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SUMMARY:Tarek El-Ariss - The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
DESCRIPTION:The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image – As I was moving to a new office in October 2020\, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the image\, blurring the top part of the page but leaving the paragraph intact. One can surmise that the copy was taken in haste\, in a doctor’s office in the late ‘90s\, somewhere in Upstate NY. It was a photocopy of a page in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) describing a condition wherein patients experience parasites or insects infesting their surroundings and crawling on their skin. Patients collect what they believe to be evidence of their infestation and bring it to the doctor in search of a cure. Where did this note come from? How did it find its way to that book in particular? And was its revelation during an office move at the height of Covid an accident\, a coincidence\, or a message from another time and place and experience? In this talk\, I investigate the provenance of this note\, embarking on a journey that leads me to the birthplace of the image and photocopying technology with companies such as Xerox and Kodak in Upstate NY. It also leads me to confront the ghosts and monsters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) that crawl into suitcases and possess tightly packed books and items of clothing as they cross oceans and go up rivers and canals. In the process\, I reflect on hauntology and theory more generally\, questioning its potential as a system of meaning that can access the past and reveal the hidden. \nTarek El-Ariss is an author\, a scholar\, and the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990) and trained in philosophy\, literary theory\, and visual and cultural studies\, his work deals with questions of displacement\, modernity\, and the somatic in literature and culture. He has written about disoriented travelers\, outcasts\, queers\, hackers\, and characters with complicated relations to home\, tribe\, nation\, and power. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham\, 2013) and Leaks\, Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton\, 2019)\, and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA\, 2018). In 2021\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a forthcoming book entitled\, “Homo Belum: An Autobiography of War.” \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. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tarek-el-ariss-the-fallen-note-a-journey-to-the-birthplace-of-the-image/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Resettlement: Chicago Story
DESCRIPTION:What is it like to be forced to leave your home\, deny your heritage\, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, a new short fictional film and educational website\, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War II. \nThe event is part of the annual Night at the Museum hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. It is also co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League and will serve as this year’s Day of Remembrance. The evening will commence with a special performance by the Watsonville Taiko Group\, followed by a screening of the film\, a preview of the larger web experience\, and a Q&A discussion with some of the project’s core creators. Marcia Hashimoto will attend and speak to the enduring legacy of her late and much beloved husband Mas Hashimoto. The event’s panel will feature key members of the project\, including the film’s director and executive producer\, website creators\, and UC Santa Cruz’s Dean of Humanities\, Jasmine Alinder\, who led the research team. \n \nRegistration required. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 22\, 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nPanel participants: \nJasmine Alinder is the Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and a historian of photography\, race\, and civil rights. Beyond her published work and university service\, Dr. Alinder has supported and worked on numerous public history projects\, including Full Spectrum Feature’s The Orange Story\, which is the prequel for Resettlement: Chicago Story. In the creation of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, Dr. Alinder acted as the project’s lead academic advisor. \nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz who specializes in the social\, political\, and environmental history of disaster in modern Japan and East Asia. She worked as one of Resettlement: Chicago Story’s historians and researchers. \n  \n  \n \nPatrick Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently working as a highschool teacher in Kentucky where he teaches U.S. history and social studies. He worked both as a historian and researcher for the Resettlement: Chicago Story project and as an advisor for integrating the project into K-12 curriculum. \n  \nReina Higashitani is a first generation immigrant filmmaker based in NY/LA. She is the film writer and director for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as an Assistant Professor at the New American Film School at Arizona State University. \n  \n  \nJason Matsumoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American producer and musician from Chicago. He is the executive producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as the executive producer of film and the Co-Executive Director at Full Spectrum Features. \n  \nAshley Cheyemi McNeil is a public humanities scholar who is currently acting as the Director of Education and Research at Full Spectrum Features\, a role that she came into after joining the team as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow. Dr. McNeil is the project manager for Resettlement: Chicago Story. \n  \nKatherine Nagasawa is a multimedia journalist who specializes in participatory\, place-based storytelling. Before becoming the web producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story\, she produced a number of interactive web experiences about Chicago Japanese American history\, including Uprooted and Reckoning. \n  \nRJ Ramey is the web designer behind Resettlement: Chicago Story and is the founder & Creative Director of Auut Studio (findauut.com). Based in San Francisco\, he started the company in 2015 to design more compelling materials for high school history teachers and museum audiences. He is known for breaking some of the rules and stale expectations for digital humanities and now teams up with other scholars to do the same. As a public historian\, RJ takes an intersectional approach and centers on stories of people of color. \nCeline Parreñas Shimizu is the Dean of the Division of Arts at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a film scholar and filmmaker whose most recent work includes her book The Proximity of Other Skins (2020) and the film 80 Years Later: On Japanese American Racial Inheritance (2022). She previously worked at San Francisco State University as a professor and Director of the School of Cinema and at UC Santa Barbara as chair of the Senior Women’s Council and as a professor teaching in Asian American\, Feminist\, and Film and Media Studies. