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SUMMARY:Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
DESCRIPTION:In Recording History\, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like\, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present. \nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-silver-recording-history-jews-muslims-and-music-across-twentieth-century-north-africa/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis – A Journey through Border Spaces of the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology  \nThe border is the shared topos of the anthropologist\, the historian\, the archaeologist\, the artist\, the musician and the poet\, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future with the present\, the inside with the outside\, the particular with the general\, ideas with the senses. This lecture explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. Drawing on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork\, writing\, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology\, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native\,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic\, American-trained\, post-Boasian anthropologist. \nC. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of cultural anthropology and the author of seven books including poetry. She is best known for her ethnographies The Senses Still\, The Last Word: Women Death Divination\, and Sensing the Everyday\, written in two languages. Born and raised in Greece\, she studied and taught in New York where she lived for more than two decades and later joined the University of the Peloponnese.  She has conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world and to this day  she divides her life between USA and Europe. \n  \n\n \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-a-journey-through-border-spaces-of-the-everyday-2/
LOCATION:zoom\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Legal Studies Program Annual Distinguished Lecture: Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the “most important Afro-Latina voice on civil rights today\,” Hernández argues that unmasking Latino anti-Black bias is essential for fostering multiracial democracy in the United States. \n \nThis event is open to all. Copies of Racial Innocence will be available for purchase.\nThe UCSC Legal Studies Program and Professor Hernández are making 50 copies of the book available free to UCSC students who attend. \nTanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law\, and an Associate Director of Fordham’s Center on Race\, Law and Justice. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Feminist Studies Department\, History Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Philosophy Department\, Politics Department\, Sociology Department\, and The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/legal-studies-program-annual-distinguished-lecture-coming-to-understand-latino-anti-black-bias/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Humanities Faculty Research Forum
DESCRIPTION:Understanding Your Research Support Ecosystem\nPlease join us in person for a brief presentation about the Research Cycle followed by a meet-and-greet with the team that supports your research. Breakfast will be served. \n \nFor those who cannot attend in person\, the presentation portion of the event will be available on Zoom. \nOpening Remarks \nJasmine Alinder\nDean of Humanities \nJohn MacMillan\nInterim Vice Chancellor for Research \nModerated by \nIrena Polić\nAssistant Dean for Research and Engagement\, Humanities \nFeaturing \nDeirdre Beach\nExecutive Director\, Sponsored Research Administration \nHeather Bell\nDirector of Research Development \nSarah Carle\nExecutive Director of Foundation Relations \nCaitlin Charos\nResearch Development Specialist\, Humanities & Humanistic Social Sciences \nMayra Gonzales-Adler\nProposal Analyst\, Office of Sponsored Projects \nAlison Hansen\nAccounting/Research Manager\, Humanities \nNutan Mellegers\nAssociate Director\, Office of Sponsored Projects \nKatie Novak\nFinance Director\, Humanities \nCaroline Rodriguez\nAssociate Director\, Corporate and Foundation Relations
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/facultyresearchforum/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paromita Vohra – The Lovers’ Argument: What Bollywood Songs Taught Me About Making Documentaries 
DESCRIPTION:As a documentary filmmaker\, working in India\, and especially as one interested in political conversation and social change\, you inherit a form. The documentary form ostensibly exists outside commercial mainstream Indian cinema\, privileges realism\, and is marked by ethical nobility and commitment\, and a willingness to be a little bit bored for a political cause. Shorn of frivolity\, of excess\, of emotional unpredictability and most importantly of pleasure\, such settled pieties of the documentary form are difficult to accept. Instead\, I offer\, a kind of Hindi film duet\, as the basis for thinking about documentary form: the lover’s argument which invokes shared experience\, seduction\, dangerous knowledge\, revelation and pleasure. What kind of politics might this aesthetic suggest\, when the argument is made in the service of connection\, not conquest?\nThe talk will be illustrated with clips from my work. \nParomita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer who works with a range of forms\, including film\, comics\, digital media\, installation art and writing to explore themes of feminism\, desire\, urban life and popular culture. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern\, the Wellcome Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art\, and screened around the world. Her films as director include the documentaries Unlimited Girls\, Q2P\, Where’s Sandra? and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahanai\, among others and a series of short musical films including The Amourous Adventures of Megha and Shakku in the Valley of Consent. She has written the fiction feature Khamosh Pani\, the documentaries Skin Deep\, Stuntmen of Bollywood\, and If You Pause\, the play Ishquiya:Dharavi Ishtyle and the comic Priya’s Mirror. She has published several essays on film\, popular culture\, love and desire as well as short stories and writes a weekly newspaper column\, Paro-normal Activity in Sunday Mid-day. In 2015 she founded the Agents of Ishq\, an award-winning digital platform for conversations on sex\, love and desire in India and is currently its Creative Director. \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. The Center for South Asian Studies is delighted to welcome its first South Asian artist/activist-in-residence\, Paromita Vohra. Paromita will be in residence at UCSC from April 10-April 24\, 2023. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 12\, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paromita-vohra-the-lovers-argument-what-bollywood-songs-taught-me-about-making-documentaries/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY: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 a second information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session 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-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230413T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Zaina Alsous
DESCRIPTION:Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press\, 2019)\, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, and the chapbook Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in Poetry magazine\, Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the southern United States. \n \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-zaina-alsous/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Partner Event: Confronting Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is partnering with Confronting Climate Change\, an annual public lecture series that brings together scientists\, artists\, policy experts\, and community members to discuss our planet’s wellbeing and share solutions for our future. \nThis online event will spark conversation and thought on how research in the natural and social sciences can lead to climate change solutions and preserve the overall environmental health and wellbeing of our planet. \nWe invite members of the community and general public to engage and participate in the Zoom-based event on Thursday\, April 13\, at 6 p.m. \n\n\nPanel Discussion\nPresenters will discuss the social and economic transformations that will be required in order to address the health impacts of climate change\, and together we will think about how climate change might inspire us to work towards a more livable future. \nSpeakers\nJulie Livingston\, New York University\nMatthew Huber\, Purdue University\nBharat Venkat\, UC Los Angeles \nModerator\n Andrew Mathews\, UC Santa Cruz  \nLearn more and register.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-partner-event-confronting-climate-change/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T120000
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SUMMARY:Paisley Currah – This Anti-Trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center
DESCRIPTION:The current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new\, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk\, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of (trans)gender governance. \nPaisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He is the co-founder of the leading journal in transgender studies\, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Currah’s book\, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity\, published last year by New York University Press\, reveals the hidden logics that have governed sex classification policies in the United States in the past and shows what the regulation of transgender identity can tell us about society’s approach to sex and gender writ large. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nPlease note: this is a hybrid event. To receive a link\, please RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paisley-currah-this-anti-trans-moment-resisting-the-right-and-the-center/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Bryan Donaldson
DESCRIPTION:Bryan Donaldson\, 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-bryan-donaldson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T143000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support\, including from national funding organizations like the SSRC. \nThe workshop will be led by Catalina Vallejo (Program Director for the SSRC Just Tech Program) and Sharon Kinoshita (Interim Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Literature). As part of the workshop\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications. \nCatalina Vallejo is program director for the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Program. Catalina holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia\, an M.A. in cultural studies from Universidad de los Andes\, and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her doctoral work focused on post-conflict in Colombia and Peru and was funded by the SSRC and the National Science Foundation. Before joining the SSRC\, she worked in development consulting. She is fluent in English and Spanish\, grew up in Bogotá (Colombia)\, and travels frequently to the region.