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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Alma Heckman\, The Sultan's Communists
DESCRIPTION:Alma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in modern Jewish history of North Africa and the Middle East with an interest in citizenship\, political transformations\, transnationalism\, and empire. Her first book is The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Press\, 2021). Additionally\, she is working on a co-edited volume examining Jews in radical politics in a comparative framework. She has held fellowships with Fulbright\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has published her work in a number of journals and edited volumes. \n \n“The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco’s national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan\, Edmond Amran El Maleh\, Abraham Serfaty\, Simon Lévy\, and Sion Assidon)\, Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and ‘60s\, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman’s narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism\, Arab nationalism\, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that\, upon independence\, from France and Spain in 1956\, allied itself with the United States (and\, more quietly\, with Israel) during the Cold War\, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan’s Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-alma-heckman-the-sultans-communists/
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SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla -  An Unthinkable State: Puerto Rico\, the United States and the Aporias of U.S. Empire
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of Hurricane Maria\, unprecedented attention turned to the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico and its enduring colonial relationship with the United States. This presentation will examine the rising popularity and shifting strategies of the Puerto Rican statehood movement\, with a focus on how and why annexation has come to be imagined as a form of anti-colonial politics. Over the last decades the statehood movement has grown steadily as the Puerto Rican territory has experienced an unprecedented economic crisis\, with failing infrastructure\, a seemingly unpayable public debt\, and historic levels of out-migration. Within this context many residents envision annexation as the only way of safeguarding what is currently viewed as a precarious and unguaranteed place within the nation. In this talk\, I offer an ethnographic analysis of how statehood is imagined and defended by its supporters and show how this movement uniquely articulates the very contradictions and power asymmetries that structure Puerto Rico’s relationship to the US. \nYarimar Bonilla is a Professor in the Department of Africana\, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment(2015); co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019); and a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus Project. Bonilla also writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día and is a regular contributor to The Washington Post\, The Nation\, Jacobin\, and The New Yorker\, and a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s Democracy Now! Her current research—for which she was named a 2018-2020 Carnegie Fellow —examines the politics of recovery in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and the forms of political and social trauma that the storm revealed. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 13th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThis colloquium is co-sponsored by Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)\, the Research Center for the Americas (RCA)\, and the Anthropology Department. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloqium-yarimar-bonilla-hunter-college/
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SUMMARY:An evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie - Talking about chronic illness\, care\, and Covid
DESCRIPTION:Join Sundance Award winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness\, the global crisis of care\, and Covid-19. \nAs the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid\,” there is much to be learned from the experience of those who were grappling with the effects of difficult-to-diagnose\, understudied\, and invisibilzed diseases long before the appearance of the novel coronavirus. What do the experiences of the chronically ill teach us about how to survive – not just physically\, but emotionally and socially – in the face of huge knowledge gaps and medical disbelief? How can patients separated by vast distances and often unable to engage in traditional political organizing join together to demand answers and treatment? What do patient voices tell us about how the organization of medicine needs to change in order to better serve the well-being of us all? \n \nRegistrants will receive a link to pre-screen Brea’s 2017 film “Unrest” at no cost (the film is also available to view on Netflix and Amazon Prime)\, as well as be invited to pre-submit questions to these two medical justice advocates. Please email thi@ucsc.edu for the no cost link to screen the film. Audience members will also be invited to submit questions and participate in the discussion in real time during the event. \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 Fellow. \n“Unrest\,” 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 is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz where she teaches about feminist theory\, disability studies\, and creative ethnography. A writer of essay\, fiction\, film criticism\, and drama\, Moodie’s work has appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Film Quarterly\, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. 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. \nRead more: \n\nFeature article on “Unrest” from The Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-jennifer-brea-unrest-documentary-20170929-story.html\nMoodie’s July 2020 essay on the aftermath of “Unrest” and the challenges of relapsing/remitting illness here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/\n\nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster and the Institute for Social Transformation. \n\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 4\, 2021. The event will include closed captioning and ASL translation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-jennifer-brea-and-megan-moodie-talking-about-chronic-illness-care-and-covid/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Sofia Samatar
