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SUMMARY:Alev Çinar - The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
DESCRIPTION:After winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922\, Turkey set on a secular\, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology\, Kemalism\, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed the Ottoman system and Islam as inferior\, backward\, and uncivilized. First forms of what I refer to as “Islamic decolonial thought\,” or Islamic decoloniality\, emerged against this backdrop in the 1950s\, which later developed into a collection of diverse intellectual movements constituting the current Islamic intellectual field (IIF) in Turkey. This study examines the Sufi-based political thought of Turkish Muslim poet and writer Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) as one of the pioneers of Islamic decolonial thought in Turkey. Necip Fazıl\, who is current President Erdogan’s main ideological inspiration\, was the founder and lead writer of the The Great East (Büyük Doğu) journal published in 1943-1978\, which is considered to be Turkey’s first Islam-based political journal that was instrumental in inspiring numerous political and intellectual movements currently active in the IIF. \nAlev Çınar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University\, Turkey. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Bogazici University; Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania\, and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the International Center for Advanced Studies\, New York University\, and the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \n\nShe is the author of Modernity\, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies Places and Time; co-editor of Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City\, and of Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt\, Lebanon\, Turkey\, India. She also has articles that have appeared in journals such as the Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Theory\, Culture and Society\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. \nHistory of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details. \nTalk co-sponsored by CMENA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alev-cinar-the-predicament-of-islamic-decoloniality-in-turkey-sufi-political-thought-and-the-great-east-project-of-necip-fazil-kisakurek-2/
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:Hanna Musiol – Wounded Landscapes and Maps of Hurt: Breaths\, Scars\, and Tender Story-Sharing
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media \nMaps always sense and often cut. Much has been written about their violence\, as an overture for the genocidal touch\, as a prospecting tool priming landscapes for material and narrative extraction\, or as an instrument of attritional social neglect (Lo Presti). Hegemonic cartographies live off of elisions of “disposable bodies” and on demarcation lines which construct architectures of harm (Lambert). This talk focuses instead on scars\, gasps of pain\, cartographic story-sharing\, and maps of hurt. It is thus an homage to marginalized but not marginal bodies\, stories and breaths\, all demanding oxygen\, care\, delight\, and a “right to co-existence” (Holmes). Drawing on the work of feminist\, diasporic\, and critical race thinkers\, architects\, poets\, human geographers\, and Indigenous Arctic mixmedia practitioners—Katherine McKittrick\, Olga Lehmann\, Pia Arke\, Afaa Weaver\, Laura Lo Presti\, Johnny Pitts\, Eliane Brum\, Viktorija Bogdanova\, among many others—Musiol will center on site-specific cartographic acts of “tender narration” involving artivists\, architects\, mappers\, students\, and literary scholars working together in art galleries\, on the page\, in our classrooms\, and in the streets (Tokarczuk). Specifically\, she will meander across several sites and rehearsals of remapping: Afaa Weavers’s and Viktorija Bogdanova’s poetic maps of spaces that “hurt us” and Sissel Bergh’s textual cartographies of South Sámi coast; monumental\, yet ephemeral urban-scale poetic storytelling actions taking over the streets\, pages\, bodies\, and facades in Trondheim and Hiedanranta; and\, finally\, site-specific pedagogies of cartographic story-sharing\, which draw on the ambulatory\, resuscitative\, biosocial oxygen-delivery affordances of poetry (in polylingual urban poetic ensembles and Søstrene Suse’s Radiokino listening seances). The talk will conclude with reflection about the cartographic acts of “repair\,” tenderness\, and “unlearning” (Azoulay)\, asking\, after Josie Billington and Pia Arke\, how we\, literary and cultural scholars and students\, can attend to the wounded bodies and landscapes “personally\,” using our meager disciplinary tools and “enfleshed” cartographies of hurt (Sharpe). \nHanna Musiol (PhD\, Northeastern University) is Professor of Modern/Contemporary Literature at NTNU (Norway) and a 2022–2023 Human Rights Fellow at SUNY Binghamton (US). Her research interests include transnational literary studies\, site-specific transmedia storytelling and reparative reading practices\, and critical theory\, with emphasis on migration\, environmental humanities / political ecology\, and environmental and human rights. She publishes frequently on aesthetics and justice\, and her work has appeared in DHQ\, ASAP/J\, Environment\, Space\, and Place\, Technology of Human Rights Representation\, Journal of American Studies\, and Writing Beyond the State. Musiol regularly co-organizes city-scale curatorial\, public humanities\, and civic-engagement initiatives and exhibitions\, such as Narrating the City\, Of Borders and Travelers\, Spectral Landscapes\, and Resist as Forest. She is based in Trondheim\, where she frequently collaborates with grassroots urban storytelling initiatives such as Literature for Inclusion & Poetry without Borders. She is currently involved in several transborder research projects devoted to spatial storytelling: Narrating Sustainability\, One by Walking\, Environmental Storytelling\, and Environmental Practices Across Borders. \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/hanna-musiol-wounded-landscapes-and-maps-of-hurt-breaths-scars-and-tender-story-sharing/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land  Book Talk and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land\, examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache\, Tohono O’odham\, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Exploring the logic of borders\, Schaeffer turns to Indigenous sacred sciences and ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance\, extraction\, and occupation. \nFelicity Schaeffer is a UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is also the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas\, and co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship. \nThis event is presented by the Feminist Studies Department\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and The Center for Racial Justice \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unsettled-borders-the-militarized-science-of-surveillance-on-sacred-indigenous-land-book-talk-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Labor Hope\, Labor Reality: Organizing Unions in 2023 - An Evening with E. Tammy Kim
