigorously crafted language” (Strings Magazine). The Great Gatsby Suite—adapted from his opera, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald—abounds in cakewalks, ragtime and jazz, and includes saxophones and banjo. Composed in 2007, the work receives its West Coast premiere tonight.
Covid-19 public health and safety guidelines will be followed, including requiring proof of full vaccination for all audiences, staff, and artists. Masking will be required indoors at all times. Read our full Covid Policy here.
Concert sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Weekend With Shakespeare
2022-08-05 - 2022-08-06 | UCSC Arboretum
Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2022 Season’s main stage productions, Twelfth Night and The Tempest.
The Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series is free, however seating is limited! Please email Rebecca Clark, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Education Coordinator, at rebecca@santacruzshakespeare.org, to reserve your spot.
Weekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare.
Lecture Series on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Friday, August 5

12-12:15 Welcome
12:15-1:15 Q&A with actors from Twelfth Night, moderated by Mike Ryan, Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare
1:15-1:30 Break
1:30-2:30 In conversation with Amani Liggett and Michael Warren, Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare
2:30-3:00 Break with refreshments
3:00-4:00 Presentation on Twelfth Night by Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Director, New Swan Shakespeare Center (UCI)

For those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of Twelfth Night:

7:00-7:15 Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Julia Reinhard Lupton
8:00 Performance of Twelfth Night at The Grove.

Lecture Series on Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Saturday, August 6

12-12:15 Welcome
12:15-1:15 Presentation by Mike Ryan
1:15-1:30 Break
1:30-2:30 In conversation with Ashley Herum, dramaturg of The Tempest, and Dr. Michael Warren, Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare
2:30-3:00 Break with refreshments
3:00-4:00 Presentation on The Tempest by Sean Keilen, Professor of Literature and Director, Shakespeare Workshop (UCSC)

For those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of The Tempest:

7-7:15 Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Sean Keilen
8:00 Performance of The Tempest at The Grove

Julia Lupton is Professor of English at UC Irvine, where she co-directed the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018). Her scholarship has been funded by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. An award-winning teacher, Julia frequently leads seminars and reading groups for the community.

Sean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop there. He studies Shakespeare’s engagements with pagan and Christian authors, as well as the history and theory of literary criticism. His research has been supported by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. An award-winning teacher, he is dedicated to community education, a long-standing partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare, and the exploration of literature as a resource for life.

Center for Racial Justice Summer Institute 2022
2022-08-10 10:00 - 2022-08-12 14:00 | Virtual Event
The Center for Racial Justice presents:
Summer Institute 2022: Political Education and Liberatory Knowledge
Dates: August 10-12, 2022
Time: 10:00am–2:00pm PT
Click below to register:
Day 1 (August 10th)
Day 2 (August 11th)
Day 3 (August 12th)
Check crjucsc.com for more detailed information to follow.

The Land of Milk and Honey Exhibition Opening
2022-09-01 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
The Land of Milk and Honey is a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program focused on the ideological concept of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Drawing inspiration from John Steinbeck’s portrayal of the region as a corrupted Eden, the biennial presents works that question ethical, cultural and regional practices related to foodways, and the venture from seed to table. The biblical reference of a “land of milk and honey” first became associated with California as a tool for promoting the state as a land of opportunity; a destination for those in search of a better way of life – a terra firma that would provide sustenance and abundance. This boosterism also served as an ethos that fueled “Manifest Destiny” and resulted in land grabs, labor exploitation, ecological destruction, and social injustices.
This inaugural exhibition explores artists’ views around multi-layered topics associated with agriculture including environmental impacts, cultural culinary traditions, identity and migration, regional histographies, and familial and mythical connections to food. The exhibition will run from September 1–December 31, 2022.
Header Image: Fernando Armenghol, Sol2Soul Art Collective (2016), La Cosecha Sagrada, digital photograph.

