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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Articulating linguistic prosody: representation and choreography”\nwith Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee\nUniversity of Michigan \n\nAbstract \nDuring a communicative act\, language users adeptly control and coordinate intricate movements of vocal tract organs\, including the lips\, tongue\, and larynx\, to craft linguistic messages. The spatiotemporal patterning of these vocal tract actions is systematically governed by how words are grouped into phrases and how important (prominent) words within phrases are highlighted in the language being spoken. \nIn this talk\, Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee will share insights from a series of experimental studies that leverage quantitative approaches to investigate 1) the articulatory co-expression of phrasal and segmental tone\, 2) prosodic structure in multiple modalities\, and 3) articulatory and prosodic accommodation observed in dyadic interaction. \nFindings shed light on the seamless integration of linguistic prosodic structure into multimodal speech production processes\, with broader implications for typological generalization and variation\, thereby enriching phonetic and linguistic theory. \n  \nJoin us for this in-person talk on Thursday\, February 1st at 11:40 am. \n We look forward to seeing you at the talk!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cynthia-yoonjeong-lee-articulating-linguistic-prosody-representation-and-choreography/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T183000
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SUMMARY:Zhiying Qian - “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”\nwith Zhiying Qian\, Ph.D.\nFlorida State University \n\nAbstract \nThe influence of the properties of a first language (Mandarin\, Korean) on the comprehension of sentences in a second language (English) was investigated in a series of self-paced reading experiments. \nExperiment 1 compared advanced native Mandarin- and Korean-speaking learners of English with native English speakers on how they resolved a temporary ambiguity (e.g.\, The referees warned [that] the spectators would probably get too rowdy.). The temporary ambiguity concerned whether the noun (the spectator) following the verb (warned) was the direct object or the subject of an embedded clause. Results showed that both higher and lower proficiency L1-Mandarin learners could use verb bias cues\, but only higher proficiency L1-Korean learners could do so\, indicating that L1 word order (Mandarin SVO; Korean SOV) influences how quickly L2 learners learn word-order-dependent cues about L2 structures. \nExperiment 2 added plausibility manipulation\, and the results showed that neither native speakers nor L2 learners used plausibility cues\, challenging the claim that L2 learners rely primarily on lexical-semantic cues during real-time sentence processing. \nExperiment 3 examined how native Mandarin speakers process this type of sentence in Mandarin and showed that Mandarin speakers were sensitive to verb bias but not to plausibility\, contrasting claims that Mandarin speakers rely heavily on plausibility.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhiying-qian-verb-bias-and-plausibility/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T190000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate debut novelists Chiara Barzini & Rebecca Rukeyser
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nChiara Barzini is a screen\, fiction\, and journalism writer who was born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles\, where she became obsessed with canyons\, quartz\, and the Grateful Dead. When she moved to New York she steered her fascinations towards the discovery that a huge slab of granite beneath the city of Manhattan is the reason why nobody there is able to walk or think slowly. The absence of a mineral subterranean life and psychedelia in the city of Rome\, made her return to the homeland a bit harsh\, but opened her up to new interests including: abandoned castles and the nightlife of cattle. \nShe lives in Rome with her partner Luca\, their children Sebastiano and Anita\, two cats\, and one dog. \nRebecca Rukeyser is the author of the novel The Seaplane on Final Approach (2022; Doubleday USA/ Granta Books UK). Her work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Believer\, Granta\, The Guardian\, and Zyzzyva\, among others\, and was awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Davis\, California\, Rebecca has lived and worked in South Korea\, Japan\, Turkey and China. \nShe currently lives in Germany\, where she teaches creative writing at Bard College Berlin.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-debut-novelists-chiara-barzini-rebecca-rukeyser/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date\, 1619\, connected to the origins of American slavery\, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event. \nBut what actually happened in 1619? The essays collected in The 1619 Project and the important public conversations that followed only touch on the events of that year\, or even on the slave trade more generally. The 1619 Project focuses crucial attention on “arguing that slavery and its legacy have profoundly shaped modern American life\,” with essays on slavery’s long-term impacts on American democracy\, capitalism\, incarceration\, and even modern transportation. \nExploring these modern legacies is crucial\, but many people still have only hazy notions of why 1619 was a key turning point. \nThis public event brings three historians of slavery together—one focused on the importance of slavery to colonial empires\, one focused on captive experiences and health in the slave trade\, and one focused on the introduction of African maritime culture (and surfing!) into the Americas—to wrestle with the question: What actually happened in 1619? \nJoin Professors Elise Mitchell (Princeton)\, Kevin Dawson (UC Merced)\, and Greg O’Malley (UC Santa Cruz) as we explore this issue in a free public forum. \n \n  \nEvent Parking:\n– A valid UCSC permit -OR- ParkMobile payment is required to park in all parking spaces on campus.\n– If parking lot attendants are on site\, guests can obtain a free permit to parking in lot 126. Attendants are scheduled to be on site from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for this event. Otherwise\, purchase a permit using the ParkMobile app. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Institutes and funded by a UC-MRPI Grant.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-actually-happened-in-1619-the-origins-of-slavery-in-north-america/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240202T200000
