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SUMMARY:Navigating the Media Landscape: Critical Media Literacy in the 2024 Elections
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/navigating-the-media-landscape-critical-media-literacy-in-the-2024-elections/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #1
DESCRIPTION:Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications\, timelines\, and program details. \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-internships-and-research-info-session-1/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Employing Humanities Internships and Research Info Session #2
DESCRIPTION:Learn about paid internships and undergraduate research opportunities for Humanities Students including applications\, timelines\, and program details. Info on how to join via Zoom can be found via the Humanities Division Linktree. \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-internships-and-research-info-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241004T180000
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SUMMARY:Homage to Antoinette Swan & the Princes of Surf
DESCRIPTION:Do you know about the three Hawaiian princes coming to Santa Cruz in 1885 and introducing surfing to the mainland? They didn’t come here by accident. Join historians Geoffrey Dunn and Kim Stoner and learn about Antoinette Swan and her ties to Hawaiian royalty. This talk is a sneak peek of more hidden stories we will share in an upcoming exhibition in 2025. \n \nThis event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/homage-to-antoinette-swan-the-princes-of-surf/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T090000
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SUMMARY:Educator Workshop with the Amah Mutsun
DESCRIPTION:Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars. \nThis workshop aims to deepen knowledge\, clarify terminology\, and provide a space for dialogue about incorporating a native perspective into K-12 curriculum. \nTeachers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with colleagues and tribal representatives as they consider the strengths and weaknesses of their current curriculum and consider ways that they might better incorporate an Indigenous perspective into future lessons. \nFeaturing: Valentin Lopez\, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band \nEarn continuing education credit and join this FREE outdoor workshop on Saturday\, October 5th from 9am-3pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. Open to formal and informal educators of the Monterey Bay region. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided. \nLearn more and register at: https://www.santacruzmuseum.org/10-5-educator-workshop-with-the-amah-mutsun/ \n \nThis event is supported by The Humanities Institute\, The History & Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz\, and The Bagelry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/educator-workshop-with-the-amah-mutsun/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T130000
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SUMMARY:Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 8\, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nSilvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator\, facilitator and consultant\, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections\, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation\, social change\, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College\, she developed and teaches “Building an Inner Sanctuary\,” which fosters the cultivation of inner and outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality\, self-leadership\, healing justice\, and fostering resilience and care in the community. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/disrupting-imposter-phenomenon-from-the-inside-out-with-silvia-austerlic/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T143000
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SUMMARY:Employing Humanities Resume and Cover Letter Career Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing part-time\, full-time\, on-campus or off-campus work. Join us for this informative workshop to learn best practices and resources for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. \nRegister on Handshake here! \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-resume-and-cover-letter-career-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T133000
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SUMMARY:T.J. Demos – Counterinsurgent: Cop City\, Abolition Ecology\, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
DESCRIPTION:If “climate apartheid” is on the rise\, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns\, then Cop City Atlanta—the multimillion-dollar new police training facility built by clear-cutting the city’s largest green space—offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City’s contested construction (which is ongoing) an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition\, decolonization\, and environmentalism. It also spotlights the forces of contemporary counterinsurgency—including its aesthetic modalities—that are operating to prevent any political transformation beyond the status quo. If the environmental movement is losing in the struggle to stop world-ending climate change\, then continuing to focus on practices of ecological repair is increasingly myopic\, even escapist\, without taking into account the forces blocking any meaningful change. How might a prehensive climate-justice-directed art history\, and an insurgent arts of the possible\, meaningfully respond? \nT. J. Demos is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture\, at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books\, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press\, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press\, 2016); and The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press\, 2013) – winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award. He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art\, Visual Culture\, and Climate Change (2021)\, was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020)\, and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21). His new book\, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse\, Chronopolitics\, and Justice-to-Come\, 2023\, is out from Sternberg Press. \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. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/t-j-demos-counterinsurgent-cop-city-abolition-ecology-and-the-aesthetics-of-counterreform/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T150000
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SUMMARY:The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
DESCRIPTION:An informational interview is one you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview? \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 8\, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, or Oct 10\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs director of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. \nLorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-informational-interview-with-lorato-anderson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T140000
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Cluster Meet and Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural More-than-humanities community gathering! Light refreshments will be served. This will be our chance to come together to get to know one another and shape the vision for the lab. We hope you will come\, and we ask that you bring your 1-2 wishes for the lab to share with the community. \nLearn more about the research cluster here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-laboratory-cluster-meet-and-greet/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T150000
