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SUMMARY:Slow Seminar: Moorings by Nidhi Mahajan
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast)\, the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, invite you to a Slow Seminar on the new book: Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean by Nidhi Mahajan\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Reception to follow. Opening comments will be made by Juned Shaikh\, Associate Professor of History. \n \nAdvance copies of the reading will be made available after May 16 to those who R.S.V.P. indicating that they plan to attend. Wish to purchase your own copy? Receive 30% off at ucpress.edu with code UCPSAVE30.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slow-seminar-moorings-by-nidhi-mahajan/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Isaac Blacksin - Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism's Humanitarian Desire
DESCRIPTION:The final guest of the Spring 2025 HistCon Speaker Series will be one of HistCon’s own\, alumnus Isaac Blacksin! He will be joining us on Monday\, June 2nd\, to give his talk “Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism’s Humanitarian Desire” at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. If you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via Zoom. \nLauded journalism from the 2016-17 battle for Mosul\, Iraq\, revealed gross underestimates of US-caused civilian harm from anti-Islamic State operations\, exemplifying journalism’s ability to “speak truth to power.” Yet in questioning official death tallies\, journalists failed to challenge the rationale offered for this harm: an accidental exception or necessary excess to justified violence. By focusing on individuated and corporeal suffering\, by categorizing violence as lawful or extreme\, and by attending to immanent violence – rather than the structures perpetuating violence – as the central problem of war\, journalism emphasized the moral dynamics of militarism while mystifying its political logic. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in and around Mosul during the battle\, this talk assesses war reportage in its contemporary humanitarian mode. It tracks a transformation in the journalistic representation of war from the effects of policy on populations to the effects of violence on the innocent\, with implications for popular understandings of violence from Ukraine to Palestine. \nIsaac Blacksin is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Conflicted: Making News from Global War (Stanford University Press\, 2024) and co-editor of a recent issue of boundary 2 on the life and thought of Norman O. Brown. Isaac’s work – on violence\, fantasy\, and the politics of representation – appears in journals such as Public Culture\, Media\, War & Conflict\, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. \nAfter the talk\, all attendees are invited to continue the conversation over dinner and drinks at Abbott Square at 5:30pm.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isaac-blacksin-making-death-meaningful/
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:Donna Haraway - Thick\, Slimy\, Squishy\, Squiggly & Generative
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway titled “Thick\, Slimy\, Squishy\, & Generative\,” featuring History of Consciousness alumni Chela Sandoval (’93)\, Katie King (’87)\, and Caren Kaplan (’87). \n \nPlease register by May 20. Limited space is available; plan to arrive early for seating. The conversation will start promptly at 4:00pm and the event will continue afterwards with browsing in the archives. \nTogether with Haraway\, these History of Consciousness alums will revisit the collaborative\, interdisciplinary\, and transformative modes of thinking that shaped their time at UCSC in the 1980s and ’90s—and that continue to animate their work today. Reflecting on this shared historical moment\, the conversation will trace the intersections\, evolutions\, and generative entanglements of their ideas over time—and consider why collectivity\, friendship\, integrity\, and humor remain vital tools for navigating what Haraway has called the “thick and slimy” urgencies of our present. \nThis event also marks the opening of an exhibition that showcases select materials from the Donna Haraway Papers\, newly processed by the 2024-2025 CART Fellow and available for research at UCSC’s McHenry Library. \nOrganized by the University Library’s Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) and 2024-2025 CART Fellow Annika Berry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/donna-haraway-thick-slimy-squishy-squiggly-generative/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Ussama Makdisi – Palestine\, Late Colonialism\, and the Question of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) \nThis talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it was also premised\, from the outset\, on the erasure of native Palestinian history and the political significance of their centuries-old belonging on their own land. \nDr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He has published widely on Ottoman and Arab history as well as on U.S.