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/resettlement-chicago-story-film-screening-and-panel/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides\, organizers\, community members\, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism by extending deliberately truncated invitations to visit Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. The book shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \nProf. Jenny Kelly in conversation with Prof. Nick Mitchell and Prof. Sophia Azeb \nJennifer Kelly is an Associate Professor in FMST and CRES. She graduated from UCSC with a double major in FMST and LIT\, and received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin. \n  \n  \n  \nPresented by Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nJoin in person in Humanities 210\, or on zoom here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invited-to-witness-a-book-talk-with-prof-jenny-kelly/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Sara Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia\, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel\, Tides\, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US)\, Hamish Hamilton (Canada)\, and Granta (UK).\n \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-sara-freeman/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T190000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Carlos Ulises Decena\, an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences and whose intellectual projects engage and blur the boundaries among critical ethnic\, queer\, and feminist studies and social justice. His first book\, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men\, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His second book\, Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean will be published in Spring 2023 by Duke University Press. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \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-drafting-stages-with-carlos-decena/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
DESCRIPTION:There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves\, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education. \nBut how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications have transformed the traditional pathways of publication\, prestige\, and engagement. Academics – experts in so many things – need to be part of the conversation. In fact\, the variety of media voices has only made expertise and authority more important. \nIn this workshop\, journalist and historian David M. Perry will lead you through the process of getting your voice into the public sphere. He will cover pragmatic topics: the art of the pitch\, finding the right venue\, managing social media profiles\, getting paid\, making it count for tenure and promotion\, and protecting yourself from trolls and harassment. He will also talk about strategies to simultaneously maintain academic authority and be accessible to the broader public. \nThrough it all\, you’ll be working on your pitches\, reading essays that embody important traits\, and developing your own ideas. \nOver the last five years\, David – once a mild-mannered medievalist – has become a columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine\, with hundreds of published pieces at venues all over the world\, including the New York Times\, the Guardian\, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Along the way\, he’s learned a lot about how to take academic expertise and share it with a much broader audience. \nGoing public isn’t easy\, but neither is getting into graduate school\, getting a PhD\, or finding an academic job\, so you’ve already traveled some pretty difficult paths. This workshop will start you on your way towards the next challenge. \nPlease come to the workshop with an idea for an essay that you might like to write. Essays could be about your scholarly expertise\, personal experience\, or anything else that interests you. We will mostly focus on traditional “op-ed” essays as a structure\, but will also discuss blogging (iterative essay writing on a site under your control)\, reported pieces\, and narrative/creative non-fiction (memoir\, experimental prose\, features\, etc.). Complimentary lunch provided to attendees. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \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-david-perry-going-public-a-workshop-on-public-writing-for-academics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
DESCRIPTION:Rajesh Bhatt\, U Mass \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-rajesh-bhatt/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T183000
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SUMMARY:Baptiste Morizot\, Ways of Being Alive
DESCRIPTION:Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway\, Professor Emerita\, History of Consciousness. \n \n  \nBaptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures\, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the author of Ways of Being Alive (Transl. Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2022)\, On the Animal Trail (Transl. by Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2021)\, and most recently Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map (Transl. by Catherine Porter\, SUNY Press\, 2022)\, as well as Rekindling Life: A Common Front (Transl. Catherine Porter\, Polity Books\, 2022). \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications in feminist theory and feminist science studies include Primate Visions: Gender\, Race\, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians\, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@.FemaleMan©- Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997)\, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs\, People\, and Significant Otherness (2003); and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016). \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department\, with the support of Villa Albertine San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baptiste-morizot-ways-of-being-alive/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T140000
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SUMMARY:Elena Vasiliou  – Queer Pleasure\, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Queer pleasure\, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.  \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elena-vasiliou-queer-pleasure-resistance-and-pain-in-ex-prisoners-narratives/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America\, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials\, this talk follows Black families as they have journeyed from birthing rooms to burial grounds\, fighting for the ability to birth and nurture healthy babies. In charting the historical landscapes of Black infant death across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, Dr. Muigai will examine the role of cultural practices\, medical theories\, and communal initiatives to explain and address the causes of Black infant death. The talk considers the legacy of these ideas and efforts in ongoing struggles to preserve Black life. \nWangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nParking at the University Center: Please follow the directional signs for “Fighting for Life” from the base of campus to College Nine/John R. Lewis lot 165. Parking attendants will be on site for attendees to buy parking permits. From lot 165\, there will be walking directional signs to the University Center\, which is above the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-for-life-race-and-the-limits-of-infant-survival/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T133000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Personal and Professional Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Navigating UC health insurance and counseling services can be complicated for graduate students. Join the Graduate Student Commons for lunch and a panel with experts from our Student Health and Outreach Promotion office\, UC SHIP insurance office\, and Counseling and Psychological Services. You will leave with a clearer understanding of how to support your wellness in issues like referrals\, bills\, counseling\, and more! \nFood provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives. \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \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-graduate-student-wellness/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T121500
