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SUMMARY:Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist\, Simone Browne\, and Ruha Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Next in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist\, Simone Browne\, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Dr. Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \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\nAmerican Artist (b. 1989 Altadena\, CA\, lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY) is an artist whose work considers black labor and visibility within networked life. Their practice makes use of video\, installation\, new media\, and writing. Artist is a resident at Red Bull Arts Detroit and a 2018-2019 recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship. They are a former resident of EYEBEAM and completed the Whitney Independent Study program as an artist in 2017. They have exhibited at the Museum of African Diaspora\, San Francisco; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, and Koenig & Clinton\, New York. Their work has been featured in the New York Times\, Artforum\, and Huffington Post. They have published writing in The New Inquiry and Art21. Artist is a part-time faculty at Parsons The New School and teaches at the School for Poetic Computation. \nSimone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her first book\, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness\, was awarded the 2016 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize by the American Studies Association\, the 2016 Surveillance Studies Book Prize by the Surveillance Studies Network\, and the 2015 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research. Simone is also a member of Deep Lab\, a feminist collaborative composed of artists\, engineers\, hackers\, writers\, and theorists. \nRuha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University\, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab\, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019)\, among numerous other publications. Benjamin writes\, teaches\, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power\, race and citizenship\, health and justice. \n\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/surveillance-and-cinematics-american-artist-simone-browne-and-ruha-benjamin/
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SUMMARY:HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
DESCRIPTION:Edith Kulstein\, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria\, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences. \n \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-edie-kulstein/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T133000
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SUMMARY:Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites from Algiers to Berlin to Tokyo\, they also pictured the world anew\, whether framing a street scene in Alexandria or offering a close up on a passing face in Jerusalem. The Lumière Brothers’ broader vision was to bring the world to the world\, and they imagined a global network of films easily circulable beyond the constraints of language and literacy. Engaging the implications of cinematic versus literary capture\, Allan’s talk explores the stakes of world literature in the age of the world picture. \nMichael Allan is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon and editor of the journal Comparative Literature. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton 2016\, Co-Winner of the MLA First Book Prize). His current research focuses on the travels of the Lumière Brothers film company across North Africa and the Middle East. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 3rd; 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-9/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan - Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
DESCRIPTION:Radhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington\, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography\, environmental anthropology\, the anthropology of religion\, South Asian Studies\, and political anthropology. Her award-winning book Animal Intimacies is an ethnography of multispecies relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India. \n \n  \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-govindrajan-labors-of-love-on-the-ethics-and-politics-of-attachment-in-indias-central-himalayas/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff is the author of five books\, most recently Fates and Furies\, a novel\, and Florida\, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L’héroïne\, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.  Her next novel\, Matrix\, is slated for publication by Riverhead in September 2021.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lauren-groff/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T130000
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SUMMARY:Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 5th\, 12-1 pm\, Faculty Associate Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) will present a paper at the Legal Studies workshop entitled “‘Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers:’ Abdallah Laroui’s Critique of Colonized Subjectivity.” Professor Megan Thomas (Politics) will serve as the discussant. Please email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for the paper. Click To join. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yasmeen-daifallah-legal-studies-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T173000
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SUMMARY:Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
DESCRIPTION:Sandord Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social\, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event\, Biggers will be joined by visual culutre theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art\, materiality\, violence\, and possibility. \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\nSanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative\, perspective and history that speaks to current social\, political and economic happenings and the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history. Biggers’ has exhibited work in galleries including the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, the Tate Modern\, London\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York. \nLeigh Raiford is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley\, where she teaches and researches about race\, gender\, justice and visuality. She also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies\, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Raiford received her PhD from Yale University’s joint program in African American Studies and American Studies in 2003. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press\, 2011)\, which was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Prize and her work has appeared in numerous academic journals\, including American Quarterly\, Small Axe\, Qui Parle\, History and Theory\, English Language Notes and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; as well as popular venues including Artforum\, Aperture\, Ms. Magazine\, Atlantic.com and Al- Jazeera.com. \n\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/material-and-memory-sanford-biggers-and-leigh-raiford/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T121500
