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SUMMARY:Maitra Memorial Lecture / Foundation Medal with Janet Yellen
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen\, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential women leaders as we champion diversity in all areas of human endeavor. \n \nWhen Janet Yellen took office in 2014\, she became the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. Previously\, she served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve\, CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco\, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors under President Bill Clinton\, and professor at the Haas School of Business atUC Berkeley. \nShe is noted for her patient\, measured\, and accessible explanations of monetary policy while being a thoughtful leader of the Federal Reserve. In her public appearances\, she has addresses topics broader than monetary policy\, including labor markets\, unemployment\, and poverty. She was considered by some to be the most powerful woman in America. \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. \nProgram will be followed by a dessert reception \nThe UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal recognizes individuals of exceptionally distinguished achievement whose work and contribution to society exemplify the vision and ideals of UC Santa Cruz. \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture Series\nThe Maitra Lecture Series was established by UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra in memory of her husband\, Sidhartha—a scientist\, entrepreneur\, and admirer of humanist\, rationalist\, modernist thinkers. The lecture is a signature campus gathering\, and integral to the intellectual life of the campus.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maitra-lecture-foundation-medal-janet-yeltson/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Madeleine Albright
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright\, the United States’ first female Secretary of State\, who will speak about her book\, Fascism: A Warning\, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. This ticketed event will take place at theKaiser Permanente Arena and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and Temple Beth El. \nOf all the unanswered questions of our time\, declared George Orwell in 1944\, perhaps the most important is\, What is fascism? Madeleine Albright has an answer: not as an explanation of the past\, but as a warning for the present. As she shows with insight\, humor\, and personal storytelling\, fascism not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. \nWritten by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it\, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past. \nMadeleine Albright served as America’s sixty-fourth Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career also includes positions at the White House\, on Capitol Hill\, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Madam Secretary\, The Mighty and the Almighty\, Memo to the President\, and Read My Pins. \nEvent Photos by Shmuel Thaler: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTickets are $23.00 and include 1 general admission ticket to the event and 1 pre-signed paperback copy of Fascism: A Warning. (The book is $17.99 and publishes on January 29.) All books will be distributed at the venue. \nPlease note that Madeleine Albright will not be doing a signing at the event. \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evening-madeleine-albright/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T133000
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SUMMARY:Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” \nThis paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so\, I unearth the normative relationship between candor\, courage\, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First\, I recount Wells’s argument that “yellow” and impartial journalism are\, in different ways\, responsible for the precipitous rise in the lynching of African Americans at the turn of the century. Yellow journalism uses sensationalism to fuel whites’ fear and anxiety and\, at times\, goes so far as to coordinate lynchings. The more fact-driven and impartial journalism of the New York Times does no such thing. But it substitutes cold facts for moral courage and thus shirks an important social responsibility. Second\, and drawing on work by Michel Foucault\, I contend that her willingness to risk death to expose the true causes of lynching to help others see their way toward justice and away from injustice exemplifies fearless speech\, or what the ancients called parrhesia. Third\, I question whether intrepid speech can be a moral obligation for journalists and leaders living under extreme persecution. \n  \nDesmond Jagmohan is an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University. He researches and teaches history of political theory\, and he works primarily in the areas of American and African American political thought. He also has interests in slavery and modern political thought and historical methods. At the moment\, he is completing his first book\, which is titled Dark Virtues: Booker T. Washington’s Tragic Realism. Based on several years of archival research\, the book recovers an unseen Booker T. Washington. It reconstructs his political ethics\, including his moral defense of equivocation\, concealment\, and deception as political virtues under conditions of extremity. His second project takes up Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative to look at the broader philosophical relationship between property\, personhood\, and moral agency in the context of nineteenth-century American slavery. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics\, Politics\, Groups\, and Identities\, and Contemporary Political Theory. \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.  \n  \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/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Steven Church
