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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Nancy Luxon - Switch Points of Power: Psychodynamics of state legitimation and neoauthoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Recent political trends not just in the United States but globally have led to speculation about the resurgence of authoritarianism and an “authoritarian personality.” As the usual orientations of Left and Right held in place by a liberal status quo begin to falter\, social science looks for new frameworks through which to describe these political phenomena and to analyze the kind of challenge they pose to existing liberal or neoliberal institutions. With this paper\, I argue that these contemporary political currents revive older debates about state legitimation and the terms on which to construe “the people.” In the wake of a neoliberalism has reduced political and moral vocabularies to a financial language of risk and exposure\, politics seeks new sources of psycho-social investment that would reframe classic relations of care and obligation. To think through this political conjuncture\, I draw on Michel Foucault and the relational school of psychoanalysis. I argue that these contemporary political trends direct us towards those “switch points of power” in which relations of power have become unstable and thus capable of being redirected. These switch points potentially open up for revision those authorial practices that sustain or undo the status quo. \n\nNancy Luxon is an associate professor in Political Science at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power\, subjectivity\, and truth-telling. She came to these themes from a preoccupation with those practices that organize the interstices of political spaces – namely\, the spaces between personal and political practices\, between political conditions of possibility and psychic interiority\, and between past and future. Her first book\, Crisis of Authority (2013)\, considers political authority as a political and psychological process in which individuals come to author themselves\, and so to act within and against relations of hierarchy. More recently\, she has edited a translation of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families (2017)\, along with a companion scholarly volume\, Archives of Infamy (2019)\, and Foucault’s lectures at Berkeley\, Discourse and Truth (2019). Her current work is on Fanon and désaliénation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-luxon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T190000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information at: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/ottessamoshfegh2020 \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 May 2nd. \nDeath in Her Hands comes from one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home. \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphant blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nOttessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, a New York Times bestseller; Homesick for Another World\, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year; Eileen\, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; and McGlue\, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ottessa-moshfegh-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T160000
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SUMMARY:Department of Defense/DARPA Discussion and Faculty Panel Session
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is hosting a discussion and faculty panel session on best practices and strategies for pursuing Department of Defense (DoD) funding. Opportunities offered through DoD are a less understood\, and often under-accessed\, source of research funding. This event will be an opportunity to hear from an external Washington DC-based expert and UCSC faculty with various levels of DoD experience. These experts will share their advice and insight on positioning your research programs for long-term DoD support. Join us for this introduction where you will have an opportunity to engage in Q&A sessions and learn more about engaging the DoD\, identifying opportunities\, and successfully executing DoD funded projects. \n \n\nAgenda \n12:00 – 12:10: \nIntroductions from UC Santa Cruz\, Office of Research\, Vice Chancellor of Research\, Scott Brandt \n12:15 – 01:45: \n Kristen Jordan Ph.D. Independent Consultant\, MBO Partners. \n“DOD Opportunities and Engagement” \nDr. Jordan is a former program officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)\, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and currently serves as an advisor to acting DARPA Director\, Peter Highnam. \n12:45 – 01:00: \nBreak \n2:00 – 04:00: \nFaculty Panelists: Personal experience\, suggestions\, and lessons learned \nMarco Rolandi\, Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Baskin School of Engineering (BSOE) \nDan Costa\, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, PBSci\, and Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) \nDaniele Venturi\, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics\, BSOE \nTerrie M. Williams\, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in PBSci and Director of the Center for Marine Mammal Research and Conservation at UCSC \nRicardo Sanfelice\, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, BSOE and Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center \nShiva Abbaszadeh\, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, BSOE \nRajarshi Guhaniyogi\, Assistant Professor of Statistics\, BSOE
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/department-of-defense-darpa-discussion-and-faculty-panel-session/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: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-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Thinking the Pandemic: Part I
