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SUMMARY:Sensoria of al-Andalus & the Western Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The Spain North-Africa Project is pleased to announce “Sensoria of al-Andalus & the Western Mediterranean\,” a multidisciplinary workshop and conference to be held at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. This two-day conference will explore the medieval\, early modern\, and modern legacy of al-Andalus and its afterlives across the world through historical\, cultural\, sociological\, and aesthetic approaches towards human sensoria. \nThemes include auditory\, visual\, gustatory\, olfactory\, tactile\, and proprioceptive perception in soundscapes\, music\, language\, foodways\, smellscapes\, visual culture\, and architecture. The goal of this conference is to deepen our understanding of the cultural history of these complex and multifarious cultural formations and to draw connections across time\, place\, and sensory channels by sharing and discussing the work of historians\, art historians\, anthropologists\, scholars of literature\, ethnomusicologists\, and others. \nThe in-person event will occur in Room 210\, Humanities 1. Join Zoom link here for virtual attendance. \nClick here to download the Sensoria of al-Andalus & the Western Mediterranean Digital Program \nThis event is supported by UCHRI\, The Humanities Institute\, The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and the UC San Diego Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sensoria-of-al-andalus-the-western-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T140000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Publishing
DESCRIPTION:As co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective\, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission\, review\, and publishing process; and dealing with rejections. We will also discuss the process of submitting to journal special issues\, such as ours–including how to pitch your work to a special issue\, how to work with editors on your piece during revise-and-resubmit\, and how to propose a guest-edited special issue. \n \nPanelists: \n\nCamilla Hawthorne (Assistant Professor\, Sociology)\nJenny Kelly (Assistant Professor\, Feminist Studies)\n\nPresented by The Humanities Institute’s Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective Cluster \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-publishing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220401T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Maria Gouskova
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-maria_gouskova/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T170000
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SUMMARY:Rosa Vallejos\, "Heritage Languages and the Outcomes of Revitalization Efforts in the Amazon"
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Vallejos is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. In her talk\, she examines the role of two indigenous languages in higher education in the Amazon of Peru. It looks at efforts to implement Kukama and Kichwa as key components in the teacher training model developed by the Programa de Formación  de Maestros Bilingües de la Amazona Peruana (www.formabiap.org). At present\, Kukama and Kichwa are at different points of UNESCO’s endangerment scale. Teaching them in higher education is part of a more comprehensive commitment to build culturally and linguistically appropriate education for Amazonian indigenous groups. The study looks at a sample of eight participants\, five Kukamas and three Kichwas\, to reflect on the outcomes of their learning process. An important finding of this study is that endangered languages can be relearned by heritage speakers in a combination of naturalistic and well-structured instructional settings. We conclude that the assessment of these relearning processes needs to be holistic\, going far beyond linguistic proficiency. In the Amazonian context\, at the center of it all are language attitudes\, sense of cultural membership\, and the learners’ positioning with respect to the aspirations of their communities and indigenous organizations. Although the general teaching components can be planned for several groups\, the implementation of the proposals and the evaluation of the outcomes must capture the uniqueness of each sociolinguistic context. \n \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.  \nThis event can be attended remotely via Zoom\, as well as in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-department-of-languages-and-applied-linguistic-presents-rosa-vallejos-heritage-languages-and-the-outcomes-of-revitalization-efforts-in-the-amazon/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T180000
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture: Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two years\, the German public sphere has been roiled by a series of debates concerning the uniqueness and comparability of the Holocaust. These debates have called up older controversies\, especially the Historikerstreit (the Historians’ Debate) of the 1980s in which the left-liberal philosopher Jürgen Habermas took on conservative historians who sought to relativize the Nazi genocide. Despite certain similarities\, however\, the new debates cannot be reduced to a repetition of that earlier moment. The Historikerstreit turned on the relation between Nazi and Stalinist crimes and the question of German responsibility for the Holocaust; today’s controversies involve instead the relation between colonialism and the Holocaust and between racism and antisemitism as well as the ongoing crisis in Israel/Palestine. In this talk\, Michael Rothberg will reflect on these ongoing debates\, including the particular place in them of his book Multidirectional Memory\, which was translated into German