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SUMMARY:Craig Haney - Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Craig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and corrections. Drawing on social histories of crime and punishment\, as well as the environments of public media and representation in which opinions and beliefs and crime and justice are formed\, Haney and his students examine the personal and social histories\, the psychological effects of incarceration\, and the complex mechanisms in which criminal justice occurs. \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. \nKresge College\, the University Library\, and The Humanities Institute work together each year with an interdisciplinary group of faculty\, staff\, and students\, to build a series of conversations that help fulfill a charge of media literacy and media engagement at UC Santa Cruz. In this year’s series — celebrating Kresge’s 50th year — we focus on creative media\, the visual and aural spectacle of race and racism\, and dialogues on abolition and transformative justice. \nJoin the zoom link here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/craig-haney-media-and-criminal-justice-in-the-u-s/
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SUMMARY:Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput - Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
DESCRIPTION:Following the untimely death in 2019 of curator Okwui Enwezor\, Mark Nash was charged with developing a platform for exploring the work of Enwezor’s Documenta11 (2002) for which Mark was a co-curator. This talk will present several related projects including the Platform 6 website. Vladimir Seput\, who is visiting scholar at UCSC\, is collaborating on the Platform 6 project and will also contribute to the presentation. \n \n Mark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde and world cinema. He is currently a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. Nash has taught at Birkbeck College\, University of London; the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; New York University; Harvard University; Nanyang Technological University of Singapore’s Centre for Contemporary Art; and the Royal College of Art in London. As a curator\, Nash has collaborated with Isaac Julien on numerous film and art projects. He also collaborated regularly with the late Okwui Enwezor\, including on Documenta11\, on The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa\, 1945–1994\, and most recently on The Arena project at the Venice Biennial 2015 which featured an epic live reading of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. In addition to his curatorial work\, Nash edited and contributed a critical introduction to Red Africa: Affective Communities in the Cold War. \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 Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. 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 Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-nash-and-vladimir-seput-documenta-11-revisited-platform-6/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Solidarities for Justice - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“We are one people\, one family\, the human family\, and what affects one of us affects us all.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nJohn Brown Childs \nSteve McKay \nChristine Hong \nSylvanna M. Falcón \nDaniel “Nane” Alejandrez \nChisato Hughes \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/solidarities-for-justice-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T113000
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SUMMARY:Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents Práxedes Rabat Makambo\, Secretary of Academic Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española\, and Daniel Owono Sima\, Dean of the School of Linguistics and Information Sciences at the National University of Equatorial Guinea\, speaking on “Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial.” \nEcuatorial Guinea is the only country in Africa where Spanish is the official language since 1982. However\, this variety remains understudied and overlooked by L2 Spanish-language textbooks. This presentation seeks to highlight the unique features of of Equatorial Guinean Spanish\, and to bring attention to the country’s sociocultural history and sociolinguistic reality.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/guineanismos-y-el-espanol-de-guinea-ecuatorial/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2022-2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 3\, 2022\, and learn about summer and year-long opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 25\, 2022. Final applications are due on April 14\, 2022 \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-fellowship-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:LASER Talks with Paula Arai\, Kyle Robertson\, and Ruth Murray-Clay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online LASER Talk ​featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai\, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay\, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting\, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life\, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. \n \nPaula Arai received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University\, specializing in Japanese Sōtō Zen. She is author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press)\, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals (University of Hawai’i Press)\, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra––The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo (Shambhala Publications). Her research has received a range of support\, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She trained at Aichi Senmon Nisōdō under the tutelage of Aoyama Shundō Rōshi. Arai is currently a professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University\, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. \nRuth Murray-Clay is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz who studies the formation of planetary systems\, including our solar system. Her theoretical work investigates the birth of planets in gas disks orbiting young stars\, dynamical evolution of planetary orbits\, and the evolution of atmospheres due to escape over cosmic time. Her goal is to determine the processes that shape the diversity of planetary systems we see today and to place our solar system in cosmic context. \nKyle Robertson is a lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz philosophy and legal studies departments. In 2015 he co-founded the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. An attorney\, he has a passion for all things public philosophy. He is involved with high school Ethics Bowl programs\, teaching as part of Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin State Prison\, and philosophy for children. He regularly speaks on public philosophy and publishes on the challenges of doing public philosophy. \nLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program bringing together artists\, scientists\, and scholars for presentations and conversations. This event is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-talks-with-paula-arai-kyle-robertson-and-ruth-murray-clay/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \n \nSponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Aslı Bâli - "From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East"