CommonGround: A Festival of Place-Inspired, Outdoor Work
2022-09-16 - 2022-09-25 | Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
CommonGround is a new biennial festival of place-inspired, outdoor work hosted in locations throughout Santa Cruz County, from downtown plazas and nearby waterways to forested hillsides and local landmarks.
Focused on temporary and performative public art projects in rural, urban, and architectural space, the 10-day event features site-responsive installations and interventions across the area’s natural and built environments, connecting people, stories, and landscapes.
CommonGround is a mostly FREE event. While the majority of works can be visited at no cost, some festival performances are ticketed and there is a small admission fee to the MAH to view supporting exhibitions and installations.
For full event information, please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/commonground

Sandra Cisneros, Woman Without Shame: Poems
2022-09-20 19:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bestselling and award-winning author Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) will be coming to campus for an in-person event to celebrate the release of her brave new collection, Woman Without Shame: Poems. This ticketed event, which will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of Woman Without Shame.
Please note that this event is now SOLD OUT
It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.
SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, national and international book awards, including the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: Macondo Writers and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen.

Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts I-V
2022-09-25 13:00 | Virtual Event
Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events
Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which remained unfinished at the time of his death.
Murder, Money, Marriage, and Mounds… of dust, of human refuse, of cultural debris, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become, in the wrong hands, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending.
Reading Schedule

Sep. 25

Book the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17, Parts I-V

Oct. 23

Book the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16, Parts VI-X

Nov. 27

Book the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17, Parts XI-XV

Jan. 22

Book the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16, Parts XVI-XX

This series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries.
More information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html
Registration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ

The People Revolt: Sri Lanka
2022-09-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
The People Revolt: Sri Lanka,” will take place on September 30, 2022 from 12pm to 2pm PST, and is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies as a part of their 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. This event is co-organized by the Center for South Asian Studies and Stanford University.

Panelists:

Farzana Haniffa Professor (Department of Sociology, University of Colombo)
Swasthika Arulingam (Human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist)
Marisa De Silva (Feminist activist, Coordinator for the People’s Alliance for Right to Land)

Moderators:

Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford University)
Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)

Renée Fox – The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
2022-10-02 14:00 | Virtual Event
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox
As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature.
From Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation), and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.”
Renée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies, Irish Studies, the gothic, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow.
Virtual Sessions

Book Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
October 2, 20222:00 PM PDT

Discussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)
November 6, 20222:00 PM PST

Discussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)
December 4, 20222:00 PM PST

More Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html
Registration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR

Era of Gold, Era of Empire: In the World of Ramses 'the Great'
2022-10-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Bay Area’s De Young Museum is one of the stops on the US tour of the spectacular Egyptian art show ‘Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,’ on view now through February 12, 2023. In this talk at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Dr. Elaine Sullivan, an Egyptologist and Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, will outline the larger political and religious world of Pharaoh Ramses II, as well as introduce some of the other major historical figures museum visitors will encounter when visiting the show – including the powerful women of his reign (such as his ‘great royal wife’ Nefertari and the king’s mother Tuya) and the master craftsman Sennedjem who decorated the royal tombs of Ramses and his father Sety, and whose own gorgeous painted wooden coffin is in the show.

Professor Sullivan’s talk is free and open to the public.
The talk is organized by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and UC Santa Cruz Special Collections.
Photo Credit: Michael Newman, Ramesses II (The Luxor Temple)