in early 2021. As the current debates reveal\, the dominant Holocaust memory regime in Germany is based on an absolutist understanding of the Holocaust’s uniqueness and a rejection of relational and multidirectional approaches to the genocide. While that memory regime represented a major societal accomplishment of the 1980s and 1990s\, it has reached its limits in Germany’s “postmigrant” present. Yet\, as examples of migrant engagement with the Holocaust illustrate\, German society already includes more relational models of memory that have the potential to transform the German model of coming to terms with the past in productive ways. \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). Guests are also required to complete a symptom check form online the day you arrive on campus. Masks are required indoors. \nClick here to register for in-person attendance. \nClick here to register for remote attendance via Zoom. \n  \nMichael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies\, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature\, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019)\, published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. Previous books include Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009)\, Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000)\, and\, co-edited with Neil Levi\, The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). The translation of Multidirectional Memory into German in 2021 helped launch a national debate about the current state of German Holocaust memory. With Yasemin Yildiz\, he is currently completing Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance for Fordham University Press. \nFor more information\, please visit: The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hayden-v-white-distinguished-annual-lecture-debating-holocaust-memory-the-politics-of-comparison-in-contemporary-germany/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T133000
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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 \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 Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. 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 Spring 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/nasser-zakariya-questions-on-anthroperiphery/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T170000
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Thriving Communities - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“These young people are saying we all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe\, in the water we drink\, and the food we eat. It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener. That must be our legacy.” ― 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: \nAlicia Riley \nNancy N. Chen \nJames Doucet-Battle \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pathways-to-thriving-communities-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T121500
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SUMMARY:Thomas Haigh - Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk about Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press\, 2022)\, co-authored by Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi. Professor Haigh will introduce the book and discuss the challenges involved in creating a comprehensive\, synthetic narrative about the history of computing between 1945 and 2020. \nFor more about Becoming Universal\, visit: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-history-modern-computing. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Computational Media\, the Baskin School of Engineering\, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-haigh-becoming-universal-a-new-history-of-modern-computing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220407T210000
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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande\, "A Ballad of Love and Glory"
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande will be in conversation with Micah Perks and Sylvanna Falcón about her highly-anticipated new novel\, A Ballad of Love and Glory\, at an in-person event at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time\, and the event will not be recorded. \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. \nTickets: \nA limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for UCSC students\, please use this link: \nTickets for UCSC students \nAll other community members can purchase their tickets at the link below: \nGeneral Tickets \nFree event parking will be available on campus. The book signing will take place at the end of the event and will be outdoors (weather permitting). \n  \nTickets are final sale and do not qualify for Bookshop Reader’s Club Credit. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reyna-grande-a-ballad-of-love-and-glory/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T120000
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SUMMARY:Rohit De - Lawyering in Times of Lawlessness: Defending Dissenters in India and Sri Lanka (1947-1971)
DESCRIPTION:Rohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. A lawyer and a historian of South Asia and the common law world\, he is the author of A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press\, 2018). He is currently working on two book projects. The first is a history of decolonization and rebellious lawyering and the second\, co-authored with Ornit Shani\, looks at how thousands of ordinary Indians\, read\, deliberated debated\, and substantially engaged with the anticipated constitution at the time of its writing. In 2020\, Rohit De was elected a Carnegie Fellow. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the Davis Centre for Historical Studies at Princeton University\, the Melbourne Law School\, and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. Prior to starting at Yale\, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He clerked for Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and has worked with constitution reform projects on Nepal and Sri Lanka \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rohit-de-lawyering-in-times-of-lawlessness-defending-disasters-in-india-and-sri-lanka-1941-1971/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T133000