DESCRIPTION:Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction\, most recently I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work\, Fear\, and Fatherhood\, and he edited the essay anthology\, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He’s a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as well as the Series Editor for The Normal School Nonfiction Series from Outpost19. He’s the Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-steven-church/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday\, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake\, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox\, and a film screening. \nCharles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love\, in the end David Copperfield gets his Agnes\, Esther Summerson gets her Woodcourt\, and John Harmon gets his Bella. But was marriage really a happy ending for the women in Dickens’s novels? What happened after the novels ended and the romantic triumph of successfully surviving a 900-page plot began to fade? This talk will trace the pitfalls of getting married in Victorian Britain—the financial threats to women\, the uneven standards for husbands and wives\, the legal ways marriage compromised individual identity—and will look at how a few famously salacious marital scandals (including Dickens’s own!) succeeded in transforming both law and literature in the 19th century. \nThe Invisible Woman (2013) is a biopic about eighteen-year-old actress Ellen Ternan and her love affair with Charles Dickens. \nRenée Fox is Co-Director of The Dickens Project and an assistant professor in the Literature department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes on Victorian literature and culture\, Irish literature\, gothic fiction\, and Harry Potter. She is currently writing a book about reanimated bodies in 19th-century British and Irish literature—like mummies\, vampires\, and talking corpses—and is co-editing a Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/45011/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T140000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Allen: "Sanctuary and Medieval Kings"
DESCRIPTION:“Sanctuary and Medieval Kings” – Elizabeth Allen  \nAmerican nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”\, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities\, universities\, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages\, felons could avoid death by running to the church\, and kings bolstered their sacral power by protecting them. At the same time\, those who seek sanctuary exerted an influence upon their kings “from below\,” calling upon them to live up to the role of merciful monarch. Examining medieval chronicles of a fallen justiciar and an infamous breach of sanctuary\, this talk will offer a provocation to contemporary ideas about both kingship itself and  sanctuary as a ‘weak’ form of social protest. \n“A Constellation of Moments: Walter Benjamin on the Middle Ages\, Sanctuary\, and the Current Emergency” – James R Martel  \nAlso featuring:\nStephen David Engel\nVeronika Zablotsky \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nCo-Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elizabeth-allen/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T170000
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SUMMARY:John Dizikes Memorial
DESCRIPTION:John Dizikes\, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26\, 2018. He was 86. \nDizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors to students in 1965. He was drawn to the school’s commitment to undergraduates and its determination to be a different kind of modern research university—one organized around a system of smaller residential colleges that nurtured the student experience. \nOver the course of 35 years\, Dizikes was a professor of history\, a professor and co-founder of the American Studies Department\, provost of Cowell College from 1979-1983\, and chair of the Council of Provosts. \nRead More \nClick here to register for the memorial \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-dizikes-memorial/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T210000
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SUMMARY:MLK Convocation: Melissa Harris-Perry
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality\, freedom\, justice\, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. \n  \nSpeaker: Melissa Harris-Perry \nProfessor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. There she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and co-director of Wake the Vote. \nHarris-Perry is editor-at-large of Elle.com and a contributing editor at The Nation. From 2012-2016 she hosted the television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” on weekend mornings on MSNBC and was awarded the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism. She continues to create and direct programs with the goal of creating diverse\, quality American media. \nShe is an award-winning author and sought after public speaker\, lecturing widely throughout the United States and abroad.Together with her husband\, James Perry\, she is a principal of Perry Partnership\, offering both political and private consulting. \nHarris-Perry received her B.A. degree in English from Wake Forest University and her Ph.D. degree in political science from Duke University. She also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Harris-Perry previously served on the faculty of the University of Chicago\, Princeton University\, and Tulane University. Professor Harris-Perry has been awarded honorary degrees from many universities including Meadville Lombard Theological School\, Winston-Salem State University\, Eckerd College\, and New York University. \nShe and her family live in North Carolina. \n  \nThis event is hosted/sponsored by: ACLU Santa Cruz Chapter\, UCSC Chancellor’s Office\, Inner Light Ministries\, NAACP\, and the City of Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mlk-convocation/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T190000
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble\, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12.\nPlease join us then.\nThe landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet\, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial\, disembodied\, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices\, situated within the dynamics of race\, gender\, class\, and politics\, and in the service of something – a position\, a profit motive\, a means to an end. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book\, Algorithms of Oppression\, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search\, as well as the implications for public information needs. \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Sociology. \n— \nDr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies\, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously\, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019\, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow. \nShe is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). \nSafiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary\, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race\, gender\, culture\, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias\, including The Guardian\, the BBC\, CNN International\, USA Today\, Wired\, Time\, and The New York Times\, to name a few. \nDr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University\, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/safiya-noble-algorithms-mobility-justice-event/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T120000
