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SUMMARY:"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?": Spooky Reading Group Potluck
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 2 from 6-7pm\, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park. \nOn theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead\, Alisa Puga Keesey will lead us in a discussion of the essay “What is it like to be a bat?” (We think we can observe bats at dusk at West Lake!). Alisa wants the community to know that the essay is heavily philosophical and dense. In our first meeting\, Flora Lu called for inclusivity in our group so that we can speak across disciplinary divides without alienating any of our members\, so the discussion will welcome perspectives\, questions\, and confusions from all of our members. \nPlease sign up to bring a dish to share here. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED! \nPresented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster\, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spooky-reading-group-potluck/
LOCATION:Westlake Park\, 149-111 Bradley Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Post-Election Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the CCS community as we process what just happened. We will be discussing electoral politics\, the role of media in the election\, political affects\, and what is to be done. With: Liz Beaumont\, Jody Biehl\, and Daniel Wirls. \nLiz Beaumont is Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores the politics and law of citizenship and constitutional democracy\, with particular interests in problems of unequal citizenship\, how citizens\, civic groups\, and movements seek to use\, challenge\, and transform rights and law. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Civic Education in Polarized Times\, New York University Press (2024). \nJody K. Biehl is an award-winning journalist and journalism educator. She spent 15 years as a reporter and editor\, including at Germany’s Der Spiegel\, before joining the faculty at SUNY Buffalo\, where she redesigned the journalism program curriculum. She came to UCSC in 2021 and is a Humanities Divisional Associate Teaching Professor. She is interested in the role that community and local journalism play in society and serves as the Community Voices editor at Lookout Santa Cruz. In 2024\, she was part of the Lookout team to win the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. \nDaniel Wirls is Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz and author of numerous works on the history of Congress and the Senate as well as U.S. military policy and American political thought. His most recent book is The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (University of Virginia Press\, 2021). Dan also serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World\, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee. \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/a-post-election-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \nUnfortunately we have had to cancel this event\, Ellen has caught Covid. \nPhoto by: Irene Young\nEllen Bass’s most recent collection\, Indigo\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Among her other books are Like a Beggar\, The Human Line\, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, The NEA\, and The California Arts Council\, The Lambda Literary Award\, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited with Florence Howe the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks!\, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets\, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz\, California jails\, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nPurchase both poets’ works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \n\nParking Information \nThe Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \n\nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Farnaz Fatemi\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nMorton Marcus Memorial Poetry Contest: Every year\, the annual reading coincides with the The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize\, a national poetry contest which honors Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” The contest is hosted by The Hive Poetry Collective. The Hive is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets and seeks to bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people. This year’s contest will be judged by Brad Crenshaw. For more information visit: https://hivepoetry.org/morton-marcus-prize/ \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading is made possible due to campus and community co-sponsorships and generous contributions from members of our community\, like you. To ensure we can continue to offer this poetry reading free and open to the public in honor and memory of Morton Marcus\, and to have our lives deeply enriched by exceptional poetry\, please consider making a gift to The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading Fund: thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nDonna F. Mekis\nThe Hive Poetry Collective\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nMerrill College\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSide By Side Press\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 31.