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SUMMARY:Jonathan Franzen\, Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to host local and award-winning author Jonathan Franzen for the launch event of his new book\, Crossroads\, which tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations\, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nClick here for tickets to this special virtual event\, which include a signed copy of Crossroads. \nBookshop Santa Cruz is exclusively able to offer personalized\, autographed copies of Crossroads. Details available with ticket purchase. \nA tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense\, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day\, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident. \nIt’s December 23\, 1971\, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt\, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church\, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife\, Marion\, who has her own secret life\, beats him to it. Their eldest child\, Clem\, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism\, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister\, Becky\, long the social queen of her high-school class\, has sharply veered into the counterculture\, while their brilliant younger brother Perry\, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders\, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. \nJonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now\, in Crossroads\, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity\, and with even greater warmth\, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. \nJonathan Franzen is the author of Purity\, The Corrections\, and Freedom\, among other novels\, and works of nonfiction including Farther Away and The Kraus Project\, all published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the German Akademie der Künste\, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/56894/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to promote your research and create a virtual community of Tweeple. This workshop will be led by Kayla Isenberg\, (Senior Director of Digital Engagement\, University Relations). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Using Twitter Professionally” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-using-twitter-professionally-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Developing A Digital Reputation
DESCRIPTION:Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. This workshop will be led by Andrea Limas (Assistant Director of Communications\, Social Sciences Division). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Developing a Digital Reputation” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-developing-a-digital-reputation/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Giannina Braschi
DESCRIPTION:Giannina Braschi was born in San Juan\, Puerto Rico. She was a fashion model\, singer\, and tennis champion in her teen years. She studied literature in Madrid\, Rome\, London\, and Rouen before settling in New York City. With a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from State University of New York\, Stony Brook\, she taught at Rutgers University\, City University of New York\, and Colgate University. She has published on Cervantes\, Garcilaso\, Machado\, Lorca\, and Bécquer. A Literature Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Braschi has won awards/grants from Ford Foundation\, Danforth Scholarship\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, Reed Foundation\, InterAmericas\, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña\, Rutgers\, and PEN. PEN has called Braschi “one of the most revolutionary voices” in Latin American Literature today. Her work is a hybrid of poetry\, fiction\, theater\, and political philosophy. Braschi has published numerous works in Spanish\, Spanglish\, and English\, including El imperio de los sueños (Anthropos\, 1988)\, Yo-Yo Boing! (Latin American Literary Review Press\, 1998) and United States of Banana (AmazonCrossing\, 2011). Her scholarly publications include a book on Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and essays on Cervantes\, Garcilaso\, Machado\, and García Lorca. Her collected poems were translated into English by Tess O’Dwyer as Empire of Dreams (Yale University Press\, 1994). Her life’s work is the subject of Poets\, Philosophers\, Lovers: on the Writings of Giannina Braschi (Latinx and Latin American Profiles\, Pittsburgh\, 2020)\, a collection of essays edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer with a foreword by Ilan Stavans. The United States Library of Congress calls her work “cutting-edge\, influential and even revolutionary.” In recent years\, her avant-garde writings have appeared in far-ranging cultural spaces such as television comedy\, chamber music\, art and design\, theater\, and ecologic urbanism. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-giannina-braschi/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Designing a Professional LinkedIn Profile\, Using LinkedIn to Network & Job Search Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Participants will view an instructional video by former Career Center Career Coach Christina Hall prior to class. Class time will consist of Q&A and workshopping LinkedIn profiles\, using LinkedIn tools. This workshop will be led by Leezel Ramos (Associate Director of Career Engagement\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Designing a Professional LinkedIn Profile\, Using LinkedIn to Network & Job Search Q&A” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-designing-a-professional-linkedin-profile-using-linkedin-to-network-job-search-qa/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T120000
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SUMMARY:Feminism in Mexico: Intergenerational and Transnational