DESCRIPTION:A number of scholars have recently written about the current pandemic\, taking up questions of sovereignty and biopolitics in different ways. We will read and discuss some short pieces by Alain Badiou\, Bifo Berardi\, Byung-Chul Han\, and Bruno Latour. Chris Connery and Max Tomba will start the conversation off with presentations on some of the readings. Please do the readings beforehand. RSVP below by 4pm Tuesday\, May 5 to receive Zoom link and password. \nReadings: \n“On the Epidemic Situation” by Alain Badiou\n“Beyond the Breakdown” by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi\n“We cannot surrender reason to the virus” by Byung-Chul Han\n“What protective measures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model?” by Bruno Latour \n \n\nImportant information about this event: These informal sessions will be on Zoom and will start at 12:15pm. For security reasons\, you will need to RSVP to register for each session; you will then receive a Zoom link and password for that session. We will have a “waiting room” for the session; the waiting room will open at noon\, so please join between noon and 12:15pm (event moderators will let you into the session from the waiting room). Entry to the session will close at 12:30pm\, so please don’t be late to join a session. \nWe will begin these Special Sessions with a two-part series on “Thinking the Pandemic.” The first part will be Wednesday\, May 6 and the second on Wednesday\, May 12. Stay tuned for more special sessions\, including a speculative film called “A World Without Clouds\,” for later in May. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-thinking-the-pandemic-part-i/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Teaching Credential Workshop for Humanities PhDs
DESCRIPTION:The humanities are alive and well in K12 education. Can you thrive there? \nJoin Kip Téllez in this workshop to learn more about simultaneously pursuing a teaching credential and master’s degree in education while completing your doctoral degree in the humanities! Explore the possibilities of public school teaching in California for a union-backed career. Ethnic studies students\, learn about how you would be positioned to roll out ethnic studies in the public high school curriculum statewide! \nPlease email Jane Komori or Ka-eul Yoo for Zoom information. \n\nKip Téllez is Professor and former Chair in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz. After teaching elementary and high school students in east Los Angeles county and earning his PhD from the Claremont Graduate University\, his research has focused on the intersection of language teaching and teacher education. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education\, Bilingual Research Journal\, Teaching and Teacher Education\, and Review of Research in Education. He served as the editor of Teacher Education Quarterly from 2013 to 2016\, as well as serving on several editorial boards. His most recent book is titled The Teaching Instinct: Explorations Into What Makes Us Human. \nThis event is sponsored by Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES). \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teaching-credential-workshop-for-humanities-phds/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Ramon Rising Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ramon-rising-film-screening/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Jesse Harris
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Harris (UCLA) – Title TBD \nJesse Harris is an assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Linguistics\, and director of the UCLA Language Processing Lab. His research investigates how language users develop a sufficiently rich linguistic meaning during online comprehension\, concentrating in particular on three related areas: (a) the formal semantics of context sensitive expressions\, (b) the semantic processing of contextually dependent terms\, and (c) the pragmatic and processing defaults engaged when generating a semantic or discourse representation for an utterance or phrase. \nAbout eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full information visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jesse-harris/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us via Zoom for the announcement of the symposium winners! \n•Best overall\, $1000\n•Best of the Arts Division\, $250\n•Best of the Baskin School of Engineering\, $250\n•Best of the Humanities Division\, $250\n•Best of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division\, $250\n•Best of the Social Sciences Division\, $250 \nFind out who won in this year’s online Graduate Research Symposium! Enjoy watching the Zoom presentations of the winners! \nThe Division of Graduate Studies will upload all recorded symposium Zoom presentations to our YouTube channel.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-2/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:PIT-UN Network Challenge Funding Info Session
DESCRIPTION:As we announced at our recent Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) kickoff event\, the annual Network Challenge funding program is open for submissions. \nTo answer questions\, and to discuss ideas and collaborations\, we will hold a Zoom Info Session next Tuesday\, May 12th from 3:00 – 4:00 PM. RSVP here. \nApplications are open to all PIs on UCSC Campus. One year project funding is available in three tranches: up to $45\,000\, up to $90\,000 and up to $180\,000. An initial campus limited submission process will select up to three projects that will be submitted to the network committee. \nThe Network Challenge seeks to encourage new ideas\, foster collaborations\, and incentivize resource- and information-sharing among network members. The broad goal is to fund projects that help train a new generation of graduates who have both technological literacy and a rigorous foundation to navigate the societal\, ethical\, legal\, policy\, and equity implications of technology by offering a systematic way of studying technology as a tool for addressing social problems in the world. \nApplications can be submitted here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pit-un-network-challenge-funding-info-session/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T121500
