BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20221209T215711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T221439Z
UID:10007186-1673186400-1673186400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/grace_moore_banner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230109T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230103T215337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T215628Z
UID:10007183-1673254800-1673285400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Race\, Violence\, and Form in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
DESCRIPTION:This symposium will bring together invited speakers from the US and Ireland to examine how recent sea changes in the field of Victorian studies—particularly its embrace of critical race studies\, strategic presentism\, and new formalism—create space to rethink both Ireland’s place in 19th-century British literary studies and the pressures Irish literature and its contemporary reverberations exert on the field’s forms of expansion. The presentations will all assert the need to resituate Ireland within the networks of aesthetic innovation\, economic experimentation\, and identity politics that circulated freely between England\, Ireland\, and America in the 19th century. Yet this re-contextualization necessarily moves in both directions\, showing not only how our understanding of Irish literature and culture changes when we consider it as part of a larger constellation of Victorian phenomena\, but also how our understanding of Victorian culture changes when we must accommodate Ireland as an integral part of its intellectual networks. In the interest of recent calls to unsettle the geographical\, racial\, and periodized confines of what constitutes “Victorian\,” as well as to unmoor Victorian studies from its long reliance on Anglocentric historicist methodologies\, this symposium challenges Ireland’s long history in the colonial margins of the field\, arguing instead that it plays an essential role in the expansion and revitalization of Victorian studies in the 21st century. \nFull symposium schedule at: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/race-violence-form-in-19c-ireland.html \nMany thanks to the UC Santa Cruz Literature Department\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Humanities Institute at UCSC\, and the Dickens Project for sponsoring this event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/race-violence-and-form-in-nineteenth-century-ireland/
LOCATION:Dream Inn Santa Cruz\, 175 W Cliff Dr\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-9-23_banner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230113T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230113T150000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20220927T191408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230105T190235Z
UID:10007151-1673616000-1673622000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor\, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel\, UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Uri Mor\, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel\, UC Santa Cruz \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-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230103T214817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T215107Z
UID:10007185-1674044100-1674048600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:According 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/dean-mathiowetz-luxuriating-as-a-political-structure-of-feeling/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20221130T180017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T180454Z
UID:10007175-1674068400-1674073800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jane Smiley - A Dangerous Business
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850’s\, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says\, “The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel\, A Dangerous Business\, is so outstanding. Her sentences are sublime.” This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n \n“A remarkable story of the California gold rush and a pair of sex worker sleuths . . . The vivid historical details and vibrant characters bring Smiley’s setting to glorious life. This seductive entertainment is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly \nMonterey\, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight\, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life\, at least at first. The madam\, Mrs. Parks\, is kind\, the men are (relatively) well behaved\, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town\, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean\, and inspired by her reading\, especially by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin\, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer\, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. \nEliza and Jean are determined not just to survive\, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West–a bewitching combination of beauty and danger–as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says\, Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business\, but between you and me\, being a woman is a dangerous business\, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise … \nJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels\, including A Thousand Acres\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck\, Early Warning\, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-smiley-a-dangerous-business/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/jane-smiley-thi.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230120
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20221021T181822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230105T190104Z
UID:10007167-1674086400-1674172799@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea\, energized by the sun\, shaped by the forces of fog and fire\, and influenced by the actions of people. \n“We know of no other place in the world where land and sea connect in such an extraordinary way.”    –Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom \nMonterey Bay is the hottest hot spot for biodiversity in all of North America\, according to The Nature Conservancy. It is a place of giants\, from redwood forests on land to forests of kelp offshore. Monterey Bay supports iconic wildlife from secretive mountain lions to majestic blue whales. All survive in a region where far-flung migrants mix with rare local species that live nowhere else in the world. \nThis exhibition brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. That richness is due to a unique mix of physical features and microclimates\, shaped by the powerful influence of the ocean—and by the actions of people. After the Gold Rush began\, a great demand for natural resources stripped the land of trees and depleted the sea of marine mammals and fish. But that ecological collapse has been reversed in our time. \nBay of Life celebrates a remarkable recovery which shows that damaged ecosystems can be restored when people care and take action together. That may offer a model for other places at a time when we need such stories of hope as we face new challenges of resource stewardship\, habitat connectivity\, and impacts from climate change. \nThis exhibition will run from January 19–April 30\, 2023 and is co-sponsored by Bay Photo Lab and the Humanities Institute. \nFor full exhibition information please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/bay-of-life \nProject Core Collaborators: Land Trust of Santa Cruz County\, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History\, Seymour Marine Discovery Center\, Watsonville Wetlands Watch \nHeader Image: Humpback Whales\, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary\, photo by Frans Lanting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bay-of-life-from-wind-to-whales-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bay-of-Life-Main_whales.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T185500
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230104T182412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T182420Z
UID:10007182-1674148800-1674154500@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Living Writers - Jaime Cortez
DESCRIPTION:Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville\, California\, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction\, essays\, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children” (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press)\, “No Straight Lines\,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited 2012 by Justin Hall for Fantagraphics Press)\, “Street Art San Francisco” (edited 2009 by Annice Jacoby for Abrams Press)\, and “Infinite Cities\,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco (edited 2010 by Rebecca Solnit for UC Berkeley Press). He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. \nCortez often combines humor and tragedy to tell stories of resilient survivors who exist on the margins of the economy\, the law\, and social acceptability. “Gordo” is Jaime’s debut collection of short stories. Black Cat\, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press\, is the publisher of the book. \nCortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville\, two California farm towns where the stories are set. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania\, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. His website is www.jaimecortez.org. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jaime-cortez/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/gordo.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T100000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20220912T205409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T172119Z
UID:10005985-1674208800-1674208800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
DESCRIPTION:“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Divya Cherian\, Princeton University
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/divya-cherian-caste-and-time-notes-from-early-modern-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/11.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T150000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20221216T173553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230105T171830Z
UID:10006044-1674220800-1674226800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis \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-fernanda-ferreira-uc-davis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20221206T184727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T185529Z
UID:10007177-1674221400-1674228600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Liora R. Halperin - The Oldest Guard: Landowners\, Local Memory\, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
DESCRIPTION:Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream\, but was later integrated\, albeit ambivalently\, into the Zionist narrative of settlement as the First Aliyah. Treating the First Aliyah as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect\, and drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies\, she considers how private agriculturalists and their advocates forged the First Aliyah past as a model of private ownership\, political moderature\, and harmonius relations with hired rural Palestinian labor. In so doing\, she sheds light on the politics and erasures of Zionist celebrations of “firstness.” \n \nLiora R. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her recent book is The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021). She is also the author of Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015). \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liora-r-halperin-the-oldest-guard-landowners-local-memory-and-the-making-of-the-zionist-settler-past/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/liora_halperin_banner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20220910T005548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T010907Z
UID:10005982-1674392400-1674399600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
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-xvi-xx/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/THI-Event-Banner-2-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T153000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230120T002445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T002445Z
UID:10007205-1674568800-1674574200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book\, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism\, Left culturalism\, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism makes a bold case for embracing what Wilder calls a politics of the possible-impossible. \nAttentive to the non-identical character of places\, periods\, and subjects\, insisting that axes of political alignment and contestation are neither self-evident nor unchanging\, reworking Lenin’s call to “transform the imperial war into a civil war\,” he invites Left thinkers see beyond inherited distinctions between here and there\, now and then\, us and them. Guided by the spirit of Marx’s call for revolutionaries to draw their poetry from a future they cannot fathom yet must nevertheless invent\, he calls for practices of anticipation that envision and enact\, call for and call forth\, seemingly impossible ways of being together. \nFormat: In-person in Hum1 Room 420 & Zoom\nZoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98082358956?pwd=b2kxZEgvSU9wNGtlaEROTDdKQjJqQT09#success  \nGary Wilder is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. He has a joint degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Chicago and works on the French empire\, colonial states\, historical anthropology and social/political theory\, with a focus on western Africa\, the Antilles\, and Europe. He is the author of Freedom Time. Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press Durham and London 2015). \nPresented by the History of Consciousness Department. To download the excerpts in discussion and for information on upcoming lectures\, please visit The History of Consciousness website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/concrete-utopianism-with-gary-wilder/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230108T004200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230108T004614Z