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SUMMARY:James H. Mills - South Asia's Lost Cocaine? Coca Leaf and Colonialism in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)\, c. 1870-1894
DESCRIPTION:Doctors and officials in Britain’s South Asian colonies were quick to spot the potential of cocaine. Carl Koller’s influential experiments with the substance in Vienna were first reported in print in October 1884 and yet by December it was already being used in medical practice in Indore. Further experiments with it followed early in 1885\, and by the end of the year druggists across the country were supplying the growing local market for the drug. As the 1880s proceeded it was put to an increasing range of uses\, within colonial hospitals and clinics but also beyond their boundaries. Almost as quick to respond to the appearance of cocaine in south Asia were British officials and others involved in the colonial economy. This paper explores their efforts to establish the coca plant as a crop and to establish a processing capability to produce South Asian cocaine for the global market. Previous explanations have tended to focus on the competing strains of the coca plant and the environmental difficulties of establishing them in local ecologies. However\, this paper examines the more complex forces driving the decisions that meant that the British colonisers lost their early advantage and failed to commit to cocaine production\, leaving the path open for the better-known Dutch operation in Java. \nJames H. Mills is Professor of Modern History at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde. He has research interests in the histories of Asia\, of psychoactive medical commodities\, and of modern imperialism and colonialism. He is currently completing a Wellcome Trust funded research project with the title\, The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals\, consumers & control in South and East Asia\, c.1900-1945\, and recently co-edited Cannabis: Global Histories (2021) with Lucas Richert. His publications include Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain\, 1928–2008 (2012)\, Cannabis Britannica: Empire\, Trade\, and Prohibition (2003) and (edited with Patricia Barton)\, Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication\, c.1500 to c.1930 (2007). \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-h-mills-south-asias-lost-cocaine-coca-leaf-and-colonialism-in-india-and-ceylon-sri-lanka-c-1870-1894/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220409T190000
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SUMMARY:Watsonville is in the Heart: Digital Archive Launch & Community Talk Story
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, come celebrate the launch of the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive. The new archive features oral history recordings\, original documents\, and family artifacts that capture the rich history of Filipino life and labor in California’s Pajaro Valley. Learn more about the UCSC Watsonville is in the Heart research initiative and its partnership with The Tobera Project\, and share in conversation with Watsonville community members working to uplift stories of the manong generation\, the first wave of Filipino workers to arrive in the United States at the start of the twentieth century. \nThe digital archive launch will include a Talk Story panel\, “Women of the Pajaro Valley\,” to highlight three community members at the forefront of this memory-preservation work: Juanita Sulay Wilson\, Eva Alminiana Monroe\, and Antoinette DeOcampo Lechtenberg.  \n \nThe evening will include pop-up exhibits\, interactive archive stations\, and a chance to meet with members of the Watsonville is in the Heart team and of The Tobera Project. For more information\, contact wiith@ucsc.edu. \nThis event is sponsored by the University Library\, California Humanities\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-digital-archive-launch-community-talk-story/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: David Brundage - The Easter Rising and New York: How Ireland's Revolution Triggered a Fight Against Empire
DESCRIPTION:This talk will assess the impact of the 1916 Easter Rising on a variety of anticolonial movements beyond Ireland and the Irish diaspora\, focusing on New York City\, long recognized as the overseas capital of Irish nationalist agitation and mobilization. But New York played a similar role for a variety of other descent groups and diasporas as well. After an overview of some of these non-Irish groups in the city (including African Americans and South Asians)\, this topic will be placed in the context of World War I and post-war efforts to end colonialism and foster self-determination for nations around the world. While some historians have emphasized the role of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s ideas in these efforts\, this talk will demonstrate the centrality of the Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish Revolution\, as understood by both Irish and non-Irish intellectuals and political activists in the increasingly cosmopolitan city of New York. \n \nDavid Brundage is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and is currently Chair of UCSC’s Academic Senate. He has published widely in the areas of U.S. immigration and labor history and the history of the Irish diaspora\, and