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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine - The Wrong End of the Telescope
DESCRIPTION:The Wrong End of the Telescope is a “shape-shifting kaleidoscope\, a collection of moments—funny\, devastating\, absurd—that bear witness to the violence of war and displacement without sensationalizing it…The Wrong End of the Telescope is a gorgeously written\, darkly funny and refreshingly queer witness to that seeking.” —BookPage \nMina Simpson\, a Lebanese doctor\, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos\, Greece\, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother\, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years\, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful\, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina’s singular own\, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis. \nRABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I\, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection\, The Perv. In 2019\, he won the Dos Passos Prize. \nThe Swank Hotel is an acrobatic\, unforgettable\, surreal\, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America. \nAt the outset of the 2008 financial crisis\, Em has a dependable\, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister\, Ad\, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible\, salary-backed\, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable\, something impossible\, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed\, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic\, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. \nLUCY CORIN is the author of The Swank Hotel\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses\, and two other books of fiction. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nFREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Award winning author Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman) and acclaimed writer Lucy Corin will read from and discuss their new work: Corin’s The Swank Hotel and Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope. \nThe featured books can be purchased on the Bookshop Santa Cruz event page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabih-alameddine-the-wrong-end-of-the-telescope/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \n \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-student-reading-2/
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SUMMARY:Capacity Building Workshop for UC Faculty: "Telling Your Research Story Through Film" with Case Creative
DESCRIPTION:Please note this workshop is only available to UC faculty.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/capacity-building-workshop-for-uc-faculty-telling-your-research-story-through-film-with-case-creative/
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SUMMARY:Monolingualism can be cured! And what does this mean for bilingual speech?
DESCRIPTION:It is by no means a small feat that bilinguals can speak two or more languages. In addition to acquiring a variety of components of the linguistic system\, they must have the ability to produce language-specific acoustic targets in their languages accurately and consistently\, and importantly\, they do it while inhibiting or deactivating the influence of their first or dominant language. In this talk\, I will discuss and dispel several myths about bilingualism and bilingual speech\, offer an overview of the potential cognitive benefits of being bilingual\, and conclude by providing evidence of the resourcefulness of bilinguals and multilinguals to overcome cross-language influence in their speech demonstrating the flexibility of their sound systems. \nMark Amengual is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the director of the UCSC Bilingualism Research Laboratory in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research and teaching interests focus primarily on experimental phonetics\, bilingualism\, and psycholinguistics. He has been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish–Catalan bilinguals\, Spanish– Galician bilinguals\, Spanish heritage speakers in the United States\, English heritage speakers and British immigrants in Spain\, and Spanish–Otomi (Hñäñho) bilingual speakers in Mexico. This work has been published in international venues\, such as Journal of Phonetics\, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America\, Phonetica\, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition\, International Journal of Bilingualism\, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism\, and Applied Psycholinguistics. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/monolingualism-can-be-cured-and-what-does-this-mean-for-bilingual-speech/
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SUMMARY:Japan Circa 1972: Setting The Stage For Reversion
DESCRIPTION:Please join the conversation on Okinawa\, Japan\, and the media in the years leading up to reversion. Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss the contents of his recent book\, Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism in conversation with Drew Richardson (PhD. UCSC)\, and set the stage for a series of OMI events on the 50th anniversary of Okinawan Reversion. \nYoshikuni Igarashi is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture\, 1945-1970 (2000) and Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia\, 2016)\, and recently Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism. \nThis event is made possible by the Gilbert and Margaret Nee Fund in Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/japan-circa-1972-setting-the-stage-for-reversion/
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