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SUMMARY:Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:*Charla en español* “Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/historias-de-accion-accion-comunitaria-frente-al-racismo-en-america-latina-con-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Ching Kwan Lee - Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
DESCRIPTION:How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal\, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk broadens the plane of analysis to argue that the Hong Kong saga is part of a larger phenomenon called “global China\,” conceptualized as a double movement. On the one hand\, Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms — economic statecraft\, patron- clientelism and symbolic domination – around the world\, including Hong Kong. On the other\, this Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa\, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. \n \nChing Kwan Lee is a professor of sociology at UCLA. She is the author of three award-winning monographs on contemporary China’s turn to capitalism: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998)\, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt  (2007)\, and The Specter of Global China: Politics\, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). Her latest publication is Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier (2022)\, an open access book from Cambridge University Press. She is working on an ethnographic and historical monograph about Hong Kong’s decolonization struggle\, with a particular focus on the 2019 uprising.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-global-chinas-restive-frontier/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz - “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
DESCRIPTION:This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings\, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia\, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed\, to the ilustrado-led Propaganda Movement’s political argumentation against Spain\, and to the political mobilization and organizing of the Katipunan and the First Philippine Republic. It incorporates the “periphery” into our understanding of Pan-Asianism to correct our exclusively intellectual historical and Northeast-Asia-centric understandings of Pan-Asianism. It shows that the revolutionary First Philippine Republic’s foreign collaboration represents the first instance of fellow Pan-Asianists lending material aid toward anti-colonial revolution against a Western power (rather than overthrow of a domestic dynasty) and harnessing transnational Pan-Asian networks of support\, activism\, and association toward doing so. \nOriginally from the Philippines\, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge\, in the UK\, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Prior to Cambridge\, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian and International History at Yale University. Her first book\, Asian Place\, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution\, 1887-1912\, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020\, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organising of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. Her broad research interests center on global intellectual history and Southeast Asian environmental\, cultural\, and social history. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. This event is presented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz-the-idea-asia-in-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-philippine-political-thought-and-action/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:George Saunders\, Liberation Day
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book\, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power\, ethics\, and justice\, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. \nThis event is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3 and will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz. \nGuests can purchase tickets here. Each ticket includes admission to the event plus one signed hardcover copy of Liberation Day. \nGeorge Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books\, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations\, by the Way; Tenth of December\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline\, Pastoralia\, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-liberation-day/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
DESCRIPTION:Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises\, job reclassifications\, and title and responsibilities changes. \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over twelve years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as associate director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctoral degree in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \nRegister by October 25th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interviewing-and-negotiating-the-job-offer/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T121500
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SUMMARY:Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
DESCRIPTION:This talk describes a new book project\, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book\, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist\, in this ancient and south-centered oceanic world\, for apprehending\, narrating and imagining what lies beneath. It aims to do so by taking as a structuring framework the ocean’s five vertical zones—the sunlight\, the twilight\, the midnight\, the abyss\, and the trenches—in the context of warming planetary seas. \nCharne Lavery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Associate based at WISER\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. She explores ocean writing of the global South in a time of environmental change. Her first monograph\, Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English\, appeared in 2021. With Isabel Hofmeyr\, she co-directs the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charne_lavery/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Libraries – Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker’s most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. \n \nCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \nThe Communist Party banned lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s\, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia\, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nJudith