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SUMMARY:Open Now - Out of the Ashes: Stories from the CZU Lightning Complex Fires
DESCRIPTION:Set upon a historical archive of art\, objects\, and stories from communities affected by the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fires\, for decades the MAH has archived and stored oral histories\, artifacts\, and more from the natural disasters that have impacted the history of our community. This collection has allowed Santa Cruz County historians and educators to more deeply understand and learn from those moments of impact. \nIn the summer of 2020\, the CZU Lightning Complex Fire burned more than 80\,000 acres\, led to the evacuation of more than 60\,000 people and the destruction of over 900 homes. Wanting to capture and document this moment Santa Cruz Sentinel photojournalist\, Shmuel Thaler\, and NPR radio producer and former history curator\, Nikki Silva\, teamed up with the MAH to begin documenting some of the personal stories of people who have been impacted by the fire. \nFollowing a public call-out for stories through October 2020\, the exhibition will showcase this expansive historical archive of art\, objects\, and stories collected by Shmuel\, Nikki\, and the MAH alongside artwork from local artists displaced by the fires. Taking a moment to acknowledge the tragedy our community has endured during an already devastating year\, the exhibition will showcase the voices\, stories\, and art of resilience\, grief\, and community care of Santa Cruz County. The exhibition will run from July 2nd\, 2021 – July 24th\, 2022. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz with additional support provided by the History Forum.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/out-of-the-ashes-stories-from-the-czu-lightning-complex-fires/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michael Pollan\, This Is Your Mind on Plants
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan for a discussion of his new book\, This Is Your Mind on Plants\, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs\, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. \n \nPlease note: This Is Your Mind on Plants will publish on July 6th\, 2021\, the date of the event. Books will not be available for pickup/shipping prior to publication date. Tickets and event are produced by ExtendedSession\, in partnership with Book Passage. \nOf all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance\, beauty\, medicine\, fragrance\, flavor\, fiber–surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm\, fiddle with or completely alter\, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug\, or our daily use as an addiction\, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So\, then\, what is a “drug”? And why\, for example\, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable\, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? \nIn This Is Your Mind on Plants\, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs–opium\, caffeine\, and mescaline–and throws the fundamental strangeness\, and arbitrariness\, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or\, in the case of caffeine\, trying not to consume) them\, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness\, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? \nIn this unique blend of history\, science\, and memoir\, as well as participatory journalism\, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts\, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively–as a drug\, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants\, Pollan shows\, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds\, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago\, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants\, and our attraction to them through time\, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations\, the operations of our minds\, and our entanglement with the natural world. \n“Building on his lysergically drenched book How to Change Your Mind (2018)\, Pollan looks at three plant-based drugs and the mental effects they can produce. . . . A lucid (in the sky with diamonds) look at the hows\, whys\, and occasional demerits of altering one’s mind.” —Kirkus (starred review) \nMichael Pollan is the author of eight books\, including How to Change Your Mind\, Cooked\, Food Rules\, In Defense of Food\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma\, and The Botany of Desire\, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He is also the author of the audiobook Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Made the Modern World. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010\, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.