\nhttps://www.ssrc.org/staff/vallejo-pedraza-diana-catalina/ \nSharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project\, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group\, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS\, the Stanford Humanities Center\, the American Academy in Berlin\, and other institutions. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) Fireside Lounge.  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nThis event is being presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons. \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-grants-and-fellowships-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Max Weiss: Revolutions Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University)\, who will be discussing his new book on cultural production in Ba’thist Syria\, Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Baʻthist Syria (Stanford University Press\, 2022). Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics\, authoritarianism\, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources—novels\, films\, and cultural periodicals—Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership\, gender and power\, comedy and ideology\, surveillance and the senses\, witnessing and temporality\, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state\, society\, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years. \nLunch will be served.  Any graduate students would like a copy of his book\, please contact muhdavis@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/max-weiss-revolutions-aesthetic/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:What’s Happening in Peru? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Structural Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Peru has been in a state of political and humanitarian crisis since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment. When acting President Dina Boluarte–Castillo’s former vice president—announced that elections would not be held until May 2024\, Peruvians across the country took to the streets first to demand elections and a constitutional assembly and then\, when the national police violently repressed protests\, to demand Boluarte’s resignation. Months later\, more than 60 Peruvians have died\, including 47 protestors killed by state forces\, mostly from Southern Andean regions of the country\, and Boluarte has refused to resign. \nThe current situation in Peru is the latest expression of a deep structural crisis\, rooted in historical relations of dominance since colonial times in the highly centralized country. This is reflected in the long-standing conflictive relationship between the capital\, Lima\, and the other regions\, which has polarized the public debate even more. The role of media and emerging technologies have played a crucial role in how these protests have been represented\, adding fire to this polarization. To understand this multidimensional crisis from multidisciplinary perspectives\, this round table features scholars from both the humanities and social sciences who will reflect on the historical\, social\, cultural\, economic\, and political implications of the ongoing crisis for the future of Peru. \nPanelists \nAldair Mejía (Photojournalist\, Lima) is a photojournalist based in Lima\, Peru. He currently focuses his work on political issues\, social conflicts\, portraits\, concerts\, among other events in the country. During the last years Aldair has been working as a collaborator for the EFE agency of Spain and Diario La República\, his photographs have been published by agencies such as CNN in Spanish\, EFE Agency\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. He is also a member of the Association of Photo Journalists of Peru (AFPP). Finalist in the IPYS contest\, Recognition in the 35 Awards\, Second Place in the Photojournalism category in the Entel contest\, Winner in the PhotoEspaña contest. \nCecilia Mendez (UCSB) is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. A Peruvian historian specialized in the social and political history of Peru in the national period\, she received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and numerous prestigious awards\, including the Howard Cline book prize for her book The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Her work calls the attention on the importance of late eighteenth-century\, and nineteenth-century political developments in shaping modern conceptions nationhood\, citizenship\, and “race” in Peru. She has investigated the historical relationship between the peasants and the militaries\, and the role of war and the army in the construction of the state. She is a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) currently works as an instructor and director of the Quechua Program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has two master’s degrees in Linguistics: one from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2005)\, the other from Rice University\, in Houston\, Texas (2012). He is currently finishing his doctorate in Andean Studies (Linguistics) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His studies of the Quechua languages ​​include varieties spoken in Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurimac\, and Cuzco in Peru. Since 2018\, he has coordinated the QINTI project (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative). With his collaborators he is currently writing Ayni\, which aims to an open access manual for Southern Quechua and intended to help teachers and students of Quechua in the United States and around the world draw on the shared characteristics and diversity of Quechua varieties mutually intelligible in Peru and Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito (Universidad