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SUMMARY:Art\, Abolition\, and the University: Ashley Hunt and the Underground Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Abolition presents artist Ashley Hunt in conversation with MJ Hart\, Joshua Solis\, Alberto Lule\, Ryan Flaco Rising\, and Rodrigo Vazquez of the Underground Scholars Initiative. The Underground Scholars Initiative supports formerly incarcerated students at UC Santa Cruz and system impacted students in the transition experience and beyond. For Art\, Abolition\, and the University\, Hunt and the Underground Scholars will talk about their collaboration of a broadsheet for the Barring Freedom exhibition\, available here. They will also discuss the roles of the university in struggles for abolition and what they call the prison to school pipeline. \nFeatured Music Performance – Orrin Evans and Eric Revis \nUnderground Scholars is a statewide initiative that supports formerly incarcerated and system impacted students in the transition experience and beyond. With a focus on recruitment\, retention\, advocacy and policy. We aim to bridge the popular academic theoretical discourse of mass incarceration with one that is grounded in the lived experiences of UCSC students and students from surrounding communities. Together we are building the prison to school pipeline. \n \nAshley Hunt uses images\, objects\, maps\, writing and performance to engage social ideas and actions. He approaches art and activism as complimentary spheres of practice — drawing upon the ideas and aesthetics of social movements\, cultural theory and art alike. Hunt has exhibited work in galleries internationally and correctional institutions\, such as the 2012 Made in L.A. Biennial of the Hammer Museum\, the Tate Modern in London and the Putnamville Correctional Institution in Indiana. \nMissy “MJ” Hart is an artist\, abolitionist\, and gang member turned activist after surviving the horrors of the criminal injustice system. MJ is a Workshop Facilitator and Creator of “Rozes Among Thorns” with the org The Beat Within. MJ is helping to establish the Underground Scholars Initiative at UCSC while completing their BA in Psychology with a minor in History of Consciousness. MJ strives to put their knowledge into action organizing with grassroots movements in their hometown and beyond. \nJoshua Solis is a first generation formerly incarcerated alumnus from UCSC. After spending over 11 years incarcerated he is now a leader and advocate for formerly incarcerated and system impacted students in California. He earned a BA in Sociology at UCSC\, and is currently pursuing his Masters. Joshua is now the Program Coordinator for the Underground Scholars Initiative at UC Santa Cruz. Through comprehensive collaboration\, program coordination\, and outreach his efforts serve to continue the prison to school pipeline. \nAlberto Lule became an artist while serving a thirteen year prison sentence. Art made the prison walls disappear\, allowing Alberto to overcome both a physical and mental prison. Using mixed media installation\, Lule critiques mass incarceration and particularly the California prison system. Alberto connects the similarities between institutions\, from institutions of higher learning to correctional institutions\, to expose and learn from a scientific and sociological perspective\, but even more thoroughly through art and activism. \nRyan Flaco Rising has experienced drug addiction\, gang banging\, physical and mental abuse\, incarceration as a juvenile\, seven years in prison\, and brutal prison riots which almost cost their life. While in prison\, education became an outlet to address past trauma and writing helped Ryan grow a passion for learning. Through the Underground Scholars Initiative Ryan developed leadership skills and is engaged in finding solutions to end mass incarceration through collective first-hand experiences while thriving at UC Santa Barbara. \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized by Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The events feature artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-April 25\, 2021 and Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. \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/art-abolition-and-the-university-ashley-hunt-and-the-underground-scholars/
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SUMMARY:Dard Neuman — Hindustani Music and the Politics of Creativity
DESCRIPTION:This talk discusses music and the politics of creativity in the context of South Asia more broadly and Hindustani music more specifically (what is today called “Indian classical music”). Neuman traces how elite Muslim (sharif) culture became radically disrupted after British rule was formalized in 1857\, and court musicians were dispersed throughout India\, with many lineages and traditions quickly fading to obscurity\, while a new class of hereditary musicians emerged. These new musicians came from predominantly low-class Muslim bardic communities\, and their socio-musical innovations can be better understood in relation to their forceful critiques of feudal hierarchies and caste exclusions. Through oral histories\, family genealogies and analysis of music performance\, Neuman traces how musicians from “outsider” lineages integrated aesthetic and ideological knowledge systems to forge a fundamentally new socio-musical aesthetic\, one that broke from established traditions to widen access to non-elite lineages\, but did so in ways determined by heterodox and populist Sufi/Bhakti ideologies and socio-musical translations of classical sources. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, March 3rd; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nDard Neuman is the Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music and Associate Professor of Music at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, as well as Co-Director of the Center of South Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2004 and joined the Music faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2005. He has studied the sitar for almost four decades. His research interests concern the musical cultivation\, transmission and performance of Hindustani music in twentieth century North India as well as the role of music in social action. He has published articles for SEM and Asian Music and his book\, Hindustani Music\, Heterodoxy and the Politics of Creativity is forthcoming with Wesleyan University Press. \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-dard-neuman-ucsc/
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: A Conversation with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Deep Read Program will explore Tommy Orange’s novel There There. The novel depicts a variety of urban Native American characters living in Oakland\, CA. We think this novel meets the need to think deeply about Native American life in our contemporary moment\, helping us rethink Native experience and representation. It was also hailed by last year’s Deep Read author\, Margaret Atwood\, as “an astonishing literary debut.” \nOur month-long exploration of the novel will culminate in a free\, live\, online event with Tommy Orange in conversation with UCSC Creative Writing Professor Micah Perks. Registration details to follow. \n\nRegister \n\n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event 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/the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-tommy-orange/
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SUMMARY:Mir Suhail - Speaking Satire to Power: A View from Kashmir
DESCRIPTION:Mir Suhail is a political cartoonist and illustrator based in New York City. He is from Indian-occupied Kashmir\, where he grew up and started his political cartooning career drawing for a local daily at the age of fourteen. He has since drawn cartoons for leading print and digital news media\, magazines\, publishers and non-profit organizations in the Indian sub-continent and internationally including for CNN-News 18\, The Caravan Magazine\, Amnesty International\, Action Aid and Save the Children. His work has been profiled in the Raiot\, BBC and Al-Jazeera English amongst other publications. \nFind Mir’s work at: https://mirsuhailportfolio.wordpress.com/ \nMir Suhail will be in conversation with Deepti Misri\, Associate Professor\, Women and Gender Studies\, University of Colorado Boulder\, and a member of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective. \nThis event is a part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong exploration of the theme Memory. \n \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mir-suhail-speaking-satire-to-power-a-view-from-kashmir/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T123000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the Public Fellows program on March 5th at 11am. We will discuss Summer and Year-Long opportunities and describe some new partner organizations. \nAll Public Fellowship applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 19th. Final applications are due on April 5\, 2021. \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. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-fellowship-information-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T150000
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SUMMARY:Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s eleventh annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday\, March 5 from 2:00-3:00pm. This will be a remote and virtual event. Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder\, Writing Program Chair Tanner WouldGo\, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s four winners and their families. \n \nPlease RSVP by February 15 \nThe Rothman Award ceremony virtual event link will be emailed to guests who have RSVP’d prior to the March 5 event. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/don-rothman-endowed-award-in-first-year-writing-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T140000
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SUMMARY:White Supremacy in the Golden State: Sikh Targets\, Responses\, and Solidarities
DESCRIPTION:On August 25\, 2019\, Paramjit Singh was murdered while going for his evening stroll in an affluent area of Tracy\, CA.  The case against the alleged perpetrator\, who had affiliations with white supremacist groups\, was quickly dropped  by the judge and the Singh family has been left shocked. \nWhile specific political economic contingencies increase formations of white supremacist groups\, their presence\, power\,  and assertions of paramountcy in California has dated back to its admittance in the Union in 1850. Anti-Asian violence then and now has a particular trajectory in California\, and in this discussion we look at how power is asserted locally and which  white supremacist groups are most active in various regions of California. Using Sikh-Americans as a specific example\, we  examine how communities respond\, react\, and seek to build their own power and solidarities. \n \nNaindeep Singh Chann\nJoin Naindeep Singh Chann (Executive Director of the Jakara Movement) with Christine Hong (CRES Director & Associate Professor\, LIT/CRES ) & Talib Jabbar (Graduate Student\, History of Consciousness/CRES Designated Emphasis) as they discuss white supremacy & it’s impact on the Sikh-American community\, & how that translates more broadly into anti-Asian violence in California. Based in California’s Central Valley\, Jakara is the nation’s largest Punjabi Sikh youth organizing & base-building organization\, dedicated to educational justice\, immigrant rights\, resident empowerment & civic engagement. Naindeep also currently serves as a School Board Trustee member for Central Unified in Fresno County. \nPresented by the Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/white-supremacy-in-the-golden-state-sikh-targets-responses-and-solidarities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Corrina Gould: Rematriation and the Land Back Movement