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ellen-bass-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jim McCloskey: Clauses without verbs - The Irish landscape and beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) speaking on Clauses without verbs – The Irish landscape and beyond. \nPlease join us Friday\, November 8 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210 or virtually via Zoom: \n \nOne of the ways (perhaps the principal way) in which contemporary Irish departs from the typological profile of a Standard Average European (SAE) language is in its intricate and rich subsystem of finite verbless clauses. This subsystem will be the focus of my talk. \nThere is existing work on the topic\, but that work focuses almost exclusively on clauses which express copular relations (predicative\, identificational\, specificational). This talk will focus instead on the very large (and largely unstudied) class of predications which are verbless in their syntax but not copular in their semantics. It turns out that this sub-grouping includes many kinds of predication which have been of interest and importance in contemporary formal semantics and philosophy of language — almost all of the familiar modal expressions\, comparative clauses\, propositional attitude predicates\, subjective attitude ascriptions\, structures of weak quantification\, predicates of temporal duration and frequency\, predicates of knowledge\, acquaintance and many other psychological states (but not physical states). \nThe first goal of the talk will be descriptive — to provide an overview (syntactic and semantic) of these predication types — with a view ultimately of answering the typological-theoretical question of what predication-types can in principle be expressed in a verb-free syntactic frame. \nThe second goal will be to develop a syntactic framework which can accommodate these patterns and make the correct distributional predictions and connections within the language. \nThe third goal will be to consider theoretical implications (some syntactic\, some semantic)\, especially for the theory of extended projection and for the question of how roots are integrated into larger structures.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-mccloskey-clauses-without-verbs/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T100000
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SUMMARY:Online Platforms for Presenting Research with Kayla Isenberg
DESCRIPTION:Ready to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Threads\, Mastodon\, and others. We’ll cover how to use each platform\, how each works\, how to communicate effectively on each platform\, and how to pick the right platform for you and your goals. \nThis event is on Nov 12\, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nKayla Isenberg is the senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz\, where she runs digital strategy for the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and social media\, working for a variety of companies\, from startups to Fortune 500. She was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros Records. In her work in higher education\, she has won multiple CASE awards for her work in digital marketing and social media at UC Santa Cruz and has been a featured speaker at CASE social media conferences. \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/online-platforms-for-presenting-research-with-kayla-isenberg/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Director's Discussion: Chaityabhumi
DESCRIPTION:Chaityabhumi is a holy site that holds immense importance for the Dalit movement in India\, as it is where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s last rites were performed after his passing on December 6\, 1956. Dr Ambedkar\, often called the father of the Indian Constitution\, dedicated his life to fighting the chains of caste oppression and bringing revolutionary change. He was a guiding light for the oppressed who dismantled discriminatory barriers and empowered them to reclaim their dignity and their rightful place in society. \nThis musical film will bring to light the history and cultural politics of how people commemorate December 6 at Chaityabhumi\, Mumbai\, and the relevance of this public event in contemporary India. It explores how the Dalit community comes together to honor this day and the political implications it holds for their identity and empowerment. \nSomnath Waghmare is a Mumbai-based\, Dalit-Buddhist film researcher and documentary filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the Ambedkarite Dalit song documentation project\, ‘The Ambedkar Age Digital Bookmobile\,’ for which he was awarded the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art Public Art Grant in 2020. He is also the founder of Begumpura Productions. His recent documentary\, Chaityabhumi\, has been screened globally\, including at the London School of Economics and Columbia University. His past films include I am not a Witch (2016)\, The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: An Unending Journey (2017)\, Memories of Mangaon (2022)\, and There is No Caste Discrimination in IITs? (2023). He is currently working on a documentary biopic on American born Indian sociologist Gail Omvedt. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-and-directors-discussion-chaityabhumi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hive Live! Featuring Gary Young & Elizabeth Robinson
DESCRIPTION:The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Gary Young and Elizabeth Robinson at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nGary Young is a poet\, artist\, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry\, among them That’s What I Thought\, and American Analects\, both from Persea Books. His other books include Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese; Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese; Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the California Arts Council\, among others. His print work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the Getty Center for the Arts. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nElizabeth Robinson is the author\, most recently\, for Excursive (Roof Books)\, Thirst & Sufeit (Threadsuns Press)\, and\, collaboratively with Susanne Dyckman\, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press). In the past five years\, Robinson has received Editors’ Choice Awards from Scoundrel Time and New Letters\, and a Pushcart Prize. Vulnerabiity Index is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2025. \n \nYour registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. \nThank you for registering! \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-hive-live-featuring-gary-young-elizabeth-robinson/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dolly Kikon – Abundance: Living with a Forest