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SUMMARY:Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
DESCRIPTION:On the Internet\, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag on the supposed ephemeral nature of online existence in the digital cloud: 1) Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press’ PGP Source Code and Internals (1995)\, a printed edition of the source code that forms the basis of all email cryptography; 2) William Gibson’s self-destructing cyberpoem Agrippa (1992)\, a literary work that uses pseudo-cryptography to subvert print culture and which\, by producing an art object consumed (annihilated\, even) within its reading\, recovers a lyrical past against the drag of the future; and 3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s single-copy album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015)\, which by subverting the democratic nature of art\, works against the drag of a speculative art market. The moral of each of these bookworks resides within the materiality of the object. What makes these three examples illustrative is that they all deal—in one way or another—with cryptography. In other words: the book’s secret\, which is\, in the end\, nothing other than the book’s inescapable materiality\, even in the digital era. \nZac Zimmer is Associate Professor of Literature at UCSC. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of literature\, culture and technology in the hemispheric Americas. In addition to his current research on the infrastructure of technosystems\, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group\, part of UCSC’s Astrobiology Initiative. His book First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas is forthcoming. \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/zac-zimmer-an-internet-built-of-books/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical\, methodological\, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the 1990s wave of research on “minority health” and ethnic health disparities\, revealing how a generation of researchers in the biological\, social\, and epidemiological sciences sought to elucidate the relationship between racism and health. A more recent article places that era of research\, with its attention to the impact of stress on the internal environment of the body\, within a longer genealogy of research on race\, racism\, and health. Among other threads for discussion\, Dr. Muigai hopes we can consider the legacies of these concepts on contemporary scientific\, medical\, and popular discussions of Black health\, including the Black maternal and infant health crisis. \nDr. Wangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-wangui-muigai-reading-group-mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The MARCH Continues\, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Arts Division\, John R. Lewis College\, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues\, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis\, of the award wining graphic novel series MARCH. \nAttendees will receive a free copy of the first book in the MARCH series\, and can have it signed by Andrew Aydin after the show! Capacity is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-march-continues-an-evening-with-andrew-aydin/
LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T192402
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T234306Z
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies\, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective\, present “Indigenous Border/lands\,” an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples\, scholars and activists across the Americas. \n4:00pm\nAa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee\, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero  – Theresa Gregor\, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies\, California State University Long Beach. Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian women\, sovereignty\, literary and cultural repatriation\, and tribal cultural resiliency and revitalization. \n6:00 pm\nAbolish Border Imperialism: Migration\, Racial Capitalism and Empire – Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2022). Harsha Walia is a migrant justice activist whose work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change\, generating mass dispossession worldwide. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nFor anyone who would like to attend the event virtually\, please register here. \nOn Friday\, March 10\, interdisciplinary scholars from across the country will gather for a day-long\, closed-session symposium to consider the concept of borders and the borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Presentations across several symposium themes will result in publication of an Indigenous Borderlands journal in 2024. Please visit the Feminist Studies Department website for more info on the Friday symposium schedule. If interested in attending any or all of the panels\, please contact Lisa Supple (lsupple@ucsc.edu). Seating is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/indigenous-borderlands-symposium/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T140000
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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-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T213000
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SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Every other year since 1996\, Zakir Hussain has served as curator\, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series\, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father\, the legendary Ustad Allarakha\, Masters of Percussion began as a platform for both popular and rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. While performing and collaborating in India for a few months every year\, Hussain has sought and unearthed lesser-known folk and classical traditions which feed into the greater stream of Indian music\, playing an educational role in affording them greater visibility\, as well as introducing them to audiences in the West. 2023’s tour will also feature Sabir Khan\, Tupac Mantilla\, Melissa Hié\, and Navin Sharma. \nOver time\, the constantly changing ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions\, including jazz. The 2023 version will be no exception\, presenting American audiences with extraordinary\, exciting and spontaneous combinations of percussive\, as well as melodic\, performances. Past years have included master drummers from Central Asia\, India\, and the U.S. \n \nDoors open at 6:30\, performance begins at 7:30 \nPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute at UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64071/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T120000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Marglin - The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1873\, Nissim Shamama\, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia\, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno\, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama’s riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs\, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean\, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional\, cultural\, and political borders. \nJessica Marglin is Associate Professor of Religion\, Law\, and History\, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean\, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press\, 2016) and the co-editor\, with Matthias Lehmann\, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press\, 2020). Her book The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/61836/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T192402
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McKenzie\, The Dog of the North
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie’s highly-anticipated new novel\, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Even funnier\, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last\, The Portable Veblen\, this is a screwball comedy worthy of a Preston Sturgis screenplay. You will be surprised\, delighted\, and grateful to be aboard The Dog of the North with the admirable Penny Rush as she faces every challenge her wild and crazy family can throw at her. A book that lifts the spirits.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of Booth \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. \n  \n \n  \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize; a collection\, Stop That Girl\, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World\, a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel\, The Jane Austen Book Club\, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64326/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T192402
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SUMMARY:Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic - Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium \nWords whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ “cognate awareness” means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However\, it is unclear if L2 learners really need to be made aware of cognateness. Another question is whether focusing on L1-L2 similarity is enough\, considering that many students are learning a foreign language not as their L2\, but as their L3. In this talk I will discuss whether raising “cognate awareness” indeed modulates the effectiveness of learning words in a foreign language. First\, I will briefly present two classroom quasi-experiments concerning the acquisition of L2-English cognates and non-cognates by language learners with L1-Polish. Then\, I will move on to a naturalistic classroom experiment on learning words in Italian as L3 by L1-Polish learners with L2-English. The talk will present robust and ecologically-valid evidence on acquiring cognates in a foreign language. \n  \nDr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic\, The University of Warsaw \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-agnieszka-otwinowska-kasztelanic-do-l2-and-l3-learners-benefit-from-training-their-awareness-of-cross-linguistic-similarity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T192402
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, The Candy House
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan\, one of the most celebrated writers of our time\, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th)\, her “inventive\, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. \nThis event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus\, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton\, whose company\, Mandala\, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty\, with four kids\, restless\, and desperate for a new idea\, when he stumbles into a conversation group\, mostly Columbia professors\, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade\, Bix’s new technology\, “Own Your Unconscious”–which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had\, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others–has seduced multitudes. \nIn the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination\, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders\,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles–from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices\, an epistolary chapter\, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling\, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection\, family\, privacy\, and love. \n  \n \n  \nJennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach\, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Magazine. Her website JenniferEgan.com. \n  \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jennifer-egan for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-the-candy-house/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T150000
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources\, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. There will also be time for you to pose any questions that you might have. \nStudents are invited to meet with Dr. Hamed over lunch on March 16th. Please email Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to RSVP. \nMohamed Hamed joined the University of California\, Berkeley Library in 2017 as the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian. Mohamed joins the Library from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where\, for the last seven years\, he has been the Middle Eastern & African Studies Librarian. He has earned a BA\, MA\, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University. Previous professional affiliations include The American University in Cairo\, Santa Monica College Library\, and Arabic Language instruction at UNC Chapel Hill. Professionally Mohamed has participated in several key organizations including the Middle East Librarians Association\, the Africana Librarians Council\, and the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information. \nThis event is presented by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mohamed-hamed-arabic-language-resources-in-the-uc-system-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:20230316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T190000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. \nIn 1935\, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism\, Paul Valéry tried to identify in a lecture the origins of the crisis. Things were better\, he said\, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events\, when “continuity reigned in the minds”. In this lecture\, Juan Gabriel Vásquez will discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is in fact indispensable\, for individuals and societies alike\, and he will suggest that fiction –the literary imagination of the historical past– might be uniquely adept at restoring it when it is broken. \nClick here to register to attend this event in person \nClick here to register to attend this event virtually \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels\, including The Shape of the Ruins\, which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations\, a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling\, a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years living in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now resides between Bogotá and New York City. \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-restoring-continuity-notes-on-history-and-fiction/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T200000
