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SUMMARY:Paul Gootenberg: From Teonanácatl to Miami Vice - Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture
DESCRIPTION:Long before today’s entanglements with coke\, meth\, and weed\, the Americas were a proving ground of global drug cultures. This millennium of shamanistic and Aztec psychedelics\, colonial and Atlantic stimulants such as coffee and tobacco\, national drug goods like tequila and coca\, preceded the menacing 20th-century explosion of illicit drug trafficking\, and shed light on our changing relationships to mind drugs and their commerce. \n\n  \n \nPaul Gootenberg\, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology at Stony Brook University\, and Chair of History\, is a Latin Americanist and commodity studies specialist and leader in the field of global drug history. He trained at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His books include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC\, 2008) and with Liliana M. Dávalos\, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Routledge\, 2018). He is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History and President-elect of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS). \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for World History
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-gootenberg-the-history-of-cocaine-in-latin-america/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T191000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark
DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart\, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels\, Rolling the R’s (Kaya Press) which he’d adapted for the stage\, and Leche (Coffee House Press)\, as well as four poetry collections\, most recently\, Pop Vérité\, all from Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu\, Hawaii\, and Baguio\, Philippines.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-r-zamora-linmark/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000
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SUMMARY:Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Eli Yassif’s lecture “Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor” \nJewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Jewish People\, and its history dates back to Biblical times. But is there really “Jewish Humor”\, and if so\, what are its major characteristics? This talk will explore the earliest collections of Jewish jokes\, from early in the 19th century\, and strive to understand\, by analyzing some exemplary jokes\, the place and impact Jewish humor has had in and on Early Modern history and culture. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nEli Yassif is the Berger Professor of Jewish Folk-Culture in the School of Jewish Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He studies the history of Jewish folklore and the Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages\, and published over 100 studies – books and scholarly articles in these fields. \nHis book: The Hebrew Folktale: History\, Genre\, Meaning was published in 1999 by Indiana University Press\, and was elected as the best Jewish scholarly book for that year. It is used as the basic textbook in Israel and in the US in teaching this field. \nHis latest book was published just this year: The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press\, 2019). \nProf. Yassif served as a visiting professor at UCLA and UC Berkeley\, Oxford University\, University of Michigan\, University of Chicago\, Yale University and Stanford. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eli-yassif-before-seinfeld-the-early-modern-roots-of-jewish-humor/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T133000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
DESCRIPTION:“What More Remains: Sexuality\, Slavery\, Historiography” \nThis talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced?  How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit and pleasure\, than in archives of loss and trauma? How do we open a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of area studies and sexuality studies with an eye to understanding how histories of slavery can reshape\, even devastate\, these very field-formations? \nAnjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality\, colonialism and historiography\, with a focus on South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\, Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies\,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016). Her talk is an excerpt from her forthcoming book\, Abundance: On Sexuality and Historiography. \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. \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-anjali-arondekar/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this is a two-day event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-practices-key-note/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kresge's Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)
DESCRIPTION:Join Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole\, a photographer\, novelist\, art historian\, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has recently co-authored a book on refugees and displaced people\, titled Human Archipelago\, and several of his recent pieces for the New York Times focus on the visual depiction of human suffering and its purpose (“A Crime Scene at the Border” and “When the Camera was a Weapon of Imperialism (and still is)“). Co-sponsored by Kresge College\, the University Library\, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, EOP\, the office of Student Achievement & Equity Innovation\, Porter\, Merrill\, and Cowell Colleges\, the African American Resource and Cultural Center\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, HAVC\, and SOMeCA. \nClick here for more information and to Register for the event
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kresges-media-and-society-teju-cole-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the\nBeyond the End of the World series. \n  \nDue to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to reschedule her engagement in Santa Cruz for January 23\, 2020. Click here for updated event information. \n  \nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. She has a forthcoming book titled Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (University of North Carolina Press). Taylor’s writing has been published in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, Boston Review\, Paris Review\, Guardian\, The Nation\, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics\, Culture and Society\, Jacobin\, and beyond. In 2016\, she was designated as one of the one hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by the The Root. Taylor is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Keynote presentations include: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\, award-winning author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Déborah Danowski\, co-author of the speculative analysis of our dystopian present\, The Ends of the World; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro\, Brazilian anthropologist and author of Cannibal Metaphysics; Amitav Ghosh\, award-winning fiction writer and author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable; Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux)\, co-founder of Red Nation and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance; Melanie Yazzie (Bilagáana/Diné)\, Red Nation member and co-editor of Decolonization: Indigeneity\, Education and Society; and artist-activists Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon of MTL/Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement centering Indigenous struggle\, Black liberation\, free Palestine\, global wage workers and de-gentrification. \nFor more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute.  