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: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-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T133000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Thinking the Pandemic: Part II
DESCRIPTION:We will continue to think about the current pandemic in relation to epidemic histories\, states of uncertainty\, and authoritarian power\, with readings by Bishnupriya Ghosh\, Carlo Caduff\, and Siddharth Varadarajan. Anjali Arondekar and Mayanthi Fernando will start the conversation off with presentations on the readings. Email cult@ucsc.edu for the Ghosh and Caduff readings. \nReadings: \n“The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises” by Bishnupriya Ghosh\n“In India\, a Pandemic of Prejudice and Repression” by Siddharth Varadarajan\n“What Went Wrong? Rebuilding the World after Corona” by Carlo Caduff \n\nImportant information about this event: These informal sessions will be on Zoom and will start at 12:15pm. For security reasons\, you will need to RSVP to register for each session; you will then receive a Zoom link and password for that session. We will have a “waiting room” for the session; the waiting room will open at noon\, so please join between noon and 12:15pm (event moderators will let you into the session from the waiting room). Entry to the session will close at 12:30pm\, so please don’t be late to join a session. \nWe will begin these Special Sessions with a two-part series on “Thinking the Pandemic.” The first part will be Wednesday\, May 6 and the second on Wednesday\, May 12. Stay tuned for more special sessions\, including a speculative film called “A World Without Clouds\,” for later in May.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-thinking-the-pandemic-part-ii/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T173000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Humanities Happy Hour - Freedom & Race in the Time of Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first virtual Humanities Happy Hour exploring Questions That Matter in the Time of Pandemic. This week will focus on “Freedom & Race” and feature Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall in conversation with associate professors Alice Yang\, Christine Hong\, and Noriko Aso. \n \nWhat does it mean to be free in a nation on house arrest? Recent demonstrations against shelter-in-place orders have been overwhelmingly white as groups alleging an assault on liberty have trafficked in racist symbols\, including swastikas and Confederate flags. Some have reacted to the current pandemic by blaming certain racial or ethnic groups. To what extent is this repeating a long history of scapegoating in times of pandemic? Meanwhile\, the coronavirus is taking a disproportionate toll on black and brown communities in America in terms of infections and death. How has the public health crisis both highlighted and exacerbated racial inequalities? \nThe COVID-19 pandemic is illustrating critical issues surrounding freedom and race in the United States. This week’s conversation will consider rampant anti-Asian racism and discrimination\, glaring inequities in health outcomes for African-American and Latinx communities\, and other issues of race and freedom highlighted\, and\, in many ways\, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. \n—\nQuestions That Matter in the Time of Pandemic is a public humanities series that brings UC Santa Cruz faculty in conversation with the campus and community to discuss topics of importance to us all during the COVID-19 health crisis. The conversations build on themes that The Humanities Institute (THI) has explored as part of Questions That Matter annual events. For additional discussion\, we encourage you to watch the video of THI’s event on Questions That Matter: Freedom and Race\, in which Jennifer Gonzalez and Tyler Stovall discuss the idea that racism—and the exclusion of racial groups from society—is essential to understanding freedom in America. You can also read Dean Tyler Stovall’s 2020 Questions that Matter in the Time of Pandemic written reflection as well as his 2018 interview on freedom and race. \nQuestions? Contact Special Events
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/freedom-race-in-the-time-of-pandemic-humanities-happy-hour/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - PhD+ Workshop: Coping with Social Isolation and Anxiety in a Crisis
