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SUMMARY:Ariella Azoulay – Crafting a Jewish Muslim World
DESCRIPTION:Crafting a potential history of the Jewish Muslim World means taking seriously the fact that we – Muslim Jews – are the living ruins of worlds that imperialism is committed to make disappear. Asking ‘who am I?’ / ‘who are we?’ means breaking apart the cohesiveness and solidity of the identities assigned by settler colonial states to children born within their borders. Azoulay will present her new book The Jewelers of the Ummah – A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World and will focus on her methodological choices of inhabiting the ruins of this world with kin and elected kin\, and of engaging with jewelry making as part of this journey. \nAriella Aïsha Azoulay teaches at Brown political theory from an anti-colonial perspective\, using photography and material culture. Her latest books: The Jewelers of the ummah – Potential History of The Jewish Muslim World (Verso\, 2024)\, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso Books\, 2019)\, Civil Imagination – A Political Ontology of photography (revised & augmented edition\, 2024\, Verso) and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation\, 1947–1950 (Pluto Press\, 2011); She recently published her first children book Golden Threads (Ayin Press\, 2024). Her latest films include the trilogy Unlearning Imperial Plunder: One Thousand and One Jewels (2025)\, The world like a jewel in the hand (2023)\, Un-documented (2019); her latest exhibitions: Errata (Fundació Antoni Tàpies\, Barcelona\, 2019; HKW\, Berlin\, 2020)\, and The Natural History of Rape (Berlin Biennale\, 2022). \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nThis event is presented by CCS with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and the Visual Media and Culture Colloquium Series (VMCC). Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ariella-azoulay-crafting-a-jewish-muslim-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet! Come have some food and refreshments with the CSAS community and tell us about your research and interests related to South Asia and the Center. \nGrab a bite\, get a drink\, and tell us about your research!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-south-asian-studies-meet-and-greet/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:The Future We Share: Activism\, Creativity\, and Collective Imagination \nJoin us on April 4\, 2025 for the Night of Ideas in Santa Cruz\, a nocturnal celebration of art\, philosophy\, and activism! From solar energy and housing justice to communal music and movement\, Night of Ideas – Santa Cruz invites you to explore interactive sessions on democracy\, environmental solutions\, and housing rights\, as well as immersive experiences fostering embodied connection. With a Capoeira opening\, sculptural performances\, and live piano meditations\, come create\, move\, and reflect on our shared future! The 2025 Program is below. \nNight of Ideas\, a global event taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. \nTaking place from March 27 through April 6\, Night of Ideas returns this year with nocturnal arts and culture marathons in cities across the U.S. Events will feature late-night discussions addressing major global issues\, plus live music\, screenings\, performances\, and more\, all centered this year’s theme\, “common ground.” Exploring the expression’s literal and metaphorical interpretations\, Night of Ideas will prompt participants to consider how we can commit to and protect what we have in common. How can we foster authentic interpersonal connection in an increasingly digital world? In a polarized political landscape\, where are our opportunities for dialogue? As extreme weather threatens our planet\, how can we preserve the land beneath our feet? Learn more and sign up for updates at nightofideas.org. \nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy\, with support from the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, Humanities West\, The Marc Sanders Foundation\, Villa Albertine\, and Institut français. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. \n \n  \n\nNight of Ideas 2025 Program\nMAIN HALL \n5pm: Brazilian Cultural Art of Capoeira \n5:30pm: Welcome – Opening Remarks (J. Proust) \n6:30pm: IAS Exhibition Walkthrough with Curator R. Nelson \n7:30pm: Activating the EDELO exhibition (C. Duarte and YELO) \n8pm: Piano Meditation/Sound Healing (E. Shanken) \n8:30pm: What if We Moved as One? (B-Moving\, B. Wittmer\, with E. Shanken) \nCONFERENCE ROOM (Room 1) \n6 – 6:25pm: The Common Ground That Creates an Uncommon Good (G. Hammond) \n7 – 7:25pm: Mind\, Body and Tiktok Problem (J. Candray) \n8 – 8:25pm: Common Ground\, No Ground: Housing\, Rights\, and the Refusal to Disappear (J.Schendledecker) \nWEST ROOM (Room 2) \n6 – 6:25pm: Post-nonmonogamy and Poly-river-amory (K. TallBear) \n7 – 7:25pm: Empowering the Solar Commons through Community Energy (R. Lipschutz\, K. Milun\, R. Stayton) \n8 – 8:25pm: Understanding Through Play (Liminal Space Collective) \nONGOING \n“Ask a Philosopher” booth (M. Mattinson\, R. Kusyuniati\, J. Read) & TEQ project \nMelodies of Hope (El Sistema – I. Tuncer) \n\nSpeakers and Performers\nThis event will feature Kim TallBear\, Caleb Duarte\, Joy Schendledecker\, Dr. Kathryn Milun\, Dr. Ronnie D. Lipschutz\, Robert Stayton\, Liminal Space Collective\, Juliet Candray\, George Hammond\, Brigitte Wittmer\, Edhi Shanken\, El Sistema Santa Cruz/Pajaro Valley\, Raízes do Brasil Capoeira and Brazilian Cultural Arts Center\, Dr. Jeanne Proust\, Rachel Nelson. \nFor more information about all guest speakers and performers visit: Night of Ideas 2025 — Institute of the Arts and Sciences