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department invites you to join Professor Katie Keliiaa and her Indigenous Feminisms class for a public webinar. Guest speaker Corrina Gould is Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust\, an urban Indigenous women-led organization that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Sogorea Te’ is centered in Huchuin\, the ancestral homeland of Chochenyo-speaking Lisjan Ohlone people\, now known as the East Bay of San Francisco. Through the practices of rematriation\, cultural revitalization\, and land restoration\, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization\, genocide\, and patriarchy. \n \nCorrina Gould is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. Born and raised in her ancestral homeland\, the Ohlone territory of Huchiun\, she is the Tribal Chair and Traditional Spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/corrina-gould-rematriation-and-the-land-back-movement/
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SUMMARY:Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary: Patrisse Cullors and Maxwell Addae
DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Abolition is pleased to present “Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary\,” a discussion with Patrisse Cullors\, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and artist and activist Maxwell Addae. Their conversation will focus on their collaborative project researching the media portrayals of Black women and incarceration as well the real-world impact of the narratives told about crime and punishment in the United States. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized by Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The events feature 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-April 25\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. \nArtist\, organizer\, educator\, and popular public speaker\, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles based organization Dignity and Power Now. Cullors’ work for Black Lives Matter recently received recognition in TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 list and TIME Magazine’s 2020 ‘100 Women of the Year’. Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018). She is also the Faculty Director at Arizona’s Prescott College of a new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program that she has developed. Cullors is a former staff writer at Freeform’s Good Trouble series as well as an actress on the show. For the last 20 years\, Cullors has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign\, a ballot initiative that passed by a 73% landslide victory in March 2020. \nWith a love of cinema’s more idiosyncratic directing auteurs\, Maxwell Addae has strived to express himself as purely as possible. Most notable merging the vulnerably personal with genre flourishes. Following a small stint touring as a performance artist\, which changed how he envisioned movement within film\, he is now eager to utilize all of the new tools he’s acquired over the years. He has also been a semi-finalist or finalist in the following programs over the past year: Sundance Creative Producing Lab\, Nicholls Fellowship\, TIFF Talent Filmmaker Lab\, and the Austin Screenwriting Competition. His American Film Institute thesis short and most personal work to date is called Outdooring which has screened at over 20 international festivals. Most notably the 2019 South by Southwest\, Outfest\, shortlisted for the Iris Prize\, screened in the 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival and was acquired in a three-year deal with Revolt TV. \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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/popular-culture-and-the-radical-imaginary-patrisse-cullors-and-maxwell-addae/
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SUMMARY:Feminism and Resistance: Afghan Women Moving Forward
DESCRIPTION:A discussion with Afghan scholars and activists about women’s rights\, feminism\, and resistance in Afghanistan. Moderated by Halima Kazem-Stojanovic\, Teaching Fellow for FMST 188 – Women and War. Presented by the Feminist Studies Department and supported by the Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. \n \nPanelists: \nLima Ahmad – PhD candidate in International Security and Human Security at Tufts University. Founder of Paywand Afghanan Association\, which focuses on research regarding women’s issues. \nSamira Ahmadi – Regional campaigner for Amnesty International South Asia Regional Office and Board Member of the Afghan Women’s Network. \nJamila Afghani – president of WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom) Afghanistan Section\, and Islamic scholar on women’s rights.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminism-and-resistance-afghan-women-moving-forward/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T170000
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SUMMARY:Mistruth and Consequences: Feminist Scholars on "Comfort Women" Denialism and Grassroots Movements for Justice