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion will be led by Distinguished Professor Eli Bartra\, Professor of Feminist Studies at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco\, Mexico City. Professor Bartra is the author of “Feminism and Folk Art” (2018) and “Women in Mexican Folk Art” (2011)\, and is a leading activist on feminist issues in Mexico City. Also on the panel is Anna Lee Mraz Bartra\, an independent scholar from Mexico who holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico\, with a focus on women in Mexico and cross cultural social activism. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor Norma Klahn\, Professor of Literature Emerita\, UCSC. \n \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Humanities Division. \n***UC Santa Cruz COVID-19 protocols state that all on-site indoor events with expected attendance of 25 or more attendees will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the start of the event) for admittance. \nThese entrance requirements can be met in the following ways: \n1) Any attendee can show their CDC Vaccine Card (phone image acceptable) or digital vaccine record from the State of California. International attendees may show their translated vaccine record. \nOR \n2) Any attendee can show a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). \n***Prior to arriving for this event\, all visitors must complete a symptom check survey\, which can be accessed here: https://ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24vMSiDcxZp6VRX \nQuestions regarding this event can be directed to Pedro Castillo: pcastle@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminism-in-mexico-intergenerational-and-transnational/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:History and Modern Media - book talk with John Mraz
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Professor John Mraz\, Research Professor\, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades\, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla\, Mexico on “History and Modern Media”\, will discuss his most recent book published in 2021 by Vanderbilt University Press. John is a distinguished scholar on Mexican photo history and visual culture in Mexico. He is also the author of “Photographing the Mexican Revolution” (2012) and “Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity” (2009). Moreover\, John is a UCSC alum and obtained his Ph.D from the Department of History at UCSC in the mid-1980’s. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor Pedro Castillo\, Professor of History Emeritus\, UCSC. \n \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Humanities Division. \n***UC Santa Cruz COVID-19 protocols state that all on-site indoor events with expected attendance of 25 or more attendees will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the start of the event) for admittance. \nThese entrance requirements can be met in the following ways: \n1) Any attendee can show their CDC Vaccine Card (phone image acceptable) or digital vaccine record from the State of California. International attendees may show their translated vaccine record. \nOR \n2) Any attendee can show a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). \n***Prior to arriving for this event\, all visitors must complete a symptom check survey\, which can be accessed here: https://ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24vMSiDcxZp6VRX \nQuestions regarding this event can be directed to Pedro Castillo: pcastle@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/history-and-modern-media-book-talk-with-john-mraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Thomas Serres - Reflections on Abject Victimhood and the Impossibility of Post-Islamism: The trajectory of the Rachad Movement
DESCRIPTION:This presentation looks at the trajectory of former Algerian Islamists belonging to the opposition movement Rachad\, who denounce state exactions perpetrated during the civil war of the 1990s. In so doing\, the talk focuses on the notion of “abject victimhood\,” to think about the legal and political challenges faced by actors once associated with an Islamist insurgency. Moreover\, it shows how the production of abjection and that of victimhood are both entangled and conflicting\, as the former serves to restore state power\, while the latter supports revolutionary claims. This discussion also questions the possibility of a genuine form of “post-Islamism” in a context characterized by the impunity of state actors and the impossibility for those associated with political Islam to escape the vilifying discourses associated with counter-terrorism. \n \nThomas Serres is an Assistant Professor in the Politics department at UCSC. His research spans the field of Middle Eastern studies\, critical security studies and comparative politics\, and combines an ethnographic approach with a conceptual apparatus inspired by critical theory. He is particularly interested in the effects of protracted and entangled crises (popular uprisings\, “war on terror\,” refugee crisis\, neoliberalization) in North Africa and beyond. His first book\, entitled The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in Bouteflika’s Algeria\, studies Algerian politics as a system of governance based on the management of a seemingly never-ending crisis and the systematic endangerment of the political order. An updated and expanded version of this book is currently under contract with Columbia University Press\, after the French version was published with Karthala in 2019. Thomas has also published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Middle East Critique\, Interdisciplinary Political Studies and L’Année du Maghreb. Lastly\, he has also co-edited a volume entitled North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions\, Culture\, which was published by Bloomsbury Academic Publishing in 2018. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-serres-reflections-on-abject-victimhood-and-the-impossibility-of-post-islamism-the-trajectory-of-the-rachad-movement/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to craft your talk\, warm up\, deal with nerves\, and engage your audience. This workshop will be led by Bri McWhorter (Activate to Captivate\, Founder/CEO). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Public Speaking” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-speaking-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lesley Nneka Arimah
DESCRIPTION:Lesley Nneka Arimah was born in the UK and grew up in Nigeria and wherever else her father was stationed for work. Her stories have been honored with a National Magazine Award\, a Commonwealth Short Story Prize and an O. Henry Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, GRANTA and has received support from The Elizabeth George Foundation and MacDowell. She was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 and her debut collection WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY won the 2017 Kirkus Prize\, the 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was selected for the New York Times/PBS book club among other honors. Arimah is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing. She lives in Las Vegas and is working on a novel about you.\n \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lesley-nneka-arimah/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T190000