-Arab relations and U.S. missionary work in the Middle East. Professor Makdisi’s most recent book\, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World\, was published in 2019 by the University of California Press. He is also the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations\, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs\, 2010)\, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community\, History\, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press\, 2000)\, and Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press\, 2008)\, which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association\, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association\, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Makdisi has also published articles in the Journal of American History\, the American Historical Review\, the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, and in the Middle East Report. He has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study\, Berlin)\, the Carnegie Corporation\, and the American Academy of Berlin. \n\n \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ussama-makdisi-palestine-late-colonialism-and-the-question-of-genocide/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amending Worlds: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nThe Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures prize was established by THI’s Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future project and is made possible by alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77\, Philosophy\, and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee). \nThe exhibition opens on June 5th\, 2025 and runs until June 15th\, 2025. The exhibition launches in conjunction with The Humanities Institute’s Night at the Museum event\, which will also feature a panel discussion about speculative fiction to engage scholars\, practitioners and publics in creative speculation with and about the works. \nExhibition Projects: \nShades of Fake Green Grass\, Hannah Barrett \nShades of Fake Green Grass is a collection of short stories that focus on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people\, and their ordinary problems\, through a technologically dystopian lens. \nHannah Barrett is a writer with a current focus on science fiction. She aims to compel readers toward internal dialogues that teach us how to better engage with the world. \na portal\, Yasmine Benabdallah \na portal includes a video installation and a micro-chapbook\, part of a project linking Brazil\, Morocco\, and Portugal through a shared history of colonization\, enslavement\, and a forced exodus across the Atlantic. a portal explores memory\, archives\, and non-linear time\, and foregrounds our bodies’ resonances through time and space\, calling on them to erode\, wash over\, and imagine liberatory futures. \nYasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory\, performance\, diaspora\, archives\, rituals\, and time travel. \nWhispers of Wear\, Kristine Buriel \nThe Selveger Collective gets its name from a portmanteau of “selvage”- a stitched edge that prevents a fabric from unraveling and “salvager”- those who prevent something from being lost. Walk into the archives and don the clothes of wearers’ past and hear the stories weaved into the threads. Scan to gain insight from those whose hands touched the cloth. \nKristine Buriel is an interdisciplinary artist focused on making and craft. She uses technology to preserve the process and human story so that it can be shared and not forgotten. \nNight Lights for Squid\, Chaelim Lim \nSquid are said to be attracted to light. Powerful lights are used during the night for squid fishing. However\, scientists aren’t able to explain why some squid hide away from the lights\, under the shadows of the vessel. Are the lights overwhelming for squid individuals? What if squid could create their own night lights? What stories would these lights tell? \nChaelim Lim is an artist based in Seoul who researches disaster investigation in a fictional manner. She explores architecture that amplifies the gestures of more-than-human beings in disaster discourse. \nA Martian Manifesto\, Jorge Antonio Palacios \nA Martian Manifesto is a text and series of installations experimenting with craft and new media to create outdoor social sculptures. Through re-enacting speculative practices of the deep future and on Mars\, this process-oriented work is metabolized into a manifesto of science fiction\, gesturing towards alternative ways of being with each other\, technology\, and the world. \nJorge Antonio Palacios is an artist from Yanawana/San Antonio\, Texas. They use foraging\, digital media\, writing\, and installation as methodologies for investigating relationships between land\, technology\, displacement\, and decolonization. \nThe Third Person\, Rowan Powell \nThe Third Person\, taken from the writing of the Diggers in 1649\, refers to someone who relates to land without private ownership. Drawing on this idea\, the work stages a hypothetical conversation between ‘ravers’ and ‘ranters\,’ old and new. Through exchanges of soil\, wood\, linen\, repurposed texts and symbols\, the installation journeys through political romanticism– hope and dissolution expressed through squatting\, trespassing\, free parties and intentional communities. \nRowan Powell is a writer and researcher currently working with trees\, chickens\, film\, and dancing. Their