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 3\, at 5:30pm in the Namaste Lounge (College Nine)\, New Yorker writer and co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye E. Tammy Kim will be giving a talk on the state of labor activism and organizing\, followed by a panel discussion with writer\, organizer\, and doctoral candidate in Sociology Sarah Mason and Unite Here member and organizer Martha Hernandez. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and UCSC Library\, with support from the Anthropology Department. \nE. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker who covers labor and the workplace\, arts and culture\, and the Koreas. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, the London Review of Books\, and the Nation\, among many other publications. With Jay Caspian Kang\, she co-hosts the podcast Time to Say Goodbye\, which New York Magazine described as “not just about the concept of ‘Asian America\,’ but\, in many ways\, the broader discourse of race in America\, which it tries to complicate in provocative\, meaningful ways.” A contributing editor at Lux\, she has been an Alicia Patterson fellow and a fellow at Type Media Center\, and she is the current Writer-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. She also co-edited Punk Ethnography\, a book about contemporary world music. \nSarah Mason is a writer\, organizer\, and PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her writing has appeared in the New Left Review\, Logic Magazine\, the Guardian\, and New Politics. She is a head steward in UAW 2865. \nMartha Hernandez is a member of Unite Here. A union leader in the Dream Inn\, where she has worked as a housekeeper for twenty-six years\, Hernandez is a Union Shop Steward and member of the Union Negotiating Committee. She was named Union Member of the Year in 2015.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-hope-labor-reality-organizing-unions-in-2021-an-evening-with-e-tammy-kim/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Salon: Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:On Salon: A new reading series featuring UCSC’s incredible writers and poets. Join us for a new quarterly reading series sponsored by the Literature Department featuring graduate and undergraduate creative writers: Angie Sijun Lou\, Kristen Nelson\, Alicia Gutierrez\, Fio Harden\, Isla Oyguy\, Charissa Zeigler.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-salon-a-new-reading-series-featuring-ucscs-incredible-writers-and-poets/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T200000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon
DESCRIPTION:On May 4\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. \nFaculty Speakers\n\nJorge Menna Barreto\, Environmental Art\nMike Beck\, Marine Sciences\, Director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience\nJody Biehl\, Literature and Science Communication Program\nSikina Jinnah\, Environmental Studies\n\n\n\nNot in Santa Cruz? Register for Zoom access. \nEvent Logistics\nBicycling\, 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. \n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL\, pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference\, held in the spring at a university in western North America. It is a top international venue for researchers in theoretical linguistics\, studying any aspect of human language from a formal perspective\, including phonology\, morphology\, syntax\, semantics\, and their interfaces. The first WCCFL was held in 1982\, and it has previously been hosted by UC Santa Cruz four times\, most recently in 2012. The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41) will take place on May 5-7\, 2023 at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nInvited speakers:\nLuke Adamson\, Rutgers University\nDorothy Ahn\, Rutgers University\nEva Zimmerman\, University of Leipzig \nAt this time\, all talks in both main and special sessions are planned for in person presentation. In addition to one in-person person session\, there will be one virtual poster session. \nFull conference information can be found at: https://babel.ucsc.edu/wccfl41/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-41st-west-coast-conference-on-formal-linguistics/
LOCATION:Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Debjani Bhattarcharyya – Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics\, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean\, 1770-1850
DESCRIPTION:“Climate Ledgers” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. \n \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Debjani Bhattarcharyya\, University of Zurich
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debjani-bhattarcharyya-climate-ledgers-atmospheric-politics-risk-and-liability-in-the-indian-ocean-1770-1850/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Encore Papers & Presentations
DESCRIPTION:This crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress\, or re-deliver papers they have given in professional venues (such as conferences\, workshops\, etc.). Attendees are invited to actively and passively participate\, and speakers will provide notes\, a script\, and/or links to slides for access. The event is presented by the Humanities Institute’s Disability Studies Cluster. \nSCHEDULE \nAutism Life Writing\nCaitlin Flaws\, Literature \nAutoethnography\, Undone: Towards a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism\nMegan Moodie\, Anthropology \nBeyond UDL: Improving Accessibility through Asynchronous Activities\nDr. Brenda Sanfilippo\, Writing Program \nThe Mortification of Harvey Leach\nDr. Michael Chemers\, Performance\, Play & Design \nToward an Access Manifesto for the Food Limited\nDr. Amy Vidali\, Writing Program \nWhat Might a History Course on Disabilities in East Asia Look Like?\nDr. Noriko Aso\, History \nNOTE: This is a scent-free event. If you need a specific accommodation for this event (including professional captioning and/or ASL interpreting)\, please contact Amy Vidali at avidali@ucsc.edu with what you need. (Disclosing why you need this accommodation is not required.)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/encore-papers-presentations/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T130000
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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-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:2023 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Wendy Brown – After Humanism and the Nation State: More Democracy\, Democracy that is More\, or Democracy No More?