UID:10007190-1674648900-1674653400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935\, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns\, metaphors\, rhyme\, and performance\, Anansi and other insect avatars convert colonial nature into abolition ecologies. More broadly\, the constellation of problems and powers associated with West Indian bugs (imperceptibility\, smallness\, shapeshifting\, co-metabolism\, environmental change)\, informs a situated decolonial knowledge inspired by insects’ navigation of their environments. \nMonique Allewaert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works at the intersections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century hemispheric American colonialisms\, the environmental humanities\, literary and cultural studies\, and science studies. She is the author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations\, Personhood\, and Colonialism in the American Tropics (2013). Her current book project Luminescence follows insect avatars through eighteenth-century Caribbean natural history\, story\, riddles\, song\, and poetry to elaborate counter-plantation knowledges and aesthetics.  \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/monique-allewaert-ground-has-eye-anansi-and-animist-multinaturalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T183000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20221208T172140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T174656Z
UID:10007184-1674662400-1674671400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Morton - Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
DESCRIPTION:Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class\, low-income\, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work\, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds\, Jennifer Morton looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends\, the severed connections with former communities\, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to accomplish their educational goals. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, and will take place at the University Center\, Bhojwani Room on Wednesday\, January 25\, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm with a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30pm. \n \nIn-Person attendance \n \nVirtual attendance \nJennifer Morton is Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are philosophy of action\, moral philosophy\, philosophy of education\, and political philosophy\, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic\, Inside Higher Education\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Nation\, New York Daily News\, Times Higher Education\, Princeton Alumni Weekly\, Public Books \, and Vox. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press\, 2020) was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges\, and Universities. \nJody Greene is the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\, as well as Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. They have served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-morton-moving-up-without-losing-your-way/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/JMorton-Banner-1600x900-01-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230119T174100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T214333Z
UID:10006059-1674759600-1674765000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
DESCRIPTION:January 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. \nThis Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tobera-project-talk-story-1930-anti-filipino-watsonville-race-riots/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230118T013845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T013845Z
UID:10006056-1674817200-1674824400@thi.ucsc.edu
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 Teresa and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nTeresa Hardy is the founder of New Media-Designs\, an online marketing agency specializing in solutions for small and medium technology companies. She has over 30 years of experience in engineering and marketing in high tech companies and has worked as a web developer and multimedia artist since 2005. She holds a B.S. in engineering and a master’s in multimedia arts. Her current work focuses on HTML\, CSS\, JavaScript\, PHP\, WordPress\, and overall online find-ability (SEO and SMM) for clients. Ms. Hardy has taught web design\, branding\, usability\, gaming\, and web development at several universities in the San Francisco Bay area and is the current program chair of Web Development Specialization at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary 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/phd-workshop-wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230119T203218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T213126Z
UID:10006062-1674821700-1674826200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group - Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome\, as a residential scholar\, Kaushik Sunder Rajan\, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine\, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life\, published by Duke in 2006\, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book\, Pharmocracy: Knowledge\, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke\, 2017)\, elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India. \nProfessor Rajan will lead a reading group focused on his most recent book\, Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis. We’ll be reading the Introduction and Chapter 3. Email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine-kaushik-sunder-rajan-reading-group/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
DTSTAMP:20260516T145214
CREATED:20230119T225449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T225449Z
UID:10007194-1675171800-1675171800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Teach English in Spain
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey\, Spanish Consul in San Francisco\, who will be speaking on the North American Language and Culture Program in Spain (NALCAP 2023-2024). Light refreshments will be provided. \nOrganized by: Spanish Studies\, UC Santa Cruz Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Consulado General de España en San Francisco
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-english-in-spain/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR