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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement
DESCRIPTION:Institutions of higher learning increasingly require faculty applicants to submit a statement of contributions to diversity. Learn what belongs in this statement and how to communicate it effectively. This workshop will be led by Herbie Lee\, Ph.D. (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement” 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-crafting-the-contributions-to-diversity-statement/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Giving Day
DESCRIPTION:THI is participating in Giving Day 2021! \nPlease considering donating to our Undergraduate Public Fellows Program!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T113000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Writing the Curriculum Vitae
DESCRIPTION:Applications for academic positions require a CV\, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Even if your post-graduate career will be outside academia\, having a CV in addition to a resume will help you realize your transferable skills. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell\, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Writing the Curriculum Vitae” 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-writing-the-curriculum-vitae/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T133000
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SUMMARY:BuYun Chen - Making the Intangible Tangible: Craft\, History\, and the Ryukyus
DESCRIPTION:How did the global and regional circulation of resources\, techniques\, and technologies transform local ecologies\, practices\, and livelihoods? Located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean\, the Ryukyu Kingdom (?-1879; modern-day Okinawa\, Japan) was a vital entrepôt in the early modern world\, facilitating the movement of goods and people between northeast Asia and southeast Asia. This talk situates craft practices and material knowledge at the center of Ryukyu history to explore the historical entanglements of materials\, bodies\, and skills in the making and remaking of culture. \n \nBuYun Chen is Associate Professor of Asian history at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China (University of Washington Press\, 2019). Her current research explores the relationship between craft production\, statecraft practices\, and ecological change in the independent Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa\, Japan) from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. \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/buyun-chen/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of two novels I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness (Riverhead Books\, 2021) and Gold Fame Citrus (Riverhead Books\, 2015). She is also the author of the short story collection Battleborn (Riverhead Books\, 2012)\, winner of the Story Prize\, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Battleborn was named a Best Book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Globe\, Time Out New York\, and Flavorwire\, and a Best Short Story Collection by NPR.org. In 2012\, the National Book Foundation named Claire one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta\, One Story\, The Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Glimmer Train\, Best of the West 2011\, Best of the Southwest 2013\, and elsewhere. \nCathy Thomas is an Assistant Professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She has worked for NBC\, CBS\, Warner Bros. and in film development for Forest Whitaker. She is a script reader for Annapurna Pictures and Skydance Media. Some of her recent research is published in a chapter of Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on Toys and Their Messages; short stories and essays in Positive Magnets Journal; and a forthcoming memory project Wax on\, Wax Off. She is Managing Editor of The C.O.U.P Project\, a multi-platform dialogic journal engaged in acute critiques of power\, privilege\, domination\, and the violences they produce. She received her Ph.D. in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she was awarded a UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship and examined carnivalesque in Caribbean literature with her spec fiction novel Poco Mas. \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-claire-vaye-watkins-cathy-thomas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T150000
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SUMMARY:Unbound: The Life and Legacy of Asian American Community Historian Judy Yung
DESCRIPTION:Through this event we aim to honor and celebrate Judith “Judy” Yung’s tremendous legacy as a UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of American Studies\, community and public scholar of Chinese American history\, pioneer of oral history methodology\, prize-winning author\, teacher\, supportive colleague\, and cherished mentor. \n \nPlease register by November 4\, 2021 \nProgram: \n\nWelcome remarks by Professor Alice Yang (UCSC)\nRemembrances by George Ow (Chinese American History Enthusiast and Philanthropist) and Buck Gee (Angel Island Foundation)\nCommunity forum: Professor Alice Yang will moderate a conversation with alumni Mana Hayakawa\, Lora Collier Chan\, Kio Tong-ishikawa\, Yukiya Jerry Waki\nAcademic forum: Professor Emerita Karen Tei Yamashita (UCSC) will moderate conversation with Professor Emerita Bettina Aptheker (UCSC)\, Professor Gordon Chang (Stanford)\, and Professor Erika Lee (U. of Minnesota)\nClosing remarks from Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder (UCSC)\n\nThis event is sponsored by: \n\nAsian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\nCenter for Racial Justice\nCowell College\nCritical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\nHumanities Division\nOakes College\n\nFor any questions or accommodations\, please contact Humanities Division Development Assistant Rafferty Lincoln\, rlincoln@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unbound-the-life-and-legacy-of-asian-american-community-historian-judy-yung/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211108T173000
