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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-5/
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SUMMARY:Documenting Justice: Panel Discussion w/ Dee Hibbert-Jones\, Nomi Talisman\, and guests
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to present ‘Documenting Justice\,’ a screening of short films curated by Dee Hibbert-Jones\, professor\, art\, UCSC\, and filmmaker Nomi Talisman\, followed by a panel discussion by the filmmakers. The documentary films on prisons and justice will be available to watch online between April 30 – May 4. Advance registration required for online access to viewing the films and attending the discussion. See below for information on the films. \n \nHuntsville Station\, 2020\, 14’\nJamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone\nEvery weekday\, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary\, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls\, cigarettes\, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. \nBeyond the Wire (working title)\, 2020\, 15’\nTed Griswold\nFormer Army Ranger Chris Pesqueira experiences freedom after 33 years at Soledad State Prison in California. He leans into a community of formerly incarcerated veterans for support as he takes his first steps back into society. \nWhat Happened to Dujuan Armstrong? 2020\, 19’\nLucas Guilkey\nWhen a young man mysteriously dies in a Bay Area jail\, his mother begins a determined quest to find out what happened to him\, but quickly runs into the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs. \nLaps\, 2015\, 17’\nR.J. Lozada\nThe San Quentin 1000 Mile Running Club is a group of men incarcerated at California’s historical San Quentin State Prison who find temporary solace in long distance running. Laps captures a regular training day in the recreation yard. \nThe Box\, 2021\, 16′ \nJames Burns\nThe Box is a hybrid short film immersing audiences in the realities of solitary confinement through interviews with three people\, one of whom is the film’s director\, who spent a combined 9 years in solitary. \nDee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman are collaborative filmmakers whose animated short documentary Last Day of Freedom was awarded a Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award\, the California Public Defenders Association Gideon Award\, a Northern California Emmy\, Best Short at the International Documentary (IDA) Awards\, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Their films have been supported by the IDA Enterprise Fund grant\, NEA\, Cal Humanities Documentary Project Grant\, and the Pacific Pioneer Fund\, among others. Hibbert-Jones and Talisman are Guggenheim Fellows\, MacDowell Colony Fellows\, Creative Capital awardees and recipients of the Filmmakers Award from The Center for Documentary Studies\, Duke University. They are currently residents at SFFilmHouse. They live and work in San Francisco\, CA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documenting-justice-panel-discussion-w-dee-hibbert-jones-nomi-talisman-and-guests/
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SUMMARY:Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, May 4\, 2021 at 5:30pm–7:00pm\, there will be a University Forum to celebrate the launch of Counterpoints featuring original research from multiple campus contributors including SJRC’s Just Biomedicine research cluster and the No Place Like Home initiative. \nCounterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press) brings together cartography\, essays\, illustrations\, poetry\, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the San Francisco Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism. \n \nLearn more about book launch and the contributors. \nThe Science & Justice Research Center’s Just Biomedicine research cluster\, contributed a chapter titled: ‘Just Biomedicine on Third Street? Health and Wealth Inequities in San Francisco’s Biotech Hub.’ The Third Street project brings into view for public discussion the effects of the resulting financial and ideological investments in an imagined “future of medicine\,” and how they are changing the political landscapes\, built environments\, and health of Bay Area residents right now. \nThe Transportation\, Infrastructure\, and Economy contribution by Kristin Miller (Sociology). \nThe No Place Like Home project contributed a visual summary and map from their large-scale study of the affordable housing crisis for Santa Cruz County tenants. The survey results provide a springboard for the study’s wider discussion of local and regional policy options in addressing the housing crisis\, particularly for renters. \nCo-Sponsored by University Relations\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, the Genomics Institute\, and departments of Sociology and Feminist Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/counterpoints-a-san-francisco-bay-area-atlas-of-displacement-and-resistance/
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SUMMARY:Larisa Jasarevic — Beekeeping in the End Times
DESCRIPTION:A family of would-be migrants reenacts a swarm hunt at their former apiary in northeastern Bosnia. Their folk spells were well-attuned to the sorts of crises that tatter old human-apian ties\, except the latest: extreme weather and emigration. Meanwhile\, one tepid February\, shepherds reflect on gratitude as their sheep graze by the growing coal-power plant. “The End is not yet\,” they say. These are snapshots of what Jasarevic calls the quiets of disaster. Sharing a rough cut of a story from an ethnographic film\, Jasarevic’s presentation concerns disaster ecology\, Islamic eschatology\, and ethnography as a homesteading craft. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, May 5th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nLarisa Jasarevic is an independent scholar and a 2021 Wenner-Gren Fejos Fellow. An anthropologist\, she has research interests in bodies and health\, nature\, and eschatology. A beekeeper and a homesteader\, she is developing dread about multispecies climate futures. Her second book\, Beekeeping in the End Times(IUP)\, is in preparation. She taught for a decade at the University of Chicago. \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/larisa-jasarevic-beekeeping-in-the-end-times/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Toya Groves and Muriel Leun with Literature Graduate Student Mia Boykin