DESCRIPTION:These are extraordinary times. In a matter of days\, we have had to learn new ways of navigating our educational and occupational needs to meet our goals. This can be stressful. Our go-to coping strategy is often gathering with our social group and offering a shoulder to lean on\, or accepting one. The world has been turned upside down. Spend an hour with Richard Enriquez\, Ph.D. discussing ways to cope with stress and maintain social connection in this time of physical distancing due to COVID-19. \n  \nRichard Enriquez completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Palo Alto University with an emphasis in Diversity and Community Mental Health (DCMH). He is a long-time slug\, having earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology and completing his postdoctoral fellowship here at UCSC. He currently works as a CAPS counseling psychologist with a focus in working with the Graduate Student community. \nDr. Enriquez’ clinical interests include alcohol and other drug use\, religion and spirituality\, mood disorders\, and anxiety disorders. He values working with ethnically diverse populations\, LGBTQ-identified clients\, and college students. Richard believes in working collaboratively with students\, helping them identify their personal goals and supporting them in their journey. \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. \nPlease RSVP to receive the Zoom link: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-phd-workshop-coping-with-social-isolation-and-anxiety-in-a-crisis/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T170000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL Akemi Johnson - Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the US Military Bases
DESCRIPTION:Akemi Johnson is an author and journalist who’s work centers on Okinawan history and identity\, she has contributed to NPR’s All Things Considered and Code Switch\, and has written for The Guardian and The Nation. Now\, Akemi Johnson joins us to discuss her 2019 book Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the US Military Bases in Okinawa\, which explores the nuanced relationship between Okinawan women and the servicemen who live on the U.S. military bases on the island. \n \nRegistration required. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants on May 14th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akemi-johnson-night-in-the-american-village-women-in-the-shadow-of-the-us-military-bases/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200515T193000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Kuumbwa Jazz & Indexical Present: Moor Mother & Las Sucias
DESCRIPTION:Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a nationally- and internationally-touring musician\, poet\, visual artist\, and workshop facilitator\, and has performed at numerous festivals\, colleges\, galleries\, and museums around the world\, sharing the stage with King Britt\, Roscoe Mitchell\, Claudia Rankine\, bell hooks\, and more. Her most recent album\, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes\, is the culmination of all of her earthly experiences merged with all of her cosmic ones. On Analog Fluids\, haunting slave narratives are presented as dystopian allegory and negro spirituals are flipped\, remixed\, and recaptured\, only to be digitized into a symbiotic bio-morph program for the post-thumb drive age. It’s a record rich with the noise and chaos that affirm Moor Mother’s punk roots\, yet it is also anchored in earthiness via the constant injection of Black ritual\, poetry\, and drums programmed to vibrate through the listener’s mitochondria. \nLas Sucias is a duo formed by Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman\, mixing anti-patriarchal riotgrrrl lyrics\, Afro-Caribbean rhythms\, brujería noise and possessed vocals. Each performance is a ritual that combines all of the senses and elevates into a higher realm\, inspiring the listener to dance\, speak in tongues\, laugh hysterically\, and get possessed by the spirits awoken. \nTICKETS & MORE INFO \nThe event will start with a discussion with Ayewa about Black Quantum Futurism\, her collaborative Afrofuturist project with author Rasheedah Phillips of Afrofuturist Affair. \nMoor Mother Website\nLas Sucias Website\nIndexical Website \nSupported in part by the Humanities Institute\, the Institute for Arts and Sciences\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and the Beyond the End of the World symposium at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kuumbwa-jazz-indexical-present-moor-mother-las-sucias/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200227T220547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200414T202900Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: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-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200514T172524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T170815Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Special Session - World Without Clouds
DESCRIPTION:World Without Clouds: an experimental work by Steven Gonzalez (MIT)\, Jia Hui Lee (MIT)\, Luísa Reis-Castro (MIT)\, Gabrielle Robbins (MIT)\, and Julianne Yip (Independent Scholar). \nWorld Without Clouds is an experimental\, multi-modal piece of speculative fiction filmed only with smartphone cameras. The story revolves around five anthropologists in the years 2045-50 who are trying to save clouds from going extinct. As climate change and authoritarian governments take over the Earth\, these “salvage nephologists” invent an Ontology Machine to communicate with the last remaining clouds\, hoping the clouds will “speak back” and offer a cloud-centered way to save clouds from dying out. The story draws inspiration from science fiction’s ability to experiment and make us aware of our epistemic limitations. The creators blend storytelling and academic scholarship in a way that refuses easy categorization into individual-authored research. They ask what kinds of new (cloud) formations might appear in the future. And they flirt—critically—with possible anthropological logics that are rooted in century-long practices of ethnographic documentation and salvation. \nWe will start on Zoom\, then watch the 30-minute film synchronously on a separate site\, and then reconvene on Zoom with the creators for a discussion. Donna Haraway will kick off the conversation. \nRSVP below by 10 AM on Wednesday\, May 20th to receive Zoom link and password.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/special-session-world-without-clouds/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T181500
