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SUMMARY:Global Soccer Culture: How Immigrants Created the World's Game
DESCRIPTION:Global Soccer Culture\nHow Immigrants Created the World’s Game \nProf. Laurent Dubois (U. of Virginia) in Conversation with Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani\nMonday\, January 6\, 2025\n6 pm || Cultural Center @ Merrill \n \nKick off your winter quarter with this inspiring conversation between renowned global soccer historian Dr. Laurent Dubois and Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani\, Vice Chancellor of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion. \nHow have immigrants and immigration created a culture of soccer that spans the globe? What is at stake in current struggles over immigration for the future of soccer as “the world’s game”? \nLaurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of seven books\, including Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010) and The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (2018). \nAnju Reejhsinghani is Inaugural Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer\, UC Santa Cruz. A former tenured history professor in the University of Wisconsin System\, Dr. Reejhsinghani is a scholar of race\, gender\, sport\, and diaspora in the Americas. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Merrill College\, the UCSC Office for Diversity and Inclusion\, the History department\, The Center for World History\, the Council of Provosts\, and the Merrill Programs and Leadership Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/global-soccer-culture-how-immigrants-created-the-worlds-game/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zionism: Past\, Present\, Future?
DESCRIPTION:Zionism is one of the most fraught terms in contemporary politics. But what exactly is Zionism\, what is its history\, and what have been (and are today) its many meanings to diverse groups? Why have so many embraced different versions of Zionism\, and\, on the flip side\, why and how has Zionism been critiqued\, both among its proponents as well as its detractors? What is the future of Zionism\, particularly in the wake of Israel’s devastating assaults on Gaza and Lebanon following the Hamas organized massacres of Israelis on Oct. 7\, 2023? Please join the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies in a panel conversation featuring\, Liora Halperin (University of Washington)\, Shaul Magid (Dartmouth)\, and Dov Waxman (UCLA); prominent scholars of the history of Zionism\, who will address these questions and many more. \n \nRegistration required for event entry. Seating will be first come\, first served. \n Prof. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington. She is an historian of Israel/Palestine with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, Jewish cultural and social history\, language ideology and policy\, and the politics of colonization and settlement. She is the author of The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021)\, a study of the European Jewish agricultural colonies established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine and the politics of their twentieth-century commemoration and Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine\, 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015)\, which was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She is currently working on a book about the diverse urban Jewish communities of late 19th/early 20th century Ottoman Palestine and the way a wide range of later groups and political movements\, both Zionist and anti-Zionist\, have commemorated and promoted narratives about this history. \nShaul Magid is a rabbi\, Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School\, and Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. He teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School and is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard. He has written extensively on Zionism\, anti-Zionism\, Diasporism\, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He is the author of many books and essays\, most recently Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) and The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (2023). His present book project is The Political Theology of Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – Zionism as Anti-Messianism. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, and many other publications. \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by Porter College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zionism-past-present-future/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Kim Tallbear – Settler Love Is Breaking My Heart: Sex\, Kin\, and Country
DESCRIPTION:Settler sexuality\, family\, and “love” are key to sustaining settler property relations in the US and Canada. In this in-process book chapter (a shorter version was previously published in a 2024 edited volume)\, I draw on the work of historians\, anthropologists\, and science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have investigated the history of state- sanctioned marriage and monogamy in the US\, Hawai’i\, Canada\, and Europe. I also build on popular and academic polyamory literatures\, Native American and Indigenous Studies and critical race theory. In addition\, (auto)ethnographic examination of eco-erotic\, polyamorous\, and other more-than-monogamous relating inform alternative concepts of anticolonial relating after the unsettling of settler sex and family. Finally\, I center the role of country—both music and place—to think through and beyond unsustainable settler- colonial practices of making relations with human loves and more-than-human loves. Decolonization is more sustainable with music. \nKim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience\, and Society\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions\, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast. She is also a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples\, science\, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter\, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs\, cultural politics & (de)colonization at https://kimtallbear.substack.com. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kim-tallbear-settler-love-is-breaking-my-heart-sex-kin-and-country/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Andrea Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nAndrea Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections; her latest is The Sorrow Apartments (2024). You can also find her writing in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Threepenny Review\, and The New York Review of Books\, etc. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies at MacDowell. Over the years\, she has taught at The University of Iowa\, Emerson College\, UMASS-Boston\, The Fine Arts Work Center\, and Merrimack College; starting this spring\, she will teach at Boston University. She also directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series. Her hometown is Atlanta\, Georgia. \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. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-andrea-cohen/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marc Matera - Race After Empire: Racial Capitalism in Southern Africa and “Race Relations” in Britain