Nidhi Mahajan – A Burning Sea: Arbitrage and a Fractured Moral Economy in the Persian Gulf
2022-10-05 12:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Wooden sailing vessels or dhows have long traversed The Indian Ocean, making it what some scholars have called “the cradle of globalization.” Today, dhows or vahans from Kachchh in western India continue along old Indian Ocean routes as crucial intermediaries in global shipping. This talk traces how this mobile trade network is anchored or moored in specific places and economic concepts in some moments, and unmoored in others. Focusing on arbitrage, long a strategy used by Indian Ocean merchants, I argue that value in the contemporary dhow trade is created through a fractured moral economy. Tracing the movement of one dhow across the Indian Ocean during the COVID-19 pandemic, I argue that sanctions regimes, and questions of jurisdiction at sea in the Persian Gulf have created a geopolitical climate in which value is produced at multiple scales through the intersection of these logics, the body of the sailor becoming the site for capturing value and crafting sovereignty at sea.
Nidhi Mahajan’s research focuses on the intersection between political economy, sovereignty, and mobility in the Indian Ocean. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She is also an artist and has developed multi-media exhibitions in Kenya, India, and the UAE. Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren, SSRC, ACLS/Mellon, and a fellowship at The Africa Institute, Sharjah. Publications include work in journals such as Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; Island Studies Journal, and edited volumes such as Reimaging Indian Ocean Worlds and World on the Horizon.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Santa Cruz Film Festival
2022-10-06 - 2022-10-09 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Institute is happy to co-sponsor the 18th annual Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Founded in 2001 by Jane Sullivan and Johnny Davis, the Santa Cruz Film Festival has exhibited over 1,300 independent films by national and international filmmakers, as well as films and videos produced in the greater Santa Cruz County and Monterey Bay Areas.This year’s Film Festival includes feature-length films and shorts, presented at venues across the Santa Cruz area like the Scotts Valley Cultural Art Center, Porter College at UC Santa Cruz, and the Colligan Theater. Local filmmakers, many of whom are UC Santa Cruz alumni, explore a wide range of themes in their productions, such as the CZU Lightening Complex fires, aquatic ecosystems, and more.
Please visit Santa Cruz Film Festival for more information.

PhD+ Workshop - Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2022-10-06 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
How do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space.
Lorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects, as well as providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies, in her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.
Register by September 29th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Richard M. Eaton – The Persianate World: What Was It? How Did It Appear? Why Did It Collapse?
2022-10-06 15:00 | Virtual and In Person
As part of the Aurora Lecture Series, Professor Eaton will deliver a talk on Oct. 6.

This event, which can be attended in person (Humanities 1 Room 202) and on Zoom is hosted by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.

Playing with Fire: A Hot Symposium
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-09 | DARC 108, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
We will explore the pleasures, perils & politics of fire through art, theory, practice, and activism. On the UCSC campus in the DARC building, room #108.
This event is organized by E.A.R.T.H Lab with support from The Humanities Institute.
The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The full schedule for the Symposium is available here.

Confirmed speakers and participants include:

Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Welcome and Intro
Roxi Power, Zig Zag:Fire Poems
Becca Fenwick, Director, CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research: Presenting UCNRS Fire Data
Karin Bolender, Artist and Director of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (RAW)
Justin Hoover, Artist and Director of the Chinese Historical Society of America
Brandon Smith, Director of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRC)
Benny Fillmore, Washoe Elder and Former Hotshot Firefighter in conversation with Helen Fillmore, Environmental Scientist
Laura Smith-Fillmore, Artist and Translator
Julie Weitz, Artist, Golem: A Call to Action + Prayer for Burnt Forests
Heather and Michael Llewellyn, Artists and Curators of FOREST⇌FIREExhibition
Courtney Desiree Morris, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley courtneydesireemorris.com
Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Kali Rubaii, Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
Cláudio Bueno, Professor of Art, UC Santa Cruz
Nicole Rudolph Vallerga: Artist
Mister XX of Ceremonies: Vin Seaman as LOL McFiercen
Lauren Bon, Artist, Metabolic Studio.

Clio in India: Approaches to South Asian Pasts Conversation with G. S. Sahota
2022-10-07 10:00 | Virtual and In Person
As part of the Aurora Lecture Series, Professor Sahota will discuss approaches to South Asian pasts on Oct. 7 at 10AM.

This event, which can be attended in person (Humanities 1 Room 202) and on Zoom is hosted by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.