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SUMMARY:Laurie Palmer: “Public Sun”
DESCRIPTION:“Public Sun” \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nA. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture\, public projects\, and writing\, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground\, and how these materials\, once liberated\, move between the earth and our bodies. She is currently researching the shapes and structures of underground oil shale formations and continuing to develop work on The Lichen Museum\, a massively distributed\, inside-out institution that considers this slow\, resistant\, adaptive and collective organism as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor. \n  \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.  \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Marlon James - Black Leopard\, Red Wolf
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to partner with Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome award-winning author Marlon James for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf\, which is already being touted as a book that “will come to be seen as a classic of our times.” (NPR) \n“A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.” —Neil Gaiman \nThe epic novel\, an African Game of Thrones\, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. \nIn the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy\, myth\, fantasy\, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose\,” people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier\, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge\, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own\, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. \nAs Tracker follows the boy’s scent—from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers—he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive\, Tracker starts to wonder: Who\, really\, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth\, and who is lying? \nDrawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination\, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious\, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth\, the limits of power\, and our need to understand them both. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 16th. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nMarlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings\, The Book of Night Women\, and John Crow’s Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize\, the American Book Award\, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as well as the NAACP Image Award. A professor at Macalester College in St. Paul\, James divides his time between Minnesota and New York. \n“Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous\, hallucinatory\, ancient Africa\, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made\, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep and crafty as Gene Wolfe\, bloodier than Robert E. Howard\, and all Marlon James. It’s something very new that feels old\, in the best way. I cannot wait for the next installment.” —Neil Gaiman \n“This book begins like a fever dream and merges into world upon world of deadly fairy tales rich with political magic. Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is a fabulous cascade of storytelling. Sink right in. I guarantee you will be swept downstream.” —Louise Erdrich \n“James’ sensual\, beautifully rendered prose and sweeping\, precisely detailed narrative cast their own transfixing spell upon the reader. He not only brings a fresh multicultural perspective to a grand fantasy subgenre\, but also broadens the genre’s psychological and metaphysical possibilities. If this first volume is any indication\, James’ trilogy could become one of the most talked-about and influential adventure epics since George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire was transformed into Game of Thrones.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[A] tour de force.” —The Wall Street Journal \n“Sweeping\, mythic\, over-the-top\, colossal\, and dizzingly complex.” —The New York Times \n“Awe-inspiring.” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Thrilling\, ambitious…both intense and epic.” —Los Angeles Times”An astonishing portrait of the politics of everyday life…Just as he is sharply aware of the nuances of their voices\, James has the confidence not to deny his characters their humanity by turning them into moral exemplars\, nor paper over the infected wounds that score across the country by suggesting that the loveliness of some of its territory makes up for the savage effects of poverty.” —The Washington Post
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-marlon-james-black-leopard-red-wolf/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T133000
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SUMMARY:Jerry Zee: "Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
DESCRIPTION:“Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ \nJerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC’s Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China’s meteorological contemporary. \nThis talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms\, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework contemporary land and air into a substantial continuum. It tracks territorial governance as it shifts into experimental formations that draw into the choreographies of sand\, wind\, and dust that they seek to re-engineer. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \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.  \n  \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/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-6/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T171500
