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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-3-3/
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Richard III
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/ 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-richard-iii/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Micah Perks & Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita\, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-zoom-forward-micah-perks-karen-tei-yamashita/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T163000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read | Margaret Atwood Live
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free\, live\, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program\, this event culminates months of in-depth programming and community engagement focused on Atwood’s latest Booker Prize-winning novel\, The Testaments\, a sequel to her 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale. \nRSVP TODAY\n\n\n\n\nThe 2020 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture will feature Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz (Stevenson ‘01\, Creative Writing)\, the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z . \n\n\n\nWilliam “Bro” Adams (Ph.D. History of Consciousness ’82)\, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017\, will be the event MC. \nRead Up\nBookshop Santa Cruz\, our Community Partner\, has put together a web shop of books by Margaret Atwood and Kate Schatz. Buy copies here to support a local business committed to culture and community in Santa Cruz.  \nYou can also catch up on our 4-week exploration of Atwood’s The Testaments from earlier in the year: \nWeek 1: Welcome to Gilead \nWeek 2: Feminist Intersections \nWeek 3: Toxic Bodies \nWeek 4: Atwood Answers \n\n\n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThe Deep Read is a program led by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. \nDeep Read Partners\nUC Santa Cruz \nThe Humanities Institute\nCollege Scholars Program\nCouncil of Provosts\nDivision of Student Success\nPorter College\nUniversity Library\nUniversity Relations \nCommunity\nBookshop Santa Cruz \n\n\n\nThe 2020 Deep Read Program is made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation.\n  \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by September 15th\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-margaret-atwood-live/
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SUMMARY:David Eagleman\, Livewired
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book\, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain\, during a free online event on the Crowdcast platform. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view\, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology\,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher\, bold vision\, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased here at Bookshop Santa Cruz’s website. \nIn Livewired\, Eagleman reveals the many ways in which the brain absorbs experience: developing\, redeploying\, organizing\, and arranging the data it receives from external stimuli\, which enables us to gain the skills\, facilities\, and practices that make us who we are. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and also presents new discoveries from his own research: about synesthesia\, dreaming\, and wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. As only Eagleman can\, along the way we learn why people in the 1980s (and only in the 1980s) saw book pages as slightly pink; why the world’s best archer is armless; why we dream each night\, and what that has to do with the rotation of the planet; what drug withdrawal has in common with a broken heart; how a blind person can learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person can learn to hear with his skin; and how we might someday be able to read the rough details of someone’s life from the microscopic structure etched in their forest of brain cells. \nDAVID EAGLEMAN\, PhD\, teaches brain plasticity at Stanford University\, was the writer and host of the Emmy-nominated television series The Brain\, and is the CEO of NeoSensory\, a company that builds brain/machine interfaces. He is the author of seven previous books\, including the international best sellers Incognito and Sum. He lives in Palo Alto\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-david-eagleman-livewired/
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SUMMARY:Christopher Nelson: Eisa - Drumming\, Dancing and Memory
DESCRIPTION:With the beginning of the 2020 – 2021 school term on the near horizon the OMI team is delighted to announce their next program! \nProfessor Chris Nelson (UNC Chapel Hill) will be joining OMI to discuss Eisa\, Obon\, dancing and cultural memory in contemporary Okinawa. Professor Nelson is an anthropologist who published a study of Eisa called Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance and Everyday Life in Post-War Okinawa (Duke University Press\, 2008). \nOMI Director Alan Christy will lead the conversation with Professor Nelson\, exploring his study and discussing one of Okinawa’s key cultural traditions. \n \nChristopher T Nelson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. The central theme of his research has been the transformational possibilities of everyday life. His recent book Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance\, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa takes up this question\, building on several years of fieldwork that he carried out in Okinawa\, Japan. Through ethnographic and archival research\, he explored traditional forms of social organization and genres of ritual and performance. He studied the work of ethnographic comedians\, whose performances weave Okinawan folk humor\, Japanese traditional monologues and improvisational storytelling into sophisticated critiques of everyday life. He also worked with the youth group from which these performers emerged. In particular\, he examined their eisaa—dance for the dead—and its mediation of social relationships. His book provides close readings of these performances\, focusing on modalities of mourning\, memoration and creative action. \nHis current research project is focused on creative actors who were able to struggle against the constraints of the modern world in order to carve out a moment for meaningful activity. While he remains committed to the possibilities of daily life\, he feels it is also important to consider those for whom the burden of the everyday becomes unbearable. His new project Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Life and Death in Contemporary Japan takes up this problem. It involves the study of early Okinawan ethnologists such as Iha Fuyû; an ethnography of efforts to recover the remains of the Japanese war dead; as well as a critical exploration of Okinawan photography and experimental film. He is interested in the ways in which people negotiate the vortex of local knowledge\, Japanese nativist ethnology\, western anthropology and discourses of the state.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-nelson-okinawa-memories-initiative/
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