DESCRIPTION:This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. I argue that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law\, where she is a core faculty member of the International and Comparative Law Program and the Critical Race Studies Programs. She previously served as the Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and\, before that\, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, Cornell International Law Journal\, International Journal of Constitutional Law\, University of Chicago Law Review\, ICLA Law Review\, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law\, Virginia Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of International Law among others; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, From Revolution to Devolution: Experiments in Decentralization in the MENA Region is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. Her current research examines questions of federalism and decentralization for the purposes of addressing identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Recently\, she has served as the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School\, the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School\, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Legal Studies Seminar.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: Background\, Context\, Prospects and Implications
DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022\, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine\, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent\, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty\, PhD students\, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine\, tension with NATO\, broader Russian efforts at territorial expansion and destabilization\, and responses by Ukrainians and the global community. Topics include the geopolitical history of the region\, Russian media politics\, the legacy of Soviet ideals of multinationalism and “brotherhood\,” shifting registers of “Europeanness\,” and responses by the European Union\, other formerly Soviet republics\, and China. Speakers include Jonathan Beecher\, Rikki Brown\, Melissa L. Caldwell\, Peter Kenez\, Tanya Merchant\, Lincoln Mitchell\, Ben Read\, April L. Reber\, Daria Saprynika\, and Roger Schoenman.  \nFor more information\, please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine/ \n \nCo-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Arts Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine-background-context-prospects-and-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool\, Kepler.gl\, to create maps to support research and pedagogy. In the hour-long workshop\, you will get hands-on experience creating interactive maps such as line maps\, arc maps\, and cluster maps. No prior computer knowledge is required. Please see the flyer for more details or register for the event. \nWe want to hear from you! Please fill out this quick survey to let us know what digital humanities topics are of interest to you. \nThank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the workshops. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-digital-mapping/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Okinawa Memories Initiative\, "Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:The Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event\, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective\,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University and Dr. Fumi Inoue\, a recent doctoral graduate from Boston College\, in conversation with OMI Directors\, Professors Alan Christy and Dustin Wright. This is the second event in our series on Okinawan Reversion\, in which the speakers will be focusing on Reversion from a geo-political perspective\, and the politics behind the Reversion Agreement between the United States and Japan. \n \nThis year’s programming is focused on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. After 27 years of U.S. Occupation\, and 66 years of being a Japanese semi-colony\, Okinawa was formally returned to Japan on May 15\, 1972. But this was not simply a singular moment. When we say ‘Reversion’\, we envision the lived experiences of thousands of Okinawans across the country who experienced a major political\, economic and social shift. \nAt OMI\, we believe that speaking about Okinawa is to speak about the world. The political ramifications of Okinawa’s new status as a Japanese Prefecture rippled across the world’s waters. Beyond that\, the everyday lives of Okinawans changed irrevocably\, not only in large ways\, but in small ways as well. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/okinawa-memories-initiative-mobilizing-the-reversion-a-geo-political-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T160000
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SUMMARY:Erik Larson\, The Splendid and the Vile
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Erik Larson for a discussion of his #1 New York Times bestseller The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz. Larson will be in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Politics Professor Daniel Wirls. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. This event is ticketed and tickets includes entry to the event and a paperback copy of The Splendid and the Vile (publication date: February 15\, 2022). \n \nErik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers\, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz\, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story\, No One Goes Alone\, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment\, in association with Netflix. His Thunderstruck has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series. Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife\, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters. \nDaniel Wirls is a Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1988 and has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz ever since. Dan’s research interests range across American politics\, institutions\, public policy\, and political history. His five books include The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (2021); Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama\, and The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development. Dan served as a congressional fellow in 1993-94\, working for a member of the House and the Senate\, and currently serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World\, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee. \nTickets include entry to the in-person event\, plus a paperback copy of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE (signed or with bookplate—see below)\n-This event will be hosted on the The University of California\, Santa Cruz campus\, which requires that all visitors must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire the day of the event. Attendees must also provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event.\nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time and the event will not be recorded.\nBOOKS: \nBooks will become available for pickup beginning on publication date and may be picked up at Bookshop Santa Cruz prior to the event if desired\, however:\n-PLEASE NOTE that due to COVID-19 there will be no public signing line at the event; the author will be pre-signing books (with optional personalization) on the day of the event.\n-If you would like your book to be signed and/or personalized\, it cannot be collected before the event. (Indicate personalization request on the Order screen when purchasing.)\n-If you would like to collect your book ahead of time\, you’ll receive a signed bookplate\, and personalization will not be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erik-larson-the-splendid-and-the-vile/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Joy Fowler\, Booth
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Man Booker finalist and bestselling local author Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) for a discussion of her highly-anticipated novel Booth—an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. Fowler will be in conversation with award-winning writer Elizabeth McKenzie. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nAll attendees must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire on the day of the event\, provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event. \nThis event is ticketed–masks and proof of vaccination are required. \n \nAbout the book: \nIn 1822\, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore\, to farm\, to hide\, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner\, celebrated Shakespearean actor\, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive\, as year by year\, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. \nAs the tenor of the world shifts\, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced\, multiple scandals\, family triumphs\, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll\, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. \nBooth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make\, and break\, a family. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels\, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, which was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \n \nElizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize and her novel\, The Portable Veblen\, was long listed for the National Book Award. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-joy-fowler-booth/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T173000
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SUMMARY:Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: "People Love Dead Jews"
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been rescheduled for March 9th\, 2022. \nThe King Lecture Series\, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King\, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture features award-winning author Dara Horn. You are invited to join us in person or virtually this year. \n \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books and\, most recently\, an essay collection\, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, and The Jewish Review of Books. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nAbout Noel Q. King  \nNoel Q. King was a “founding father” of Merrill College. Born in India and educated in England\, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at UC Santa Cruz\, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies\, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit\, alive at UCSC. \n  \n*Please note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. When you arrive\, please provide proof of vaccination OR a recent negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of the start of the event (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). Parking attendants will be onsite selling permits in lot 119. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noel-q-king-annual-lecture-people-love-dead-jews/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sandra Lim
DESCRIPTION:Sandra Lim is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton\, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton\, 2014)\, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück\, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press\, 2006). Her writing has appeared in a range of literary journals\, including The New York Review of Books\, Poetry\, The New Republic\, The Baffler\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others. Her poems and essays are anthologized in Counterclaims (Dalkey Archive Press\, 2020)\, The Poem’s Country (Pleiades Press\, 2018)\, The Echoing Green (The Modern Library\, 2016)\, and Among Margins (Ricochet Editions\, 2016). \nSandra’s honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness\, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell\, the Vermont Studio Center\, and the Getty Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and also serves on the poetry faculty in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz (where the authors’ books are available for purchase) \nPlease note: this event is scheduled to be in-person in Humanities Lecture Hall and the location/in-person feature is subject to change. \n \n  \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sandra-lim/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T015815
CREATED:20220204T223727Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Careers in Academic Publishing\, featuring Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2021 cohort of the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship to hear more about their career trajectories in publishing. The six panelists will discuss topics including their experiences in graduate school\, their journeys into the academic publishing world\, and their broader experiences with careers beyond the tenure track. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nChad M. Attenborough\, University of Washington Press\nChad M. Attenborough joined the University of Washington Press from Vanderbilt University\, where he is a PhD candidate studying black responses to the British abolition of the slave trade in the Caribbean. While completing his research\, Chad worked for Vanderbilt University Press as a graduate assistant where his passion for publishing developed in earnest and during which he helped process works for VUP’s Critical Mexican Studies series\, their Black Lives and Liberation series\, alongside their Anthropology and Latin American list. Chad received his MA from Vanderbilt in Atlantic History and his BA from Bowdoin College in French. His areas of interest include black diaspora studies\, imperial and intellectual histories\, global migration studies\, and critical geographies. \nFabiola Enríquez\, University of Chicago Press\nFabiola Enríquez joined the University of Chicago Press after having served as Managing Editor for the Cambridge University Press journal International Labor and Working-Class History. She received her BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Columbia University\, where she is writing a dissertation on the intersection between religion and politics in late-nineteenth century Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her interest in publishing comes as a continuation of these academic pursuits\, seeing in acquisitions editing a platform from which to facilitate the global dissemination of knowledge and rescue perspectives that have thus far been underrepresented in historical discussions. Born and raised in Puerto Rico\, she has been living in Chile for the past two years\, and is the proud human to a reformed Chilean street dog. \nSuraiya Anita Jetha\, MIT Press \nSuraiya Anita Jetha is a former contributing editor of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology’s AnthroNews column. She has extensive experience in academic programming\, most recently with the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She received a BA in Anthropology from Yale University\, an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London\, and an MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently writing a dissertation to complete a PhD in Anthropology and Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her research interests include anthropology\, science and technology studies\, feminist studies\, and ethnography. \nRobert Ramaswamy\, Ohio State University Press\nRobert Ramaswamy joined the Ohio State University Press from the University of Michigan\, where he is a PhD candidate in American Culture. He recently completed an internship with Michigan Publishing\, during which he worked on title selection and user access for the American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities Ebook Collection (HEB). At HEB\, he coordinated with scholars in learned societies across the humanities to include more work from scholars\, subfields\, and presses that have historically been excluded from “the canon.” His scholarly interests include feminist theory\, histories of capitalism\, and twentieth-century African American history. He lives in Ann Arbor with his partner\, Anna\, two dogs\, and nine chickens. \n\nJacqulyn Teoh\, Cornell University Press \nJacqulyn Teoh joined Cornell University Press after working as an apprentice at the Feminist Press at CUNY and a part-time acquisitions assistant at the University of Wisconsin Press\, where she was a member of UW Press’s Equity\, Justice\, and Inclusion working group and helped to prepare a demographic survey of authors as a baseline understanding of diversity\, representation\, and inclusion. She holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University\, an MA from the University of Leeds\, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation looked at the structures of the contemporary literary marketplace with a focus on Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American writing. \nJameka Williams\, Northwestern University Press\nJameka Williams is a MFA candidate at Northwestern University in poetry. She received her BA in English from Eastern University in St. Davids\, PA. After supporting herself as a pastry chef during her graduate studies\, she is transitioning into pursuing a career in book publishing\, having interned with independent publisher\, Agate\, in Evanston\, IL. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and she is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist\, published by University of Virginia Press annually. She is currently completing her first full-length poetry collection. \n\nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n\n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-careers-in-academic-publishing-featuring-mellon-university-press-diversity-fellows/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T123000
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Virtual 2022 Conference: Dolores Huerta
DESCRIPTION:We are honored that Dolores Huerta\, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union will be our keynote speaker this year. \n \nSenderos specializes in teaching Latino culture and history through the artistic expression of dance and music\, hosts an annual Guelaguetza\, and offers other performances in local and far-reaching places.  Our organization serves children\, youth and adults of all ages\, including English Language Learners and economically disadvantaged people\, free of cost. We keep alive our native cultures and languages\, represent our countries of origin with pride\, share our culture and contribute to the larger community\, promote harmony\, and break stereotypes.  We are healthy\, successful\, focused on fulfilling our dreams\, and safe from gang influence. We create a college going culture by providing tutoring\, awarding scholarships\, fostering youth leadership\, promoting bi-literacy\, and creating opportunities for community service. We work together to create a thriving\, welcoming\, family-oriented community that values all contributions\, provides help when needed\, and engages all participants in group decisions. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-virtual-2022-conference-dolores-huerta/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T015815
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SUMMARY:Agnes Callard - "Inquisitive Politics"