DESCRIPTION:Toya L. Groves is a lifelong teacher and writer who currently works with formerly incarcerated students at Laney College in Oakland\, California. She holds a BA in African American studies from UC. Berkeley\, a MA in Women’s Spirituality from Sofia University\, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Her writing includes attributes that reveal both the challenges of her journey while also highlighting the victory of forgiving herself and those who once trespassed against her. After losing the use of her right dominant hand in a car accident she re-learned to write and navigate the world\, as a black person and as a woman\, literally single handedly. It is her life’s work to illuminate the dark\, by telling the story of Motherhood as she sees and experiences it with hopes to inspire others to raise up their voices in chants for healing\, love\, and freedom. \nMia Boykin is a daughter of California\, originally born and raised in Los Angeles and currently finds home in The Bay. Known mainly by her stage/pen name\, Mimi Tempestt\, she is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. She is the creator of the wonderful archival interview series Black.Queer.Alive. which highlights the personal narratives of Black and queer people throughout the world. Her debut collection of poems\, The Monumental Misrememberings\, is forthcoming with Co-Conspirator Press. She was chosen for Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices for poetry in 2021\, and is currently a creative fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. \nMuriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm\, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2021\, and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review\, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-toya-groves-and-muriel-leun-with-literature-graduate-student-mia-boykin/
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SUMMARY:Special Issue Launch: Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This roundtable celebrates the launch of the Critical Ethnic Studies special issue “Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective.” Taking up sites that range from US/Mexico\, to the Mediterranean\, to Palestine/Israel\, and beyond\, the special issue’s contributors move past superficial comparisons and think through the circulation of technologies\, expertise\, policing\, and surveillance alongside the circulation of anti-colonial strategies via transnational social movements. By bridging conversations that are typically kept in separate academic silos — for example\, critical refugee studies\, Asian American studies\, Black studies\, Native studies\, Middle East studies\, European critical migration studies\, comparative colonial studies — this collaboration has generated rigorous and empirically grounded investigations of borders that respond to the urgent challenges of our current moment as they relate to questions of migration and displacement. \n \nPanelists: \n\nJosen Diaz (University of San Diego)\nIvan Char-Lopez (UT Austin)\nLoubna Qutami (UCLA)\nJennifer Mogannam (UC Davis)\nLeslie Quintanilla (SF State)\nEmily Hue (UC Riverside)\nDavorn Sisavath (Fresno State)\nNick Mitchell (UCSC)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/special-issue-launch-borderland-regimes-and-resistance-in-global-perspective/
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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-6/
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SUMMARY:Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
DESCRIPTION:THI’s Forgotten Wars Research Cluster and the Center for Racial Justice have partnered to present a conversation on the war-forged Korean adoptee diaspora with the director of Geographies of Kinship Deann Borshay Liem and adoption rights activist Kim Stoker\, facilitated by Amy Ginther (Theater Arts). (About the film: In a tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program\, four adult adoptees who were raised in foreign families return to their country of birth\, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew. Along the way they question the policies and practices that led South Korea to become the world’s largest “sending country”—with 200\,000 children adopted out to North America\, Europe\, and Australia. Emboldened by w’hat they have experienced and learned\, they become advocates for birth family and adoptee rights\, support for single mothers\, and historical reckoning). \n \nIt is recommended that attendees view the film before the event. Attendees with an @ucsc.edu email may watch the film for free at this website (under school email films\, click “Geographies of Kinship”): https://www.newday.com/watch-now \nDeann Borshay Liem has over twenty years experience working in development\, production and distribution of independent documentaries. She produced\, directed\, and wrote the Emmy Award-nominated documentary\, First Person Plural (Sundance\, 2000) and the award-winning films\, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (PBS\, 2010) and Memory of Forgotten War (with Ramsay Liem; PBS\, 2015). She served as executive producer for Spencer Nakasako’s Kelly Loves Tony (PBS\, 1998) and AKA Don Bonus (PBS\, 1996\, Emmy Award); On Coal River by Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood (Silverdocs\, 2010); Ishi’s Return by Chris Eyre (PBS\, 2016); and Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story by Ben Wang (PBS\, 2017). She also co-produced Special Circumstances by Marianne Teleki (PBS\, 2009) and Burqa Boxers by Alka Raghuram (2016)\, and served as story editor for the award-winning film\, The Apology\, by Tiffany Hsiung (HotDocs\, 2016). She was the former director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) where she supervised the development\, distribution and broadcast of new films for public television and worked with Congress to support minority representation in public media. A former Sundance Institute Fellow\, Deann directed\, produced\, and wrote the new documentary\, Geographies of Kinship. \nKim Stoker lived in South Korea for almost twenty years. She was a leading activist for adoptee rights with Adoptee Solidarity Korea (ASK)\, the first adoptee-run political advocacy group of its kind. Returning to the country of her birth and building a life there has indelibly changed her outlook on the world\, on the Koreas\, and on international adoption. She’s currently based back in the United States where she works as a writer and editor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-kinship-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-deann-borshay-liem-and-adoption-rights-activist-kim-stoker/
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SUMMARY:Futures: Sora Han\, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange
DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Abolition\, the year-long program featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition\, concludes with a conversation on strategies\, activism\, and liberatory futures with Sora Han\, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange. \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\nSora Han is the Director of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program at UC Irvine\, and an Associate Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society with courtesy appointments in the School of Law and African American Studies. Her first book\, Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015)\, extends the theoretical insights of critical race theory to produce new readings of American law’s landmark decisions on race and civil rights. She is also the co-author of the law casebook\, Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law\, Third Edition (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020). She is currently working on two books: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness\, which brings together poetics\, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu\, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet\, an experimental text on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Recent publications on these new lines of research include “Slavery as Contract\,” in Law and Literature (2016) and “Poetics of Mu” in Textual Practice (2018). \nAdrienne Maree Brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good\, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change\, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. \nSavannah Shange is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and serves as principal faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her research and teaching interests include state violence\, late liberal statecraft\, multiracial coalition\, ethnographic ethics\, queer politics\, and abolition. Her book\, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition\, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke 2019) is an ethnography of the afterlife of slavery as lived in the Bay Area. \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/futures-sora-han-adrienne-maree-brown-and-savannah-shange/
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SUMMARY:Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
DESCRIPTION:Savcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation\, which draws on the case of Turkey’s 16 years of AKP governance to intervene in Queer Studies’ separate — indeed\, diagonically opposed — approaches to neoliberalism and to Islam. She theorizes “neoliberal Islam” as a unique regime that brings together economic and religious moralities to deploy marginality onto ever-expanding populations instead of concentrating it in the lower echelons of society\, and she suggests that sexual liberation movements are the most productive places from which to theorize neoliberal Islam\, as well as to imagine resistances to it. After an initial presentation\, Savcı will then be in conversation with Mayanthi Fernando (UCSC). \n \nThis colloquium is a joint event with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA). \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, May 12th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nEvren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (2021\, Duke University Press) analyzes sexual politics under contemporary Turkey’s AKP regime with an eye to the travel and translation of sexual political vocabulary. Her second book project\, tentatively entitled Failures of Modernization: Polygamy\, Islamic Matrimony and Cousin Marriages in the Turkish Republic\, turns to those sexual practices that were deemed “uncivilized” and either heavily discouraged or outlawed by the Turkish Republic. Savcı’s work on the intersections of language\, knowledge\, sexual politics\, neoliberalism\, and religion has appeared in Journal of Marriage and Family; Ethnography; Sexualities; Political Power and Social Theory; Theory & Event; Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion; GLQ\, and in several edited collections. \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/evren-savci-queer-in-translation-sexual-politics-under-neoliberal-islam/
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SUMMARY:Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
DESCRIPTION:Legal Studies Program Distinguished Lecture presents Professor Noura Erakat (Rutgers University): Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle? \nMore information and Zoom info: https://legalstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article.html \nThis event is co-sponsored by THI’s Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noura-erakat-palestine-as-an-anti-racist-struggle/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T160000
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SUMMARY:Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
DESCRIPTION:El objetivo de este estudio es investigar los patrones entonativos del uptalk en el español de los hablantes de herencia en Los Ángeles\, cuyos padres emigraron de México. El uptalk\, también llamado High Rising Terminal (HRT)\, se trata de la entonación ascendente en enunciados declarativos. Generalmente se considera que el uptalk es un rasgo prosódico del inglés\, sobre todo el acento valley girl de California. Puesto que los hablantes de herencia son bilingües en español e inglés\, se supone que el uso de uptalk es una muestra de la transferencia del inglés al español. Aunque el uptalk se ha investigado mayoritariamente en las variedades del inglés\, es importante tener en cuenta el hecho de que este fenómeno prosódico también se observe en otros idiomas\, incluso el español. Por ejemplo\, en México\, el uptalk es una de las características estereotipadas del habla fresa. Por lo tanto\, antes de hablar sobre la influencia del inglés en el español de los hablantes de herencia\, es primordial analizar la variación lingüística del español del lugar de origen. En este trabajo\, se usó el sistema de etiquetaje Sp_ToBI (Beckman et al.\, 2002; Prieto y Roseano\, 2010) para comparar los contornos entonativos del uptalk de los hablantes de herencia y los hablantes monolingües de español. También se analizó la realización acústica del uptalk de los dos grupos. Los datos muestran que los monolingües producen el uptalk con los contornos más dinámicos y con un ascenso final más empinado que los hablantes de herencia. De estos hallazgos se sugieren estudios futuros para explicar la divergencia prosódica del uptalk de los hablantes de herencia. \nPlease click here to join the Zoom event: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/4712467066?pwd=NUkzZEhjallpQWdWcGc1Yk9HeTJudz09 \nPRESENTATION WILL BE IN SPANISH \nPresented by UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department Of Languages and Applied Linguistics. \nJi Young Kim es profesora asistente de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles. Sus áreas de especialización son la fonética y fonología del español\, la adquisición de lenguas de herencia\, y el bilingüismo. Su investigación se centra en la realización de los segmentos y la prosodia del español como lengua de herencia\, el acento de herencia\, y la variación fonética del español de EEUU. Ha publicado artículos sobre estos temas en revistas académicas y es co-editora de la edición especial de la revista Languages “Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing Models and Expanding the Range of Data.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ji-young-kim-la-prosodia-del-uptalk-en-el-espanol-de-herencia/