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SUMMARY:Jess Walter - The Cold Millions
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning author Jess Walter will join us online for a discussion of his bestselling novel The Cold Millions (available in paperback on September 28th). Walter will be in conversation with acclaimed local writer Karen Joy Fowler. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UCSC. \n“The Cold Millions is a literary unicorn: a book about socio-economic disparity that’s also a page-turner\, a postmodern experiment that reads like a potboiler\, and a beautiful\, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It’s funny and harrowing\, sweet and violent\, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes. Jess Walter is a national treasure.” —Anthony Doerr\, author of All the Light We Cannot See \n \nThe paperback edition of The Cold Millions will be published on September 28th and can be ordered here. \nThe Dolans live by their wits\, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home\, his older brother\, Gig\, dreams of a better world\, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great\, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. \nDubious of Gig’s idealism\, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless nineteen-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming\, threatening to overwhelm them all\, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Is it enough to win the occasional battle\, even if you cannot win the war? \nAn intimate story of brotherhood\, love\, sacrifice\, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America\, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor\, between harsh realities and simple dreams. \nJess Walter is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins\, the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets\, the National Book Award finalist The Zero\, the Edgar Award–winning Citizen Vince\, Land of the Blind\, the New York Times Notable Book Over Tumbled Graves\, and the story collection We Live in Water. He lives in Spokane\, Washington\, with his family. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of three short story collections and six novels including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection\, Black Glass\, won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/57518/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Plenary of the Media and Society Lecture Series at Kresge College with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Kresge College presents the keynote Plenary of the Media and Society lecture series\, featuring San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in conversation with Kresge faculty\, including Novelist-Poet Daniel Pearce (UCSC Writing Program) and Associate Professor Anjuli Verma (Politics / Legal Studies). They will discuss language and media in the history of slavery and policing\, and will including readings of Eisen-Martin’s newest works. \nThis opening event for Kresge’s lecture series is also a key feature of Kresge’s Core course\, Power and Representation\, and will offer you a glimpse into what Kresge freshman learn and discuss as they embark on a journey of critical thinking in their liberal arts education. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n \nAmerican Book Award winning Tongo Eisen-Martin (MA\, Columbia University; Poet Laureate of San Francisco) combines incisive poetic vision with practical activism\, confronting problems of justice in sound\, word\, and dialogue. Eisen-Martin’s poetry and education work to build conscientious and intellectual energy for prison-abolition and police-defunding movements by exposing criminal justice inequity\, mass incarceration\, and police atrocities\, including the extrajudicial killing of Black people. His someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) was nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, 2017) earned him accolades\, including a shortlisting for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. \nFrom the Poetry Foundation: Griffin Prize judges cited Eisen-Martin’s as work that “moves between trenchant political critique and dreamlike association\, demonstrating how\, in the right hands\, one mode might energize the other—keeping alternative orders of meaning alive in the face of radical injustice … His poems are places where discourses and vernaculars collide and recombine into new configurations capable of expressing outrage and sorrow and love.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/plenary-of-the-media-and-society-lecture-series-at-kresge-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T120000
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SUMMARY:Sharika Thiranagama - In Memoriam: Stories of Dissent in Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION:Sharika Thiranagama is Associate Professor in Anthropology and President of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. Her research has focused on various aspects of the Sri Lankan civil war. Primarily\, she has conducted research with two different ethnic groups\, Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims. Her research explores changing forms of ethnicisation\, the effects of protracted civil war on ideas of home in the midst of profound displacement and the transformations in and relationships between the political and the familial in the midst of political repression and militarization. Since 2014\, Sharika Thiranagama has also carried out new work in Kerala\, South India centering on Dalit agricultural communities in Kerala\, South India. She examines how communist led political mobilization both transformed every day and political mobilization as well as reconfiguring older caste identities\, re-entrenching caste inequities into new kinds of private neighborhood life. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharika-thiranagama-in-memoriam-stories-of-dissent-in-sri-lanka/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Career Diversity and Humanities Without Walls