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SUMMARY:Before Justice: Meister's Legacies of Critique
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness Department is delighted to invite you for an upcoming celebration of Professor Robert Meister\, who has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz for 50 years! \nPlease join us on Friday\, February 2nd for an afternoon of discussion reflecting on Professor Meister’s research and teaching contributions\, to be followed by a reception at the Cowell Provost House. \nDiscussion will run from 2 to 5:30 pm and reception begins at 6:00 pm.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/before-justice-meisters-legacies-of-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T114000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Drew McLaughlin
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Drew McLaughlin (Basque Center on Cognition\, Brain and Language). \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-drew-mclaughlin/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T152338
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-07/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T133000
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SUMMARY:Nicole Starosielski – Socializing the Network
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Film + Digital Media \nThis talk is a story about the ways that global digital infrastructure\, especially the data centers and subsea cable networks that form the backbone of the internet\, are produced out of tight-knit relationships that can weather geopolitical transitions\, economic competition\, and corporate tensions. I describe the process of “socializing” an infrastructure project\, an essential part of the ongoing construction of a global digital network. Building a more sustainable internet\, I show\, is not only a process of technical coordination\, of describing metrics\, and of setting standards\, but working within a globally-distributed and yet intimately connected geography. \nNicole Starosielski\, Professor of Film and Media at the University of California-Berkeley\, conducts research on global internet and media distribution\, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables\, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions. Starosielski is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books on media\, infrastructure\, and environments\, including: The Undersea Network (2015)\, Media Hot and Cold (2021)\, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015)\, Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (2016)\, Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021)\, as well as co-editor of the “Elements” book series at Duke University Press. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-starosielski-socializing-the-network/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T180000
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SUMMARY:From the Roots - Favianna Rodriguez Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition Favianna Rodriguez: Power From The Roots opening January 9 and running through March 9\, 2024. \nFavianna Rodriguez is an Oakland based activist and artist beloved for her work tied to social justice movements\, such as her iconic image of a butterfly with the text “Migration is Beautiful” mobilized in support of migrant justice. In recent years\, Rodriguez has focused on figurative work related to plants\, animals and climate justice. This exhibition asks: how do portraits of species relate to an ecology of social movements? The show is organized around local species impacted by climate change including coastal redwoods\, mountain lions\, coho salmon and butterflies\, among others. These portraits of species are in dialogue with activist posters\, demonstrating how social issues are fundamentally intertwined with environmental justice. For example\, a collaged portrait of coho salmon\, a keystone species that the Ohlone people relied on for food\, will be surrounded by posters about decolonization and food justice. Viewers will explore activism from the roots- both in terms of systemic issues impacting our world today and the actual roots of the trees that inhabit our shared local ecosystem. \nJoin us for a talk with the artist on February 7th at Stevenson Event Center. \nPresented by Cowell College. Co-Sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC HSI Initiatives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-roots-favianna-rodriguez-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T203000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Grad Slam Preliminary Round
DESCRIPTION:Come out and support Humanities graduate students competing in their Grad Slam preliminary round for a chance to advance as a finalist to Grad Slam on March 2 at the Kuumbwa! \nThis event is presented by UCSC’s Division of Graduate Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-grad-slam-preliminary-round/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T114000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Andrea Beltrama