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SUMMARY:Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
DESCRIPTION:Morocco\, and especially the desert oasis of Ouarzazate\, is well-known as a destination for big-budget Hollywood film productions like The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese\, 1988) and Gladiator (Ridley Scott\, 2000). Well before those films\, however\, iconoclastic Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shot his Oedipus the King in the same region in 1966. Some of his films’ other locations were found elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East: Persia\, Eritrea\, Palestine\, and Yemen. Pasolini’s films are deeply invested in their respective locations\, just as the filmmaker himself was invested in the idea that encounters with “Third World” peoples and places held a radical potential for rethinking the relations of capitalist modernity. In turning\, in particular\, to his Moroccan Oedipus\, this talk addresses the entangled relations of Orientalism and anticolonial aesthetics and the politics of race\, queer desire\, eroticism\, and space in Pasolini’s work. Moreover\, it does so by thinking with the Moroccan films and filmmakers that have made political and aesthetic engagements with his work. Using a critical analysis of Pasolini’s Oedipus and an engagement with the film’s Moroccan interlocutors such as Ali Essafi\, Daoud Aoulad-Syad\, and Ahmed Bouanani\, this talk will offer a theoretical investigation of Pasolini’s afterlives in the Maghreb. \n \nPeter Limbrick is professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi (University of California Press\, 2020) and Making Settler Cinemas (Palgrave\, 2010) as well as articles in journals like Third Text\, Camera Obscura\, and Cinema Journal. In 2013 he curated a retrospective of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi’s films\, which screened at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)\, Block Cinema (Chicago)\, and Tate Modern (London). \nAbout the Series\nThe annual Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia (VMCC) at UC Santa Cruz are a collaboration between the graduate programs in Film and Digital Media Department and Visual Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department. The series brings an array of cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects. This event is co-sponsored by THI’s Center for the Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pasolini-in-morocco-the-geopolitics-of-cinematic-space-and-transnational-production/
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SUMMARY:Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Forging Ties\, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth century through World War II\, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation as they migrated and settled into new homes. Mays considers the shifting notions of belonging\, nationality\, and citizenship through the stories of individual women\, men\, and families who navigated these transitions in their everyday lives\, as well as through the paperwork they carried. \n \nZoom link will be sent out prior to the event. \nDevi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Michigan. Her book\, Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press\, 2020) won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture. She is working on two new projects\, the first focusing on Ottoman and North African Jews as tastemakers in fin-de- siècle and interwar Paris with Julia Phillips Cohen\, and the second an introduction to and translation of Izmir-based Ottoman Jewish journalist Alexandre Ben Ghiat’s Ladino diary of World War I\, entitled Two Steps from the Abyss: An Ottoman Jewish Witness to War. \nThis presentation will be given during Professor Alma Heckman’s Spring Course offering\, HIS 185I: Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/forging-ties-forging-passports-migration-and-the-modern-sephardi-diaspora/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Sites of Memory\, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Join the Research Center for the America for their final event of the “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series which explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor\, Latin American and Latino Studies) and Confederate monuments in Virginia by Dr. Kate Jones (Associate Professor\, History)\, as they weave the personal with the scholarly to explore the contested terrain of memory in the United States. The Q&A will be facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Hernandez\, Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz. Closed captioning and an ASL interpreter will be provided. This event is free and open to the public and co-sponsored with the Institute for Social Transformation and The Humanities Institute. \n \nDr. Catherine S. Ramírez\nProfessor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and is a scholar of migration\, citizenship\, race\, and gender; Mexican American history; Latinx literature and visual culture; comparative ethnic studies; and speculative fiction. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History (2020) and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender\, Nationalism\, and the Cultural Politics of Memory (2009) and she is a co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship (forthcoming in 2021). She has also written for the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and Public Books. \nDr. Catherine Jones\nAssociate professor of History at University of California\, Santa Cruz. She completed her PhD in History at the Johns Hopkins University in 2007. Her first book\, Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Postemancipation Virginia\, was published with the University of Virginia Press in 2015. It won the Grace Abbott Book Prize from the Society for the History of Children and Youth in 2016. She is currently at work on a book about the history of child incarceration in the post-Civil War era. She has published articles in the Journal of Southern History\, J19\, and the Journal of the Civil War Era.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sites-of-memory-spaces-of-dispute-missions-and-monuments-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Reflections on Movement and Movement-Building
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.   \nWhat does it mean to conjure a world without borders\, a world without prisons\, and a world without the carceral logics that detain and deport? How do we understand the connections and potential coalitions among struggles against policing and prisons\, mobilizations against border fortification\, and movements to create a more just university such as the COLA strike? This panel explores the abolitionist imperative to eradicate borders—which is fundamentally distinct from imperialist\, neoliberal\, and liberal humanitarian demands for borderlessness—as one that necessarily brings the prison industrial complex\, immigrant detention\, border fortification\, and labor struggles into the same analytical frame. \n \nPanelists: \n\nNunu Kidane (Priority Africa Network)\nNick Mitchell (UCSC)\nGave Evans (UCSC\, PhD student)\nTaylor Wondergem (UCSC\, PhD student)\nIlaria Giglioli (New College of Florida)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reflections-on-movement-and-movement-building/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210517T120000
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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-7/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Gregg Mitman - Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
DESCRIPTION:Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture \nEmpire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia \nIn the early 1920s\, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag\, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum\, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation\, Liberia\, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. \nEmpire of Rubber tells a riveting story of of ecology and disease\, of commerce and science\, and of racial politics and political maneuvering\, as Firestone sought to transform Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Drawing upon excerpts from Mitman’s forthcoming book\, this talk illuminates how Black activists\, writers\, scientists\, diplomats\, and businesspeople across the African diaspora rallied to support or oppose the experiment that was Firestone in Liberia. It also offers an intimate portrait of how industrial ecologies\, born of racial capitalism\, shaped the relationships among people\, trees\, chemicals\, machines\, and parasites on what became a Jim Crow corporate enclave on African soil. \n \nGregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History\, Medical History\, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest book\, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia\, will be published by The New Press in the fall of 2021. \n  \nThis lecture is made possible by the generosity of Thom Gentle (Cowell ’69\, History)\, a pioneer class alumnus who established The Thom Gentle Endowment for History to support student awards in environmental history as well as lectures of distinguished speakers with an environmental emphasis. Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregg-mitman-thom-gentle-environmental-history-lecture/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T173000
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SUMMARY:Music for Abolition: Artist Panel w/ Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Music for Abolition\, directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington\, is a project bringing together musicians across a variety of genres to create a soundtrack—and provide a heartbeat—to our shared struggle for abolition. Expressing grief\, rage\, exhaustion\, and resolution in the face of the U.S. history of racism and oppression\, the music resonates with calls of freedom. \nJoin us May 18 for a conversation about the role of sound and music in the struggle for prison abolition with the participating musicians\, including Lisa Fischer\, Kris Davis\, Val Jeanty\, Lily Finnegan\, Maimouna Youssef aka “Mumu Fresh”\, Queen Cora Coleman\, Nicholas Payton\, Jason Moran\, Malcolm Jamal-Warner\, Cécile McLorin Salvant\, Nicole Mitchell\, Sarah Elizabeth Charles\, Dianne Reeves\, Camila Cortina Bello\, Elena Pinderhughes\, Orrin Evans\, Eric Revis\, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science. \n \nMusic for Abolition videos can be found here. \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- June\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. \nThree-time GRAMMY® award-winning drummer\, producer\, educator and activist\, Terri Lyne Carrington started her professional career as a “kid wonder” while studying under a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the mid ’80’s she worked as an in-demand drummer in New York before gaining national recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for both the Arsenio Hall Show and Quincy Jones’ VIBE TV show. \nIn 1989\, Ms. Carrington released a GRAMMY®-nominated debut CD on Verve Forecast\, Real Life Story\, and toured extensively with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock\, among others. In 2011 she released the GRAMMY®Award-winning album\, The Mosaic Project\, featuring a cast of all-star women instrumentalists and vocalists\, and in 2013 she released Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue\, which also earned a GRAMMY®Award\, establishing her as the first woman ever to win in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category. \nTo date Ms. Carrington has performed on over 100 recordings and has worked extensively with luminary artists such as Al Jarreau\, Stan Getz\, Woody Shaw\, Clark Terry\, Cassandra Wilson\, Dianne Reeves\, James Moody\, Yellowjackets\, Esperanza Spalding\, and many more. Additionally\, Ms. Carrington is an honorary doctorate recipient from Berklee\, and currently serves as Founder and Artistic Director for the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. \nIn 2019 Ms. Carrington was granted the Doris Duke Artist Award\, a prestigious acknowledgement in recognition of her past and ongoing contributions to jazz music. Her current band project\, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science (a collaboration with Aaron Parks and Matthew Stevens)\, released their debut album\, Waiting Game\, in November\, 2019 on Motema Music.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/music-for-abolition-artist-panel-w-curator-terri-lyne-carrington-and-guests/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Aarti Sethi & Navyug Gill — Dissent: Farmers\, Protests\, India