DESCRIPTION:What does career diversity look like for a humanities PhD? How do we empower ourselves now to make values-driven choices about careers? What communities and resources are out there to help students and faculty think about these questions? In this workshop\, we will discuss career diversity as an approach that can transform your thinking about yourself and others as well as your research and project planning in the present and the future. We will consider career diversity very broadly\, from non-profit and foundation work to public humanities to the private sector. \nThe workshop is also an invitation to learn about the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) organization\, its programming\, and its annual summer workshop that offers humanities PhD students unparalleled exposure to career diversity possibilities as well as a stipend to fund selected students’ participation. The application to this summer’s HWW workshop\, which is scheduled to be held in person at the University of Michigan\, is now open. More information about the call for applications is available on THI’s website. \nThe panel will be led by UC Santa Cruz and Marquette University Humanities Without Walls Fellows: \nMargaret (Maggie) Nettesheim-Hoffmann is the Associate Director of Career Diversity for the Humanities Without Walls consortium based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign and is based at Marquette University. As a part of her work for the consortium\, she is responsible for guiding HWW’s career diversity programming dedicated to transforming doctoral education for consortium partner schools and beyond. She is a co-PI on a $1.3M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Marquette University in support of HWW’s career diversity work and is completing a PhD in American History in the history of American philanthropy\, capitalism\, and progressive era political discourses critical of private wealth giving to public institutions. She was a HWW Predoctoral Career Diversity Fellow in 2017. \n \n  \nMorgan Gates is a PhD student in the Literature Department\, Humanities Without Walls alum\, and THI Public Fellow. As a Public Fellow\, she has explored working with non-profits as a dramaturg\, museum curator and program manager\, archivist\, and is currently a member of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History Publications Committee at work on an exciting new history publication for children. HWW has helped her imagine even more career possibilities and helped her learn to merge these experiences with her field research. \n \n  \nAaron Aruck is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies how sexuality broadly defined became a critical organizing principle for public health programs\, immigration enforcement\, and border making at the midcentury US-Mexico border. He was also a THI Public Fellow at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and remains interested in public history. A HWW fellow in 2017\, Aaron enjoyed learning how his research and skills could be employed in various jobs in the non-profit and legal worlds. \n  \nThis workshop is co-presented by The Humanities Institute (THI) at UC Santa Cruz and Humanities Without Walls national consortium based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and is open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-career-diversity-and-humanities-without-walls/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T131000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20210911T013340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201723Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Slide Presentation Design
DESCRIPTION:Students will view an instructional video by Sonya prior to class. Students will practice giving 3-minute-maximum presentations with slides about their graduate work. This workshop will be led by Sonya Newlyn (Professional Development Coordinator\, Division of Graduate Studies). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Slide Presentation Design” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-slide-presentation-design/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20211001T165411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T000545Z
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SUMMARY:"By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution" with David Talbot and Margaret Talbot
DESCRIPTION:Salon.com founder and former editor-in-chief David Talbot and his sister Margaret\, a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker\, together explore the potential landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. Based on exclusive interviews\, original documents\, and archival research\, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the 20th-century radical movement. \nJoin us for our conversation moderated by Nikki Silva as she explores with Margaret and David Talbot and our panelists Madonna Thunder Hawk\, Heather Booth\, and Bill Zimmerman\, the epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements and across race\, class\, and gender divides. \n \nAuthors \n\nDavid Talbot (Stevenson\, ’73) is a journalist\, author\, activist\, and independent historian.\nMargaret Talbot is an essayist\, non-fiction writer\, and staff writer at The New Yorker.\n\nPanel \n\nMadonna Thunder Hawk is an activist and a veteran of every modern Native occupation from Alcatraz\, to Wounded Knee in 1973\, and more recently the NODAPL protest at Standing Rock.\nDolores Huerta is a co-founder of the United Farm Workers and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; she has played a major role in the civil rights movement for over 50 years.\nBill Zimmerman is a political consultant and author\, who managed Tom Hayden’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in the 1976 California primary.\nHeather Booth is a civil rights activist\, feminist\, and political strategist and has been heavily involved in progressive causes.\n\nModerator \n\nNikki Silva (Porter\, ’73) is co-executive producer of the public radio team\, The Kitchen Sisters\, who are creators of hundreds of stories for NPR and public broadcast. Her current NPR and podcast series is the Keepers.\n\nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/by-the-light-of-burning-dreams-the-triumphs-and-tragedies-of-the-second-american-revolution-with-david-talbot-and-margaret-talbot/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T181601Z
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SUMMARY:Douglas Abrams - The Book of Hope
