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SUMMARY:Ora Matushansky Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ora-matushansky-linguistics-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Okinawa Memories Initiative Graduate Student Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars for the Okinawa Memories Initiative’s “Graduate Student Talk” featuring a round-table discussion with graduate student team members. Join us at 4:30PM on April 2nd\, for a conversation centering around their work with OMI\, graduate research in History\, and working in the humanities. The panel will feature OMI team members: Alexyss “Lex” Mclellan\, Drew Richardson\, Meleia Simon-Reynolds\, Nirupama Chandrasekhar\, and Wyatt Young.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/okinawa-memories-initiative-graduate-student-roundtable/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T120000
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SUMMARY:How to Live Like Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare\, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social\, spiritual\, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends\, and how does Shakespeare think in and through his characters about matters of meaning? What images did Shakespeare offer and what words did he choose to make these themes tangible to his actors and audiences and worthy of sharing with others? \n \nCo-hosted by Julia Lupton (UC Irvine) and Sean Keilen (UC Santa Cruz) \nMondays at noon\, April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nThemes addressed will include Imagination\, Friendship\, Fortitude\, Empathy\, Justice\, Forgiveness\, Hope\, and Courage. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English at UC Irvine and the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare and the editor or co-editor of many volumes and journal issues. Recent works include Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life and Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama\, co-edited with Matthew Smith. Professor Lupton is a Guggenheim laureate and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her current projects address Shakespeare\, virtue\, and wisdom literature. She is an award-winning teacher and community educator. \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Director of UCSC Shakespeare Workshop. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature and an editor of many volumes of criticism\, most recently The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (with Nick Moschovakis). He is writing a book about scholars in Shakespeare’s plays and what the modern humanities might learn from them. Professor Keilen is a Guggenheim laureate and an award-winning teacher and community educator. Since 2013\, he has worked closely with Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, a professional theater company in Northern California. \nFor information\, contact Julia Lupton\, jrlupton@uci.edu. \nCo-sponsored by UCI’s New Swan Shakespeare Center and THI’s Shakespeare Workshop.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-live-like-shakespeare/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T160000
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SUMMARY:Abolition Beyond the State w/ Sadie Barnette\, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui\, Zoé Samudzi\, and Eric Stanley
DESCRIPTION:What role can the arts take in the movement to abolish prisons in addition to abolishing the society that upholds them? How can art and culture elevate other ways of living together\, without relying on the fences\, walls\, and cages\, which are both imagined and already practiced? Visualizing Abolition continues with Sadie Barnette\, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui\, Zoé Samudzi\, and Eric Stanley discussing Abolition Beyond the State. \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. \nEric A. Stanley is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. They are the author of Atmospheres of Vioelnce: Trans/ Queer Antagnoism and the Ungovernable (forthcoming Duke UP) and the coeditor of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. \nZoé Samudzi’s research work engages the colonization of South West Africa (now Namibia) and genocidal productions of African identities on the continent. She is the graduate student intern at both UCSF’s Multicultural Resource Center and the LGBT Resource Center. Zoé received her MSc in Health\, Community\, and Development from the London School of Economics\, and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies\, and critical approaches to science in service of a multidisciplinary means of articulating blackness(es). Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, The New Republic\, Art in America\, Hyperallergic\, and Arts.Black\, and she is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents. Along with William C. Anderson\, she is the co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Our Liberation (AK Press). \nSadie Barnette earned her BFA from CalArts and her MFA from the University of California\, San Diego. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally and is in the permanent collections of museums such as LACMA\, Berkeley Art Museum\, the California African American Museum\, Studio Museum in Harlem (where she was also Artist-in-Residence)\, Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim. She is the recipient of Art Matters and Artadia awards and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, Artforum\, and Vogue. She lives in Oakland\, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles and Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. \nJ. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli) is Professor of American Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology at Wesleyan University\, where she teaches courses on Indigenous studies\, critical race studies\, settler colonial studies\, and anarchist studies. Kauanui earned her doctorate in History of Consciousness and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press 2008) and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land\, Sex\, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke University Press 2018). She is also the editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists\, Scholars\, and Tribal Leaders (University of Minnesota Press 2018)\, which is based on the radio program she produced and hosted for seven years\, “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” that was widely syndicated through the Pacifica radio network. Kauanui currently serves as a co-producer for an anarchist politics show called\, “Anarchy on Air\,” a majority-POC show co-produced with a group of Wesleyan students\, which builds on her earlier work on a related program\, “Horizontal Power Hour.” She is one of the six original co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)\, established in 2008. Kauanui also serves as an advisory board member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. \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/abolition-beyond-the-state-w-sadie-barnette-j-kehaulani-kauanui-zoe-samudzi-and-eric-stanley/
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SUMMARY:Ben Kafka — The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be driven crazy? By a parent\, a professor\, a president\, perhaps even the internet itself? In 1959 the psychoanalyst Harold Searles published a paper in The British Journal of Medical Psychology\, “The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy: An Element in the Aetiology and Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.” “My clinical experience\,” he wrote\, “has indicated that the individual becomes schizophrenic partly by reason of a long-continued effort\, a largely or wholly unconscious effort\, on the part of some person or persons highly important in his upbringing\, to drive him crazy.” This talk will consider Searles’s thesis and its implications for our understanding of mental life. It will argue that\, while it may not be a very good explanation for schizophrenia\, it nevertheless offers us new opportunities to think about our relations to media\, culture\, and one another. \n \nThis colloquium is co-sponsored by the History Department. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 7th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nBen Kafka is an Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. He is also a psychoanalyst in private practice. He the author of The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books\, 2012) and co-editor\, with Francesco Pellizzi and Stefanos Geroulanos\, of The Problem of the Fetish: William Pietz’s Lost Manuscript (University of Chicago Press\, 2022). He is currently working on a book about gaslighting\, folies-à-deux\, double binds\, Catch-22s\, and other forms of induced insanity. \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/ben-kafka-the-effort-to-drive-the-other-person-crazy/
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SUMMARY:Dwaipan Banerjee - The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Science: Art and Physics in 1950s Bombay
DESCRIPTION:Dwaipayan Banerjee is Associate Professor in the department of Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT. He is the author of two books\, Hematologies – The Political Life of Blood in India and Enduring Cancer – Life\, Death and Diagnosis in Delhi. His new project is situated at the intersection of early-postcolonial physics\, computing and the arts in Kolkata and Mumbai. \n \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dwaipan-banerjee-the-aesthetics-of-postcolonial-science-art-and-physics-in-1950s-bombay/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Andrea Abi-Karam with Literature Graduate Student Madison McCartha 
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg\, writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook\, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions\, 2016)\, attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full Community Engagement Scholarship\, Andrea received their MFA in Poetry from Mills College. With Drea Marina they co-hosted Words of Resistance [2012-2017] a monthly\, radical\, QTPOC open floor poetry series to fundraise for political prisoners’ commissary funds. Selected by Bhanu Kapil\, Andrea’s debut is EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019) a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. Simone White selected their second assemblage\, Villainy for publication in September 2021 at Nightboat Books. Andrea toured with Sister Spit in 2018 and has performed at RADAR\, The Poetry Project\, The STUD\, Basilica Soundscape\, TransVisionaries\, Southern Exposure\, Counterpulse\, & Radius for Arab-American Writers. With Kay Gabriel\, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books\, 2020). They are a leo currently obsessed with queer terror and convertibles. \n\n\nMadison McCartha is a black poet and multimedia artist whose work appears in Black Warrior Review\, Denver Quarterly\, DREGINALD\, The Fanzine\, Full Stop\, jubilat\, and elsewhere. Their writing has received support from Winter Tangerine\, The Millay Colony for the Arts\, and was shortlisted for the 2019-2021 CAAPP Creative Writing Fellowship. In summer 2021\, Madison will hold a residency through the Ucross Foundation. Madison holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame\, where they received the Samuel and Mary Anne Hazo Award in Creative Writing\, and is currently a PhD student at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Madison’s debut book-length poem\, FREAKOPHONE WORLD\, is forthcoming from Inside the Castle in 2021. Their second book of poetry\, THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE\, is forthcoming from Black Ocean.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-andrea-abi-karam-with-literature-graduate-student-madison-mccartha/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact
DESCRIPTION:Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact \nJoin oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff to discuss the practice of oral history in times of crisis. “Memory Work” will explore the potential of the oral history toolkit for your own career and for social impact. This talk will share the practical lessons and pitfalls of converting a history education into paid historical work outside of conventional tenure-track pathways. We’ll consider the oral historian as a new public intellectual\, and examine oral history not only in terms of its prosaic power as a discipline\, but its poetic and popular power as an artform—as orature. Concrete case studies will be shared\, and the fundaments of oral history method\, theory\, and ethics will be explored. Newcomers and experienced oral historians alike are welcome. \nCameron Vanderscoff is an oral historian and writer with his own practice based in New York City and a deep track record of public and private partnerships. He holds an MA from Columbia University and consults internationally across a versatile project portfolio\, designing and executing impactful projects and offering comprehensive workshops. As Co-Founder of the Okinawa Memories Initiative\, historical dialogue and education is the heart of his work. Cameron is also the co-editor of Seeds of Something Different\, a celebrated new oral history of UC Santa Cruz and experimentation in education. He is currently collaborating on his second book\, a social memoir touching on pressing themes of racial and social justice in American history. \nThis workshop is presented in partnership with CART Commons\, an ongoing project hosted by the University Library’s Special Collections & Archives. CART Commons provides opportunities for graduate students to engage with one another and with archivists in considering questions related to primary source research practices. \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  \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-memory-work-oral-history-as-toolkit-for-creating-a-living-making-an-impact/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Davidson Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathryn-davidson-linguistics-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210412T120000
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SUMMARY:How to Live Like Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare\, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social\, spiritual\, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends\, and how does Shakespeare think in and through his characters about matters of meaning? What images did Shakespeare offer and what words did he choose to make these themes tangible to his actors and audiences and worthy of sharing with others? \n \nCo-hosted by Julia Lupton (UC Irvine) and Sean Keilen (UC Santa Cruz) \nMondays at noon\, April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nThemes addressed will include Imagination\, Friendship\, Fortitude\, Empathy\, Justice\, Forgiveness\, Hope\, and Courage. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English at UC Irvine and the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare and the editor or co-editor of many volumes and journal issues. Recent works include Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life and Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama\, co-edited with Matthew Smith. Professor Lupton is a Guggenheim laureate and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her current projects address Shakespeare\, virtue\, and wisdom literature. She is an award-winning teacher and community educator. \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Director of UCSC Shakespeare Workshop. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature and an editor of many volumes of criticism\, most recently The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (with Nick Moschovakis). He is writing a book about scholars in Shakespeare’s plays and what the modern humanities might learn from them. Professor Keilen is a Guggenheim laureate and an award-winning teacher and community educator. Since 2013\, he has worked closely with Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, a professional theater company in Northern California. \nFor information\, contact Julia Lupton\, jrlupton@uci.edu. \nCo-sponsored by UCI’s New Swan Shakespeare Center and THI’s Shakespeare Workshop.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-live-like-shakespeare-2/
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SUMMARY:Lulu Miller\, Why Fish Don't Exist
DESCRIPTION:NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss. Love\, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). This riveting book\, begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan\, and then goes down a rabbit hole of history\, morality\, and scientific adventure. Mary Roach calls it\, “Perfect\, just perfect\,” and Sy Montgomery says\, “This book will capture your heart\, seize your imagination\, smash your preconceptions\, and rock your world.” This event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased here. \nWhy Fish Don’t Exist tells the strange tale of 19th-century taxonomist David Starr Jordan\, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time\, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered\, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightening\, by fire\, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent over a thousand of his discoveries\, housed in fragile glass jars\, plummeting to the floor. In an instant\, his life’s work was shattered. \nMiller digs into this obscure moment in science history to take us on a remarkable journey that explores some of the biggest questions of our lives: the nature of persistence\, of life’s purpose\, and how we strive to make sense of a chaotic world. Like Susan Orlean peeled back layers in The Orchid Thief\, Miller takes us from the desecration of David Starr Jordan’s specimen collection to a possible murder\, and from a colony of victims of eugenics to her own love life—interweaving biography\, memoir\, and the latest science\, psychology\, and philosophy to investigate what it takes to live a life of resilience. \nWhy Fish Don’t Exist is an astonishing and category-defying work\, by turns harrowing and life-affirming. Part biography\, part memoir\, part scientific adventure\, it’s a story for anyone who has ever found themselves lost amidst the chaos of life\, and reminds us how we—like David Starr Jordan—can find the courage to stand up again in the wreckage. \nLulu Miller is the co-founder of the NPR program Invisibilia\, a series about the unseen forces that control human behavior. Before creating Invisibilia\, she produced Radiolab for five years and was a reporter on the NPR Science Desk. She received a MFA from the University of Virginia on a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. She is currently the co-host of NPR’s Radiolab.