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SUMMARY:Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making with Tricia Rose\, Gina Dent\, and akua naru
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making—a roundtable discussion featuring Tricia Rose\, internationally respected speaker\, award-winning writer\, and leading scholar of African American culture\, racial inequality\, and gender. Rose will be joined by Humanities professor Gina Dent and Music professor and hip hop artist akua naru. Join these dynamic artists/scholars for a spirited discussion on how black feminist artists have had a transformative impact on black cultural movements in hip hop. \nOn April 30th\, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department will also host a book talk with Tricia Rose\, who will discuss her most recent book\, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free. 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). \nGina Dent is Professor of Humanities and Faculty Research Director at the Institute of the Arts & Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Currently\, she serves as Principal Investigator and Co-Director for Visualizing Abolition. \nakua naru is a hip hop artist\, poet\, producer\, performer\, and Assistant Professor of Hip Hop\, at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lifting-as-we-rhyme-50-years-of-black-feminist-sonic-world-making-with-tricia-rose-gina-dent-and-akua-naru/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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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 May 3 is Julia Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine\, dramaturg for UCI’s New Swan Summer Festival. Readings: Act 2\, Scenes 1 & 2; Act 3\, Scene 1 \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-2/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: A Conversation with Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, public conversation with author\, Percival Everett\, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 4 at 4pm. He’ll discuss his National Book Award-winning novel James with Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Professor of Literature Vilashini Cooppan.  We’ll consider how Everett depicts the possibility of humanity in this novel about the brutality of slavery\, the performance of race\, and the value of language and literacy. Doors open at 3pm\, and we’ll be entertained before the author event from 3-4pm by The Cedar Street Jazz Duo featuring cellist Dr. Renata Bratt and guitarist Brian Fitzgerald. \n \nEvent Logistics: All guest parking will take place at the East Remote Parking Lot (Lot 104). Parking will be free on Sunday. We encourage sustainable transport such as carpooling\, biking\, or utilizing METRO transit services whenever possible. Enter campus through UCSC’s main entrance located at the intersection of Bay and High St. There will be signs directing you to the “Quarry Event.” Shuttle services will be provided. If guests are planning to walk from the lot\, please make time for a 15- 20 walk to the Quarry Amphitheater gates. ADA parking will be located at the Bay Tree Bookstore Parking Lot 102. Each vehicle must display a valid\, DMV-issued ADA placard or plate to be able to park in this area. For these and any further ADA accessibility accommodations please email Quarry@ucsc.edu. \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-a-conversation-with-percival-everett/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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SUMMARY:Dmitri Nikulin - Bartleby\, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the first speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series\, Dmitri Nikulin\, who will be joining them next Monday May 5th to give his talk “Bartleby\, the Inscrutable Scrivener: On the Negative Constitution of Action”. The talk will be held in Hum 1 Rm 420 at 1pm with a virtual attendance option. \nPlease register here in advance for virtual access. \nIn Melville’s celebrated story Bartleby the Scrivener\, everything is put in the negative. The inscrutability and seeming incomprehensibility of the main character’s actions and the challenge presented by his famous “speech-act” of “I prefer not to” makes it particularly challenging to narrate the story and make sense of it. Bartleby comes in negative relief\, elusive in his seeming ordinariness. For this reason\, one has to use uncommon philosophical and literary means\, including apophatic accounts and alliteration\, in order to describe the indescribable\, pointing toward unutterable strangeness and barely explainable human goodness. Bartleby’s acting is inscribed into his mode of being. He writes but does not read and almost does not speak beyond “I would prefer not to.” Not exercising self-reflection\, he does not display any interiority. His apparent non-thinking is translated into an action bound by negativity\, which eventually halts and evaporates. In “preferring not to\,” Bartleby wills nothing. Yet\, since nothing is nothing\, it cannot be willed. Such a will is not a rational will that claims itself for itself as moral and establishes itself in an act of autonomous volition. It is the will that does not will itself and thus wills to stop willing. It is the will that negates and suppresses but does not destroy itself. In this way\, the act of willing nothing does not annihilate the will altogether but rather suspends itself. This establishes a logic of preference that does not prefer anything and hence prefers nothing. The action defined by Bartleby’s silent and motionless being is therefore the action of non-preference. \nDmitri Nikulin is Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. His interests range from ancient and early modern philosophy to philosophy of literature and of history. He is the author of a number of books including Matter\, Imagination and Geometry (Ashgate\, 2002)\, On Dialogue (Lexington\, 2006)\, Dialectic and Dialogue (Stanford University Press\, 2010)\, Comedy\, Seriously (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2014)\, The Concept of History (Bloomsbury\, 2017)\, Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, Critique of Bored Reason (Columbia University Press\, 2022)\, and Non-Being in Ancient Thought (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dmitri-nikulin-bartleby-the-inscrutable-scrivener-on-the-negative-constitution-of-action/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Sandy Rodriguez - Mapping Conflicts across the Californias: The Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón
DESCRIPTION:Join celebrated Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez for a conversation about her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragon with UCSC Professors Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC) and Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature). Sandy Rodriguez’s works are strongly influenced by both the 16th-century colonial and present-day incidents along the US-Mexico border\, her works map resistance to the ongoing cycles of violence on communities of color by blending historical and recent events. The artist uses painstakingly hand-processed color from native plant- and earth-based materials according to Mexican treatises on painting that forge connections to land\, bridging past and present. \nSandy Rodriguez (b. 1975\, National City\, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher\, and first generation Chicana raised on the US-Mexico border. Her Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history\, social memory\, contemporary politics\, and cultural production. Rodriguez earned her BFA from California Institute of Arts. \nRodriguez’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, the Amon Carter Museum\, the Denver Art Museum\, the Mellon Art Collection and others. She has been honored with multiple fellowships and awards\, including most recently the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art from The Huntington Library Art Museum & Botanical Garden\, a 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship\, the 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize. \nSponsored by The Humanities Institute’s Knowing California Research Cluster and the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Fund for the History of Art and Visual Culture. \n\nBanner Image: Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón\, Riverside Art Museum\, Riverside\, CA\, November 4\,2018 – Jan 27\, 2019. Image courtesy of and © Studio Sandy Rodriguez.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sandy-rodriguez-mapping-conflicts-across-the-californias-the-codex-rodriguez-mondragon/