del Pacífico\, Lima) is a Professor of Political Science and of Discrimination and Public Policy at Universidad del Pacifico\, in Lima\, Peru. Her research agenda includes topics of gender equality\, social inclusion policies in Peru\, and how the intersection of different systems of oppression position different groups of people outside of the scope of legal protection. Most recently she is focused on exploring the effectiveness of ethnoracial legislation to promote and protect the rights of Afrodescendants in Peru. She holds a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru\, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania\, and two MA degrees in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of South Florida. Concurrently\, she has held positions in the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Culture in Peru\, and a top advisory position in the Office of Women and Equality of the Metropolitan Municipality of the City of Lima on issues of diversity and social inclusion. \nNelson Pereyra (Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, Ayacucho) is a historian\, graduated from the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, with master’s studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. In addition\, he holds a Ph.D. in History with a Mention in Andean Studies. His lines of research are related to the political participation of peasants in the formation of the Peruvian State and to regional history and culture. He has recently published the books: History\, Memory and Symbolism of Holy Week in Ayacucho\, State\, Memory and Contemporary Society in Ayacucho\, Cusco and Lima (edited together with Claudia Rosas) and Living and Active regions: Knots and Foundations of Contemporary Peru (co-authored with Susana Aldana Rivera). \nModerators \nAlejandra Watanabe Farro (LALS\, UCSC) \nAmanda Smith (Literature\, UCSC) \nCarla Hernández Garavito (Anthropology\, UCSC) \nCo-organized with Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute\, UCSC) \n \nRegistration required to receive the zoom link. \nIn Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Department of Latino and Latin American Studies\, the Spanish Studies program\, Arts Research Institute\, and the Dolores Huerta Research Center. \n\n\n¿Qué está pasando en el Perú? Perspectivas interdisciplinarias para entender una crisis estructural\nDesde principios de diciembre del 2022\, el Perú atraviesa una crisis política y humanitaria cuando estallaron las protestas a raíz del intento fallido del expresidente Pedro Castillo de cerrar el Congreso para evitar la vacancia por incapacidad moral. Cuando la presidenta en funciones Dina Boluarte –exvicepresidenta de Castillo– anunció que las elecciones no se realizarían hasta mayo de 2024\, peruanos de todo el país salieron a las calles primero para exigir elecciones y asamblea constituyente y\, cuando la Policía Nacional y el Ejército reprimieron violentamente las protestas\, exigir la renuncia de Boluarte. Meses después\, más de 60 peruanos han muerto\, incluidos al menos 47 manifestantes asesinados por las fuerzas estatales\, en su mayoría de las regiones andinas del sur del país\, y Boluarte se niega a renunciar. \nLa situación actual del Perú es la expresión más reciente de una profunda crisis estructural\, arraigada en históricas relaciones de dominio desde la época colonial en un país altamente centralizado. Esto se refleja en la conflictiva relación entre la capital\, Lima\, y ​​las demás regiones\, que ha polarizado aún más el debate público. El papel de los medios y las nuevas tecnologías ha jugado un papel crucial en la forma en que se han representado estas protestas\, agregando tensión a esta polarización. Para comprender esta crisis estructural desde perspectivas multidisciplinarias\, esta mesa redonda convoca académicos de las humanidades y ciencias sociales para reflexionar colectivamente sobre las implicaciones históricas\, sociales\, culturales\, económicas y políticas de la crisis actual para el futuro de Perú. \nPanelistas \nAldair Mejía es Fotoperiodista\, en Lima\,Perú\, cuyo trabajo se centra principalmente en coberturas de prensa. Actualmente enfoca su labor en temáticas políticas\, conflictos sociales\, retratos\, conciertos\, entre otros acontecimientos en el país. Durante los últimos años Aldair ha estado trabajando como colaborador para la agencia EFE de España y Diario La República\, sus fotografías han sido publicadas las agencias\, como CNN en español\, Agencia EFE\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. También es miembro de la Asociación de Foto Periodistas del Perú (AFPP). Finalista en el concurso IPYS\, Reconocimieno en los 35 Awards\, Segundo Puesto en la categoria de Fotoperiodismo en el concurso de Entel\, Ganador en el concurso de PhotoEspaña. \nCecilia Mendez es profesora de Historia en la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Historiadora peruana especializada en la historia social y política del Perú en el período nacional\, recibió su Ph.D. de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Stony Brook\, y varios prestigiosos premios\, incluido el premio del libro Howard Cline por su libro The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Su trabajo llama la atención sobre la importancia de los desarrollos políticos de finales del siglo XVIII y del siglo XIX en la formación de las concepciones modernas de nación\, ciudadanía y “raza” en el Perú. Y han investigado la relación histórica entre los campesinos y los militares\, y el papel de la guerra y el ejército en la construcción del Estado. Es columnista del diario peruano La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital se desempeña como instructor y responsable del Programa de Quechua