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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz alumna\, Reyna Grande\, will discuss her new memoir\, A Dream Called Home\, in conversation with Micah Perks\, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. \nA DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and become an award-winning and bestselling author. Grande shares an inspiring\, personal account of what it means to find a home and place of belonging in America as a undocumented\, first-generation Latina. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nGet a copy of A Dream Called Home at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, at the event\, or at www.bookshopsantacruz.com. Free books will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend (student ID required at the door). \nReyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel\, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria\, 2006)\, received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award\, a 2007 American Book Award\, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel\, Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press\, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award\, Best Women’s Issues\, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs\, including Rochester Reads 2018\, MacReads 2018\, One Book/One Michiana 2018\, All Henrico Reads 2018\, Timberland Reads Together 2017\, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017\, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017\, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016\, Camarillo Reads 2016\, Roswell Reads 2015\, and One Maryland/One Book 2014\, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work\, visit www.reynagrande.com. \nPresented by: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute \nCo-sponsored by:\nResearch Center for the Americas\nUCSC First Gen Initiative\nKresge College\nUCSC Year of Alumni \nParking is limited. Please carpool or choose alternative transportation if you are able. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-book-launch-dream-called-home/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T180000
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Meet Up
DESCRIPTION:Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. \nZac Zimmer\, Assistant Professor of Literature\, will present a short paper\, “Cryptography\, Subjectivity and Spyware: From PGP Source Code and Internals to Pegasus\,” to kick off a DH-focused conversation related to the 2018 – 2019 THI theme\, Data and Democracy.  \nRead Cyberwar for Sale beforehand and come prepared to discuss the issues \nThis brief intervention will use two examples from the world of secure communications to explore the intersection of global norms of privacy and local conceptions of political subjectivity. \nThe first example is a book published by Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press in 1995. That 900-page tome was a hard copy print out of the source code for his open source implementation of the public-key RSA cryptosystem. In the early 1990s\, Zimmermann was being prosecuted by the US Government for distributing his software. By publishing his source code as a book\, Zimmermann claimed free speech protections\, while resourceful users knew that by scanning the pages they’d be able to compile their own versions of the software. PGP has since gone through several iterations\, yet remains a global standard for email encryption. And yet it is not foolproof. In 2017\, The Citizen Lab reported an exploit used by the Mexican state. “Pegasus\,” produced by the Israeli cyberarms firm the NSO Group\, allowed Mexican authorities to surveil and target Mexican lawyers\, journalists\, activists\, and others. Pegasus uses social engineering and “spear-phising” attacks to compromise communications systems. There is no cryptographic solution to Pegasus. \nThrough tracing the trajectory from PGP to Pegasus\, I pose the following questions: Is there a work-around to surveillance society? Will Big Data recognize any other civil rights framework\, other than “privacy”? Is there a way to “transmediate” cryptographic protocols\, in the spirit of Zimmermann and MIT Press’ collaboration\, in order to protect against exploits like Pegasus? \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T210000
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SUMMARY:Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams\, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp\, about their new book\, History vs. Women.  \nRebels\, rulers\, scientists\, artists\, warriors and villains. \nWomen are\, and have always been\, all these things and more. \nLooking through the ages and across the globe\, Anita Sarkeesian\, founder of Feminist Frequency\, along with Ebony Adams PHD\, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates\, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists\, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers\, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew. \nFeaturing beautiful full-color illustrations of each woman and a bold graphic design\, this standout nonfiction title is the perfect read for teens (or adults!) who want the true stories of phenomenal women from around the world and insight into how their lives and accomplishments impacted both their societies and our own. \nAnita Sarkeesian is an award-winning media critic and the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency\, an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Best known as the creator and host of Feminist Frequency’s highly influential series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games\, Anita lectures at universities\, conferences and game development studios around the world. Anita dreams of owning a life-size replica of Buffy’s scythe. She is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nEbony Adams\, Ph.D. is an author\, activist\, and former college educator whose work foregrounds the lives and work of black women in the diaspora. She lives in Los Angeles with a steadily-increasing collection of Doctor Who memorabilia. She writes widely on film criticism\, social justice\, and pop culture\, and is the coauthor of History vs Women. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. While seating is open (chairs are usually set up an hour ahead of time)\, you can reserve you place in the signing line by preordering your copy of History vs. Women with a priority signing line voucher from Bookshop Santa Cruz below. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 8th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anita-sarkeesian-ebony-adams-history-vs-women/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T133000
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SUMMARY:Chris Benner: "A Universal Technology Dividend? - Rethinking price\, value\, work and the commons"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation\, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets\, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nChris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change\, regional development\, and the structure of economic opportunity\, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored six books (most recently Equity\, Growth and Community\, 2015\, UC Press) and more that 70 journal articles\, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T185500
DTSTAMP:20260615T151755
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
DESCRIPTION:Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories\, and Gospel\, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published\, performed\, installed\, printed\, screened\, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she served as Poet Laureate\, and an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland\, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.  \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samiya-bashir/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T190000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151755
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SUMMARY:Nido de Lenguas: Clases
DESCRIPTION:Led by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos\, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds\, vocabulary\, and grammar\, building on previous lessons. Students increase their language skills through a variety of group exercises. There is also homework\, so students can keep their Zapotec skills sharp between classes. \nClases is free and open to the public. To attend\, it is necessary to register online here:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nido-de-lenguas-clases/