LOCATION:UCSC Science and Engineering Library\, Room 206\, 580 Red Hill Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Journalist Jazmine Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Interested in Journalism? Come for a conversation with writer and editor Jazmine Hughes. \nJazmine Hughes is a writer and editor\, and the recipient of two National Magazine Awards. Hughes was a longtime member of the editorial staff at the New York Times\, where she penned profiles of cultural figures including Lil Nas X\, Whoopi Goldberg\, Danny DeVito\, Viola Davis\, and Judge Judy. \n  \nThis event is presented by Kresge’s Media and Society Series and City on a Hill Press\, with support from The Humanities Institute\, The Alumni Association\, The Council of Provosts\, and the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jazmine-hughes-interested-in-journalism/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deirdre de la Cruz – “It’s Your Curse\,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan possesses extensive archival\, photographic\, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines\, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects\, images\, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. This talk introduces a multi-year\, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty\, curators\, collection managers\, students\, and community partners to develop and enact reparative approaches to these collections. It reflects on how the historical and contemporary specificities of the Philippines and its diaspora both contribute to and complicate on-going conversations around museums\, repatriation\, and historical justice. \nDeirdre de la Cruz is a historian and anthropologist whose work examines global formations and global relations from the historical and cultural vantage point of the Philippines. Her first and second books trace the discursive\, material and performative processes through which the Philippine emerges as a major spiritual and religious center over the long twentieth century. For the last several years\, de la Cruz has also served as co-PI of ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan\, a collaborative project of public scholarship that seeks to repair historical harm by creating models for more ethical and equitable Philippine collections. De la Cruz is Associate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan and currently serves as Director of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. She is also an award-winning teacher\, and with U-M undergraduates has been building The Philippines and the University of Michigan\, an online exhibit of student-led original research and writing on the history of the relationship between the Philippines and the University of Michigan. \nSponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions. \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/deirdre-de-la-cruz-its-your-curse-and-other-lessons-in-repairing-historical-harm/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jaco de Swart - Dark Matter\, Dirty Xenon\, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness earthecologies x technoscience conversations and the Science and Justice Research Center are pleased to invite you to the following talk entitled Dark Matter\, Dirty Xenon\, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments with Jaco de Swart (MIT\, Visiting Scholar at Science and Justice Research Center). This event will take place May 7th at 3pm in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nLaboratory sciences crucially depend on experiments being clean. But what is clean? In this talk\, I open up versions of clean relating to different ontological registers\, and trace the material practices of cleaning as they are attuned to experimental specificities. My case is the XENONnT experiment in the Gran Sasso Mountains of Italy which is meant to detect dark matter in the form the hypothetical WIMP – the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle. This experiment is clean when it is ‘free from signals that mimic dark matter’. In practice\, such cleanliness has been difficult to achieve – soaps may be radioactive\, steel may spread electronegativity\, and humans are altogether dangerously filthy. And because\, at least thus far\, dark matter remains elusive\, it is impossible to tell whether the meticulously cleaned detector is adequately clean. Additional cleaning efforts will make the detector sensitive to neutrino particles: a background that cannot be cleaned away. As the experimenters dread the possibility that this means their experiment will end in limbo\, other physicists are now trying to detect other hypothetical dark matter particles with other kinds of experiments\, requiring other kinds of cleanliness. The XENONnT experiment itself\, meanwhile\, has had to ensure that it does not interfere with environmental cleanliness\, as per the demands of the surrounding society. \nThis work is done in collaboration with Annemarie Mol (University of Amsterdam). \nJaco de Swart is an AIP Helleman Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Program in STS and Department of Physics\, and a Visiting Scholar at the UCSC’s Science and Justice Research Center. He received his PhD at the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam\, was a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research and has held visiting positions at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. His research focuses on historical and anthropological studies of open problems in cosmology\, and he is currently writing a book on the history of dark matter under contract with MIT Press. De Swart is also a member of several physics collaborations to help develop social and environmentally responsible research practices. He has a passion for science communication—appearing in PBS NOVA’s Decoding the Universe—and is bassist in the band X Raiders.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jaco-de-swart-dark-matter-dirty-xenon-and-the-limits-of-laboratory-experiments/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa‘s most recent work is The Politics of Sorrow (Columbia University Press). Other works include the chapbook Revolute (Albion Books\, 2021) three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley). Dhompa’s first non-fiction book\, A Home to Tibet was published by Penguin India. Dhompa is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Villanova University. \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-tsering-wangmo-dhompa/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jessica Riskin
DESCRIPTION:Professor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World \nJean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was the Professor of Insects and Worms at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Living through the storms of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period\, he founded biology\, coining the term to name a new science devoted to all and only living things\, and authored the first theory of evolution. Lamarck’s science was foundational to modern biology\, yet its radicalism – he usurped God’s monopoly on Creation and re-assigned it to mortal\, living beings – brought him and his ideas plenty of trouble. During Lamarck’s lifetime\, Napoleon and his scientific inner circle hated him and did what they could to undermine him. Charles Darwin then adopted central elements of Lamarck’s theory\, but after Darwin’s death\, his most influential followers re-interpreted his theory to eradicate all traces of Lamarckism\, rendering organisms once again the passive objects of outside forces\, allowing room for an omnipotent God working behind the scenes. This conception of living organisms as passive in the evolutionary process has remained dominant since the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast\, in Lamarck’s theory\, living beings were active\, creative\, self-making and world-making. Elements of this very different conception of living organisms have recently\, gradually been returning to mainstream biology in fields such as niche construction and epigenetic inheritance. The lecture will present Lamarck’s radical\, embattled\, and perhaps re-emerging approach to living things\, their evolutionary and ecological agency\, and the science that studies them. \nMay 8\, 2025\nReception 5 p.m.\nLecture 5:30 p.m.\nLa Feliz Room\, Seymour Marine Discover Center and Virtual\nFree and open to the public \n \n  \nJessica Riskin is Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University where she teaches modern European history and the history of science. Her work examines the changing nature of scientific explanation\, the relations of science\, culture and politics\, and the history of theories of life and mind. Her books include The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick (2016)\, which was awarded the 2021 Patrick Suppes Prize in the History of Science from the American Philosophical Society\, and Science in the Age of Sensibility (2002)\, which received the American Historical Association’s J. Russell Major prize for best book in French history. She is a regular contributor to various publications including Aeon\, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. \n  \n\nNauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture series aims to bring the best historians of science to UCSC to share the importance of this interdisciplinary work with faculty\, students\, and interested community members. You can support the series by contributing here. \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department\, History Department\, and Science and Justice Research Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jessica-riskin/