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T191000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T203000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions\, 2018)\, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook\, Dulce (Northwestern University Press\, 2018)\, was chosen by Chris Abani\, Ed Roberson\, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir\, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation\, trauma\, and mobility between borders.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T093000
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SUMMARY:Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
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URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/democratic-interpellations-conference/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T210000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Film Festival: General Magic
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival‘s showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary\, is a tale of how a great vision\, a grave betrayal and an epic failure changed the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the next big thing\, General Magic shipped the first handheld wireless personal communicator in 1994. From the first smartphones to social media\, e-commerce and even emoji\, the ideas that now dominate the tech industry and our day-to-day lives were born at General Magic. \nCombining rare archive footage with contemporary stories of the Magicians today\, this documentary tracks the progress of anytime\, anywhere communication from a thing of sci-fi fiction in 1994 to a reality in our pockets today. This is the story of one of history’s most talented teams and what happens when those who dream big fail\, fail again\, fail better and ultimately succeed. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-film-festival-general-magic/
LOCATION:Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View)\, 1010 River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T130000
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SUMMARY:Blacklisted Jews Like Us:  Gerda & Carl Lerner - Intersectionality\, Experience as Deviants\, and the Film "Black Like Me"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg \nVera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013)\, a pioneer of women’s history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like Me with husband and film director Carl Lerner. The film is based on the highly controversial book by John Howard Griffin\, a white writer who in 1959 darkened his skin and traveled through the Jim Crow-era “deep South” to expose the everyday realities of racism. The film reflects the Lerners’ experience as participants in the civil rights movement and their own experiences of repression as communists in Cold War America and Gerda’s persecution as a Jew in Nazi Europe \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/blacklisted-jews-like-us-gerda-carl-lerner-intersectionality-experience-as-deviants-and-the-film-black-like-me/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000
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SUMMARY:David Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation - On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
DESCRIPTION:Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book\, Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press\, 2019)\, co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice\, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration\, displacement\, diaspora\, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties\, from depression\, suicide\, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype\, transnational adoption\, parachute children\, colorblind discourses in the United States\, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout\, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena\, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race\, sexuality\, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora. \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies\, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory\, and the Program in Gender\, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. After receiving his B.A. in English from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley\, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway)\, King’s College London\, Harvard University\, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. In 2016\, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American literature\, Asian American studies\, Asian diaspora\, critical race theory\, psychoanalysis\, queer studies\, gender studies\, and visual culture. \nEng is author with Shinhee Han of Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke\, 2019)\, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke\, 2010)\, and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke\, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California\, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple\, 1998\, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award). In addition\, he is co-editor of two special issues of the journal Social Text: with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen\, “China and the Human”  (2011/2012)\, and with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz\, “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (2005). \nCurrently\, he is co-editing with Jasbir Puar a third special issue of Social Text\, “Left of Queer” as well as completing a monograph\, “Reparations and the Human\,” which investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, Literature\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Feminist Studies departments.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
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SUMMARY:Lit Quake