Brendan Regan – The Effect of Short-Term Study Abroad on the Production and Perception of Language- and Dialect-Specific Sounds by L2 and Heritage Spanish Speakers
2022-10-10 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
There is a growing interest in examining the effect of study abroad on language acquisition. However, compared to other linguistic domains, there is a lack of studies that examine phonetic acquisition in the study abroad (henceforth SA) context. Of the previous studies that have examined phonetic acquisition in the SA context, the role of linguistic proficiency and bilingualism type (L2, heritage) remains understudied. Building on previous studies, this talk addresses these gaps by examining how phonetic production and perception change during a short-term SA program in Sevilla, Spain based on bilingualism type (L2 or heritage Spanish speakers) and linguistic proficiency (advanced, intermediate). The first study, examines the production of language-specific [ð] and dialect-specific [∅] allophones of intervocalic /d/ by 40 speakers. The results found that those with higher proficiency (heritage and L2) with favorable attitudes towards the local variety demonstrated more gradient language-specific allophonic change overtime, while only one L2-advanced speaker produced dialect-specific allophones. The second study, with 57 listeners, examines the perception of Andalusian (dialect-specific) post-consonant aspiration of word-internal /sp, st, sk/ (i.e., pasta [ˈpa.t h a]) using a binary forced-choice identification task (i.e., pata-pasta) in which stimuli varied on a 7-step VOT continuum. The results found that L2 and heritage Spanish listeners only showed a change in perception over time with /s.t/ realizations, suggesting that [t h ] is more phonetically salient than [p h ] and [k h ]. There were no significant differences for proficiency level nor bilingualism type. Thus, proficiency and bilingual type may be better predictors for phonetic production than perception in the SA context.
This event is presented by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics.
Dr. Brendan Regan is assistant professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Texas Tech University and the Director of the Texas Tech Sociolinguistics and Bilingualism Research Lab. His research focuses on sociophonetic production and perception to better understand language variation, change, and acquisition as well as the social meaning of linguistic variation.

PhD+ Workshop - Writing the Curriculum Vitae
2022-10-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Applications for academic positions require a CV, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume, about hybrid CV-resumes, what goes on a CV, and what order to put information depending on type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position. Also, check out the information in the website Academic Job Market Success created by retired UCSC Student Affairs and Success Assistant Vice Chancellor Gwynn Benner, the CV Writing section, and view the video about CV Writing created by Gwynn Benner.
Veronica Heiskell has worked for over twelve years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as associate director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and her doctoral degree in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students.
Register by October 3rd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

PhD+ Workshop - Using Twitter Professionally
2022-10-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Learn how to promote your research or creative work and create a virtual community of Tweeple.
Kayla Isenberg is senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz, where she runs the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has 16 years of experience in digital marketing and social media and has worked for a variety of organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies. In 2012, she was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros. Records. For her work in higher education in digital marketing and social media she has won multiple CASE awards.
Register by September 29th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Louise Meintjes – Giving Voice to a Politics of Breath
2022-10-12 12:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Drawing on her longterm study of Zulu song and dance, Meintjes revisits instances of ngoma vocal performance in order to explore the idea of breath and aesthetic vitality foregrounded in popular political expression in the USA during the global turbulence of the last two and a half years.
Louise Meintjes has worked as an ethnographer in Johannesburg and rural KwaZulu-Natal for three decades, authoring Sound of Africa!: Making Music in a South African Studio (Duke UP, 2003), and Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid (Duke UP 2017) which won the Gregory Bateson and Alan Merriam prizes. She is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Gianluca Bonaiuti: Domesticity and Beyond
2022-10-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 12th “Domesticity and Beyond” talk will be given by Gianluca Bonaiuti from the University of Florence.