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Guillén: "¿Revolución o Candy Crush? Una conversación sobre y sus afines"
DESCRIPTION:La presencia de 691 “startups” del aprendizaje de lenguas en Angelist.co\, una plataforma de inversión\, debería alegrarnos como estudiantes de lenguas. Su lenguaje es\, sin duda\, prometedor. Sin embargo\, no es oro todo lo que reluce. En esta charla exploraremos la relación entre los eslóganes de estas empresas\, sus posibilidades reales y la teoría de la adquisición de lenguas. Del mismo modo\, reflexionaremos sobre los retos y las posibilidades del emprendimiento social en el campo del aprendizaje de lenguas. \nGabriel Guillén is Assistant Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). In addition to his research on language learning and technology\, he worked as a web developer and a reporter with more than 300 published articles in Spanish. At MIIS he teaches content-based Spanish courses focusing on social entrepreneurship and the use of media in the Hispanic world. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabriel-guillen-revolucion-o-candy-crush-una-conversacion-sobre-y-sus-afines/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20180921T202129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T180746Z
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SUMMARY:James Loeffler\, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews\, Human Rights\, and Global Democracy"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies \n2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between the Holocaust\, the legal framework of Human Rights\, and the struggle to find justice on the global scale. \n\n\nIn this talk\, James Loeffler draws on his new book\, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century\, to revisit the 1948 moment in which modern human rights was born. This talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for minorities and stateless peoples by focusing on Jewish human rights pioneers who saw the Jewish state as an expression of global democracy. Join THI to ask where Human Rights come from\, how Jews are part of the story\, and if Zionism is in conflict with the modern Human Rights movement? \n\n\n\nRSVP appreciated\, seating is first come\, first served. Reception to follow. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 16th. \nParking and Directions to the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn  \n  \nJames Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. At UVa he teaches courses in Jewish and European history\, Russian and East European history\, international legal history\, and the history of human rights. \nHis publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press\, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press\, 2010)\, and the forthcoming edited volume\, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press). \nThis event is part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, a project of Expanding Humanities\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n— \nThe Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nVisit our lecture archive online >
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-loeffler-helen-diller/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T120000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20190209T002036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220715T180122Z
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SUMMARY:Public Fellowship Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re interested in exploring career opportunities beyond the academy or applying your expertise in the public sphere\, the Public Fellowship program might be right for you. \nPlease join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program to learn more and hear from past Public Fellows. We will discuss the Summer and Year Long opportunities and describe some new partner organizations. \nThese fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \nCoffee and cookies will be served. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-fellowship-info-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T133000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20190209T000130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190209T000215Z
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SUMMARY:Breanne Fahs: "Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism"
DESCRIPTION:Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson\, Kathie Sarachild\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, and Dana Densmore.\nThis colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance\, particularly around the subjects of feminist rage\, sex and love\, tactics of feminist resistance\, and intergenerational knowledge- making. \nLunch will be provided
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breanne-fahs-burn-firebrand-feminism-legacy-second-wave-radical-feminism/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20190214T175537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190214T180507Z
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SUMMARY:All Power to the People!  Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front
DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: \nALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front \nFeaturing TWLF veterans Bruce Occena\, Vicci Wong\, and Emil de Guzman \nAn Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel\nThursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 5-7 p.m.\nKresge Townhall \nSee also: Breakfast seminar – February 22 with pre-circulated materials \nGenerously sponsored by CRES\, the Dean of Students\, AA/PIRC\, Education\, The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Labor Studies\, Stevenson College\, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/power-people-asian-american-radicalism-bay-area-universities-third-world-liberation-front/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20190111T195252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T191545Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Living Writers\, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s book\, “The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner. \nAlexandria 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-marzano-lesnevich-2/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T120000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T200118Z