en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign. Tiene dos maestrías en Lingüística: una de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2005)\, la otra de la Universidad Rice\, en Houston\, Texas (2012). Actualmente está terminando su doctorado en Estudios Andinos en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Sus estudios de las lenguas quechuas incluyen variedades habladas en Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurímac y Cuzco en Perú. Desde 2018 coordina el proyecto QINTI (Iniciativa de Innovación y Enseñanza Quechua\, por sus siglas en inglés). Con sus colaboradores está escribiendo actualmente Ayni\, que busca ser un manual de acceso abierto para quechua sureño y destinado a ayudar a profesores y estudiantes de quechua en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo a partir de las características compartidas y la diversidad de las variedades quechua mutuamente inteligibles habladas en Perú y Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito es profesora de Ciencia Política\, y Discriminación y Políticas Públicas en la Universidad del Pacífico. Es abogada por la PUCP; máster en Derecho por la University of Pennsylvania; máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos y máster en Ciencia Política\, con una concentración en Etnicidad en Países Andinos\, por la University of South Florida. Su portafolio de investigación incluye temas de derechos humanos\, igualdad de género y no discriminación\, así como el análisis de políticas públicas de inclusión en el país. Ha sido parte de equipos técnicos en el Ministerio de la Mujer\, el Ministerio de Cultura y la Gerencia de la Mujer de la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima. \nNelson Pereyra es historiador\, egresado de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, con estudios de maestría en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide en España. Además\, es doctor en Historia con Mención de Estudios Andinos. Sus ejes de investigación están relacionados con la participación política de los campesinos en la formación del Estado peruano y con la historia y cultura regional. Recientemente ha publicado los libros: Historia\, memoria y simbolismo de la Semana Santa de Ayacucho\, Estado\, memoria y sociedad contemporánea en Ayacucho\, Cusco y Lima (editado junto a Claudia Rosas) y Regiones vivas y activas: nudos y fundamentos del Perú contemporáneo (en coautoría con Susana Aldana Rivera).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peru/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Kristin Lawler – Surfing\, Capitalism\, and the Refusal of Work
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will examine surfing as a countercultural practice and will consider the ways in which it constitutes a lived refusal of the logic of capital. I will look at several contemporary and historical iterations of the surf image in popular culture to think through its political significance\, and will survey the state of the new field of “surf studies.” \nKristin Lawler is Professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. She is author of The American Surfer\, published in 2011\, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Roll and Flow: the Political Ontology of Surf and Skate. Her work appears in numerous edited collections\, including Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School (forthcoming); Class: the Anthology; Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory; Bohemias in Southern California; and The Critical Surf Studies Reader. She is a contributing member of the editorial board of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Radical Imagination. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristin-lawler-surfing-capitalism-and-the-refusal-of-work/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Valuing Engaged Scholarship in the Tenure and Promotion Process
DESCRIPTION:Join Campus + Community in a forum with campus leaders about taking stock of engaged scholarship in the tenure and promotion process at UC Santa Cruz and across the UC system. UCSC has developed several new sets of guidelines that will help engaged scholars to talk about and elevate their teaching and research. These guidelines will also help departments\, deans\, the Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP) and senior leadership to evaluate engaged scholar files. Presenters will share the ways that campus is seeking to support engaged scholarship in the merit process and will take questions from the audience about how to move forward. \nRegister to attend virtually \nRegister to attend in person \nFeaturing: \n\nRebecca London – Faculty Direct of Campus and Community and Associate Professor of Sociology\nHerbie Lee – Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\nJasmine Alinder – Dean of Humanities\nSusan Gillman – Professor of Literature and Committee on Academic Personnel\n\nThe workshop starts at 3:30 p.m. with a reception starting at 4:30 p.m. \nFor more information\, visit the Campus and Community website. \nQuestions? Contact Campus + Community: cam_com@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valuing-engaged-scholarship-in-the-tenure-and-promotion-process/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T193000
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SUMMARY:Karina Walters - Transcending Historical Trauma: How to Address American Indian Health Inequities and Promote Thriving