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SUMMARY:Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies\, Covid-19\, and Healing Futures
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining cultural healing ways is central to healing justice\, Black Lives Matter\, and other contemporary movements. However\, “moving from race to culture to creation\,” as Resmaa Menakem puts it\, takes work. This talk engages in this work by centering epistemologies of Black/African-American traditional medicine\, often reclaimed as “conjure.” Drawing on short stories by Zora Neale Hurston and interviews\, Jones will consider how Black “knowings” of health\, healing\, and biomedicine continue to be both racialized and mobilized – and the urgency of taking other(ed) knowledge seriously in this pandemic moment (and beyond). \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 10th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nNaya Jones (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in the Global and Community Health Program at UCSC. As a geographer and cultural worker\, she especially studies Black geographies of community health and healing in North and Latin America (African-American and Afro-Latinx). Often in partnership with community-rooted organizations\, she engages a range of storytelling\, embodied\, and arts-based methods. She is a former Culture of Health Leader (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\, 2017-2020) and a recent recipient of the Anne S. Chatham Fellowship for Medicinal Botany (Garden Club of America). \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-naya-jones-ucsc/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T131500
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SUMMARY:Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran - Patriotism\, national belonging\, integration\, and identity
DESCRIPTION:Daniella Farah (Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University) will speak in HIS 74B about the effects of the Second World War on Jews in Iran and how this period shaped their political subjectivities. Jews have lived in Iran for over 2\,500 years\, with a population of 100\,000 at their height in 1945. Today\, Iran contains the largest number of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel. During the twentieth century\, Iranian Jews experienced rapid upward mobility\, migrated within the country and abroad\, and participated in Iran’s major political and social movements. Yet\, despite this rich history\, it is only in the last ten years that scholars have started giving Iranian Jewish History serious academic attention. In this talk\, Daniella will offer a broad survey of Iranian Jewish history from the mid-1940s to the early 1980s. She will focus on these themes: the socioeconomic mobility of Iranian Jews\, identity formation\, proclamations of loyalty and belonging to the nation\, Jewish-Muslim interactions\, and the intersection of education and integration. \n \nDaniella Farah is a PhD Candidate in Jewish History at Stanford University and is the daughter of Iranian Jewish emigres. She specializes in the sociocultural histories of the Jews of the modern Middle East\, with a specific geographic focus on Iran and Turkey. Her work is situated at the intersection of Modern Jewish History\, Middle Eastern History\, Education History\, and Transnational Studies. Her article\, “‘The school is the link between the Jewish community and the surrounding milieu’: Education and the Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s\,” is forthcoming with the journal of Middle Eastern Studies. \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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/his-74b-with-daniella-farrah/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-valeria-luiselli-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210212T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Podcasting and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Interested in podcasting and the different ways you can engage this medium as a scholar? This session will focus on how podcasting might fit into your academic and career goals\, including approaches for developing your own podcasting project\, building scholarly and community networks with podcast interviews\, preparing to be interviewed on a podcast\, and the intersection of podcasting with public humanities work writ large. \n \n  \nDaniel Story is a historian and digital humanist. He works as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz\, supporting and collaborating with students and faculty who seek to engage digital methods in their teaching\, research\, or learning. He is the lead producer of the ten-part documentary podcast Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County\, California. He also currently serves as a consulting editor for The American Historical Review and produces the journal’s podcast\, AHR Interview. Daniel received his PhD in History from Indiana University\, Bloomington. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops are open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students\, and will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-podcasting-and-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T100000
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SUMMARY:#StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era\, with Fatema Ahmad