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SUMMARY:Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
DESCRIPTION:Wherever there are groups of people\, there will be conflict. However\, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic\, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC\, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in their careers that focus on building community. \nThis event is on Oct 9\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons. Register below to attend the session. \n \nAnthony Keen-Louie (he/him/his) is a seasoned student affairs professional and mediator and has worked with the UCSC Ombuds Office since August 2023. Previously he served at UCSD for eight years in residential life leadership roles supporting inclusive student community development with initiatives for student residents\, including graduate students and students with dependents. Anthony has a master’s degree in Dispute Resolution from the USC Gould School of Law\, where he now serves as an adjunct lecturer in law\, and is a mediator\, trainer\, and group format mediator with the National Conflict Resolution Center. He also has a master’s degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UC Riverside. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conflict-resolution-with-anthony-keen-louie/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
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SUMMARY:Identity in Focus: Media Representations and the 2024 Presidential Election
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/identity-in-focus-media-representations-and-the-2024-presidential-election/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T110000
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SUMMARY:Mizanur Rahman--The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization\, Political Possibility\, and Precarity
DESCRIPTION:Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat\, Sheikh Hasina\, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising\, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform\, unfold\, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie ahead for post-uprising Bangladesh? What united people of different religions\, regions\, castes\, classes\, and generations to fight against authoritarian rule? What inspired them to fearlessly confront state violence and sacrifice their lives? This talk will treat these questions about recent and unfolding political events in Bangladesh and suggest that the mass uprising has been a struggle to reclaim people’s sovereignty and to recover their right to speak and reinstate their dignity. \nMd Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on liberalism and its critics\, Islamic political thought\, and religion and politics in South Asia. He is particularly interested in Bangladesh politics and has written on debates concerning Islam\, modernity\, and the politics of Islamic seminaries in Bangladesh. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Cultural Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mizanur-rahman-the-mass-uprisings-in-bangladesh-youth-mobilization-political-possibility-and-precarity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T133000
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SUMMARY:Understanding October 7\, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents an event with Joel Beinin\, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History\, Emeritus at Stanford University. \nHow should we speak about the shocking October 7\, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1\,139 people\, 61% of them Israeli civilians\, in a single day? What is the appropriate context for understanding the attack\, Israel’s massive military\, intelligence\, and first response failure and its vengeful retaliation which has resulted in nearly 42\,000 confirmed Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip\, some 2/3 of them women and children with plausible estimates rising as high as 186\,000? Is it possible to acknowledge the reality of the categories of “terrorism” and “genocide” while placing them in a broader historical context? \n \nDue to the anticipated high demand and limited space for this event\, in person attendance at this event will be reserved for the UC Santa Cruz campus community (staff\, faculty\, and students with a ucsc.edu email address). We will be requiring registration at the door in order to attend in person. \nFor those in the community who would like to watch Professor Beinin’s presentation\, we will be offering the event via livestream\, which you can access at: https://vimeo.com/event/4619142 \nJoel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History\, Emeritus at Stanford University. His research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt\, Palestine\, and Israel\, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1970\, A.M. from Harvard University in 1974\, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982. He taught at Stanford from 1983 to 2019 with a hiatus as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo in 2006-08. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. \nHe has written or edited twelve books and over fifty academic articles and book chapters. His most recent book is A Critical Political Economy of the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press\, 2020); co-edited with Bassam Haddad and Sherene Seikaly. His books on Israel/Palestine include: The Independent Left in Israel\, 1967-1993: A Collection in Memory of Noam Kaminer [in Hebrew] (November Books\, 2019); co-edited with Carmel Kaminer\, Matan Kaminer\, Smadar Nehab Kaminer\, and others; The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel\, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press\, 2006); co-edited with Rebecca L. Stein; Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel\, 1948-1965 (University of California Press\, 1990); and Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (South End Press\, 1989); co-edited with Zachary Lockman.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/understanding-october-7-2023-and-israels-war-on-the-gaza-strip/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T185000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nJulián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020)\, the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. \nJulián’s received fellowships and residencies from The National Endowment for the Arts\, Black Mountain Institute\, Creative Work Fund\, Hedgebrook\, California Arts Council\, San Francisco Arts Commission\, Headlands Center for The Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work has appeared in Granta\, Teen Vogue\, The Kenyon Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Rumpus\, The White Review\, LALT\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. They have been curating Latinx history projects in San Francisco for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society\, SF Public Library\, El/la Para Translatinas\, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia\, Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright. Watch their TED Talk here. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-julian-delgado-lopera/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
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SUMMARY:U.S. Elections and Democracy in Deeply Polarized Times: What are the Stakes and Opportunities?