DESCRIPTION:“Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and\, ultimately\, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However\, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean\, South Asian\, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s\, race relations served as a means of conceptualizing and grappling with “problems of the end of Empire\,” and efforts to study and manage them focused on centers of extractive industries in British settler colonies in Africa. \nThis talk demonstrates how white liberals and business leaders in colonial Africa provided institutional models and much of the personnel and start-up capital for a race relations industry in Britain that depoliticized racism and delegitimated anticolonial and Black Power politics by attributing them to racial identification. Studies of and policies targeting race relations in 1960s Britain emerged alongside and in connection with efforts to manage\, co-opt\, or divert the transformative potential of decolonization and to shape postcolonial futures with neoliberal solutions. From this perspective\, when it comes to liberal politics of race\, as the South African artist William Kentridge suggests (“Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)\,” 1988)\, “London is a suburb of Johannesburg”. \nMarc Matera is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (University of California Press\, 2015). He coauthored The Global 1930s: The International Decade (Routledge\, 2017) with Susan Kingsley Kent and The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012) with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. He recently contributed to and coauthored introductory and concluding essays for a thematic issue of Modern British History\, “Marking Race in Twentieth Century Britain”. The research for Professor Matera’s talk was supported in part by a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-matera-race-after-empire/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambika Aiyadurai - Caring for Humans and Nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies\, this talk examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and case studies from across the country\, Professor Aiyadurai will discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people\, the talk asks how and in what ways the notions of care for humans and nonhumans among these groups vary\, overlap\, and sometimes compete against each other. How do we reconcile the conflicts emerging through the hierarchical nature of the ethics of care in wildlife conservation? \n \nAmbika Aiyadurai is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar. Her research interests include human-animal relations and community-based wildlife conservation. \nThis talk is a part of the Center for South Asian Studies Ecologies of Care 2024-25 Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caring-for-humans-and-nonhumans/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Venita Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nWorks by Venita Blackburn have appeared in The New Yorker\, NY Times\, Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, Story Magazine\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Paris Review\, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction\, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories\, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes\, in 2017 and earned a place as a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award among other honors. Blackburn’s second collection of stories is How to Wrestle a Girl\, 2021\, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NY Times editor’s choice. Her debut novel\, Dead in Long Beach\, California\, is about the mania of grief\, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world and was selected as one of the NYTimes and NPR’s best books of 2024. She is the founder and president of Live\, Write\, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Her hometown is Compton\, California\, and she is an Associate Professor of creative writing at California State University\, Fresno. \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. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-venita-blackburn/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With support from Santa Cruz County and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz—an exhibition that pays tribute to the world of travel photography\, community\, and adventure\, where architecture\, design\, and aesthetics converge in stunning symmetry reminiscent of the iconic filmmaker’s visual style. \nThe exhibit will run from January 24th – May 18th. \nThis is an adventure. Join us to discover the most interesting places on Earth\, both near and far\, inspired by the eponymous director’s cinematic vision. Produced in collaboration with brand and social media community Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA)\, this exhibition takes guests on a visual journey to the most beautiful\, idiosyncratic locations around the globe—including Santa Cruz County—all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of filmmaker Wes Anderson. \nFrom impossibly grand hotels and chateaus to idyllic lighthouses\, cable cars\, and train carriages\, AWA explores the filmmaker’s distinct aesthetic\, whether a perfectly symmetrical landscape or a European city brimming with technicolor structures. The MAH exhibition\, which will include a selection of community-sourced images of quirky places and locales in Central Coast California\, is also presented as homage to the centennial celebration of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Giant Dipper roller coaster\, an Anderson-esque vintage wooden coaster that debuted in 1924. \nBorn off the back of a viral online phenomenon and community of the same name\, AWA celebrates the undeniable visual vernacular of one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson. Bright\, vivid\, and often slightly jarring to reality\, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors\, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location. Authorized by Anderson himself\, the exhibition and its companion books celebrate much of the weird and wonderful architecture that exists in our unique world\, paying tribute to travel\, photography\, community\, and adventure. \nAWA photo contributors have been called “adventurers” who range from travelers\, architects\, history buffs\, artists\, editors\, photographers\, to teachers\, students\, and all walks of life intrigued by the wonders of the world and civilization. \n\nBanner Image: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk\, photo by Ludwig Favre\, @ludwigfavre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/accidentally-wes-anderson-adventures-in-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series: Francesca Orsini — Varieties of Realism
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 24th at 10am PST for Varieties of Realism\, a lecture by Francesca Orsini with discussants: G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-varieties-of-realism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth\, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever\, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book\, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who would like to participate. \n \nPlease sign up here for a free copy of the book. If you would like a copy to read over the winter break\, please sign up by December 2nd. Registrations received after December 2nd will receive their books in January. \nProfessor Amanda Smith will email all the registrants with a time to pick up their book. \nAn American Library Association Notable Book\, We Are the Middle of Forever draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities\, generations\, and geographic regions\, who share their knowledge and experience\, their questions\, their observations\, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis\, We Are the Middle of Forever will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster. \nStan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing\, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain\, Diaspora’s Children\, and (with Dahr Jamail) We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (The New Press). He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/we-are-the-middle-of-forever/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dan Zimmer - From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics
DESCRIPTION:The first guest of the Winter ’25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday\, January 27th\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout From Left/Right to Up/Down:\nRecent years have seen a growing number renounce the anthropocentrism of the modern Left/Right political spectrum to champion nothing less than the cause of Life itself. This talk charts how the totality of Life became a source of political concern and maps the consequences. It traces the beginning of these developments back to mid-20th century cybernetics before proceeding to show how the environmental crises of the 1970s split the servants of Life into competing camps: one wing striving to ensure that human beings do not overstep Life’s planetary boundaries and the other seeking to use artificial intelligence to free Life from all earthly limits to growth. The talk introduces an Up/Down dichotomy as a heuristic tool to help observers better parse this growing opposition. It concludes by warning that the growing struggle between Life’s partisans may come to resemble less the human-scale conflicts of Western political modernity than a new war of religion. \nDan Zimmer is a political theorist who studies the planet-scale application of human power\, with a transdisciplinary focus on nuclear weapons\, global warming\, and artificial intelligence (AI). He received a doctorate in political science from the Government Department of Cornell University and has since studied contemporary issues in climate science and AI with STS scholar Paul Edwards as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He now works as a lecturer in the Stanford Civic\, Liberal\, and Global Education Program and is currently completing a book manuscript that traces the emergence of the human species as a political object from Aristotle to the atom bomb to the Anthropocene. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-dan-zimmer/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture
DESCRIPTION:Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan\, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional\, continental\, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue essay composed alongside The Art Institute of Chicago’s current exhibition\, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica\, this talk navigates a genealogy of similarly unsettled anticolonial solidarities throughout Africa and its diaspora during the Non-Aligned era. By narrowing in on the contentious relationship between “North” and “Sub-Saharan” African artistic production in this period – particularly during the 1969 “First” Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers – I explore how varying articulations and mis/translations of Blackness\, Arabness\, and Africanness in the political and cultural realm ultimately elude a stable and coherent Pan-African sensibility. However\, I also contend that the necessarily fleeting nature of these cultural encounters did still chart routes towards an African diasporic relation of difference that strives towards the most emancipatory possibilities of a transnational and anticolonial practice of solidarity. \nSophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sophia’s current book project\, Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab\, explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American\, Afro-Caribbean\, African\, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz\, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Sophia is a frequent contributor to The Funambulist magazine. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sophia-azeb-mapping-the-arab-in-pan-african-political-culture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi:  Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 31st at 10am PST for a discussion with Francesca Orsini on East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature\, in conversation with G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. This event is part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-east-of-delhi/
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SUMMARY:Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical\, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. \n \nThe first 20 students who register for the full day will receive\ntheir choice of one of the speakers’ books. \n\n11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World \nAsli Zengin – Assistant Professor\, Rutgers University\nIn Violent Intimacies\, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the ethnographic history of trans communal life in Istanbul\, Zengin develops an understanding cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex\, gender and sexuality. \n12:30 | Lunch provided \n1:30pm | Defiant Disrobing and Double Dissent in Feminist Thought \nNaminata Diabate – Associate Professor\, Cornell University\nNaminata Diabate is a scholar of sexuality\, race\, biopolitics\, and postcoloniality\, whose research explores African\, African American\, Caribbean\, and Afro-Hispanic literatures\, cultures\, cinema\, and new media. Her book\, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa\, won the African Studies Association Best Book Award in 2021 and the African Literature First Book Prize in 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-dissent-a-trans-feminist-dialogue/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:American Patchwork Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Friday\, January 31\, 2025 at 7:00PM! \nJoin the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet’s mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. \n \n \nAmerican Patchwork Quartet (APQ)\, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross\, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication\, country twang\, West African hypnotics\, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation\, transcending culture\, politics\, and ideology. \nA southern-born roots music aficionado\, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ\, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah\, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist\, Yasushi Nakamura\, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist\, and Clarence Penn\, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. \nAPQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that\, from a collage of varied backgrounds\, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned. Mirroring America’s cultural mosaic\, APQ stitches together a story that’s both intricate and resilient. The fabric of their music is genuine—it neither feigns tolerance nor presents an overly-embellished image of unity. Instead\, each carefully chosen piece dives deep into America’s patchwork soul and shares the joys\, sorrows\, and unwavering hope of a nation crafted by shared dreams and diverse histories. \nFar from being a haphazard collection of musical scraps\, APQ is a deliberately designed homage to America’s past and a showcase of its dynamic present. It beckons listeners to meditate upon our shared identity and relish in the musical threads that bind us. Just as an intricately designed quilt becomes a cherished family heirloom\, when the distinct patterns of APQ’s music align in perfect harmony\, the result is both a blanket of warmth and a timeless treasure. \nSponsored by The Humanities Institute at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-patchwork-quartet-2/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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