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/night-of-ideas-2025/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes for disabled writers sharing their first-person perspectives with the world? In this dialogue with two scholars and memoirists of disability\, we will explore how intellectual and aesthetic engagement with non-normative embodied life speaks to questions that matter — now more than ever. \nFeaturing: Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)\, Jan Grue (University of Oslo)\, Megan Moodie (UC Santa Cruz). \nDoors open 5:30pm – Event begins 6:00pm\nTickets: $15 \n \nFree student tickets are available. Please email thi@ucsc.edu to reserve a student spot.\nA ucsc.edu email and student ID number will be required. \nJan Grue is the author of a wide-ranging body of work in fiction\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, and academic literature\, and a professor at the University of Oslo. I Live a Life Like Yours was published in 2018 in Norway\, where it won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and was nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize\, the first Norwegian nonfiction book to be so honored in fifty years. \n  \nPranav Anand is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates how context mediates the interpretation of language\, and has explored the interpretation of subjectivity\, persuasive tactics\, bias\, evidence\, belief\, time\, and narrative structure. \n  \nMegan Moodie is a cultural anthropologist\, writer\, performer\, and disability studies scholar whose work spans multiple genres. As a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, she specializes in teaching experimental research methods that bring together social sciences and the arts. Her work on disability\, motherhood\, and artistic practice has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Catamaran\, Hip Mama\, MUTHA Magazine\, and Sapiens. In 2019\, her essay “Birthright\,” which appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review (Volume 26)\, was named a Notable Essay of the Year by Best American Essays. \nQuestions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together\, in conversation\, two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-disability-in-medicine-and-memoir/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Cat Bohannon - Eve
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon’s book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting\, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved\, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is\, how it came to be\, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today. Now in paperback\, Eve is also available in an edition adapted for young adults. \n“A smart\, funny\, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body\, Eve surprises\, educates\, and emboldens.” — Bonnie Garmus\, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry \n \nHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty\, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why\, seriously why\, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause? \nThese questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve\, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit\, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user’s manual for the female mammal. \nCat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American\, Mind\, Science Magazine\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Georgia Review\, The Story Collider\, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle. \nVicky Oelze is an associate professor in anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches subjects including human evolution\, archeological science and primatology. Dr. Oelze joined UCSC after completing her PhD in Archeological Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands and almost a decade of research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Her archeological work spans five continents and ranges from the first farmers in prehistoric Europe to the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Her primatological research focuses on the dietary ecology of African great apes and how maternal investment in terms of breastfeeding varies between species and populations. \nMore information at: Cat Bohannon\, Eve | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-cat-bohannon-eve/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales\, fantasy\, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. \nThis is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she teaches courses on fairy tales\, monster studies\, popular culture\, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s fiction\, all within the context feminist theory\, critical race studies\, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024) \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. \nFor more information\, visit this link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-fairy-tales-became-white-a-conversation-with-professors-kimberly-lau-and-micah-perks/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gary Young: A Retrospective - Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books\, Broadsides\, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat us to an artist talk and a tour of the exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided. \nGary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Vogelstein Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, and two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and his latest book of poems\, That’s What I Thought\, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. His book The Dream of a Moral Life\, won the James D. Phelan Award. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Center for the Arts\, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate\, and he is Santa Cruz County’s 2012 Artist of the Year. He teaches Creative Writing and directs the Cowell Press at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-a-retrospective-books-broadsides-prints-ephemera-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit\, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate\, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. Both South Korea and South Vietnam aligned with the US during the Cold War and therefore seemingly diverged from a Global South politics defined by socialist revolution and the Third World Liberation movement. To constellate South Korea and South Vietnam with the US South\, a region in the Global North\, is to then ask: how and why do some South Vietnamese and South Korean refugees and migrants to the US gravitate towards the iconography and vernacular of the US South to make legible their own “southern politics” à la Gramsci? \nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA (Tovaangar). She currently serves as an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. She is the author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press\, 2022) and co-editor with Vinh Nguyen of The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (Routledge\, 2023). Dr. Gandhi is the lead curator of a public history exhibit\, “Remembering Saigon: Journeys through and from Guam\,” which is on view at UC Irvine’s Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive Center. She is currently working on a second book project which revisits Gramsci’s “southern question” by constellating the southern spaces of South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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/evyn-le-espiritu-gandhi-southern-constellations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. \nThis talk will consider some theoretical and historical issues that come more fully to light when we meditate on a phrase and variation that Cedric Robinson sometimes used: We must deepen or\, alternatively\, we must heighten the contradiction. What is contradiction\, what are the implications of refusing its resolution\, and how do we propel its movement from (speech) act to practice? \n \nThe lecture will also be live-streamed via Zoom. Register here to attend virtually. \nFred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York and teaches at New York University. His most recent work\, in collaboration with Brandon López\, is Revision (TAO Forms Records\, 2024). \n  \n\nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fred-moten-theory-and-practice-of-contradiction/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \n \nPoet\, visual artist\, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons\, 2024). J Walking thru the Alphabet\, an edited selection of Patton’s concrete\, visual\, and textual poetics from the 1970s to the near present\, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books\, Fall\, 2025. The recently released Chicago Review (Vol. 67)\, ARKiTEXT\, focuses on Let It Bee\, her “poetic conceit” of transforming a 1913 Rustbelt brownstone into a living archive of work created by Depression-era artists Russell Atkins\, Clifton Clay\, Virgie Patton\, Theresa Ramey and others\, whom Patton has advocated for and collected since the mid-aughts\, is a unique collaboration featuring housing\, assemblages and installations of locally resourced detritus\, For the Birds\, an edible forest for wildlife\, a coal room theater\, writing and meditation spaces\, herb gardens and a Cat Cafe. Patton’s “in-the-moment” sound and performance work bridging musical and literary collaborations with artists as diverse as instrumentalists Nasheet Waits\, Ken Filiano\, Melanie Dyer\, Janice Lowe\, Jay Rodriguez\, and others\, has captivated audiences at the Stone\, Torn Page\, Jazz Standard\, Arts for Arts\, Festival Internacional de Poesía in Medellín\, Colombia\, and at a host of international venues. A recipient of an Acker Award\, Denniston Hill Residency\, a Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award\, and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award\, Patton currently divides her time between New York City & the rest of the US. Her noted Womb Room Tomb Installation was featured in the 2018 Front International Triennial to great acclaim. \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 Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, the Laurie Sain Endowment\, the Humanities Institute\, The Literature Department\, Creative Writing Program\, and the Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-julie-ezelle-patton/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13\, 2025. \n \nThe conference will foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience\, community\, and theorizing. Keynote speaker will be the renowned trans philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher (Cal State LA). \nTalks will cover topics such as gender euphoria\, trans sex talk\, BDSM and social class\, informed consent\, and the social construction of butchness. In addition to talks\, the conference will include a workshop on LGBTQIA+ activism and philosophy\, a party (of course)\, and other glam surprises. \nView the Full Conference Schedule here. \nFor more information\, visit this link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queer-analytic-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:UCSC
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SUMMARY:Frances Malino - Rediscovering Mazaltob: A Century-Old Feminist Sephardi Novel