Smith is Professor of American Studies Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she taught cultural history since 1945 and history of media and film. She is the author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist\, Public Radical (2014) and Visions of Belonging: Family Stories\, Popular Culture\, and Postwar Democracy\, 1940-1960 (2004). Her published essays explored how writers on the left addressed popular audiences on radio in the 1930s and 1940s\, live television drama in the 1950s\, and in film from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She served as researcher/consultant for the recent documentary\, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry (2018). \nLive closed captioning will be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62746/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 2nd “Steppe Immunity” talk will be given by Christian Sorace from Colorado College. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christian-sorace-steppe-immunity/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T160000
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SUMMARY:Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City\, 1920s-1940s
DESCRIPTION:Using an array of primary sources\, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor\, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital\, an insane asylum\, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist state between the 1920s and 40s. Within and across these institutional spaces\, health professionals contributed to the production of medicalized scientific knowledge and cared for and socially regulated racialized\, pathologized Puerto Ricans. Penitentiary “living dead” (incarcerated people)\, in particular\, were subjected to research and received treatment\, but also provided health labor that put them at risk while powering the sanitary city and nurturing its inhabitants. Crucially\, however\, some prisoners managed to exploit the unthinkable openness of the complex\, revealing in the process that the living dead could only be buried alive for so long. \n \nThis talk is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom conference ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alberto-ortiz-diaz-carceral-care-health-professionals-and-the-living-dead-in-colonial-puerto-ricos-sanitary-city-1920s-1940s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:“Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-of-action-community-activism-in-the-face-of-racism-in-latin-america-with-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - WordPress Website Design
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \nRegister by October 26th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T193000
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SUMMARY:Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nSeating will be first come\, first served. Registration required. \nNatasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry\, Monument (2018)\, which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006)\, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000)\, which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of Conversations: Power Forged\, the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nParking information: The Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \nPurchase both poets works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Catherine Segurson\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest: phren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” This years contest will be judged by Farnaz Fatemi. For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 27th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/natasha-trethewey-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Madhavi Murty Reading Group - Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
DESCRIPTION:The THI research cluster “Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” presents a reading group on Madhavi Murty’s new book “Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India.” Madhavi Murty will be in conversation with Radhika Prasad. \nStories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism; both backed by the authority of the state and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. More importantly\, the book reveals\, through its focus on India and its complex media landscape that this intersection has a narrative form\, which author\, Madhavi Murty labels spectacular realism. The book shows that the intersection of neoliberalism with authoritarian nationalism is strengthened by the circulation of stories about “emergence\,” “renewal\,” “development\,” and “mobility” of the nation and its people. It studies stories told through film\, journalism\, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture. \nMoving between mediascapes to create an archive of popular culture\, Murty advances our understanding of political economy through material that is often seen as inconsequential\, namely the popular cultural story. These stories stoke our desires (e.g. for wealth)\, scaffold our instincts (e.g. for a strong leadership) and shape our values. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP by emailing: VernacularsUCSC@gmail.com. \n“Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” is a THI Cluster that focuses on questions of movement (both conceptual and physical) across regions. It seeks to re-imagine the vocabularies\, concepts\, and history of travel from the Global South\, centering south-south relationships and non-European languages as vessels for reflecting on the political ramifications of mobility and fixity. Co-PIs: Muriam Davis and Nidhi Mahajan. \nMadhavi Murty is associate professor in the Feminist Studies department and an affiliate of CRES and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests center on popular media\, nationalism\, globalization\, feminism\, postcolonial theory\, cultural theory\, and modalities of difference such as race\, caste\, and gender. \nRadhika Prasad is a PhD candidate in the Literature Department\, with a Directed Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her work analyzes language politics in post-independence India\, by exploring the embedment of cultural imaginaries in languages. Her dissertation contextualizes the establishment of Hindi as an official language in India within Indian nation-formation and the India-Pakistan Partition\, and examines the incommensurability of the official and literary idioms of the language.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhavi-murty-reading-group-stories-that-bind-political-economy-and-culture-in-new-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox - Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-necromancies-with-professor-renee-fox-discussion-of-dracula-beginning-chap-16/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T110000