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SUMMARY:Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People!
DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: \nALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism\, Bay Area Universities\, and the Third World Liberation Front \nFeaturing TWLF veterans Bruce Occena\, Vicci Wong\, and Emil de Guzman \nBreakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials *\nFriday\, February 22\, 2019\, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.\nHumanities 202 \n* For access to materials\, please contact Christine Hong (cjhong@ucsc.edu) \nSee also: An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel – Thursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 5-7 p.m. – Kresge Town Hall \nGenerously sponsored by CRES\, the Dean of Students\, AA/PIRC\, Education\, The Humanities Institute\, the Center for Labor Studies\, Stevenson College\, and the SUA VP of Diversity and Inclusion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/breakfast-seminar-power-people-asian-american-radicalism-bay-area-universities-third-world-liberation-front/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T123000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20180820T220459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031527Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop: Publishing Scholarly Articles with Gordon Hutner
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Hutner is the editor of American Literary History\, the scholarly he quarterly he founded 30 years ago.  He is also the author or editor of numerous books and articles about American literature.  These subject include the novel in the US\, Jewish American writing\, immigrant autobiographies\, cultural iconography\, and the future of the liberal arts in public higher education\, among other diverse topics.  Professor Hutner began his career at Kenyon College and the University of Virginia and has taught at the Universities of Wisconsin\, Kentucky\, and Illinois\, where he is currently the Director of the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures.  He has also taught at universities in Belgium\, Italy\, and Japan. Hutner is also the current president of Council of Editors of Learned Journals. \nPublishing Scholarly Articles is a workshop in the practice of writing for peer-reviewed academic journals.  We cover what to send\, how to prepare for print\, where to send\, and when you should be circulating your work.  The discussion will entail how to choose venues for your essays\, how to understand readers’ reports\, and how to understand editors’ purposes as well as offer some instruction in how to think about converting seminar essays\, panel papers\, and dissertation chapters into publishable articles.  All welcome.  \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the third year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. 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/43111/
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:20190222T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T134500
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20190222T184759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T190035Z
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
DESCRIPTION:Between Two Africas: “Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination” \nThis paper explores the region and anthropologized people\, of Nubia\, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa “proper.” By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes\, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic concerns with representing Nubian people\, Alirio Karina explores how the disavowal of the ethnographic (in all of its racial and cultural senses in Sudan and Egypt is an attempt to narrate of capitalist modernity in terms of ancient lineages\, and against any sense of relation to the rest African continent\, Karina argues that\, in resurfacing the ethnographic\, we may find a resistant frame through which to think Africanity north of the Sahara. \nAlirio Karina is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department\, with designated emphasis in the Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Alirio’s dissertation examines ethnographic photographs\, objects and text representing British Africa\, exploring how these materials produce ideas of race\, culture and continent that have shaped and may yet transform African political possibility. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/two-africas-nubia-ethnographic-imagination/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
CREATED:20181109T001706Z
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SUMMARY:Translating America/America Translated Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Irvine\, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation\, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today\, the “Translating America/America Translated” symposium aims to re-situate scholarly and public narratives of American culture by way of multiple languages and various origin-points in space and time. It aims to move forward an important national conversation on the future of the field in its multilingual and multi-geographic dimensions and seeks to build a cohort of early-career comparative Americanist scholars. \nProject Directors: \nSusan Gillman\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz\nKirsten Gruesz\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTranslating America/America Translated: A UC Faculty-Graduate Symposium\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFebruary 22\, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm\nFebruary 23\, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm \nKeynote speakers include six prominent scholars of hemispheric American studies: \nIfeoma Nwankwo (Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost\, Vanderbilt University)\nJesse Alemán (Professor of English and American Studies\, Univ. of New Mexico)\nAnna Brickhouse (Professor of English and Director of American Studies\, Univ. of Virginia)\nMichelle Burnham (Professor of English\, Santa Clara University)\nSara Johnson (Associate Professor of Literature of the Americas\, UC San Diego)\nRodrigo Lazo (Professor of English and Spanish and Director\, Humanities Core Program\, UC Irvine) \nProgram: \nFriday\, February 22: \n11 am-12:30pm PhD+ Writing Workshop on journal publication with Gordon Hutner\, editor of American Literary History (lunch provided) \n1:00-2:30pm \nWelcome: Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nKeynote 1: Ifeoma Nwankwo (Vanderbilt University) “Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy” \n2:30 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n2:45-4:15 pm Graduate Panel #1 – Personal Narratives: Translations\, Republications\, Reprintings \n\nTimothy Fosbury (UCLA English)\, “Crèvecouer’s Bermudian Crisis”\nBrian Flores (UCI English)\, “‘Y nosotros vivimos aquí en la frontera’: Modes of Framing Latina/o Identity in the Autobiographies of José Policarpo Rodriguez and Santiago Tafolla”\nEmily Travis (UCSC Literature)\,“A vida simple: The Complex Afterlives of Alice Dayrell Brant’s Minha vida de menina”\nRESPONDENT: Amanda Smith (UCSC Literature)\n\n 4:30-6:00 pm Keynote 2: Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) “Earthquake History in the Americas” \n6:00-8:00 pm Opening reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nSaturday\, February 23: \n8:30 am Coffee and muffins (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n9:00-10:30am Graduate Panel #2 – Coloniality\, Indigeneity\, Power \n\nJenny Forsythe (UCLA Comparative Literature)\, “Ladrones\, vagabundos\, holgazones sin honra ni vergüenza: Inca Garcilaso’s Imperialist Translators Meet the Man in the Canoe”\nCarlos Macías Prieto (UCB Spanish and Portuguese)\, “Domingo Chimalpahin’s Rewriting of Antonio de Morga’s Narrative of Black Conspiracy in 1612”\nAmrah Salomón (UCSD Ethnic Studies)\, “Regeneración and Regeneration: Anti- Colonial Theory Across Borders”\nRESPONDENT: Rodrigo Lazo (UCI English)\n\n10:45 am-12:15 pm Keynote 3: Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) “When Cubans Go South: Learning the Language of Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Nationalism” \n12:15-1:30 pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00 pm Graduate Panel #3 – Nineteenth-Century Recoveries: Translating Texts and Places \n\nMargaret McMurtrey (UCSB Religious Studies)\, “Singing Grace\, Embodying Language and Place”\nGabriela Valenzuela (UCLA English)\, “Literary Wanderings: Nineteenth-Century Central American-U.S. Contact Zones and Spatial Imaginings”\nBrandon Wild (UCI English)\, “Cincinnati: ‘El asombro de todos los que viajan la América del Norte’”\nRESPONDENT: Sara Johnson (UCSD Literature)\n\n3:00 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n3:15-4:45 pm Keynote 4: Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara U) “Archival Diving in the Global Pacific: Towards a New American Literary History” \n4:45-5:30pm Closing roundtable\, moderated by Susan Gillman & Kirsten Silva Gruesz \n6:00-8:00 pm Closing reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nAbout Translating America/America Translated: \nThis symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages for American literary studies returns to historical moments that allow a reconsideration of language crossings as geographic alternatives to nation-bound paradigms. A 1998 conference on American empire at UC Santa Cruz produced groundbreaking work that has since become foundational\, shifting the study of American cultures irrevocably away from an Atlantic-centered narrative of national development\, and correspondingly toward languages other than English. Now\, twenty years later\, we revisit a once radically revisionist geo-timeline\, dating to the 1998 centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War and recasting the history of US empire back from Cuba 1898 to an earlier time and place in the border treaty with Mexico in 1848. Critically examining the state of the discipline today\, this symposium looks back still earlier: to the later eighteenth-century suturing of colonial to national studies that has proven exceptionally fruitful for scholars working across indigenous and multiple European colonial languages. Just as California’s demographic diversity prefigures that of the future United States at large\, the University of California is rich in the human resources needed to re-invent a usable past for American cultural and literary studies. For more information visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/projects/translating-america-america-translated \nSponsors:\n“Translating America/American Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego. \n“Translating America/America Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego.\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nVISITING GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER UC CAMPUSES\nChip Badley (UCSB English)\nAnastasia Baginski (UCI Comparative Literature)\nYui Kasane (UCSD Literature)\nAmanda Kong (UCD English)\nEfren López (UCLA English)\nLorena Vega Tamayo (UC Riverside Hispanic Studies)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ifeoma-c-kiddoe-nwankwo-translating-americas-symposium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T053454
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SUMMARY:Translating America/America Translated Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz\, UC Irvine\, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation\, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today\, the “Translating America/America Translated” symposium aims to re-situate scholarly and public narratives of American culture by way of multiple languages and various origin-points in space and time. It aims to move forward an important national conversation on the future of the field in its multilingual and multi-geographic dimensions and seeks to build a cohort of early-career comparative Americanist scholars. \nProject Directors: \nSusan Gillman\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz\nKirsten Gruesz\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTranslating America/America Translated: A UC Faculty-Graduate Symposium\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFebruary 22\, 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm\nFebruary 23\, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm \nKeynote speakers include six prominent scholars of hemispheric American studies: \nIfeoma Nwankwo (Associate Professor of English and Associate Provost\, Vanderbilt University)\nJesse Alemán (Professor of English and American Studies\, Univ. of New Mexico)\nAnna Brickhouse (Professor of English and Director of American Studies\, Univ. of Virginia)\nMichelle Burnham (Professor of