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SUMMARY:Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020
DESCRIPTION:Oradora Principal: Reyna Grande\nLa galardonada autora de La Distancia Entre Nosotros \nADMISIÓN GRATUITA para estudiantes (6th grado hasta la universidad) y sus familias \nSe ofrece almuerzo\nSorteo\nMesas de información \nEsta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés \n\nKeynote Speaker: Reyna Grande\nAward-winning author of The Distance Between Us \nFREE ADMISSION for students and their families (6th grade through college) \nLunch provided\nDoor prizes\nInformation tables \nThe event will be in Spanish with English translation \nReyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir\, The Distance Between Us\, (Atria\, 2012) where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant. The much-anticipated sequel\, A Dream Called Home (Atria)\, was released in 2018. Her other works include the novels\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, (Atria\, 2006) and Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press\, 2009) which were published to critical acclaim. The Distance Between Us is also available as a young readers edition from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Division–Aladdin. Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools\, colleges and cities across the country.\nReyna has received an American Book Award\, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. In 2012\, she was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards\, and in 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The young reader’s version of The Distance Between Us received a 2017 Honor Book Award for the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature and a 2016 Eureka! Honor Awards from the California Reading Association\, and an International Literacy Association Children’s Book Award 2017. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latinos-modelos-conferencia-latino-role-models-conference-2020/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom\, Inclusive Classrooms\, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and the Humanities Institute invite you to a workshop on academic freedom in the classroom environment with visiting scholars Andrea Brenner and Lara Schwartz. This hands-on workshop is open to faculty and graduate students from all fields who teach or plan to teach in higher education settings. \nOverview: In this workshop\, visiting scholars Lara Schwartz and Andrea Brenner will help us think through some of the most urgent ethical\, pedagogical\, and legal challenges facing college level instructors in the current era: \n• How do we balance free speech and sensitive subjects in a classroom inclusive to all students?\n• How does academic freedom apply in classroom environments\, course learning objectives\, and syllabi?\n• How do we enable our students to communicate across difference while focusing on strategies for managing hot moments\, interrupting bias\, handling microaggressions\, and facilitating de-escalation? \nPlease RSVP here to help us plan for event size\, accessibility\, and catering purposes. \nLara Schwartz\, JD teaches at American University School of Public Affairs\, where she founded and directs the Project on Civil Discourse. She specializes in civil discourse and campus speech\, constitutional law\, civil rights\, politics\, communications\, and policy. Drawing on her extensive experience as a legislative lawyer\, lobbyist\, and communications strategist in leading civil rights organizations\, Lara brings an advocate’s-eye view to her work as she emphasizes collaborative learning and universal design in her teaching. She has been honored with a School of Public Affairs teaching award and serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Teaching\, Research\, and Learning. \nAndrea Malkin Brenner\, PhD is a sociologist\, speaker\, and an independent consultant who works with students\, faculty\, and staff on challenges related to college transitions. She is the creator of the nationally-recognized American University Experience (AUx)\, the mandatory full year first-year transition course at American University. Previous to that\, Dr. Brenner served as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at American University for 20 years\, teaching classes on inequality\, social problems\, and the life course. Dr. Brenner has received multiple awards for her teaching and program design. She also directed AU’s University College program\, the university’s oldest and largest living-learning community for first-year students. \nLara and Andrea are the co-authors of How to College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There) (Macmillan\, St. Martin’s Press\, 2019) and serve as 2019-2020 fellows at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. They are working on their second book about productive discourse in the college classroom. \nCo-Sponsored by The Humanities Institute \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-in-tense-times/
LOCATION:Alumni Room\, University Center\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: \nQuestions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism \nVeteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel\, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC\, discuss their careers in journalism in the Middle East and their current work on culture\, diversity\, race\, and extremism in the United States. This event celebrates the launch of the new Center for the Middle East and North Africa with an evening of consequential conversation about the region. \nJoin us as we consider these questions and more: What did journalists reporting the Middle East experience during the American invasion of Iraq and the Arab Spring? What is it like to report from the United States when the field of journalism is under attack? How should journalists tackle fragmented and fabricated realities in the future? \nReception 6pm – Event begins 7pm\nTickets $15 \n \nA conversation with: \nJennifer Derr\nAssociate Professor of History\, Director of the Center for Middle East and North Africa \nHannah Allam\nNPR National Security Correspondent \nLeila Fadel\nNPR National Correspondent \nDirections and Parking:\n\nKuumbwa Jazz Center located at 320 Cedar St # 2\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 31\, 2020. \nA limited number of free tickets were available to UCSC students\, which have already been given out. We hope to be able to provide more opportunities in the future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-reporting-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Lukas Rieppel - Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