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/u-s-elections-and-democracy-in-deeply-polarized-times-what-are-the-stakes-and-opportunities/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241013
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240925T174330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T175540Z
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters Public Festival
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies presents the 2024 Festival of Monsters opens Oct. 11-12 with a weekend of free public events for all ages. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Friday\, Oct. 11\, at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz) with a reading and Q&A with Kiersten White\, the New York Times Bestselling author of Hide. White will be reading from her new book Lucy Undying\, a dark romantic fantasy novel that explores what happens to Lucy Westenra once she escapes Dracula’s thrall. \nAt 7 p.m.\, local company Circus of the Moon will perform Pluto’s Labryinth\, a twisted journey of shadows and demons featuring aerialists\, acrobats\, and ensemble dance. Masks and memorabilia from horror design company Trick or Treat Studio will be on display. \nAt 7 p.m. Saturday\, Oct. 12\, there will be a free outdoor screening of the silent 1922 F.W. Murnau film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror on the Oakes College lower lawn (231 Oakes Road\, Santa Cruz). Professor Emertius H.M. Leicester will introduce the classic vampire film\, which stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok. \nEvents the weekend of Oct. 11-12 are free and first-come\, first served. \nPlease visit here for registration and more information: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festpublic \nThe 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Crown College; Good Times; Trick or Treat Studios; Bookshop Santa Cruz; Atlantis Fantasyworld; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-public-festival/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240814T170007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T190654Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual California/California Bilingüe: Fronteras y Futuros
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita\, UC San Diego) to discuss the political\, social\, and educational barriers that California’s Spanish-English bilinguals must overcome to ensure a bilingual future for themselves and their children. She suggests ways that students\, parents\, teachers\, university faculty and community groups can contribute successfully. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public with free parking. \nCalifornia is the state with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the USA; the approximately 15 million Spanish speakers represent 39.09 % of the state’s population (U.S. Census Bureau\, 2024). The large numbers and long history of Spanish in California (as the official administrative language from 1542 to 1848) suggest the continuity of the language and bilingualism are ensured. But the state’s Spanish speakers\, primarily of Mexican and other increasingly diverse origins\, cross many political\, economic\, racial\, and linguistic fronteras to arrive\, survive\, and thrive in California. The bilingual future of immigrants and their children and grandchildren is impeded by multiple barriers\, beyond concrete walls at the border. We can and must ensure un futuro bilingüe with our teaching\, research\, and community outreach. \nMajor barreras include the demonization of Latinus and our Spanish and English by many – including political leaders – restrictive employment policies\, and limited educational programs. In southern California\, studies of border high school Latinus\, Anglo university students\, and transfronterizus – those who cross the border from Mexico to study in California – reveal that monolingual English speakers are not the only promoters of dismissive attitudes towards diverse ways of speaking Spanish and English. Labels like “fresas\,” “nacos\,” “sociales\,” and “pochos mochos” build intra-Latinu walls and impede bilingual fluency\, and Spanglish is widely misunderstood and maligned. \nLEVANTA LA VOZ in the classroom and the community! \nWe must advocate for effective bilingual instruction that confronts these barriers\, and organize parent workshops and dance and poetry projects that involve the community. Student and faculty research should be shared with political leaders\, newspapers\, and social media platforms. And let’s all celebrate International Mother Language Day on February 21st in creative ways. But what do you think will help guarantee el futuro bilingüe de California? \nThis event is the keynote address of the 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California\, which will bring together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives. Please visit the Symposium event page for more information. \nAna Celia Zentella\, professor emerita (University of California\, San Diego and Hunter College)\, is an anthro-political linguist recognized for her research on US Latinu languages\, language socialization\, “Spanglish\,” and “English-only” laws. In 1996\, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger declared October 30 “Doctor Ana Celia Zentella Day” for “her leading role in building appreciation for language diversity and respect for language rights.” In 2015\, the Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Section honored Zentella as Public Intellectual of the Year. In 2016\, she received the Award for Public Outreach & and Community Service from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Professor Zentella was Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022\, and received the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists in 2023. \nThis event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab\, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA\, the Comparative Language Sciences Project\, and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 4\, 2024.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bilingual-california-california-bilingue-fronteras-y-futuros/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241013
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240821T171113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T203417Z
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SUMMARY:1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California
DESCRIPTION:The 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives.  The symposium’s keynote address will be given by Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita\, UC San Diego) on October 11th at the Music Recital Hall. Please visit the keynote event page to register and for more information. \nFull symposium schedule here. The day’s program will feature: \n \nAbel Cruz (Santa Clara University)\nTalk title: “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Spanish: Linking the heritage experience to diminutive use in everyday speech” \n  \n  \nAna Sánchez-Muñoz (California State University\, Northridge)\nTalk title: Empowering Californian Bilinguals through Heritage Language Education \n  \n  \n  \nAnne L. Beatty-Martínez (University of California\, San Diego)\nTalk title: Understanding Bilingualism in Context \n  \n  \n  \nClaudia Holguín Mendoza (University of California Riverside)\nTalk title: Spanish language ideologies within the Latinx community in California: Critical Sociolinguistics and Pedagogical Implications \n  \n  \nClaudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez (University of California\, Davis)\nTalk title: Linguistic belongingness in an Emerging HSI \n  \n  \n  \nCovadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California Riverside)\nTalk title: Code-Meshing\, diglossia and diaglossia in Californio Spanish and California Spanish \n  \n  \nErnesto R. Gutiérrez Topete (Pomona College)\nTalk title: Place-dependent stop salience among Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from code-switching \n  \n  \nEve Higby (California State University\, East Bay)\nTalk title: Disentangling cross-language facilitation and interference in Spanish-English bilinguals \n  \n  \n \nGabriela Simon-Cereijido (California State University\, Los Angeles)\nTalk title: Linguistic Skills and Perspectives of Spanish-English Students in Health Professions \n  \n  \nGabriella Licata (University of California\, Riverside)\nTalk title: Examining generational bias differences towards Californian Spanish features \n  \n  \nItxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (California State University Long Beach)\nTalk title: From Northern (white) Spanish to Southern Cool Spanglish: Perceptual Dialectology in California \n  \n  \nJi Young Kim (University of California\, Los Angeles)\nTalk title: Predicting areas of convergence and divergence between heritage and monolingual Spanish based on the phonological development of Spanish and English \n  \nJustin Davidson (University of California\, Berkeley)\nTalk title: Legitimizing Spanish-English Contact in U.S. Spanish: Sociophonetic Variation in Spanish Orthographic <b> and <v> \n  \n  \nLauren Schmidt (San Diego State University)\nTalk title: Exploring lived language experiences of Spanish-English bilinguals in the San Diego border region and how these shape issues of identity \n  \n  \nMark Amengual (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nTalk title: Intergenerational language shift and interlingual influence in the acoustic realization of Spanish-speaking Californians \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab\, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA\, the Comparative Language Sciences Project\, the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, and UC MRPI