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lulu-miller-why-fish-dont-exist/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Abolition from the Inside Out w/ jackie sumell\, Albert Woodfox\, and Tim Young
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program to present jackie sumell\, Albert Woodfox\, and Tim Young. Award-winning artist jackie sumell works collaboratively with people incarcerated across the U.S. to promote abolition. Albert Woodfox is an activist and author who spent decades in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Tim Young is a poet and activist currently on San Quentin’s Death Row and sumell’s collaborator on UC Santa Cruz’s Solitary Garden. Together\, they will discuss the activism and collaborations taking place between people inside and outside of prisons to\, as sumell puts it\, “imagine a landscape without prisons. \n \nFeatured Music Performance – Elena Pinderhughes \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized by Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences and Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies. 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-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. \njackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist inspired by the lives of everyday people. Her work speaks to both traditional artist communities and those historically marginalized by structural racism. sumell’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US and Europe. Her residencies and awards include 2017 Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice\, 2016 Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellowship\, 2015 Eyebeam Project Fellowship\, and 2008 Akademie Solitude Fellowship. An ardent public speaker and prison abolitionist\, sumell has lectured in Colleges and Universities around the US including UC Berkeley (BAMPFA)\, RISD\, ZKM Karlsruhe\, and as keynote for the National Prisoner Advocacy Conference 2014. sumell began the Solitary Gardens project to honor the legacy of political prisoner Herman Wallace\, who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years and with whom jackie corresponded and collaborated for 12 years. Her collaborative work with Herman Wallace\, The House That Herman Built\, is the subject of the Emmy Award Winning documentary Herman’s House\, screened to a national audience on PBS in 2013. sumell’s work explores the intersection of creative practices\, mindfulness studies\, social sculpture\, and the principles of The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. \nAlbert Woodfox is an activist and the author of “Solitary\,” a 2019 National Book Award finalist. Known as one of the Angola Three\, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace\, Woodfox served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was released in 2016. Woodfox was a committed activist in prison\, he remains so today\, speaking to a wide array of audiences\, including the Innocence Project\, Harvard\, Yale\, and other universities\, the National Lawyers Guild\, as well as at Amnesty International events in London\, Paris\, Denmark\, Sweden\, and Belgium. \nTimothy James Young is a writer\, activist\, and a wrongfully convicted prisoner on Death Row. He was arrested in April of 1999 for a crime that he did not commit and was subsequently sentenced to Death Row in April of 2006. He is now partaking in the Appellate process as a means of proving his innocence and regaining his freedom. Tim is a collaborator in Solitary Garden\, a participatory public sculpture and garden project by award-winning artist jackie sumell. The sculpture follows the blueprint of a 6’x9’ U.S. solitary confinement cell similar to the one that Tim has been confined to for twenty-one years. The cell is surrounded by a garden which Tim designed via letters and drawings to students and volunteers\, who cultivate it as his proxies.Tim’s writings have been featured in the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper. \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/abolition-from-the-inside-out-w-jackie-sumell-albert-woodfox-and-tim-young/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Hernandez — Categories\, Identities\, and Objects: Naming Native Art
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s)\, and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 14th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nRebecca Hernandez is currently the Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz\, where she is focused on the retention of Native students and developing programs that promote a better understanding of American Indian culture(s) and lifeways at UCSC. She has worked in university administration for 15 years and taught courses in universities and community colleges. Her PhD is in American Studies with a concentration in Native American Studies and Visual Culture. She also holds an MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. \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/rebecca-hernandez-categories-identities-and-objects-naming-native-art/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T170000