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SUMMARY:Jody Greene - The Great Reset: University Teaching and Learning after COVID
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many permanent changes in college teaching and learning. The pandemic has not only precipitated but also accelerated changes already underway at UCSC and elsewhere—from technological enhancements to trauma-informed teaching. Join Professor Jody Greene\nin conversation with Stephanie Chan\, UCSC alumna and Foothill College professor. Chan and Greene will discuss UCSC’s history of educational innovation and what teaching and learning might look like post-pandemic. The audience will have plenty of time to engage with Chan and Greene and ask questions. \n \nJody Greene is associate vice provost for teaching and learning and professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz. She is also the founding director of UCSC’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. In addition to educational and organizational development in higher education\, Greene’s research interests include intellectual property\, human rights\, and the history of the institution of literature. Her most recent writing\, on teaching and learning trends in higher education\, appeared in Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. \nStephanie Chan is assistant professor of English at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills\, California. She teaches courses in composition and literature and recently co-authored a curriculum with which the College will inaugurate its new Ethnic Studies program. She got her Ph.D. in literature from UCSC in 2014\, specializing in Asian Pacific American literature and culture. She is proud to have served as a TA in Professor Greene’s class while doing her graduate studies. She runs ultra-marathons in her spare time.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jody-greene-the-great-reset-university-teaching-and-learning-after-covid/
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SUMMARY:Opening today: Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2021 Season
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce that Santa Cruz Shakespeare will be back to live\, in-person performances this Summer! Tickets are on sale now! Capacity will be limited\, and safety measures will be in place to ensure a fun time for everyone. \n \nPlays in the year’s season: \nRII:\nText by William Shakespeare\nConceived and Adapted by Jessica Kubzansky.\nJuly-August 2021\nLive at The Grove (Streaming Option Available)\nThe story that sets the Wars of the Roses in motion\, Jessica Kubzansky’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II tells the story of that king’s ill-fated reign using only three actors. What is our responsibility when a bad leader rightfully occupies the throne? This exploration of divine right\, capricious leadership\, and bloody insurrection is packed with contemporary political relevance. A critic’s choice pick when it premiered at the Boston Court theatre in Los Angeles\, Charles McNulty\, critic for the LA Times\, called the play a “feat of ingenious stagecraft.” \nThe Agitators:\nBy Mat Smart\nJuly-August 2021\nLive at The Grove (Streaming Option Available) \nThis play\, by Mat Smart\, tells the story of Fredrick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. Over the forty-five volatile years that they knew one another\, they were friends\, allies\, and adversaries. Their hopes and dreams for equality brought them to common ground and political battlefields. As agitators\, they were not content to let either our nation or each other rest in complacency\, and their respective fights for racial justice and gender equity continue to this day. \nThe Humanities Institute is a proud sponsor of the 2021 Santa Cruz Shakespeare Season.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opening-today-santa-cruz-shakespeare-2021-season/
LOCATION:The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park\, 501 Upper Park Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95065\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 40th Annual Dickens Universe featuring A Christmas Carol
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is an annual gathering of scholars\, teachers\, and members of the general public who share a love of Dickens’s writings and his era. In 2021\, the Universe will feature A Christmas Carol. Because of public health concerns and to ensure the safety of its participants\, the 2021 Universe will take place online for the second consecutive year. \nPerhaps the best known and most widely beloved of Dickens’s works\, A Christmas Carol is the story of one man’s conversion from miserly misanthropy to a belief in the goodness of mankind and an acceptance of his place in the larger human community. Set against a background of social and economic distress during the “hungry ‘forties” in England\, the Carol is at once an indictment of economic individualism and a powerful exploration of dreams\, memory\, and the importance of self-reflection. An early experiment in time-travel\, the Carol has undergone countless adaptations and rewritings\, many of which will be addressed during the week-long program of events. \n\nExplore A Christmas Carol in small break-out groups and presentations by distinguished international faculty.\nJoin a community of avid Dickens readers and lovers of his work.\nLearn more about the history of Christmas in Victorian England.\nDiscuss the relevance of A Christmas Carol through its modern reinterpretations.\n\nImmerse yourself in the world of Charles Dickens. Learn about the author’s life and work through lectures\, group discussions\, and Victorian events at the 40th annual Dickens Universe. \n \n\nA note from Director John Jordan: The Dickens Project made the difficult decision to change our 2021 Dickens Universe plans. Because of uncertainties about whether it will be possible to hold an in-person Universe next July\, the Executive Committee decided to convert the 2021 Universe entirely into a virtual\, online event. Because we still want very much to do the Iola Leroy/David Copperfield conference as a live\, in-person event\, we decided to postpone it one more year\, until the summer of 2022. By that time\, we anticipate we should be able to convene again on the Santa Cruz campus.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-40th-annual-dickens-universe-featuring-a-christmas-carol/
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