LOCATION:The Seymour Marine Discovery Center\, 100 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
DESCRIPTION:Join Jason Weidemann\, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press\, for a “publishing bootcamp” workshop\, geared toward graduate students\, post docs\, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process – how to talk to editors\, revising the dissertation\, and proposals. \nTime will be left for sharing current works and what presses attendees might look into. Jason’s itinerary allows for additional one-on-one consultations to practice pitching works\, etc. To schedule a time\, contact: colleen@ucsc.edu. \n \nJason Weidemann is an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press. Jason Weidemann seeks manuscripts that make field-defining interventions in their core disciplines\, contribute to interdisciplinary conversations\, and communicate to readers beyond the academy\, including activists\, policymakers\, community members\, and general readers. His broad interests in Native and indigenous studies includes literary studies\, the social sciences\, legal studies\, and education. He also acquires works in cultural and human geography\, science and technology studies\, anthropology\, and sociology. Special interests include environmental politics\, multispecies ethnography\, urban studies\, global flows of labor and capital\, and Asian studies. Of specific interest are manuscripts that examine the social and racial dimensions of medicine and science. Proposals for translations from Japanese are welcomed\, specifically science fiction and critical theory. He is also interested in manuscripts on the social aspects of video games and digital communication. Subject areas: anthropology\, Asian studies\, media studies\, geography\, Native and Indigenous studies\, sociology\, science and technology \nFor more information: https://scijust.ucsc.edu/2025/04/15/may09-uminnpress/ \nCo-hosted by the UCSC Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Division of Graduate Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jason-weidemann-a-publication-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:BayPhon 2025 at UCSC
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Linguistics is hosting BayPhon\, a workshop on Phonetics and Phonology\, on Saturday\, May 10\, 2025. BayPhon brings together faculty and students from linguistics departments in the region\, including Stanford\, UC Berkeley\, San José State\, and UCSC. \nBayPhon is part of a tradition known as “Phrend” (and before that\, “Trend”)\, where linguistics departments in the broader Bay Area (San José State\, Stanford\, UC Berkeley\, UC Santa Cruz) come together at one of our institutions to stay in touch about research and provide opportunities for students and faculty to present their work on phonetics and phonology. \nPlease see this website for the program and more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bayphon-2025-at-ucsc/
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 May 10 is Charles Pasternak\, actor\, director\, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 2; Act 4\, Scene 1 \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-3/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Isabel Allende - My Name Is Emilia del Valle
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits) who will join us to celebrate the release of My Name Is Emilia del Valle\, a spellbinding historical novel in which a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself. \nEvent experience includes author talk\, audience Q&A\, and a hardcover copy of My Name Is Emilia del Valle. \nThis event is now sold out. Please visit Bookshop Santa Cruz to join the waitlist. \nA riveting tale of self-discovery and love from one of the most masterful storytellers of our time\, My Name Is Emilia del Valle introduces a character who will never let hold of your heart. \nBorn in Peru and raised in Chile\, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, including The Wind Knows My Name\, Violeta\, A Long Petal of the Sea\, The House of the Spirits\, Of Love and Shadows\, Eva Luna\, and Paula. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. She lives in California. \nMore information at: Isabel Allende\, My Name Is Emilia del Valle | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-isabel-allende-my-name-is-emilia-del-valle/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sophia Azeb - Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the next speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series\, Sophia Azeb\, who will deliver her talk entitled “Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation” on Monday\, May 12th at 1pm in Humanities Building 1\, Room 420. \nThis talk explores the radical anticolonial subjectivities forged across what Richard Iton suggests as “diasporic breathing room\,” or – in my own interpretation – the ungeographic sensibilities that Black study offers transnational and translational theories of decolonisation. Focusing on the productive tensions emergent from 20th century Black anticolonial practice – particularly the unmapping tendencies of Frantz Fanon – this talk attends to the cultural\, political\, and affective matrix of anticolonial possibilities and limits emergent from across the African diaspora. This emphasis on how Black anticolonial practice draws upon the unsettled spatial orientation of the diaspora\, which informs Black anticolonial epistemologies\, does not presume that racial identity itself is fixed\, or that meanings made from identity and experience constitute an anticolonial politic in and of itself. Rather\, the ever shifting\, “undecidable blackness” that instructs and shapes particular anticolonial pursuits towards the horizon of decolonisation make legible a set of radical subjectivities that embolden anticolonial sociality beyond the “authenticating geography” of the nation-state. \nSophia Azeb is an assistant professor of Black studies in the Department of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC. Her book\, tentatively titled “Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab\,” follows the circuits of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American\, Afro-Caribbean\, African\, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North and West Africa and Europe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sophia-azeb-black-anticolonialism-and-radical-relation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Italian Language Program cordially invite you to a multidisciplinary event on Italy and its culture.  Well-renowned UCSC professors from a variety of disciplines ranging from literature to history\, from science to engineering and computer science will offer a multidisciplinary perspective on Italy and its culture. Participants will explore the nexus between language and culture  The event will be in English and open to all majors. \nFeaturing Filippo Gianferrari\, Stefania Gori\, Roberto Manduchi\, Stefano Profumo\, and Massimiliano Tomba. \n \nFilippo Gianferrari is an Assistant Professor of the Literature Department \nStefania Gori is a Professor of the Physics Department \nRoberto Manduchi is a Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department \nStefano Profumo is a Professor of the Physics Department \nMassimiliano Tomba is a Professor of the History of Consciousness Department \n\nProgram: \n4:30Pm – 4:45PM | Opening remarks with Gabriella Notarianni Burk\, PhD \n4:45Pm – 5:30Pm | Italy and Science with Prof. Stefania Gori\, Prof. Stefano Profumo\, and Prof. Roberto Manduchi \nBreak (10 minutes) \n5:45Pm – 6:30Pm | Italy and Humanities with Prof. Massimiliano Tomba and Prof. Filippo Gianferrari \nRefreshments (6:30Pm – 7:00Pm) \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-multidisciplinary-perspective-on-italy-and-its-culture/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis - What Does it Mean to "Decolonize" Knowledge?