research draws on place(s)\, tracing attempts at reaching to what is buried. \nolam ha-ba (the world to come)\, Tyler Rai \nThis project is a growing conversation between Palestinian and Lebanese heirloom seeds\, the soils of coastal California\, and communities of seed savers. Through these seeds in exile\, the project explores how heirloom seeds encompass entire cosmologies and ancestral technologies for resistance\, hope\, and birthing the world to come. \nTyler Rai is a transdisciplinary artist whose work investigates cultural inheritance\, ecological entanglements and solidarity work as a form of ancestral memory. She collaborates with seeds\, stones\, bodies\, and soils. \nSea of Paint\, Hongwei Zhou \nSea of Paint is a narrative-driven video game that explores the issues around contemporary machine learning-based AI technology. The player engages in dialogue with a “spirit” conjured from the Sea — an ever-recording flow of data. The game asks how our ideas of memory\, labor and care are brought into tension with the prevalence of data-driven AI. \nHongwei Zhou is a video game educator and researcher. He is interested in thinking about the entanglement of game systems and technoculture. \nSupport Team: \nMatt Polzin\nGSR for the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nMatt Polzin is a fiction writer and researcher whose work focuses on queer utopia\, interspecies relationships\, and the Midwest. \nValerie Sainz\n2024-25 Humanities EXPLORE Fellow\, The Coha-Gunderson Exhibition and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\nValerie Sainz is a History and History of Art & Visual Culture major (Museums\, Heritage\, and Curation concentration). \nCarla Freccero\nPI\, The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures; Coordinator\, The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature & History of Consciousness\, UCSC. \n– Special thanks – \n\nPeter Coha (Kresge College ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson College ’77\, Philosophy and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee)\nMatt Polzin\, Graduate Student Researcher\nValerie Sainz\, EXPLORE Fellow\nThe Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Marla Novo\, Deputy Director; Natalie Jenkins\, Exhibitions Manager; Shanti Nagwani\, preparator)\nThe Humanities Institute (Pranav Anand\, Faculty Director; Irena Polic\, Managing Director; Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs & Communications Director; Jessica Guild\, Event and Operations Manager)\nUCSC Faculty Guests: Micah Perks (Literature); Alison Laurie Palmer (Art); Claudio Bueno (Art); Soraya Murray (History of Art & Visual Culture); Maria Puig del la Bellacasa (History of Consciousness)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amending-worlds-exhibition/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare Talk with Dr. Sean Keilen
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Sean Keilen\, professor of literature at UCSC and lead dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, for an exciting talk about SCS’ summer Shakespeare offerings: comic masterpiece\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and thrilling romance\, Pericles. Artistic Director Charles Pasternak will be in attendance. Q&A to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shakespeare-talk-with-dr-sean-keilen/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Amending Worlds\, a panel discussion about speculative fiction and a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The panel will feature Micah Perks (UC Santa Cruz)\, Cathy Thomas (UCSB)\, and Kim Tallbear (University of Alberta)\, moderated by Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz). \nThis year\, THI is marking our 25th anniversary. The celebration will culminate with Night at the Museum\, an event which welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free. \n \nDoors and exhibits open at 6pm\, event program will begin at 7pm. \nAMENDING WORLDS EXHIBITION RUNS JUNE 5-15\, 2025 – CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS.\nAmending Worlds includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UCSC\, where she has taught since 1991. She is the author of Father Figures; Popular Culture: An Introduction; and Queer/Early/Modern. She has co-edited collections on Premodern Sexualities;  Species\, Race and Sex; and Animal Studies. She publishes in early modern literature\, queer and feminist theory\, and animal studies. \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her most recent novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publishers Book Award and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor at UCSC in the Literature Department and has taught Women and the Apocalypse and US Feminist Utopias. \nKim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience\, and Society\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions\, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast and a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples\, science\, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter\, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs\, cultural politics & (de)colonization. \nCathy Thomas is a writer\, filmmaker\, and creative critical scholar whose work on the ‘Black Fantastic’ and decolonial feminist