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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press\, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards\, as well as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Brooklyn-based Juan & the Pines and Oakland-based The Western Skyline. Julian is currently at work on The Apache Pollen Path (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press) with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez. \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.  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kevin Dawson:  “History Below the Waterline - Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas\, c.1540-1840”
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming\, surfing\, canoe-making\, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks\, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships\, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports between hinterlands and overseas markets\, assuming economies pivoted around rural production. This talk shifts our intellectual focus seaward to consider how enslaved aquanauts’ African-based expertise enabled them to harvest hinter-seas to produce capital that helped finance terrestrial production throughout the English Empire. \nKevin Dawson grew up surfing\, swimming\, and freediving in south Los Angeles County\, all of which profoundly informed his scholarship. He received a BA from California State University\, Fullerton and was awarded his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 2005\, where his advisor was Dan Littlefield. Dawson’s scholarship and teaching focus on the African diaspora and Atlantic History from roughly 1444\, when the Portuguese first sailed into Sub-Saharan Africa to 1888\, when Brazil became the last country in the New World to abolish slavery. \nHe has conducted research throughout the continental US\, Hawai‘i\, the Caribbean\, and West Africa and has published articles in the Journal of American History and Journal of Social History\, as well as several chapters in edited volumes. His book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the Africa Diaspora was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. \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/kevin-dawson-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:20181108T133000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Gross\, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century\, emphasizing sustainability\, local produce\, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine\, American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts\, build community in the present\, and pass on their values to future generations. \n \n  \n  \nProf. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion. She received her PhD from Princeton University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-gross-deli/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers:  Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Valeria Luiselli\,  Hofstra University\, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd\, Sidewalks\, The Story of My Teeth\, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award\, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize\, a recipient of the National Book Foundation “5 under 35” award\, and the Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s\, among other publications\, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives and teaches in New York City. \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.  \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T190000
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SUMMARY:Save the Waves Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 10th annual Save The Waves Film Festival presented by UGG brings its west coast tour home with an epic evening of live music and international surf films at Patagonia Outlet in Santa Cruz\, CA on Thursday\, November 8th. The night’s festivities will feature world premieres of surf\, adventure\, and documentary films\, as well as live music and a raffle at intermission. The Save The Waves Film Festival is a fundraiser for the Save The Waves Coalition and World Surfing Reserves\, and all proceeds support their work to protect surf ecosystems. \n \n  \n  \nThis event will have a cash bar with offerings from Tito’s Vodka\, Suerte Tequila\, and Kona Brewery. To make our film festival more eco-responsible\, we have eliminated single-use plastic cups at our bars. We will be selling stainless steel pint cups for $10 (one free drink with purchase!) or feel free to bring your own reusable cup. Thanks for helping us make this year’s film festival the greenest yet! \nAll Eventbrite ticketholders (pre-door sales) will receive a free raffle ticket at the door. Prizes include a Patagonia wetsuit\, Firewire surfboard\, GoPro Hero 6 Black\, Peak Designs photographer’s messenger bag\, Clif Bar prize pack + more! \n**this is an all ages show**
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/save-waves-film-festival/
LOCATION:Patagonia Outlet\, 415 River St C\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero
DESCRIPTION:Gabriella Caballero\, UC San Diego: The Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)* \nThe cross-linguistic study of tone has largely focused on its lexical phonological properties\, its phonetic implementation and interaction with other prosodic phenomena\, but the morphological role of tone is still under-documented: What kind of morphological information may tone convey across languages? And what mechanisms regulate the outcome when there are lexical and grammatical tones in conflict? \nThis talk addresses these questions through the lens of Choguita Rarámuri (CR; Uto-Aztecan)\, a prosodically complex language of northern Mexico. \n  \nCR has three lexical tones exclusively realized in stressed syllables. Stress-accent is morphologically\nconditioned and tonal patterns are partially predictable from stress. Yet there is evidence for grammatical tone and tonal classes independent of stress. We argue that the full range of grammatical tone patterns in CR follows from an analysis that incorporates tonal underspecification and construction-specific tonal patterns as output-oriented schemas. This analysis captures several properties of this system\, including: (i) arbitrary relationship between tone patterns of related forms\, (ii) heterogeneous nature of morphosyntactic classes expressed by tone melodies\, and (iii) overwriting/avoidance of lexical tone by grammatical tone. We contrast this analysis with an alternative morphemic analysis that has been proposed in the literature (Spahr 2016)\, and argue that a construction-based analysis makes the correct empirical predictions. \n* Work in collaboration with Austin German (UCSD/UT Austin) \n \n \nMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-gabriella-caballero/