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nAndrea Beltrama\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \nspeaking on \nThe interface between pragmatic reasoning and social perception: Towards an integrative view of inferences in communication\n\nAbstract \nComprehenders systematically draw two varieties of inferences in linguistic communication: pragmatic inferences\, concerning the message conveyed by an utterance; and sociolinguistic inferences\, concerning the speaker’s identity – e.g.\, their demographic profile and personality traits. Both types of inference have been widely investigated in linguistics and beyond. Yet\, much remains to be seen on how they interact with one another — and in particular\, on whether\, and how\, comprehenders jointly rely on them when extracting information from linguistic utterances. \nIn this talk\, I consider two case studies\, each of which presents a novel perspective on this issue. In the first case study\, I present evidence from two social perception experiments suggesting that comprehenders track a speaker’s adherence to\, or violation of\, the maxims of Relevance and Informativeness — together with the contextual reasons underlying these violations — to form an impression of the speaker. In the second case study\, I present findings from two picture selection tasks suggesting that comprehenders reason about the speaker’s social identity to determine the precision with which they interpret numerical expressions. \nTaken together\, these findings unveil a bi-directional relationship between pragmatic reasoning and social perception\, calling for a view of the semantics/pragmatics interface which encompasses social distinctions between speakers; and highlighting the role of sociolinguistic knowledge in pragmatic reasoning. They also underline the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of inferences in linguistic communication — one that combines experimental approaches to semantics and pragmatics with insights and methods from sociolinguistics and social psychology. \n  \nJoin us in person for this special talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 11:40 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/andrea-beltrama-on-the-interface-between-pragmatic-reasoning-and-social-perception/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T183000
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SUMMARY:Ying Yang - "Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context:\nThe Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”\nwith Ying Yang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison \n\nAbstract \nFace-to-face conversation is the primordial form of human interaction and language is inherently a form of social behavior. However\, spontaneous natural conversation remains one of the least explored discourse domains in linguistics. Using corpora compiled from transcriptions of spontaneous conversations\, Yang’s research program investigates how language structures and grammatical patterns can be seen as emergent from interactional exigencies of ordinary conversation. \nThis particular talk focuses on the grammar of 那na in Mandarin Chinese conversation. Based on a 416\,000-character conversational database\, Yang examines how a demonstrative can shift from marking spatial deixis to signaling speaker stance. \nThis talk proposes a new perspective on demonstratives on a novel investigation focusing on their non-referential usages. Ying Yang shows that non-referential na is routinely used by speakers to express contrastive meaning\, encode attitudinal stances that are often disaffiliative\, taking the form of disagreements\, challenges\, or criticisms. The analysis also illustrates that the non-referential usages of na\, though highly grammaticalized\, are linked to the deictic meanings of the demonstrative. In doing so\, this talk elucidates how looking at language in everyday conversation affects our understanding of the intricacies of grammar. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 5:00pm!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ying-yang-grammar-interaction-and-social-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T103000
DTSTAMP:20260511T152338
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Eight - Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nPaola Nasti is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Northwestern University. She has also taught\, as an associate\, in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on Dante’s biblical\, religious and theological culture. In addition to a monograph on the Solomonic tradition (Favole d’amore e “saver profondo”: la tradizione salomonica in Dante. Angelo Longo Editore\, Ravenna 2007) she has published numerous essays on the scriptural theme: ‘Vocabuli d’autori e di Scienze e di libri ‘(Conv. II xii 5): Dante’s wisdom paths’\, in Ledda\, G. (ed.) Dante’s Bible: Mystical experience\, prophecy and biblical theology in Dante. Centro Dantesco Onlus\, Ravenna\, 2011); ‘Dante and ecclesiology’\, in: Hoeness\, C. E. and Treherne\, M. (eds.) Reviewing Dante’s Theology\, Peter Lang\,2013)’; ‘The stigmata and the love of the poor man of Assisi: Dante’s reinterpretations of a medieval topos’\, in Christian Dante and religious culture in medieval Italy\, Ravenna\, Longo\, 2018); ‘The triumph of Christ: anti-pietism in Comedy’\, in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-eight-hierarchy-and-diversity-paradiso-3-27-29-32/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Davide Panagia: Political Theory\, Democracy\, and the Challenges of Algorithmic Governance