DESCRIPTION:The farmers protests in India have ignited a widespread resistance movement globally. Focused initially on repressive farm laws enacted by the Indian state\, the protests have now expanded to include broader environmental\, social and political concerns impacting the livelihood\, independence and sustenance of working people. What was first seen as an agrarian protest movement has become a rallying call for much-needed debates on dissent\, casteism\, gender\, and economic justice. \n \nThis colloquium is a joint event with the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS).  \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, May 19th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nAarthi Sethi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her primary research interests are in agrarian anthropology\, political-economy and the study of South Asia. She holds degrees in political science\, and cinema and cultural studies\, from Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2017\, and before joining Berkeley\, she had postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Brown universities. She has previously published on\, and has ongoing research and teaching interests in\, urban ethnography\, and cinematic\, media and visual cultures. \n \nNavyug Gill is a scholar of modern South Asia and global history. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. He received a Ph.D. from Emory University\, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. His research explores questions of agrarian change\, labor history\, caste politics\, postcolonial critique and global capitalism. Currently he is completing a book on the emergence of the peasant and the rule of capital in colonial Panjab. His academic and popular writings have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Asian Studies\, Economic and Political Weekly\, Outlook\, Al Jazeera\, Law and Political Economy Project\, Borderlines and Trolley Times. \n \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/aarti-sethi-navyug-gill-dissent-farmers-protests-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:A Fortress in Brooklyn\, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch in conversation with Lila Corwin Berman about Casper and Deutsch’s new book A Fortress in Brooklyn. \nThe Hasidic community in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist\, intensely religious\, and politically savvy groups in the entire United States. A Fortress in Brooklyn tells the remarkable story of how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline\, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered\, shaped\, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood\, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime\, divestment of city services\, and\, ultimately\, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization\, A Fortress in Brooklyn presents both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race\, real estate\, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential\, and yet deeply misunderstood\, New York neighborhood. \n \nMichael Casper received his Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has contributed to American Jewish History and the New York Review of Books. \nNathaniel Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he holds the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Among his other books are Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics\, Islam\, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nLila Corwin Berman is Professor of History at Temple University\, where she holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History and directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She is author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution\, as well as Metropolitan Jews: Politics\, Race\, and Religion in Postwar Detroit\, and Speaking of Jews: Rabbis\, Intellectuals\, and the Creation of an American Public Identity. Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post\, the Forward\, as well as several scholarly journals.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/56157/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Jonas Staal: Deep Future Propagandas
DESCRIPTION:Propaganda manufactures consent and establishes normativity; it constructs reality and makes worlds. The propagandas of our present produce the futureless futures of dystopian normativity: the libertarian geoengineering of drowned worlds\, Flat Earth dark-age anti-globes\, and eco-fascist genocide. But these are not the only options available. From popular mass movements to new planetary unions and transnational party-forms\, the art of counter-power organizing is struggling for the means of production of the future\, to ensure meaningful survival in interspecies comradeship and a biosphere for all. At the intersection of political and artistic imagination\, between organizing work and utopian activism\, this presentation will sketch the morphologies of a deep future propaganda. \n \nModerated by T. J. Demos and Martabel Wasserman \nJonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art\, propaganda\, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing) and the campaign New Unions (2016–2019). With BAK\, basis voor actuele kunst\, Utrecht\, he co-founded the New World Academy (2013-16); with Florian Malzacher he is currently directing the utopian training camp Training for the Future (2018-ongoing); and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union. His exhibition-projects include: Art of the Stateless State (Moderna Galerija\, Ljubljana\, 2015)\, After Europe (State of Concept\, Athens\, 2016)\, The Scottish-European Parliament (CCA\, Glasgow\, 2018) and Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Federation of North Syria\, Van Abbemuseum\, Eindhoven\, 2018-ongoing). With a PhD research on propaganda art at Leiden University in the Netherlands\, Staal’s most recent book is Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press\, 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/deep-future-propagandas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Joan Naviyuk Kane
DESCRIPTION:Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo). The author of eight collections of poetry and prose\, she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction at Harvard\, is a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race\, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts\, and was founding faculty of the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She’s currently a Visiting Fellow of Race and Ethnicity at The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University\, and the 2021 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism at Scripps College. Her second book\, Hyperboreal (winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize)\, will be published in translation by Editions Caractères this summer\, and a collection of new poems\, Dark Traffic\, will be published in the Pitt Poetry Series in September. She raises her sons in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-joan-naviyuk-kane/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T123000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: PhD+ Publishing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.   \nAs co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective\, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission\, review\, and publishing process; and dealing with rejections. We will also discuss the process of submitting to journal special issues\, such as ours–including how to pitch your work to a special issue\, how to work with editors on your piece during revise-and-resubmit\, and how to propose a guest-edited special issue. \n \nPanelists: \n\nJenny Kelly (UCSC)\nCamilla Hawthorne (UCSC)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster \n  \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-publishing-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T133000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20201216T193033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T171515Z