LOCATION:Small Schools Campus\, 840 N. Branciforte Ave.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181012T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181012T150000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151755
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
DESCRIPTION:“Subjects of copular constructions”\nUr Shlonsky\, University of Geneve \nMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-ur-shlonsky/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T200000
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SUMMARY:Ben Breen\, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries\, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods\, including testing them on themselves. This talk explores how the globalization of drugs in the eighteenth century influenced Enlightenment-era science\, commerce\, and technology. It does so through three case studies: Jesuits observing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America\, East India Company merchants sampling cannabis in South Asia\, and the strange story of the invention of nitrous oxide.\n \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\nAn alumni Council Silicon Valley Lecture \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ben-breen-alumni-council-silicon-valley-lecture/
LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T133000
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SUMMARY:Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
DESCRIPTION:“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban\, South Africa\, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century\, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s\, and in today’s racial capitalism. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSharad Chari is a geographer working at the interface of political economy\, historical ethnography\, Marxist geography\, agrarian studies\, Black and subaltern radical traditions and oceanic studies. He has spent time at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the ‘Anthrohistory’ program at Michigan\, Geography at the LSE\, and Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand\, before returning to Berkeley Geography. Sharad is a scholar of agrarian transition and industrialization in South India (his first book\, Fraternal Capital\, 2004) and has been working on South Africa since 2002 (on the book project Apartheid Remains which he is speaking from.) He has also begun new work on an oceanic conception of capitalism\, in relation to the fetishism of ‘the Ocean Economy’ in the Southern African Indian Ocean region\, focusing on the South African and Mozambican Indian Ocean littorals\, Réunion and Mauritius. At Berkeley\, he is also part of Berkeley Black Geographies and the Submergent Archive\, both collective projects in Geography Department\, and at WiSER he is part of the project on the Oceanic Humanities in the Global South.  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharad-chari-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T150000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151755
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SUMMARY:UCHRI Funding Workshop
DESCRIPTION:UCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director\, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to know to apply. \nOne-on-one Consultations also available \nBrown and Melnysyn will also be available for informal consultations about faculty-led research projects. Contact thi@ucsc.edu if you would like to set up time to meet with them.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uchri-funding-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T190000
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SUMMARY:David Lee: "Pictures of the Past -  Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America"
DESCRIPTION:Ancient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known\, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives of the peoples who made them and their descendants. This lecture will explore many of the various rock art styles of this region and place them within the greater context of national and international rock art studies. \nFree and open to the public \nMetered parking available in lower Cowell-Stevenson lot (109) \n  \nDavid Lee is an independent rock art researcher\, focusing on the function and context of Native American rock art in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert. Beginning in 1996 he has documented rock art in California\, Nevada\, Utah\, Arizona\, Idaho\, and Australia\, and has authored and co-authored many papers and reports on the Mojave Desert\, eastern California\, and Australia. Since 2005 he has also been documenting rock art and associated traditional stories in northern Australia. He is a founding member of Western Rock Art Research\, a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and management of rock art. \nFor more information on the lecture\, please contact hedrick@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-lee-pictures-past-introduction-rock-art-western-north-america/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop: "Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD - Reflections on Work and Identity"
DESCRIPTION:“Navigating Career Choices Post-PhD: Reflections on Work and Identity” \nThis workshop will provide space to discuss\, critique\, and engage with some of the thorny questions about transitioning to non-tenure track careers. Kelly Anne Brown\, Associate Director of UCHRI\, and Shana Melnysyn\, Competitive Grants Officer at UCHRI\, will share their perspectives as PhDs at work in an Institute that hires many PhDs. We will begin by engaging with a few examples of “quit lit” from across the affective spectrum\, and discuss how we might approach them as primary sources in our research on broadening career horizons. We will ask graduate students to come prepared with questions about pursuing different kinds of work–particularly those they wouldn’t feel comfortable asking in other contexts. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nPlease read these texts ahead of the workshop and join the conversation: \n\nJust Another Piece of Quit Lit\, by Joseph Conley\nThe Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind\, by Erin Bartram\nThesis Hatement\, by Rebecca Schuman\nQuit Lit is About Labor Conditions\, by Katie Rose Guest\n\n\n \n  \n—– \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nLunch will be served. \n  \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-graduate-student-workshop-series-uchri-grants/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T210000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151756
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic–athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny\, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \nMicah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us\, a novel; We Are Gathered Here\, a novel; Pagan Time\, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks\, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nRead more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student\, Thais Miller. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have any ADA accomodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-book-launch-true-love-dreams-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T133000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151756
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
DESCRIPTION:“Tropical Exceptions – Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates” Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. Dr. Tambe’s talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases Tambe discusses —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— she show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices\, and why sexual practices are freighted with political meaning. Her previous work has engaged the history of sex trade regulation in Bombay. Her forthcoming book focuses on age standards for sexual consent and the legal paradoxes in defining girlhood in India. She is also writing a book on academic feminism and the #MeToo movement\, and co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory. She is the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-tambe-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T185500