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SUMMARY:Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell - Abolition and Healing
DESCRIPTION:This event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. \nWe invite students\, staff\, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration\, harm\, and healing with Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell. \nJerome Morgan was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is an entrepreneurship and organizer\, mobilizing communities to confront systems of oppression and to create spaces to heal from the traumas caused by the criminal legal system. jackie sumell is an artist and abolitionist organizer. Her public art and garden project\, Solitary Garden\, a collaboration with Tim Young\, who is currently on Death Row in San Quentin\, is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Jerome and jackie will discuss their individual approaches to mutual aid and organizing against carceral systems. They will speak about their shared work with New Orleans youth at the Ngombo Café and Sanctuary\, a café and healing space created by exonerees\, artists\, and activists which aims to “provide plant based products grown in tandem with incarcerated individuals to facilitate healing for the communities they have been accused of harming. It is through this unique collaboration that we envision a world without prisons.” \nThis event is collaboratively produced and sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, the Dean of Humanities\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nOf interest articles and writings by Jerome Morgan and collaborator:\n“Education is Improvisation: Improvisation is Art”\n“Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression” \nJerome Morgan is a native New Orleanian who was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is the Co-Founder/Programs Director of Free-Dem Foundations\, Owner/Trauma Counselor with Jerome 4 Justice\, LLC\, Graphic Designer/Writer with Park Roots Productions\, LLC\, Real Estate Developer/Investor with J & A Justice Holdings\, Inc\, Social Justice Co-Facilitator/Community Activist with Students At the Center (SAC)\, Panelist for Criminal versus Gentlemen: What Defines The Black Male Image 1 & 2\, co-author of “Unbreakable Resolve: Triumphant Stories of 3 True Gentlemen”\, published in 2017 and “Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression”\, published 2021 and has conducted workshops at universities all over the country about how he overcame injustice. Morgan is a pioneer in Formerly Incarcerated Person (FIP) entrepreneurship\, community-based business models\, FIP peer mentoring\, FIP youth advocacy and FIP literary works. \njackie sumell works at the intersection of abolition\, social practice\, and contemplative studies. She has spent the last 2-decades working directly with incarcerated folx\, most notably\, her elders Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has been the recipient of multiple residencies and fellowships including\, but not limited to\, an A Blade of Grass Fellowship\, Creative Capital\, Art 4 Justice\, Robert Rauschenberg Artist-as-Activist Fellowship\, Soros Justice Fellowship\, Eyebeam Project Fellowship and a Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship. sumell’s work invites us to imagine a landscape without prisons. She is based in New Orleans\, Louisiana where she continues to work on Herman’s House\, Solitary Gardens\, The Prisoner’s Apothecary PLUS and several other community generated\, advocacy based projects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jerome-morgan-and-jackie-sumell-abolition-and-healing/
LOCATION:DARC 108\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michelle Obama
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday\, November 9th\, 2021\, at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. This event will feature Mrs. Obama in conversation with a moderator and selected students from a small group of participating colleges\, including ours. \nOur campus community will have remote access to the free event and an opportunity to receive a free copy of Mrs. Obama’s book Becoming. \nWe will nominate one UC Santa Cruz undergraduate student to meet Mrs. Obama and participate in the in-person event at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. The conversation will be based on themes from her 2018 memoir\, Becoming\, with a particular emphasis on issues that are most resonant for college students. The Humanities Institute will sponsor the student’s travel and accommodation in Washington\, D.C. Applications for this opportunity were accepted until Thursday\, October 21\, at 11:59 p.m. PT. \nJoin this special conversation online by registering with your ucsc.edu email address! Please note the registration is free and is open until Friday\, November 5\, at 8:59 p.m. PT. \n \nThe Humanities Institute was thrilled to be able to offer 500 free copies of Becoming to members of the UC Santa Cruz community. At this time\, the books have all been claimed. \n  \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Imagination.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michelle-obama/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T133000