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SUMMARY:Persian New Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration\, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring\, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan “Woman\, Life\, Freedom\, Zan\, Zendegee\, Azadee.” This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music and refreshments. Come with family and friends\, everyone is welcome. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz\, SILCA\, UCSC ISU\, and the UCSC Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/persian-new-year-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) \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-marc-garellek/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T113000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Community as Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections\, García Peña  invites us—in particular Black\, Indigenous\, Latinx\, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott\, abolition\, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures. She argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university\, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls “teaching in freedom”: a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge\, silenced histories\, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous\, Black\, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom\, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception\, but also create alternative ways to be\, create\, live\, and succeed through our work. \nCommunity as Rebellion can be accessed here. Please ensure you are logged into your McHenry Library Account. \nDr. Lorgia García-Peña is a writer\, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. Through her writing and teaching\, Dr. García Peña insists on highlighting the knowledge\, cultural\, social and political contributions of people who have been silenced from traditional archives. She is the author of three books \, the award-winning The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race\, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke\, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke\, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket\, 2022). Additionally\, her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, The Boston Review and Harper’s Bazaar. She has appeared on CNN\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Univision and Telemundo and is a regular contributor to NACLA and Asterix Journals. \nAn engaged scholar committed to liberating education and bridging the gaps that separate the communities she comes from (Black\, immigrant\, working) and the university\, Dr. García Peña is also a co-founder of Freedom University Georgia\, a school that provides college instruction to undocumented students and the co-director of Archives of Justice a transnational digital archive project that centers the life of people who identify as Black\, queer and migrant. She has been widely recognized for her public facing work: in 2022 she received the Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship\, in 2021 the Margaret Casey Foundation named her a Freedom Scholar\, and in 2017 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented her a Disobedience Award for the co-founding of Freedom University. Additionally\, her scholarship has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, The Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Future of Minority Studies Fellowship. García-Peña received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Latin American and Latino Literatures from Rutgers University. Currently\, she serves as the Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department in Studies of Race\, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. \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-community-as-rebellion/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Let’s talk about ChatGPT Panel
DESCRIPTION:ChatGPT rolled out as a disruptive and instantly polarizing new technology. Should we see it as an impediment or an asset to student learning? Should we just look to other new technologies to detect student use of ChatGPT\, or could there be pedagogical applications of ChatGPT that could further learning? On campus\, faculty are shaping the future of ChatGPT through their choices in the classroom. We hope you will join us on Tuesday\, March 21\, from 12:00-1:30 to learn about how ChatGPT works and to hear from UC Santa Cruz faculty on how they are thinking about and even incorporating ChatGPT in their course planning. Panelists include Leilani H. Gilpin\, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Zac Zimmer\, Associate Professor of Literature; and Jennifer Parker\, Professor of Art. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Humanizing Technology\, Humanities Division. \nTo attend\, join us in the Teaching and Learning Lab (McHenry Library 2359)\, or register by Zoom. \nCITL event page with more info: https://citl.ucsc.edu/resources/chatgpt/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lets-talk-about-chatgpt/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Taija McDougall  – Plantations Derivations
DESCRIPTION:Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taija-mcdougall-plantations-derivations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and local poet Chris Mattingly for a very special evening of poetry and conversation. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRoss Gay’s newest book is Inciting Joy:\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, prize winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection\, and also\, crucially\, how we can expand it. \nIn “We Kin\,” Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August\, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket\,” he explores skateboard­ing’s reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw\,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. \nIn an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? \nTaking a clear-eyed look at injustice\, political polarization\, and the destruction of the natural world\, Gay shows us how we might resist\, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild\, unpredictable\, transgressive\, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact\, it just might help us survive. \n  \n \n  \nRoss Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights: Essays and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard\, a non-profit\, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/in-store-event-a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEH Funders Panel