DESCRIPTION:Funny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird \nIt’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie\, Micah Perks\, Peggy Townsend\, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nIn honor of Litquake’s 20th anniversary in 2019\, the festival is holding 20 events in 20 cities nationwide – including this Santa Cruz event! Read more about Litquake\, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary\, here. \nAbout the writers: \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and others. \nMicah Perks is the author of four books\, most recently a book of linked short stories\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nWallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times\, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness. \nPeggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel\, See Her Run and its follow-up\, The Thin Edge\, both published by Thomas &  Mercer. As a reporter\, she has covered serial killers\, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors\, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. \nLiza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High\, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love\, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the LA Times\, The Washington Post\, O\, Marie Claire\, Jezebel\, Catamaran\, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband\, two tiny humans\, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently\, she is writing her second novel\, a dark comedy of technology and obsession.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lit-quake/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni
DESCRIPTION:Sara Mameni “On the Terracene” \nThis talk considers the Anthropocene from the perspective of artists working within areas devastated by the War on Terror. While the popularization of the concept of the Anthropocene dates to the early 2000s–the very moment of the declaration of the War on Terror–the two modes of imagining the geopolitics of the present have yet to be considered together. Mameni coins the term “Terracene” as an entry point into considering the condition of the planet under terror. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSara Mameni is the director of Aesthetics and Politics program and faculty in the school of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. She received her PhD in Art History from University of California San Diego in 2015 and was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2016/2017. Her specialization is contemporary art in the Arab/Muslim world with a focus on queer of color theory. Her current research explores biopolitics\, racial discourse in the Anthropocene\, post-humanist aesthetics and the geo-ecological age of petroleum. \nFree and open to the public. \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-anjali-arondekar-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T170000
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SUMMARY:Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
DESCRIPTION:A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute \nThis talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist and transphobic violence and how those intersections are erased or distorted in public discourse. Professor Medina will examine the communicative dysfunctions that exist around gender and racial violence and how sexist\, transphobic\, and racist imaginaries create vulnerabilities that remain unaddressed. He will discuss how we can exercise the imagination in resistant ways and how we can resist those communicative dysfunctions and oppressive imaginaries by imagining otherwise. He  will discuss some specific cases of gender and racial violence and the ways in which they were distorted in the media coverage\, showing how critically engaged publics can resist those distortions and the forms of activism that we can engage in to fight gender and racial violence. \nProfessor José Medina is theWalter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imagining-otherwise-resisting-and-queering-racial-and-gender-violence/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20190822T211200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T031525Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Learn about locating fellowship opportunities\, framing your research for different funding organizations\, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polić\, Suraiya Jetha (The Humanities Institute) and Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director at University of California Humanities Research Institute). We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for an important conversation on securing funding for Humanities research. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the fourth 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: \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/47085/
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:20191018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T153000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20191007T214620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T214620Z
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SUMMARY:Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday\, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. Chancellor Larive\, UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey\, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola\, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s four winners and their families. \n \nWe hope to see you at the event as we honor student writing and the legacy of Don Rothman.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/don-rothman-endowed-award-in-first-year-writing/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20191014T224500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T192754Z
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SUMMARY:Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions\, 2018)\, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook\, Dulce (Northwestern University Press\, 2018)\, was chosen by Chris Abani\, Ed Roberson\, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir\, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation\, trauma\, and mobility between borders.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/discussion-with-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 620\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191021T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20190722T185903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T201330Z
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SUMMARY:The Original Thinkers Series: A Conversation About Oliver Sacks