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Frances Malino (Emerita\, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel\, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press\, 2024). \nRaised in the juderia or Jewish quarter of Tetouan\, Morocco at the turn of the 20th century\, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to José a man from her own community who has returned from Argentina to seek a wife.  In this award-winning poetic novel\, Algerian-born Blanche Bendahan evokes the two compelling forces tearing Mazaltob apart in her body and soul: her loyalty to the juderia and her powerful desire to follow her own voice and find true love. \nTo join this event\, please email Alma Heckman (aheckman@ucsc.edu) for the Zoom link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/frances-malino-rediscovering-mazaltob/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250415T183000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: San Diego Alumni Salon
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is coming back to San Diego! \nThe Humanities Institute invites San Diego alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. Even if you haven’t read the book\, we encourage you to come and enjoy the discussion and connect with fellow San Diego alumni and Deep Readers. Refreshments provided by Crown College alumnus and co-founder of Stone Brewing\, Steve Wagner. \n \nEvent Participants:  Jasmine Alinder (Humanities Dean)\, Irena Polić (Deep Read Co/Founder\, THI Managing Director)\,  Vilashini Cooppan (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Professor of Literature)\, Laura Martin (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, THI Research Program Manager\, Lecturer) \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-san-diego-alumni-salon/
LOCATION:Stone Brewing Liberty Station\, 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116\, San Diego\, CA\, 92106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Elspeth Iralu – Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on “Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being.” \nIn this talk\, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past\, present\, and future\, she will highlight moments of visual and aural attention that shape the Indigenous present. \nTo register and for more information visit: CSAS | Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being \nElspeth Iralu (Angami Naga) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning at the University of New Mexico\, where her research and teaching focus on Indigenous methodologies\, Indigenous space\, place\, and mapping\, and violence and visual culture. Her scholarly writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals\, including Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography\, Political Geography\, and American Quarterly. \nCo-sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies. This event is a part of the  2024 – 25 Ecologies of Care Lecture Series and the Spring 2025 Colloquium Series. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elspeth-iralu-indigenous-epistemologies-for-the-time-being/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Asaf Elia-Shalev - Israel’s Black Panthers: How a Left-Wing Uprising Helped Pave the Way to Israel's Right-Wing “Revolution”
DESCRIPTION:In Zionism’s early decades\, Mizrahim\, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries\, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel’s founding\, however\, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim\, led by the Black Panthers\, challenged the secondary role imposed on them and reshaped the nation\, leading to contradictory and\, in some ways\, unintended outcomes. \nTo join this event\, please email Alma Heckman (aheckman@ucsc.edu) for the Zoom link. \nAsaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli-American investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a senior reporter with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA News)\, where he covers philanthropy\, Jewish institutions\, antisemitism\, Christian nationalism\, and other topics for a global audience. His articles for JTA are syndicated by dozens of outlets in multiple languages worldwide. His byline has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, Haaretz\, The Forward\, and many other publications. He led the archival and historical research for the 2022 re-release of The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah\, with Jewish Currents Press. In 2024\, he published his first book\, Israel Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth\, with UC Press. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asaf-elia-shalev-israels-black-panthers/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Sir Isaac Julien - Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:When was the last time you felt inspired? Learned something new? Pushed boundaries? Let’s do that—again. \nExperience an exclusive UC Santa Cruz evening with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate with world renowned artist\, and UCSC faculty member\, Sir Isaac Julien whose retrospective exhibit Isaac Julien: I Dream a World is opening at the de Young Museum. \nReconnect with UC Santa Cruz alumni\, parents\, and friends at this special event in San Francisco. Enjoy the chance to network\, engage with your vibrant UCSC community\, and participate in a thought-provoking discussion led by our brilliant faculty. \n \nSir Isaac Julien\, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities \nJulien\, a filmmaker and installation artist\, blends film\, dance\, photography\, music\, theatre\, and sculpture into powerful multi-screen