PhD+ Workshop - Developing Your Digital Reputation
2022-10-13 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and worksite websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape.
Lisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an Art Director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to fortune 500 clients, her adventures in marketing have added up to a depth of knowledge which she likes to share. Lisa has been with UC Santa Cruz for 12 years as the marketing director and oversees a creative team of writers, videographers, and designers.
Register by October 5th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
2022-10-14 12:00 | Virtual Event
“From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism and Decentralization in the Middle East”
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. Bâli argues 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.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Legal Studies Program.
Aslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. Previously, she was on the faculty at the UCLA School of Law where she was Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies Program and served as the 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 leading international and comparative law reviews and peer reviewed journals such as the American Journal of International Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law and Law & Social Inquiry; her edited volume Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume, Identity Conflict, Governance and Decentralization in the Middle East is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. She received her J.D. from Yale, her M.Phil. from Cambridge University and her Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University.

Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
2022-10-18 19:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Celeste Ng, number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, will be on campus for an event celebrating her new book, Our Missing Hearts—a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Ng will be in-conversation with local writer Ellen Bass.
This ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and KAZU 90.3. Tickets include entry to the in-person event plus a hardcover copy of Our Missing Hearts. Guests can purchase tickets here.
THI will provide 15 free tickets (with a free copy of the book) to UC Santa Cruz students on a first come, first served basis. At this time, all of the student tickets have been claimed.
Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power–and limitations–of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.
CELESTE NG is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, will be published in October 2022. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.
ELLEN BASS’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and three Pushcart Prizes. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.

Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines
2022-10-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Kuumbwa Jazz Center
The globalization of intellectual property in the 1980s has coincided with some of the deadliest pandemics, epidemics and outbreaks, from HIV, hepatitis C, SARS, and recently COVID -19. Tahir Amin will take us through his and his organization’s journey over two decades fighting the ever growing intellectual property systems being pushed by the US, EU and their pharmaceutical companies that are blocking affordable access to medicines for billions of low income populations around the world. After a brief presentation, he will be joined by Anna Maria Barry-Jester for a conversation and Q&A.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration required.
Doors open at 6pm, program begins at 7pm. Kuumbwa Jazz Center’s kitchen will be open for refreshments before and during the program.
Tahir Amin, LL.B., Dip. LP., is a founder and executive director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a nonprofit organisation working to address structural inequities in how medicines are developed and distributed. He has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) law, during which he has practised with two of the leading IP law firms in the United Kingdom and served as IP Counsel for multinational corporations. His work focuses on re-shaping IP laws and the related global political economy to better serve the public interest, by changing the structural power dynamics that allow health and economic inequities to persist.
Amin and I-MAK have also put out a 10 point plan for the Biden-Harris administration to bring equity into the patent system, and their work is highlighted in the New York Times Editorial Board’s recent endorsement of patent reform. He is a former Harvard Medical School Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and TED Fellow. Amin has served as legal advisor/consultant to many international groups, including the European Patent Office and World Health Organization, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on intellectual property and unsustainable drug price.
Anna Maria Barry-Jester is a public health reporter with ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Previously, she was a senior correspondent covering public health at Kaiser Health News. Her series “Underfunded and Under Threat,” with colleagues at KHN and The Associated Press, investigated how chronically underfunded public health departments buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. The project won awards from the Online News Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her reporting on harassment and menacing threats endured by public health officials was the basis of an episode of “This American Life,” and PEN America later awarded its PEN/Benenson Courage Award to the officials she profiled. A multimedia journalist, Barry-Jester has lived and worked in Latin America and Southeast Asia, where she has reported, photographed and filmed stories in more than a dozen countries. Before Kaiser Health News, she was a writer at FiveThirtyEight and a producer at Univision and ABC News. She has a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University, where she focused on epidemiology and global health.
This is the inaugural event of the “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.