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (II) Jagged Environments
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featured speakers: Amita Baviskar (Professor\, Sociology-Anthropology and Environmental Studies\, Ashoka University) and Gökçe Günel (Assistant Professor\, Antropology Rice University).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migrant-futures-jaggedenvironments/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T132000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20201203T012221Z
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SUMMARY:Roumyana Pancheva Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roumyana-pancheva-linguistics-colloquium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T130000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20210303T185022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T185022Z
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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-8/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T133000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20210326T101041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T181305Z
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SUMMARY:Yasmeen Daifallah — Theorize and Decolonize: Critiques of Colonial Subjectivity in Contemporary Arab Thought
DESCRIPTION:What does it take to cultivate decolonized subjects in postcolonial times? When anti-colonial struggles are all said and done\, and the dust settles on a profoundly reshaped social\, economic\, and political landscape in their wake\, what kinds of intellectual and political labor are required to undo colonized subjectivities and to gradually and systematically produce decolonized ones in their stead? This talk brings the oeuvres of central contemporary Arab thinkers to bear on these questions and discusses what the current resonances of their thought might be for our times. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, May 26th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nYasmeen Daifallah is Assistant Professor of Politics at UCSC and has been teaching there since January 2019. She arrived by way of UMass-Amherst\, the University of Southern California\, and UC Berkeley\, where she also earned her PhD in political science. She has research interests in critical and postcolonial theory\, comparative political theory\, and Arab and Islamic political thought. \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/yasmeen-daifallah-theorize-and-decolonize-critiques-of-colonial-subjectivity-in-contemporary-arab-thought/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20210526T202912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T203417Z
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SUMMARY:One year later\, have we gotten anywhere?
DESCRIPTION:On May 25\, 2020\, George Floyd was murdered when a white police officer placed his knee on Floyd’s neck. Coast-to-coast\, protests erupted\, and\, locally\, Santa Cruz police Chief Andy Mills took a knee alongside Mayor Justin Cummings and a sea of protestors in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. \nBut while that might be a sign of progress\, there have been other signs that America\, and Santa Cruz\, haven’t moved forward like some might have hoped in terms of racial justice in the past year. \nFrom the shootings of other young Black men nationally to “no white guilt” rocks turning up in Santa Cruz County to hate being directed at Asian Americans here and elsewhere\, there’s a lot to ponder one year after Floyd’s killing. \n \nLookout Santa Cruz invited some key community voices to speak about how far they believe we’ve come\, both as a community here in Santa Cruz County and as a nation. The list of speakers will include: \nDr. David H. Anthony III has been a professor of African History at UC Santa Cruz since 1988. Anthony’s focus on research includes: African and African-American history\, art\, music\, literature and cinema; Eastern and Southern Africa; African languages; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; World history. Anthony is a leader in campus public service\, and has participated in a broad range of events such as film screenings\, public talks and exhibitions\, including the UC Santa Cruz Annual Martin Luther King\, Jr Memorial Convocation. \nCat Willis is the Founder and Executive Director of the Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center. She is a founding member of the Santa Cruz County Black Coalition for Justice and Racial Equity and is founding director of the Black Health Matters Initiative alongside community partners; County Park Friends\, United Way of\, NAACP Santa Cruz Chapter\, Blended Bridge\, and the SCC Black Coalition for Justice and Racial Equity. She currently sits on the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County RISE Together leadership circle and the Santa Cruz County’s Commission on Anti-Racism\, Economic & Social (CARES) Justice. \nSpike Wong is local playwright and former school teacher. Born in Watsonville\, Spike had the quintessential 1950’s small town California upbringing. His father’s parents had landed here while they were agricultural laborers and cannery workers. After his father’s WWII military service in the US Army Air Force\, he eventually became a partner in a grocery store. His mom was a business and school secretary through most of her working career. Through their hard work\, all three of their sons graduated from college. \nMaria Cadenas is the executive director of Santa Cruz Community Ventures\, which is committed to developing compassionate and local equitable economies that contribute to the region’s well-being. Her work focuses on the development of scalable models to address income and wealth gaps\, especially those faced by communities of color and women. In the words of Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s MariaElena De La Garza: “Maria is a fierce advocate for the community impacted by poverty. She offers tangible and thoughtful solutions to make our community stronger!” \nThis event is presented by Lookout Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/56641/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20210423T224341Z