narratives. A Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at UC Santa Cruz\, he co-leads the Moving Image Lab and teaches in the History of Consciousness Department. His honors include the 2017 Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Award\, the 2022 Kaiserring Goslar Award\, a knighthood\, and a 2024 British Academy Fellowship. \n“Isaac Julien: I Dream a World” will be at the de Young Museum April 12-July 13 and will feature 10 major video installations by the British artist\, a genre he has pioneered. \nJennifer González\, Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture \nGonzález writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art\, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically\, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender. \nHosted by\, Chancellor Cynthia Larive \nAs the 11th chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz\, Cynthia Larive leads an institution known worldwide for its interdisciplinary approach to high impact research\, for seeking solutions to the world’s greatest challenges and for its commitment to social and environmental justice. UC Santa Cruz joined the Association of American Universities in 2019 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities in 2020\, remarkable achievements that underscore the impact and quality of the university’s research and teaching across the five academic divisions of Arts\, Baskin Engineering\, Humanities\, Physical and Biological Science\, and Social Science. Under her leadership\, in 2022 UC Santa Cruz was ranked No. 1 in the nation among top research universities for racial and gender diversity in leadership. \nLearn more about the INSPIRE series events here. The INSPIRE series has something for all UCSC alumni\, parents\, and friends.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sir-issac-julien-inspire-leading-ideas-from-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:de Young Museum\, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250421T130000
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SUMMARY:Giuseppe Longo - From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department\, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster\, is pleased to present “From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World” delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210\, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually\, join here. \nThe invention of the alphabet marked a fundamental shift in our epistemic relation to the world. In particular\, the Greek alphabet played a crucial role in shaping our cultures\, leading up to today’s “term re-writing machines” that are transforming our lives. The vision of a world that can be fully described in elementary and simple components lies at the foundation of two techno-sciences of great interest and power. We informally compare the perspectives developed in cognitive and natural sciences through the lens of differing mathematical tools\, e.g. continuous vs discrete mathematics. Both historical and contemporary scientific alternatives will be briefly discussed. \nGiuseppe Longo is a Research Director CNRS (Emeritus)\, Cavaillès interdisciplinary center of Ecole Normale Supérieure\, Paris (ENS)\, formely in the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science\, at ENS (1990-2012). He has been Professor of Mathematics for Informatics\, University of Pisa (1981-1990) and adjunct professor\, School of Medicine\, Tufts U.\, Boston (2013-19). He spent three years in the USA (Berkeley\, M.I.T.\, Carnegie Mellon) as researcher and visiting professor\, and frequent visitor in Oxford (GB) and Utrecht (NL). Founder and editor-in-chief (1990-2015) of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science\, Camdridge U.P..\, he is (co-)author of more than 100 papers and six books. In the last 20 years\, he extended his research interests and work to the epistemology of mathematics and theoretical biology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giuseppe-longo-from-the-alphabet-to-ai-discretizing-the-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T193000
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: The Craft of James
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual Deep Read salon on Percival Everett’s James featuring UC Santa Cruz Professors of Literature and Creative Writing\, Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita. Professors Perks and Yamashita will discuss the writing craft and techniques of the novel\, offering insights on the book from their perspective as novelists and memoirists. Their presentations will be followed by an audience Q&A period\, which will be moderated by Professor of Literature and Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Vilashini Cooppan. \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-the-craft-of-james/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T140000
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SUMMARY:TechnoScience Improv