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SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers - Khary Polk
DESCRIPTION:Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality\, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate\, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing\, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, the journal Biography\, and has contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies\, including Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, and Think Again. His forthcoming book\, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Race\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM.  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-khary-polk/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T210000
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SUMMARY:Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing - Bridge of Clay
DESCRIPTION:Markus Zusak\, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book\, Bridge of Clay\, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga\, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart\, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are on sale at Bookshop Santa Cruz and at https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/markus-zusak. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU. \nThis offsite book discussion and signing event will be held at: Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front St.\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30.00\, include one copy of Bridge of Clay and one ticket to the event. One companion ticket may be purchased for $10.00. (No book included. Limit one per full price ticket.) \nThe publication date of Bridge of Clay is October 9th\, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of Bridge of Clay (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after October 9th\, or at the venue on the night of the event). \nThe breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world\, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. \nAt the center of the Dunbar family is Clay\, a boy who will build a bridge–for his family\, for his past\, for greatness\, for his sins\, for a miracle. \nThe question is\, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? \nMarkus Zusak is the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, an LA Times Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honor book. He lives in Sydney\, Australia\, with his wife and children.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/markus-zusak-book-discussion-signing-bridge-clay/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T180000
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n10:00 am – 12:00 pm  \nSession 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas \n“Re-rooting ‘We Refugees’: Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil” – Dr. Scott Ritner \n“Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective” – Hannes Glück \n“Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times” – Veronika Zablotsky \n12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break \n1:30-3:30 pm \nSession 2: Chair: Prof. Max Tomba \n“Borders and Crossings:  Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices” – Prof. Susan Coutin (skype) \n“History\, Sense\, Sanctuary: The Time-Lapse Politics of Church Asylum” – Key MacFarland \n“Hotspot Geopolitics versus Geosocial Solidarity: Contending Constructions of Safe Space for Migrants in Europe” – Prof. Katharyne Mitchell and Prof. Matthew Sparke \n3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm  \nSession 3: Keynote Address\n“Time\, Sanctuary\, and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison” – Prof. Anne McNevin \n6:00-8:00 pm  \nDinner at the Cowell Provost’s House
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-subjectivity-practices-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151756
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SUMMARY:DATE CHANGE - Anne McNevin - "Time\, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday\, October 26th\, 2018  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nAnne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton. Her work focuses on the transformation of political belonging\, the regulation of borders and migration\, and spatiality and temporality in world politics. She is author of Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political (Columbia UP\, 2011) and co-editor of Citizenship Studies. Her current research explores contemporary social movements that enliven a politics of membership and mobility beyond the terms of open/closed borders and citizen/migrant subjects. \nCo-sponsored by: The After Neo-Liberalism Research Cluster and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-mcnevin/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T170000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151757
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-semantics-pragmatics-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260615T151757
CREATED:20180712T205558Z
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SUMMARY:Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, Presented by the Humanities Institute\nThe internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries\, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction\, while in the developing world\, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was supposed to empower people and enrich culture and democracy. What went wrong was based on a simplistic\, nerdy philosophy. The solution can be discerned\, and it involves creating and strengthening societal structures that are in between giant tech platforms and individuals. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nUnable to join us for the event? View the recording here: \n \nJaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It” from IHR on Vimeo. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nData and Democracy: This event kicks off a year of programming on “Data and Democracy.” The Humanities Institute will be hosting numerous events and other activities around this theme. As our society navigates shifting definitions of fake news\, targeted ad programs\, and compromised voting systems\, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. During the 2018-2019 Academic Year\, The Humanities Institute will lead a community-wide conversation about this topic through a range of events focused on the ethics of social media\, online privacy\, big data\, and algorithmic bias. \nDirections and Parking\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. Click here for directions.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-3527.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-jaron-lanier/
LOCATION:Music Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000
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SUMMARY:Michel Feher: "Creditworthiness - The Political Stake of a Speculative Age"
DESCRIPTION:Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book\, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books\, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization\, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nMichel Feher is a philosopher who has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure\, Paris\, and at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and was recently a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the publisher and a founding editor of Zone Books\, NY (in 1986) as well as the president and co-founder of Cette France-là\, Paris (in 2008)\, a monitoring group on French immigration policy. He is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (2000) and\, most recently\, of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (2018); the co-author\, with Cette France-là\, of Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée (2012) and Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits (2012) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007)\, with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee\, and of Europe at a Crossroads/near Futures Online\, with William Callison\, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels (2015). \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michel-feher-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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