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:20181110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181110T180000
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SUMMARY:The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\n\n\nThe Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty\, Crisis\, and Narratives of Belonging\nPart I\n\n\nMorning\n8:30 am transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool.\n\n9:00 am Coffee and Introduction\n\n9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UCSC) “Sanctuary\, Refuge\, and Displacement to the Maghrib during the Reconquista.”\n\n11:00 Ashley V. Miller (UCB) “Designing Moroccan Heritage on the Economic Battlefield of World War I.” \n\n12:30 Lunch\n\nAfternoon\n1:30 Idriss Jebari (Bowdoin) “Critical Thought\, Nation-Building and Language Politics in the Maghreb.”\n\n3:00 Break\n\n3:15 Nouri Gana (UCLA) “Twilight Arabic: The Politics of Language in Postrevolutionary Tunisia.”\n\n4:45 Concluding remarks\n\n6:00 Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maghrib-workshop-sovereignty-crisis-narratives-belonging/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T150000
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SUMMARY:Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey\, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall\, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola\, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families. \nPlease RSVP by completing this short survey.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/don-rothman-endowed-award-first-year-writing-ceremony/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T183845
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SUMMARY:Julie Livingston: “Self-Devouring Growth - A Planetary Parable”
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, like the book from which it is drawn\, calls into question the imperative of economic growth\, tracing the unintended consequences of escalating consumption.  Using a series of linked cases of successful economic growth (water\, roads\, and cattle in Botswana)\, it shows how insatiable growth\, predicated on consumption\, will inevitably overwhelm\, a process Dr. Livingston terms self-devouring growth. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nJulie Livingston is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of the forthcoming Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable told from Southern Africa (Duke University Press)\, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke University Press)\, Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (Indiana University Press)\, and numerous articles and essays and edited volumes and special journal issues. Livingston is the recipient of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing\, the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Wellcome Medal\, and the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William Welch Medal. In 2013 she was named a MacArthur fellow. \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/julie-livingston-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T170000
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SUMMARY:Isa Blumi - "The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story”\n\n\nAlthough the majority of Ottoman refugees in the 1878-1912 period remained internally displaced\, significant numbers found their way to new continents\, themselves in the throes of colonialist expansion. These pioneers’ stories require looking into the larger context of modern exploitation economies under which these Ottomans also suffered (and subsequently resisted in various ways). From recent studies we learn that the demand for cheap labor that absorbed such waves of Ottomans came from expanding labor-intensive plantation and mining operations as well as infrastructure development\, long the investment of choice for private capital. As much as we must tell the violent resistance to the exploitative demands of capital\, however\, Isa Blumi identifies thousands of Ottoman refugees whose violent experiences with Euro-American imperialism intersected in Southeast Asia\, Eastern Africa\, and the Americas. In several cases\, he will chart how colonialist-projects harnessed the capacity of Ottoman refugees (victims of expansionist European violence in their homelands) to subjugate indigenous peoples of what is today known as Southern Philippines\, the Swahili hinterland\, and the borderlands of an expanding US and Mexico/Comanche. In other words\, Euro-American imperialism took its ‘destined’ genocidal turn by often calling on various Ottoman subjects to make themselves useful in ways contradictory to their normative place in world history. \nIsa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian\, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. \nThis event is sponsored by the newly revitalized Center for World History\, which fosters a rich set of lectures\, conferences\, pedagogical workshops\, and scholarly conversations. This programming enhances the intellectual life of faculty and students at UCSC across numerous disciplines interested in the human past. All Center for World History events are open to all members of the UCSC community and to the general public. More at: https://cwh.ucsc.edu/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isa-blumi-ottoman-refugee-euro-american-colonial-terror-global-story/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000
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SUMMARY:Tzutu Kan: Maya Hip Hop
DESCRIPTION:Tzutu Kan\, hailing from what the Maya considered the belly button of the Universe — Lake Atitlan in the vernal Guatemala highlands — is a painter\, sculptor\, bio-builder\, activist in the defense of native peoples\, and hip hop artist who lays down rhymes in the ancient Mayan languages of Tz’utujil\, Kaqchikel\, and K’ichee. \n  \nPresentation at 4pm\, followed by a performance. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tzutu-kan-maya-hip-hop/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T183846
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SUMMARY:World Philosophy Day at Humble Sea Brewing Co.