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SUMMARY:Reparations for Black Americans:  The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, California established the nation’s first state task force to study and make recommendations on reparations for the institution of slavery\, the atrocities that followed the end of slavery\, and the discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present. Although the movement for reparations extends to the eighteenth century\, it has gained new momentum in recent years. Join us for a conversation with some of the country’s leading experts and advocates for reparations\, to discuss these questions and more: \n\nHow does the movement for reparations fit into efforts to close the racial wealth gap and promote racial equity?\nWhy study and discuss reparations in California?\nWhat are the connections between the California task force and national debates about reparations?\nWhat might reparations for Black Americans at a federal level look like in the 21st century?\n\n\nLimited number of FREE books available to event registrants (priority will be given to UCSC students). \nCo-sponsored by: The Institute for Social Transformation\, Center for Racial Justice\, and Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion at UC Santa Cruz. \nWilliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen are co-authors of the 2020 book\, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century\, which makes a powerful case for Black reparations and offers a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program. \nWilliam A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy\, African and African American Studies\, Economics and Business\, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. Darity’s research includes a focus on inequality by race\, class and ethnicity\, stratification economics\, the economics of reparations\, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution. He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. \nA. Kirsten Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual\, an arts-consulting practice\, and Carolina Circuit Writers\, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. Mullen’s research focuses on race\, art\, history and politics. She was a member of the Freelon Adjaye Bond concept development team that was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s commission to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She is a past president of the North Carolina Folklife Institute. \nAnne Price is the first woman President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. She has worked in the public sector on a wide range of issues including child welfare\, hunger\, workforce development\, community development and higher education. Anne was one of the first national leaders to examine narratives about race and wealth. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, The Nation\, The Washington Post\, The Mercury News\, The Wall Street Journal\, Citylab\, O Magazine\, and other publications. Anne holds a BA in Economics from Hampton University and a Master’s Degree in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the Milano School of Management and Urban Policy in New York City. \nCongresswoman Barbara Lee was born in segregated El Paso\, Texas. As a single mother raising two sons\, she attended Mills College in Oakland\, and later received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of California\, Berkeley. In 1998\, she was elected to serve California’s 9th congressional district (now the 13th) in a special election. Currently\, Congresswoman Lee is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and Chair of the subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. She serves as Co-Chair of the Steering & Policy Committee\, former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus\, Chair Emeritus of the Progressive Caucus\, Co-Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Health Task Force\, and Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus. As Co-Chair\, Rep. Lee works to ensure that committees reflect the diversity\, dynamism\, and integrity of the Democratic Caucus. As a member of the House Democratic Leadership\, she is the highest ranking African American woman in the U.S. Congress. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reparations-for-black-americans-the-road-to-racial-equality-in-california-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T130000
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SUMMARY:How to Live Like Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare\, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social\, spiritual\, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends\, and how does Shakespeare think in and through his characters about matters of meaning? What images did Shakespeare offer and what words did he choose to make these themes tangible to his actors and audiences and worthy of sharing with others? \n \nCo-hosted by Julia Lupton (UC Irvine) and Sean Keilen (UC Santa Cruz) \nMondays at noon\, April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nThemes addressed will include Imagination\, Friendship\, Fortitude\, Empathy\, Justice\, Forgiveness\, Hope\, and Courage. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English at UC Irvine and the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare and the editor or co-editor of many volumes and journal issues. Recent works include Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life and Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama\, co-edited with Matthew Smith. Professor Lupton is a Guggenheim laureate and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her current projects address Shakespeare\, virtue\, and wisdom literature. She is an award-winning teacher and community educator. \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Director of UCSC Shakespeare Workshop. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature and an editor of many volumes of criticism\, most recently The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (with Nick Moschovakis). He is writing a book about scholars in Shakespeare’s plays and what the modern humanities might learn from them. Professor Keilen is a Guggenheim laureate and an award-winning teacher and community educator. Since 2013\, he has worked closely with Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, a professional theater company in Northern California. \nFor information\, contact Julia Lupton\, jrlupton@uci.edu. \nCo-sponsored by UCI’s New Swan Shakespeare Center and THI’s Shakespeare Workshop.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-live-like-shakespeare-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T173000