DESCRIPTION:This roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social\, historical\, and cultural studies of science\, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open\, improvised conversations\, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices\, speculative transformations\, and critical imaginings of technoscience\, health and ecology. \nParticipants include: \nKaren Barad\, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies\, Philosophy\, and History of Consciousness. \nJames Doucet-Battle\, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Science & Justice Research Center. \nKat Gutierrez\, Assistant Professor in the History Department. \nDimitris Papadopoulos\, Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness. \nMaria Puig de la Bellacasa\, Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness. \nJenny Reardon\, Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science & Justice Research Center. \nWarren Sack\, Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department. \nKriti Sharma\, Assistant Professor of Critical Race Science and Technology Studies in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \nMatt Sparke\, Professor of Politics in the Politics Department and Co-Director of Global and Community Health. \nZac Zimmer\, Associate Professor of Literature in the Literature Department. \n\nCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience conversations\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Global and Community Health\, and the Science & Justice Research Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/technoscience-improv-2025/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Debbie Millman - Love Letter to a Garden
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Debbie Millman\, award-winning artist\, designer\, and the host of the podcast Design Matters\, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden\, a visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. \n \nDebbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless\, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener—a garden is a journey that develops over time\, through space\, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden\, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden—and the plants she has collected along the way—a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony. \nDebbie Millman has been named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company\, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by GDUSA. Millman is an illustrator\, author\, educator\, and host of the podcast Design Matters. Broadcasting for 19 years\, Design Matters is one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world. The show won a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2011\, and Apple has named it one of their “All Time Favorites” three times. In 2023 the show won two Webby’s\, three Communicator Awards\, a Signal Award\, three awards from The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts\, and earned an Ambie nomination. \nMore information at: Debbie Millman\, Love Letter to a Garden | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-debbie-millman-love-letter-to-a-garden/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T163000
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SUMMARY:Connections to land with Mercedes Dorame\, joined by Aspen Mays\, Unseen California
DESCRIPTION:Mercedes Dorame uses her artistic process to examine and rebuild her relationship with the land. This talk will explore personal\, social\, and institutional connections to home\, site\, and land. These concepts intersect within her work as an Indigenous artist as she addresses both the taught and erased histories the land holds\, as well as its broader identity in relation to ideas of landscape photography. Centering on Indigenous relationships\, reciprocity\, and kinship with the land\, her work interrogates tangible\, centered\, and embodied experiences within lens-based practice. \nDorame will speak about her work and multi-year engagement with Unseen California. She will then be joined by Karolina Karlic\, Director and Founder of Unseen California and artist Aspen Mays\, part of the project’s first cohort for a round table discussion about the project and their publication\, Language Has No Weather: Field Notes from Unseen California. Copies will be available for sale. \nSponsored by: Art Department Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program\, American Indian Resource Center\, Unseen California\, Arts Research Institute\, The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mercedes-dorame-connections-to-land/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center #108
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T180000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Batarseh - Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) is proud to present Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh\, Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. \nAnalyses of Palestinian poetics often expose the violent structure of ongoing-Nakba — the Zionist settler-colonial uprooting and removal of Palestinians (both physically from the land and physiologically from life) since 1948. Thinking beyond colonial epistemology\, however\, is not merely a task of refuting settler-colonial narratives but of dismantling the very ways of knowing that produce them. This talk re-centers a Palestinian analytic through the lens of “radicality\,” which encompasses both Palestinian rootedness and revolutionary movement. This radicality both predates and regenerates in contravention of settler colonialism’s violent uprootings/removals\, unsettling colonial-national constructs of spatial belonging\, and cohering the decolonization of literary analysis to then decolonization of our physical geographies. Palestinian writers navigate the dynamic tensions between rootedness and movement to forge liberatory pathways\, opening up alternative horizons of political and creative possibility. \n \nAmanda Batarseh (بطارسة / bah–taar–say) is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. Her teaching and research focuses on Palestinian literature\, Arabic literature\, Arab American and Arab diaspora literature\, Indigenous studies\, Mediterranean studies and comparative literature. Her research has been supported by the UC Humanities Research Institute\, Hellman