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/1st-symposium-on-spanish-english-bilingualism-in-california/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241002T205134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T212744Z
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SUMMARY:Filipino American Heritage Month Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 3rd annual Filipino American Heritage Festival on the Watsonville city plaza! Featuring vendors\, performances\, and food. \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fahm-festival/
LOCATION:Watsonville City Plaza\, 358 Main St.\, Watsonville\, CA\, 95076\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240923T114812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T105038Z
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SUMMARY:CLOTILDA: Resistance\, Resilience\, Remembrance\, Rebuilding
DESCRIPTION:Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda\, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States. \nIn our coastal area\, the unceded territory of the Amah Mutsun people and a place where Black servicemen and their families resettled after fighting in U.S. wars in the Pacific\, Santa Cruz Black holds space to engage with Kamau Sadiki\, a master diver with the Slave Wrecks Project\, and Joycelyn Davis\, a direct descendant through Charlie Lewis of the 110 Africans who were violently uprooted from their homes and communities. \n \nThrough a multigenerational conversation facilitated by Santa Cruz Black with Black studies students at UC Santa Cruz\, we will consider how the reclamation of the wreck was an act of resistance to the world-shattering racialized and colonial violence of chattel slavery\, an act of remembrance prompting us to consider waterways as a Black geography\, and an act of community resilience and rebuilding. \nHow does the resurfacing of the wreck challenge generations of secrecy and silence? \nHow does it upend the presumption of closure and healing? \nHow has it impacted–across generations–the people of Africatown (aka Magazine/Plateau) in Mobile\, Alabama? \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Slave Voyages project\, the Humanities Division\, John R.Lewis/College 9\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clotilda-resistance-resilience-remembrance-rebuilding/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241012T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241007T180724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T180805Z
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SUMMARY:Dear Watsonville Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Filipino American History Month\, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of Dear Watsonville\, a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. A Q&A with the team who created the film will follow the screening. \nDear Watsonville was directed by Sandra Lucille and produced by Watsonville is in the Heart. It premiered in April 2024 as part of the art and history exhibition\, Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dear-watsonville-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:PVA Porter Building\, 280 Main Street\, Watsonville\, 95076\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240819T220011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T220156Z
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SUMMARY:Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed and bestselling author Kaveh Akbar for a discussion and signing of his phenomenal fiction debut Martyr!\, which Tommy Orange calls\, “An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come\, and in all over your brain\, and straight from the bottom of your heart. This book does everything. It is so entirely funny and sad and true and beautiful. Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \n“Akbar is a dazzling writer\, with bars like you wouldn’t believe . . . What Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous.” —The New York Times Book Review \nA newly sober\, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants\, guided by the voices of artists\, poets\, and kings\, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying\, funny\, and wholly original\, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. \nCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk\, an addict\, and a poet\, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying\, and toward his mother\, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. \nKaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith\, art\, ourselves\, others. \nKaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, in addition to a chapbook\, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kaveh-akbar-martyr/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240826T164029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T180912Z
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SUMMARY:Ecologies of Care Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites you to launch an international collaboration\, the Ecologies of Care Initiative. In partnership with the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, Simon Fraser University (SFU)\, and Lincoln University (LU) this initiative invites scholars at the forefront of the social sciences\, arts\, and humanities to address livability as a desired condition for all. \nSituated in the Himalayan region\, the Ecologies of Care Initiative will include conversations across the boundaries of contemporary nation-states\, including Pakistan\, Nepal\, Bhutan\, Northeast India\, and beyond. Known as the water towers of Asia\, this region holds much of the world’s snow and ice beyond the North and South Pole. It is a site of incredible cultural and linguistic diversity\, with hundreds of languages spoken and distinct colonial experiences that shape contemporary global Indigenous movements in South Asia. Ecologies of Care focuses on tracing how peoples along the Himalayas cobble together shifting livelihoods among rapidly shifting governmental-sponsored projects\, including militarism\, gender\, environmentalism\, and tourism. \nFor the Conference Program and more information\, please visit: https://csas.ucsc.edu/ecologies-of-care-2024-25/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecologies-of-care-conference/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T113000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240926T192158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T181021Z
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khalili in conversation with Nidhi Mahajan--Palestine and the Maritime Politics of the Red Sea