DESCRIPTION:We welcome Dolly Kikon for a screening of her film Abundance: Living with a Forest and a talk about her work on Indigenous ecology in the Eastern Himalayan region. \nAbundance: Living with a Forest (2024) is a filmic biography of foraging\, forest\, and jhum cultivation in Nagaland\, a hill state in Northeast India where approximately 60% of the population depend on jhum cultivation. Jhum cultivation and foraging have been recognized as community practices of indigenous knowledge. However\, both these practices and the forest to which they are intrinsically linked have been threatened by the plantation\, monocropping\, and infrastructure activities that have surged with the ongoing ceasefire between Naga armed groups and the government. \nAbundance: Living with a Forest follows Zareno\, a Lotha forager in the forest of Khumtsü\, and traces the foraged edible plants as they make their way to the market in Wokha town. The film gestures to an impending loss that Indigenous communities encounter across the world. \nWatch the trailer here:  \n \nListen to the Title Song from the documentary: \n \nDolly Kikon is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and director of the Center for South Asian Studies. She is the author of Experiences of Naga Women in Armed Conflict: Narratives from a Militarized Society (2004); Life and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (2015); Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (2019); with Bengt G. Karlsson\, Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India (2019); with Duncan McDuie-Ram\, Ceasefire City: Militarism\, Capitalism\, and Urbanism in Dimapur (2021); with Dixita Deka\, Joel Rodrigues\, Bengt G. Karlsson\, Sanjay Barbora\, and Meenal Tula\, Seeds and Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences (2023). \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/72419/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Christian Alvarado - "The Storm in Kenya": The Mau Mau Uprising and pan-Africanist Thought in the mid-20th Century
DESCRIPTION:The History Department invites you to an upcoming talk by Dr. Christian Alvarado entitled “The Storm in Kenya:” The Mau Mau Uprising and pan-Africanist Thought in the mid-20th Century. \nJoin us in person from 1:30 – 3:00 pm (PT) in Humanities 1\, Room 202 or join via Zoom here. \nHistorical work on the event most commonly known as the “Mau Mau Uprising”—which roiled late-colonial Kenya in the 1950s and captivated audiences the world over—has long been preoccupied with examining the political and economic origins of anticolonial resistance in the colony\, the operations of British counter-insurgency efforts\, and the legacy of each of these for post-independence Kenyan society. In distinction to these orthodox approaches to the study of Mau Mau\, Alvarado’s current book project considers how this event impacted the political\, economic\, and cultural history of other parts of the African continent\, as well as Europe and the Americas. This talk presents an account of the role “myths of Mau Mau” played in pan-Africanist thought both within and far beyond the borders of the colony during this period. Across the globe\, understandings of this event served as a key touchstone in the attempt to forge international solidarities among communities both in support of colonial rule and those who sought to bring about its end. This talk focuses in particular on debates about Mau Mau as they arose in two important contexts in the contemporary pan-Africanist movement. First\, an array of conferences\, forums\, and political meetings held on the continent during the late 1950s and early 1960s; second\, in contemporary Garveyite political thought both in Africa and abroad. Considered together\, these visions of what George Padmore called “the Storm in Kenya” illuminate new dimensions in the transnational history of not only Mau Mau\, but African decolonization more broadly. \nDr. Christian Alvarado received his PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in African American and African Studies at the University of California\, Davis. His wide-ranging research situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader history of decolonization in 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations\, this work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into global dimensions in the history of African decolonization. These frameworks include\, but are not limited to\, the history of the social sciences\, notions of African ‘race relations\,’ pan-Africanism\, diverse memory communities\, and conspiracist discourses. Across these seemingly disparate realms\, Alvarado argues that Mau Mau serves as a way of probing contemporary and current debates regarding the ethics of (anti)colonial violence\, the relationship between tradition and modernity\, and the nature of decolonization. A historian by training\, Dr. Alvarado’s interdisciplinary work is also in conversation with the fields of cultural studies\, comparative literature\, and political theory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-christian-alvarado-the-storm-in-kenya/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Public Speaking with Catherine Carlstroem