DESCRIPTION:During the 1920s\, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists of plundering their national heritage\, Andrews argued that because dinosaur fossils predated the creation of China\, they belonged equally to all mankind. Rieppel hopes to use the ensuing controversy to motivate a critical discussion about knowledge production in a global context. \nLukas Rieppel is a historian of science and capitalism at Brown University. He works at the intersection of the history of science and the history of capitalism\, focusing especially on the life\, earth\, and environmental sciences in nineteenth and early twentieth century North America. His recently published book\, Assembling the Dinosaur\, traces how dinosaurs became a symbol of American economic might and power during the Long Gilded Age and he is starting a new project\, tentatively entitled “The Ice Age: A Global History.” Rieppel also co-edited a recent issue of the journal Osiris (with Eugenia Lean & William Deringer) on the theme of “Science & Capitalism: Entangled Histories\,” and he has written several essays about fossils\, museums\, and markets. \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/lukas-rieppel/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam
DESCRIPTION:Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East\, Islam in America\, race\, culture\, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. \n  \nLeila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR\, covering issues of culture\, diversity\, and race in America. Previously\, Fadel worked as a journalist in the Middle East. She covered the Iraq War for nearly five years working for Knight Ridder\, McClatchy Newspapers\, and later the Washington Post. She also covered the uprisings that comprised the Arab Spring as the Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post and as an international correspondent for NPR. She has won numerous awards for her reporting\, including the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club\, a Gracie award\, and the George. R. Polk award. In 2016\, she was the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow fellow. \nHannah Allam is a national security correspondent for NPR\, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR\, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News\, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race\, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy\, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard. \nPlease RSVP here:\nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-coffee-with-leila-fadel-and-hannah-allam/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Marc Herbst - "Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms"
DESCRIPTION:Marc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled “Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms\,” based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. \nThese efforts are to attune creative activist/artistic attention towards the realm where social reproduction necessarily occurs\, in order to strengthen ways in which cosmopolitically progressive thought and production (as culture and law) can better inform common life towards its autonomous ends. The work is grounded in Herbst’s research within the Barcelona based-Plataforma De Afectados por La Hipoteca (the PAH) housing rights movement\, his recent eco-social work as a teacher/editor for the Berlin based Nachbarschaftsakademie and his current residency at Oakland’s Pro Art and Commons. \nThe talk will highlight concepts related to the upcoming Issue 11 of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest\, which looks at common sociality outside and beyond formal being (that is\, more concretised cultural and governmental forms) in the light of the related challenges of climate change and resurgent fascism. Besides the particular of the project\, the conversation engages autonomist Marxist\, queer and de-colonial theory/praxis\, either as an expression of ongoing praxis and theoretical work. \n\nMarc Herbst is a co-founder of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest\, an interdisciplinary journal and weirdo collective founded in Los Angeles in 2001. He recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies in London with a study titled\, A cultural policy for the multitude in the time of climate change; with an understanding that the multitude has no policy. Marc’s collective and individual efforts are also interdisciplinary (between engagements with the formal art world\, DIY networks and relatively autonomous political projects) and he works between publishing\, social practice and illustration. As a publisher/editor\, he works with Aesthetics & Protest and also has recently been collaborating with Minor Compositions/Autonomedia\, Pluto Press and Canary Press. \nWith the Aesthetics & Protest editorial collective\, he is currently editing an issue working with anti-fascist and avant garde art collectives on situated practice outside of but in awareness of the mediating practices of political and cultural structures. He also helped publish recent books on precarious labor with the UK-based Precarious Workers Brigade\, and (related to his PhD) a book on housing rights activism and transversal urban organizing by Ada Colau and Adria Alemany. In addition to other work\, he is currently co-editing with Michelle Teran a book based on situated\, cosmopolitical and eco-social learning through the coming 99 years of climate based in the Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin. \nIssue 11: Culture Beside Itself\nPro-arts and Common Residency\nNachbarschaftsakademie\, Growing in the Midst of our Collective Disaster \n  \nPresented by: The History of Consciousness Department and the Center for Creative Ecologies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-herbst-culture-beside-itself-on-common-sociality-and-its-relation-to-more-law-like-cultural-and-governmental-forms/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-nikos-angelopoulos/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T170000