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, settler colonialism has endeavored to erase the lived experiences and histories of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. Yet\, Indigenous populations\, particularly Indigenous women\, remain strong and resilient pillars of communities. Oftentimes these [her]stories are missed in public health initiatives as a result of settler colonialism’s perpetual drive to erase and silence. In this talk\, Dr. Walters will explore the latest advances in designing culturally derived\, Indigenist health promotion interventions among American Indian and Alaska Native women. The talk will describe the indigenist methodological innovations utilized in the NIH funded Yappalli Choctaw Road to Health\, a culturally focused\, land-based obesity and substance abuse prevention program as well as the national multi-site Honor Project Two-Spirit Health Study. Consistent with tribal systems of knowledge\, both studies illustrate the importance of developing culturally derived health promotion interventions rooted in Indigenist thoughtways and land-based practices to promote Indigenous thrivance and community well-being. \n \nDr. Karina L. Walters (MSW\, PhD) is the recently appointed Director of the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institute of Health. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma\, a Katherine Hall Chambers University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work\, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health\, School of Public Health\, and Co-Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) at the University of Washington. Dr. Walters is world renowned for her expertise in developing behavioral and multi-level health interventions steeped in culture to activate health-promoting behaviors. She has written landmark papers on traumatic stress and health\, historical and intergenerational trauma\, and originated the Indigenist Stress-Coping model. She has led 22 NIH-funded studies\, is one of the leading American Indian scientists in the country\, and is only one of two American Indians (and the only Native woman) ever invited to deliver the prestigious Director’s lecture to the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) at the NIH. She is the first American Indian Fellow inductee into the American Academy of Social Welfare and Social Work (AASWSW).\n \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by April 12\, 2023. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karina-walters-transcending-historical-trauma-how-to-address-american-indian-health-inequities-and-promote-thriving/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Sound Symposium at Indexical
DESCRIPTION:The Black Sound Symposium at Indexical is a 4-day event full of concerts\, talks\, workshops\, screenings\, and interdisciplinary dialogue rooted in Black sound and Black sonic space. The symposium aims to create and sustain community; to celebrate curiosity\, wonder\, disobedience\, collaboration\, and play in artistic work; to expand anti-racist and activist pedagogy and methodologies in and outside of our institutions; and to honor the long and rich lineages of Black virtuosity that have been diminished and erased from artistic canons and social consciousness. \n“Black studies and anticolonial thought offer methodological practices wherein we read\, live\, hear\, groove\, create\, and write across a range of temporalities\, places\, texts\, and ideas that build on existing liberatory practices and pursue ways of living in the world that are uncomfortably generous and provisional and practical and\, as well\, imprecise and unrealized. The method is rigorous\, too. Wonder is study. Curiosity is attentive.”\n-Katherine McKittrick\, Dear Science and Other Stories \nThe Black Sound Symposium is partially sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz & the Visualizing Abolition public scholarship initiative at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, UC Santa Cruz. Please visit the Black Sound Symposium website for the full symposium schedule and details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/black-sound-symposium-at-indexical/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T120000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Rosario
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 Dr. Melissa Rosario (she/they)\, a mixed-race queer nonbinary femme who lives and works in Puerto Rico. Drawing on their training as an anthropologist and her own journey of self-healing\, Melissa founded and leads the Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action (CEPA). CEPA is a practice-based initiative dedicated to the decolonization of mind-body-spirit of organizers\, artists\, and healers. It is a space for diaspora and island-based Boricuas and close allies who want to co-create a culture of reclamation that transforms inheritances and patterns into collective liberation. They understand it to be a tool for healing as it allows us to create new possibilities and agreements for our future while also opening space to speak truths that have remained on the margins of our awareness. She has published in Anthropology and Humanism\, AnthroNow\, and Curriculum Inquiry and is a co-author of Decolonizing for Organizers\, a practice-based manual for activists unlearning and healing from colonization. Her first book is under review and is tentatively titled Another Country: Reclaiming Freedom in Puerto Rico. \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-rosario/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T173000