DESCRIPTION:Thinking through the complexities of the Red Sea blockade\, Professor Khalili will ask questions about how the entangled international and commercial control of maritime space deals with such disruptions in cargo and trade flows\, and how the structure of global capital has to be taken into account in toto while waging a Gramscian war of position at local levels to leverage transformations more broadly. \nRegistration required to attend:  Register here \nLaleh Khalili is Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies and the Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020)\, which examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of movement of technologies\, capital\, people\, and cargo. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her book project\, Moorings: The Dhow Trade\, Capitalism\, and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean\, examines the marginalized mobile society of Muslim seafarers from Kachchh in western India who have become crucial intermediaries in global shipping as they move across South Asia\, East Africa\, and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laleh-khalili-in-conversation-with-nidhi-mahajan-palestine-and-the-maritime-politics-of-the-red-sea/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241004T060757Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing in this interactive workshop. Participants will also learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 14\, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, or Oct 23\, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAndrea Seeger received a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz\, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an A.B.D. in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for over 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-psychology-with-andrea-seeger/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240821T231110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T172049Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León will talk about a series of mapping processes that they’ve been engaged in with river communities in Latin America. They will explore how art and humanities research intersects with water activism and how collaborative editorial and curatorial work can support emergent and resilient practices that care for common waters. The session will involve some hands-on work to identify together these practices and the affective attachments that bind us to water. \nLisa Blackmore – Curator\, researcher\, educator\, working between creative practice\, collaborative projects and public outreach. Since 2018\, she has been directing entre— ríos\, a research and artistic platform that invents participatory and interdisciplinary methodologies\, online and in person\, that connect knowledges and communities to bodies of water. Lisa obtained her PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College in 2011 and is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex\, UK. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management at UC Berkeley. In 2023\, she was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for her project Imagining the Hydrocommons: Art\, Water and Infrastructure in Latin America. \nAlejandro Ponce de León – Researcher\, working at the intersection of environmental humanities and technoscience studies. He is the founder and co-editor of the Latin American Platform for Environmental Humanities\, a collective that fosters dialogues on environmental thought across the Americas. His work has been published in Cultural Studies\, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\, Humanidades: revista de la Universidad de Montevideo\, Revista Tabula Rasa\, Revista Endémico\, Diffractions\, Tapuya\, Sociological Forum\, among others. Alejandro is currently a visiting scholar at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. \nThis event is presented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster\, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mapping-hydrocommons-cultures-in-the-americas/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241002T210551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T204607Z
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SUMMARY:Huerta Center Graduate Scholar CART Alternative Spring Break - Info Session
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 CART Alternative Spring Break: Huerta Center Graduate Scholars \nIn Winter 2025\, two graduate students will receive funding from the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) and be trained by the University Library’s Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) to assist a UC Santa Cruz Archivist based at the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield\, CA in archival processing during Spring Break 2025 (March 24-28\, 2025). \nAttend the virtual information session on Tuesday\, October 15th at 3pm to learn more. Register via Zoom below. \n \nThe Huerta Center Graduate Scholars will be trained in CART for up to 20 hours during Winter quarter\, then travel to Bakersfield to participate in an “alternative spring break” program from March 24-28\, 2025. There they will work alongside the UCSC Archivist and engage in archival processing of the Dolores Huerta Papers and the Huerta Foundation records. \nEligibility: Currently enrolled in a graduate program at UCSC at least through June 2025 (at least five credits\, not on leave or filing fee\, in good academic standing\, within normative time). Priority will go to graduate students in the Humanities Division and the Latin American and Latino Studies department. \nLearn more at: https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/cart/apply AND https://thi.ucsc.edu/call-for-applications-huerta-center-graduate-scholar/ \nThis program is funded by The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz\, administered by the Huerta Center and the Latin American and Latino Studies department\, and is part of a Mellon Foundation grant to establish new public archives preserving the legacy of social justice activist Dolores Huerta through a partnership with the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cart-program-info-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240918T123729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T123848Z
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SUMMARY:Moving Money and Moving Power: Philanthropy Isn’t Neutral
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moving-money-and-moving-power-philanthropy-isnt-neutral/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241019
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters - Academic Conference
DESCRIPTION:Rising from the darkness\, monsters bring to light the parts of our world we might rather see hidden. They come forth in times of growing prejudice\, discrimination and othering. The 2024 Festival of Monsters (Academic Conference October 16-18) —hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies — explores the way monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture. \nHeld on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus\, the 2024 Festival includes the conference\, plus a performance\, a live podcast recording and the Monsters Ball. This year’s academic conference includes panels on monstrous ecologies\, black monstrosity\, zombies\, body horror and more. Independent video game designer and activist mattie brice and Professor Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (author of Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction) will give the keynote talks. \nFor more information\, please visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024fest \nThe 2024 Festival of Monsters is grateful for the support of Porter College; Oakes College; The Arts Research Institute; The Humanities Institute; Sigfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment; University of California Humanities Research Institute; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature; the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance\, Play and Design; Crown College; James Gunderson and Peter Coha.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-3/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
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SUMMARY:Lisa Blackmore: Hydrocommoning
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Lisa will present ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. She will lay out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied knowledge and planetary hydrologies by arguing for the generative role of art in igniting multiscalar engagements with liquid ecologies. Drawing on projects developed through the entre—ríos collective\, she will situate engaged curatorial practice as a response to calls in the environmental humanities to contribute aesthetic forms that support a reclaiming of common waters. \nLisa Blackmore is a researcher\, curator and educator\, working with water cultures in Latin America. Since 2018\, she has been directing entre—ríos\, a research and artistic platform for collaborative methodologies connecting communities to bodies of water. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management at UC Berkeley and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex\, UK. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Hydrocommons Cultures: Art\, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (2024) and “Water” in Handbook to Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (2023). entre-rios.net / lisablackmore.net \nCo-sponsored by UCSC’s More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory. \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/lisa-blackmore-hydrocommoning/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241007T005651Z