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Local author Douglas Abrams (The Book of Joy) will join Bookshop Santa Cruz for an online discussion of The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times\, his wonderful new collaboration with environmentalist Jane Goodall. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Vibrant with wry humor\, scientific fact\, grassroots advances\, compassion\, and spiritual depth\, this compelling and enlightening dialogue of hope amplifies Goodall’s mantra: ‘Together we can. Together we will.” —Booklist\, starred review. \n \nThe Book of Hope will be published on October 19th and may be preordered below. \nLooking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis\, a global pandemic\, loss of biodiversity\, political upheaval— it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. \nIn this urgent book\, Jane Goodall\, the world’s most famous living naturalist\, and Douglas Abrams\, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy\, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope\, Jane focuses on her “Four Reasons for Hope”: The Amazing Human Intellect\, The Resilience of Nature\, The Power of Young People\, and The Indomitable Human Spirit. \nDrawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world\, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions\, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with moving and inspirational stories and photographs from Jane’s remarkable career\, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today. \nWhile discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs\, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope\, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time\, she shares her profound revelations about her next\, and perhaps final\, adventure. \nThe second book in the Global Icons Series—which launched with the instant classic The Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—The Book of Hope is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future. \nThere is still hope\, and this book will help guide us to it. \nDouglas Abrams is the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu\, the first book in the Global Icons Series. Douglas is also the founder and president of Idea Architects\, a literary agency and media development company helping visionaries to create a wiser\, healthier\, and more just world. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/douglas-abrams-the-book-of-hope/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
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SUMMARY:Radhika Natarajan - Post-Imperial Contractions: Asian Migration and Marriage in Deindustrializing Britain
DESCRIPTION:The talk explores how Asian women became unassimilable in social work and public discourse in 1970s Britain. In the context of decolonization and deindustrialization\, the Pakistani woman who worked for wages posed a threat to the stability of the white male working class. To keep the Pakistani woman at home\, social workers created new forms of intervention into marriages\, offered English language classes to mothers at day care centers\, and extended the hand of friendship. From this perspective\, multiculturalist policies created Asian women as non-workers who needed extensive social welfare intervention. In doing so\, these policies reproduced the working class as male and white and the Asian woman as trapped by tradition. \n \nRadhika Natarajan is assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College in Portland\, OR. Her research focuses on the remaking of imperial strategies of managing difference during decolonization. Her article “Performing Multiculturalism: the Commonwealth Arts Festival of 1965” appeared in the Journal of British Studies\, and she has also written essays on the transcolonial routes of community development and British social work intervention into Asian marriages. She is writing a book\, Empire and the Origins of Multiculturalism\, which examines encounters between British social work and migrants from the decolonizing empire during the era of the welfare state. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-natarajan/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T185500
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20210917T182156Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Nouri al-Jarrah with translator Camilo Gómez-Rivas and Omar Pimienta with translator José Antonio Villarán
DESCRIPTION:Nouri al-Jarrah is a Syrian poet and influential poetic voice on the Arab literary scene. He has lived in exile and been publishing his poetry for nearly 40 years. His poetry draws on diverse cultural sources\, and is marked by a special focus on mythology\, folk tales and legends. A Boat to Lesbos and Other Poems (Banipal Books\, 2018)\, is Nouri Al-Jarrah’s first collection in English translation. This powerful epic poem was written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island\, and set out like a Greek tragedy\, also has editions in French\, Italian\, Turkish\, Spanish\, Persian\, and forthcoming in Greek – a truly international response to the torment of the Syrian people during these last few years. \nCamilo Gómez-Rivas and Allison Blecker are the translators of Nouri al-Jarrah’s A Boat to Lesbos and Other Poems (Banipal Books\, 2018). Gómez-Rivas is an Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He specializes in the cultures\, history\, and literatures of the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean. His book\, Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: the Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib\, analyzes a group of legal consultative texts between Cordoba and the Far Maghrib (what is today Morocco) and argues that legal institutions developed in the latter in response to the social needs of growing urban spaces and the administrative needs of the first Berber-Islamic empire. He is currently working on a second book-length project on the social and cultural history of the reception of displaced populations in the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean: a history of the refugees of the “reconquista.” In addition to translating modern Arabic literature\, he has also written on modern topics including legal reform in Morocco and Egypt. He received his PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale in 2009. After a two-year dissertation writing fellowship at Willamette University in\, Salem\, Oregon\, he spent five years teaching in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo. \nOmar Pimienta was born in Tijuana in 1978 and lives and works between San Diego and Tijuana. Pimienta has a Ph.D in Literature and an MFA from the University of California-San Diego as well as a B.A. in Latin American Studies\, San Diego State University. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; 5th Transborder Biennial with El Paso Museum of Art; MOCA Tucson. Arizona; Oceanside Museum of Art.; A Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibit; Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and the Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles\, CA. His books of poetry include\, Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press\, 2018)\, Inspección secudaria (Atrasalante Poesía\, 2017)\, El Álbum de las Rejas (Ediciones Liliputienses\, 2016)\, Escribo desde aquí (Pre-Textos\, 2010)\, La Libertad: ciudad de paso. (CECUT/ CONACULTA\, 2006; New edition\, Aullido libros\, Huelva\, España\, 2008)\, and Primera Persona: Ella. (Ediciones de la Esquina /Anortecer\, 2004; New Edition\, Littera libros\, Cáceres\, España. 2009). \nJosé Antonio Villarán is the translator of Omar Pimienta’s Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press\, 2018). He has bilingual fluency (English and Spanish) as a writer\, scholar\, translator and instructor. He is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (2006) & el cerrajero (2012). He is the creator of the AMLT project (http://amlt-elcomienzo.blogspot.pe)\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2021. Areas of focus include: Creative Writing\, Poetry/Poetics\, Cross-Genre Literature\, Literary Translation\, US-Latinx Literature\, Critical University Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. He holds an MFA in Writing from UCSD and a PhD in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration from UCSC. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nouri-al-jarrah/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Mark Amengual - Phonetic interactions in multilingual speech
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-mark-amengual-phonetic-interactions-in-multilingual-speech/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T131000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20210911T013836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201756Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Website Design\, WordPress
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to design a better website and how to use WordPress. Prior to October 26\, if you don’t already have a personal professional website\, create one. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. This workshop will be led by Jason Chafin (Senior Web Developer\, University Relations). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Website Design\, WordPress” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-website-design-wordpress/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20210922T211752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T213851Z
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SUMMARY:Naya Jones + Jennifer Steverson — The Art of Black Ecologies: A Virtual Studio Visit & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The concept of black ecologies underscores the undue impact of climate and environmental injustice on Black diaspora communities while lifting up “insurgent” Black ecological knowledge (Roane & Hosbey 2019). Join us for a virtual studio visit and conversation on art and black ecologies with independent scholar and artist Jennifer Steverson. Steverson uses indigo dye\, textiles\, and archives to highlight Black diaspora community and resilience practices created through art\, craft\, and agriculture. She will be in conversation with arts-based geographer Naya Jones (UCSC Sociology). This event is moderated by the UCSC Black Geographies Lab and is part of the growing Black Botany Studio. \n \nNaya Jones (she/her/hers) is a UCSC Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in the Global and Community Health Program. She is a geographer and cultural worker whose solo and collaborative work foregrounds Black geographies of health\, ecologies\, and healing in North and Latin America. She practices arts-based methods\, from participatory film to ritual and botanical arts. Her current book and storytelling project focuses on African-American plant knowledge and the Great Migration. She initiated the Black Botany Studio\, a research lab\, to promote the study and art of black diaspora plant geographies. \nJennifer Steverson (she/her/hers) is an independent scholar and multi media artist based in Central Texas. Her work is informed by the cultural ecologies of the African Diaspora\, specifically by the way that Black people have crafted community and resilience practices through art\, craft\, and agriculture. She completed her undergraduate work at Eugene Lang College\, a division of the New School and her masters degree in Community and Regional Planning at UT Austin. Jennifer was a Hive Collective Artist in Residence in 2019. In 2020\, she completed a Texas Folklife Apprenticeship focused on quilting. She was a researcher on the Carver Museum’s African American Presence exhibit which opened in February 2020. Her work has appeared in the Rootwork Journal. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/naya-jones-jennifer-steverson/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T185500
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20210917T182558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155723Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lara Vapnyar
DESCRIPTION:Lara Vapnyar moved from Moscow to Brooklyn in the 1990s. Knowing very little English\, she quickly picked up the language and soon began writing in it. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is the author of two short story collections\, There are Jews in My House (Anchor\, 2003) and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (Anchor\, 2008) as well as four novels\, Memoirs of a Muse (Vintage\, 2006)\, The Scent of Pine (Simon & Schuster\, 2014)\, Still Here (Hogarth\, 2016)\, and Divide Me by Zero (Tin House Books\, 2019). She lives in New York City with her family. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lara-vapnyar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211029T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211029T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T050610
CREATED:20211006T195006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T202222Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Josefina Bittar Prieto
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lingustics-colloquia-josefina-bittar-prieto/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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