PhD+ Workshop - Conducting an Informational Interview
2022-10-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
An information interview is one that you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview?
Lorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects, as well as providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies, in her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.
Register by October 11th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Tahir Amin – Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health
2022-10-19 12:15 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
With billions of people in low-income countries still without Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, this pandemic has exposed the neo-colonial structures of the political economy of intellectual property system and the World Trade Organization (WTO). This talk will delve into an often overlooked history of how the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into existence and the impact it has had on the global South over the 27 years it has been in force – and how it will impact future pandemic preparedness and climate change.
Tahir Amin, LL.B., Dip. LP., is a founder and executive director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a nonprofit organisation working to address structural inequities in how medicines are developed and distributed. He has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) law, during which he has practised with two of the leading IP law firms in the United Kingdom and served as IP Counsel for multinational corporations. His work focuses on re-shaping IP laws and the related global political economy to better serve the public interest, by changing the structural power dynamics that allow health and economic inequities to persist.
Amin and I-MAK have also put out a 10 point plan for the Biden-Harris administration to bring equity into the patent system, and their work is highlighted in the New York Times Editorial Board’s recent endorsement of patent reform. He is a former Harvard Medical School Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and TED Fellow. Amin has served as legal advisor/consultant to many international groups, including the European Patent Office and World Health Organization, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on intellectual property and unsustainable drug price.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Dimitris Vardoulakis: Materialism and Instrumentality
2022-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual and In Person
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 19th “Materialism and Instrumentality” talk will be given by Dimitris Vardoulakis from Western Sydney University.

Postponed - Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture: John Rickford
2022-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. A new date will be announced as soon as possible.
This event features John R. Rickford (Member, National Academy of Sciences, Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow, the British Academy)
Mr. Rickford will be reading the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir “Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language,” including his journey from childhood in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor at Stanford. The memoir details the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. Signed copies of his memoir will be available for purchase during the event. Reception to follow.
This event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Linguistics Department, Stevenson Programs Office, and The Humanities Institute.

Temple Grandin, Visual Thinking
2022-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Temple Grandin (Thinking In Pictures) for a discussion of her new book, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions. This offsite, ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3.

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers.
A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist from Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble IKEA furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.
With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.
Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation, Animals Make Us Human, The Autistic Brain, and Thinking in Pictures, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals as well as an outspoken advocate for the autism community. She resides in Fort Collins, Colorado.

PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement
2022-10-20 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Institutions of higher learning increasingly require faculty applicants to submit a statement of contributions to diversity. Learn what belongs in this statement and how to communicate it effectively.
Judith Estrada, Ph.D., was born and raised in downtown Los Angeles, where she became conscious of educational and social inequalities at an early age. She publishes and presents nationally on the following themes: bicultural pedagogy, decolonizing methodologies, cultural centers as pedagogical spaces, working across difference, fostering Latinx leadership and sense of belonging, pedagogy of solidarity, and critical bicultural pedagogy. She is the author of Consuming ‘Dora the Explorer’ with a Critical Bicultural Lens (in Darder’s Culture & Power in the Classroom, 2012); Impacts of a Diné Decolonizing Pedagogy on Student Affairs Practitioners (in Davidson, C., & Waterman, S., eds.); Indigenous Education Practices in Higher Education: A series of reflections of Diné elder Larry Emerson and his Indigenizing Impact on our Participation in the Profession (in NASPA Journal).
Register by October 12th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

RCA 30th Anniversary Celebration: Sharing Futures, Speaking Truths
2022-10-20 17:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Research Center for the Americas!
The distinguished honoree will be civil rights & feminist icon Dolores Huerta.
The keynote speaker will be Cristina Jiménez, community organizer and co-founder of United We Dream.
We have more surprises in store so follow us on social media! Visit our 30th Anniversary Facebook Event Page & follow us on Instagram!
The empanada reception from 5 p.m.- 6 p.m. will be outdoors.
The program begins at 6 p.m.
Event highlights:
✓Keynote address by Cristina Jiménez (link to bio)
✓Tribute to civil rights icon Dolores Huerta (link to bio)
✓Dancing with DJ
✓Empanadas and desserts
✓Interactive photo booth
✓Special invited guests
✓SO MUCH MORE
Ticket Prices: $35 UCSC Students (Limited Availability)*
$75 General Admission
*A limited number of students will be sponsored to attend the event. Please go to https://rca.ucsc.edu/…/30th-anniversary-celebration.html for more information.
Proceeds directly support RCA programs and operations.
This event will follow strict COVID-19 protocols to ensure a safe gathering.