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SUMMARY:Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
DESCRIPTION:Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet\, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 16\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or Oct 30\, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nLisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an art director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years\, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to Fortune 500 clients\, her adventures in marketing have built a depth of knowledge that she likes to share. Lisa is in her second decade at UC Santa Cruz as marketing director\, overseeing a creative team of writers\, videographers\, and designers. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/curating-your-digital-reputation-with-lisa-nielsen/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241007T010245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T010245Z
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SUMMARY:WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. \nGet design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work! \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 17\, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 6\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design-with-jason-chafin/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T185000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241007T173000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T173000Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Stacey D'Erasmo
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nStacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea\, A Seahorse Year\, The Sky Below\, Wonderland\, and The Complicities. She is also the author of the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry. D’Erasmo’s work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, New York Times Magazine\, Ploughshares\, Interview\, The New Yorker\, and the Los Angeles Times. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009\, and won the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012. \nShe is currently a Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in NYC. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-stacey-derasmo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240819T220916Z
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank\, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History\, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“The most important book on the Great Depression in a generation. Dana Frank skillfully shows how working-class people experimented with new forms of organizing based on traditions of struggles against racism as well as class and gender oppression. Our understanding of the Great Depression and its contested legacies will never be the same thanks to this brilliant and timely book.” —Paul Ortiz\, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nDrawing on little-known stories of working people\, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four stories of resilience\, mutual aid\, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression\, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to: \n\nThe 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination.\nThe groups who used mutual aid\, cooperatives\, eviction protests\, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs.\nThe million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory\, while (often fictitious) white “Dust Bowl migrants” became enshrined.\nThe Black Legion\, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism\, antisemitism\, anti-Catholicism\, and fascism as the cure to the Depression.\n\nWhile capitalism crashed during the Great Depression\, racism did not and was\, in fact\, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted\, too\, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women’s marginalization within them. For other ordinary people\, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. \nWhat resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread\, beans\, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal\, when it arrived\, provided vital resources to many\, but others were cut off from its full benefits\, especially if they were women or people of color. \nWhat Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy—and to transform the state as a whole—in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy. \nDana Frank is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. A well-regarded senior historian\, she is the author of many books on labor\, women\, and social justice in the US and Honduras. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Guardian\, The Nation\, Foreign Affairs\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dana-frank-what-can-we-learn-from-the-great-depression/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T153000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
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SUMMARY:Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop\, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding\, attracting partners\, or landing clients.  \nParticipants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision\, project\, or business in just a few sentences\, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and real-world examples\, participants will develop the skills they need to present their ideas confidently and spark interest in any professional setting. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 21\, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 4\, 2:00-3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nNada Miljković is an experienced educator and digital arts expert with over a decade of teaching at UCSC. As a project manager and instructor at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED)\, she focuses on fostering creativity\, storytelling\, and entrepreneurial skills in students. Passionate about empowering students with real-world tools\, Nada prepares future leaders in both their professional and personal lives while pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Arts at the University of Arts\, Belgrade. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mastering-the-elevator-pitch-with-nada-miljkovich/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241014T202000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T202139Z
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Toxic City and A People’s History of SFO
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies to celebrate the release of two important new books by UCSC faculty exploring power\, historical development\, and environmental justice in the Bay Area: Lindsey Dillon’s Toxic City and Eric Porter’s A People’s History of SFO (both published by University of California Press). The authors will be in conversation with graduate students from the departments of History and Sociology. \nA limited number of both books are available for graduate students – please contact kgalinde@ucsc.edu to receive a copy. Books are available for sale via the UC Press website for 30% off using the code UCPSAVE30. \nAbout the Authors and Books \nToxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco explores the impact of green gentrification in Bayview-Hunters Point\, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. Lindsey examines how revitalization efforts often threaten to displace long-time residents who have fought for toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment as a means of reparative justice. She links these struggles to broader issues of environmental racism and the legacy of slavery\, arguing for a vision of environmental justice within the context of reparations. Lindsey Dillon is author of Toxic City and a critical human geographer and Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nA People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport examines the