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will raise some challenges that political theorists face when reflecting on the political import of algorithmic governance. I do not develop normative or epistemic insights into these challenges\, and in fact suggest that such an approach is problematic. Rather\, I proceed by articulating some aspects of the political ontology of algorithms that\, I suggest\, are decidedly different from our more conventional intuitions (classically derived from Aristotle) on what a medium is and how it operates. I then proceed to suggest that the biggest challenge raised to political and democratic thought by algorithmic governance regards a critical theory adequate to the claims of the medium. On this last point\, I attempt to reconstruct what I believe are the basic conceptual elements that need to be considered in a political theory of algorithms. \nDavide Panagia is a political theorist and Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. He is a former Co-Editor of the journals Political Theory and Theory and Event. His forthcoming monograph publications include: Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press\, 2024) and Sentimental Empiricism: Politics\, Philosophy\, and Criticism in Postwar France (Fordham Un diversity Press\, 2024). \n  \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Cluster and the History of Consciousness Department. This talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. \nThe event will take place in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 11:30am PST. Guests are also welcome to visit the HISC website to join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/political-theory-democracy-and-the-challenges-of-algorithmic-governance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T111500
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SUMMARY:Wei Wang - “The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence:\nListener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”\nwith Wei Wang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Houston \n\nAbstract \nThis study investigates whether classroom instruction is effective in promoting L2 Chinese learners’ interactional competence (IC) as indexed by learners’ use of listener responses (LRs). LR refers to a response produced by a non-primary speaker\, which provides information about how the just-prior utterances were understood by the listener. \nSix types of LRs are examined in this study: \na) response particle such as o\, a\, en\nb) reactive expression\, e.g. dui ‘right’\, shi ma ‘really’\nc) repetition\nd) assessment\ne) tying expression\nf) follow-up action \nThis study takes a quasi-experiment design\, with an Experimental Group (n=17) receiving a semester-long IC instruction including LRs and a Control Group (n=11) with no IC instruction. All learners were asked to video-tape two unscripted conversations with a same L1 interlocutor\, one at midterm and one at semester-end. Comparing the two groups’ changes in LR frequency\, statistical tests reveal that they differ significantly in reactive expression and follow-up action; no significant effect is observed in the other four LRs. Subsequent qualitative analyses\, guided by the conversation analysis framework\, discover that LRs produced by the Experimental Group display increased linguistic complexity and variety as well as heightened sensitivity to intersubjectivity. The quantitative and qualitative evidence combined points to a likely positive effect of classroom instruction on L2 Chinese learners’ IC development as indexed by their use of LRs. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 10:00 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wei-wang-the-effect-of-instruction-on-l2-learners-interactional-competence/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Anthony Yacovone
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nAnthony Yacovone\nTufts University / Massachusetts General Hospital \nspeaking on \nPrediction is a piece of ceke: Developmental and psycholinguistic evidence for prediction of word-forms during natural language comprehension.\n\nAbstract \nFor decades\, psycholinguists have fiercely debated the role and centrality of prediction in human language. These debates center on whether people routinely predict specific lexical items and their word-forms during comprehension. To date\, form-based prediction has been poorly replicated and only seems to emerge in the most constraining of experiments. These findings are often taken as evidence that form-based prediction is likely to be an artifact of how we study language in the lab\, and thus\, it is unlikely to play a central role in natural language processing. \nIn this talk\, I will present three studies that use electroencephalography (EEG) to assess form-based prediction during naturalistic comprehension. Study 1 asks whether English-speaking adults predict the phonological form of upcoming words while listening to a children’s story. In Studies 2 and 3\, I ask how prediction of this kind develops. I will end my talk by outlining my plans for future research and briefly discussing how this work might inform research efforts in linguistics more broadly. \n  \nJoin us in person for this special talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 11:40 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-yacovone-prediction-is-a-piece-of-ceke/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-14/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thenmozhi Soundarajan - The Trauma of Caste and the US Equity Movement: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship\, Healing\, and Abolition
DESCRIPTION:Thenmozhi Soundarajan is a Dalit American commentator on religion\, race\, caste\, gender\, technology\, and justice. She is the Executive Director of Equality Labs and the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship\, Healing\, and Abolition. \nThis event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of the 2023-2024 Lecture Series Crossings. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, as a part of the weekly Cultural Studies Colloquium. \nJoin us in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210\, or register to attend virtually here. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-trauma-of-caste-and-the-us-equity-movement/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture - Lisa Lowe: Histories of the Colonial Present