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SUMMARY:2023 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Partha Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Intense debate has recently been centered on the notion of a cosmopolitanism that arose with colonial era globalization. Cosmopolitanism naturally presupposes travel but what about those who stay at home? The migration of ideas and cross-cultural exchanges made possible by the spread of hegemonic languages and print culture created a virtual cosmopolis that has continued to our day. \nDr. Mitter’s talk will focus on the dynamics\, peculiarities and biases of this world. \n  \n \n  \nIf you are unable to attend in person\, you can join us virtually. Click here to register for the virtual event. \n  \nPartha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture\, specializing in the reception of Indian art in the West\, as well as in modernity\, art and identity in India\, and more recently in global modernism. He studied history at London University and did his doctorate with E. H. Gombrich (1970). He began his career as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College\, Cambridge (1968-69) and Research Fellow at Clare Hall\, Cambridge (1970-74). In 1974 he joined Sussex as a Lecturer in Indian History\, retiring in 2002 as Professor in Art History. He is an Adjunct Research Professor Carleton University\, Ontario\, Canada \nHis publications include Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press\, Oxford\, 1977: Chicago University Press Paperback\, 1992; Oxford University Press\, New Delhi\, 2013); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations (Cambridge University Press\, 1994); Indian Art\, Oxford Art History Series (Oxford University Press\, Oxford\, 2002); The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde – 1922-1947 (Reaktion Books\, London\, Oxford University Press\, New Delhi\, 2007).  \nMitter was Radhakrishnan Lecturer at All Souls College\, Oxford in 1992 and Getty Visiting Professor at Bogazici University\, Istanbul in 2011. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton; Getty Research Institute\, Los Angeles; Clark Art Institute\, Williamstown\, Massachusetts; and CASVA\, National Gallery of Art\, Washington DC. In 2000 he was invited by the Indian Government to set up the School of Art and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.  \nIn 1982 he curated and wrote an introduction to the catalogue of an exhibition on the history of Indian photography for the Photographers Gallery\, London. At present he is Emeritus Professor in Art History\, University of Sussex\, Member of Wolfson College\, Oxford and Adjunct Research Professor\, Carleton University\, Ontario\, Canada. In 2008 he received an Honorary D.Lit. degree from the Courtauld Institute\, London University. \n \nAnuradha Luther Maitra received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University\, and has served UC Santa Cruz in many capacities: Professor of Economics\, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on International Initiatives\, UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and President. In the year 2001\, she established the Sidhartha Maitra Lecture Series on Humanism\, Reason and Tolerance in memory of her late husband “with a little bit of help from my friends”: Vikram Seth delivered the Inaugural Lecture ‘Friendship and Poetry’\, and Kiran and Arjun Malhotra provided the founding endowment. \n  \nThis premier campus event series seeks to enrich the intellectual life of the campus and the community\, and is made possible thanks to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture endowment. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-sidhartha-maitra-memorial-lecture-featuring-dr-partha-mitter/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Christian Ruvalcaba
DESCRIPTION:Christian Ruvalcaba\, 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-christian-ruvalcaba/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Karen Feldman - The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg\, Felski\, and Bottomless Critique
DESCRIPTION:–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-feldman-the-reality-of-suspicion-on-blumenberg-felski-and-bottomless-critique/
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:Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies  \nIn Recording History\, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like\, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present. \nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 26\, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-silver-recording-history-jews-muslims-and-music-across-twentieth-century-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eric Stanley - Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
DESCRIPTION:Eric Stanley in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell & FMST Grad Student Kaiya Gordon. \nPresented by the Feminist Studies Department. \nRecent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans\, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence\, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the US — a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on archives of suicide notes\, AIDS histories\, surveillance tapes\, and prison interviews\, Stanley offers a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies. Calling for trans/queer organizing and world-making beyond these forms\, they point to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures. \nJoin via zoom link here. \nEric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley\, where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-stanley-atmospheres-of-violence-structuring-antagonism-and-the-trans-queer-ungovernable/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:"DOLORES" Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on April 26\, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt\, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient\, and view his film DOLORES\, which will be introduced by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. After