DESCRIPTION:World Philosophy Day? \nYes\, it is a thing! Falling on the third Thursday of each November\, World Philosophy Day celebrates the value and practice of philosophy. \nThis year\, The Center for Public Philosophy and Humble Sea Brewing Co. are partnering to celebrate together. Come join us! \nFeaturing an Ask-a-Philosopher Booth staffed by some of your favorite local philosophers\, delicious Humble Sea brews (including one Humble Sea is naming in honor of philosophy!)\, and all the ‘civic discourse’ you can handle! We can’t wait to celebrate with you – we’re going to get things going at 6pm this Thursday\, November 15th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/world-philosophy-day-humble-sea-brewing-co/
LOCATION:Humble Sea Brewing Company\, 820 Swift St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T183846
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Snyder and Special Guest Tom Killion
DESCRIPTION:View the full event recording online here. \n  \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. \n5:30 p.m. doors open / 6:00 p.m. program begins\nThe reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, first come\, first served.\nSeating is limited and we anticipate a full event\, so please plan accordingly. \n  \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. The cost for parking is $5. Click here for directions.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nEvent Program: \nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come\, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:30 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nGary Snyder is a poet\, environmentalist\, Zen Buddhist and educator. Involved in the Beat movement\, Snyder read at the famous Six Gallery reading alongside Allen Ginsberg. Snyder’s writing focuses on environmental concerns and Zen Buddhism. He is an environmental activist who is known for his simple\, clear style\, as well as his first-person descriptions of his experiences in the natural world. Snyder’s poetry is influenced by Japanese haiku and Chinese verse\, in addition to his knowledge of anthropological factors like oral traditions. Over his long career\, Snyder has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1975\, his collection Turtle Island was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His 1992 collection\, No Nature\, was a National Book Award finalist and he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2008. \nTom Killion is famous for his vibrantly colored woodcut prints of the California landscape. He was born and raised in Mill Valley\, California\, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The rugged scenery of Marin County and Northern California inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints using linoleum and wood\, strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-ë style of Hokusai and Hiroshige. He studied History at UC Santa Cruz\, where he was introduced to fine book printing by William Everson and Jack Stauffacher. In 1975\, he produced his first illustrated book on UCSC’s Cowell Press. After traveling extensively in Europe and Africa\, Killion returned to Santa Cruz in 1977 and founded his own Quail Press\, where he published his second book\, “Fortress Marin”. Visit tomkillion.com to learn more. \nAbout Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet\, author\, teacher\, film critic\, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City\, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz\, California\, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com. You can also view the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC. \nThis community event is co-sponsored by: \nThe Humanities Institute\nLiving Writers Series\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nSpecial Collections & Archives\nCowell College\nPorter College\nCenter for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nSanta Cruz Writes\nBookshop Santa Cruz \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-gary-snyder/
LOCATION:Music Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181119T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181119T140000
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies I
DESCRIPTION:Do you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. It offers resources and tools to push through common roadblocks in your advanced writing practice related to issues of voice\, discipline-crossing work\, organization\, timeline\, and procrastination. \nJoin this workshop to develop a clear set of writing goals and an accountability strategy. Participants will form writing groups and commit to accountable writing practices in the second session of this workshop as part of a new THI series. Part II of the workshop will be held on Monday\, December 3. \nThe workshops will be led by Nadia Roche (Sociology) and Veronika Zablotsky (Feminist Studies). \n  \nThis new program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the THI Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project and co-sponsored by CITL.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-graduate-writing-challenges-strategies/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181121T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich
DESCRIPTION:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir\, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly\, Audible.com\, Bustle\, Book Riot\, The Times of London\, and The Guardian\, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection\, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize\, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger\, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It has been published in the US\, the UK\, and the Netherlands; translations are forthcoming in Turkey\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Spain\, Greece\, Brazil\, and France. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo\, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award\, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland\, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-marzano-lesnevich/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Presentation: Jai Sen's The Movements of Movements