DESCRIPTION:In most accounts of dangers to democracy today\, the value of the object is assumed. At the same time\, we know that the “demos” of Western democracy violently excludes all nonhuman life and much of humanity too. Democracy is no form apart from this content\, no principle floating freely above these histories. Democracy also requires certain cultural\, educational and economic conditions; certain spatialities and temporalities; and modest access to visible levers of power. Absent these\, the vox populi may well become a terrible\, and terrifying\, screech. This talk reflects on these and other predicaments of democracy today. It asks\, without answering\, how to approach this imperiled creature now. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin at 4:00pm\, with a Q&A and reception to follow.\nDoors will open at 3:30pm \n \nVirtual attendance \nWendy Brown (Crown ’77\, Politics and Economics double major) is UPS Foundation Professor in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton and Class of 1936 Chair\, Emeritus\, at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author\, most recently\, of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (2019) and Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (2023). From 1989-99\, Professor Brown taught at UCSC in the Department of Women’s Studies and worked closely with Helene Moglen to build Feminist Studies. \nThis lecture is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies and made possible by the Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities for the Center for Cultural Studies Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Politics. \nIf you have any questions or concerns\, please contact Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-helene-moglen-lecture-in-feminism-and-humanities-with-wendy-brown-after-humanism-and-the-nation-state-more-democracy-democracy-that-is-more-or-democracy-no-more/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Student & Public Engagement with Historic Sites
DESCRIPTION:3D technologies\, such as LiDAR and photogrammetry\, are being used by archaeologists at sites all over the world\, frequently to record the state of preservation of standing architecture or document field excavations. But 3D and Virtual Reality (VR) can also be used to digitally ‘re-imagine’ or visualize aspects of historic places that are no longer accessible due to landscape change\, the passage of time\, and modern development. Students and the public can ‘virtually travel’ across space and time\, experiencing visualizations of historic sites on different continents or centuries in the past. This one-day event\, Virtual Reality as ‘Virtual Traveling’ for Public Engagement with Historic Sites\, brings together scholars working on the question of Humanities VR and ‘virtual travel’ for presentations and discussion. The workshop will focus on questions of user experience and interaction\, educational design\, ethics\, and the concept of ‘cultural presence’ when virtually traveling (gaming scholar Erik Champion’s theory of ‘being there\, then’). \n \nPresenters \n\nDr. Rita Lucarelli\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UC Berkeley\nDr. Eiman Elgewely\, School of Design\, Virginia Tech\nDr. Matthias Lang\, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities\, Bonn University\nDr. Vincenzo Lombardo\, Department of Informatics\, Università degli Studi di Torino\nPh.D. Candidate Maureen McGuire\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nDr. Cameron Monroe\, Anthropology\, UCSC\nDr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez\, State Park Historian II & Tribal Liaison Santa Cruz District\, California State Parks\n\nOrganized by Dr. Elaine Sullivan\, History\, UCSC and sponsored by the Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-reality-as-virtual-traveling-for-student-public-engagement-with-historic-sites/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T120000
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Cruz Guttierrez – Vernaculars of Plant Knowing: Woven Transformations in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Gutierrez will share from her first book project on the history of colonial botany in the Philippines. The book argues that vernaculars of plant knowing made and unmade botany at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, when imperial Anglo-European botanists banded together to steady the philosophical and practical tenets of the science under an internationalist banner. Taking as her case study the contrapuntal story of Bagobo weavers and the acceleration of abacá plantations in the Philippines\, Gutierrez demonstrates the disciplinary makings of the science that enabled transformative settler-colonial currents in the Pacific colony’s southern gulf. \nKathleen “Kat” Cruz Gutierrez is Assistant professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2021 and 2022\, she completed Mellon-funded postdoctoral and interdisciplinary residencies at the Humanities Institute of the New York Botanical Garden and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. A specialist of the history of science and the plant humanities\, she is the co-editor of the forthcoming special issue “Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines” in Philippine Studies. Since joining UCSC\, she has also served as co-PI on the interdivisional campus-community research initiative\, Watsonville is in the Heart. \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/kathleen-cruz-guttierrez-vernaculars-of-plant-knowing-woven-transformations-in-the-early-20th-century-davao-gulf/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230427T202831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T200755Z
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SUMMARY:From Symptom to Story: Understanding an Epidemic of Kidney Disease in Central America
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to construct a “cause” of disease? What is the primary source material we consult as we write the narrative of a new disease? When it comes to public health\, how do we fairly and accurately reflect scientific evidence\, personal experience\, and community knowledge? In this talk\, journalist Anna Maria Barry-Jester will use these questions to chart the history of a particular epidemic of chronic kidney disease that\, since the early aughts\, has been recognized as a leading cause of death in parts of Central America. In the two decades that followed\, the global understanding of this condition has expanded to a growing list of communities\, including war-torn parts of Sri Lanka\, agrarian sectors of India and migrant guest workers from Nepal. Drawing from nearly 20 years of reporting — including interviews\, photography\, video\, and scientific literature — Barry-Jester will explore the shifting narratives of the emergence of a disease and interrogate what becomes evidence and how it informs public understanding of disease and its causes. \nPlease email Jennifer Derr (jderr@ucsc.edu) if you would like to RSVP for this event. \nAnna Barry-Jester is a public health reporter with ProPublica. Previously\, she was a senior correspondent covering public health at Kaiser Health News. Her series “Underfunded and Under Threat\,” with colleagues at KHN and The Associated Press\, investigated how chronically underfunded public health departments buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. The project won awards from the Online News Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her reporting on harassment and menacing threats endured by public health officials was the basis of an episode of “This American Life\,” and PEN America later awarded its PEN/Benenson Courage Award to the officials who she profiled. Barry-Jester has lived and worked in Latin America and Southeast Asia\, where she has reported\, photographed and filmed stories in more than a dozen countries. She was a writer at FiveThirtyEight and a producer at Univision and ABC News. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-symptom-to-story-understanding-an-epidemic-of-kidney-disease-in-central-america/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T134500