DESCRIPTION:To watch this Zoom recording of this virtual discussion with Senior Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, please email Caitlin Charos. \n  \nFeaturing: \nJill Austin is a senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at NEH. She arrived at NEH in 2015 after two decades of work in museums and nonprofits that serve museums. Prior to her role at NEH\, Austin was a curator at the Chicago History Museum for ten years. Her last exhibition\, The Secret Lives of Objects\, featured objects boasting mysterious pasts from the permanent collection and opened in 2015. Another major exhibition\, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads\, opened in 2011 and was the result of a three-year curatorial collaboration with historian Jennifer Brier of the University of Illinois\, Chicago. They also co-edited and contributed to an accompanying anthology of essays of the same title on Chicago LGBT and queer history. With Brier\, she also contributed a chapter to Susan Ferentinos’ anthology Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites. Previously\, Austin served as a curator at Detroit Historical Museums and was an exhibition and publication coordinator at Exhibitions International\, a New York-based traveling exhibitions firm that specialized in design and the decorative arts. She got her start in the museum field as an educator at the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh. A native of southeast Michigan\, she earned a BA in history/classics from Eastern Michigan University\, and received an MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. \nJulia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Julia’s graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South\, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She has published numerous articles on education\, domestic service\, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi\, where she was an assistant professor of history\, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. In the Division of Education Programs\, Julia works with all of the division’s programs and serves at the program lead for Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges\, Hispanic-Serving Institutions\, Historically Black Colleges and Universities\, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neh-funders-panel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 24\, 2023\, and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend the Info Session on March 24th\, 2023 or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \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\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:2023 Latino Role Models Conference
DESCRIPTION:This exciting FREE annual conference features Latino/a college students and professionals and performances inspiring students to achieve their dreams for college and career. This year\, we are excited to welcome Olga Talamante as the keynote speaker! The conference is conducted in Spanish with English translation at the Crocker Theater\, Cabrillo College. Please complete the registration below to ensure your spot at this year’s conference on March 25th\, 2023 from 9:00-1:00 PM. \nEsta emocionante conferencia anual GRATUITA presenta a estudiantes y profesionales latinos / a universitarios y representaciones que inspiran a los estudiantes a alcanzar sus sueños universitarios y profesionales. Este año\, esperamos dar la bienvenida a Olga Talamante como oradora principal! La conferencia se lleva a cabo en español con traducción al inglés al teatro Crocker\, Cabrillo College. Complete el registro a continuación para asegurar su lugar en la conferencia de este año el 25 de marzo 9:00-1:00 PM. \n  \n \n  \n \nOlga Talamante is Executive Director Emerita of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003 serving in that position until she retired in March of 2018. \nMs. Talamante’s family migrated from Mexico to Gilroy\, California in the early 1960’s where they worked in the farm fields for several years. Those formative years formed the basis for her activism as an organizer and supporter of the nascent United Farm Workers labor union. She is widely respected for her long-standing community activism and leadership. During the mid-seventies\, she became well known for her experience as a political prisoner in Argentina. As a result of a successful grass-roots campaign\, she was released after spending 16 months in an Argentine prison. After returning to the United States\, she remained active in the Chicana/o\, Latin American solidarity\, LGBTQ and progressive political movements. She serves on several boards and currently co-chairs the Caravan for the Children\, which advocates for the release\, reunification and healing of the children separated at the southern border. She holds a B.A. in Latina American History from UC Santa Cruz and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. During the month of October 2022\, she received the following awards: The Visionary Award from Horizons Foundation\, The Rosario Anaya Community Service Award from The San Francisco Latino Heritage Committee\, The History Maker Award from the GLBT Historical Society and the Distinguished Citizen award from the Commonwealth Club. \nErandi García\, originally from Morelia\, Mexico\, has worked in various media outlets in Mexico and the United States\, such as: TV Azteca Michoacán\, Univision 67 and Telemundo 48 in the Bay Area. She has won the Emmy Award for excellence in news\, among other distinctions. Erandi is the founder of a non-profit organization called Juntos Podemos whose mission is to inform and educate the Spanish-speaking population about public health and safety. She currently works for the Hospice Giving Foundation in Monterey\, California. When she’s not working\, Erandi likes to walk on the beach\, hike\, and plan the next adventure with her family.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-latino-role-models-conference/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/march_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Melissa Johnson\, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies and chair of the Race and Ethnicity Studies program at Southwestern University\, a small liberal arts college near Austin\, Texas. Her research and writing are primarily focused on Belize’s rural Afro-Caribbean communities and the inter-relationship between ecologies\, economies\, and racial formations\, both historically and in the present day in these communities. Along with her book\, Becoming Creole: Race and Nature in Belize (Rutgers 2018)\, she has numerous articles in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals\, and several scholarly projects underway\, including work on the racial history of Southwestern University. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \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-voces-drafting-stages-with-melissa-johnson/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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