DESCRIPTION:In 2014\, the Obama administration launched Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)\, a grant program that funneled federal money to police\, universities\, and nonprofit organizations in the name of combating terrorism. Although CVE and other “anti-radicalization” programs target Muslims and political activists\, they have enjoyed support from some liberals who view anti-radicalization as a softer\, more humane form of policing. Revised and expanded during the Trump years under the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program\, such surveillance initiatives are embedded in at least nineteen municipal police departments across the United States. In this conversation with Fatema Ahmad of the Muslim Justice League\, we will discuss the history and impacts of CVE and consider the prospects for such programs under the Biden/Harris administration. \n \nFatema Ahmad (she/hers) is the Executive Director at Muslim Justice League\, where she leads MJL’s efforts to dismantle the criminalization and policing of marginalized communities under national security pretexts. She joined as Deputy Director in 2017 and increased MJL’s focus on organizing within and collaborating across impacted communities to resist and subvert surveillance. That included growing the Building Muslim Power collective\, a group that shifts power through creative actions. Fatema also leads the national StopCVE network\, spearheads MJL’s research\, and is a leader in the Donor Advised Funds campaign of the Public Good Coalition. \nIn conversation with Neel Ahuja\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nPresented by the Center for Racial Justice and co-sponsored by UCSC Department of Feminist Studies and the Humanities Institute Memory of Forgotten Wars Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54833/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210217T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210217T133000
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SUMMARY:Neferti Tadiar — A Physics Lesson: Notes on a Cultural Genealogy of Human Mediatic Forms
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is\, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel\, El Filibusterismo\, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals\, indios into free citizen-subjects\, Tadiar explores practices and relations of humans as media in Philippine cultures and the transformation of such persistent forms of life into vital components of today’s global capitalist platform economy. \nNeferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004). Her current book\, Remaindered Life\, a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of global empire\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 17th; 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-neferti-tadiar-barnard-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210217T170000
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\, a Conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Alma Heckman as they discuss Professor Stein’s book Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family\, Lived History\, and Personal Letters. \n \nStein will discuss her recent\, award winning book\, Family Papers\, which traces the story of the Levy family of Salonica through the arc of the 20th century and the breadth of the globe. Through this one family\, across multiple generations\, Stein offers a glimpse into the global history of Sephardic Jews marked by the end of empire\, the Holocaust\, and diaspora. \nThe Levys wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets\, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce\, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed\, Stein discovers\, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief\, but papers. With meticulous research and care\, Stein uses the Levys’ letters to tell not only their history\, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century. \nThis event is a part of The Humanities Insitute’s yearlong exploration of the theme Memory\, we’ll ask: What can a family’s letters\, photographs\, and fragments tell us about the history of nations that don’t exist and families that have migrated to many continents? What is the relationship between individual memory\, collective memory\, and history? \nPlease join us for a thought-provoking conversation about lived history\, memory\, and family. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History\, Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA\, and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.  A former Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, she is the author or editor of nine books\, many of them award-winning.  Stein’s most recent book\, Family Papers:  a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2019)\, was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and Mosaic Magazine\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, and was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \n  \nAlma 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). \n  \n  \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/family-papers-a-conversation-about-a-sephardi-jewish-family-lived-history-and-personal-letters-with-professor-sarah-abrevaya-stein/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain\, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. \n \nNatasha Dhillon and Amin Husain\, are MTL\, a collaboration that joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Occupy Strategy\, both movement-generated theory magazines; Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, known as the direct-action wing of Gulf Labor Coalition; Direct Action Front for Palestine; and\, most recently\, Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation in New York City and beyond. MTL has published in Alternet\, Creative Time Reports\, eflux\, Hyperallergic\, Jadaliyya\, and October Magazine. Currently they are directing and producing Unsettling\, an experimental documentary film about land\, life and liberation in occupied Palestine. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nitasha-dhillon-and-amin-husain-of-mtl-decolonize-this-place-beyond-the-end-of-the-world-sawyer-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T170000
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SUMMARY:The Annual Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture with Tanya Marie Luhrmann
DESCRIPTION:Merrill College Presents The Noel Q King Memorial Lecture: Voices of God\, Voices of Madness \nFollowing Prof. Luhrmann’s talk\, she will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Laurie R. King. \nTanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices\, visions\, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. Using both ethnographic and experimental methods\, she has done fieldwork on the streets of Chicago\, in Chennai\, Accra\, and the South Bay; with evangelical Christians\, Zoroastrians\, and people who practice magic. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007; she served as a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. When God Talks Back was named a NYT Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. Her new book\, Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures\, was published by the University of California Press in 2016. \nLaurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels and other works\, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (from The Beekeeper’s Apprentice\, named one of the 20th century’s best crime novels by the IMBA\, to 2018’s Island of the Mad). She has won an alphabet of prizes from Agatha to Wolfe\, been chosen as guest of honor at several crime conventions\, and is probably the only writer to have both an Edgar and an honorary doctorate in theology. She was inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars in 2010\, as “The Red Circle.” \n\nNoel Q. King was a “founding father” of Merrill College. Born in India and educated in England\, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at UC Santa Cruz\, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies\, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit\, alive at UCSC. \n  \nSponsored by The family of Noel Q. King and by Dennis (Oakes ’77) and Barbara Diessner and Co-Sponsored by the Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/merrill-college-presents-fifth-annual-noel-q-king-memorial-lecture-with-tanya-marie-luhrmann/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T183000
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SUMMARY:Ethan Katz: Jews and Antisemites - The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Katz\, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley\, will speak in HIS 185O on “Jews and Antisemites – The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch.” Among Jewish resistance movements in World War II\, none had the strategic impact of the Algiers underground. This talk will explore the forces and factors that shaped this brief but consequential cooperation between Jewish shock troops and arch-conservative businessmen and military brass. Together\, they played a crucial role in the Allied landing in North Africa. As an historical event\, their story forces us to re-center the history of Jewish resistance in World War II and to interrogate the meaning of resistance itself. \n \nEthan Katz was educated at Amherst College (B.A.\, History & French\, 2002) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A.\, History\, 2005; PhD\, History\, 2009). He is currently Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley\, where he has taught since the fall of 2018. \nAs a scholar\, Dr. Katz’s work has focused on the Jewish experience in modern Europe and the Middle East\, especially in France and the Francophone world. Much of his scholarship examines Jewish belonging and exclusion\, Jewish-Muslim relations\, the Holocaust\, Islamophobia\, and colonialism and its legacies. His book The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard\, 2015) received five prizes\, including a National Jewish Book Award and two awards for the best book of the year in French history. In addition\, Katz has published co-edited volumes on Antisemitism and Islamophobia in France\, Colonialism and Jewish History\, and Secularism and Jewish life. Katz’s work has been supported by a number of prestigious fellowships\, including a year-long fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at UPenn\, and a Lady Davis visiting professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently at work on a book about the Algiers underground of 1940-1943 and the meaning of resistance\, entitled Freeing the Empire: The Uprising of Jews and Antisemites That Helped Win World War II. \nDr. Katz speaks regularly in universities and Jewish community spaces across the U.S.\, Europe\, and Israel. In addition to scholarly publications\, he writes and speaks about contemporary questions in historical context and has authored or co-authored pieces in venues like the Atlantic\, CNN\, Marginalia Review of Books\, and Jewish Review of Books. \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/ethan-katz-jews-and-antisemites-the-unlikely-alliance-that-paved-the-way-for-operation-torch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T183000
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: The Writing Craft of There There
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing professors Micah Perks and Jennifer Tseng will lead a conversation about the techniques at play in Tommy Orange’s novel\, There There.  \nThis salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link:\nRSVP \nAbout The Deep Read\nThis salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-the-writing-craft-of-there-there/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210221
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SUMMARY:Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Writing for Living:\nHelene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities\nFebruary 19-20\, 2021\nPlease register for Zoom connections \nFriday\, 3:30-5 PST:\nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcO2upzkrHNXJIpeessjoejEbdjqIQ3UF \nSaturday\, 11:00-12:30 and 12:50-2:20 PST:\nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyhrz0jGNPQA9pd9-MXOQhZ205ABiK3 \nEmphasizing her relationship to writing as a practice that makes living possible\, this conference honors the work of Distinguished Professor Emerita Helene Moglen (1936-2018). She contributed richly to feminist and psychoanalytic theory in literature\, feminist institution building\, teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students\, and teaching writing in and out of the university. Her generative vitality and creative critical thinking touched everyone who knew her. \nWriting grounded Helene’s deep optimism and vitality. She wrote every morning—by hand\, in notebooks. She encouraged writers\, whether in poetry\, scholarship\, cultural and political analysis\, or fiction; and she responded in detail and with immense generosity to the drafts of her colleagues\, whether they were in her field or not\, into her last summer. \nProfessor Moglen’s academic home was the Literature Department. Her monographs include The Trauma of Gender (2001)\, Sexual and Gender Harassment in the Academy (1981)\, The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne (1976)\, and Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived (1975). She also co-edited five collections that explored the intersection of literature\, psychoanalysis\, race\, and feminism\, including (with Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian)\, Female Subjects in Black and White: Race\, Psychoanalysis\, Feminism (1997) and (with Nancy Chen and in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research) Bodies in the Making (2006). \nAt the time of her death\, Helene Moglen was working on the effects of social media on the formation of subjects and the possibilities for face-to-face democracy. She probed the intimate and public consequences of personal data harvesting\, surveillance practices\, business models\, and the allure of screens over embodied presence. She would have appreciated the irony of holding this conference on Zoom! \nFull conference schedule and more information at: https://humanities.