the screening\, Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón will lead a conversation with Peter. \n \nPeter Bratt (1986 Cowell College\, Politics) is a Rockefeller Fellow\, a Peabody Award winner\, an Emmy-nominated film producer\, writer\, director\, community organizer\, and social justice activist. Born and raised in San Francisco by a strong\, indigenous\, single mother from Peru\, his family was part of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz\, the Wounded Knee stand-off\, and the Farm Workers Movement. \nPeter wrote\, produced and directed DOLORES\, a feature documentary about civil rights icon Dolores Huerta that was executive produced by legendary musician Carlos Santana. DOLORES debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and has won numerous awards\, including a 2018 Peabody Award and a Critic’s Circle Award. \nPresented by the Division of Social Sciences and the Delores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dolores-film-screening-and-distinguished-social-sciences-alumni-award/
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre
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SUMMARY:Roberta Wue - Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
DESCRIPTION:The sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20)\, these curious and vivid portraits function in a new space of intercultural commerce and exchange\, as articulated through their unusual materials\, crafting\, and authorship. \nRoberta Wue works on late Qing and early twentieth-century China\, with a particular interest in painting\, photography\, print culture\, and intermediality. Her work examines issues of audience and picturing\, while analyzing genre\, heterogeneity and hybridity\, seriality\, and movement in modern Chinese art and visual culture. She is the author of Art Worlds: Artists\, Images\, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai. \n\nFree and open to the campus community and the public. \nPresented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roberta-wue-inventing-the-chinese-craftsman-amoy-chinqua-and-the-18th-century-export-portrait/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Laura Jaramillo
DESCRIPTION:Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens\, New York living in Durham\, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. \n\n\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-laura-jaramillo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation\, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks\, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks\, our practices of teaching and learning can and should be as transformative and revolutionary as what we teach. More than three decades ago\, not long after she finished her graduate work on this campus\, hooks offered us a roadmap to transform educational practice to be equitable\, student-centered\, relationship-rich\, and dynamically engaged. In this talk\, Jody will revisit hooks’ influence on recent efforts to reshape teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz as it takes up the challenge of being a genuinely minority-serving institution. \nAs CITL comes to the close of its seventh year\, we are marking the end of the first phase of our development. This Spring\, CITL will be merging with Online Education to create a single\, integrated Teaching and Learning Center. In June\, Founding Director Jody Greene will be stepping down to make way for new leadership for the Center in the next phase of its evolution. Please join us at 5:00pm for a reception\, followed by the lecture which will begin at 5:45pm. \nRegister to attend in person – RSVP requested by April 18\, 2023 \nRegister to attend virtually \nJody Greene came to UC Santa Cruz in 1998 and has served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness. 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. \nRecent publications include a collection\, co-edited with Sharif Youssef\, The Hostile Takeover: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood (Toronto\, 2020)\, and op-eds in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. 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). In 2016\, they were appointed the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and they now serve as UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. In 2021\, they were appointed Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. \nEach year\, CITL hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. This event is presented by the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liberation-pedagogy-bell-hooks-and-teaching-learning-as-emancipatory-practice-featuring-jody-greene/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Caste\, Class\, and Race:  Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste\, Class\, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction \nKeynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean?\nSusan Gilman\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Literature \nLectures & Discussions:\nG.S. Sahota\, UCSC\nLaura Brueck\, Northwestern University\nIvy Wilson\, Northwestern University\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, UCSC \nZoom: 99270004783 PW: aurora \nPresented by the Aurora Chair in Sikh/Punjabi Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanitites Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caste-class-and-race-inter-areal-studies-of-socio-cultural-contradiction/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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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/april_30_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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