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SUMMARY:Nina Simon: Mother - Daughter Murder Night
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes local author Nina Simon for a launch event to celebrate her captivating new novel\, Mother-Daughter Murder Night—a fun\, fresh\, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“A mysterious murder set in the tranquil waters of Elkhorn Slough is not the only tension of local writer Nina Simon’s exquisite debut novel. It is the fraught\, but ultimately loving and powerful relationship between three generations of women who work to solve the crime that gives this story the heart to match the suspense. Filled with wit\, adventure\, emotional insight\, and an abundance of nature from our beloved shores\, this page-turning mystery is the height of effective storytelling.” —Casey Coonerty Protti\, owner Bookshop Santa Cruz \n“Nina Simon’s Mother-Daughter Murder Night is the rarest of novels. A lively and tender story of family that Simon deftly transforms into an edge-of-your-seat murder mystery set against the polarizing backdrop of land conservation\, no novel has ever made family drama (or murder) this much fun. One part The Maid and one part family drama à la The Nest\, Mother-Daughter Murder Night is a resounding and impressive triumph. I fell in love with Tiny\, Lana\, and Beth immediately\, and so will you.” —Katy Hays\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nNothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence\, impeccable taste\, and the L.A. real estate empire she’s built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city\, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack\, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage—and hoping that boredom won’t kill her before the cancer does. Then Jack—tiny in stature but fiercely independent—stumbles upon a dead body while kayaking near their bungalow. Jack quickly becomes a suspect in the homicide investigation\, and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos. Beth thinks Lana should focus on recovery\, but Lana has a better idea. She’ll pull on her wig\, find the true murderer\, protect her family\, and prove she still has power. With Jack and Beth’s help\, Lana uncovers a web of lies\, family vendettas\, and land disputes lurking beneath the surface of a community populated by folksy conservationists and wealthy ranchers. But as their amateur snooping advances into ever-more dangerous territory\, the headstrong Rubicon women must learn do the one thing they’ve always resisted: depend on each other. \nNina Simon has worn many hats: NASA engineer\, slam poet\, mystery game designer\, museum director\, and global nonprofit founder. She is an Ashoka fellow and the founder of OF/BY/FOR ALL\, a global nonprofit that creates digital tools to help civic and cultural organizations become more inclusive\, relevant\, and sustainable. Nina is an in-demand writer and speaker about community participation in museums\, libraries\, parks\, and theaters. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, NPR\, and on the TEDx stage. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Nina now lives off-the-grid in the Santa Cruz mountains with her husband and daughter. Mother-Daughter Murder Night is her first novel.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nina-simon-mother-daughter-murder-night/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Public Philosophy Network Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 7th Public Philosophy Network Conference\, on the theme of “Facing Technology: The Role of Public Philosophy\,” will be hosted by the Center for Public Philosophy at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Baskin School of Engineering and the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division. The conference is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nFor the full schedule\, conference information\, and registration\, please visit: https://www.publicphilosophynetwork.net/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-philosophy-network-conference/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Sharon Kinoshita - Rediscovering Marco Polo
DESCRIPTION:Few medieval figures enjoy greater name recognition than Marco Polo. Today\, he is a brand whose name connotes exoticism\, adventure\, and East-West travel; academic critics sometime see him as the precursor to European explorers who cast a colonizing gaze over non-Western parts of the world. The source of all these images is the book usually known in English translation as “The Travels.” In this talk\, Professor Kinoshita returns his work to its original title\, The Description of the World (in Old French\, Le Devisement du monde). Composed by the Venetian merchant in collaboration with an Arthurian romance writer named Rustichello of Pisa in 1298\, The Description comes at the midpoint of a remarkable century when the Mongol conquests of Chinggis Khan and his successors\, resulting in the largest contiguous empire in history\, had produced a world of unprecedented travel\, communication\, and interaction. Our Slugs & Steins lecture will explore some of the most interesting\, curious\, and surprising aspects of that world. \n \nSharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at UCSC\, specializing in medieval French literature (including the earliest Arthurian romances of figures like Lancelot and Perceval)\, Mediterranean Studies\, and the Global Middle Ages. Her work on Marco Polo includes an annotated translation of the earliest surviving version of his Description of the World (Hackett\, 2016)\, numerous essays exploring various aspects of his world (the silk trade\, multilingualism\, animals)\, and a book forthcoming in Reaktion Press’s new series\, “Medieval Lives.” She recently contributed the blogpost “On the Road with Marco Polo” to The Humanities Institute’s 2022-2023 series on Travel. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-sharon-kinoshita-rediscovering-marco-polo/
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield - The Asking: New & Selected Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed poet Jane Hirshfield for a reading and signing of her collection\, The Asking: New & Selected Poems. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Asking is the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine)\, assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved\, dazzling “even now\, even here.” \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nIn an era of algorithm\, assertion\, silo\, and induced distraction\, Jane Hirshfield’s poems bring a much-needed awakening response\, actively countering narrowness. The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: “don’t despair of this falling world\, not yet / didn’t it give you the asking.” Interrogating language and life\, pondering beauty amid bewilderment and transcendence amid transience\, Hirshfield offers a signature investigation of the conditions\, contradictions\, uncertainties\, and astonishments that shape our existence. A leading advocate for the biosphere and the alliance of science and imagination\, she brings to both inner and outer quandaries an abiding compass: the choice to embrace what is\, to face with courage\, curiosity\, and a sense of kinship whatever comes. \nIn poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time\, hunger and bounty\, physics\, war\, and love in myriad forms\, this collection–drawing from nine previous books and five decades of writing–brings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetry’s arc\, delve\, and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap. \nWith its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities\, The Asking expands our awareness of both breakage’s grief and the possibility for repair. \nJane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings\, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for concerns about the biosphere and interconnection. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets; the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award; her books have been long- and finalist-listed for the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her work\, translated into seventeen languages\, appears in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-hirshfield-the-asking-new-selected-poems/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:James Ellroy - The Enchanters
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author James Ellroy (American Tabloid\, LA Confidential\, My Dark Places) for a reading and signing of his new book The Enchanters\, “A descent into the conspiracy hellhole of Hollywood in the early 1960s.” —Kirkus Reviews. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Ellroy masterfully orchestrates his vast array of subplots to create a tour de force of vibe and atmosphere. That ambience\, plus his signature jazzy turns of phrase\, will thrill longtime fans. . . . Fascinating … a hell of a ride.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nJames Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing\, behind-the-headlines crime epic. \nLos Angeles\, August 4\, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. \nThe freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop\, defrocked private eye\, dope fiend\, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters\, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create — and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. \nIt’s the Summer of ’62\, baby. Freddy O’s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It’s just a shot away. \nThe Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed\, brilliant\, provocative\, profanely hilarious\, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. It is\, resoundingly\, the great American crime novel. \nJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid\, The Cold Six Thousand\, and Blood’s a Rover\, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia\, The Big Nowhere\, L.A. Confidential\, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-ellroy-the-enchanters/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Frequency: A Festival of Light\, Sound\, & Digital Culture
DESCRIPTION:Frequency is a biennial festival of light\, sound\, and digital culture hosted in and around the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). The 4-night event showcases local and global artists and integrates a variety of media-based art into the downtown landscape through illuminated artworks\, interactive technologies\, and immersive experiences. \nFrom kinetic sculptures and VR screenings to projection mapping and audiovisual performances\, Frequency supports the museum’s commitment to producing programs that extend beyond its walls and enhance the cultural vibrancy of Santa Cruz County. Many of the works are participatory or serve as natural draws to public spaces\, sparking interpersonal connection through community storytelling and history-sharing. \nFor the full schedule of events and to purchase tickets\, please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/frequency \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/frequency-a-festival-of-light-sound-digital-culture-2/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang - Land of Milk and Honey
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold) for a reading and signing of Land of Milk and Honey\, her rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and\, indirectly\, the world. Zhang will be in conversation with writer Angie Sijun Lou at this event. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“The way Zhang writes about food and desire and human failings is exquisite—sensually detailed\, at times visceral. This is a tremendous novel that explores the way people will break when the world itself is broken. Land of Milk and Honey is truly exceptional.” —Roxane Gay \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes.\nThank you for registering! \nA smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. \nThere\, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite\, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste\, touch\, and her own body. \nIn this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool\, seductive violence\, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. \nSensuous and surprising\, joyous and bitingly sharp\, told in language as alluring as it is original\, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception\, privilege and faith\, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all\, it is a love letter to food\, to wild delight\, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite. \nC Pam Zhang is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold\, winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature[CE1]\, long-listed for the Booker Prize\, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\, and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow. \nAngie Sijun Lou is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz. Her writing has appeared in ZYZZYVA\, American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review\, Best Small Fictions\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman\, Bread Loaf\, Tin House\, California Arts Council\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-pam-zhang-land-of-milk-and-honey/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sahana Ghosh – Searching for the "Illegal Migrant": Notes from the India-Bangladesh Borderlands
DESCRIPTION:Sahana Ghosh is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the experiences of inequality and injustice at the intersection of mobility\, policing\, labor\, and gender. Her book\, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (University of California Press\, 2023) is forthcoming. She is currently researching the gendered labors of soldiering in postcolonial India. \n  \n“Searching for the ‘Illegal Migrant’: Notes from the India-Bangladesh Borderlands” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2023-2024 lecture series\, Crossings.  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sahana-ghosh-searching-for-the-illegal-migrant-notes-from-the-india-bangladesh-borderlands/
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