DESCRIPTION:The country of Algeria\, located in North Africa\, experienced one of the most violent struggles for independence of the twentieth century. The war against France\, which lasted from 1954–62 has become a paradigmatic case study of the historical process known as decolonization and inspired classic films such as the Battle of Algiers\, as well as texts such as Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. This talk will explore how Algerian intellectuals sought to break away from Eurocentric models of knowledge production and nation-building in the decades following independence. Their reflections focused on language and the need to increase the reach of higher education. They also reflected on the ways in which disciplinary boundaries—between sociology and anthropology\, or between philosophy and sociology—were rooted in colonization. By focusing on historical actors that sought to find new ways to organize higher learning\, it will explore how the university was—and continues to be—an institution shaped by political struggles and emancipatory hopes. \n \nMuriam Haleh Davis is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her first book\, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria\, was published by Duke University Press in 2022. She also co-edited North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions\, and Culture\, which was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2018. She is co-chair of the editorial committee for MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) and is co-editor of the Maghreb Page for Jadaliyya. She has previously held fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence\, the IMéRA in Marseille and the The Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) in Tunis. Her public-facing writing and commentary has appeared in the LA Review of Books\, Al Jazeera English\, MERIP and Jadaliyya as well as on France 24 and NPR. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here. \nQuestions? Please contact University Events at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-associate-professor-muriam-davis-what-does-it-mean-to-decolonize-knowledge/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization\, Just Peace\, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari\, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. \nFrom an Indigenous perspective\, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building\, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of all peoples. State-led processes tend to focus on ending physical violence in armed conflict\, without addressing the violence of unjust political\, social\, economic\, and cultural structures\, which led to the conflict in the first place. This dialogue seeks to “Reimagine Humanization\, Just Peace\, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens\,” as an emancipatory bottom-up framework\, applying intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches which amplifies the values of a shared humanity. \nAküm Longchari is an educator in peacebuilding\, co-founder and publisher of The Morung Express (2005)\, an independent English-language newspaper based in Nagaland. Aküm holds an LLB\, MA in Conflict Transformation\, and a PhD which focused on Self Determination as a Resource for JustPeace. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies. Co-Sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Indigenous Faculty Network and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akum-longchari-reimagining-humanization/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Keith David Watenpaugh - Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?
DESCRIPTION:Keith David Watenpaugh will deliver the first talk in the CMENA Student Choice Speaker Series\, titled “Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?: Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention.” \nThe 1948 Genocide Convention doesn’t work – at least not for peoples seeking justice for mass atrocity. It does work to protect most states that have destroyed a people\, in whole or in part\, from ever being held responsible for committing the “crime of crimes.” As the public and academic understanding of genocide has been shaped by the narrow and legalistic interpretation of the genocide idea in the Convention\, that understanding has been used to deny the right of victims of historical and contemporary mass atrocity to argue that they have faced genocide. The putative failure to meet the international legal standard not only reenacts the colonial and racist origins of the statute itself but has also been a way to negate and deny the legitimacy or veracity of broader justice claims by communities of victims. Once denied\, these communities are no longer eligible for the kinds of restorative justice and global attention that the charge of genocide carries. Denial and its afterlives has shape the right of indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere and Australasia\, descendants of enslaved Africans in diaspora\, Armenians\, Assyrians\, Kurds\, and most recently Palestinians to charge genocide. \nIn this talk\, historian and theorist of human rights\, Prof. Keith David Watenpaugh\, argues that historians\, international lawyers\, humanities scholars and those in law and public policy should stop using the Convention’s terms to define genocide. Rather he asks us to embrace an understanding of genocide closer to Raphael Lemkin’s original proposal and as outlined in his Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation – Analysis of Government – Proposals for Redress\, (1944) to reclaim the genocide idea as both a powerful human rights tool of analysis and justice\, and a basis for making violence and mass atrocity more visible\, actionable and preventable. \nKeith David Watenpaugh is professor and founding director of Human Rights Studies at the University of California\, Davis.  He is author and editor of several books\, including the multiple-award winning Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (University of California Press\, 2015.) His articles appear in the American Historical Review\, Perspectives on History\, Social History\, Journal of Human Rights\, Humanity\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Chronicle of Higher Education\, Inside Higher Education\, and Newsweek; his work has been translated into French\, German\, Armenian\, Arabic\, Turkish and Persian. He has lived and worked in Syria\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, Armenia\, Iraq\, and Egypt. In addition to awards from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, in 2019 he received the Institute of International Education Centennial Medal and in 2021 for defending the right to education\, and in 2021 the Edmund O’Brien Award for Individual Achievement in Human Rights Education by Human Rights Educators-USA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/keith-david-watenpaugh-who-has-the-human-right-to-charge-genocide/
LOCATION:Porter 144\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!