thought is enriched by discovering modes of play and resistance in comic books\, literature\, through cosplay\, while wining up at Caribbean Carnival. As she approaches tenure\, she is juggling 3 novels\, 2 comic books\, 1 trade book collaboration\, 1 scholarly monograph\, and 1 experimental textile+digital+sound art installation for a 2028 museum exhibition\, all in various states of completion\, delay\, ecstasy\, and exhaustion. She is an Asst Prof of English at UCSB and the Director of the UCSB Creative Critical Writing Initiative. \n\nThe Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nThe Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures prize was established by THI’s Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future project and is made possible by alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77\, Philosophy\, and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee). \nThe exhibition opens on June 5th\, 2025 and runs until June 15th\, 2025. The exhibition launches in conjunction with The Humanities Institute’s Night at the Museum event\, which will also feature a panel discussion about speculative fiction to engage scholars\, practitioners and publics in creative speculation with and about the works. \nExhibition Projects: \nShades of Fake Green Grass\, Hannah Barrett \nShades of Fake Green Grass is a collection of short stories that focus on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people\, and their ordinary problems\, through a technologically dystopian lens. \nHannah Barrett is a writer with a current focus on science fiction. She aims to compel readers toward internal dialogues that teach us how to better engage with the world. \na portal\, Yasmine Benabdallah \na portal includes a video installation and a micro-chapbook\, part of a project linking Brazil\, Morocco\, and Portugal through a shared history of colonization\, enslavement\, and a forced exodus across the Atlantic. a portal explores memory\, archives\, and non-linear time\, and foregrounds our bodies’ resonances through time and space\, calling on them to erode\, wash over\, and imagine liberatory futures. \nYasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory\, performance\, diaspora\, archives\, rituals\, and time travel. \nWhispers of Wear\, Kristine Buriel \nThe Selveger Collective gets its name from a portmanteau of “selvage”- a stitched edge that prevents a fabric from unraveling and “salvager”- those who prevent something from being lost. Walk into the archives and don the clothes of wearers’ past and hear the stories weaved into the threads. Scan to gain insight from those whose hands touched the cloth. \nKristine Buriel is an interdisciplinary artist focused on making and craft. She uses technology to preserve the process and human story so that it can be shared and not forgotten. \nNight Lights for Squid\, Chaelim Lim \nSquid are said to be attracted to light. Powerful lights are used during the night for squid fishing. However\, scientists aren’t able to explain why some squid hide away from the lights\, under the shadows of the vessel. Are the lights overwhelming for squid individuals? What if squid could create their own night lights? What stories would these lights tell? \nChaelim Lim is an artist based in Seoul who researches disaster investigation in a fictional manner. She explores architecture that amplifies the gestures of more-than-human beings in disaster discourse. \nA Martian Manifesto\, Jorge Antonio Palacios \nA Martian Manifesto is a text and series of installations experimenting with craft and new media to create outdoor social sculptures. Through re-enacting speculative practices of the deep future and on Mars\, this process-oriented work is metabolized into a manifesto of science fiction\, gesturing towards alternative ways of being with each other\, technology\, and the world. \nJorge Antonio Palacios is an artist from Yanawana/San Antonio\, Texas. They use foraging\, digital media\, writing\, and installation as methodologies for investigating relationships between land\, technology\, displacement\, and decolonization. \nThe Third Person\, Rowan Powell \nThe Third Person\, taken from the writing of the Diggers in 1649\, refers to someone who relates to land without private ownership. Drawing on this idea\, the work stages a hypothetical conversation between ‘ravers’ and ‘ranters\,’ old and new. Through exchanges of soil\, wood\, linen\, repurposed texts and symbols\, the installation journeys through political romanticism– hope and dissolution expressed through squatting\, trespassing\, free parties and intentional communities. \nRowan Powell is a writer and researcher currently working with trees\, chickens\, film\, and dancing. Their research draws on place(s)\, tracing attempts at reaching to what is buried. \nolam ha-ba (the world to come)\, Tyler Rai \nThis project is a growing conversation between Palestinian and Lebanese heirloom seeds\, the soils of coastal California\, and communities of seed savers. Through these seeds in exile\, the project explores how heirloom seeds encompass entire cosmologies and ancestral technologies for resistance\, hope\, and birthing the world to come. \nTyler Rai is a transdisciplinary artist whose work investigates cultural inheritance\, ecological entanglements and solidarity work as a form