DESCRIPTION:Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories\, the short story collection\, Tender\, and Monster Portraits\, a collaboration with her brother\, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors\, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature\, African literature\, and speculative fiction at James Madison University in Virginia.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sofia-samatar/
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor\, Tufts University).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migrant-futures-south-asia-and-the-middle-east-i-sound-into-form/
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SUMMARY:Prisons\, Histories and Erasures: Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar and Kelly Lytle Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:For the next Visualizing Abolition event\, Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar\, and Kelly Lytle Hernández join us to discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of prisons\, jails\, and detention centers in the United States. Together\, these influential artist and historians will talk about what is made visible when the settler colonial politics that sustain the prison industrial complex come into focus. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nJoanne Barker is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians). She is professor and chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently serving on The Segora Te Land Trust Board and The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Board. Barker is the author of Native Acts: Law\, Recognition\, and Cultural Authenticity\, and the editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. \nMaria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify\, mobilize\, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Through installation\, sculpture\, sound\, and performance\, Gaspar’s practice situates itself within historically marginalized sites and spans multiple formats\, scales\, and durations to produce liberatory actions. Gaspar’s projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund\, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship\, the Creative Capital Award\, the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant\, and the Art Matters Foundation. Maria has received the Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Mexican Art\, and the Chamberlain Award for Social Practice from the Headlands Center for the Arts. Gaspar has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston\, TX; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL; the African American Museum\, Philadelphia\, PA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, NY. \nKelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History\, African American Studies\, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History. She is also the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race\, immigration\, and mass incarceration\, she is the author of the award-winning books\, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press\, 2010)\, and City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press\, 2017). \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prisons-histories-and-erasures-joanne-barker-maria-gaspar-and-kelly-lytle-hernandez/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Inaugurating Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Melanie Yazzie and Michelle Daigle
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. President’s Inauguration is on January 20th. We use that date as an occasion to think about alternative futures and political possibilities not beholden to colonial and capitalist dispossession\, U.S. sovereignty\, and the nation-state form\, focusing in particular on Indigenous pathways to alternative political-ethical futures. Melanie Yazzie (University of New Mexico) and Michelle Daigle (University of Toronto) will be in conversation with Gina Dent (UCSC) and Caitlin Keliiaa (UCSC) to discuss methods of resurgence and freedom premised on abolitionist\, decolonial\, and feminist praxis. \nMelanie K. Yazzie (Diné) is an Assistant Professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico. She is also the national chair of the Red Nation\, a grassroots organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism. She does historical research at the intersections of Indigenous studies\, feminist and queer studies\, carceral studies\, Diné (Navajo) studies\, and environmental studies. She also does public intellectual and activist work on Native women’s rights\, LGBTQ2 rights\, environmental justice\, policing and incarceration\, Indigenous housing justice\, urban Indigenous issues\, and international solidarity. \nMichelle Daigle is Mushkegowuk (Cree)\, a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9\, and of French ancestry. She is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Indigenous Studies and the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research examines colonial capitalist dispossession and violence on Indigenous lands and bodies\, as well as Indigenous practices of resurgence and freedom. Her current research project is on extractive geographies in Mushkegowuk territory. Her writing has been published in Antipode\, Environment & Planning D\, and Political Geography. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 20th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-8/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Dina Danon: Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora - The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir
DESCRIPTION:Dina Danon (Binghamton University) will speak in HIS 74B on her book titled The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press\, 2020). This lecture will tell the story of a long-overlooked Ottoman Jewish community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material\, the lecture will also offer a new read on Jewish modernity. Across Europe\, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? What happens when there is no “Jewish Question?” Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites\, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors\, rabbis and housewives\, this lecture will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class\, not Judaism\, that most significantly framed this Sephardi community’s encounter with the modern age. \n \nDina Danon is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. She holds a doctorate in History from Stanford University. She is the author of The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press\, 2020). She was recently a fellow at the Katz Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, where she began work on new project on the marketplace of matchmaking\, marriage\, and divorce in the eastern Sephardi diaspora. \nHIS 74B “Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History\, 1500-2000” surveys modern Jewish history from Morocco to Iran\, 1500-2000. Studying these populations through original documents\, scholarly works\, and literature imparts a unique perspective on both modern Jewish history and that of the region\, challenging and complementing standard narratives of each. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dina-danon-the-jews-of-ottoman-izmir-a-modern-history/
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SUMMARY:Nick Estes and Melanie K. Yazzie\, of The Red Nation
DESCRIPTION:Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux) and Melanie Yazzie (Diné) of The Red Nation\, respond to the prompt: What lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how can we cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing? \nWelcomed by Chairman Valentin Lopez (Amah Mutsun) \nModerated by Mayanthi Fernando and T. J. Demos \n \nNick Estes is Kul Wicasa from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico\, the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Resistance (Verso\, 2019)\, and the host of The Red Nation Podcast. \nMelanie K. Yazzie\, PhD\, is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in Navajo/American Indian history\, political ecology\, Indigenous feminisms\, queer Indigenous studies\, and theories of policing and the state. She also organizes with The Red Nation\, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism. \nValentin Lopez has been the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band since 2003\, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun\, Awaswas\, Chumash and Yokuts. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the documented descendants of Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Valentin Lopez is a Native American Advisor to the University of California\, Office of the President on issues related to repatriation. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit beyond.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54222/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk - Christine Hong: A Violent Peace: Race\, US Militarism\, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book Talk and celebration of Christine Hong’s (Assoc Prof Lit and Director of CRES) new book A Violent Peace: Race\, US Militarism\, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford U Press\, 2020) with respondents: Neel Ahuja (Assoc Professor\, FMST and CRES) and Alyosha Goldstein (Professor\, American Studies\, University of New Mexico).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-christine-hong-a-violent-peace-race-us-militarism-and-cultures-of-democratization-in-cold-war-asia-and-the-pacific/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T173000
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SUMMARY:Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and The Humanities Institute are pleased to present a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and renowned social psychologist Craig Haney\, moderated by Professor Gina Dent. The event is part of the IAS Visualizing Abolition Series and The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nReginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet\, memoirist\, and teacher. His work in public defense\, his years of advocacy\, and Betts’s own experiences as a teenager in maximum security prisons uniquely positions him to speak to the failures of the current criminal justice system and present encouraging ideas for change. Betts often gives talks about his own experience\, detailing his journey from incarceration to Yale Law School and the role that perseverance and literature played in his success. In addition\, he has given lectures on topics ranging from mass incarceration to contemporary poetry and the intersection of literature and advocacy. \nCraig Haney is a social psychologist and a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation. Haney has published five books\, numerous research articles\, entries in law reviews\, and articles for the Huffington Post about the psychological impacts of incarceration\, advocating for prison reform. He has served as an expert witness in several influential United States Federal Court cases related to the prison environment and punishment. Moreover\, Haney’s work was influential in the United States Supreme Court 5-4 ruling of Brown v. Plata (2011)\, which upheld a lower court ruling that the California prison population be reduced. \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prisons-and-poetics-reginald-dwayne-betts/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Aomar Boum: Seeing as Memory - Graphic Memoir as Historical Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Aomar Boum (UCLA) will speak in HIS 185O about his upcoming graphic novel collaboration recounting the story of European Jewish refugees in Morocco during the Second World War. In the last decade\, graphic memoirs and novels have emerged as a significant form of historical (re)writing of past narratives and events. The medium of comics and its use of chronologically ordered panels allows the reader to create meanings through the combination of image and text. I argue for the use of graphic memoirs to reconstruct the history of Saharan Vichy camps. I contend that in the larger context of an anthropology of genocide and the Holocaust\, graphic memoirs could be seen retroactive ethnographic accounts where witnessing takes place through seeing guided by the archive. In this talk I present a collaborative graphic narrative based on a unique style of art highlighting the impact of WWII outside of Europe through the story of a German refugee in North Africa. Hans\, the main character\, is a composite representing the experiences of several historical figures. I note that the use of images as a form of Holocaust writing\, starting with Maus\, is a call to seeing and therefore remembering through witnessing the trauma of detainees of labor and internment Vichy camps in the Sahara between 1940 and 1945. \nAomar Boum is associate professor in the Department of anthropology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How\nMuslims Remember Jews in Morocco and co-editor of The Holocaust and North Africa. \n \nHIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources\, films\, and novels\, students consider WWII and the Holocaust as they intersect with colonial and Jewish histories in the Arab world. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/his-185o-with-aomar-boum/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T121500
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SUMMARY:Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan – The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop and Gendered Aspirations in Urban India
DESCRIPTION:In the last decade\, access to digital communication technologies has created opportunities for young people on the margins of the national imaginary in India to take part in transnational media worlds. In his recently published book\, Dattatreyan uses the ‘globally familiar’ as an analytic to engage with the recursive effects of online media consumption\, production\, and circulation amongst young migrant men in Delhi who invest their energies in the Black aesthetics of hip hop. In this talk\, he reflects on how\, eight years after he first started fieldwork with these young men\, the social and economic opportunities that have emerged for them as a result of their online/offline hip hop play continue to shape their gendered aspirations in and through circuits of late capitalism. \nEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths\, University of London. His research engages with the ways in which digital media consumption\, production\, and circulation shape understandings of migration\, gender\, race\, and urban space. His first book\, The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop\, Masculinity\, and Urban Space in Delhi\, was published by Duke University Press in 2020. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 27th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloqium-e-gabriel-dattatreyan-goldsmiths-college-university-of-london/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T100000
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis: The Senses Still
DESCRIPTION:The THI Sense Memory Cluster presents on Thursday\, January 28\, 10-12\, Professor C. Nadia Seremetakis\, author of The Last Word\, The Senses Still\, and Sensing the Everyday. She will discuss her practice of sensory ethnography\, her theory of sense memory\, and “the third stream of anamnesis” in the contemporary spread of little memorials in Greek urban space. \n \nProfessor C. Nadia Seremetakis is a cultural anthropologist and author of several books in both English and Greek\, including poetry. She is best known for The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity (Univ. of Chicago Press)\, The Last Word: Women\, Death and Divination (Univ. of Chicago Press)\, and Sensing the Everyday (Routledge). She has lived and taught in New York for more than two decades\, conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world\, served as advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of Health and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture\, and taught at the University of the Peloponnese\, in her native area\, for the past ten years. Full bio: www.seremetakis.com \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-the-senses-still/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-k-ming-chang/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T173000
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SUMMARY:“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The award winning documentary Coded Bias explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-\, race-\, and gender-based inequities. \nWhile working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software\, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face — until she put on a white mask. As she recounts in the documentary “Coded Bias\,” Buolamwini soon discovered that most such artificial-intelligence programs are trained to identify patterns based on data sets that skew light-skinned and male. “When you think of A.I.\, it’s forward-looking\,” she says. “But A.I. is based on data\, and data is a reflection of our history.” “Coded Bias” tackles its sprawling subject by zeroing in empathetically on the human costs. \n“Coded Bias” examines algorithmic bias as a modern civil rights issue\, and sheds light on privacy and equity issues related to increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. \n \nRegistration required. A link to view the film will be sent out starting 1/25 which will be available to view anytime until 1/28. \nPanelists Bios: \nProfessor Neda Atanasoski of the Humanities Institute Center for Racial Justice \nProfessor A.M. Darke of Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) \nProfessor Jody Greene of Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) \nWatch the trailer: https://www.codedbias.com/about \nFilm screening (1h 30m) and panel discussion sponsored by UCSC’s Privacy Office and Office for Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54595/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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