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SUMMARY:Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough\, And How To Do Better
DESCRIPTION:In the classroom and other campus spaces\, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics\, there’s even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We’ve got to do better. But how? \nJoin us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with Lara Schwartz and Andrea Malkin Brenner\, 2019-20 Fellows at the University California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. In their current research\, Brenner and Schwartz develop a paradigm shift favoring robust inquiry on campus that transcends disagreement and debate. “Can we Talk?” is part of the Fellows’ week-long residency at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn addition to their scholarly work and innovative teaching at AU\, together they are authors of the hugely successful book How to College; What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There). They are currently under contract with Macmillan to produce a new book tentatively titled A Guide to Productive and Inclusive Discourse on Campus\, for which they will be conducting research during their weeklong UCSC residency. \n\nAndrea Malkin Brenner\, Ph.D. is a sociologist\, speaker and an independent consultant who works with students\, faculty\, and staff on challenges related to college transitions. \nLara Schwartz\, J.D. teaches at American University School of Public Affairs in Washington DC\, where she founded and directs the Project on Social Discourse. \nSponsored by: The Center for Public Philosophy and The Community Studies Program \nFor more information and accommodation requests\, contact pudup@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/can-we-talk-what-makes-campus-conversations-so-tough-and-how-to-do-better/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
DESCRIPTION:Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon\, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok\, Thailand and San José\, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril\, the End of Enmity\, the End of Strife\, a Haven (Noemi Press\, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun\, which won the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in early 2021. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review\, TriQuarterly\, and Kenyon Review Online\, among others\, and has been translated into Burmese and Lithuanian. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain\, residencies at Hedgebrook and Millay Colony\, and fellowships from Tin House and Summer Literary Seminars. She holds a B.A. in literary arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in prose from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver\, the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly\, and an instructor at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop. \nMore information about Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-thirii-myo-kyaw-myint/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Hong Kong on the Brink
DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades\, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. \nJeff Wasserstrom\, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987\, will draw on his work as a specialist in the history of anti-authoritarian movements in various parts of the world and his work on global cities of Asia. The presentation will showcase ideas in his new short book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink\, which publishes February 11\, 2020\, in the Columbia Global Reports series. Books will be available ahead of the official publication date. \nDetails on the book are here \nJeffrey Wasserstrom (UCSC History B.A.\, 1982) is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. \nSponsored by the History Department and East Asian Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-on-the-brink-a-talk-by-jeffrey-wasserstrom/
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:Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:The use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities\, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and cultural contexts across the world. The Brazilian ayahuasca religions\, originating with the Santo Daime in Brazil founded in the 1930s\, are now internationally recognised and established. An ayahuasca industry servicing Western clientele in search of shamanic healing is booming in the Amazon. A plethora of informal ayahuasca circles\, ceremonies and communities have also arisen catering to a huge variety of social groups and needs. Indeed\, ayahuasca has apparently become the glorified medicina of spiritual seekers\, religious followers\, and business entrepreneurs alike. Drawing on long-term fieldwork and first-hand experience participating in ayahuasca communities both in the Global South and the Global North\, we ask: what challenges does the globalisation of ayahuasca present? We explore key issues such as: economic implications; legal dilemmas; sustainability problems; safety issues including sexual abuse and fatalities; authenticity and cultural appropriation. We argue that the development of ayahuasca shamanism through cross-cultural relations\, involving cultural hybridisation and transculturation is not a perversion of “tradition” but represents continuity with its historical process of formation and original synthesis between different indigenous ethnic traditions and Christian elements. It is no longer possible to consider the local formation of the curanderos apart from their interactions with foreigners\, or these articulations between the local and the global. \nPresented by the THI Drug Histories and Futures Cluster \n  \nDr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist who immigrated to the U.S. in 2017. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)\, Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines\, drug policy\, shamanism\, ritual\, and religion. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines\, an organization that provides public education about psychedelic plant medicines and promotes a bridge between the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science. She is Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco\, and Visiting Professor at the Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Guadalajara. She is also Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil\, and editor of NEIP’s website\, as well as editor of the Mexican blog Drugs\, Politics\, and Culture. She is author\, co-author\, and co-editor of twenty-one books\, one special-edition journal\, and several peer-reviewed articles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bia-labate-dilemmas-of-ayahuasca-globalization-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Children of the Land
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. Castillo will be in conversation with Nathan Osorio at this event\, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A portion of the sales of Children of the Land will be donated to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s Immigration Program. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His poetry and translations have appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, The Grief Diaries\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere. His reviews and interviews featuring poets such as Juan Felipe Herrera and Rigoberto González have appeared in Columbia Journal\, UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute\, Publishers Weekly\, and Letras Latinas’ La Bloga. His chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship by Evie Shockley and was previously selected as a finalist for the 2016 Atlas Review Chapbook Contest. In 2019\, he was also selected as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 9th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-children-of-the-land/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:What's Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
DESCRIPTION:Between Instagram\, Facebook and TV\, we’re presented with more media and more stories than ever before. But how many of them really stick with us at the end of the day? Former This American Life producer and Emmy-winning journalist Stephanie Foo (Stevenson ’08\, modern literature) gives a talk about how to find important stories that tug on heartstrings\, build empathy\, and ultimately\, make a real impact. \n \nStephanie Foo is a writer and radio producer. She spent several years as a producer for This American Life\, where she produced dozens of radio stories and an Emmy-winning video short. Before that\, she helped create Snap Judgment. Her work has also aired on shows like 99% Invisible and Reply All. \nShe is an advocate for diversity in media. She wrote a viral piece for Transom about increasing racial and economic diversity in workplaces\, and created an audio hackathon to diversify the way people can access and share audio. She then led the development of Shortcut\, a revolutionary app for sharing podcast audio\, and was a Tow and Knight Fellow. \nStephanie is currently writing an investigative memoir on Complex PTSD. \nRead more about Stephanie Foo in her alumni profile \nQuestions about the event? Contact the UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5003.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/whats-your-story-an-evening-with-stephanie-foo/
LOCATION:DNA Comedy Lab\, 155 S. River St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Free Men” Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Free Men (French: Les hommes libres) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi\, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other North African Muslims in Paris played in the French resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). It features two historic figures: Si Kaddour Benghabrit\, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris\, and Salim Halali\, an Algerian Jewish singer. The film stars Tahar Rahim playing a fictional young Algerian and Michael Lonsdale as the rector. \nFree and open to the public – RSVP appreciated. Seating is first come\, first served.  \nDoors open at 6:30\, film begins at 7:00pm \n \nAfter the film there will be a Q & A with Chris Silver\, Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture (McGill University) and Esther Lassman (Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania)\, moderated by Alma Heckman\, Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nChris Silver serves as Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of awards from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, Silver’s scholarship on Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia has appeared in Hespéris-Tamuda\, History Today\, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the subject of Jews\, Muslims\, and music in twentieth century North Africa. \nEtty Lassman-Hileli is a sabra – born and raised in Israel. In 1978\, she graduated from the Interior Decorating & Construction Drawing program at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa\, Israel. For the last three decades\, Etty has been a research assistant to the visiting fellows at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The ongoing work with hundreds of fellows from all around the world – has enabled her to broaden and deepen her knowledge in many fields in Jewish Studies. Etty uses her graphic design skills to enhance and transform abstract concepts originated in the research material into clear presentations. During her years at the University of Pennsylvania she has worked toward the completion of her degree in Art History. Photography is her hobby\, and she is the in-house photographer for all the Katz Center activities.\nDuring the academic year 2018-2019 whose theme was Jewish Life in Modern Islamic Contexts\, a group of participating fellows encouraged Etty to present her own research about her father’s brother – the singer Salim Halali. Etty’s presentation will include her personal stories along with research she has conducted about her uncle and his unique contribution to world music. \n  \nSponsored by the UCSC Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies \nDirections and Parking:\nThe Nickelodeon Theatre is located at 210 Lincoln St\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Nickelodeon Theatre. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 7\, 2020. Information about the Nick’s accessibility equipment can be found here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/silver-lassman-free-men-film-screening/