DESCRIPTION:The public intellectual space seems to be dominated by various forms of bullying\, in various kinds of disguise. One person wants to “call out” your bad assumptions; another commands you to concede their point of view. The overall effect\, for participants\, is of being in a tug of war for one’s attentions\, emotions\, allegiance. Is there another way to conduct public intellectual activity? When the matters under discussion are of pressing\, vital importance\, is it really possible to be inquisitive about them? \nAgnes Callard is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (Oxford University Press\, 2018). She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and is also noted for her popular writings and work in public philosophy. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nRegister here for in-person attendance. \nRegister here for virtual attendance via Zoom.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/agnes-callard-inquisitive-politics/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220318T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Mara Breen
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-mara-breen/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327
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SUMMARY:The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
DESCRIPTION:HSP2022 will interrogate the connection between prosody\, gesture and meaning. We are delighted to welcome the following researchers to address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. By what mechanisms are these multimodal communication channels integrated with\, or segregated from\, other aspects of linguistic cognition\, such as syntax\, compositional semantics and pragmatics? How does our ability to process gestural or prosodic features develop in first- and second-language? \nSpeakers include: \nMara Breen Psychology and Education – Mt Holyoke\nAoju Chen Languages\, Literature and Communication – Utrecht\nKathryn Davidson Linguistics – Harvard\nJesse Harris Linguistics – UCLA\nSotaro Kita Psychology – Warwick\nPilar Prieto ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Dept of Translation and Language Sciences)\, Catalonia \n \n  \nHSP2022 will operate as a virtual conference. \nVirtual core\nThere will be a virtual “core” scientific program organized centrally by UC Santa Cruz. It will consist of invited presentations\, peer-reviewed plenary presentations\, and poster sessions. Anyone will be able to participate fully just virtually. \nSelf-organized satellite gatherings\nAlthough we have canceled the in-person events in Santa Cruz\, folks may wish to gather with other HSP-ers in-person. We encourage any individual or group to self-organize a gathering local to themselves\, where safe and feasible. These can be of any size and scope and formality. \nWe will maintain and publish a clearinghouse of known self-organized satellite gatherings. We’ve also created a sourcebook of ideas. \nFor more information\, please visit: hsp2022@ucsc.edu or contact chusp@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-35th-annual-conference-on-human-sentence-processing/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220327T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: "Night Walks" by Charles Dickens
DESCRIPTION:For its next meeting\, the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club will read Dickens’s short\, semi-autobiographical essay\, “Night Walks.” Professor John Jordan will lead the discussion. Originally published in 1860 in Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round\, the essay is a good example of Dickens’s work as a journalist\, social activist\, and observer of the modern metropolis. It is also a powerful piece of writing in its own right. \nIn “Night Walks\,” Dickens assumes the identity of a man who suffers from insomnia and whose remedy for this affliction is to walk at night through the streets of the city until dawn before returning home exhausted to fall asleep. The essay describes the people he encounters and the places he sees on these walks. \nA nocturnal walking tour through the heart of London\, “Night Walks” engages our sympathies and enlarges our social vision. It invites the reader to look at familiar places with fresh eyes\, to see people who might otherwise remain invisible\, and to imagine what we may have in common with those less fortunate than ourselves. \nShort\, accessible\, and highly relevant to social problems still facing us today\, “Night Walks” for these reasons may interest schoolteachers in particular as a useful text for introducing Dickens to their students. \nThe Dickens Project has produced an electronic version of this essay. A link to this edition is included below. Only a dozen or so pages long\, the essay comes with notes\, a map of London indicating principal landmarks mentioned in the essay\, and a brief introduction by Professor Jordan. \n \nRecommended Edition: Click here to download a PDF of the Dickens Project’s edition of this essay.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-night-walks-by-charles-dickens/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T200000
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SUMMARY:John W. Reid\, "Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga\, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal\, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon\, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo\, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea\, twice the size of California. \nThese megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity\, thousands of cultures\, and a stable climate\, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere–the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers\, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels–and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis. \nReid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face\, from vastly expanding protected areas\, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards\, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them\, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey. \n \n \nJohn W. Reid is a conservationist and economist whose writing has appeared in outlets including the New York Times and Scientific American. He is the founder and former head of Conservation Strategy Fund\, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. He currently serves as senior economist for the nonprofit Nia Tero and lives in Sebastopol\, California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-w-reid-ever-green-saving-big-forests-to-save-the-planet/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T170000
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CREATED:20220127T204118Z
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SUMMARY:Social Movements for a Just Society - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” — John Lewis said of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nVeronica Terriquez \nHiroshi Fukurai \nElizabeth Beaumont \nRekia Gina Jibrin \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/social-movements-for-a-just-society-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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