is the author\, most recently\, of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile\, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, selected as a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” of the year and described by the Irish Times as a major work that “challenges us to rethink the history of Irish nationalism and its far-flung supporters\, and to ponder its present and future.” He is finishing up a new book\, tentatively entitled New York Against Empire: Challenging British Colonialism in a Time of War and Revolution\, 1910–1927\, which investigates New York City as a “contact zone” that brought together anticolonial activists from across the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-david-brundage-the-easter-rising-and-new-york-how-irelands-revolution-triggered-a-fight-against-empire/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T133000
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SUMMARY:Robert Alter - The Psalms as Literature
DESCRIPTION:This is the first event of Shakespeare’s Psalms: A community seminar series. \nShakespeare cited the Psalms more than any other book of the Bible. What did the psalms mean to him? This series\, co-hosted by Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Julia Lupton (UCI) explores the presence of psalms in Shakespeare’s poetic imagery\, psychological insights\, and contributions to wisdom. The series consists of seven Wednesday meetings\, starting at 12:00 PT\, and is free and open to all. The series launches with a special appearance by Prof. Robert Alter\, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English and the author of several books on the Bible as literature. \n \nRobert Alter is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1967. He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present\, on contemporary American fiction\, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding\, Stendhal\, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into ten different languages. Among his publications over the past twenty-five years are “Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka\, Benjamin\, and Scholem” (1991)\, “The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel” (1999)\, “Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture” (2000)\, “The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary” (2004)\, “Imagined Cities” (2005)\, “The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary” (2007)\, “Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible” (2010)\, “The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary” (2010)\, and “Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets.” \nCo-sponsored by The Shakespeare Workshop\, UC Santa Cruz\, and UCI Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robert-alter-the-psalms-as-literature/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T133000
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin - Hot and Cool Mothers
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled due to illness and will be rescheduled for Fall 2022. “Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous\, if not persistent\, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not the only bad model of maternality that midcentury psychiatry discovered\, however; overstimulating mothers\, called in this study “hot mothers\,” were identified as equally problematic. From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature. Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this article attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The author argues that these newly codified diagnoses were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” \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 Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. 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 Spring 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/hannah-zeavin-hot-and-cool-mothers/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Students as Agents of Transformative Change - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?” ― 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: \nXavier Livermon \nStudent Speakers TBD \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/students-as-agents-of-transformative-change-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T120000
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SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Series: Arvind-pal Mandair - Epistemic Empowerment: Sikh Philosophy and Cognitive Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:‘Sikh philosophy’ is a nascent field of knowledge in the sense that it has not yet emerged but shows signs of future potential. It lies at the intersection of several fields including World Philosophies\, Sikh and/or Asian studies\, and Philosophy of Religion. Although literature on Sikh philosophy has existed for over a century (in several languages)\, it has never been recognized within the Western academy. In this presentation I examine some of the reasons why this has been the case. What can a potential turn towards Sikh philosophy achieve? Why does it matter? To whom? Rather than providing a conventional objective analysis of the history of Sikh philosophy\, its literature (etc etc)\, however\, I’d like ask a slightly different question: what is Sikh philosophy for? To do this\, I’d like to bring my own scholarly quest for recognition of Sikh philosophy within the academy into dialogue with autotheory. This is to some extent already a hint about the nature of Sikh philosophy and the politics of framing non-Western ideas and concepts within the global knowledge system. \nJoin Zoom here. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arvind-pal-mandair-epistemic-empowerment-sikh-philosophy-and-cognitive-decolonization/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Janice A. Lowe