DESCRIPTION:This panel explores ways that fascism today manifests in unexpected sites and imaginaries\, including visions of techno-utopia\, nationalist movements for animal rights and calls to colonize outer space. \nThe panelist assembled here will each take a keyword of the emergent fascist trends and think through ways to contest fascisms now. \nPanel Participants: \n\nNeda Atanasoski; Professor and Chair\, Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies\, University of Maryland. Keyword: Eugenic Fascism\n\n\nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer; Chair\, CRES and Professor FMST\, UCSC. Keyword: Eugenic Fascism\n\n\nNeel Ahuja; Professor\, Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies\, University of Maryland. Keyword: Environmental Fascism\n\n\nErin McElroy; Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. Keyword: Techno-Feudalism
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contesting-techno-fascisms-now/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ying Jin - Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin\, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year\, who will present her talk titled “Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms.” Refreshments will be provided. \n \nThis event is funded by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline Ku Endowed Memorial Fund. For questions email etu6@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ying-jin-nurturing-hearts-and-minds/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno - An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery
DESCRIPTION:The third annual Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series will take place on Thursday\, May 15th\, 2025\, at 12:30pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will be livestreamed and recorded (link to be provided soon). \nThis year’s guest speaker is Andy Bruno\, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor\, Indiana University Bloomington. Professor Bruno’s lecture is titled “An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery.” \nIn 1908\, the Tunguska explosion in Siberia knocked down an area of forest larger than London. While most scientists now believe that an airburst from an asteroid caused the blast\, unmistakable remnants of a space rock have never been found. Over the last century\, the mysterious nature of the event has prompted a wide array of speculation and investigation\, including from science fiction writers and voluntary researchers. Some have even explained Tunguska as a nuclear explosion triggered by aliens. This presentation will recount the intriguing history of the Tunguska event and the investigations into it. Foregrounding the significance of mystery in environmental and Soviet history\, it will show how efforts to understand the explosion have shaped the treatment of the landscape\, how uncertainty allowed alternative forms of knowledge to enter scientific conversations\, and how cosmic disasters have influenced the past and might affect the future. \nAndy Bruno works as a professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington\, where he holds the Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History. A specialist in the environmental history of the Soviet Union\, he is the author of The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History (2016) and Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy (2022)\, which recently appeared in paperback. \nThis event is made possible by The Maya K. Peterson Memorial Endowment and is co-sponsored by the UCSC History Department. \n\n\nThe Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series at UCSC honors the life and spirit of a brilliant scholar\, teacher\, and mentor whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 2021. A specialist in Russian\, Central Asian and environmental history\, Maya was a valued member of UCSC’s faculty in the History Department and the Humanities Division. The Explorations in History Seminar Series celebrates Maya’s passions for the study of history\, for dialogue between the humanities and the sciences\, and for innovative scholarship across disciplines—passions that she shared generously with students\, colleagues\, and communities around the globe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-maya-k-peterson-explorations-in-history-seminar-series-andy-bruno/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anita Say Chan - Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Anita Say Chan\, author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (UC Press\, 2025). This event will take place May 15th at 1pm in Humanities 1\, Room 210. To attend the event via Zoom\, join using the link below.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anita-say-chan-predatory-data/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \nMaria E. Ramirez is a woman of Chicana\, Puerto Rican\, and Apache ancestry. She was actively involved in the student movement in the late sixties\, where students\, along with their parents\, marched and demanded that their community be part of all the higher education systems\, which at the time were overwhelmingly white. She became deeply involved with the Los Siete organization in San Francisco due to the awareness she gained in the Vacaville prison project at UCB. She left UCB to devote herself full-time to be in solidarity with all the diverse communities in San Francisco. In 1972\, she became one of the first Chicanas to visit the People’s Republic of China through the Chinese Friendship Association. Eventually\, returning to her home in Union City\, still guided by social and Earth Justice movements\, she went on to get her master’s and has now served as a community college counselor for over 25 years and developed her own one-woman storytelling show\, Chicana Herstory. She continues to be involved in her community against gentrification and environmental pollution and is co-founder of Families United for Equity\, which advocates for the developmental disabled community. \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-maria-elena-ramirez/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 Graduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday\, May 16\, 1-4 p.m. (Pacific) at McHenry Library\, Information Commons (South on the Main Floor). \nThe Graduate Division hosts the Graduate Symposium annually in the spring. All graduate students are eligible to participate and may do so in person or virtually via Zoom. (Recipients of qualifying fellowships are required to participate.) The event is free and open to the public. Judges representing UCSC staff\, postdoctoral scholars\, graduate student alumni\, UCSC Foundation trustees\, and community members determine an overall best presentation and five academic division best presentations. \n– Prizes –\nBest Overall Presentation of the Symposium: $1000\nBest Presentation of the Arts Division: $250\nBest Presentation of Baskin Engineering: $250\nBest Presentation of the Humanities Division: $250\nBest Presentation of the Physical and Biological Sciences Division: $250\nBest Presentation of the Social Sciences Division: $250 \nMore information here. See the 2025 presentation schedule here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/graduate-research-symposium-3/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, Information Commons
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SUMMARY:The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Deppe Memorial Lecture\, taking place Friday\, May 16th at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow). \nProfessor Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) will be giving a talk titled “The Bringer of Fire: Prometheus in Santo Domingo.” \nThis lecture will examine the Prometeo of the Dominican poet\, playwright\, and novelist Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979). Published together with adaptations of Sophocles’s Philotectes and Euripides’s Hippolytus in 1964\, Cabral’s take on Aeschylus is an underappreciated turning-point in Dominican and Caribbean experiments with Greek tragedy — and an effective springboard for critical reflection on the cross-hatching of race\, politics\, and classical reception in the 20th- and 21st-century Black Aegean. \nAll are welcome to attend this event. We hope to see you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deppe-memorial-lecture-with-professor-dan-el-padilla-peralta/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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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 May 17 is Sean Keilen\, Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop\, Santa Cruz Shakespeare dramaturg. Readings: Act 4\, Scene 2; Act 5\, Scene 1 \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-4/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey – Microbes at Work: The Vital Role of Bacteria and other Microbial Life in Sanitation Systems in the US and Uganda