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230427T203433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T200707Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Barry-Jester Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome Anna Barry-Jester\, who will lead a reading group exploring explanations of the causes of drug-resistant tuberculosis and the subsequent policy implications. One article looks at the history of TB control policy\, and how “cost-effective” strategies bred drug resistance. Two recent commentaries debate the deployment of new TB treatments in absence of sufficient diagnostic capacity. A fourth article examines the legality of a policy framework that gave different treatment protocols for resource-poor and resource-rich countries. Barry-Jester hopes we can draw on past and current policy debates and decisions to discuss the narratives surrounding what causes drug-resistant TB in order to think about policies at scale. \nEmail Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings. \nAnna Barry-Jester is a public health reporter with ProPublica. Previously\, she was a senior correspondent covering public health at Kaiser Health News. Her series “Underfunded and Under Threat\,” with colleagues at KHN and The Associated Press\, investigated how chronically underfunded public health departments buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. The project won awards from the Online News Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her reporting on harassment and menacing threats endured by public health officials was the basis of an episode of “This American Life\,” and PEN America later awarded its PEN/Benenson Courage Award to the officials who she profiled. Barry-Jester has lived and worked in Latin America and Southeast Asia\, where she has reported\, photographed and filmed stories in more than a dozen countries. She was a writer at FiveThirtyEight and a producer at Univision and ABC News. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-barry-jester-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T172000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230404T044608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T045450Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Ryan Eckes
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Other books include Valu-Plus and Old News (Furniture Press 2014\, 2011). His poetry can be found in Tripwire\, Slow Poetry in America Newsletter\, Public Pool\, and elsewhere. He won a Pew Fellowship in 2016. \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-ryan-eckes/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T203000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230508T195920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T195920Z
UID:10007267-1683831600-1683837000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Creating Art in/with Community: A Conversation with Josúe Rojas and Professor John Jota Leaños
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public conversation at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences between artist Josúe Rojas and Professor John Jota Leaños (Executive Committee of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas). Josué Rojas is a Salvadoran-American artist from the Bay Area who has done murals throughout the country. Exploring subjects such as identity\, immigration\, and culture in his work\, Rojas will be discussing his artistic practice in/with community. He is the Huerta Center’s artist-in-residence for Spring quarter\, a residency which is being generously cosponsored with the Arts Research Institute’s Arts and Oppression initiative\, the Institute for Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, and the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civil Engagement’s VOICE initiative. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creating-art-in-with-community-a-conversation-with-josue-rojas-and-professor-john-jota-leanos/
LOCATION:The Institute of the Arts & Sciences Gallery\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230513
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20221021T190950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T190950Z
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SUMMARY:Future Ancestral Technologies Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Future Ancestral Technologies is an exhibition by Cannupa Hanska Luger with mixed-media sculpture\, regalia\, and video\, all based in myth\, science fiction\, and Indigenous futurism. \nScience fiction has the power to shape collective thinking and serves as a vehicle to imagine the future on a global scale. Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies is Indigenous science fiction. It is a methodology\, a practice\, a way of future dreaming\, rooted in a continuum. Future Ancestral Technologies is an approach to making art objects\, video\, and land based performance with the intent to influence global consciousness. This Indigenous-centered science fiction uses creative storytelling to radically reimagine the future. Moving sci-fi theory into practice\, this methodology conjures innovative life-based solutions that promote a thriving Indigeneity. \nThis Indigenous science fiction is characterized by regalia\, tools\, shelter\, transportation\, and technology which invite the viewer to experience multiple points of entry into Luger’s sci-fi narrative and myth telling through multiple symbiotic landscapes. The ongoing narrative developed by installation and land based work articulates future spaces in which Indigenous people harness technology to live nomadically\, reclaiming hyper-attunement to land and water. Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies is a story\, a methodology\, a practice\, a way of futurism\, that suggests alternative approaches to recognizing the future with reverence. \nUsing art practice to adopt science fiction\, Future Ancestral Technologies is a context for dismantling time to imagine the distant future and dream of sustainable approaches to the lived experiences of the generations to come. Using traditional craft and the act of making creates futuristic potential\, the process imagines\, enacts and prototypes experiences and technologies that promote Indigenous cultures to thrive into the future. \nFuture Ancestral Technologies challenges and empowers humans—from individuals to industries—to visualize an Indigenous future and to practice empathy and resourcefulness in epochs to come. \n“Future Ancestral Technologies looks to customs in order to move us forward\, advancing new materials and new modes of thinking by utilizing science fiction theory\, creative storytelling\, Indigenous technology and contemporary materials and the detritus of capitalism to present time bending landscapes of myth. ” –Cannupa Hanska Luger \nThis exhibition will run from May 12-September 3\, 2023 and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nFor full exhibition information please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/future-ancestral-technologies \nHeader Image: Future Ancestral Technologies ++ a generation of new myth ++ 3 channel video installation\, featuring monster slayer regalia\, mirí aráda + awá ahbáaxi. (image still) Cannupa Hanska Luger 2021. Photo by Gabe Fermin. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/future-ancestral-technologies-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230514
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230314T164437Z
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SUMMARY:Transnational Turns and the Future of China Studies