DESCRIPTION:These interactive in-person workshops provide an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking\, including managing anxiety\, key delivery techniques\, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches\, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations. \nThis event has two sessions: Nov 13\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Nov 19\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \nUCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching\, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course. \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/public-speaking-with-catherine-carlstroem/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso - Episode Sixteen – The Futures of Dante's Paradiso: Reading Forward
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Prof. Alison Cornish (New York University) and Prof. Arielle Saiber (Johns Hopkins University)\, about the challenges and opportunities of reading Dante’s Paradiso today\, particularly in\, but not limited to\, the academic context. They will explore innovative future directions to take this poem to as many readers and diverse audiences as possible\, and also why this should be done\, especially in view of the textbook that will be complied as a result of this year-long webinar series. \n \nThis event will be will be in person at Oakes Acad 105 and via Zoom (registration required). \nDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers. This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars took readers on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \nFeaturing: \nAlison Cornish\, Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante’s Stars (Yale\, 2000)\, Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Cambridge\, 2011) a commentary on Dante’s Paradiso\, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett\, 2017)\, and Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction (Cambridge\, 2022); as well as a number of essays on Dante\, Petrarch and Boccaccio. During the seventh centenary of the poet’s death\, she organized a crowd-sourced series of video conversations between members of the Dante Society of America\, entitled “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time.” \nArielle Saiber\, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Saiber’s books include Images of Quattrocento Florence: Writings on Literature\, History and Art co-edited with Stefano U. Baldassarri (Yale\, 2000); Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language (Ashgate/Routledge\, 2005); and Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press\, 2017). \nSaiber publishes primarily on Dante\, on the intersections between premodern Italian literature and mathematics/science\, and visual interpretations of Dante’s Commedia. She has also published on early print history\, science fiction\, and experimental electronic music. Her current research is on “altered states of consciousness” in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature. \nShe has co-edited a number of special issues of academic journals: for Configurations\, “Mathematics and the Imagination” (2009) with Henry S. Turner; for Dante Studies\, “Longfellow and Dante” (2010) with Giuseppe Mazzotta; for California Italian Studies\, “Sound” (2014) with Deanna Shemek; and for Science Fiction Studies\, “Italian Science Fiction” (2015) with Salvatore Proietti and Umberto Rossi.  She is currently co-editing with Proietti an anthology of Italian science fiction in English for Wesleyan University Press’s Early Classics of Science Fiction series. \nHer doctoral dissertation on Giordano Bruno won Yale’s Field Prize (2000)\, and in 2004 she received the Karofsky Prize for teaching at Bowdoin.  She has been a fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples\, Italy (1998-1999)\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-2004)\, and Villa I Tatti – Harvard’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence\, Italy (2008-2009).  She also received an NEH Fellowship (2008-2009)\, the MLA’s Scaglione Publication Award (2016)\, the Newberry Library’s Weiss-Brown Publication Award (2017)\, the American Initiative for Italian Culture’s Bridge Book Award (2018)\, and the Society for Literature\, Science\, and the Arts’ Kendrick Book Prize (2019) for her book Measured Words.  \nIn 2006 she built the web-based archive\, Dante Today: Sightings and Citings of Dante’s Work in Contemporary Culture\, which she now co-edits with Beth Coggeshall. \nShe co-edits the new book series Proximities: Experiments in Nearness with David Cecchetto for the University of Minnesota Press. \n\nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-episode-sixteen-the-future-of-dantes-paradiso-reading-forward/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Crafting the CV with Veronica Heiskell
DESCRIPTION:Applications for academic positions require a CV\, and some industry\, government\, and nonprofit employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume\, about hybrid CV-resumes\, what goes on a CV\, and what order to put information depending on the type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position. \nThis event is on Thu\, Nov 14\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over fourteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \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/crafting-the-cv-with-veronica-heiskell/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Archives in Action