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SUMMARY:Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne\, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press\, 2021). Precarity and Belonging looks at mobility through space and society. It examines how the movement of people and their incorporation\, marginalization\, and exclusion\, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity\, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This book brings precarity and mobility together to explore the points of contact and friction\, and\, thus\, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality\, between citizens and noncitizens.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/precarity-and-belonging-book-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T150000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio
DESCRIPTION:Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement\, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will be led by Kendra Dority\, Ph.D. (Associate Director for Graduate Programs\, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio” 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-preparing-the-teaching-statement-and-the-teaching-portfolio/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T133000
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SUMMARY:Lital Levy - World Literature\, Translation\, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz\, Warsaw\, Vilna\, Calcutta\, and Tunis. A case study for Levy’s broader project on “Global Haskalah\,” it brings together Sephardic studies\, world literature and translation studies\, transnational literary history\, and Jewish literary studies. Through this project\, Levy argues for two interventions: a rethinking of the nation-centered model of world literature\, and a revision of the Eurocentric narrative of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). The novel’s history begins with a work of minor literature by a Sephardic Englishwoman about a quintessential minority topic: crypto-Jews in the Spanish Inquisition. Originally intended as a refutation of English conversionists\, by the end of the century the novel had appeared in multiple free translations into Hebrew\, Yiddish\, and Judeo-Arabic\, refashioned to instill their readers with pride in historical Jewish nobility and martyrdom. In addition to mapping the book’s journey and elucidating the cultural markers of its myriad translations\, the talk will foreground the Calcutta Judeo-Arabic edition and its social-historical context. \n \nLital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University\, where she teaches comparative literature and theory\, Hebrew literature\, Arabic literature\, and Jewish studies. Her work integrates literary and cultural studies with intellectual history and religious thought. She is the author of Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, which won the MLA Prize for a First Book and awards from the AAJR and AJS. She is currently completing The Jewish Nahda\, an intellectual history of Arab Jews and modernity. \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/lital-levy-world-literature-translation-and-diaspora-the-intimately-global-journey-of-grace-aguilars-the-vale-of-cedars/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T131000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to publish scholarly work\, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian\, University Library) and Erich van Rijn (Director of Journals and Open Access\, UC Office of Scholarly Communication\, UC Press). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Publishing in Academia” 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-publishing-in-academia/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T204500
DTSTAMP:20260409T132821
CREATED:20211013T183425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T222834Z
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SUMMARY:A.M. Darke - Games and Play as Social Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Game designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture\, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation\, and our representations of our communities\, through gaming. How are industry representations variously coded as racial\, as gendered? How can aspiring game-makers intervene in their communities and social representations of them? A.M. Darke rejoins our series for the third time\, pivoting from panelist to core/keynote lecturer. His lecture will take shape in two parts; the first an overview of his own work\, and the second a primer on accessible platforms for game-making. \n \n  \nA.M. Darke is an artist\, game designer\, and activist designing games for social impact. He created the award-winning card game Objectif\, which explores the intersection of race\, gender\, and standards of beauty. In 2016 he became an Oculus Launch Pad fellow\, and shortly thereafter wrote An Open Letter to Oculus Founder\, Palmer Luckey in response to reports of Luckey’s alt-right affiliations. The following year\, he curated the exhibition Building Code: Developing Mixed Use Space in Virtual Reality as an artist-in-residence at Laboratory. In 2018\, Darke joined the NYU Game Center Incubator residency\, and is currently a Futurist in Residence with ARVR Women. Darke holds a B.A. in Design (’13) and an M.F.A. in Media Arts (’15)\, both from UCLA. He is an Assistant Professor of Games and Playable Media\, and Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz\, and the founding director of The Other Lab\, an interdisciplinary\, intersectional feminist research lab for experimental games\, XR\, and new media. His work has been shown internationally and featured in a variety of publications\, including Forbes\, Kill Screen\, The Creator’s Project\, and NPR. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-m-darke-games-and-play-as-social-intervention/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating Salary