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to do China studies at this global conjuncture? What has “transnational” got to do with it\, why now\, and why again? What future promises and possibilities can it still bring? This two-day workshop featuring multi-disciplinary scholars of China and Chinese studies\, as well as a conversation with Rey Chow\, Duke University\, on the thirtieth anniversary of her publication Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (Indiana University Press\, 1993). For full workshop description and program\, please click here. \nThis event will be held in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210. For participants who would like to join the workshop virtually\, please register here. \nOrganized by the Transnational China research hub\, a seed project at the Humanities Institute\, funded by the UCSC Office of Research. Co-sponsored by UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television and the Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/transnational-turns-and-the-future-of-china-studies/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230515
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230426T021709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T164039Z
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SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP XXI)
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 21st season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXI)\, May 12\, 13\, and 14\, at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson  Event Center at UCSC. The program of fully-staged multilingual performances in French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English supertitles\, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors.  \nThere is no admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00.  \nThis year’s presentation in Japanese will consist of a demonstration of a Taiko performance of “Yashiro no Uta (The Song of the Shrine) composed by Ikuyo Conant/ Artistic Director of Watsonville Taiko Group\, after a brief  explanation of what Taiko is.  \nFrench will be represented by Art (Art)\, a light reflection on the value of art\, adapted and directed\, from the eponymous play by Yasmina Reza\, by Renée Cailloux.  \nFinally\, Spanish will bring us “Rompiendo el hielo” (“Breaking the Ice”)\, an original contemporary comedy piece\, written  and performed by students\, that follows a grocery store staff on a not so ordinary day.  \nOver the years\, our multilingual theater presentations have attracted loyal audiences\, who look forward to experiencing  their native or acquired languages in this unusual format\, and we cordially invite the community to attend this year’s  presentation.   \nFor more information\, please contact Renee Cailloux (rcaillou@ucsc.edu)  or consult https://cowell.ucsc.edu/academics/cw-related-programs/meip/index.html.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-20th-season-of-the-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-meip-xx/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T150000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20221216T174650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T174650Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
DESCRIPTION:Argyro Katsika\, UC Santa Barbara \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-argyro-katsika/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T170000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230502T201634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T201942Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz County History Fair
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Santa Cruz County’s diverse history by connecting with local historical and cultural organizations and groups. Enjoy hands-on activities\, artifacts\, photographs\, publications\, and more. Between 20 and 30 local museums\, historians\, historical societies\, and other groups will have displays and activities.  Presented by the San Lorenzo Valley History Museum. Co-sponsored by the Felton Community Hall and the Humanities Institute. Free admission.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-county-history-fair-2/
LOCATION:Felton Community Hall\, 6191 Highway 9\, Felton\, CA\, 95018\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T220000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230427T042429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T165642Z
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SUMMARY:Crossing Borders - An Evening of Philosophical Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Large and small\, visible and hidden\, borders weave in and out of our lives along varied dimensions. Some we can see\, many we cannot. Some we celebrate\, others confine us. Some we are aware of\, many remain undiscovered. There are political borders and national borders; psychological\, social\, scientific\, and biological borders. What are borders? Can anything be conceived as involving a border? Come think with us on the evening of May 13 at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences building\, designed for vibrant possibility. Choose among rooms with synchronic presentations and performances\, led by poets\, philosophers\, scientists\, and artists. Muse with us\, ponder with us\, and talk with one another\, as together each of us travels across\, within\, and at the borders calling to us on this particular evening. \nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, with support and participation of The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, and the Philosophical Slug Society. \nFree and open to the public \nTo read more about this event see The Institute of the Arts and Sciences website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crossing-borders-an-evening-of-philosophical-discussion/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T132000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230412T033524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T033955Z
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SUMMARY:Opus Cope: Screening and Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Jae Shim screens his award-winning documentary Opus Cope: An Algorithmic Opera which celebrates the groundbreaking work of algorithmic composer David Cope (UCSC emeritus Professor) and the profound ways in which humans and machines (AI) can be creative. \nDavid Cope has been a firm believer that creativity is everywhere\, and his work reflects these values of compassion and understanding\, where humans and AI are not necessarily at odds with each other. This collaboration between human and machine resulted from his own creative block in the 80’s which led to the first algorithmically composed opera. \nPresented by the Music Department and cosponsored by the Arts Research Institute and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/opus-cope-screening-and-dialogue/
LOCATION:DARC 108\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230512T223514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T224114Z
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SUMMARY:Deep Read San Diego Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow Deep Readers for a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station on May 15\, 2023\, to discuss this year’s Deep Read book: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. We’ll learn about the stark changes taking place in the world and explore the efforts to adapt and survive in this era of climate change. \n \nPlease RSVP to reserve your spot at this exciting event\, as space is limited. \nAs part of The Deep Read program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, this event is designed to invite curious minds like yours to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. Even if you haven’t read the book\, we encourage you to come and enjoy the discussion and connect with fellow San Diego alumni. \nBeer and light bites provided by Steve Wagner (Crown)\, a UC Santa Cruz alumnus & co-founder of Stone Brewing! \nTo learn more about The Deep Read\, and to sign up for the program\, please visit https://thi.ucsc.edu/deep-read/. \nFaculty Speaker: Laura Martin (Ph.D. ’08\, literature) began working with The Humanities Institute team in 2019 on the Deep Read Initiative\, a community reading program that brings together undergraduate and graduate students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and members of the community to think deeply about literature\, art\, and important issues of our time. Laura teaches the undergraduate Deep Read course at Porter College\, manages the Deep Read program\, and assists with other THI projects. She is a literary scholar\, writer\, and teacher\, and she holds a PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. \nAbout the host: Steve Wagner (Crown) is a co-founder of the national brewing company Stone Brewing and an alumnus of UC Santa Cruz. He is a strong supporter of the university’s Humanities Institute\, the Literature Department\, and affiliated graduate students. Wagner was transformed by his time as a student at UCSC\, where he studied English literature and was inspired by the radical education system and inspiring professors.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-san-diego-salon/