English\, Santa Clara University)\nSara Johnson (Associate Professor of Literature of the Americas\, UC San Diego)\nRodrigo Lazo (Professor of English and Spanish and Director\, Humanities Core Program\, UC Irvine) \nProgram: \nFriday\, February 22: \n11 am-12:30pm PhD+ Writing Workshop on journal publication with Gordon Hutner\, editor of American Literary History (lunch provided) \n1:00-2:30pm \nWelcome: Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nKeynote 1: Ifeoma Nwankwo (Vanderbilt University) “Jim Crow Meets Racial Democracy” \n2:30 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n2:45-4:15 pm Graduate Panel #1 – Personal Narratives: Translations\, Republications\, Reprintings \n\nTimothy Fosbury (UCLA English)\, “Crèvecouer’s Bermudian Crisis”\nBrian Flores (UCI English)\, “‘Y nosotros vivimos aquí en la frontera’: Modes of Framing Latina/o Identity in the Autobiographies of José Policarpo Rodriguez and Santiago Tafolla”\nEmily Travis (UCSC Literature)\,“A vida simple: The Complex Afterlives of Alice Dayrell Brant’s Minha vida de menina”\nRESPONDENT: Amanda Smith (UCSC Literature)\n\n 4:30-6:00 pm Keynote 2: Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) “Earthquake History in the Americas” \n6:00-8:00 pm Opening reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nSaturday\, February 23: \n8:30 am Coffee and muffins (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n9:00-10:30am Graduate Panel #2 – Coloniality\, Indigeneity\, Power \n\nJenny Forsythe (UCLA Comparative Literature)\, “Ladrones\, vagabundos\, holgazones sin honra ni vergüenza: Inca Garcilaso’s Imperialist Translators Meet the Man in the Canoe”\nCarlos Macías Prieto (UCB Spanish and Portuguese)\, “Domingo Chimalpahin’s Rewriting of Antonio de Morga’s Narrative of Black Conspiracy in 1612”\nAmrah Salomón (UCSD Ethnic Studies)\, “Regeneración and Regeneration: Anti- Colonial Theory Across Borders”\nRESPONDENT: Rodrigo Lazo (UCI English)\n\n10:45 am-12:15 pm Keynote 3: Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) “When Cubans Go South: Learning the Language of Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Nationalism” \n12:15-1:30 pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00 pm Graduate Panel #3 – Nineteenth-Century Recoveries: Translating Texts and Places \n\nMargaret McMurtrey (UCSB Religious Studies)\, “Singing Grace\, Embodying Language and Place”\nGabriela Valenzuela (UCLA English)\, “Literary Wanderings: Nineteenth-Century Central American-U.S. Contact Zones and Spatial Imaginings”\nBrandon Wild (UCI English)\, “Cincinnati: ‘El asombro de todos los que viajan la América del Norte’”\nRESPONDENT: Sara Johnson (UCSD Literature)\n\n3:00 pm Coffee and cookies (Humanities 1\, Room 202) \n3:15-4:45 pm Keynote 4: Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara U) “Archival Diving in the Global Pacific: Towards a New American Literary History” \n4:45-5:30pm Closing roundtable\, moderated by Susan Gillman & Kirsten Silva Gruesz \n6:00-8:00 pm Closing reception and dinner at Cowell Provost House \nAbout Translating America/America Translated: \nThis symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages for American literary studies returns to historical moments that allow a reconsideration of language crossings as geographic alternatives to nation-bound paradigms. A 1998 conference on American empire at UC Santa Cruz produced groundbreaking work that has since become foundational\, shifting the study of American cultures irrevocably away from an Atlantic-centered narrative of national development\, and correspondingly toward languages other than English. Now\, twenty years later\, we revisit a once radically revisionist geo-timeline\, dating to the 1998 centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War and recasting the history of US empire back from Cuba 1898 to an earlier time and place in the border treaty with Mexico in 1848. Critically examining the state of the discipline today\, this symposium looks back still earlier: to the later eighteenth-century suturing of colonial to national studies that has proven exceptionally fruitful for scholars working across indigenous and multiple European colonial languages. Just as California’s demographic diversity prefigures that of the future United States at large\, the University of California is rich in the human resources needed to re-invent a usable past for American cultural and literary studies. For more information visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/projects/translating-america-america-translated \nSponsors:\n“Translating America/American Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego. \n“Translating America/America Translated” is hosted and staffed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, with financial support from the University of California Institute for Humanities Research (UCHRI); the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment in Literary Studies and the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz; the Humanities Core Program at UC Irvine; and the Black Studies Project at the Humanities Center at UC San Diego.\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nVISITING GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER UC CAMPUSES\nChip Badley (UCSB English)\nAnastasia Baginski (UCI Comparative Literature)\nYui Kasane (UCSD Literature)\nAmanda Kong (UCD English)\nEfren López (UCLA English)\nLorena Vega Tamayo (UC Riverside Hispanic Studies)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/translating-america-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lise Getoor: "Responsible Data Science"