LOCATION:The Nickelodeon Theatre\, 210 Lincoln St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
DESCRIPTION:Please see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-isabelle-charnavel/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEW LOCATION "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan\, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence\, the validity of oral testimony\, the number of victims\, the meaning of sexual slavery and the definition of coercive recruitment. Credibility\, legitimacy and influence serve as the rallying cry for all those involved in the battle. In addition\, this largely domestic battleground has been shifted to the international arena\, commanding the participation of various state and non-state actors and institutions from all over the world. \nThis film delves deep into the most contentious debates and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women. Most importantly it finds answers to some of the biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were comfort women prostitutes or sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited? And\, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize to the former comfort women? \nFollowed by a conversation with filmmaker Miki Dezaki\, Noriko Aso (History) and Christine Hong (CRES) \n\nMiki Dezaki is a graduate of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. He worked for the Japan Exchange Teaching Program for five years in Yamanashi and Okinawa before becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand for one year. He is also known as “Medamasensei” on Youtube\, where he has made comedy videos and videos on social issues in Japan. His most notable video is “Racism in Japan\,” which led to numerous online attacks by Japanese neo-nationalists who attempted to deny the existence of racism and discrimination against Zainichi Koreans (Koreans with permanent residency in Japan) and Burakumin (historical outcasts still discriminated today). “Shusenjo” is his directorial debut. \nPresented by: The UCSC Center for Racial Justice
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shusenjo-the-main-battleground-of-the-comfort-women-issue-film-screening/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juan Martinez
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URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-juan-martinez/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T121500
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli - The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines four axioms of existence that have emerged and expanded in recent years across a large segment of critical theory; the stakes of understanding the historical conditions of these axioms; and their power to provide a foundation for remolding political concepts in the wake of geontopower. From one perspective the emergence of these axioms can be correlated to the current catastrophe of climatic and environmental collapse and industrial toxicity. This talks ask what sorts of catastrophes are foregrounded or occluded depending on how one understands the order and sources of these axioms and if one understands them as a coming catastrophe (l’catastrophe à venir) or as an ancestral one (l’catastrophe ancestral/histoire)? \nElizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University\, New York; Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities; and one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective. Povinelli’s writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. This potential theory has unfolded primarily from within a sustained relationship with Indigenous colleagues in north Australia and across five books\, numerous essays\, and six films with the Karrabing Film Collective. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism was the 2017 recipient of the Lionel Trilling Book Award. Karrabing films were awarded the 2015 Visible Award and the 2015 Cinema Nova Award Best Short Fiction Film\, Melbourne International Film Festival and have shown internationally including in the Berlinale\, Sydney Biennale; MIFF\, the Tate Modern\, documenta-14\, the Contour Biennale; MoMA-PS and numerous others. \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/elizabeth-povinelli/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UPDATE: "Unrest" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues\, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will still be in attendance for the introduction.  \nJennifer Brea’s Sundance award-winning documentary\, Unrest\, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is twenty-eight years-old\, working on her PhD at Harvard\, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head\,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned. \nIn this story of love and loss\, newlyweds Jennifer and Omar search for answers as they face unexpected obstacles with great heart. Often confined by her illness to the private space of her bed\, Jennifer connects with others around the globe. Like a modern-day Odysseus\, she travels by Skype into a forgotten community\, crafting intimate portraits of four other families suffering similarly. Jennifer Brea’s wonderfully honest and humane portrayal asks us to rethink the stigma around an illness that affects millions. Unrest is a vulnerable and eloquent personal documentary that is sure to hit closer to home than many could imagine. \nFree and open to the public – RSVP appreciated. Seating is first come\, first served. \nDoors open at 6:30\, film begins at 7:00pm \n \n\n \n\n  \nJennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and was a PhD student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath\, she rediscovered her first love\, film. Her Sundance award-winning feature documentary\, Unrest\, has screened in over 30 countries and had its US national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. She is also co-creator of Unrest VR\, winner of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Award. An activist for people with disabilities and chronic illness\, she co-founded a global advocacy network\, #MEAction and is a TED Talker. \nUnrest\, her film debut\, was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Paley Center for Media’s DocPitch competition and is supported by the Harnisch Foundation\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, BRITDOC’s Good Pitch\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Fledgling Fund and the Sundance Institute. You can read more about her at jenbrea.com or @jenbrea on twitter \nMegan Moodie\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\,Santa Cruz\, is a cultural anthropologist\, writer\, performer\, and film critic who works at the intersection of arts\, humanities\, and social sciences. Trained as a specialist in feminist political and legal anthropology\, her early work explored the intersection of gender and indigeneity in South Asia. More recently\, she has been investigating how anthropologists can use embodied and arts-based ethnographic methods\, such as performance and film\, to illuminate non-normative experiences of the body\, such as chronic pain and illness\, in the service of greater disability and medical justice. Megan regularly communicates with broad audiences in and beyond anthropology; her writing on topics such as disability\, genetic illness\, motherhood\, film\, art\, and daily strategies for survival has appeared in MUTHA Magazine\, Film Quarterly\, SAPIENS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others\, and her 2018 essay “Birthright” (Chicago Quarterly Review (26)) was named a “Notable Essay of the Year” by Best American Essays 2019.\n \nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster \n\nDirections and Parking:\nThe Del Mar Theater is located at 1124 Pacific Ave #4415\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Del Mar Theater. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 14\, 2020. Information about the Del Mar’s accessibility equipment can be found here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-unrest/
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
DESCRIPTION:Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection\, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017)\, was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and her novel\, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness (Europa Editions 2015)\, was shortlisted for the PEN American Center’s Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the New England Book Award; it’s available in English\, Italian\, and Danish. She’s also the author of three award-winning books of poetry\, The Man With My Face (AAWW 2005); the bilingual Red Flower\, White Flower (Marick Press 2013) featuring Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen; and Not so dear Jenny (Bateau Press 2017)\, poems made with her Chinese father’s English letters. \nMore information about Jennifer Tseng is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jennifer-tseng/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T190000
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SUMMARY:Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
DESCRIPTION:Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language\, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting\, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin\, family\, death\, water\, desire and\, throughout\, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran\, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer\, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatized\, censored and politicized\, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility. We are lucky to be the first US venue to host Mania Akbari and to present her new film. \n“A Moon for my Father is a deeply intimate\, personal and moving work from Mania Akbari (whose movies have often been meditations on beauty and body image)\, a form of digressive-poetic cinema\, connecting images and ideas in a dream-associative logic. Calmly\, almost miraculously\, it avoids the tones of tension or trauma or ostentatiously courageous humor.” – The Guardian \nMania Akbari (b. Tehran\, 1974) is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Her provocative\, revolutionary and radical films were recently the subject of retrospectives at the BFI\, London (2013)\, the DFI\, Denmark (2014)\, Oldenburg International Film Festival\, Germany (2014)\, Cyprus Film Festival (2014) and Nottingham Contemporary UK (2018). Her films have screened at festivals around the world and have received numerous awards including German Independence Honorary Award\, Oldenberg (2014)\, Best Film\, Digital Section\, Venice Film Festival (2004)\, Nantes Special Public Award Best Film (2007) and Best Director and Best film at Kerala Film Festival (2007)\, Best Film and Best Actress\, Barcelona Film Festival (2007). Akbari was exiled from Iran and currently lives and works in London\, a theme addressed in ‘Life May Be’ (2014)\, co-directed with Mark Cousins. This film was released at Karlovy Vary Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival (2014) and Asia Pacific Film Festival (2014). Akbari’s latest film ‘A Moon For My Father’\, made in collaboration with British artist Douglas White\, premiered at CPH:DOX where it won the NEW:VISION Award 2019. The film also received a FIPRESCI International Critics Award at the Flying Broom Festival\, Ankara. She is currently working on a new project ‘Libido’ with her son Amin Maher. \nCo-sponsored by Porter College\, Film + Digital Media\, The Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster\, and The UCSC Center for the Middle East and North Africa \nScreening is free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mania-akbari-a-moon-for-my-father/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T133000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Dee Hibbert-Jones - Run With It