Catamaran 10th Anniversary Benefit
2022-10-20 17:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join Catamaran to celebrate 10 years of the literary journal at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Lite appetizers and drinks will be served with a silent auction, followed by a program to honor 10 years of the nonprofit organization’s accomplishments.
For full event details and to buy tickets please visit: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2022/2022/10/10/catamaran-10th-anniversary-benefit

Living Writers: Tonya Foster, Conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson
2022-10-20 17:20 - 18:55 | Virtual Event
Tonya Foster in conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson, as part of the George and Judy Marcus Chair in Poetry Reading, presented in collaboration with The Poetry Center and San Francisco State University.

Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media to open up a space between them, and all of us, within dialogue, collaboration, politics, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies, institutions, families, embodiments and homes; across race, gender, sexuality, and class, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice.
Tonya M. Foster is a poet, essayist, and Black feminist scholar. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on poetry, poetics, ideas of place and emplacement, and on intersections between the visual and the written. Dr. Foster is a poetry editor at Fence Magazine and a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Forthcoming publications include poetry collections—Thingifications (Ugly Duckling Presse) and AHotB (A History of the Bitch); anthologies—The Umbra Galaxy (Wesleyan University Press) (a 2-volume compendium on the Umbra Writers Workshop), and New Writing, New Flesh: An Anthology (Nightboat Books), an anthology of experimental creative drafts. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Other Influences (MIT Press), New Weathers Anthology (Nightboat Books); The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (UPenn Press); the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day online journal, Entropy Magazine, the A-Line Journal, Callaloo, boundary2, TripWire, Poetry Project Newsletter, The Harvard Review, Best American Experimental Writing, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing, and elsewhere. She was a member of the multi-disciplinary advisory committee for the ground-breaking exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Her essay for the exhibition’s 2021 field guide, “Time, Memory, and Living in Shotgun Houses in the South of the South City of New Orleans,” extends her meditations on place and poetics. She is a 2021 Lisa Goldberg fellow at the Radcliffe Institute @ Harvard, a Creative Capital awardee, a recipient of awards from Macdowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Ford and Mellon Foundations, among others. Dr. Foster holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She is a new resident in a decades old Emeryville artist’s co-operative.
Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, poet, interdisciplinary artist, and academic, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships, including Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Ford Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).

Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts VI-X
2022-10-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event

From Levi to Dante: Redefining Humanity from the Margins
2022-10-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us for the final event of From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later, featuring Professor Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge) and Martin Eisner (Duke University). Moderated by Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz Professor and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies).

Free and open to the public. Registration required.
“Primo Levi and Dante. Cosmologies,” by Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge): Primo Levi famously drew on Dante to map the distant and incomprehensible ‘concentrationary universe’ that he encountered at Auschwitz. Perhaps less well known is Levi’s deep fascination, shared with Dante, for astronomy and for the mapping of the cosmos as a tool for understanding man’s place in the wider universe, and thus also mankind’s own history. This lecture explores Levi and Dante in parallel as two cosmologists, both in their different ways scientists and poets of the stars.
“Black Limbo: Dante, Boccaccio, and Global Ethnic Studies” by Martin Eisner (Duke University): This talk uses a fifteenth-century illumination of Dante’s limbo that portrays pagan poets with black skin to explore the relationship between medieval reflections on pagans and modern ethnic studies. Highlighting how Dante’s concern with cultural difference in both temporal and spatial terms informs Boccaccio’s elaboration of these ideas, it shows how this accommodation of past and present pagans contrasts with earlier reflections of Augustine and Jerome, contemporary ideas of Petrarch, and later Fascist uses of Dante to which Primo Levi responds.
Robert S. C. Gordon is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. He works on the literature, cinema, and cultural history of modern Italy. His books include a study of Pasolini, several volumes on Primo Levi, and a wider history of Italian cultural responses to the Holocaust. He has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is a former Senior Editor of the journal Italian Studies, and a former trustee of the British School at Rome. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
Martin Eisner is Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP, 2021) and Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP, 2013). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books’s Renaissance Lives series. With a view to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, he continues to develop the online research project Dante’s Library. His articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Machiavelli have appeared in PMLA, Renaissance Quarterly, Dante Studies, Mediaevalia, California Italian Studies, Quaderni d’Italianistica, Annali d’Italianistica and Le Tre Corone. His research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the American Academy in Rome, the American Philosophical Association, and the Fulbright Foundation.
Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Among his other books are Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Event logistics: Bicycling, car pooling, ridesharing, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots, proceed through the main entrance to campus, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 17th, 2022.
This event is sponsored By: Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, Literature Department, The Humanities Institute, Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz

PhD+ Workshop - Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
2022-10-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator.
Kendra Dority, Ph.D., has been an engaged member of the teaching and learning community at UC Santa Cruz since 2009, serving as a Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant in the Literature Department and as a Lecturer at Porter College before joining the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning in 2017. With CITL, she develops programs that build communities of practice, support equity-minded teaching, and promote active learning, and she leads the Center’s professional development opportunities for graduate students. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from UCSC.
Register by October 17th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Joan Scott - The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier's Sexual Utopia
2022-10-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 25th “The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier’s Sexual Utopia” talk will be given by Joan Scott from the Institute for Advanced Study.

Bettina Aptheker - Communists in Closets
2022-10-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz welcome Bettina Aptheker, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita, for a discussion about her new book, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s, which explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States.

Free and open to the public. Registration required.
The Communist Party banned LGBT people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as degenerates. It persisted in this policy until 1991 when the Party split apart in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. During this 60- year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands of more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and 70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, Black and Latinx liberation movements.
This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers in political history, gender studies and the history of sexuality.
Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Feminist Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She is the author of: 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 (1976; second edition 1999).
Event logistics: Bicycling, car pooling, ridesharing, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots, proceed through the main entrance to campus, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and farm entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 18th, 2022.

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference
2022-10-26 - 2022-10-28 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference
October 26-28, 2022 | Santa Cruz, CA
There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only inter-disciplinary approaches, but recognizing the value of community-based knowledge and its potential contribution to developing solutions to pressing problems.
Join Us!
We are hosting an in-person conference and celebration of community-university partnerships on October 26-28, 2022, in beautiful Santa Cruz, CA. This event is organized by the Institute for Social Transformation and URBAN, and THI is a co-sponsor.
Be a part of this 3-day national conference that focuses on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships, hands-on research, and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change. #knowledge4justice
Register
UPDATE September 7, 2022: Registration is now CLOSED. Thank you for the interest in joining us for All-In! We have now reached capacity and are looking forward to a powerful and productive conference.
Program Description
Variously known as Research-Practice Partnerships, Community-based Research, Participatory Action Research, or Engaged Scholarship, the field is developing new approaches that share a commitment to creating truly equitable partnerships across all aspects of the research process.
The All-In conference will bring together university scholars, community-based practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundations, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for building innovative partnerships for critical collaborative research and social change.
We will also discuss methods for building institutional support for collaborative research, how to strategically leverage relations with collaborative partners, and how to build cross-sector networks for practitioners, students, and early career scholars.
Schedule & Program
The conference will take place over 3 days on October 26-28, 2022, in beautiful Santa Cruz, CA. Click here for the schedule and program.

PhD+ Workshop - Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out
2022-10-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning.
Silvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator, facilitator and consultant, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation, social change, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College, she developed and teaches “Building an inner sanctuary,” that fosters the cultivation of inner/outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality, self-leadership, healing justice, and fostering resilience and care in the community.
Register by October 18th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