DESCRIPTION:Wastewater treatment operators in the American Midwest wryly describe their job as “bacteria farming\,” but they also insist that microbes are the ones who “do all the work” at treatment plants. Meanwhile\, slum activists in Uganda suggest that they “work with microbes” to provide essential sanitation services where the state has failed to provide safe toilets. In this talk\, we delve deeper into these observations about microbial laboring and human laboring with microbes in these two distinct contexts. First\, we examine insights from wastewater treatment workers and soil scientists in Columbus\, Ohio\, to explore how microbes serve as key mediators that not only metabolize urban residents’ bodily excesses in wastewater treatment processing but also constitute the bulk of wastewater solids\, which are increasingly used as a soil amendment applied on agricultural lands. Second\, we turn attention to slum activists\, waste scientists\, and entrepreneurs in Kampala\, Uganda\, who are working to capture “anal resources” and advance container-based sanitation and community-scale composting. The diversion of human waste away from Lake Victoria is especially urgent as nutrients-out-of-place are driving eutrophication and the extinction of indigenous fish species. Through these two case studies\, we show how the disruption of socio-ecological systems brought on by industrial capitalism—known in some scholarly circles as the “metabolic rift”—is not strictly characterized by a break in the cycling of nutrients back to the land but also a derangement of social relations with microbial life that requires remediation. \nNick Kawa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University. His research relies primarily on qualitative approaches to understanding human cultural relationships to soils\, plants\, and bodily waste. He is the author of the forthcoming book After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste (University of California Press)\, based on nearly a decade of research on the modern sanitation system in the U.S. as well as the growing call for alternative models that can enact more sustainable futures. \nAlisa Keesey is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Anthropology at UCSC. Her research explores the global sanitation crisis\, the water pollution crisis impacting Lake Victoria’s fishing communities\, “nutrients-out-of-place\,” and soil politics. As the director of GiveLove\, a WASH sector (water\, sanitation and hygiene) non-profit\, she has worked in eight countries with a wide range of diverse stakeholders and environmental activists to promote composting\, sustainable land use\, food security\, and local resiliency in the context of climate change. Alisa also worked for over a decade with women farming groups to lead on-farm biodiversity initiatives in Uganda aimed at protecting shea trees and establishing the first fair trade shea cooperative. Alisa holds a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University\, a M.S. in International Agricultural Development from University of California\, Davis\, and a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from UCSC. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-kawa-and-alisa-keesey-microbes-at-work/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, Humanities in the Age of AI\, presents “When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu.” \nWhat happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr\, a pioneer in human-centered AI\, game analytics\, and interactive narrative design\, and Minghui Hu\, a historian and digital humanist\, explores the cultural\, religious\, and intellectual history of China through computational and interpretive lenses. \nTogether\, they will explore shared concerns—from narrative design and agency to ethical modeling and epistemological boundaries—charting new possibilities at the intersection of technology and the humanities. This conversation is not only a meeting of disciplines\, but a reimagining of the collaborative future of AI and humanistic inquiry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/when-human-centered-ai-encountered-digital-humanities/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T111939
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SUMMARY:Soraya Murray – Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Soraya Murray’s forthcoming Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT\, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” that channel societal anxiety or dread about advanced technologies like supercomputers\, robotics\, AI\, biotech\, military weaponry\, and digital surveillance. Technothriller is about the changing imagination of technology within an American context and its role in engineering some of the most profound ideologies of modern life. Murray considers beloved but often underrated films from the 1970s to the present\, like The Andromeda Strain (1971)\, Westworld (1973)\, Rollerball (1975)\, Demon Seed (1977)\, WarGames (1983)\, The Hunt for Red October (1990)\, Jurassic Park (1993)\, Clear and Present Danger (1994)\, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)\, the Mission:Impossible franchise (1996- )\, Ex Machina (2014)\, Tenet (2020)\, M3GAN (2022)\, and The Creator (2023) to think through deeply embedded popular beliefs about technology\, innovation\, and their imaginaries—in other words\, the mechanics of power within our technological lives. In short\, Technothriller is about the troubled\, sometimes catastrophic relationships between humans and their innovations. \nSoraya Murray (PhD Cornell) studies contemporary visual culture\, especially film and video games. She is an Associate Professor in the Film + Digital Media Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Murray’s first book\, On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race\, Gender and Space (I.B. Tauris\, 2018\, paperback Bloomsbury 2021)\, considers video games from a visual culture perspective and how they both mirror and are constitutive of larger societal fears\, dreams\, hopes and even complex struggles for recognition. Murray is currently co-editing an anthology with media and games scholar TreaAndrea Russworm on antiracist futures in games and play\, and will soon publish her second single-author book\, Technothriller. \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/soraya-murray-technothriller/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T180000
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SUMMARY:Chris Jadallah - What Could Be More Innocent Than Planting Trees? Land-Based Pedagogies as a Site of Contestation
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice is proud to present What Could Be More Innocent Than Planting Trees? Land-Based Pedagogies as a Site of Contestation with Chris Jadallah\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice and Education at UC Los Angeles. \nLand education\, as both theory and pedagogy\, works to unsettle the colonial dynamics that often remain quietly buried within land relations and learning environments. In this talk\, Chris Jadallah will think with the geographies of Palestine to engage in a critical reading of two landscapes – pine forests and olive groves – to confront the ways in which settler colonial inheritances manifest across ecologies. From this reading\, he will discuss how pedagogical experiences and curricular designs rooted in land\, for example\, tree planting activities that are pervasive environmental education\, can serve to either reinscribe colonial dynamics or\, alternatively\, can be designed in ways that build transnational solidarities and prefigure decolonial futures. \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)\, 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/chris-jadallah-what-could-be-more-innocent-than-planting-trees/