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SUMMARY:Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for “Telling Your Research Story Through Comics” on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM)\, Carolyn Jennings (UCM)\, Jordan Collver\, and Pino Cao. Register here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/telling-your-research-story-through-comics/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T173000
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SUMMARY:Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
DESCRIPTION:This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-reading-group-with-alberto-ortiz-diaz/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T180000
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SUMMARY:Humanizing Technology Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:The Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is a Humanities Division initiative targeted to early career Engineering students but open to all UCSC undergraduates. The program features small class sizes and GE courses that examine the goals and impacts of technology in various ways. To earn the certificate\, students take three of the five lower-division Humanities courses listed below. There are no prerequisites\, and you can take the courses in any order you choose. Each course fulfills a different GE requirement: \nCurious about where to find GE Humanities courses about technology? Come join the Humanizing Technology Certificate Program! \nHUMN 15 Ethics and Technology Perspectives on Technology GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nThis course explores ethical\, social\, and political issues raised by existing and emerging technologies. HUMN 25 Humans and Machines Textual Analysis GE\, offered Winter and Summer 2023. This course explores the tension between humans and machines\, between people and objects increasingly resembling them.\n\nHUMN 35 Language Technology Cross-Cultural Analysis GE\, offered Winter 2023 \n\nThis course provides a comparative\, historical framing of the development of communication technologies and practices\, considering a variety of cultures and societies across human history.\n\nHUMN 45 Race and Technology Ethnicity and Race GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nThis course examines how the construction of race connects with constructs in science and technology.\n\nHUMN 55 Technologies of Representation Interpreting Arts and Media GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nFocusing on technologies of representation like photographs\, selfies\, and surveillance data\, this course explores how viewers and makers derive meaning from images and how power operates in their creation and circulation.\n\nFunded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Interested in learning more? See our website for details: humanities.ucsc.edu/academics/hum-tech
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanizing-technology-launch-event/
LOCATION:Crown College Plaza\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture - Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:In 1942\, at the outset of World War II\, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year\, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire was distributed to assess “loyalty.” While many of the questions seemed innocuous\, two questions in particular\, 27 and 28\, about willingness to serve in the US military and forswearing allegiance to the Japanese Emperor\, were confusing and divisive within the incarcerated communities. The answering of these two questions created rifts within families and friends\, with traumatic divisions that resonate to this day. \nRegister to attend in person \nRegister to attend virtually \nComplimentary event parking will be available in lots 115/116. Please follow event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will help assist you. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Sansei and Sensibility\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-fall-2022-emeriti-lecture-questions-27-28-loyalty-and-japanese-american-incarceration/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Slide Design Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used\, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop\, review this slide design page\, including viewing the video by Sonya. \nSonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her B.A. in English literature from Emory University\, where she also minored in anthropology. In addition to organizing professional development classes\, workshops\, panels\, and the two certificate programs\, she also organizes Grad Slam\, the Graduate Symposium\, and the Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Ceremony. \nRegister by November 1st for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slide-design-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Mark Massoud – The Power of Positionality
DESCRIPTION:What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in their scholarship? Drawing in part on Mark’s empirical research and professional experience\, this talk investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial\, gender\, class\, or other self-identifications\, experiences\, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of positionality in a research article can enhance the validity of its empirical data and its theoretical contribution. However\, such self-disclosure puts scholars in a vulnerable position\, and those most likely to reveal how their positionality shapes their research are women\, ethnic minorities\, or both. At this stage of the field’s methodological development\, the burdens of positionality are being carried unevenly by a tiny minority of researchers. Massoud invites scholars to redress this imbalance by embracing expressions of positionality. \nMark Fathi Massoud is a Politics professor and the director of the Legal Studies Program here at UCSC. He also serves as affiliated faculty