Fellowship\, Faculty Career Development Program and the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. \nCo-sponsored by Feminist Studies\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Institute for Social Transformation\, and People’s University. \nPart of the year-long speaker series\, Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement. For more information\, visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amanda-batarseh-rooted-movements-the-radical-poetics-of-palestinian-space/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T200000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan - The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the TLC hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. \nThis year’s Convocation speaker will be Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan\, who will present his talk\, The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence. \nHis talk will examine the ideas that have motivated the rush to deploy both generative artificial intelligence and predictive artificial intelligence into our computer systems and our lives. It will consider the effects on our collective intelligence and our habits of creativity and collaboration. What problem do we hope to solve with this suite of technologies? What do we gain? What do we lose? And how should those questions shape how educators and students interface with these technologies? \nAfterwards\, Dr. Vaidhyanathan will be joined in conversation by THI Faculty Director and Linguistics Professor Pranav Anand. \n \nDr. Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, and The Googlization of Everything — and Why We Should Worry (University of California Press\, 2011). After five years as a professional journalist\, he earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He was born and raised in Buffalo\, New York\, and resides in Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nPranav Anand is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates how context mediates the interpretation of language\, and has explored the interpretation of subjectivity\, persuasive tactics\, bias\, evidence\, belief\, time\, and narrative structure. \n  \nTo view past convocations visit: TLC | About Convocation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tlc-convocation-2025/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Matt Wagers - Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Matt Wagers\, speaking on Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nNearly 20 years ago\, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. McElree (2000) and McElree\, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved to be hugely influential because it offered a general theory of dependency resolution which could be made precise by reference to any particular theory of linguistic features. Both strands of thought reoriented thinking in the field away from models of working memory that required serial search procedures and\, generally\, the discovery of widespread interference effects has vindicated that shift. \nMuch recent research has made progress in delineating what the representations are (Yadav et al. 2023\, Keshev et al. 2025) and how they can be learned in an unsupervised manner (Ryu & Lewis\, 2021). Relatively unexplored is how to characterize the information that can be attended to simultaneously\, sometimes called the “focus of attention” (Oberauer & Hein\, 2012). This is an important commitment of models like ACT-R and provides an attractive point of articulation to theories of locality or linguistic domains. In this talk\, I will survey what we know (and don’t know) about the focus of attention in language processing (Wagers & McElree\, 2013\, 2022) and relate it to recent thinking about the dynamics of context encoding (Healey\, Long & Kahana\, 2019; Balachandran\, Wagers & Rich\, 2025). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-matt-wagers/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24\, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker\, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final session\, on May 24th\, a film will be presented. Meetings will take place in the Aptos Library Community Room (in person) and over Zoom (virtual). \nFor more information\, Zoom link\, or to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nThe guest speaker on April 26 is Michael Warren\, Emeritus Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz\, former dramaturg for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act 1\, Scenes 1 & 2 \nAll Scheduled Meetings \n\nApril 26: Michael Warren\nMay 3: Julia Lupton\nMay 10: Charles Pasternak\nMay 17: Sean Keilen\nMay 24 (Film Screening)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T160000
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SUMMARY:Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza
DESCRIPTION:The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is an authentic cultural festival with food\, dance\, music\, and crafts presented each spring by Senderos. This local festival is like the traditional fiestas celebrated each summer in Oaxaca\, Mexico. Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word that means “a commitment of sharing and cooperation.” Guelaguetza is a celebration that honors the gods for sufficient rainfall and a bountiful harvest. \nThe festival is located on a field\, feel free to bring blankets and low chairs. Admission is $10.00 per person; children under 5 admitted free. \nMore information at: Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza | Senderos
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vive-oaxaca-guelaguetza-2/