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200502T002213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T170855Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Death on the Nile - A 3D Visit to Egypt's Most Enduring Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-of-a-kind virtual experience to explore Saqqara\, Egypt’s most enduring cemetery. UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan will take us on a virtual visit to the site of Saqqara—the ancient Egyptian necropolis that was the burial place of kings\, queens\, priests\, and elite officials for 2\,500 years (3000-332 BCE). Using a 3D model that digitally ‘reconstructs’ the original appearance of the ancient monuments\, Sullivan will focus on the architecture and art from the Pharaonic Period and discuss how royal and elite Egyptians created a special landscape to guarantee their eternal life and power. \n\nElaine Sullivan (M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University) is an associate professor of history\, Egyptologist\, and a digital humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her upcoming born-digital publication\, Constructing the Sacred (Stanford University Press)\, utilizes a geo-temporal 3D model of the necropolis of Saqqara to investigate questions of ritual landscape at the site. \nWe hope you will join us for what we know will be a fascinating conversation. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/death-on-the-nile-a-3d-visit-to-egypts-most-enduring-cemetery/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200512T194335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T033550Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Humanities Happy Hour – Teaching and Learning in the Time of Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:What has the shift to remote\, online instruction nationwide revealed about teaching and learning in higher education? How can we use this crisis as an opportunity to reimagine not only the role but the practice of teaching and learning? What is at stake for the future of higher education at UC Santa Cruz and around the world\, and how can we harness the Humanities to think boldly and creatively in response? In this week’s Humanities Happy Hour Jody Greene\, UC Santa Cruz Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\, and Lois Kazakoff (Cowell\, ‘76) will tackle these questions and more. Join us as we think through the role that the Humanities can play in imagining the future of higher education in\, and beyond\, a time of pandemic. \n \nRegistration required. \nJody Greene is Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is also the Founding Director of UCSC’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. In 2005\, she published\, The Trouble with Ownership: Intellectual Property and Authorial Liability in England\, 1660-1730 (University of Pennsylvania Press). A new volume\, Human Rights after Corporate Personhood\, co-edited with Sharif Youssef\, is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in Fall 2020. Greene has edited special issues of GLQ and Eighteenth-Century Studies\, and has published articles in journals such as PMLA\, Critical Inquiry\, and The Eighteenth Century. Her most recent writing has appeared in Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. \nLois Kazakoff served as deputy editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle for 18 years before retiring in 2019. She worked with presidents\, politicians\, professors and publicly-minded community members to help them craft compelling and persuasive commentary and bring their voices into the public forum. She has a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She earned a master’s of science of journalism degree from Northwestern University. Lois currently serves on the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Dean’s Advisory Council. \n  \nQuestions That Matter in the Time of Pandemic is a public humanities series that brings UC Santa Cruz faculty in conversation with the campus and community to discuss topics of importance to us all during the COVID-19 health crisis. The conversations build on themes that The Humanities Institute (THI) has explored as part of Questions That Matter and other signature events. For additional discussion\, we encourage you to watch the video of “Cathy Davidson: The New Education”. This event was presented by THI and UCSC’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) for its 2018 Annual Convocation\, and features Cathy Davidson discussing her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux. Davidson’s work explores how we can revolutionize our universities to help students be leaders of change\, not simply subject to it. THI’s interview with Cathy Davidson provides further insight into Davidson’s progressive vision for the future of education.  \nQuestions? Contact Special Events
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-humanities-happy-hour-teaching-and-learning-in-the-time-of-pandemic/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200523
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200227T223529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200414T202955Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - What Time Is It? HisCon Colloqium
DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-time-is-it-hiscon-colloqium/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200522T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200522T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200514T212335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T170938Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: MAH Beyond the World’s End - Meet the Artists