LOCATION:Stone Brewing Liberty Station\, 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116\, San Diego\, CA\, 92106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T163000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230420T165208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T165208Z
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SUMMARY:Chiara Bottici - Anarchafeminism
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/chiara-bottici-anarchafeminism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T160000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230504T032412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T033155Z
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SUMMARY:The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Inaugural Lecture by Asif Siddiqi
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend the inaugural lecture for The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series\, taking place on Wednesday\, May 17th\, 2023\, at 2:00pm at the Cowell Provost House.  This event will also be livestreamed and recorded: Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series Inaugural Lecture. \nDrawing on insights from Maya Peterson’s work on water management projects in Central Asia\, this talk focuses on the design and construction of the infamous White Sea-Baltic Canal in the Soviet north in the early 1930s. Known colloquially as the Belomor Canal\, this was the very first infrastructural project to use mass forced labor from the emerging Gulag camp system. Despite the death of some 10\,000 laborers in building the canal\, the project was advertised internationally as a successful monument to the ability of humans to remake the natural world. In his paper\, Professor Siddiqi focuses on the role of scientists and engineers who designed and built the canal\, one which came to represent a form of “hydraulic monumentalism” so emblematic of Soviet modernity. As instruments of a form of internal colonization of Soviet space\, these scientists and engineers embraced\, some under coercion and some freely\, the use of mass forced labor as a solution to large-scale engineering projects across the Soviet Union. The outcome was a deeply damaging but enduring relationship between scientific expertise\, the natural environment\, and the constitution of Soviet empire. \nAsif Siddiqi is a professor of history at Fordhamm University\, and specializes in the history of science and technology and modern Russian history. \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is being sponsored by The Maya K. Peterson Memorial Endowment\, the UCSC History Department\, and The Humanities Institute. \nThe Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series at UCSC honors the life and spirit of a brilliant scholar\, teacher\, and mentor whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 2021. A specialist in Russian\, Central Asian and environmental history\, Maya was a valued member of UCSC’s faculty in the History Department and the Humanities Division. The Explorations in History Seminar Series celebrates Maya’s passions for the study of history\, for dialogue between the humanities and the sciences\, and for innovative scholarship across disciplines—passions that she shared generously with students\, colleagues\, and communities around the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maya-k-peterson-explorations-in-history-seminar-series-inaugural-lecture-by-asif-siddiqi/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T203000
DTSTAMP:20260510T030858
CREATED:20230421T034908Z
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SUMMARY:Alice Yang in Conversation with Cathy Choy: Author of "Asian American Histories of the United States"
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month\, we are pleased to present an engaging opportunity to learn about the histories that make up the Asian and Pacific Islander Diaspora in the United States. Join us for light refreshments and a lively discussion with UCSC Professor of History Alice Yang and Cathy Choy. \nTo register for this event\, visit the Santa Cruz Public Library website. \nCatherine Ceniza Choy is an award-winning Asian American historian and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author of Asian American Histories of the United States  (2022) published by Beacon Press in their ReVisioning History book series. The book features the themes of violence\, erasure\, and resistance in a nearly 200 year history of Asian migration\, labor\, and community formation in the US. It was awarded a 2022 Kirkus Star from Kirkus Reviews for books of exceptional merit; named a Best of 2022 Nonfiction Book by Kirkus Reviews and Ms. Magazine; and featured in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s 2023 National Day of Racial Healing book list and the Texas Library Association’s 2023 Texas Topaz Reading List. \nChoy’s first book\, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (2003)\, explored how and why the Philippines became the leading exporter of professional nurses to the United States. Empire of Care received the 2003 American Journal of Nursing History and Public Policy Book Award and the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. Her second book\, Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (2013)\, unearthed the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia. A CHOICE book review of Global Families concluded: “A useful corrective to one-dimensional\, romantic portraits of adoption that saturate popular culture today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. *** All levels/libraries.” Choy also co-edited the anthology\, Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (2017)\, with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. \nAn engaged public scholar\, Choy has been interviewed and had her research cited in many media outlets\, including ABC 20/20\, The Atlantic\, CNN\, Los Angeles Times\, NBC News\, New York Times\, ProPublica\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Vox\, on topics such as anti-Asian\, coronavirus-related hate and violence\, the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on Filipino nurses in the United States\, and racism and misogyny in the March 16\, 2021 Atlanta spa shootings. \nChoy is Associate Dean of Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, Belonging\, and Justice in UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing\, Data Science\, and Society (CDSS). She is a former Department Chair of Ethnic Studies (2012-2015\, 2018-2019) and a former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies Division (2019-2021). Choy received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA and her B.A. in History from Pomona College. The daughter of Filipino immigrants\, she was born and raised in New York City. She lives in Berkeley with her husband Greg Choy. \nAlice Yang is chair of the History Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz and co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories.  She is also the oral history co-director of the Okinawan Memories Initiative. Between 2010 and 2020\, she served as provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. Alice teaches courses on Asian\, Asian American\, and Pacific Islander history\, transnational memories of the Pacific War\, oral history\, and comparative redress and reparations. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress\, Major Problems in Asian American History (co-editor)\, and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (editor). She is currently completing a manuscript on historical memories of Japanese American women’s activism between 1941 and 2021. She is also preparing an exhibit on Japanese American women’s history that is being funded by a California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund grant. She has served as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American History and an advisory board member for the exhibit Then They Came for Me: Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and the Demise of Civil Liberties. Her research has been funded by awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Luce Foundation\, and a UCSC Public Humanities\, Digital\, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alice-yang-in-conversation-with-cathy-choy-author-of-asian-american-histories-of-the-united-state/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Capitola