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/helene-moglen-conference.html \nSponsored by the Humanities Division and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54624/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T143000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Kwaito Bodies by Xavier Livermon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 19 for a Feminist Studies Book Talk celebrating the publication of Associate Professor Xavier Livermon’s new book: Kwaito Bodies. Xavier will be joined by respondents Marcia Ochoa\, Associate Professor\, Feminist Studies and Savannah Shange\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology. \n \nKwaito Bodies\, Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance\, representation\, and consumption of kwaito\, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg’s nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings\, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity\, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways\, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism\, apartheid\, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time\, kwaito speaks to the ways in which these legacies reverberate between cosmopolitan Johannesburg and the diaspora. In foregrounding this dynamic\, Livermon demonstrates that kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs\, challenges\, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-kwaito-bodies-by-xavier-livermon/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T133000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Elaine Sullivan\, Constructing the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sullivan will discuss her recently published “born-digital” monograph\, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press\, 2020). Using 3D models of the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara\, the online\, interactive monograph addresses ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the built and natural environment affected burial rituals at the cemetery due to changes in visibility. Flipping the top-down view prevalent in archeology to a more human-centered perspective puts the focus on the dynamic evolution of an ancient site that is typically viewed as static. This innovative publication was recently awarded the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig prize for innovation in digital history. \n \nElaine Sullivan (M.A. and Ph.D. in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. \nHer archaeological work in Egypt includes five seasons of excavation with Johns Hopkins University at the temple of the goddess Mut (Luxor)\, as well as four seasons in the field with a joint UCLA-Rijksuniversiteit Groningen project in the Egyptian Fayum at the Greco-Roman town of Karanis. She has also excavated at sites in Syria\, Italy\, and Israel. Sullivan has published extensively on the use of digital technologies for research and scholarship\, including recent articles in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory\, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians\, and the Bulletin for the Institute of Classical Studies. \nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54286/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Queering the Undocumented Archive: A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and the Center for Racial Justice is proud to present: Queering the Undocumented Archive – A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado. Click here to learn more about Dreamers Adrift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSpVOw3nBo&t=5s \n \nFree and open to all. \nJulio Salgado is the co-founder of Dreamers Adrift and the Migrant Storytelling Manager for the Center for Cultural Power. His status as an undocumented\, queer artivist has fueled the contents of his visual art\, which depict key individuals and moments of the DREAM Act and the migrant rights movement. \nYosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed poet and public speaker. Born in Guerrero\, Mexico\, and raised in Eastside San Jose\, Reyes explores themes of migration and sexuality in his work. The Advocate named Reyes one of “13 LGBT Latinos Changing the World” and Remezcla included Reyes on their list of “10 Up and Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know.” \nFor more information\, please contact undocustudies.ucsc@gmail.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queering-the-undocumented-archive-a-conversation-with-yosimar-reyes-and-julio-salgado/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T173000
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SUMMARY:Abolitionist Feminisms: Beth Ritchie\, Erica Meiners\, and Sonya Clark
DESCRIPTION:Beth Richie\, University of Illinois\, Chicago\, Erica Meiners\, Northeastern Illinois University\, and Soyna Clark\, Amherst College\, Western Massachusetts\, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer\, anti-capitalist\, grassroots\, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event. \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\nBeth Richie is the Head of Department of Criminology\, Law and Justice; Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies and the University of Illinois and Chicago. The emphasis of Beth Richie’s scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that race/ethnicity and social position affect women’s experience of violence and incarceration\, focusing on the experiences of African American battered women and sexual assault survivors. Beth is the author of ​Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation (NYU Press\, 2012) which chronicles the evolution of the contemporary anti-violence movement during the time of mass incarceration in the United States. \nWriter\, educator and organizer\, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences\, Working Towards Freedom (Haymarket Press 2018) and For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State (University of Minnesota 2016). A Distinguished Visiting Scholar at a range of universities and centers – including University of Pittsburgh\, Trent University\, CUNY Graduate Center\, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute\, and Chicago’s Leather Archives and Museum\, her work has been supported by the Illinois Humanities Council\, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation\, and a Soros Justice Fellowship. The Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor at Northeastern Illinois University\, Erica is a member of her labor