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SUMMARY:Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for a free\, live\, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life\, the intersections between history and literature\, and the politics of memory. \nConfronting slavery and its long\, unfinished aftermath\, Hartman’s work is a brave\, imaginative\, genre-bending exercise in historical resurrection. Through a hybrid of documentary research and informed speculation\, Hartman gives us back the stories of those enslaved and struggling for freedom. \nIn the interdisciplinary spirit of innovative scholar and historian Hayden White\, Professor Hartman will engage in a public conversation with two leading UC Santa Cruz humanities scholars\, literary critic Vilashini Cooppan and historian Greg O’Malley. \nRegister \n  \nThis event is the Inaugural Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture and kicks off UC Santa Cruz’s 2021 Alumni Week April 19 – 25. Check the schedule for more events and ways to connect with the campus community. \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, via an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained. \n\nSaidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives\, Beautiful Experiments\, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route\, and Scenes of Subjection. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow\, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow\, Cullman Fellow\, and Fulbright Scholar. She has published articles in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly\, Brick\, Small Axe\, Callaloo\, The New Yorker and The Paris Review. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York. \nVilashini Cooppan is professor of literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz\, where she teaches comparative and world literature\, with an emphasis on postcolonial theory\, genre theory\, memory studies\, and affect theory. She has published extensively on world literature\, and on memory and trauma. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing and is completing a book titled The World at Large: Memoryscapes in World Literature. \nGreg O’Malley is associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, 1619-1807\, received four awards: The American Historical Association’s Forkosch Prize for British history; the AHA’s Rawley Prize for Atlantic history; The Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association; and the Goveia Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. He is currently writing a new book\, The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era. \n  \n*Homepage Photo: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saidiya-hartman-the-afterlife-of-slavery/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T173000
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SUMMARY:(Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray
DESCRIPTION:Dread Scott’s recent large-scale art project\, Slave Rebellion Reenactment\, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Gray\, UC Davis\, will join him in conversation about art\, revolution\, and reenactments. This is the next event in Visualizing Abolition\, an online program 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\nDread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989\, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag\, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art “disgraceful” and the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed this work. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the new law by burning flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Dread’s studio is now based in Brooklyn. \nDr. Erin Gray is a writer\, educator\, and activist currently living in occupied Huichin (Oakland\, California). Erin is an assistant professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies in the English department at UC Davis\, where she writes and teaches at the intersections of critical theory and visual and performance studies to interrogate the aesthetic production of racist and anti-racist thought. Erin’s current book project\, The Moving Image of Lynching: Liberalizing Racial Terror in the Long Photographic Century\, theorizes the co-emergence and continuing imbrication of lynch law and racial liberalism as constitutive elements of U.S imperial power. Her co-edited anthology\, The Black Radical Tradition in the United States\, is forthcoming from Verso Press in 2021. She has published essays in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies\, Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory\, The International Feminist Journal of Politics\, Truthout\, and Viewpoint. \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/reenacting-revolution-dread-scott-and-erin-gray/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Susan Lepselter — Left-Standing