LOCATION:Branciforte Small Schools Campus\, 840 N Branciforte Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T120000
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book\, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press\, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of environmental harms\, to more “subjunctive” modes that imagine the world as it could be or should be. \nCarolyn Fornoff is assistant professor of Latin American studies at Cornell University. Her work examines how Mexican and Central American cultural production responds to environmental crisis. Her first monograph\, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change\, was published in 2024 with Vanderbilt University Press. She is also the co-editor of two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press\, 2021). Fornoff currently cochairs the Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession for the Modern Language Association. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/carolyn-fornoff-subjunctive-aesthetics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on James
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty\, Professors Susan Gillman (Literature)\, akua naru (Music)\, and Greg O’Malley (History)\, will give brief presentations and discuss James with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Laura Martin. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics:  Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. Download a parking map here. \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon-on-james/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Tricia Rose - Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives - And How We Break Free
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker\, award-winning writer\, and leading scholar of African American culture\, racial inequality\, and gender—for a conversation about her book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. \nOn May 2nd\, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department will also host Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making – a roundtable discussion with Tricia Rose\, UCSC Humanities Professor Gina Dent\, and UCSC Music Professor and hip hop artist akua naru. More information available here. \n \nTricia Rose is the Director of the Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study\, and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Rose is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994)\, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (2003) and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters (2008). Her most recent book\, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives-And How We Break Free (2024)\, is part of a larger public engagement and learning project featuring the How Systemic Racism Works interactive website (release in 2025).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tricia-rose-metaracism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T133000
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SUMMARY:M. Ty – It Is Time to Say to the Water\, “Disobey”: Reflections with the Art of Jumana Emil Abboud
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps water is a mouth that runs toward unwritten histories.  This possibility comes closer to the senses in the work of Jumana Emil Abboud\, an artist whose practice is grounded in Palestinian landscapes—and the refusal to cede them to their brutal equation with narratives of damage that colonial occupation programmatically inflicts.  For some time\, Abboud has attended thoughtfully to the waterscapes surrounding Galilee and Jerusalem—reanimating the folktales that they harbor\, bringing them into the color of a fresh image\, and taking the time to search for what has been said to have disappeared irrevocably.  Keeping company with Abboud’s art\, this talk reflects on what water can hold and how the connection to its reservoirs of memory might be sustained—in defiance of state violence and settler agribusiness\, which together sever Palestinians from the life-giving waterways with which their ancestral knowledge is interspersed.  Come see how ecological sensitivity and counter-colonial remembrance course together in Abboud’s art; and how she practices literacy in invisibility\, all while refreshing the sense—without which history devolves into propaganda—that the erasure of evidence does not mean that nothing is there. \nM. Ty is an ember of a diaspora. They are an Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/m-ty-it-is-time-to-say-to-the-water-disobey/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T190000
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: East Bay Alumni Salon
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is coming back to the East Bay! \nThe Humanities Institute invites East Bay alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at the home of UC Santa Cruz alumna and Foundation Trustee SB Master (Cowell ’75) to discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. Even if you haven’t read the book\, we encourage you to come and enjoy the discussion and connect with fellow East Bay alumni and Deep Readers. Refreshments provided by our host\, SB Master. Please register by April 23\, as space is limited. \n \nEvent Participants:  Jasmine Alinder (Humanities Dean)\, Irena Polić (Deep Read Co/Founder\, THI Managing Director)\,  Vilashini Cooppan (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Professor of Literature)\, Laura Martin (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, THI Research Program Manager\, Lecturer) \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-east-bay-alumni-salon/
LOCATION:Orinda\, Private Home
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