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nJanice A. Lowe\, is a compoer and poet. Her music LIL BUDDA\, text by Stephanie L. Jones\, was presented by the NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the O’Neill Musical Theater Conference. Lowe’s music-poetry works have been performed with ensembles and collaborations at The Poetry Project\, Bop Stop\, Jazz Festival Berlin\, University of Cambridge and the Arts for Art Peace & Justice Celebration. She composed music for the plays DOOR OF NO RETURN by Nehassaiu DeGannes (Shakespeare & Co.) and Jenni Lamb’s 12th & CLAIRMOUNT (Stage West-Chicago.) Lowe has performed with bands including Anne Waldman & Fast Speaking Music\, Digital Diaspora and Julie Ezelle Patton’s Rock\, Paper Twister. She composed musical settings for the McKoy Twins section of Tyehimba Jess’s OLIO\, (joint Creative Capital award.) She is also the composer of LEAVING CLE SONGS\, a song cycle based on her debut poetry collection. Lowe’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writings\, Interim Poetics\, and Solidarity Texts: Radiant Re-Sisters. Lowe was a co-founding member of The Dark Room Collective. She performs and records with her ensemble\, NAMAROON. Her work has been recognized by The Rauschenberg Foundation and City Artists Corps. For more\, visit https://www.janicelowe.com/ \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-janice-a-lowe/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T014650
CREATED:20220328T155101Z
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SUMMARY:The Universe in Verse: A Charitable Celebration of Science and Nature Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Universe in Verse—an annual charitable celebration of science and nature\, winged with poetry and music\, created and hosted by Maria Popova (The Marginalian) in collaboration with astronomer and UC Santa Cruz Director of Astrobiology Natalie Batalha. \nIn the majestic Quarry Amphitheater in the redwoods\, we will explore the marvel and mystery of life\, from the creaturely to the cosmic\, with stories from the history of science and our search for truth\, illustrated with poems about entropy and evolution\, trees and mushrooms\, consciousness and dark matter\, the birth of flowers and the death of stars\, performed by a constellation of extraordinary humans: pioneering astronomers Jill Tarter and Natalie Batalha\, writers Rebecca Solnit and Roxane Gay\, musicians Zoë Keating and Joan As Police Woman\, artists Debbie Millman and Wendy MacNaughton\, poet Diane Ackerman\, cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander\, cognitive scientist and writer Alexandra Horowitz\, physicist and writer Alan Lightman\, and On Being creator Krista Tippett. There will be live music and stargazing\, and some thrilling surprises. \nTo make The Universe in Verse maximally open to all\, tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis at three levels. Please contribute the maximum you are able\, knowing that it would make the experience possible for someone else of humbler means. All proceeds from the show will benefit The Nature Conservancy and a new scholarship at UCSC honoring the life and legacy of astronomer and search-for-life pioneer Frank Drake. \nGeneral Admission:\nContribution level 1: $ 25.00\nContribution level 2: $ 50.00\nContribution level 3: $100.00\n—\nStudent tickets: $ 15.00\n(Current students only) \n \nWe are grateful for the generous support from the UC Santa Cruz Foundation\, UCSC Astrobiology Initiative\, the Bond and Gunderson Family Fund\, and The Humanities Institute. We appreciate the participation of our local community\, including Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Amateur Astronomy Club. \nFor additional logistics\, including directions and information about parking\, please see the event website. \n\nEvent News: \nUC Santa Cruz Hosts ‘Universe In Verse’ April 16 In The Quarry Amphitheater
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-universe-in-verse-a-charitable-celebration-of-science-and-nature-through-poetry/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T130000
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SUMMARY:Student Success in the Humanities with Dean Jasmine Alinder
DESCRIPTION:Join Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder for a discussion on her plan to “play offense” in positioning UC Santa Cruz proactively\, making strong arguments for the relevance and value of the humanities as an essential\, core component of a 21st-century liberal arts education. \nLearn more about Dean Alinder’s Employing Humanities Initiative designed to prepare career-ready humanities majors and infuse STEM degrees with meaningful humanities instruction\, emphasizing ethics\, equity\, and racial and social justice. \n \nYour participation is welcome in this open conversation about how we can leverage UCSC’s global reputation as an innovator of interdisciplinary study\, rooted in questions of social justice\, to educate our students with the critical and creative thinking skills necessary to bolster our democracy and build a future based on equity with students who are culturally competent\, globally versed\, and historically informed.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/student-success-in-the-humanities-with-dean-jasmine-alinder/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T014650
CREATED:20220318T205231Z
