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SUMMARY:Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Jessica Guild: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSamuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA\nASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas\, Ph.D. Blending vocals\, oud\, violin\, nay\, and plenty of percussion\, with songs in Hebrew\, Arabic\, Spanish\, and Ladino\, this trio ensemble traverses several North African song traditions. Drawing upon a rich intercultural mix of Hebraic and Islamic traditions\, audiences feel the heartbeat of the Maghreb. Thomas is an ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist\, and as artistic director of the New York Andalus Ensemble and ASEFA\, he journeys through a lush Mediterranean garden of songs in Hebrew\, Arabic\, Ladino\, and Spanish\, highlighting intercultural exchange in the expressive cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Thomas teaches music\, interdisciplinary studies\, and Sephardic studies at the City University of New York. He is a frequent guest speaker at cultural institutions\, universities\, and in multi-denominational ecumenical spaces worldwide. His formal talks center on historical and cultural topics related to Sephardi-Mizraḥi Jewry. \n \nAdvanced Ticket Price – $26.25 \nDoor Ticket Price – $31.50 (half price for students) \nSponsored by the Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nDirections and Parking:\nKuumbwa Jazz Center located at 320 Cedar St # 2\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center: https://kuumbwajazz.org/about/directions-accommodations/ \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 3\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/samuel-torjman-thomas-asefa/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih - The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
DESCRIPTION:There are many approaches to modeling lexically-conditioned phonology in current formal theories\, including lexically-indexed constraints and cophonologies. Nearly all of these existing approaches assume categorical membership in the lexical classes that condition differential phonotactics or phonological behaviors: for example\, a lexical item is either a noun or a verb\, or of one gender class or another. In this talk\, Stephanie Shih presents evidence from sound symbolic patterns that demonstrates the need for gradient membership in the lexical classes that condition phonological patterns. Case studies include cross-linguistic Pokémon names and English baseball player names and nicknames. From these cases\, Shih proposes an implementation of Maximum Entropy Harmonic Grammar with lexically-indexed constraints and gradient symbolic activations over classes that allows us to model differences in phonological patterns over both discrete and gradient class membership. This theoretical implementation is a natural extension of the scales and gradient activations that have been shown to be necessary in recent phonological theory: sound symbolic evidence highlights the necessity for such increased explanatory power in our phonological models. Crucially\, we find gradient lexically-conditioned patterns not only in sound symbolism—where they are often most obvious—but also in what is considered “core” language (e.g.\, morphosyntactic classes)\, and allowing gradient class structures in our phonological models may ultimately make for cleaner interfaces with other parts of grammar such as morphosyntax. \nPresented by the UCSC Department of Linguistics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-stephanie-shih/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Savannah Shange - Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness\, Anthropology and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:This talk draws on Savannah Shange’s recently published book\, Progressive Dystopia\, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum ‘abolition’ has as a political critique of prisons and policing\, what does it offer us as scholars trying to apprehend the broad set of violences that compose the current moment? Put another way\, what does abolition demand of us? \nSavannah Shange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race\, place\, sexuality\, and the state. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness\, ethnographic ethics\, Afro-pessimism\, and queer of color critique. \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/savannah-shange-anthropology/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Urmi Engineer Willoughby -  Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South\, 1718-1860
DESCRIPTION:The Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture \nIn this talk\, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture\, development\, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, and show how economic and agricultural systems associated with white settlement and plantation slavery fostered the spread of malaria and yellow fever. Malaria grew endemic in new settlements and plantations as newcomers cleared forests\, drained swamps\, and grew rice and maize. Yellow fever caused seasonal epidemics in the built environment of New Orleans\, as a result of ecological changes caused by sugar plantations and urban construction. Studying these processes in a global framework\, this project considers the Gulf South region as a representation of global patterns of development and ecological change in fostering the growth of malaria and yellow fever in diverse geographical and historical contexts. \nUrmi Engineer Willoughby is the current Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at the Huntington Library and the author of Yellow Fever\, Race\, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (LSU Press\, 2017). She completed her Ph.D. in History at UCSC. \n  \nThis lecture is made possible by the generosity of Thom Gentle (Cowell ’69\, History)\, a pioneer class alumnus who established The Thom Gentle Endowment for History to support student awards in environmental history as well as lectures of distinguished speakers with an environmental emphasis.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/urmi-engineer-willoughby-cultivating-malaria-in-the-gulf-south-1718-1860/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating\, Start Writing
DESCRIPTION:Not sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh\, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop\, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the dissertation process\, share experiences and strategies\, and learn concrete practices (time management\, a writing practice\, accountability exercises\, and self care) for success in completing the PhD. We will frame the dissertation as a professional and personal growth tool for becoming the kind of scholars\, writers\, thinkers\, and people we want to be in the world. Whether you plan to pursue a career in academia or not\, you will leave this workshop knowing what you need to do to make dissertating work for the unique circumstances of your life. \n  \nAmanda M. Smith is an assistant professor of Latin American literature. Her research focuses on cultural production from and about the Amazonian region of South America\, taking up questions of spatiality\, ecology\, Indigeneity\, and extractivism. Using many of the strategies that she will share in this workshop\, she writes about 150 pages a year on these topics while also teaching\, carrying out university service commitments\, doing a lot of hiking in the redwoods\, and chasing her twin 4-year-olds around. \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:\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-stop-disserhating-start-writing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