of ancestral memory. She collaborates with seeds\, stones\, bodies\, and soils. \nSea of Paint\, Hongwei Zhou \nSea of Paint is a narrative-driven video game that explores the issues around contemporary machine learning-based AI technology. The player engages in dialogue with a “spirit” conjured from the Sea — an ever-recording flow of data. The game asks how our ideas of memory\, labor and care are brought into tension with the prevalence of data-driven AI. \nHongwei Zhou is a video game educator and researcher. He is interested in thinking about the entanglement of game systems and technoculture. \nSupport Team: \nMatt Polzin\nGSR for the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nMatt Polzin is a fiction writer and researcher whose work focuses on queer utopia\, interspecies relationships\, and the Midwest. \nValerie Sainz\n2024-25 Humanities EXPLORE Fellow\, The Coha-Gunderson Exhibition and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\nValerie Sainz is a History and History of Art & Visual Culture major (Museums\, Heritage\, and Curation concentration). \nCarla Freccero\nPI\, The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures; Coordinator\, The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature & History of Consciousness\, UCSC. \n– Special thanks – \n\nPeter Coha (Kresge College ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson College ’77\, Philosophy and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee)\nMatt Polzin\, Graduate Student Researcher\nValerie Sainz\, EXPLORE Fellow\nThe Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Marla Novo\, Deputy Director; Natalie Jenkins\, Exhibitions Manager; Shanti Nagwani\, preparator)\nThe Humanities Institute (Pranav Anand\, Faculty Director; Irena Polic\, Managing Director; Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs & Communications Director; Jessica Guild\, Event and Operations Manager)\nUCSC Faculty Guests: Micah Perks (Literature); Alison Laurie Palmer (Art); Claudio Bueno (Art); Soraya Murray (History of Art & Visual Culture); Maria Puig del la Bellacasa (History of Consciousness)\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-at-the-museum-amending-worlds/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Through the Decades: 50 Years of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Feminist Studies on June 6 in honoring 50 years at UC Santa Cruz. The event will be held at 3pm at the Stevenson Event Center\, with a reception to follow. \n \nThe event will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Click here to watch. \nFeminist Studies was established as the Women’s Studies program at UC Santa Cruz in 1974. Since its founding\, this pioneering department has been home to some of the field’s most prominent thinkers and has produced scores of alumni who have gone on to make contributions in a range of professions. \nFor this celebratory event\, we have assembled a panel of eight alums who will engage with Distinguished Feminist Studies Professor Emerita Bettina Aptheker to discuss what Feminist Studies has meant to their careers\, their lives\, and society at large. Our panelists: \nNancy Lemon (Kresge ’75\, Women’s Studies) – Retired Director of the Domestic Violence Practicum and Seminar at UC Berkeley School of Law and member of the first graduating class \nBlanca Tavera (Oakes ’86\, Women’s Studies) – Domestic violence activist\, founder of Defensa de Mujeres\, and retired professor at the San Jose State University School of Social Work \nNicole Nichols (nee Nasser) (Cowell ’99\, Literature and Women’s Studies) – Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at UC Davis Medical Center\, and adjunct faculty at University of Nevada\, Reno \nNaomi Marks (Merrill ’00\, Earth Sciences and Women’s Studies) – Geochemist\, Associate Program Leader for Nuclear Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation\, and Deputy Director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory \nKate Schatz (Stevenson ’03\, Literature and Creative Writing) – New York Times bestselling author of the Rad Women series and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book\, with W. Kamau Bell \nKim Angulo (Merrill ’13\, Feminist Studies) – Assistant Public Defender at the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office \nSarah Elkotbeid (Crown ’18\, Environmental Studies and Feminist Studies) – Environmental Health Equity and Community Partnerships Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council \nHalima Kazem (Ph.D. ’22\, Feminist Studies) – Associate Director of Stanford’s Program in Feminist\, Gender & Sexualities Studies \nWe hope to see you as we mark the passage of 50 years and celebrate the generations of activists and feminist scholars who have contributed to the passionate pursuit and expansion of feminist thought and advocacy at UCSC!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/through-the-decades-50-years-of-feminist-studies-at-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:Abraham Verghese - The Covenant of Water