union\, University Professionals of Illinois\, and she teaches classes in justice studies\, education\, and gender and sexuality studies. Most importantly\, Erica has collaboratively started and works alongside a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation\, particularly movements that involve access to free public education for all\, including people during and after incarceration\, and other queer abolitionist struggles. A member of Critical Resistance\, the Illinois Death in Custody Project\, the Prison Neighborhood Arts / Education Project\, and the Education for Liberation Network\, she is a sci-fi fan\, an avid runner\, and a lover of bees and cats. \nBorn in Washington DC to a psychiatrist from Trinidad and a nurse from Jamaica\, Sonya Clark’s work draws from the legacy of crafted objects and the embodiment of skill. As an African American artist\, craft is a means to honor her lineage and expand notions of both American-ness and art. She uses materials as wide ranging as textiles\, hair\, beads\, combs\, and sound to address issues of nationhood\, identity\, and racial constructs. Clark is a full professor in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College in Western Massachusetts. Clark’s work is exhibited in museums and galleries internationally\, and she is the recipient of several awards including an Anonymous Was a Woman Award\, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. \n\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/abolitionist-feminisms-beth-ritchie-erica-meiners-and-sonya-clark/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T133000
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SUMMARY:Abou Farman — Terminality as Performance
DESCRIPTION:Over the last eight months\, the lines separating private from public domains of grief\, protest from mourning\, dying from being killed\, the dead from the living\, the fleshly from the pixellated\, have been blurred. Through sound\, theory\, image\, and affect\, Farman and his collaborators explore some practices of daily resurrection and critical mourning. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 24th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \n \nAbou Farman is an anthropologist\, writer and artist. He is the author of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (2020\, University of Minnesota Press) and Clerks of the Passage (2012\, Linda Leith Press). He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and founder of Art Space Sanctuary as well as the Shipibo Conibo Center of New York. As part of the artist duo caraballo-farman\, he has exhibited internationally. He is producer and co-writer on several feature films\, most recently Icaros: A Vision. \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-abou-farman-new-school-for-social-research/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T170000
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SUMMARY:Heather McGhee\, The Sum of Us
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with The Humanities Institute\, Marcus Books\, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch\, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza\, Principal at Black Futures Lab and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. McGhee’s new book\, The Sum of Us\, is a powerful exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us—including white people—from one of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers. \n \nThe Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing\, still the richest country in the world\, but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. At the heart of the book are the humble stories of Americans yearning to be a part of a better America\, including white supremacy’s collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy\, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a vision for the future of our country—one whose population has ties to every place on the globe—where we finally realize that life can be so much more than zero-sum. \n“Racism is not merely destructive to people of color. It is self-destructive to many white people. Racism is anti-American and anti-human as Heather McGhee expertly and judiciously proves in The Sum of Us. This is the book I’ve been waiting for. The Sum of Us can help us come together to build a nation for us all\, with policies that benefit us all.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist \nHeather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy. The former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos\, McGhee has drafted legislation\, testified before Congress and contributed regularly to news shows including NBC’s Meet the Press. She now chairs the board of Color of Change\, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. McGhee holds a BA in American studies from Yale University and a JD from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. \nAlicia Garza believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An author\, political strategist\, organizer\, and cheeseburger enthusiast\, Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network\, serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, and is a co-founder of Supermajority\, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia has become a powerful voice in the media and frequently contributes thoughtful opinion pieces and expert commentary on politics\, race and more to outlets such as MSNBC and The New York Times. She has received numerous accolades and recognitions\, including being on the cover of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World issue and being named to Bloomberg’s 50 and Politico’s 50 lists. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book\, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (One World Penguin Random House)\, and she warns you — hashtags don’t start movements. People do.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/heather-mcghee-the-sum-of-us/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: Going Deep with There There
DESCRIPTION:Professors Mayanthi Fernando (Anthropology)\,  Katie Keliiaa (Feminist Studies & Indigenous Studies)\, and Renya Ramirez (Anthropology) will participate in a salon-style conversation about the novel\, sharing their intelelctual approaches to the work and answering questions from the Deep Read community. \nThis salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: \nRSVP \nAbout The Deep Read\nThis salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-going-deep-with-there-there/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T131500