DESCRIPTION:Using photography\, video\, and sound installation\, Hong-An Truong engages questions about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees\, her work explores historical and political themes\, especially around war\, violence\, and race. \nTruong’s talk will focus on several recent projects that explore how citizenship and notions of belonging are constructed in order to expand our conception of refugees and Asian American identity within a larger global history of anti-colonial struggle and cross-national organizing. \nRecipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship\, Hong-An Truong is an artist who explores immigrant\, refugee\, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the MFA Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. \nPresented by the Center for Racial Justice and co-sponsored by Art+Design Placemaking
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/refugee-returns-hong-an-truong/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Carlos Motta - We The Enemy
DESCRIPTION:In We The Enemy\, Carlos Motta will present a series of recent and past works\, including those exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. Motta’s work documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual\, gender\, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge dominant and normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. As a historian of untold narratives and an archivist of repressed histories\, Motta is committed to in-depth research on the struggles of post-colonial subjects and societies. His work manifests in a variety of mediums including video\, installation\, sculpture\, drawing\, web-based projects\, performance\, and symposia. \nCarlos Motta (b. 1978) was born in Bogotá\, Colombia and lives and works in New York City. Motta has been the subject of survey exhibitions including at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín\, Colombia\, Matucana 100\, Santiago\, Chile\, and Röda Sten Konsthall\, Göteborg\, Sweden. His work is in the permanent collections of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York; The Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Guggenheim Museum\, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia\, Madrid; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona; and Museo de Arte de Banco de la República\, Bogotá\, among others. His solo exhibitions include Galeria Vermelho\, São Paulo (2019); Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam (2017); Pérez Art Museum\, Miami (2016); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2016); PinchukArtCentre\, Kiev (2015); Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros\, Mexico City (2013); New Museum\, New York (2012); MoMA PS1\, New York (2009); and Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia (2009). Motta participated in 32 Bienal de São Paulo (2016); X Gwangju Biennale (2014); and X Lyon Biennale (2010). His films have been screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival (2016\, 2010); Toronto International Film Festival (2013); and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2016); among others. Motta has been awarded the Vilcek Foundation’s Prize for Creative Promise (2017); the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Art Prize (2014); and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008). \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/carlos-motta/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx - You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the bestselling team of New Yorker illustrator Roz Chast and New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx for a presentation of their hilarious illustrated guide to love and relationships\, You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. Everyone knows the tired\, clichéd advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. The couple that plays together\, stays together. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. Sexual favors in exchange for cleaning up the cat vomit is a good and fair trade. \nOkay\, maybe not that last one. \nThe authors of Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It share their fresh\, new romance tips that will make you laugh\, make you feel seen\, and remind you why your relationship is better than everyone else’s. \nTicket packages are $23 and include one copy of You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time (publication: January 14th). A companion ticket (event only\, no book included) is available for $7 when purchasing a ticket package. Purchase tickets at Bookshop Santa Cruz\, or online. \n \nThese nuggets of advice include: \n\nIf you must breathe\, don’t breathe so loudly.\nIt is easier to stay inside and wait for the snow to melt than to fight about who should shovel.\nQueen-sized beds\, king-sized blankets.\n\nAnd many more. You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time is the perfect gift for your significant other\, your friendly anti-Valentine’s Day crusader\, or anyone in your life who wants to laugh about the absurdity of love. \n  \nPatricia Marx has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats\,” and is the author of several books\, including Let’s Be Less Stupid\, Him Her Him Again The End of Him\, and Starting from Happy. Marx was the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon. She has taught at Princeton\, New York University\, and Stonybrook University. She is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. \n  \n  \n  \nRoz Chast was born in Brooklyn and now lives in Connecticut. Her cartoons have appeared in countless magazines\, and she is the author of many books\, including The Party\, After You Left. She attended Rhode Island School of Design\, majoring in Painting because it seemed more artistic. However\, soon after graduating\, she reverted to type and began drawing cartoons once again. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chast-and-marx-you-can-only-yell-at-me-for-one-thing-at-a-time-rules-for-couples/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T133000
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SUMMARY:Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality - Two Case Studies