DESCRIPTION:Left-Standing is a performance of written and video poems. The video does not illustrate the writing; rather the two media become an interconnected poetics. Together\, these forms of poetry engage visual\, aural\, and affective dimensions of ordinary human encounters with the nonhuman world. The overall scenario presents encounters both with animals who wander a suburban neighborhood after a woods has been razed and developed\, and with the trees\, grasses\, waters\, and crops in the leftover woods and its surrounding farmlands. Lepselter’s presentation evokes a world at a moment of ecological\, social\, and epistemological precarity and continuity. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 21st; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nSusan Lepselter is Associate Professor of American Studies\, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology\, Cultural Studies and Folklore\, at Indiana University Bloomington. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to narrative and poetics in the United States\, and has published work on UFO stories\, conspiracy theories\, dream narratives\, and hoarding shows. She is currently completing a multimedia book of poetry supported by a New Frontiers award from Indiana University. Her book The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics\, Power\, Captivity and UFOs in the American Uncanny (University of Michigan Press\, 2016) won the 2017 Society for Cultural Anthropology Bateson Prize. \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/susan-lepselter-left-standing/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T140000
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime chat with Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Humanities Division’s newest Dean\, Jasmine Alinder\, to hear her thoughts on her first year as Dean as well as her inspirational vision for the growth and development of the Humanities Division. A brief talk on these topics will be followed by a casual question and answer period. All are welcome!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lunchtime-chat-with-humanities-dean-jasmine-alinder/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T185500
DTSTAMP:20260509T082116
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Anthony Cody
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha\, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, and finalist for a 2020 National Book Award. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno\, California. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast\, Ninth Letter\, The Boiler\, ctrl+v journal\, among others. Anthony is a member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle and co-edited How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is a recent MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State where he continues to collaborate with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Anthony has received fellowships from CantoMundo\, Community of Writers\, and Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Conference. He provides communication support to CantoMundo\, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-anthony-cody/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T090000
DTSTAMP:20260509T082116
CREATED:20201203T012039Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Sheehan Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michelle-sheehan-linguistics-colloquium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210423T113000
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SUMMARY:Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan\, Algeria\, and the Western Sahara
DESCRIPTION:In the past several years\, moments of political opposition and revolutionary possibility have continued to unfold across North Africa. In 2018\, protest erupted in Sudan. Algeria followed when in 2019\, President Bouteflika announced his intention to seek a fifth term. In the Western Sahara\, the Polisario Front resumed its armed struggle in 2020 after the end of a twenty-nine year-long UN mediated cease-fire. Featuring Khalid Medani (McGill University)\, Vivian Solana (Carleton University)\, and Farida Souiah (Aix-Marseille University)\, this event will explore the evolution of revolutionary politics in contemporary North Africa\, which has received relatively less attention in the media than the protests that\, a decade ago\, comprised the “Arab Spring.” Our panelists will shed light on the underlying causes of resistance in each national context as well as its broader implications for regional politics\, including questions of pacification\, peace\, and the politicization of undocumented migration in the region. This event is presented by THI’s Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \n \nVivian Solana is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Department of Sociology & Anthropology in Ottawa\, Canada.Based on long-term ethnographic research in Sahrawi refugee camps located in Southern Algeria\, her work studies the social regeneration of the political struggle for the decolonisation of Western Sahara. With a focus on women and youth\, she examines everyday forms of political labor that sustain and regeneratethe Sahrawi movement for national independence within the sovereign spaces of other nation-states. \nFarida Souiah holds a PhD (Cum Laude) in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a research associate at Aix-Marseille University\, France\, in the Centre méditerrannéen de sociologie\, de science politique et d’Histoire. Farida studies migration\, international mobility and protest. She is particularly attentive to symbolic constructions\, social imaginaries and the politicization of migration. \nKhalid Mustafa Medani is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University\, where he is also Chair of the African Studies Program. He is the recipient of a Carnegie Scholar on Islam award between 2007-2009. His book\, entitled“Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa\,” is forthcoming later this year from Cambridge University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conflict-and-revolutionary-possibility-in-north-africa-sudan-algeria-and-the-western-sahara/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T130000