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SUMMARY:Brandi Thompson Summers - Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Summers explores the history of unhoused populations in Oakland\, the cyclical displacements of Black locals\, and the appearance and reappearance of parking lots in these stories of disruption. She tells the story of West Oakland\, in particular\, as a testing ground for speculative urbanism–an urbanism based not in speculator’s profit or the spectacles of a city’s self-branding\, but in the utopian and dystopian possibilities that unfold in an ongoing (implicitly and explicitly racialized) housing emergency. This event will be fully remote\, with attendance only via Zoom. \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 Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. 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 Spring 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/brandi-thompson-summers-spatial-temporalities-the-future-pasts-of-black-dispossession/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T123000
DTSTAMP:20260422T014650
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Stories from the Field
DESCRIPTION:While humanities doctoral programs tend to focus on training students for tenure track faculty positions\, many PhDs pursue jobs outside of a university setting. According to the UC Humanities Research Institute’s recent report\, Stories from the Field\, more than a quarter of UC humanities doctoral alumni reported that they did not seek a tenure track faculty position when they started their PhD programs\, and this percentage increased during the isolation of the dissertation writing process and the challenges of the academic job market. UC humanities PhDs go into a wide range of careers – from positions in the non-profit sector to marketing and communications work and jobs in the tech industry. Stories from the Field considers the economic and professional outcomes of humanities PhDs\, to better track where humanists end up\, how they apply their expertise\, and the ways they are contributing to society. Examining faculty positions alongside other careers\, the report promotes a broader definition of what success looks like for humanities PhDs. \nJoin us for a conversation with Kelly Anne Brown (Literature Ph.D.\, ’11)\, Associate Director of UCHRI\, and UC Santa Cruz Literature alumni to discuss findings from Stories from the Field and the diverse range of careers that humanities PhDs pursue. Our Literature graduate alumni panelists include J. Josh Guevara (Ph.D. ’12)\, Warren Hoffman (Ph.D.\, ’04)\, Andrea Quaid (Ph.D.\, ’14)\, and Cathy Thomas (Ph.D.\, ’19). Many PhD alumni are eager to keep in touch with graduate program networks as well as support current students and this event provides an opportunity to further those connections. The workshop is being held during Alumni Week to encourage faculty\, graduate students\, and alumni to all engage in this important discussion and reflection about graduate humanities training at UC Santa Cruz and opportunities beyond. \nPanelists: \nAs the Associate Director of UCHRI\, Kelly Anne Brown manages a diverse portfolio of projects\, including the UC-wide competitive grants program\, Humanists@Work\, and Horizons of the Humanities\, among others. She holds a BA in English from Lewis & Clark College and a PhD in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, where her scholarship centered on modernist publicness and interwar art and performance. Her professional background includes experience in public policy and administration\, with a focus on children and family issues at the city\, county\, and state levels of California government. Her recent scholarship addresses issues of professionalization\, the work of the humanities\, and the future of graduate education. \nDr. Cathy Thomas is an assistant professor in the English Department at UCSB. She is a creative writer and scholar invested in womanist and black feminist pedagogy\, practice\, critique\, and play. She studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres\, especially speculative fiction\, Caribbean literature & culture\, comic books\, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism. She received her PhD in Literature at University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Prior to academia\, she work in a genetics lab\, at a neuropsychiatric center focused on mindfulness\, in Hollywood\, and on HIV clinical research. \n  \n \nAndrea Quaid (she/her) is a writer\, editor and teacher. Her work focuses on poetry and poetics\, pedagogy\, and feminist studies. She is co-editor of Acts + Encounters\, a collection about experimental writing and community\, and Urgent Possibilities\, Writings on Feminist Poetics and Emergent Pedagogies (both from eohippus labs). Currently\, she is co-editing a collection called Migrating Pedagogies (Forthcoming). Her work appears in albeit\, American Book Review\, BOMBlog\, Entropy\, Feminist Spaces Journal\, Full Stop\, Jacket2\, Lana Turner\, LIT\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Manifold and Syllabus. With Harold Abramowitz\, she curates RAD! Residencies at the Poetic Research Bureau. She teaches in the Bard College Language & Thinking Program and Institute for Writing and Thinking. She also teaches in the Critical Studies Department at California Institute of the Arts. She co-founded and directs Humanities in the City\, an education nonprofit that hosts public programs committed to education equity and the transformational power of interdisciplinary humanities study in classrooms and communities.  \n\nWith more than fourteen years of public sector experience\, J. Guevara has a proven record of solving wicked problems\, working with diverse\, cross-functional teams\, and achieving results at scale in local government. J. is an expert in broadband\, civic innovation\, and protecting the value of infrastructure to catalyze community impact especially through public-private partnerships. \n\n\nIn 2020\, he joined the City of San José Public Works Department as Deputy Director\, responsible for nearly 150 employees in the Development Services and Engineering Services divisions. His portfolio includes private development such as Google’s 80-acre Downtown West campus and also the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $7-$9 billion dollar expansion of BART rail system with over 5 miles of single-bore tunnel and two new stations in Downtown San José as the biggest public capital investment in the Bay Area in over a generation. J. is also responsible for the San José Small Cell team delivering one of the fastest 5G deployments in the nation through public-private partnerships with AT&T\, Verizon\, and T-Mobile\, where he launched the San Jose Digital Inclusion Fund\, dedicated to connect and sustain adoption to 50\,000 households over ten years through a collective impact model. \n\n\nUsing Scrum\, OKRs\, and a multiplier leadership approach\, J. coaches new civic innovators and builds transformative teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz with a dissertation all about the unexpected cultural work of the bicycle as a form of equitable technology. You can learn more about J. at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjoshguevara/ \n\nWarren Hoffman currently serves as the executive director for the Association for Jewish Studies in New York where he leads the largest membership organization of Jewish studies scholars\, teachers\, and students in the world. Warren brings more than 15 years of experience in the Jewish\, arts\, academic\, and nonprofit sectors. In Philadelphia\, he was the associate director of community programming for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and was also the senior director of programming for the Gershman Y in Philadelphia. Warren also served as the literary manager and dramaturg for Philadelphia Theatre Company and was the associate artistic director of Jewish Repertory Theatre. Warren holds a PhD in American literature from the University of California–Santa Cruz and has taught at multiple universities. He earned rave reviews for his book The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture. The second edition of his critically acclaimed book The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical hit bookstores February 2020. His most recent book\, for which he served as co-editor\, Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century\, was released in late 2021. warrenhoffman.com \n\n\nLoading… \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/stories-from-the-field/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T014651
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SUMMARY:Roald Hoffman\, "Returning\, Remembering\, Forgiving"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture featuring Prof. Roald Hoffmann\, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize\, and a Holocaust survivor.\nThis lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s course “The Holocaust: A Global Perspective.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-twentieth-annual-joseph-f-bunnett-lecture-roald-hoffman-returning-remembering-forgiving/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T140000
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SUMMARY:Dickens Day of Writing
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Project is the premier center in the United States for the study of Charles Dickens and nineteenth-century studies. Founded in 1981 and based at UC Santa Cruz\, the Project is an international consortium made up of over 40 universities and colleges\, including universities in Britain\, Canada\, Australia\, and Israel. \nAs part of our mission to promote the study of Victorian texts\, we strive to assist young scholars in examining the cultural relevance of nineteenth-century literature to the twenty-first-century world. The Dickens Day of Writing will focus on “Night Walks\,” a Dickens essay that examines the homeless endemic in Victorian England\, to cultivate greater awareness about social justice issues like homelessness and housing instability in Santa Cruz County. \nThe Dickens Day of Writing is both a writing retreat and a writing competition designed to support junior and senior high school students in their futures as college students and professionals. Through reflecting on a short essay by Charles Dickens\, the students will reinforce skills learned in the classroom\, such as critical reading\, analytical reasoning\, argumentative writing\, creative production\, and cultural history to prepare them for life beyond high school. \n  \n                  \n  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nto strengthen literary analysis skills\nto develop strong critical thinking skills\nto prepare students for timed writing tests\nto foster social engagement between students and the Santa Cruz community\n\nBenefits and support for teachers and schools: \n\nhonoraria of $50 to participating teachers\nfunding for substitute teachers and travel assistance the day of the event\nan annotated edition of “Night Walks” by Charles Dickens and lesson plans\na visiting guest lecture by a Dickens Project scholar\nwriting support for students\nfree registration to attend the Dickens Universe\n\nBenefits and support for students: \n\nexposure to the campus and culture of a major research university to support college preparation work\nthe publication of their Day of Writing Essay in a printed volume\nindividual mentorships with faculty and students at the university level\nthe chance for extra timed-writing test preparation\nwriting support to develop strong writing skills\nthe chance to win a cash prize\nthe chance to receive a fellowship to attend the Dickens Universe and a corresponding Department of\nLiterature course for 5 UC credits\nfree registration to attend the Dickens Universe\n\nThe top three essayists will receive cash prizes. 1st Place: $500\, 2nd Place: $300\, 3rd Place: $150 \nAdditionally\, the first place essayist will be invited to attend the Dickens Universe conference (July 24-30\, 2022)\, and will be eligible to receive 5 UC quarter units of undergraduate credit through UCSC Summer Session (upon completion of course assignments). \nCollaborators & Co-sponsors: Julie Minnis\, The Friends of the Dickens Project\, The Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, UCSC’s Department of Literature\, Education Department\, University Library\, The Humanities Institute\, Sentinel Printers\, and David A. Perdue and The Charles Dickens Page