DESCRIPTION:2 PM  |  “Getting Into the Archive: Tales from Inside”\nPaul Erickson\, Director of the Clements Library\, University of Michigan \nThis presentation will seek to demystify the process of applying for support for humanities research from libraries and archives by explaining it from the inside. It will offer suggestions for how to increase your chances of receiving fellowship support for your work. \nPaul Erickson is the Randolph G. Adams Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan\, a leading collection of early Americana. In 1993 Paul got his first experience administering fellowship programs for scholars from the humanities and social sciences\, and that is work that he has done for most of the past 20 years. \n3 PM  |  “Gloria Anzaldua and her Spectral Archives”\nBrenda Lara\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, UC Santa Cruz \n4 PM  |  “Archives in Dos Hemisferios: Reading Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Newspapers in Havana\, New York\, and Paris”\nDavis Luis-Brown\, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English\, Claremont Graduate University \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Director of Hispanic-Serving Research Initiatives. It is organized in conjunction with the Literature Department’s graduate course\, “Print Culture and Archives.” \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/archives-in-action/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Jasbir Puar - Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to host Jasbir Puar\, Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor\, Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia\, presenting Field Notes: Colonial Power at the Thresholds of Gender Studies. \nJasbir Puar’s research focuses on how the liberal state\, sexuality\, and bio-politics bear on our understanding of disability. In her most recent book\, The Right to Maim\, Prof. Puar uses the concept of “debility”— bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors — to disrupt the category of disability\, and shows how debility\, disability\, and capacity constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Interrogating Israel’s policies toward Palestine\, she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. \nJasbir Puar is a Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor of Global Race Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book\, The Right to Maim: Debility\, Capacity\, Disability (2017\, Duke University Press) explores how the liberal state\, sexuality\, and biopolitics bear on our understanding of disability\, culminating in an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jasbir-puar-field-notes-colonial-power-at-the-thresholds-of-gender-studies/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T120000
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SUMMARY:Wenyi Shang - Moving Beyond the Streetlight: How Computational Methods Can Open Up New Directions in Humanities Research
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging talk by Wenyi Shang\, titled Moving Beyond the Streetlight: How Computational Methods Can Open Up New Directions in Humanities Research. \nThe “streetlight effect” describes an observational bias relevant to the humanities and social sciences\, where researchers tend to focus on the questions limited by the scales of materials they can directly comprehend. The application of computational methods in the humanities research has the potential to transform this landscape\, providing interpretative tools to offer new insights into the macroscopic trends that studies at the individual and microscopic scale often fail to reveal. This talk presents two case studies to demonstrate how computational methods can open up new directions in humanities research. The first uses machine learning models to classify English poetry by lexicon and prosody\, shedding new light on the distinction between “genre” and “form.” The second applies social network analysis to explore the structural characteristics of political networks in Northern Song (960–1127 C.E.) China\, revealing changes in political culture during the period. \nPlease join us in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 or via Zoom \nWenyi Shang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his bachelor’s degree from Peking University\, China. His research focuses on digital humanities\, addressing scholarly inquiries in history and literature through computational methods. He has employed network analysis to investigate social structures and transformations in political culture in premodern Chinese societies\, and used text mining to study literature\, uncovering novel perspectives on cultural changes reflected in literary texts. Both methods frequently intersect with machine learning models.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-wenyi-shang/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T150000
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SUMMARY:LinkedIn with Eric Curiel
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn is a powerful tool to network and search for jobs. We will go over tips to update your LinkedIn profile to help recruiters find you\, explore ways to identify alumni with similar career paths and interests on LinkedIn\, and show you how to connect effectively with them to expand your network. We will also go over best practices for searching for jobs. \nThis event is on Mon\, Nov 18\, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session. \n \nEric Curiel has worked for over ten years in supporting college students in pursuing successful careers and currently serves as associate director of career engagement in Career Success. He is passionate about supporting students\, especially those from underrepresented populations\, to be successful. He completed his bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolution from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. Eric enjoys being outdoors\, photography\, and watching soccer. \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/linkedin-with-eric-curiel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Contributions to Diversity Statement with Judith Estrada
DESCRIPTION:Judith Estrada\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Vice Chancellor\nOffice for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (ODEI) \nThis event has two sessions: Nov 19\, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom\, or Nov 20\, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session. \n \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/contributions-to-diversity-statement-with-judith-estrada/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba
DESCRIPTION:In her directorial debut\, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution\, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s\, which held the promise of a popular revolution and\, with it\, of women’s emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition\, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt\, asking of the past how we might transform the present. FIPRESCI International Critics Prize Winner at the 2017 Berlinale Forum.\n– Malgorzata Sadowska \nMary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore labor movement histories\, connections among unstable landscapes and legacies of colonialism in the Arab World\, Latin America and Turtle Island and the ever-present resilience of everyday life. Her debut feature film A Feeling Greater Than Love (2017) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum where it received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize\, making several “Best of 2017” lists. From 2006-2008\, she produced the community broadcast television program\, Via Comunidad with art collective Vientos del Sur in Ibarra\, Ecuador. A avid producer of anonymous and collective agitprop\, her latest film Mahdi Amel in Gaza (2024) is screening in community spaces\, protest sites\, and sometimes festivals. Saba is a member of UAW Labor for Palestine\, the People’s CDC and a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media. \nPreceded by a workshop: Mon. November 18\, 4 – 7 PM\, Comm. 139 \nIn this workshop filmmaker and scholar Mary Jirmanus Saba will discuss her recent work on films made in the aftermath of the Arab Spring\, exploring the emergence of the “character driven resilience documentary.” Using her own work as an example\, Saba will facilitate a discussion about the political economy of arts funding and social movements. \nTo join the workshop\, RSVP to ilusztig@ucsc.edu. \n\nPresented by Film and Digital Media and co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-film-screening-and-filmmaker-qa-a-feeling-greater-than-love-with-mary-jirmanus-saba/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Giving Day 2024
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendar for Wednesday\, November 20 and join us for UC Santa Cruz’s annual Giving Day—a 24-hour online fundraising event dedicated to supporting projects that enrich the UCSC student experience. \nGiving Day is an opportunity to unite the entire UCSC community—students\, alumni\, faculty\, and friends—to create a lasting\, positive impact on our students\, the community\, and the world. Let’s show our Banana Slug pride and rally together to support the next generation of changemakers. \nWhether supporting student success\, funding cutting-edge research in the sciences or technology\, or advancing humanities and the arts\, your gift on November 20 will help fuel programs and initiatives that make UCSC a unique place. You can make an impact in a way that resonates with you. \nOur mission to provide high quality educational and research experiences for our students\, regardless of their backgrounds and financial circumstances is more important than ever. Your support is crucial to ensuring we deliver on that mission. \nLearn more at give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day-2024/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Lara Sheehi - "The Imperative to Refuse Psychic Intrusion in Palestine-Lebanon Solidarities"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will discuss the ways psychic intrusions are central features of settler colonial logics and how they are used with specific intent to disrupt solidarities. Palestine-Lebanon solidarities will be used as a “case study” to read the psycho-politico-affective forces that demobilize. \nAbout the Speaker \nLara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies\, Qatar\, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Prof. Sheehi’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis\, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge\, 2022)\, which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Prof. Sheehi is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA\, Division 39)\, co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality\, co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis\, Culture and Society\, and an advisory board member for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is currently working on a new book\, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press). \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)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Politics Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, People’s University\, and Institute for Social Transformation. \nThis talk is a part of the 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/lara-sheehi-the-imperative-to-refuse-psychic-intrusion-in-palestine-lebanon-solidarities/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry\, Beth Au\, moderator of the panel\, and a panel of UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc\, all of whom currently work for a CCC. \nThis event is on Thu\, Nov 21\, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \n\nModerator\nBeth Au \nDirector\, California Community Colleges Registry \nBeth Au has a master’s degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. She has been director of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Registry since 2002. As director\, she oversees and manages cccregistry.org and hosts annual job fairs for the college system every January. \nThe CCC Registry is the state chancellor’s job board for faculty\, management and staff opportunities at all 73 districts and 116 colleges across California. The CCCs are the largest higher education employer in the world with over 60\,000 faculty\, administrators and staff across the