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Lisa Lowe. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:30 p.m. \nSettler colonialism\, slavery\, migration\, and imperial war have been integral to the emergence of the U.S. nation\, state\, and economy\, and the consequences of these histories continue today. In this lecture Lowe examines colonial formations and their imbricated relations\, their durability and the persistence of anti-colonial struggles against them\, and asks: In what ways does a reckoning with colonial histories unsettle and transform the way we understand modernity\, capitalism\, and the political present? If this colonial historical past is not “over\,” but is actively suppressed in national memory\, how is it possible to conceive this longue durée as something unthought yet known\, that is\, a web of relation that we may be unable to think or fully fathom\, even as we are reminded it is something we once knew? \nGuests are also welcome to join the virtual webinar via Zoom. Simply register below. Thank you! \n \n  \n \nLisa Lowe (Ph.D. ’86\, literature) is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale. A former student of Hayden White’s\, Lisa Lowe received her Ph.D. in 1986. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race\, immigration\, capitalism\, and colonialism\, the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press\, 1991)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press\, 1996)\, and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press\, 2015); she is co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press\, 1997) and New Questions\, New Formations: Asian American Studies\, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997). Before joining Yale\, Lowe taught at the University of California\, San Diego and Tufts University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim\, Rockefeller\, and Mellon Foundations\, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. \n  \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-histories-of-the-colonial-present/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nishat Khan Sitar Performance
DESCRIPTION:A performance of Indian Classical Music with Nishat Khan (sitar) and Nitin Mitta (tabla) \nUstad Nishat Khan is one of India’s finest musicians and a virtuoso sitar player\, transcending musical barriers with his provocative expression and spellbinding technical mastery. Nishat stands at the threshold of the future of sitar and Indian music with his uniquely invigorating and contemporary approach. He is the son and disciple of Ustad Imrat Khan\, the nephew of the late Ustad Vilayat Khan and a member of one of the oldest and most prestigious musical families and schools in India – the Imdadkani Ganara of Etawah. Nishat draws on his own musical heritage that is the North Indian classical idiom as well as engages in other genres as diverse as Western classical music\, jazz\, Flamenco and Gregorian chant. He has worked with other major performers and composers such as John McLaughlin\, Philip Glass\, Paco Peña and Evelyn Glennie among many others. \nNitin Mitta is one of the most sought-after tabla players of his generation. He has performed with many of the top-notch Indian Classical Musicians worldwide. He has also collaborated with Grammy-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer and Carnatic electric guitarist R. Prasanna to produce their album titled Tirtha. Nitin’s gurus\, Pandit G.Satyanarayana and Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar\, were disciples of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan\, the legendary doyen of the Farukhabad Gharana of Tabla. Nitin has been mentoring many young tabla enthusiasts and also teaches Tabla at Brown University in Providence\, Rhode Island. Nitin has performed at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall\, at Lincoln Center\, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. \nADMISSION \n\nGeneral admission\nTickets available online via Eventbrite\nDoors scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n\nPARKING \n\nLot 126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nParking is by UCSC permit\, Park Mobile\, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant in Lot 126\nMore visitor information here\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by the Music Department and co-sponsored by the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nishat-khan-2024/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Caroline Andrews
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Caroline Andrews (University of Zurich). \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-caroline-andrews/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Joe Garcia and Kate McQueen
DESCRIPTION:Kresge’s Media & Society Series Presents\, in Partnership with the Humanities Institute: \nAn Evening with Joe Garcia and Kate McQueen\nJournalist Joe Garcia\, whose viral essay “Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison” was published in the New Yorker last year\, will be in conversation with writer\, editor\, and UCSC lecturer Kate McQueen. Garcia and McQueen will be discussing their major investigative piece about California’s parole process\, which was recently published in Alta Magazine. (Because Garcia is presently incarcerated\, he will be participating via phone.) \nJoe Garcia is a journalist and Prison Journalism Project correspondent incarcerated in California. Garcia was previously a staff writer and the chair of the Journalism Guild for San Quentin News. In addition to prison publications\, his work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, and the Sacramento Bee. \nKate McQueen serves as the managing editor of Prison Journalism Project’s print newspaper\, PJPxInside\, and as an editorial advisor to Wall City\, San Quentin’s prisoner-run quarterly magazine. McQueen is a writer and lecturer at University of California Santa Cruz\, specializing in literary journalism\, with a focus on narratives of crime and justice. \nFor any needs or accommodations\, please email dapearce@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evening-with-joe-garcia-and-kate-mcqueen/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-21/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jun Borras – Land struggles and scholar-activism