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SUMMARY:Bryan K. Roby: Blackness in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Bryan K. Roby (University of Michigan) will speak in HIS 74B on his book titled The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press\, 2015) and about his ongoing research regarding Blackness and Mizrahi history in Israel. This talk explores the works of poet activists\, artists\, and slam poets of Yemenite and Ethiopian Jewish Israelis who identify with Global Blackness in order to examine what constitutes Blackness for Jews in Israel as well as how Blackness acts as a tool of empowerment for marginalized communities. How do we understand Blackness in Israel\, not as a color\, but a social construct built around inequality and fixed notions that racialized symbols of identity correlate to social mobility? How do Black feminism and queer of color critiques translate in a Hebrew/Israeli context? \n \nBryan K. Roby is an Assistant Professor of Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His expertise is on 20th century Israeli and North African Jewish history. His research and teaching interests include Jewish racial constructs; policing and civil rights globally; and 19th and 20th century North African history. He has written on social justice protests in Israel and is currently working on a second book\, Israel through a Colored Lens: Racial Constructs in the Israeli Jewish Imagination\, that explores the shifting boundaries of racial constructs in Israel/Palestine as well as African-American intellectual contributions to Israeli sociology and theories on race and ethnicity. \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/bryan-k-roby-the-mizrahi-era-of-rebellion-israels-forgotten-civil-rights-struggle-1948-1966/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T152000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer: Indigenous Feminism and Language Reclamation
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer joins us to speak about the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project\, profiled in the documentary\, “We Still Live Here.” The film tells the story of the cultural revival of the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts and the return of the Wôpanâak language\, silenced for more than a century. \nIt is recommended that attendees view “We Still Live Here” in advance of the talk at: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3h1myn \nFounded in 1993 by Jessie Little Doe\, WLRP did something never done before – resurrect a native language. Wôpanâak was the first American Indian language to use an alphabetic writing system\, developed by English missionaries in the early 1600s to convert the Wampanoag to Christianity. The first complete bible printed in the “New World” was published in 1663 in Wôpanâak. \nSince the film’s release in 2010\, WLRP has worked to bring the Wôpanâak language to more formalized educational settings\, both public and private. Dr. Greendeer will talk about what this journey has been like for her personally\, and how it has transformed the Wampanoag community. \n \nThis event is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-nitana-hicks-greendeer-indigenous-feminism-and-language-reclamation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Danusha Lemeris and Tess Taylor 
DESCRIPTION:Danusha Laméris’ first book\, The Moons of August (Autumn House\, 2014)\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, The American Poetry Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, Ploughshares\, and Tin House. She’s the author of Bonfire Opera\, (University of Pittsburgh Press\, Pitt Poetry Series\, 2020)\, and the recipient of the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Danusha teaches poetry independently\, and was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, California. \n  \nTess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry\, including The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, and The Forage House\, called “stunning” by The San Francisco Chronicle. Work & Days was named one of The New York Times best books of poetry of 2016.  In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art as a part of the Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press\, hailed as “brilliant” in the LA Times. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-danusha-lemeris/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T183000
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: A Discussion with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
DESCRIPTION:Discuss the Tommy Orange’s There There with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, the Indigenous tribe native to the Santa Cruz region.  \nThis salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: \nRSVP \nAbout The Deep Read\nThis salon is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-a-discussion-with-the-amah-mutsun-tribal-band/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T130000
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SUMMARY:Latinos Modelos Conferencia Virtual 2021 - Latino Roles Models 2021 Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Un evento anual gratuito para estudiantes del condado de Santa Cruz desde el sexto grado a la universidad y sus familias\, con profesionales latinos\, estudiantes universitarios y talleres de información. Esta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés. Asistentes elegibles para premios. \nA free annual event for Santa Cruz County students grades 6 to college and their families\, featuring Latino professionals\, college students\, and information workshops. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. \n \nSe require inscribirse • Pre-registration is required \nDr. Manuel Pastor\, Orador Principal\, Keynote Speaker: \n-Distinguido profesor de Sociología y Estudios Estadounidenses y Etnia en la Universidad del Sur de California (USC)\, donde dirige el Instituto de Investigación de Equidad de la USC. \n-Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC) where he directs the USC Equity Research Institute. \nPRESENTADO POR • PRESENTED BY: Cabrillo College; Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County; Consulado General de México en San José; Greater Opportunities for Adult Learning (GOAL); Live Oak School District\, Pajaro Valley Unified School District; Santa Cruz City Schools; Santa Cruz County Office of Education; Santa Cruz County College Commitment; Senderos; Soquel Union Elementary School District; UC Santa Cruz: The Humanities Institute / Institute for Social Transformation. \nMore information: (831) 854-7740 · info@SCSenderos.org · SCSenderos.org \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latinos-modelos-conferencia-virtual-2021-latino-roles-models-2021-virtual-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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