DESCRIPTION:Practice Mock Interviews and Salary Negotiations. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell\, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Interviewing and Negotiating Salary” 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-interviewing-and-negotiating-salary/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T133000
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SUMMARY:Nasser Zakariya - Questions on "Anthroperiphery"
DESCRIPTION:Taking recent discussions of “Copernican Forecasting” as a point of departure\, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly marginal position of humanity. A sketch of some of the genealogies of these arguments and their representations suggest how ill-fitting they might be when set against varying historical conceptions of centrality\, probability\, and forecasting. \n \nNasser Zakariya’s doctorate is in history of science\, with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies. His research interests concern science and narrative\, as well as varied topics in the history and philosophy of science. He has taught and held research fellowships at a number of institutions\, including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and New York University Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic Institute of NYU).\n \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. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nasser-zakariya/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T132821
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Teaching at California Community Colleges
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges\, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni\, including: \nBeth Au\, Moderator\nDirector\nCalifornia Community Colleges Registry \nFrancesca (Chesa) Caparas\, Panelist\nM.A. Literature\nEnglish Professor and Faculty Coordinator\, Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies \nDe Anza College \nSarah Gerhardt\, Panelist\nPh.D. Chemistry\nChemistry Instructor\nCabrillo College \nElizabeth Gonzalez\, Panelist\nPh.D. Psychology\nAdjunct Faculty\nPalomar College \nBrian Malone\, Panelist\nPh.D. Literature\nEnglish Professor\nDe Anza College \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Panelist\nPh.D. Education\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College \nNicholas Vasallo\, Panelist\nD.M.A.\nDirector\, Music Industry Studies\, AV Technology\, and Music Composition\nDiablo Valley College \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ workshop on “California Community Colleges” 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 \nClick here to be directed to more information about this workshop on the Division of Graduate Studies’ website. \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 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-teaching-at-california-community-colleges/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T132821
CREATED:20210914T182003Z
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 12th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Gary Young. Poet Danusha Laméris will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee\nLen Anderson\, Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Joseph Stroud. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\nphren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nDavid Sullivan\, a poet and faculty member at Cabrillo College\, has honored phren-Z by serving as the judge for this year’s contest. \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading as well as to Poetry Santa Cruz at: http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/ \nMort was a donating member of Poetry Santa Cruz from its inception in 2001. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 11th\, 2021.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T120000
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CREATED:20210910T172326Z
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SUMMARY:Gowri Vijayakumar - Risk and Respectability: Sexuality and the Nation in the Time of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:Gowri Vijayakumar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, affiliated with the South Asian Studies Program at Brandeis. She is the author of At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis\, published by Stanford University Press in 2021. Her articles and essays on gender\, sexuality\, transnational politics\, and the state have appeared or are forthcoming in Gender & Society\, Social Problems\, Qualitative Sociology\, Signs\, and World Development. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gowri-vijayakumar-risk-and-respectability-sexuality-and-the-nation-in-the-time-of-aids/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260409T132821
CREATED:20211006T195657Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Bridget Copley
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-bridget-copley/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T132821
CREATED:20210911T020702Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the VOCES Graduate Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! This workshop will be led by Andrea Seeger (Director\nVOCES Graduate Writing Center).\n \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Psychology of Writing” 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 \nClick here to be directed to more information about this workshop on the Division of Graduate Studies’ website. \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-psychology-of-writing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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