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) \nThe talk will argue that land struggles as framed by agrarian\, food and environmental justice movements have regained academic and political importance in recent years\, but that in the era of fragmented working classes and environmental/climate crisis\, these require rethinking and reframing. Mapping contemporary land issues of working classes\, the talk will emphasise the need to look into the changing social dynamics in rural-urban\, agriculture-nonagriculture continuum/corridor and production/social reproduction\, and land/labour entanglements as useful reference points to think about political struggles around land and labour\, livelihoods and ecological sustainability along class and intersecting axes of social differences (race/ethnicity\, gender\, generation). The talk will explore the small but important role played or ought to be played by scholar-activists in these political struggles. The talk will mobilise insights from Southeast Asia country cases (and by extension\, southern China)\, and from some African countries and Colombia where I have ongoing field research. \nJun Borras is a Filipino migrant worker currently working as professor of agrarian studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in The Hague\, Netherlands. He is a long-time agrarian movement activist in the Philippines and internationally. He was a member of the International Coordinating Committee of the La Via Campesina during its formative years\, in 1993-1996. He is a recipient of the European Research Council Advanced Grant\, enabling him to study how land rushes shape global social life\, and does fieldwork for this in Southeast Asia and China\, Ethiopia and Colombia. He works in the tradition of\, and at the same time studies\, scholar-activism. He was Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years until 2023. He co-organizes the regular International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism meant for PhD researchers and early career scholars from/in the Global South. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jun-borras-land-struggles-and-scholar-activism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kuumbwa Jazz Presents: American Patchwork Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Feburary 21\, 2023 at 7:00PM! \nJoin the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet’s mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. \nTickets available for purchase here: American Patchwork Quartet – Kuumbwa Jazz \nAmerican Patchwork Quartet (APQ)\, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross\, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication\, country twang\, West African hypnotics\, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation\, transcending culture\, politics\, and ideology. \nA southern-born roots music aficionado\, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ\, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah\, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist\, Yasushi Nakamura\, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist\, and Clarence Penn\, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. \nAPQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that\, from a collage of varied backgrounds\, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned. Mirroring America’s cultural mosaic\, APQ stitches together a story that’s both intricate and resilient. The fabric of their music is genuine—it neither feigns tolerance nor presents an overly-embellished image of unity. Instead\, each carefully chosen piece dives deep into America’s patchwork soul and shares the joys\, sorrows\, and unwavering hope of a nation crafted by shared dreams and diverse histories. \nPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz. Sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-patchwork-quartet/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Jed Pizarro-Guevara
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Jed Pizarro-Guevara (University of Massachusetts). \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-jed-pizarro-guevara/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Poets Sarah Ghazal Ali and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nSarah Ghazal Ali is a poet\, teacher\, and editor. She is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Stadler Fellow and recipient of The Sewanee Review poetry prize\, her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Kenyon Review\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series\, and other publications. She is the poetry editor for West Branch and an incoming Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski (it / xe / them) is a poet and country singer\, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012)\, and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). Julian is a 2023 Bagley Wright lecturer\, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow\, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Its poems were recently included in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat 2020). With its band Juan & the Pines\, it released an EP Glittering Forest in 2019; Julian’s first full-length album\, It’s Okay Honey was released in August 2023.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-poets-sarah-ghazal-ali-and-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Maryana Iskander - Humans in the Loop: Wikipedia’s Future in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:What role will humans play in shaping the future of the internet\, especially given the meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT? Wikipedia is tech-enabled\, but very human-led. Each month\, it receives more than 15 billion visits as people search for information online. The CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation\, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia\, will share more about how Wikipedia is doubling down on humans in a world of machine-generated content. Learn more about how we should all be preparing for the future of knowledge. \nRegister here to join us in person. \nRegister here to to join us virtually. \nThe lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session. Guests are welcome to join us in person at 5:30 for a reception in the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn before the event begins or join the webinar via Zoom. \nMaryana Iskander is the Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. She has dedicated her career to breaking down systemic barriers of access to opportunity and education. Previously\, she spent ten years as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator\, a non-profit social enterprise focused on building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment\, and received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019. Maryana also served as the COO of Planned Parenthood\, the Advisor to the President of Rice University\, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Maryana holds a BA magna cum laude from Rice University\, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and a JD from Yale Law School\, where she received a Distinguished Alumna Award. \nThis lecture series is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-with-maryana-iskander/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Nine – Language (Paradiso 26)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n Heather Webb (PhD Stanford 2004) is Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (Yale\, 2010)\, Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, and Dante\, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press\, September 2022). With Zygmunt Baranski\, she is editor of Dante’s ‘Vita Nova’: A Collaborative Reading (Notre Dame University Press\, December 2023). With George Corbett\, she is editor of Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy\, 3 vols (Open Book Publishers\, 2015\, 2016\, 2017). With Pierpaolo Antonello\, she is editor of Mimesis\, Desire\, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (Michigan State Press\, 2015). She is Senior Editor of Italian Studies for pre-1700 material. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-nine-language-paradiso-26/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Dustin Chacón
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Dustin Chacón (University of Georgia). \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-dustin-chacon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charles Duhigg - Supercommunicators
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Charles Duhigg (The Power of Habit) for a reading and signing of his new book\, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection\, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. \nCharles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College\, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences\, National Journalism\, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and other publications\, was previously a senior editor at The New York Times\, and occasionally hosts the podcast How To! \nThis free event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries\, and fails\, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators\, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. \nCommunication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak\, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?)\, emotional (How do we feel?)\, and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having\, you’re unlikely to connect. \nSupercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation\, and how to hear the complex emotions\, subtle negotiations\, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences\, our values\, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves\, and others—shape every discussion\, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book\, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard\, and to hear others\, so clearly. \nWith his storytelling that takes us from the writers’ room of The Big Bang Theory to the couches of leading marriage counselors\, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the tips and skills we need to navigate them more successfully. In the end\, he delivers a simple but powerful lesson: With the right tools\, we can connect with anyone.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-duhigg-supercommunicators/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-28/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kailani Polzak – Voyage Visuality: European Representations of Oceania at the Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Racial Theory and Artistic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Amid discussions about universal rights\, contestations over land\, and debates over the morality of chattel slavery\, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly sought to codify social hierarchy in observable physical differences. This project depended upon and spurred the production of circulatable pictures of bodies in the form of prints. At the same time\, recent encounters between European and Pacific Islanders disrupted previously accepted human divisions based on a four-continent model. This talk will analyze prints made after European voyages in Oceania to consider how these works give form to interactions between different visual practices and ways of knowing. Though images made during the so-called “voyages of discovery” are often treated as mere illustrations\, this talk will indicate how they do not simply replicate European racialist theories but rather reveal uncertainties and shifts in the visual epistemologies of race. \nKailani Polzak is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in early-modern European visual culture\, focusing on questions of intercultural contact\, race\, and colonialism in representations of the Pacific. Polzak’s current book project examines the graphic and printed works created about the circumnavigatory expeditions conducted by Britain\, France\, and Russia in Aotearoa New Zealand\, Australia\, and Hawaiʻi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and traces how these pictures were mobilized in constructions of racial difference and geographical space. Her current research and publications emphasize the methodological questions raised by writing about and curating colonial histories from multiple perspectives. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kailani-polzak-voyage-visuality-european-representations-of-oceania-at-the-intersection-of-eighteenth-century-racial-theory-and-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Abdelaziz: Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in archaeology: application on some terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites in the city of Alexandria\, Egypt \nIn Alexandria-Egypt\, CEAlex (Centre d’etudes Alexandrines) conducted the first scientific underwater excavations in 1994 on the submerged site of the remains of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria near Qaitbey fort. In 2014\, for the first time in Egypt\, the center launched a 3D underwater photogrammetry data-gathering program to obtain a Digital Surface Model of the submerged site of the lighthouse\, and a 3D model of some of its artifacts. \nIn this talk\, digital heritage specialist and digital archaeologist Mohamed Abdelaziz will present the result of land- and underwater-based 3D reconstruction and documentation projects by the Center\, including the capturing of entire archaeological sites\, the virtual anastylosis (re-erection) of sculptural fragments of statues recovered from the sea\, and new methods for viewing visible and (previously) invisible details of archaeological objects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mohamed-abdelaziz-photogrammetry-and-computer-graphics-in-archaeology/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Caitlin Charos (Research Development Specialist\, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences). Clara Bergamini (PhD candidate in History) will discuss her role as Research Development GSR and how to set up a meeting to discuss funding opportunities. As part of the workshop\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications. \n  \nPranav Anand\, professor of the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz\, is THI’s new Faculty Director. Anand was awarded the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities\, and earlier this year served as co-principal investigator on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create a certificate program for engineering students to better understand the impact of technology on the world. \n  \n  \nCaitlin Charos grew up in Stockton\, California and earned degrees from University of Pennsylvania (B.A.\, English)\, University of York\, U.K. (M.A.\, Cultures of Empire\, Resistance\, and Postcoloniality)\, and Princeton University (M.A.\, A.B.D.\, English). While pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton University\, Caitlin established herself as a researcher\, teacher\, and persuasive grant writer\, and was awarded a fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for scholarship on global migration. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures\, particularly literatures from southern Africa\, gender and sexualities\, race and ethnicity\, and the novel. Caitlin began her career in research development as a fellow in Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations\, where she helped connect faculty members to foundation funders with shared missions. She has supported faculty in securing significant grants from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and University of California Office of the President. She is a member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Caitlin loves talking with faculty about their research and is dedicated to applying her experience in support of humanities and social sciences research at UCSC. \n  \n \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute (THI). In her role\, she manages research projects\, graduate and undergraduate student programs\, communications\, and public humanities initiatives at the institute. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Research Advisor for the UCSC Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas. Before moving to UCSC\, she was an inaugural research affiliate at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and yearlong National Science Foundation fellow at the Center for Conflict\, Displacement\, and Peacebuilding at the University of Cartagena\, Colombia. Alongside her scholarship\, she has directed Global Youth Connect’s Colombia Human Rights Delegation\, worked at the International Peace and Security Institute’s The Hague Symposium on Post-Conflict Transitions and International Justice\, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga. \n  \n\nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate in history and Research development GSR at UC Santa Cruz. She is working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster.” My research centers around how people’s experiences with and memories of crises and catastrophes shape society over time through moments of memory-making. Specifically\, my research focuses on how the annual anniversaries of the 1923 Great Kantō Disaster and other disasters were used for various political and social programming during Japan’s imperial period. \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his new novel\, Wandering Stars. The eagerly awaited follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist breakout bestseller There There—winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award\, the John Leonard Prize\, the American Book Award\, and one of the New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2018—Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting in There There. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. His first book\, There There\, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nJoin us for this ticketed offsite event! \nPurchase your tickets here. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tommy-orange-wandering-stars/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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