history of San Francisco International Airport to uncover a rich narrative of development and power in the Bay Area from the eighteenth century to today. Eric highlights SFO’s pivotal role in the region’s evolution as a hub of commerce\, innovation\, and influence. By examining the airport’s colonial roots and its impact on trade\, social dynamics\, and environmental change\, Porter reveals how individual actions intersect with larger systems of power. The book concludes by confronting the climate crisis and the challenges it poses to SFO and the surrounding community. Eric Porter is Professor of History and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he also holds appointments in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music Departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US urban and cultural history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. Porter is author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport (University of California Press\, 2024). \n\nHosted by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies (CUES). Co-Sponsored by the departments of History of Consciousness and Sociology\, the Division of Social Sciences\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Science & Justice Research Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-celebration-toxic-city-and-a-peoples-history-of-sfo/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
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SUMMARY:Burnout: Recognizing\, Preventing\, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
DESCRIPTION:Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work\, personal lives\, health\, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms\, and learn strategies to recognize\, prevent\, and manage burnout. \nThis event is on Oct 22\, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \nPrior to joining UCSC CAPS in 2001\, Audrey Kim\, Ph.D.\, worked in the corporate and nonprofit sectors and understands how burnout can be different and yet similar across various settings. Kim likes helping students gain insight into their problems and learn practical strategies for overcoming them. She especially enjoys working with graduate students and facilitating the Graduate Women’s Group at UCSC. \nNicolette “Niki” Severson\, LCSW\, has been on the team at CAPS since January 2021. She came to her work as a therapist by way of a background in academia\, education\, and research in public health and social work. Previous to UCSC\, Severson worked with underserved populations in community mental health. She has firsthand experience with burnout from a variety of demanding work environments and is excited to talk about this critical topic. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/burnout-recognizing-preventing-mitigating-with-audrey-kim-and-nicolette-severson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240918T124024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T124858Z
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SUMMARY:Engaging Digital Democracy: Tools to Recognize Political Dis- and Mis-Information
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engaging-digital-democracy-tools-to-recognize-political-dis-and-mis-information/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
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SUMMARY:Noreen Khawaja – What is a University? Humboldt and HistCon in Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This talk reteaches the history of the research university as a series of answers to the question of what symbols are for\, what symbols can do. By answers I do not mean simply what scholars have said about these matters\, but also what we have done\, the worlds we have made in our teaching and in our shaping of the forms of the university itself. Two portraits stand at the center\, each from public universities\, each cases in which scholars themselves had an unusual degree of influence: the founding of the University of Berlin in the years before 1809 and the formation of the History of Consciousness program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz over the course of the 1970s-80s. Both institutions were established during periods of academic reform and state-building ambition. In both cases we find the imprint of a peculiarly Romantic myth—the idea of an intimate relation among three sets of maps: maps of a school\, maps of culture\, and maps of the mind. \nNoreen Khawaja teaches in the Religion and Modernity program at Yale University. Her work examines the ideas\, practices\, and institutions of secular reason. She is the author of The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre (University of Chicago Press\, 2016) and is currently at work on a history of the research university. \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/noreen-khawaja-what-is-a-university-humboldt-and-histcon-in-perspective/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20241017T224008Z
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SUMMARY:Mjriam Abu Samra - "Intergenerational\, Anticolonial Vanguards: The Palestinian Transnational Student Movement in Historical Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in Europe and USA.  It compares student political engagement namely by examining the formation and development of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) during what is regarded as the “golden age” of the Palestinian revolution (1960s-1970s) with contemporary initiatives\, efforts and strategies of mobilization amongst Palestinian youth in shatat (Diaspora). By looking to the past through a historical continuum that has molded present-day Palestinian youth activism\, I propose that new futures can only be made through methodologies that tether together time and space. \nAbout the Speaker \nMjriam Abu Samra is a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow at the department of Anthropology at UC Davis with ties to the program in Middle East/South Asian Studies through the cooperation with her host institution University of Venice Ca Foscari in Italy. \nMjriam received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford\, UK and her MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, UK. Her research focuses on Palestinian transnational student and youth politics and Third World solidarities. Her work intervenes in the critical study of refugees\, colonialisms\, social movements and it is grounded on critical theories on subalternity and decolonization. As a MSC Postdoctoral Fellow Mjriam will be exploring the political potential of contemporary Palestinian transnational youth activism in the United States and Europe through an historical comparative lens. \nBefore joining UC Davis\, Mjriam was based in Amman\, Jordan\, where she worked as gender expert for the Center of Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and as Senior researcher and coordinator at the Al Nahda research center. She taught courses on international politics\, developments\, and history of colonialism at the University of Jordan and American education abroad programs in Amman. \n\nThis talk is presented by the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) at UC Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by Feminist Studies\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine\, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Politics Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and People’s University. \nIt is the first talk in a year-long speaker series\, “Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement.” For more information \, please visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/possibilities-of-palestinian-refusal-speaker-series-mjriam-abu-samra/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240915T183942Z
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SUMMARY:Employing Humanities - Humanities at Work: Making a Meaningful Career
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Career Engagement Specialist will lead an interactive workshop that will set you up to better understand how your humanities skills can prepare you for a fulfilling career. Free burritos for all who register through our Linktree here! \nOpen to all Humanities Majors and Minors. For more information please email humco@ucsc.edu. \nPlease visit the Humanities Student Events Calendar to see other exciting events happening for students in the Humanities Division.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/employing-humanities-humanities-at-work-making-a-meaningful-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241026