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dickens-day-of-writing/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T133000
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SUMMARY:Michelle C. Velazquez-Potts - Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
DESCRIPTION:Since 2002\, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking\, prompting the question of how to understand the feeding tube’s various uses as both a form of medical treatment and torture instrument. By placing force-feeding practices at Guantánamo Bay within a larger history of medicalized punishment\, this talk tracks how the functions of the feeding tube are altered and reimagined by the US military. The talk also explores end-of-life politics at Guantánamo Bay by investigating the recent possibility of palliative care for aging prisoners at the camps. I consider how the military’s plans for hospice is made possible by humanitarian logics of war that continue to centralize care in similar ways to that of force-feeding. Please note: this event will be fully remote\, with attendance only via Zoom. \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 Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. 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 Spring 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/michelle-c-velazquez-potts-force-feeding-and-the-suspended-animation-of-torture/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T185500
DTSTAMP:20260422T014651
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samuel Ace
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nSamuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books\, most recently Our Weather Our Sea and the newly re-issued Meet Me There: Normal Sex and Home in three days. Don’t wash. He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry\, as well as a multi-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry\, ARC Poetry\, PEN America\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-a-Day\, Poetry Daily\, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\, and many other journals and anthologies. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samuel-ace/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T120000
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SUMMARY:Suryakant Waghmore - Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
DESCRIPTION:Suryakant Waghmore is a Public Sociologist\, Academic and Writer. Currently a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, IIT-Bombay\, he earned his PhD in Sociology as a Commonwealth Scholar from University of Edinburgh (2011). He is author of Civility against Caste (2013) and Co-editor of Civility in Crisis (2020). He was recently awarded the New India Foundation Fellowship (2021) to work on his book tentatively titled\, Is a Post Caste City Possible? He was previously Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance\, TISS (Mumbai) and has held visiting faculty positions at Fudan University\, University of Hyderabad\, Stanford University and Göttingen University. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/suryakant-waghmore-being-an-ambedkarite-under-hindu-rashtra/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia:  Nicole Holliday
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-nicole-holliday/
LOCATION:TBD\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night featuring Maysoon Zayid
DESCRIPTION:The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the College Nine & John Lewis College Programs Office and the College Nine Student Senate present: The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night Featuring Maysoon Zayid at College Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room! \nOur doors open at 4:00 PM. If you are joining in person\, we invite you all to arrive early to meet with organizations and departments who will be tabling before the show starts. \n \nReal Time Captioning will be available. If you have a disability-related accommodation for this event\, please contact drc@ucsc.edu. Requests should be made as soon as possible to allow time for coordination. To increase access for everyone\, please refrain from wearing heavy scents\, such as perfume. For more information about scent free inclusion check out this article. \nCo-sponsored by: Disability Resource Center\, Womxn’s Center\, & Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \nMaysoon Zayid is an actress\, comedian\, writer\, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of and a Guest Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. Maysoon is a Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2021-23 and will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has most recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey Networks In Deep Shift\, 60 Minutes\, and ABC News. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of 2015 by BBC. As a professional comedian\, Maysoon has performed in top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Muslims Are Coming Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan and has written for VICE. She limped in New York Fashion Week\, is a recurring character on General Hospital\, and is the author of Audible’s Find Another Dream.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-8th-annual-aa-pirc-comedy-night-featuring-maysoon-zayid/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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