DESCRIPTION:In the three decades since Kim Hak-sun of South Korea first publicly identified herself as a former “comfort woman” of the Japanese Imperial Army\, a global movement for long overdue justice has emerged\, based on substantial survivor testimony and extant historical documents\, of the existence of a regionally far-reaching imperial system of military sexual slavery. This discussion focuses on the recent firestorm around Harvard legal professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s denialist “research” as well as the remarkable transnational grassroots activism\, including feminist scholarly and pedagogical initiatives\, for reparative justice. Presented by the UCSC Center for Racial Justice with co-sponsorship from the Korea Policy Institute. \n \nPanelists: \nSung Sohn – Co-founder and executive director\, Education for Social Justice Foundation. A former bilingual resource and classroom teacher\, she authored teacher and student resource guides on “Comfort Women” History and Issues (2018). \nAlexis Dudden – Professor of History\, University of Connecticut. Her books include Trouble Apologies (Columbia University Press\, 2014)\, which interrogates the interplay between political apology and apologetic history among Japan\, Korea\, and the U.S\, and Japan’s Colonization of Korea (University of Hawai‘i\, 2006). \nJinah Kim – Associate Professor of Communication Studies and faculty affiliate in Asian Studies\, California State University\, Northridge. She is the author of Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas (Duke University Press\, 2019) and is a member of the Ending the Korean War Collective. \nKei Fischer – Chair of Ethnic Studies\, Chabot College\, Hayward\, CA. She co-founded Eclipse Rising\, a Bay Area-based community group dedicated to promoting the radical history of decolonization and transnational political engagement by Zainichi Koreans.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mistruth-and-consequences-feminist-scholars-on-comfort-women-denialism-and-grassroots-movements-for-justice/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T183000
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SUMMARY:LASER Talks with Deans Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for live\, online LASER Talks with UC Santa Cruz Dean of the Humanities Jasmine Alinder\, historian of photography\, and Dean of the Social Sciences Katharyne Mitchell\, geographer and migration specialist. Touching on far-reaching subjects including the role of imagery in anti-Asian racism in the United States and the mobilization of church congregations responding to the migration crisis in Europe\, the event will begin with presentations by the scholars\, followed by a Q&A . \nJasmine Alinder: “Representing Japanese American Incarceration”\nKatharyne Mitchell: “Sanctuary Space and Insurgent Memory” \n \nLASER Talks (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous) is an international program bringing together artists\, scientists\, and scholars for presentations and conversations. \nJasmine Alinder is Dean of the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Alinder is an interdisciplinary\, community-engaged scholar and teacher of public history\, the history of photography\, and the history of Japanese-Americans during World War II. As a historian of photography\, her research investigates what she characterizes as “the presumptive right to the camera.” She earned her doctorate in the history of art at the University of Michigan\, with an emphasis on the history of photography\, her M.A. in art history at the University of New Mexico\, and an A.B. in art history from Princeton University. She joined UC Santa Cruz from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, where she was a professor of history and associate dean of the humanities in the College of Letters and Science. \nKatharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her current research focuses on the ethics\, practices\, and politics of church sanctuary in the protection of refugees in Europe. Her recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education (2018)\, and the co-edited Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (2019). She is working on a monograph entitled Sanctuary Space: Memories of Insurgency\, and an edited volume on philanthropy and humanitarianism. Mitchell is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters\, as well as the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation\, Spencer Foundation\, Fulbright Foundation\, and National Science Foundation. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-talks-with-deans-jasmine-alinder-katharyne-mitchell/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T123000
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SUMMARY:Sansei and Sensibility with Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel (National Book Award finalist)\, Tropic of Orange\, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Letters to Memory. Recipient of numerous awards\, including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (2018)\, she is professor emerita of creative writing and literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n \nSansei and Sensibility is described by Kirkus as “An elegantly written\, wryly affectionate mashup of Jane Austen and the Japanese immigrant experience. … Yamashita’s reimagining of Austen is sympathetic and funny — as on target as the movie Clueless.” In these buoyant and inventive stories\, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance — familial\, cultural\, emotional\, artistic — really means. In a California of the ’60s and ’70s\, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives’ freezers\, tape-record high school locker-room chatter\, or collect a community’s gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team\, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A.\, bake sales replace ballroom dances and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class\, race and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor. \nRead a Q&A with the author in the Los Angeles Review of Books. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sansei-and-sensibility-with-karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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