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SUMMARY:Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor
DESCRIPTION:Katta signifies casual and engaged conversation\, but unlike its distant cousin the Bengali Adda\, it also denotes a space where friends come to talk and listen. Juned Shaikh and Sheetal Chhabria speak to histories of labor\, poverty and caste in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. \n \nSheetal Chhabria is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College. She researches the histories of capitalism\, the production of space\, and the governance of labor\, poverty and inequality. \n  \n  \nJuned Shaikh is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He studies labor\, cities\, caste\, and Marxism in South Asia. His next project is on the life and times of a scientist who became an important leader of the communist movement in India\, Gangadhar Adhikari. \n  \nThis is event is part of the Towards Justice Lecture Series presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center For South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bombay-katta-the-city-and-its-poor/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T170000
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CREATED:20210527T181342Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Towards the end of the spring quarter each year\, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker\, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department. \nFor more information and to register\, please visit the Linguistics Department website at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/lurc.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T025411
CREATED:20210513T175544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T210142Z
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SUMMARY:Articulating Trust: A cross-disciplinary roundtable conversation
DESCRIPTION:“Articulating Trust: A cross-disciplinary roundtable conversation about language rights and socio-linguistic justice in higher education and beyond” will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with the audience. \nIn this conversation\, we are hoping to further develop the notion of Language Rights\, recently applied to the context of higher education. The right to one’s own linguistic variety marks an overdue departure from the deeply entrenched norm that would restrict the language of knowledge and thought to a so-called “standard” language. In this roundtable we hope to begin to articulate a related and practical notion of Linguistic Trust\, where interlocutors in research and educational roles invite other interlocutors to participate while using a non-standard variety. Our main question will be: How could an invitation to participate in a “non-standard” variety be articulated? What are some of the strategies or cues which could be leveraged to invite our interlocutors to use non-standard varieties\, especially in settings (such as classroom teaching\, mentoring\, researching) in which hegemonic norms would dictate the exclusive use of a standard variety? By bringing together scholars from different disciplines we hope to open up a conversation about what it means to build trust in sociolinguistic diversity and how hegemonic linguistic norms can be subverted – one interaction at a time. \n \nFor more information and to receive the Zoom link to discussion\, please see: https://sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/articulatingtrust/home \nHosted by Linguistics\, Anthropology\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nRoundtable Participants: \nKara Hisatake received her PhD in Literature from the University of California\, Santa Cruz and writes about settler colonialism\, language politics\, decolonization\, race\, and gender in Hawai’i and the broader Pacific. Her work appears in Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture\, Space\, and Race (2018)\, edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower\, and in Amerasia. She currently teaches high school in Honolulu. \nKelsey Sasaki is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics. Since 2016\, she has worked with speakers of Santiago Laxopa Zapotec on a variety of projects\, from psycholinguistic studies to public language-learning classes. This year\, she is a THI Public Fellow of Senderos\, a local nonprofit that serves the Latino/a/x community. \nDr. Bahiyyah Maroon is a nationally recognized thought leader on equity and social change. She’s appeared in Women’s Health\, Self\, Bustle\, and Health Daily. Out magazine named her a top ten innovator in the nation for her contributions to social change by dignified design. Dr. Maroon is the CEO of Polis\, an applied research institute. She is also a proud recipient of the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award for her contributions to equity in STEM education. She received her doctorate in anthropology from UCSC. Dr. Maroon has provided strategic insights to Intel Corporation\, Harvard University\, the US Dept. of Justice\, and the US Dept. of Labor among others. Dr. Maroon is passionate about deploying social science to create solutions that result in a more compassionate and equitable world. \nMegan Moodie is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in feminist theory and disability politics. Her current project looks at the ways that women living with chronic pain negotiate work\, family\, and medical spaces and engage in forms of self advocacy and political organizing in which complex chronic illness becomes a site of identification or “biosociality.” As an essayist\, fiction writer\, dramatist/screenwriter\, and film critic who often engages with audiences outside academia\, she frequently works at the arts/social sciences interface; building on a long tradition in anthropology in which creative practices inform social science research\, she is the founder of the Center for Artful Ethnography here at UC Santa Cruz\, which will be a hub for innovative teaching and research. \nIvy Sichel is a syntactician with a growing interest in Language and Society in the US and in Israel. Her recent work focuses on ideology\, identity\, and the state\, in the emergence and consolidation of modern vernacular Hebrew in the 20th century\, in Israel/Palestine. She is trying to understand what it means for a language to be gendered or racialized\, through the prism of emergent Modern Hebrew\, which\, although perhaps unique in terms of the historical conditions that led to its emergence\, is arguably exemplary of the ways in which our languages are always sedimented\, politically and ideologically.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/articulating-trust-a-cross-disciplinary-roundtable-conversation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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