DTSTAMP:20260418T020209
CREATED:20240913T082411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T210333Z
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SUMMARY:The Center for Cultural Studies 35th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebratory conference in collaborative form\, including a conversation with founding director Jim Clifford\, lightning talks on Cultural Studies keywords\, dialogues\, reflections by former graduate student affiliates\, and a collective imagining of CCS’s next chapter. \nEvents begin Thursday\, October 24 at 5:00 PM and run through Friday evening in Humanities 210 and the Oakes College Mural Room. For more information\, view or download the full program. \n \nFor over three decades\, the Center for Cultural Studies has hosted a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. Read more about the colloquium and the Center for Cultural Studies legacy here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-cultural-studies-35th-anniversary-conference/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
DESCRIPTION:How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department? \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 24\, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom\, or Oct 29\, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library\, Martha Stuit provides author services\, which cover publishing theses\, dissertations\, and academic articles and books; open access; and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Division of Graduate Studies. Prior to becoming a librarian\, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan. \nErich van Rijn is executive director at the University of California Press where he leads book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing\, sales\, operations\, and finance. Prior to joining the press\, he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/academic-publishing-with-martha-stuit-and-erich-van-rijn/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Carolina Ixta
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nCarolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland\, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants\, she received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and obtained her Master’s degree in Education at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is currently an elementary school teacher whose pedagogy centers critical race theory at the primary education level. Shut Up\, This is Serious is her debut novel. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-carolina-ixta/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T130000
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SUMMARY:Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department presents “Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation” with Alice Barale\, University of Milan as part of the 2024-2025 HistCon Speaker Series.  \nJoin us Monday\, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: \n \nIt has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie’s in 2018. In the meantime\, new types of artificial intelligence have emerged\, enabling artists to conduct different experiments. However\, the presence of AI in the artistic process continues to raise significant questions. How should its role be understood? And\, more importantly\, what new chances does it offer within the artistic field and beyond? \nAlice Barale is a scholar of Aesthetics and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. She has extensively researched Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin\, authors to whom she has dedicated several essays and two monographs (“La malinconia dell’immagine\,” FUP\, 2009\, and “La prima impresa: Shakespeare in Warburg e Benjamin\,” Jaca Book\, 2021). For Benjamin\, she has edited and translated a new Italian version of “Origin of the German Trauerspiel” (Carocci\, 2018). Among her most recent research interests are the philosophy of color (“Il giallo del colore\,” Jaca Book\, 2020) and the relationship between art and artificial intelligence. She has curated the collected volume “Arte e intelligenza artificiale. Be my GAN” (Jaca Book\, 2020) and has just completed a new book on the subject\, which will be published in November 2024. \nCo-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/art-and-artificial-intelligence-a-philosophical-investigation-with-alice-barale/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T133000
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SUMMARY:Proactive Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
DESCRIPTION:How do you proactively promote diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student\, a researcher\, a teaching assistant\, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. \nRecommended Reading: Ely\, Robin J.\, and Thomas\, David A. “Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case.” Harvard Business Review\, November-December 2020 Magazine Issue. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 29\, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Oct 31\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs director of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. \nLorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/proactive-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-with-lorato-anderson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Sandhya Shukla - Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
DESCRIPTION:When Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel\, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built through migrancy and racialization in cities like London. US cultural studies\, by contrast\, underemphasized that local-global dynamic\, perhaps because the crossings of daily experience that inspired scholars like Stuart Hall were hard to see through post-1970s America’s balkanization of racial and ethnic identities. And while Hall and others advocated an  interdisciplinarity that took seriously the inextricability of representation and social life\, this was not always fully attended to by the literary criticism that assumed the task of translating British cultural studies for the US academy. This cross-cultural talk brings together the earlier approaches of Hall and the Birmingham school with the histories and stories told about Harlem in order to propose working-class cosmopolitanism as a useful conceptual frame for the political present. \nSandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her most recent work is Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Columbia University Press\, 2024).  She is also the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton University Press\, 2003)\, and a co-editor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press\, 2007).  Her work has appeared in publications such as American Quarterly\, symploke\, and Annual Review of Anthropology. \n The 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/sandhya-shukla-cosmopolitanism-and-relationality-the-logic-of-the-cultural-studies-we-need-now/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford
DESCRIPTION:A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus\, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees\, down in the ravines\, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental\, social\, cultural\, technological and architectural history\, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers that constitute a unique environment. Meet in front of Humanities 1 at 2:30pm \nJim Clifford is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department. Since his retirement he has photographed the campus\, co-curated an exhibition about its history and published a book of Images and texts\, In the Ecotone\, that evokes the site’s “poetics of space\,” its planning/design history\, and its utopian potential. \nCo-sponsored by: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations in the History of Consciousness Department and the Science and Justice Research Center \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/walking-in-the-ecotone-with-jim-clifford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1
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SUMMARY:Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories\, Misinformation\, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decoding-the-headlines-top-news-stories-misinformation-and-the-2024-presidential-campaign/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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