LOCATION:Cervantes & Velasquez Room\, Baytree Conference Center\, Bay Tree Conference Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Angel Dominguez
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \nAngel Dominguez is a Latiné poet of Yucatec Maya descent born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys\, CA\, by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the redwoods of Bonny Doon\, CA. They’re the author of several books of poetry and prose\, including Desgraciado (Nightboat Books\, 2022) and\, most recently\, the 10-year anniversary edition of their debut work\, Black Lavender Milk (Noemi Press\, 2024). They were the 2023 Poet in Residence at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center in Tucson and the 2021 Mazza writer in residence for San Francisco State University. They currently serve as managing editor for Lilac Press. You can find Angel’s work online and in print in various publications\, including BOMB Magazine\, The Berkeley Poetry Review\, FENCE\, SFMOMA Open Space\, and elsewhere. You can find Angel in the redwoods or ocean. \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-angel-dominguez/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Elena Anagnostopoulou - Rethinking Clitics: A View From Greek
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete and IMS-FORTH)\, speaking on Rethinking Clitics: A View From Greek. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nIn this talk\, Elena Anagnostopoulou will revisit the relationship between clitic doubling and object agreement in connection to the syntax of clitics\, via an assessment of three recent proposals on Greek clitic doubling. She will offer novel evidence based on co-ordination resolution supporting the view that clitic doubling involves a dependency between a clitic with iφ and a DP with iφ. Finally\, she will highlight arguments that\, in her view\, are crucial to decide between different versions of movement analyses. \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-elena-anagnostopoulou-rethinking-clitics-a-view-from-greek/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T180000
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SUMMARY:Raï Concert: Fella Oudane
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a Raï concert at Woodhouse Brewery on Friday\, May 23rd at 6pm. Raï is a popular genre of music that achieved global prominence with artists like Khaled and Cheb Mami\, and it has come to embody Algeria’s rebellious spirit. CMENA Faculty Director Muriam Haleh Davis has put together this Spotify playlist if you would like to learn more! \nFella Oudane\, an LA-based vocalist and percussionist\, will be performing alongside the North African band\, Terga. The concert is free and open to all ages.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rai-concert-fella-oudane/
LOCATION:Woodhouse Brewery\, 119 Madrone St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T181228Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - The Center for the Middle East and North Africa & Kuumbwa Jazz Present: Cheb Nasro
DESCRIPTION:The Cheb Nasro concert scheduled for Friday\, May 23 has been CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. \n  \nNasreddine Souidi\, known as Cheb Nasro\, is a singer\, composer\, and songwriter who is best known for his Romantic Rai music. He is one of the most famous Romantic Rai singers in the Arabic speaking world. He has released more than 130 albums with popular hits such as “Libini W Binha” and “Ndirak Amour.” \nCheb Nasro was born on November 30\, 1969\, in the city of Ain Temouchent\, Algeria. When he was eleven months old he and his family moved to the city of Oran where he grew up. Cheb Nasro began singing at a young age and in 1987 at age eighteen released his first album\, which sold millions of copies. Cheb Nasro works with a number of music labels in Algeria including Disco Maghreb\, Santana\, Redson\, and Sunhouse\, as well as Mondo Melodia in the USA. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz and the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kuumbwa-jazz-cheb-nasro/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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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 final session on May 17 features a film presentation. Directed by Michael Hoffman & starring Christian Bale\, Rupert Everett\, Calista Flockhart\, Kevin Kline\, Michelle Pfeiffer & Stanley Tucci (120 minutes). \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-5/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T133000
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SUMMARY:Anneeth Hundle - Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro- Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Spring 2025 Aurora Lecture Series and the Cultural Studies Colloquium\, we welcome Anneeth Kaur Hundle\, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, for her lecture entitled “Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro- Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda.” \nIn 1972\, Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled close to 80\,000 South Asians of Ugandan heritage from the country by dictatorial decree. This talk revisits this weighty historical event\, arguing that it is neither an exceptional nor a parochial event\, neither a result of primordial Afro-South Asian racial conflict\, nor an opening into a redemptive search for Afro-South Asian interracial solidarities. The talk explores the aftermaths and continuous nature of the expulsion event\, examining its effects and affects; the images\, representations\, and differentiated experiences and memories of the event; and the tense and ambivalent practices of citizenship\, sovereignty\, and governance that have emerged in the decades following the expulsion. It describes Afro-Asian entanglements in transcontinental Uganda through the lenses of race\, ethnicity\, class\, caste\, religion\, gender\, and sexuality\, arguing for stronger attention to knowledge production on global Afro-South Asian connections and the continued dynamics of community\, citizenship\, and identity on the African Continent as central to envisioning Black African self-determinism\, racial reconciliation\, and interracial pluralisms during shifting imperial\, postcolonial\, nationalist\, and geopolitical times. Finally\, the talk examines the significance of global anthropologies of expulsion in relation to the ongoing contemporary mass expulsions under the Trump regime in the US.citizenship\, and identity on the African Continent as central to envisioning contemporary Black African self-determinism\, racial reconciliation\, and interracial pluralisms. \nAnneeth Kaur Hundle is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. She trained in anthropology and gender studies at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and has previously held appointments at UC Berkeley\, UC Merced\, and Makerere University in Kampala\, Uganda. Hundle has recently published Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda (Duke University Press\, 2025)\, an anthropological examination of citizenship and the ambivalent politics and processes of racial nonreconciliation in post-Asian expulsion Uganda and the study of scholarly and epistemological expulsions from the contemporary university. She has also published in several peer-reviewed journals\, including American Anthropologist\, Public Culture\, and Critical Ethnic Studies\, and is currently working on a book project on Sikh and Punjabi and Black and Afro-Diasporic encounters that engages with her interests in Sikhism and global South Asian and African diasporas\, critical religious and secularism studies; race\, religion\, caste\, labor-capital relations\, gender and sexuality; feminist anthropology and critical university studies. At UCI Anthropology\, she has led Sikh Studies and Punjabi language program-building and many other initiatives\, including the Sikh feminisms working group from 2020-2022. She currently serves as Associate Editor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion\, Culture\, Theory. \nCo-sponsored with the Aurora Endowment for Sikh Studies. \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/anneeth-hundle-insecurities-of-expulsion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T150000
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SUMMARY:Terry Burke - The UCSC Center for World History in its World Historical Contexts