DESCRIPTION:Much work in syntax suggests that there is a strong preference — given two or more options — for shorter dependencies over longer dependencies\, often referred to as a locality condition. Cases where these conditions are apparently violated are therefore a general topic of interest. This talk presents two case studies of apparent violations of locality in A-movement which prove problematic for current approaches to the phenomenon. In both Luganda and Haya [Bantu\, Uganda/Tanzania]\, as well as Tongan [Austronesian\, Tonga]\, A-movement is able to cross no more than one other argument. This pattern proves to be a serious problem for the state-of-the art\, which cannot be straightforwardly emended to capture this particular restriction. The analysis developed involves a mechanism of conflict resolution between two conflicting requirements: the aforementioned locality condition\, and an “anti-locality” condition\, which mitigates against dependencies which are in some sense too short. When these conditions come into conflict\, the locality condition may be minimally violated\, so that the anti-locality condition may be maximally satisfied.\nIn this talk\, we will see that this analysis straightforwardly delivers the “skip no more than one” pattern observed in both case studies\, and discuss how the analysis answers a number of “big picture” questions about the architecture of the grammar. \nKenyon Branon is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at NUS. He graduated from MIT with a PhD in linguistics and works on syntax and its interface with PF\, using data from understudied languages for theory construction.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kenyon-branon-locality-and-anti-locality-two-case-studies/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the\nBeyond the End of the World series. \n \n  \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 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. \n  \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks 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; 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. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU.  \n  \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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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 thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities 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. \nPlease join us for an information session about the Public Fellows program on January 27th or January 28th\, 2020 at noon in Humanities 1\, Room 402. We will discuss Summer and Year-Long opportunities and describe some new partner organizations. \nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-fellowship-info-session-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T160000
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SUMMARY:Kate McDonald - The Society of Wheels: Rethinking the History of Technology and Labor in Modern Japan
DESCRIPTION:Humans power transport. This is obviously true for the early twentieth century. It’s easy to find images of rickshaws on city streets in Tokyo and other major cities in Asia. But it’s equally true for the twenty-first century. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-building staircases. \nDespite the continuity of human power\, explicitly human-powered technologies such as the rickshaw symbolize Japan’s past while the promise of automated transport systems such as parcel distribution and delivery symbolize Japan’s future. Why? This talk will look at how human power came to symbolize the past and how\, in contrast\, actual transport laborers have struggled throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to claim a place in the present. \n  \nKate McDonald is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press\, 2017). Together with David R. Ambaras (NC State)\, she directs the Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History project. This talk comes from her newest book project\, The Rickshaw and the Railroad: Human-Powered Transport in the Age of the Machine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kate-mcdonald-the-society-of-wheels-rethinking-the-history-of-technology-and-labor-in-modern-japan/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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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 thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities 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. \nPlease join us for an information session about the Public Fellows program on January 27th or January 28th\, 2020 at noon in Humanities 1\, Room 402. We will discuss Summer and Year-Long opportunities and describe some new partner organizations. \nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-fellowship-info-session-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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SUMMARY:Robert Nichols - Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:In his recent publication\, Theft is Property! (Duke 2020)\, Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of examining how shifting configurations of law\, property\, race\, and rights have functioned as modes of governance\, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present\, Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated. In so doing\, this work also brings long-standing debates in anarchist\, Black radical\, feminist\, Marxist\, and postcolonial thought into direct conversation with the frequently overlooked intellectual contributions of Indigenous peoples. \nRobert Nichols is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). His areas of research specialization include contemporary European philosophy and political theory (esp. Critical Theory\, Marx and Marxism\, Foucault); the history of political thought (esp. pertaining to imperialism and colonialism in the 19th century); and the contemporary politics of settler colonialism and indigeneity in the Anglo-American world. Before joining the University of Minnesota\, Professor Nichols was Alexander von Humboldt Faculty Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He has also held academic posts at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)\, the University of Alberta (Canada)\, University of Cambridge (UK)\, and Columbia University (USA). He is the recipient of grants and awards from the Fulbright\, Humboldt\, Killam\, McKnight\, and Trudeau Foundations\, as well as from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \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/robert-nichols/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bronwyn Bjorkman: Realizing Syntax
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see visit the Linguistics Department Website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bronwyn-bjorkman-realizing-syntax/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jess Arndt
DESCRIPTION:Jess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence\, BOMB\, Aufgabe\, and the art journal Parkett\, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nMore information about Jess Arndt is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jess-arndt/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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