with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of two books that address the interplay of law\, politics\, and religion — and he is currently editing a volume on positionality. Mark’s most recent book is Shari’a\, Inshallah (Cambridge University Press 2021). Shari’a\, Inshallah received four awards: the Hart-SLSA Book Prize from the Socio-Legal Studies Association\, the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Religion\, the Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism from American Political Science Association — and it was a Finalist for the PROSE Award for the best book in government and politics published last year\, from the Association of American Publishers. Mark is also the author of Law’s Fragile State (Cambridge University Press 2013)\, which earned awards from the American Political Science Association and the Law and Society Association. Mark holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. \n \n  \n  \n  \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-massoud-the-power-of-positionality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chih-ming Wang - Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels
DESCRIPTION:Examining Ha Jin’s immigrant novels in the crossfires of US-China competition\, this talk proposes post/Cold War entanglements as a critical frame for reconsidering Asian American studies today. It argues that attention to Chineseness as a political\, rather than cultural\, construct is more urgent than ever. Ha Jin’s emphasis on immigration as freedom in his novels offers an opportune occasion for examining how Cold War geopolitics persists in and through Chinese America\, and how the Chinese American immigrant subjectivity may be politicized to fuel anti-China politics today\, especially in the context of US-China rivalry. His rearticulation of diasporic Chineseness based on the principle of freedom and individualism in the shadow of Global China encourages us to grapple with the poignancy of identity as a form of coercion and to reexamine the Cold War legacy of Asian America. \n \nChih-ming Wang is associate research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute (2021-22) and a visiting research fellow at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He works in both transpacific American literature and inter-Asia cultural studies\, concerned with the interplay of literature and geopolitics\, and the colonial modernity of knowledge production in East Asia. He is the chief-editor of Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies and the author of two books: Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (UHP\, 2013) and Re-Articulation: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (Linking\, 2021). He also co-edited with Yu-Fang Cho a special issue on “The Chinese Factor” for American Quarterly (2017). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Multiple Returning: Post/Cold War Entanglements and Asian American Literature.” \nPresented by the Transnational China Research Hub.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chih-ming-wang-retelling-chinese-stories-in-the-era-of-global-china-on-ha-jins-immigrant-novels/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
DESCRIPTION:A vexing problem for academics is burnout: the experience of exhaustion\, cynicism\, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your academic vocation and the reality of your academic job. Jonathan Malesic left his job as a tenured theology professor at a small liberal arts college after undergoing burnout over the course of several years. Since then\, he has published dozens of articles on work and burnout in academic journals and general-interest publications. He has also published a book on this topic\, The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (University of California Press\, 2022). In this workshop\, he will address what burnout is\, why academic workers are so vulnerable to it\, and how building more compassionate institutions can help prevent and heal academic burnout. \nIn addition to The End of Burnout\, Malesic has written about work and burnout for the New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Inside Higher Ed\, The Hedgehog Review\, and several academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and has been the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute. His writing has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019\, 2020\, 2021) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2019). He teaches writing at Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. \nRegister by November 2nd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/preventing-and-mitigating-burnout/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In between\, lies the story of the 60s generation in the Arab world. The funeral was that of Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser. His 1970 death was just another reminder of the weighty collective defeat of “the first Arabs”: the eminent generation born after WW I\, which had defined itself by its Arab ethnicity rather than religious faith and had fought to decolonize their society. Their dream was a dignified life but their lot ended up being a dehumanizing defeat. With the ultimate aim of offering a humanizing narrative of this generation struggle for life with dignity\, in this talk I offer preliminary thoughts on one of the most complex and rich experiments in the modern history of the Middle East. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \nYoav Di-Capua is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he teaches modern Arab intellectual history. He is the author of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt (University of California Press\, 2009) and No Exit: Arab Existentialism\, Jean Paul Sartre and Decolonization (University Press of Chicago\, 2018). Supported by the Guggenheim Foundation\, he is currently at work on The First Arabs: An Intimate History of Their Struggle for Dignity and The Aftermath of Defeat.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yoav-di-capua-reconsidering-the-60s-generation-in-the-arab-world-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife
DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife\, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of “Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground\,” Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the African Diaspora\, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson (moderator). \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nDuriel E. Harris is a writer\, performer\, artist\, and scholar. She is author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry\, including No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat\, 2017)\, Drag (2003)\, and Amnesiac: Poems (2010). Multi-genre works include the one-woman theatrical performance Thingification\, the video collaboration Speleology (2011)\, and the sound+image project “Blood Labyrinth.” Cofounder of The Black Took Collective\, Harris is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Illinois State University and Editor in Chief of the award-winning publishing platform Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \nBakar Wilson’s poetry has appeared in The Vanderbilt Review\, The Lumberyard Radio Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology\, and The Ostrich Review\, among others. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club\, Poetry Project\, The Studio Museum of Harlem\, and the 2022 Whitney Biennial. A native of Memphis\, TN\, Bakar received his BA in English from Vanderbilt University and his MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is an Adjunct Lecturer of English and Creative Writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY. \nElizabeth Owuor is a writer\, vinyl collector\, DJ\, and freelance journalist who interrogates the archives of Black music history\, blending intimate narrative with the collective history of her people. Her nonfiction utilizes rare blues and soul music to examine cultural inheritance\, Black creative labor\, and the ways in which Blackness is constructed and consumed in the U.S. and Europe. She has spun her sounds of Black resistance on vinyl all around the globe and is co-founder of Black Rhythm Happening\, an evening dedicated to unearthing gems from the sonic vaults. A Tin House alumna\, her journalism has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. To keep the lights on\, she works as a copywriter in Silicon Valley. She pursued her Bachelors in Journalism from Emerson College and received a Master’s in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell\, Hedgebrook\, and the California Arts Council. \nfahima ife (they/she\, any or no pronoun) is a poet\, professor\, and editor based in Northern California and New Orleans. She is associate professor of Black Studies in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. In her creative/critical work and in the classes she teaches\, fahima considers 20th and 21st century experimental black aesthetics\, ecological poetry and poetics\, performance art\, intimacy\, and pleasure. fahima mostly produces poems\, lyrical essays\, and hybrid experimental works. She is author of Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press\, 2021)\, the forthcoming poetry collection\, Arrhythmia (press TBA\, 2023)\, and other works. She is at work on poems\, a music of our sensing here. She is a contributing editor at Tilted House press\, and with Ian U Lockaby\, co-edits the forthcoming journal LUCIUS. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nov-10/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Listening\, Mentoring\, Coaching\, Advising
DESCRIPTION:Listening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half\, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base upon which to build the skills of mentoring\, coaching\, and advising. Listening well also aids your performance on a team and in any professional and personal relationship. Learn how to listen conscientiously and to mentor\, coach\, and advise with empathy. \nRegister by November 7th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/listening-mentoring-coaching-advising/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELED Dale Tomich - Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 15th “Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous” talk will be given by Dale Tomich from Binghamton University. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dale-tomich-capitalism-and-slavery-the-contemporaneity-of-the-non-contemporaneous/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled\, please stay tuned for a future date for this event. \nAccording to premodern elites\, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages\, sustenance\, more festival days\, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by premodern sumptuary laws\, focusing on luxury as a class of things. I focus on the act of luxuriating instead\, drawing out its embodied\, affective\, and tactical dimensions as a “structure of feeling.” I argue that a focus on luxuriating opens our thought to the political potential in the physical\, sensory\, and lived experience of the poor as they lay claim to enjoyment and abundance. \n \nDean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics\, currently working on a book manuscript Luxuriating in Democracy\, Abundance\, and the Enjoyment of Bodies Politic. He is the author of Appeals to Interest: Language and the Shaping of Political Agency and the editor of and contributor to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics\, Justice\, and Action. His other writings have appeared in journals including Political Theory\, Theory and Event\, Political Research Quarterly\, The New Political Science\, and The Arrow. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-dean-mathiowetz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patrick Radden Keefe\, Empire of Pain & Rogues
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe will visit Santa Cruz for a discussion about his most recent books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (in paperback October 18th) and Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. Empire of Pain is a grand\, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family\, famed for their philanthropy\, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Rogues is a collecton of twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue that showcase Keefe’s work of a reporter at the top of his game. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n \n“A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. It’s highly entertaining\, of course\, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe’s fascination with what makes us human even when we’re at our most imperfect.” —Los Angeles Times \n“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book\, I read it. Every time he writes an article\, I read it … he’s a national treasure.” —Rachel Maddow \nPATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain\, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize\, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal\, and was named one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly. He’s also the author of two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. \nHis work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War\, and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patrick-radden-keefe-empire-of-pain-rogues/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry\, Beth Au\, moderator of the panel\, and UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc\, all of whom have recently been hired by\, are currently working for\, or have recently worked for a CCC. \nRegister by November 9th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-community-colleges-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers:  Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTerri Witek is the author of 7 books of poems\, most recently The Rattle Egg (2021); Something’s Missing in This Museum is forthcoming in 2023. Recent work has been featured in two international anthologies: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (2021)\, and in the WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry (2021). She has collaborated with Brazilian artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) since 2005–their works together include museum and gallery shows\, performance and site-specific projects featured internationally in New York\, Seoul\, Miami\, Lisbon\, Rio de Janeiro\, and Valencia. Witek holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University\, and with Lopes teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson’s low-residency MFA of the Americas. Their collaborative projects are represented by The Liminal\, Valencia Spain. terriwitek.com \nRachel Nelson\, PhD\, is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and adjunct professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California\, Santa Cruz. In her curatorial projects and research\, Nelson explores the transformative potential of art and culture. She is co-curator of the group exhibition Barring Freedom (2020-21)\, which looks at how artists engage the racialized histories and presents of the U.S. criminal legal system. Other curatorial projects include Bodies at the Borders with Carlos Motta\, Solitary Garden with jackie sumell and Tim Young\, and Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing art and education program. Nelson has also has published widely\, including in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts\, among others.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-terri-witek-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Kate Stone
DESCRIPTION:Kate Stone\, Univ of Potsdam\, Germany \nOver the course of 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/linguistics-colloquia-1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Postponed - Meet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book
DESCRIPTION:This event is going to be rescheduled. \nMeet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book \nFaculty and graduate students from all UC campuses are welcome. The discussion will be geared towards those completing their first academic manuscripts. Q&A to follow. \n  \n \n  \n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNiels Hooper\, Executive Editor\, University of California Press \nMargo Irvin\, Acquisitions Editor\, Stanford University Press \nKathleen McDermott\, Executive Editor for History\, Harvard University Press \nEric Porter\, Professor in History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \n  \nPresented by the Institute of Arts and Humanities\, UC San Diego
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meet-the-editors-a-guide-to-submitting-and-publishing-your-academic-book/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Academic Publishing
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. \nHow do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? \nAs scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC Library\, Martha Stuit provides author services\, including for theses and dissertations\, publishing academic articles and books\, open access\, and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Graduate Division and graduate students. Prior to becoming a librarian\, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in information from the University of Michigan. \nErich van Rijn is interim executive director at the University of California Press where he leads the press’s book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing\, sales\, operations\, and finance. Prior to joining the press he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers. \nRegister by November 14th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/academic-publishing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis – A Journey through Border Spaces of the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:The border is the shared topos of the anthropologist\, the historian\, the archaeologist\, the artist\, the musician and the poet\, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future  with the present\, the inside with the outside\, the particular with the general. Borders are the meeting points of mind and body\, ideas and senses\, science and literature. Any discourse therefore on the border is a discourse on dialogue—a dialogue that is meant to decenter. \nUnder conditions of globalization and trans-national processes\, where there is no longer an inside and outside\, earlier relationships of communication with the different others\, human or nonhuman\, present or absent\, have changed. We rather exist in a pseudo-culture of sameness\, much of which is simulated by the media. \nIn this lecture she explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. This has been the focus of my ethnographic work based on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork\, writing\, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology in various locales of the world. In this process\, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native\,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic\, American-trained\, post-Boasian anthropologist. \nProfessor C. Nadia Seremetakis is best known for her acclaimed books The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity and The Last Word: Women Death & Divination in Inner Mani\, based on long term fieldwork in urban and rural Greece.  