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS)\, Deborah Gould (UCSC)\, and Patrick King (UCSC).\n\n\n\nJai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer\, then a researcher into popular movement\, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote critical engagement with the World Social Forum and emerging world movement – as moderator of the listserv WSFDiscuss and as coeditor of several books including World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and World Social Forum: Critical Explorations. He helped found and remains associated with CACIM and with OpenWord.\n\n\n\nThe Movements of Movements (PM Press/OpenWorld\, 2017/18):\nOur world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement\, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local\, national\, transnational\, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. These two volumes\, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas\, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste\, class\, gender\, religion\, and indigeneity\, and move from the local to the global.\n\n\nRefreshments will be served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-presentation-jai-sens-movements-movements/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Peter Limbrick: “For a New Nahda - Moumen Smihi\, World Cinema\, and Arab Modernism”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDr. Limbrick’s forthcoming book on Moumen Smihi connects the Moroccan filmmaker’s modernism to the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the 19th-20th century\, which re-energized Arab culture in dialogue with other languages and discourses. Offering new ways to think about world cinema and modernism in the region\, Limbrick argues that Smihi’s radically beautiful films take up the Nahda’s challenge for a new age. \nPeter Limbrick is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media. He is the author of Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States\, Australia\, and New Zealand (Palgrave 2010) and has published on transnational cinema and postcolonial culture in Cinema Journal\, Camera Obscura\, Third Text\, Framework\, Visual Anthropology and other journals. He has received fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and the UC President’s Research program and is currently finishing a book about Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi\, a key figure in the “new Arab cinema” that emerged in the late 1960s across North Africa and the Middle East. In 2013\, he curated a major retrospective of Smihi’s work that has screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley\, Block Cinema\, in Chicago\, and Tate Modern\, in London.  \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/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:20181128T160000
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SUMMARY:Algorithms\, Mobility\, and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Are moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk\, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral and self-driving cars will save lives. Drawing on feminist and care ethics\, Atanasoski brings to fore the injustices built into current and future mobility systems such as laws and policies that protect car manufacturers and algorithmic biases that will have disproportionate negative impacts on the most vulnerable. Moreover\, it is argued that a constricted moral imagination dominated by the reductive scenarios of the Trolley Problems is impairing design imagination of alternative futures. More specifically\, that a genuine caring concern for the many lives lost in car accidents now and in the future—a concern that transcends false binary trade-offs and that recognizes the systemic biases and power structures—could serve as a starting point to rethink mobility\, as it connects to the design of cities\, the well-being of communities\, and the future of the planet. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and affiliated with the Film and Digital Media Department. Atanasoski has a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California\, San Diego. Her research interests include race and technology; war and nationalism; gender\, ethnicity\, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies. \nNassim JafariNaimi is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication at Georgia Tech and the director of the Design and Social Interaction Studio which she established in 2013. JafariNaimi’s research engages the ethical and political dimensions of design practice and technology especially as related to democracy and social justice. Her research spans both theoretical and design-based inquiries situated at the intersection of Design Studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, and Human Computer Interaction. Her writing on topics such as participatory media\, smart cities\, social and educational games\, and algorithms have appeared in venues such as Science\, Technology\, and Human Values\, Design Issues\, Digital Creativity\, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). JafariNaimi received her PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds an MS in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran\, Iran. \nAbhradeep Guha Thakurta is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Thakurta’s research is at the intersection of machine learning and data privacy. Primary research interest include designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms with strong analytical guarantees\, which are robust to errors in the data. In many instances\, Thakurta harnesses the privacy property of the algorithms to obtain robustness and utility guarantees. A combination of academic and industrial experience has allowed Thakurta to draw non-obvious insights at the intersection of theoretical analysis and practical deployment of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms. \nCo-Sponsored by: THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Feminist Studies Department\, and the Science & Justice Research Center
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/algorithms-mobility-justice/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\, Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
DESCRIPTION:“Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism”\nJennifer Kelly\, Associate Professor\, UCSC  \nIn between Israeli military incursions\, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse\, satirize\, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position Gaza as solely a site of suffering\, a site where tourism could never flourish; they instead ask what it would mean if Palestinians in Gaza could actually invite tourists\, host their own tours\, and control their own borders. Through virtual tours that simultaneously describe suffering and create joy\, Palestinians in Gaza are combating not only the siege but also the representations of Palestinians in Gaza as under siege and nothing more. \n  \n“Revisiting the Question of Palestine”\nNoya Kansky\, FMST Graduate Student\, UCSC \nIn this paper\, I revisit Edward Said’s “Question of Palestine\,” with specific attention to the activation of Palestine as object of study in contemporary humanities-focused research agendas. How are these research choices shaped by institutions and the left-leaning ethos of scholar activism\, contemporary post-colonial and settler colonial studies and additionally political theory\, and current debates on research ethics and epistemic production? What violences does this practice reinscribe and in what ways does the contemporary university contain and re-direct questions that frame Palestine as a stable object – often exceptionalized as a research site that is productive to those thinking about oppression and violence? \n  \nPizza and drinks provided!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invitation-object-reframing-study-palestine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou
DESCRIPTION:Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game\, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry\, Poetry Northwest\, Slate\, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow\, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University\, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. Doan has taught at Boston University\, Lesley University\, and the Boston Conservatory. He was born in Dallas\, Texas. \n  \nAngie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hyphen\, The Margins\, Nat. Brut\, and others. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and has received fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets and Kundiman. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz. \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.  \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-duy-doan-angie-sijun-lou/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T104000
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SUMMARY:Stuart Russell: “Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence”
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive\, while others\, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles\, may be negative. Beyond these\, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern\, as Elon Musk\, Stephen Hawking\, and others have suggested? And\, if so\, what can we do about it?  While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss the issue\, I will argue that the problem is real and that the technical aspects of it are solvable if we replace current definitions of AI with a version based on provable benefit to humans. \nDr. Russell will appear as a guest lecturer for Dr. David Haussler’s Scientific Principles of Life class. All are welcome. \n  \nStuart Russell\, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley\, is one of the world leaders in this area\, see\, e.g. his TED talk here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stuart-russell-human-compatible-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Nat. Sci Annex Auditorium 101\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop: Values Driven Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDefining a Values Driven Pedagogy Practice with Kendra Dority (CITL\, UCSC Lit PhD) \nThis workshop invites participants to consider how teaching can be a site in which we define\, cultivate\, and enact a set of values. What values are communicated—explicitly and implicitly—in our classrooms through our teaching methods and assignments? How do pedagogical situations present opportunities for us to claim values that may contradict or transform institutional norms? \n  \nKendra Dority\, Associate Director for Programs at the UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, will share her perspectives on pursuing post-PhD work that aligns with her values\, and the pedagogical contexts that facilitated a values-driven inquiry. She will then facilitate activities and discussion around participants’ own values in relation to their teaching contexts. \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. \nPlease RSVP below: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-values-driven-pedagogy/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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