DESCRIPTION:Please note a recent change to our lineup: Peabody Award-wining journalist and producer Nikki Silva (Porter\, ’73) and Cowell College Provost Alan Christy will engage Ren Weschler in conversation about Oliver Sacks. Robert Krulwich is unable to join us this evening. Please enjoy this recent Kitchen Sisters episode of The Keepers featuring Ren Weschler. \nAnd How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? is a biographical memoir about Oliver Sacks written by Ren Weschler (Cowell ’74). It is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? A question which Ren\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nMonday\, October 21\, 7:00–9:00 p.m. \nMusic Center Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz \n \nQuestions?\nContact the Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003. \nSPEAKERS \n\n\nLawrence (Ren) Weschler \nA graduate of Cowell College (1974)\, Ren Weschler writes in LitHub about his earliest awareness of Sacks. Ren was a staff writer for more than 20 years (1981–2002) at The New Yorker. The director emeritus of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU\, Ren is also the author of more than 20 books\, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n  \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/original-thinkers-robert-krulwich-and-ren-weschler/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20190722T194851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T202519Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Marcus
DESCRIPTION:“When is a Boycott a Boycott? Lebanon\, Palestine and Hollywood\, and the Arrest of Ziad Doueiri” \nThis paper looks at the arrest and court case of Lebanese film director\, Ziad Doueiri. Doueiri broke the 1955 Boycott Law by shooting a film in Israel\, using Israeli and Palestinian actors. The film was then banned across the all the countries of the Arab League. Marcus argues that his case compelled the law to define the terms around which a cultural object should be subject to a boycott\, and she investigates the intersections between old laws\, new global movements\, and state sovereignty. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nElizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program at Stanford University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French\, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. Her research focuses on the literatures as well as the intellectual and cultural history of the Francophone and Arab world with a particular interest in the relationship between language and cultural politics\, intellectual networks\, and migration in the afterlife of the French Empire. Her current manuscript\, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon\, 1943-1975\, uncovers the response of local actors to the unique period of transition Lebanon at the end of the French mandate to the beginning of the civil war in 1975. During her time as a British Academy Fellow\, she will start her second project\, Paris and the Global University: International Students and Cultural Internationalism at the Cité Universitaire\, 1945-1975\, which looks at how the Cité internationale Universitaire\, a residential campus in the Parisian outskirts\, became a crucible of left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975). \n The 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-elizabeth-marcus/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191025T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191011T205335Z
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SUMMARY:Riyaaz Qawwali Performance - Sufi Music Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Qawwali is a musical tradition from present-day India\, Pakistan\, and Afghanistan\, dating back 700 years. The group Riyaaz Qawwali brings 13th-century Sufi music to life by overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers\, translating lyrics to unravel the cultural heritage of South Asian devotional music. Trained in Eastern and Western classical music\, the members have been professionally performing qawwali for the past twelve years. \nRiyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia: the ensemble’s musicians\, who are settled in the United States\, hail from India\, Pakistan\, Afghanistan\, and Bangladesh and represent multiple religious and spiritual backgrounds. Click here to learn more about the ensemble. \n \n$10 – General Admission \n$4 – UCSC Students with ID \nDay-of-event ticket window opens at 6:30PM\nDoors open at 7:00PM\nParking permit: $5 (cash or credit via attendant in Arts Lot 126) \n  \nPresented by the Kamil and Talat Hasan Chair in Classical Indian Music\, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Indian Classical Music\, and the UC Santa Cruz Music Department. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/riyaaz-qawwali-performance-sufi-music-ensemble/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20191023T233548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T163023Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Glenn Tiffert: Censorship\, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base - Lessons from China
DESCRIPTION:Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge\, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable\, difficult to detect\, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china\, this talk shows how a determined actor can exploit those vulnerabilities to tamper dynamically with the historical record. It furthermore demonstrates that machine learning models can now accurately reproduce the choices made by human censors\, and warns that we are on the cusp of a new\, algorithmic paradigm of information control and censorship that poses an existential threat to the foundations of all empirically-grounded disciplines. At a time of ascendant illiberalism around the world\, robust\, collective safeguards are urgently required to defend the integrity of our source base\, and the knowledge we derive from it. \nGlenn Tiffert is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Tiffert earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California\, Berkeley. From 2015-2017\, he was the Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Residence at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where he also held faculty appointments in the History Department and Asian Languages & Cultures Department\, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on modern China. He has taught at Berkeley\, Harvard\, and UCLA\, and currently serves on the Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History. \n  \nFor further information\, contact Minghui Hu: mhu@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/glenn-tiffert-censorship-digitalization-and-the-fragility-of-our-knowledge-base-lessons-from-china/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20190927T185513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T193204Z
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SUMMARY:Halloween Lecture "The Vampire in Love" (with costume contest)
DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series  \nOh yeah\, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual. \nFrom the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in the early nineteenth century\, the vampire has been a figure of both fear and desire\, often represented through the vampire’s longings and the range of social responses they inspire. This talk considers several different examples of “the vampire in love” in order to explore what the vampire might tell us about our most pressing social\, cultural\, and political concerns across the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches courses on contemporary fiction\, vampire narratives\, fairy tales\, and digital culture in relation to feminist and critical race theories. She has published a number of books and articles on a range of topics\, including most recently “Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber” (2015).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/halloween-lecture-the-vampire-in-love-with-costume-contest/
LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T143000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20191023T224749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T234414Z
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SUMMARY:Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun - Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Stevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young: \nMabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of armed resistance and reveals the complex set of struggles between Black men and women about Black self-defense. \n Jasmin A. Young is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies. She is currently developing her manuscript\, Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle. This work rethinks the history of the Black Freedom Movement by placing Black women’s armed activity at the center of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The project explores the extensive practice and advocacy of armed resistance by Black women. \nPresented by Stevenson College in collaboration with UCSC History Department\, CRES\, The Humanities Institute\, and Feminist Studies departments. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasmin-young-she-stood-there-by-him-with-a-gun-mabel-williams-and-the-philosophy-of-armed-resistance/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20190910T230311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T175037Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Elizabeth Strout: Olive\, Again
DESCRIPTION:Due to disruptions and concerns about ongoing wildfire and power disruptions across California\, Elizabeth Strout’s entire California tour has been cancelled/postponed to a future date. This means our event with Elizabeth Strout on October 29th has been CANCELLED. \nIf you purchased a ticket to this event\, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be in touch with you via email within the next day. Please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com with any questions in the meantime. Thank you. \nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a very special evening when #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Join us to discuss her highly anticipated new novel\, Olive\, Again\, in which she continues the life of her beloved character Olive Kitteridge. Strout will be in-conversation with writer Elizabeth McKenzie at this ticketed event\, also cosponsored by KAZU\, which will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab. \nThis great night out\, perfect for book groups and literature lovers\, will also feature a book signing by Elizabeth Strout\, raffle prizes and giveaways\, plus refreshments (including wine and beer) available for purchase. Literary Soiree attendees will have a chance to win great prizes\, including advanced reading copies of fall’s buzz books\, Elizabeth Strout’s paperback books\, tickets to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s upcoming event with Erin Morgenstern of The Night Circus fame\, and more. Each attendee will leave with great book recommendations after they stop by curated book stations in the lobby hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz Book Group Ambassadors such as “The 5 Best Books My Book Club Have Ever Read” or “Surviving 2020: Books That Will Make You Believe in Humanity.” \nTickets are $32 and include entry for one person to the soiree and one copy of Olive\, Again.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elizabeth-strout-olive-again/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T030036
CREATED:20190722T195016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T202910Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
DESCRIPTION:“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear”\nUnder what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even a moral crime? Is this silent war on the body and idea of the citizen on the constitutional theorist and moral philosopher B. R. Ambedkar’s mind when\, in his revolutionary classic Annihilation of Caste (1936)\, he coins the phrase “armed neutrality?” In this lecture\, building on a new constellation of thinkers in political theory\, Kumar develops the fundamental insight that Ambedkar\, Hannah Arendt\, and Judith Shklar\, in conceptually different ways and with radically different moral psychological consequences\, offer on today’s insoluble democratic impasse: that the most catastrophic effect of social inequality is not merely a betrayal of our constitutional compact to justice but a weaponization of a new form of political cruelty. What is this new cruelty? And what kind of constitutional courage– a re-articulation of dignity– might today be necessary to retrieve our freedom? \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAishwary Kumar is an intellectual historian and political theorist with interests in South Asian\, European\, and American political thought. His work spans a wide spectrum of issues in moral and political philosophy\, constitutional theory and political justice\, war and ethics\, empire and liberalism\, and the history of democratic thought and rights. Kumar’s first book\, Radical Equality: Ambedkar\, Gandhi\, and the Risk of Democracy (Stanford\, 2015; Delhi\, 2019)\, was listed by The Indian Express among the fifteen most important works on politics\, morality\, and law to be published anywhere that year. His essays have appeared\, among other places\, in Modern Intellectual History\, Contemporary South Asia\, Social History\, Indian Economic and Social History Review\, and Public Culture. He has also been featured on the radio shows Entitled Opinions and Philosophy Talk. Kumar is currently working on two related book-length studies. The first\, titled “The Sovereign Void: Ambedkar’s Critique of Violence\,” examines the genealogies of political freedom and war in Southern and Atlantic political thought\, and their relation to notions of “force” across epistemological\, theological\, and secular traditions. The second\, titled “The Gravity of Truth: Disenchantment\, Disappointment\, Democracy\,” takes the Obama Presidency as its starting point to explore the place of moral and political judgment in the global constitutional imagination. \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-aishwary-kumar/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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