She has written seven books in both English and Greek\, including poetry\, and several of her articles are translated in other languages. Her recent book Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic exploration of the quotidian in process; it weaves past and new fieldwork experiences as she journeys from Greece to Vienna\, Edinburgh\, Albania\, Ireland\, New York and beyond\, and captures social crisis as a crisis of borders\, cartographic\, somatic and psychic. \nBorn and raised in Greece\, she studied in New York where she lived for more than twenty years and taught at NYU\, Vassar\, and CUNY. In 2008 she joined the University of the Peloponnese where she also founded the first in Greece field-based multimedia Program on Everyday Life and Culture. Her engagement with public/applied anthropology in both continents includes designing/organizing public interdisciplinary multimedia events\, publishing in the media\, and holding advisory positions at the Hellenic Ministry of Health on matters of mobile populations\, at the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization\, and at the Unesco National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage. \n \n  \n  \n  \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-a-journey-through-border-spaces-of-the-everyday/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XI-XV
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-xi-xv/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention. It is the mental faculty of purposefully bringing attention to one’s present moment experience. Practicing mindfulness can lead to: improved ability to focus\, increased patience and adaptability\, greater empathy and compassion\, and improved feelings of well-being. In this session we’ll review mindfulness basics and try a couple of short practices that you’ll be able to do on your own. \nMeg Corman (she/her) is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and has taught MBSR and mindfulness classes since 2012 locally and in the South Bay. She is currently teaching through Dignity Health in Santa Cruz and is also a Community Dharma Facilitator at Insight Santa Cruz\, a Buddhist meditation center. \nRegister by November 21st for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mindfulness/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Patti Smith: Songs & Stories\, A Book of Days
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome Patti Smith\, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train\, back to town for a celebration of A Book of Days—her deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections. \n \nTickets include entry to the event and a copy of A Book of Days. \nThis special event will take place at The Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz. \nIn 2018\, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next\, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250\, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids\, her radiator\, her boots\, and her Abyssinian cat\, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith’s world\, photographs of her daily coffee\, the books she’s reading\, the graves of beloved heroes–William Blake\, Dylan Thomas\, Sylvia Plath\, Simone Weil\, Albert Camus. Over time\, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape\, and more than a million followers responded to Smith’s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions\, devotions\, obsessions\, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls\, a mother’s keychain\, and a husband’s Mosrite guitar. Here\, too\, are photos from Smith’s archives of life on and off the road\, train stations\, obscure cafés\, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations\, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world. \nWith over 365 photographs taking you through a single year\, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet\, writer\, and performer. Hopeful\, elegiac\, playful–and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process—A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times\, an inspirational map of an artist’s life. \nPatti Smith is the author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids\, as well as M Train\, Year of the Monkey\, and numerous collections of poetry and essays. Her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. In 2005\, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres; she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007\, and was awarded the key to New York City in 2021. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patti-smith-songs-stories-a-book-of-days/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Maintaining Work-Life Balance in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Join Angel Dominguez for an interactive workshop and discussion of what it means to cultivate a healthy work-life balance. The interactive discussion will cover the importance of setting boundaries\, time management\, how technology can be your friend\, and why saying “no” doesn’t make you a bad person! \nAngel is a queer\, first-generation\, Latinx UCSC alumnus dedicated to supporting historically excluded groups of students during their time here in the redwoods as the GANAS graduate services counselor for UCSC. Angel holds an M.F.A. in writing and poetics from Naropa University and is the author of several books of poetry and prose. \nRegister by November 22nd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maintaining-work-life-balance-in-academia/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
DESCRIPTION:“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.” \nHannah Zeavin is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press\, 2021) and at work on her second book\, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press\, expected 2023). She teaches in the Departments of History and English at UC Berkeley. \n \n  \n  \n  \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-hot-and-cool-mothers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual workshop with Katina Rogers\, “Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students\,” Nov. 30 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. Register here. \nThis workshop is presented by the Center for the Humanities at the University of California\, Merced and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-pathways-for-humanities-graduate-students/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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