DESCRIPTION:Join Beyond the World’s End exhibiting artists Laurie Palmer\, Amy Balkin\, Krista Franklin\, Newton Harrison\, Super Futures Haunt Qollective\, and the Rasquache Collective for a group discussion and Q&A. \nIn the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s current exhibition\, Beyond the World’s End\, visionary artists reflect on the social and environmental injustices happening around the world and envision radical ways to move forward. \nAs a special virtual offering\, join the panel of exhibiting artists for a group discussion facilitated by guest curator TJ Demos from UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Creative Ecologies. Dive deeper into the content found within the exhibition\, their projects\, and their visions of the future. They will also touch on how these themes connect to our current unfolding pandemic. After the discussion\, stay for a Q&A with the artists facilitated by TJ Demos and the MAH’s Exhibition Catalyst\, Whitney Ford-Terry. \n  \n \n  \nThis event is part of Beyond the End of the World\, a year-long project directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-the-worlds-end-meet-the-artists-at-the-mah/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200227T220700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200414T203050Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: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-6/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200526T165327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T170734Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Special Session: Thinking Through Television in a Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic\, more and more people are tuning into television (across streaming platforms\, web series\, and of course also pay\, cable\, and network TV) for news and information\, comfort and company\, narrative pleasure and imaginative stimulation—though also often getting misinformation\, alienation\, or discouragement.  How is TV working\, producing ways of seeing\, knowing\, living\, and feeling during this pandemic\, and what are the implications of that?  How are we thinking through television in these unthinkable times? Lynne Joyrich will take up these questions with some opening remarks\, then open up to a group discussion. \n \nRSVP by 10 AM on Wednesday\, May 27th to receive Zoom link and password.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/special-session-thinking-through-television-in-a-pandemic/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T153000
DTSTAMP:20260417T141611
CREATED:20200522T174707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200522T174707Z
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SUMMARY:ZOOM TEACH IN: Anti-Asian Xenophobia in an Age of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Anti-Chinese xenophobia inaugurated the United States as a gatekeeping nation in the late nineteenth century. Figured as dangerous to the public health\, the Chinese—and successive Asian migrants—were likened to an invasive disease and subjected not only to exclusion laws but also to white vigilante violence. In this era of pandemic\, a moment conditioned by phobia about China’s global rise\, xenophobic conspiracy theories about the “Chinese virus” abound. China has been placed in the crosshairs of the media and politicians\, and Asians and people of Asian descent have been targeted on social media and subjected to acts of violence. From mid-March to mid-April of this year\, the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center received almost 1\,500 reports of anti-Asian coronavirus discrimination in the United States against people of Chinese\, Korean\, Vietnamese\, Japanese\, Filipino\, Hmong\, Thai\, Lao\, and Cambodian ethnicity. \n \nThis teach-in will be led by two founders of the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center. Russell Jeung\, chair of Asian American Studies at SF State\, will offer a long historical view of anti-Asian racism and brutality\, and Cynthia Choi\, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action\, will address the data the reporting center has gathered in the past two months. In a moment in which we are witness to the slide between anti-Asian rhetoric and anti-Asian brutality\, how should hate speech be understood? Given the necessity of social distancing\, what kinds of community process around racial harm can we envision and bring into being? \nRussell Jeung is Professor of Asian American Studies at SF State University. A scholar of race and religion\, he’s written At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus Among Ancestors and Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans. With Chinese for Affirmative Action and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council\, he helped to establish the Stop AAPI Hate center. \nCynthia Choi is Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action\, a community-based civil rights organization based in San Francisco. CAA partnered to establish Stop AAPI Hate\, an online reporting center dedicated to documenting hate incidents and developing community-based solutions. She has led local\, state\, and national community-based organizations working on a range of issues from reproductive justice\, gender-based violence\, immigrant/refugee rights\, and environmental justice issues in both the nonprofit sector and in philanthropy. \nPresented by The Center for Racial Justice. Co-sponsored by the SUA Office of Diversity and Inclusion\, the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion. \nResources: You can find Stop AAPI Hate’s latest report here and the quick guides\, “Five Things to Consider When You’re Experiencing Hate” and “Five Things to Do When You’re Witnessing Hate\,” here. \nFor more information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zoom-teach-in-anti-asian-xenophobia-in-an-age-of-covid-19/
LOCATION:CA
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