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SUMMARY:How to Live Like Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare\, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social\, spiritual\, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends\, and how does Shakespeare think in and through his characters about matters of meaning? What images did Shakespeare offer and what words did he choose to make these themes tangible to his actors and audiences and worthy of sharing with others? \n \nCo-hosted by Julia Lupton (UC Irvine) and Sean Keilen (UC Santa Cruz) \nMondays at noon\, April 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, May 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nThemes addressed will include Imagination\, Friendship\, Fortitude\, Empathy\, Justice\, Forgiveness\, Hope\, and Courage. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English at UC Irvine and the co-director of the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare and the editor or co-editor of many volumes and journal issues. Recent works include Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life and Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama\, co-edited with Matthew Smith. Professor Lupton is a Guggenheim laureate and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her current projects address Shakespeare\, virtue\, and wisdom literature. She is an award-winning teacher and community educator. \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Director of UCSC Shakespeare Workshop. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature and an editor of many volumes of criticism\, most recently The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (with Nick Moschovakis). He is writing a book about scholars in Shakespeare’s plays and what the modern humanities might learn from them. Professor Keilen is a Guggenheim laureate and an award-winning teacher and community educator. Since 2013\, he has worked closely with Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, a professional theater company in Northern California. \nFor information\, contact Julia Lupton\, jrlupton@uci.edu. \nCo-sponsored by UCI’s New Swan Shakespeare Center and THI’s Shakespeare Workshop.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-live-like-shakespeare-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T133000
DTSTAMP:20260509T082116
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SUMMARY:Aimee Meredith Cox — Cosmic Cartographies // BodyStorming
DESCRIPTION:This talk/participatory workshop will draw from the methods and theoretical orientation of two of Cox’s current projects. The first\, Cosmic Cartographies\, explores how people define and actualize strategies for Black liberation and is inspired by the ways in which a group of multigeneration Black women activists articulate their physical and psychic relationship to space in Cincinnati. The second\, BodyStorm\, tracks the social choreography\, mobilities\, gestures\, ways of experiencing the body\, and what we might even call dance techniques that are emerging in this time of intensified uncertainty and precarity\, as a response to the present and\, potentially\, as a way of practicing for the future. Cox’s presentation and audience engagement will employ the embodied knowledge and relational techniques developed within and across both projects to explore our own capacities to access new ways of feeling\, comprehending\, and being in the world. \n \nThis colloquium is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program.  \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 28th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nAimee Meredith Cox is an anthropologist\, writer\, movement artist\, and critical ethnographer. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Anthropology and African American Studies departments at Yale University. Aimee’s first monograph\, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015)\, won the 2017 book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America and a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing. She is the editor of the volume Gender: Space (MacMillan\, 2018). Aimee is also a dancer and choreographer. She performed and toured internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances as interventions in public and private space in Newark\, Philadelphia\, and Brooklyn. Aimee is currently working on two book projects based on ethnographic research among Black communities in Cincinnati\, Ohio; Jackson\, Mississippi; Clarksburg\, West Virginia; and Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. This overall project is called “Living Past Slow Death.” \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/aimee-meredith-cox-cosmic-cartographies-bodystorming/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Jodi Dean: Anti-Communism and the Barriers to Liberation
DESCRIPTION:COVID\, climate change\, and capitalism present a set of fundamental crises. What will it take for the left to be adequate to the task of addressing them? This talk will consider the barriers constituted by the continuation of anti-communist assumptions. It will draw out the limits of left “assemblism\,” state-phobia\, and amorphous inclusivity and highlight the necessity of a disciplined struggle for state power. If the problems are as severe as the ever-present evocations of dystopian catastrophe indicate\, then the only way forward is the revolutionary seizure of the state and the immediate building of socialism. \n \nModerated by UC Santa Cruz Professors Debbie Gould (Sociology) and T. J. Demos (History of Art and Visual Culture) \nJodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, NY. She is the author or editor of thirteen books\, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (Duke 2009)\, The Communist Horizon (Verso 2012)\, Crowds and Party (Verso 2016)\, and Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging (Verso 2019). \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit beyond.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jodi-dean-anti-communism-and-the-barriers-to-liberation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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