DESCRIPTION:Dee Hibbert-Jones’ colloquium talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for Spring or Fall 2020. \nHibbert-Jones will discuss the challenges\, politics and aesthetics in making her upcoming film Run With It\, a feature documentary that is entirely animated. Made in collaboration with Nomi Talisman\, the film tells the story of De’Jaun Correia\, a young man on the Dean’s list at Morehouse college\, who grew up mentored by his uncle Troy Davis\, on death row. \nProfessor Dee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award nominated\, Emmy award winning filmmaker and visual artist who examines critical social issues through her animated documentary and fine art installations. In 2016 she was awarded a United States Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award in recognition for their outstanding national commitment to civil rights and social justice; and a California Public Defenders Association Gideon Award by the California Public Defenders Association. Dee teaches art at UC Santa Cruz and is affiliate faculty in film\, digital art new media and legal studies. \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/dee-hibbert-jones/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T173000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Gretchen Primack
DESCRIPTION:Gretchen Primack is a poet and educator living in New York’s Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005. She’s the author of three poetry collections: Visiting Days (Willow Books)\, Kind (Post Traumatic Press)\, and Doris’ Red Spaces (Mayapple Press)\, and a chapbook\, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line 2007). She co-wrote The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals with Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary co-founder Jenny Brown (Penguin Avery 2012). Her poetry publication credits include The Paris Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, FIELD\, Poet Lore\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Antioch Review\, New Orleans Review\, Rhino\, Tampa Review\, and many others journals and anthologies. \nMore information about Gretchen Primack is available here
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-gretchen-primack/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000
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SUMMARY:Amitav Ghosh: "Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’"
DESCRIPTION:CREDITLINE PHOTO: Ivo van der Bent. 22-01-2019 Amitav Ghosh in Amsterdam.\nThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series \nAMITAV GHOSH \nThursday\, February 27\, 2020 @ 7 PM\nMusic Recital Hall\, UC Santa Cruz\nFree & open to the public with registration\nBook signing after the talk\, hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz \n \n  \n  \nThe idea of the ‘human’ dates back to the founding of modernity\, now hurtling towards collapse. As this process intensifies it may bring about a fundamental reconsideration of modern ideas regarding which entities possess such attributes as agency\, speech\, and reason. If so what kinds of narratives and knowledge traditions can we turn to for guidance about what might lie ahead? \nAmitav Ghosh is an award-winning writer\, who was born in Calcutta and grew up in India\, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction\, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)\, a collection of essays\, and ten novels. In 2018 he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor\, the Jnanpith Award. His most recent publication is Gun Island\, a novel. \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. 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 \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. The Maitra lecture series\, established in 2001\, seeks to enrich the intellectual life of UC Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz community. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \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 the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-5655.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amitav-ghosh-maitra-lecture/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCSC Special Events Office":MAILTO:specialevents@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The East Asian Colloquium Presents: \nKlaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective \nMany commentators claim that China’s ongoing global rise reflects a restoration of its earlier international prominence\, while others highlight that China’s emergence reflects distinctive characteristics of the country’s current political leadership. In his new book\, Making China Modern\, Klaus Mühlhahn of the Free University of Berlin provides a panoramic survey of China’s rise and resilience through war and rebellion\, disease and famine. At this event Professor Mühlhahn will focus on the lessons from history that provide insight into China’s evolving international position and how the United States and others should respond. \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/klaus-muhlhahn-chinas-rise-in-historical-perspective/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2020
DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the winter quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker\, a PhD alumna or alumnus of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Aaron Kaplan (PhD\, 2008)\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Linguistics\, University of Utah. \nMore information available here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-at-santa-cruz-lasc-2020/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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