state. \nIn her role as a recruiter\, she frequently works with UC graduate students and postdocs through UC Career Centers and Graduate Divisions to host CCC interest panels. During Covid\, she pivoted the informational panels and 1:1 sessions with job seekers to a virtual format and has continued recruitment in the online environment. She has counseled over 400 job seekers in Zoom sessions since May 2020 and continues to use Zoom to maintain outreach and recruitment. Several of the job seekers she has coached have been offered full-time\, tenure track positions at a CCC since 2022. \nBeth is available for 1:1 Zoom sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to offer CCC application and career advice. Reach out to her directly at aub@yosemite.edu to schedule a session. \n\nPanelists\nFrancesca “Chesa” Caparas\nInstructor\, English\, Women’s Studies\, and Asian American Studies\nDe Anza College\, Cupertino \nChesa Caparas (she/they) has a B.A. and M.A. in modern literature from UC Santa Cruz. She is faculty in English\, Women’s Studies\, and Asian American Studies at De Anza College. In her classes she explores literature and pop culture\, the intersections of technology with race and gender\, and the ethical applications of artificial intelligence. In 2022\, she was a Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines where she researched media and information literacy. She is currently pursuing a master’s in Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University. \n\nJasmeet Dhaliwal\, Ph.D.\nInstructor\, Geology\, Earth and Environmental Sciences\nChabot College\, Hayward \nJasmeet Dhaliwal received her Ph.D. in earth science from UC San Diego and held a postdoctoral researcher position at UC Santa Cruz until accepting a position as a geology and earth and environmental sciences instructor at Chabot College. She worked with Beth Au to prepare the application to Chabot. \n\nSarah Gerhardt\, Ph.D.\nChemistry Department Chair and Instructor\nCabrillo College \nSarah started teaching immediately after receiving her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCSC. She started as a lecturer at Santa Clara University teaching general and physical chemistry and moved to Cabrillo College to teach general\, introductory\, and biological chemistry\, the last for allied health sciences. She also participated in the ACCESS program at UCSC as a community college liaison for several summers. After having two children (teaching while pregnant and at night while her children were young) and several years as a lecturer\, Sarah did a postdoctorate in molecular\, cell\, and developmental biology under Professor Harry Noller at UCSC. She returned to teaching general and introductory chemistry full-time at Monterey Peninsula College 2011 to 2017. Since August 2017\, she has taught general chemistry full-time at Cabrillo College and is currently chair of Cabrillo’s Chemistry Department. \n\nBrian Malone\, Ph.D.\nProfessor of English\nDe Anza\, Cupertino \nBrian Malone (he/him) is a tenured professor of English at De Anza College in Cupertino. He teaches classes in composition and English literature\, in addition to serving on the leadership team for Guided Pathways and as project director for a Title III: Strengthening Institutions Program grant. He previously served as tenure review coordinator for the college. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.A. from the University of Virginia. He received a Ph.D. in literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2014\, with a dissertation focusing on the nineteenth-century novel in England and France. \n\nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Ph.D.\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College\, San José \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a full-time ethnic studies professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. She obtained her A.A. in sociology from Southwestern College\, B.A. in sociology from UC San Diego\, M.A. in Asian American studies from San Francisco State University\, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in education from UC Santa Cruz. She is co-editor of the Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader (2018)\, and a contributing author to the anthologies Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (2019)\, the SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (2022)\, as well as Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice (2023). Her work draws from women-of-color radical thought to address how intersectional struggles of racism\, classism\, cisheteropatriarchy\, and body terrorism impact us every day. \n\nAndrea Seeger\, A.B.D.\nLecturer\, Social Justice\, Literature\, Writing\nOakes College\, UCSC\nFaculty\, English Department\nCabrillo College\, Aptos \nAndrea Seeger\, a Santa Cruz native\, returned a few years ago to her hometown after academic wandering. She received her undergraduate education at UCSC\, first studying mathematics\, then completing her B.A. in literature. She has an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder and is A.B.D. in English at UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 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 Oakes College and writing through the UCSC Writing Program. She also lectures in English at Cabrillo College. Andrea recently served as the director of the UCSC Writing Center and its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, an HSI Initiative. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a deep\, quality education. \n\nRandy Villegas\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\, Political Science\nCollege of the Sequoias\, Visalia \nA product of public education institutions\, Randy Villegas is an associate professor of political science at College of the Sequoias and a trustee for the Visalia Unified School District Board of Education. Before beginning graduate school\, Villegas worked as a journalist and an organizer in Bakersfield\, CA. He has been a recipient of numerous awards\, including the 2020 CARE-UC Innovation Fellowship and the American Political Science Association (APSA) Fund for Latino Scholarship. He is currently featured in the Unity Exhibit of the California State Capitol Museum for his work around social justice issues in the Central Valley. After being appointed to the Visalia Board of Trustees in December 2021\, he was elected by the voters of area 6 to continue serving in November 2022. Randy is honored to serve our students\, families\, and 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-community-colleges-panel-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Christmas Carol Dramaturgy Talk with Santa Cruz Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare for a presentation and talk by their brilliant Christmas Carol dramaturgs Dr. Renee Fox (UC Santa Cruz)\, Dr. Michael Chemers (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Charles Pasternak (SCS Artistic Director). Renee and Michael will discourse on Dickens and his marvelous novella. Q&A to follow. Expertise breeds love; don’t be a Scrooge; join SCS in nerding out over this beautiful story!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-christmas-carol-dramaturgy-talk/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor - Charging Forward
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Chris Brenner and Manuel Pastor for a reading and signing of their new book Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future—a clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. \n“Charging Forward brilliantly uses the Valley to illustrate what’s at stake as we move to a clean energy world. Clear-eyed that we cannot change the way we deliver power until we change who wields power\, Benner and Pastor offer both hard-headed analysis and hope for a just future.” —Van Jones \n \nChris Benner is the director of the Institute for Social Transformation and the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a professor of environmental studies and sociology. He has co-authored five books with Manuel Pastor\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, and Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nManuel Pastor is the director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California where he is also a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity and the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. He has co-authored five books with Chris Benner\, including Equity\, Growth and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas\, Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter\, and Charging Forward: Lithium Valley\, Electric Vehicles\, and a Just Future (The New Press). Pastor is also the author of State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future (The New Press). He lives in Los Angeles. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-manuel-pastor-charging-forward/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kunal Purohit - H-Pop\, The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars
DESCRIPTION:Can a song trigger a murder?\nCan a poem spark a riot?\nCan a book divide a people? \nAway from the gaze of mainstream urban media\, across India’s dusty\, sleepy towns\, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions\, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics to poetry recited in public gatherings to social media influencers shaping opinions with their brand of “breaking news” to books rescripting historical events\, “Hindutva Pop\,” or H-Pop\, is steadily creating societal acceptability for Hindutva’s core beliefs. Award-winning\, independent journalist Kunal Purohit travels through India\, profiling some of H-Pop’s most prolific and popular creators\, inquiring whether they are driven by ideology or commerce and asking what motivates the audience to consume its daily dose of bigotry. \nKunal Purohit is an award-winning\, independent journalist\, documentary film-maker\, and podcast creator. Over the past two decades\, Kunal has written on issues of development\, politics\, and inequality. More recently\, his work has focused on hate crimes and the rise of Hindu nationalism. He is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism (2012)\, the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting (2014)\, and the UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Reporting (2014 and 2019). \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and co-sponsored by the Music Department\, the Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair for Classical Indian Music\, the Ali Akbar Khan Endowment for Classical Indian Music\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-h-pop-the-secretive-world-of-hindutva-popstars/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used\, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation.  \nPrior to attending this workshop\, review this slide design page. \nThis event is on Mon\, Nov 25\, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session. \n \nSonya Newlyn provides professional development programming for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for the Graduate Division. In addition to the Professional Communication Certificate Program\, she organizes the winter quarter Graduate Student Leadership Certificate Program and schedules individual professional development events available to all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She also organizes the annual Grad Slam and the Graduate Symposium. She received her master’s degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Emory University\, where she also minored in anthropology. \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/slide-design-with-sonya-newlyn/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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