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times-bestselling author Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone) for a discussion and signing of The Covenant of Water\, available in paperback on May 6th. This stunning epic of love\, faith\, and medicine is set in Kerala\, South India\, and follows three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Abraham Verghese will be in conversation with Rose Feerick. \n“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey \n \nAn instant New York Times and indie bestseller\, The Covenant of Water has sold more than two million copies worldwide and was widely named as a best book of the year. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977\, Abraham Verghese’s long-awaited\, masterful novel follows three generations of a Christian family in Kerala\, South India\, that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation\, at least one person dies by drowning. \nAbraham Verghese is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of the NBCC Award finalist My Own Country and the New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner. His most recent book\, Cutting for Stone\, spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than two million copies worldwide. It was translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama\, has received six honorary degrees\, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford\, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. A decade in the making\, The Covenant of Water is his first book since Cutting for Stone. \nRose Feerick is Co-Director of Wisdom & Money\, a non-profit organization that offers retreats for affluent individuals who seek to align their financial resources with their spirituality in service of the common good. She also serves as one of the ministers of the Pescadero Community Church. Rose has a BA in Theology from Georgetown University and an MDiv from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California and is the mother of two young adult sons. \nMore information at:  Abraham Verghese\, The Covenant of Water | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/abraham-verghese-the-covenant-of-water/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor E. Hande Tuna - You Can Imagine Dragons… But Not That Female Infanticide Is Good? The Puzzling Limits of Imagination
DESCRIPTION:You can imagine flying on the back of a dragon. You can picture a talking rabbit solving crimes\, or a world where time runs backward. So why is it so hard to imagine that slavery is morally good\, or that killing your baby girl is the right thing to do? This talk explores a weird and wonderful puzzle in the philosophy of imagination known as imaginative resistance—the experience of hitting a mental wall when a story asks us to imagine not just impossible things\, but morally alien things. Why do our moral beliefs seem to stick\, even in fiction? If imagining is “just pretending\,” why do some make-believe scenarios feel off-limits or even offensive? Through examples from literature and film\, we’ll explore what this resistance reveals about how imagination works\, and how deeply our values shape what we’re able or willing to imagine. \nNo background in philosophy is required. Just bring your imagination and maybe a little skepticism. \n \nEmine Hande Tuna is a philosopher who spends her time thinking seriously about things that don’t exist—like square circles\, guilt-free villains\, and moral worlds where injustice is good. She’s an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz\, where she writes and teaches about imagination\, aesthetics\, and why some stories just won’t sit right with us. Her book on Kantian Art Criticism is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She’s also at work on a second book\, Imaginative Resistance (under contract with Oxford University Press)\, which she’ll be developing next year as a Quinn Fellow at the National Humanities Center (a rare kind of fellowship—one that didn’t mysteriously disappear). \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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-assistant-professor-e-hande-tuna-you-can-imagine-dragons-but-not-that-female-infanticide-is-good/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Late Night Editions: Isaac Julien
DESCRIPTION:The de Young is hosting\, Late Night Editions: Isaac Julien on Thursday\, June 12\, 2025\, a special after-hours event celebrating the powerful exhibition Isaac Julien: I Dream a World. \nEnjoy a vibrant evening exploring the cinematic world of Isaac Julien: I Dream a World — a stunning fusion of film\, politics\, and personal narrative — alongside live music\, food trucks\, a nostalgic glamour photo booth by Syd Studios\, and after-dark access to exhibitions and our sculpture garden. \nCome for the art. Stay for the vibes. Reserve your tickets now — limited availability! UC Santa Cruz community members get 20% off general admission with the code FIRSTEDITION at checkout. \n \nWhat’s included: \n\nSyd Studios nostalgic photo booth by Syd Yatco\nLive DJ sets curated by IN SESSION\nFood trucks from Off the Grid\nCash bar\nAccess to: Isaac Julien: I Dream a World\, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm\, Matisse’s Jazz Unbound\, Osher Sculpture Garden & James Turrell’s Three Gems\n\n\nBanner Image Credit: Thousand Words Photobooth
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/late-night-editions-isaac-julien/
LOCATION:de Young Museum\, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
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