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Graduate Student Awards Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 19\, 2023 as we acknowledge the achievements of our exceptional graduate students at the inaugural Humanities Division Graduate Student Awards Celebration! This in-person event will take place at the Cowell College Provost House. The program will begin at 4:30 p.m\, with a reception to follow the ceremony. Friends and families of awardees are encouraged to celebrate with us. This event will follow the campus-wide Graduate Symposium and Graduate Alumni Brunch.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-graduate-student-awards-celebration/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Ezra Klein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of the 2023 Deep Read—a live discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and NY Times columnist and podcast host Ezra Klein. We’ll discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, Under a White Sky\, which depicts the stark changes and emerging technologies affecting our climate and world. \nThis event will take place at the UC Santa Cruz Quarry Amphitheater. Students\, staff\, alumni\, and the broader community are invited to join and think deeply with two of the greatest minds working today to explain our complicated world. While this event will not be live streamed\, it will be recorded. Deep Read Community members will be the first to receive the video once it goes live following the event. \n\nSchedule\n3:00pm – Meet our community partners\n4:00pm – Program begins \nAbout the Speakers\n Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, her book about mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field began as an article in The New Yorker. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future was a national bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\, Time\, Esquire\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Publishers Weekly\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Library Journal. \nEzra Klein is an Opinion columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. His podcast\, The Ezra Klein Show\, receives more than a half-million downloads per episode and is routinely in the top 25 podcasts on Apple’s charts. Prior to his work at the Times\, Klein founded and launched Vox\, the popular explanatory news site. As Vox’s editor-in-chief\, and then its editor-at-large\, he helped create Explained on Netflix. In 2020\, Klein published Why We’re Polarized\, a bestselling examination of the forces driving polarization and paralyzing politics in the United States. Klein is a UC Santa Cruz alumnus. \nParking\nFree parking for this event will be in the East Remote Lot 104. There will be free shuttles taking attendees from the parking lot to the venue. \nDeep Read Faculty Salon\nOn May 4\, you’ll be able to join the conversation—either in person or online—at a salon-style event where our participating professors will lead a discussion of the book with UCSC students and the broader Deep Read community. Learn more here. \n\n\n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres\, exploring their implications on our politics\, inner lives\, and communities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-elizabeth-kolbert-in-conversation-with-ezra-klein/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin - Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
DESCRIPTION:In The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy\, Hannah Zeavin shows that\, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic\, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s real use of media in therapies over distance. \nZeavin reads epistolary and postal conventions in Freud’s moment\, intertwined with Freud’s own epistolary self-analysis (in correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess) and the unconventional treatment by correspondence of his only child patient\, the agoraphobic “Little Hans\,” in order to rethink the coincidental origins of psychoanalysis and teletherapy\, and to help us think through narratives of loss that attend current uses of technology to mediate therapy. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. \nPresented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hannah-zeavin-sigmund-freud-tele-analyst-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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SUMMARY:Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by The Center for World History \nFrom the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological studies of Bad Mothers. Newly codified diagnoses of aloof “refrigerator mothers” and overstimulating “hot mothers” were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this talk attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The talk thus elaborates a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” \nHannah Zeavin is a scholar\, writer\, and editor\, and works as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University and a Visiting Fellow at the Columbia University Center for The Study of Social Difference. Zeavin is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press\, 2021) and at work on her second book\, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press\, 2024). Articles have appeared in American Imago\, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies\, Technology and Culture\, Media\, Culture\, and Society\, and elsewhere. Essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming from Dissent\, The Guardian\, Harper’s Magazine\, n+1\, The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, and elsewhere. In 2021\, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis\, a new popular magazine for psychoanalysis on the left\, which will be releasing its first issue in Fall 2022. \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/hannah-zeavin-hot-and-cool-mothers-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benoit Challand – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by the THI Research Cluster Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East and Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology \nProviding a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011\, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East\, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation in the region in 2011. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship and marginalization in Yemen and Tunisia\, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation. He argues that a new collective imaginary\, or the collective force of the people\, emerged as a force\, representing itself as the sovereign power that could decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen\, Tunisia\, but also elsewhere in the Middle East\, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence\, representation\, and democracy. It compares the post-2011 efforts to build a decentralized political order in Tunisia with the calls for federalism in Yemen\, and the shared demands for democratic accountability over the means of coercion. \nBenoit Challand is Associate Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research\, New York. He is author of the books Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, and Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been translated into Arabic and he has numerous co-authored publications such as The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance (co-edited with F. Bicchi and S. Heydemann\, Routledge 2016)\, and Imagining Europe: Myth\, Memory and Identity\, co-authored with Chiara Bottici (Cambridge University Press 2013). He is also interested in democratic theory\, Western European Marxism\, and settler colonialism.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/may-25-benoit-challand-violence-and-representation-in-the-arab-uprisings/