DESCRIPTION:The 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Professor Lise Getoor on Tuesday\, February 26\, 2019 at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex. \n“Responsible Data Science” \nData science is an emerging discipline that offers both promise and peril. Responsible data science refers to efforts that address both the technical and societal issues in emerging data-driven technologies. Prof. Getoor is a computer scientist who is well known for her theoretical work that integrates logic and probability to reason collectively and holistically about context in structured domains. In this lecture\, she will describe some of the opportunities and challenges in developing the foundations for responsible data science. How can machine learning and AI systems reason effectively about complex dependencies and uncertainty? Furthermore\, how do we understand the ethical and justice issues involved in data-driven decision-making? There is a pressing need to integrate algorithmic and statistical principles\, social science theories\, and basic humanist concepts so that we can think critically and constructively about the socio-technical systems we are building. In this talk\, she will lay the groundwork for this important agenda.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lise-getoor-responsible-data-science/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Giving Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour giving drive to support students\, staff\, and faculty initiatives. Join us in the circle of Giving on February 27th 2019 from 12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. #give2UCSC \nFIND A HUMANITIES PROJECT TO SUPPORT ON GIVING DAY: \nCenter for Public Philosophy \nThe Okinawa Memories Initiative \nThe Center for Cultural Studies Graduate Student Workshops in Race\, Migration\, and Sexuality \nCenter for World History Grad Conference \nNido de Lenguas (Language Nest) \nClassics Alive! \nHistory of Consciousness Graduate Student Research Fund
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2019/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film “Last Day of Freedom.” When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother\, a Veteran returning from war\, as he faces criminal charges\, racism\, and ultimately the death penalty. This film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care\, mental health access and criminal justice. She will discuss Last Day of Freedom as well as her upcoming animated documentary Run With It on Troy Davis’ story. A black man accused of killing a white police officer in Savannah Georgia\, USA. \nDee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award® nominated\, Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker; a Guggenheim Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Working in collaboration with Nomi Talisman\, she produces animated documentary films that explore the crisis in the criminal justice system and the US racial divide\, challenging entrenched attitudes\, immersing viewers in a complex world of feelings and experiences\, engendering empathy and critical reflection. In 2015 they received the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke\, created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are potential catalysts for education and change. Hibbert-Jones was recently awarded a United States Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award in recognition for her “outstanding national commitment to civil rights\, and social justice” and a Gideon award for “support to indigent minorities” for her film work.She a Professor of Art\, Film\, and Digital Art New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \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/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-7/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:International Women's Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
DESCRIPTION:The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2017). The second speaker is Dr. Barbara Sutton of the University of Albany\, SUNY who will speak about her book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press\, 2018). Together\, these books explore the critical themes of resistance\, survival\, intersectionality\, and trauma/hardships in the Americas. \nSchedule:\n1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ~ Dr. Ranita Ray\, University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\n3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. ~ Break with light snacks\n3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. ~ Dr. Barbara Sutton\, University at Albany\, SUNY \nAbout the Speakers: \nRanita Ray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. She is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms\, children and youth\, urban inequalities\, and education and policing. Her book\, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press\, 2018)\, challenges common wisdom that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs\, gangs\, violence\, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ray has published several other articles and book chapters related to children/youth\, urban inequalities\, race\, class and gender\, and co-authored a book titled As The Leaves Turn Gold: Aging Experiences of Asian Americans (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers\, 2012). Ray is currently preparing a book manuscript that draws on rigorous fieldwork to explore how the relationship between policing\, race\, class\, and gender shapes schooling experiences and educational trajectories of children growing up in marginalized communities in Las Vegas. Ray is actively involved in community-oriented research projects\, and co-founder of Heating Youth Voices—a Connecticut based youth led organization. \nBarbara Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American\, Caribbean\, and U.S. Latino Studies at the same institution. She earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (her country of origin) as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon. Professor Sutton’s scholarly interests include body politics\, global gender issues\, state violence and human rights\, collective memory\, and women’s movements\, particularly in Latin American contexts. Her book\, Bodies in Crisis: Culture\, Violence\, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press\, 2010) received the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association. Her new book\, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina\, was published by NYU Press in the Spring of 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-womens-day-celebrating-feminist-scholarship-americas/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Research Center for the Americas":MAILTO:rca@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nLiving Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita\, Seshu Foster\, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni. \nThis event is sponsored by The Literature Department\, The Creative Writing Program\, The Humanities Division\, Porter College\, Kresge College\, Cowell College\, Oakes College\, Feminist Studies\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-celebration/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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