DESCRIPTION:What are the relevant contexts in which we should situate the UCSC Center for World History? Terry Burke (Professor Emeritus\, History Department) will discuss this question in his upcoming talk\, “The UCSC Center for World History in its World Historical Contexts.” The talk will be held both in-person in Humanities I\, Room 210\, and online via Zoom. \nBurke proposes we locate it in what he calls the “World History Moment” (late 1960s-early 2000s)\, and will add relevant contexts during the course of the talk. The lecture will then move to an overview of the emergence of world history in the UC system in the 1980s-2000s\, focusing on the World History Workshop\, a UC Multi-Campus Research Group (MRG) founded by Kenneth Pomeranz and Burke. The UCSC Center for World History and its connections to the UC project – as well as its major accomplishments – will be reviewed. \nBurke’s talk will conclude by asking where world history stands today\, and will offer ways it might be revived.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/terry-burke-the-ucsc-center-for-world-history-in-its-world-historical-contexts/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T170000
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SUMMARY:G.S. Sahota and Susan Gillman - Du Boisian Double Consciousness\, Global Sikh Diasporas\, and Sikh Studies
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Spring 2025 Aurora Lecture Series\, join G.S. Sahota and Susan Gillman for a conversation on Du Boisian Double Consciousness\, Global Sikh Diasporas\, and Sikh Studies. The conversation will take place on Thursday\, May 29th\, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 202\, with the option to attend via Zoom. \nSusan Gillman is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and Co-editor of Next to the Color Line: Gender\, Sexuality\, and W.E.B. Du Bois. \nG.S. Sahota is the Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/g-s-sahota-and-susan-gillman-du-boisian-double-consciousness/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \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-student-reading-5/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250531
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SUMMARY:Threads of Love: The AIDS Memorial Quilt
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with The Diversity Center (TDC) and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present the Threads of Love: The AIDS Memorial Quilt—a powerful exhibition that reflects on the profound impact the HIV/AIDS epidemic had on the LGBTQ+ community. It celebrates the enduring resilience\, love\, and activism that has defined their collective journey. \nThe exhibit will run from May 30th – June 29th. \nThreads of Love is more than an art exhibit; it is a living love letter to the past\, present\, and future of the LGBTQ+ community. The exhibit seeks to educate\, inspire\, and engage visitors in a reflection of the challenges faced during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the meaningful exploration of our shared history. As Santa Cruz Pride marks its 50th anniversary\, the Threads of Love exhibit serves as a celebration of our community’s ongoing commitment to social justice\, advocacy\, mutual support\, and well-being. \nCentral to the exhibit will be panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, a poignant reminder of the lives lost and the memories that continue to sustain us. Alongside the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, will be a display of a diverse collection of artwork created by local students and community members displaying the focus of HIV/AIDS awareness\, prevention\, and education. Threads of Love was inspired by a Queer teen from Santa Cruz High School who expressed a desire to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt after attending The Diversity Center’s youth programming event at the Queer Santa Cruz exhibit at the MAH. \nAs part of this initiative\, The Diversity Center will be hosting monthly art workshops where community members can create art for the exhibit. More information here. \n\nBanner Image: Display of AIDS quilts at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium\, 1989. Donated by T. Lark Letchworth to the Santa Cruz County LGBTQ+ Collection\, MAH Archives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/threads-of-love-the-aids-memorial-quilt/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T133000
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SUMMARY:Art as Social Transformation with Roger and DeAnna Cummings
DESCRIPTION:As co-founders of Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) in Minneapolis\, Roger Cummings’ and DeAnna Cummings’ practices operate at the intersection of art\, social justice\, and community development. \nJXTA functions as a “social sculpture” – a living artwork that extends beyond conventional art-making into community engagement. What began in 1995 with nine students has evolved into a comprehensive campus employing 70+ young people annually through our mentor-apprentice model. \nOur work centers Black aesthetic traditions\, particularly from urban environments\, challenging institutions that have historically marginalized these forms. We navigate “white space” in art institutions\, philanthropy\, and urban development by creating interventions that reclaim public space and amplify Black creativity. \nThrough Environmental Design\, Graphic Design\, Contemporary Art\, and Tactical Urbanism Labs\, we’ve built a pipeline of creative talent while addressing economic disparities. This approach transforms both individuals and communities\, demonstrating how art can catalyze social change and economic opportunity. \nSponsored by: Art Department Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program\, The Humanities Institute\, Unseen California
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/art-as-social-transformation-with-roger-and-deanna-cummings/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center #108
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T130000
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SUMMARY:Celebratory Collabo & Share Fest with Clara Bergamini\, Yagmur Kizilay\, and Mary Jirmanus
DESCRIPTION:Join the More-than-human(ities) Lab for their final event of the year where they will reflect on what they have learned from the lab and dream of future possibilities for the cross-disciplinary community that they have built. Collaborative reflections and wishes will take place from 1-1:30pm. They will then close the lab by learning about the work of three of our early-career community members and offering them feedback. Clara Bergamini\, Yagmur Kizilay\, and Mary Jirmanus will participate in their final share session of the year. Light snacks will be provided. \nDr. Yağmur Kızılay\, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSC Literature Department\, will be speaking on “An Exploration of Affective Dimension of the Environmental Narratives in the Blue Humanities in Raising Environmental Consciousness for the Preservation of Bodies of Water.” \n  \nMary Jirmanus Saba\, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Film and Digital Media Department\, will be speaking on transformative movements through the perspective of Lebanese philosopher Mahdi Amel. Regarding the possibilities of transformative movements\, Amel wrote that in the colonized world\, “the worker is a peasant\,” attached to the village\, and not untethered from the countryside. This ambivalent statement (which described Amel himself) is the provocation for thinking about how we all might relate to the land\, and transformative politics. \nClara Bergamini\, a PhD candidate in the Department of History\, will share a quick preview of her dissertation chapter\, currently titled “Contextualizing an Urban Catastrophe.” The bulk of her dissertation looks at the social and political history of the 1923 Kantō earthquake that destroyed most of Tokyo and all of Yokohama. However\, the goal for this particular chapter is to position it more firmly in environmental humanities through an examination of both the socio-political and environmental circumstances that laid the groundwork for the catastrophe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebratory-collabo-share-fest-with-clara-bergamini-yagmur-kizilay-and-mary-jirmanus/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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