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 -  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
DESCRIPTION:Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans. Her work\, which focuses on race\, culture\, and immigration\, has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Vogue\, Elle\, The New Republic\, The Daily Beast\, n+1\, The New Inquiry\, and Interview magazine. Born in Ecuador\, she later became one of the first undocumented students admitted to Harvard University. \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-karla-cornejo-villavicencio/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Julia Swan
DESCRIPTION:Julia Swan\, SJSU \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-julia-swan/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection\, First-Person Narration\, and the Mind by Tyson Stolte
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our May Pickwick Club talk by Associate Professor Tyson Stolte (New Mexico State University) who will be discussing Dickens and Victorian Psychology. \nDickens and Victorian Psychology returns Dickens’s fiction to the midst of nineteenth-century debates about the nature of the mind\, reading Dickens’s experiments with first-person point of view as part of his larger effort to insist upon a dualist psychology in the face of new physiological theories of consciousness. While psycho-physiology was widely seen by Victorian readers as a materialist threat to belief in our immortality\, Dickens’s incorporation into his fiction of the introspection that remained the key methodology for dualist psychologies allowed him to insist upon the irreducibility of consciousness—and the possibility of the mind’s surviving the body. Through a reading of The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, however\, this talk will also show how psycho-physiologists worked to drain the shared language of Victorian psychology of any meaning beyond the physical\, making it ever more difficult to theorize a psychology that transcended the here and now. \n\n\n \n\nTyson Stolte is an associate professor in the Department of English at New Mexico State University. His book Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection\, First-Person Narration\, and the Mind was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. He has also published articles on such topics as Dickens\, Robert Browning\, Edward FitzGerald\, Victorian psychology\, and nineteenth-century theories of matter and energy.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/may-2023-dickens-and-victorian-psychology-introspection-first-person-narration-and-the-mind-by-tyson-stolte/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Sebastián Gil-Riaño – Stolen Evidence: Indigenous Children and Bio-historical narratives of the Western Hemisphere during the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:The talk is sponsored by the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine \nThis talk examines how anthropologists and human biologists used abducted Indigenous children in South America as sources of evidence for a variety of bio-historical research projects during the Cold War. From 1930 to 1970\, human scientists studying the Aché — a traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherer group in Paraguay — used evidence derived from measuring\, bleeding\, and observing children in the service of research projects concerned with reconstructing global human migrations in the Western hemisphere. Through studies of Aché children and families\, scientists like the French naturalist Jehan Albert Vellard\, the U.S. human geneticist Carleton Gajdusek\, and the French structural anthropologists Pierre and Helen Clastres discerned ancient patterns of migration by considering the diffusion of cultural and linguistic traits\, the process of genetic drift in populations\, and the immunological effects of European conquest. Yet many of the Aché children used in these studies had been abducted and sold as servants to neighboring ranchers. By highlighting the use of stolen Indigenous children as research objects in Cold War human diversity research\, my talk uncovers the enduring and violent colonial structures that made this knowledge possible as well as the ethical and legal protocols and forms of Indigenous resistance that emerged in response. \nSebastián Gil-Riaño is an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennyslvania. Born in Colombia and raised in Canada\, he is a historian of science who studies transnational scientific conceptions of race\, culture\, and indigeneity in the twentieth century. His first book\, The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South will be published by Columbia University Press on August 31st\, 2023. \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/65284/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Euben - The Power of Humiliation: Rhetoric\, Retaliation and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:From Trump to ISIS to the Arab uprisings\, invocations of humiliation pervade the political landscape. But what does ‘humiliation’ mean exactly\, and how does it work rhetorically? In this lecture on her current research\, Professor Roxanne Euben develops an account of humiliation anchored in the way people actually use it in language\, with a particular focus on Islamist rhetoric about the ‘humiliation of Islam’ and invocations of humiliation during the 2011 Egyptian Uprising. These cases illustrate broad patterns in how humiliation constructs collective powerlessness\, but also how it operates to demand dramatically different responses. \nRoxanne L. Euben (University of Pennsylvania) is a political theorist whose research has helped pioneer a new area of inquiry often referred to as “comparative political theory.” This is an understanding of political theory not as coextensive with Euro-American canonical texts ‘from Plato to NATO\,’ but rather as inclusive of intellectual traditions and practices of the “non-West” and global South\, as well as of indigenous traditions in\, but not of\, “the West.” Euben’s special area of expertise and research is Muslim and Euro-American political thought\, and her scholarship has addressed such topics as Muslim cosmopolitanism; jihad; martyrdom and political action; travel and translation; gender and humiliation; shared perspectives on science and reason; the politics of visual and verbal rhetorics; and digital time. She is the author of Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton\, 1999)\, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton\, 2006)\, and Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden (Princeton\, 2009)\, written and edited in collaboration with Muhammad Qasim Zaman. She has been published across a wide spectrum of scholarly journals\, including Perspectives on Politics\, Political Theory\, The Review of Politics\, The Journal of Politics\, International Studies Review\, and Political Psychology. \nThis event is presented by the Department of Politics and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roxanne-euben-the-power-of-humiliation-rhetoric-retaliation-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge
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