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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-1-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-2/
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SUMMARY:The Virtual Dickens Universe
DESCRIPTION:While the originally planned program focusing on David Copperfield and Iola Leroy will still take place in 2021\, this week of online programming will feature a range of conversations that discuss the occasion of the pair and the insights that bringing them together can offer. Over the week\, scholars from Victorian studies and early African American studies will discuss linkages between their fields\, approaches for addressing race and racism in the classroom\, and productive ways to engage with Black studies in the nineteenth century and its transatlantic contexts. We hope that this will generate excitement to read these two novels over the next year and to join us in Santa Cruz for the full Dickens Universe conference. \n \nWe hope that this week will provide some useful context for these two novels\, as we read them together over the next year. In addition to providing some critical background for France E. W. Harper’s career and Iola Leroy\, it will also help place her alongside Dickens as one of the most important and prolific writers of the nineteenth century. Like Dickens\, Harper was a virtuoso writer of many literary genres (including fiction\, prose\, and poetry)\, was deeply involved in nineteenth-century print and periodical cultures. She was a powerful public speaker and an activist in the anti-slavery\, suffrage\, temperance\, and post-emancipation racial justice movements. \nQuestions? Call (831) 459-2103 or email cmahaney@ucsc.edu for assistance.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dickens-universe/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley
DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. Join Dickens Project Director\, John O. Jordan\, and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member\, David Brownell for a series of virtual discussions about how one of the first historical novels may have inspired Charles Dickens. \nRSVP for a Zoom link and password for the series: \n\nJun 28: General Preface & Chapters 1-23\nJul 26: Chapters 24-47\nAug 23: Chapters 48-End\n\nFourth Sundays of the month at 2pm Pacific Time.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-waverley-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200729T183000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-2-4/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-2-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Presents: Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights
DESCRIPTION:As we approach the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and stand at the threshold of a presidential election\, “Celebrating Woman Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights” is a panel discussion examining the complex history of enfranchisement in the United States and its relevance to the ongoing anti-racist struggle against voter suppression. A dynamic group of speakers includes Gail Pellerin\, Santa Cruz County Clerk/Registrar of Voters\, as our moderator; with presentations by Judge Marla Anderson\, Judge of the Superior Court of California\, Monterey County; Bettina Aptheker\, scholar-activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz; and Aida Hurtado\, the Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Associate Dean\, and Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara. The event will be followed by a live Q&A\, and precedes an evening concert featuring the orchestral world premiere of The Battle for the Ballot by composer Stacy Garrop\, inspired by the centenary of the 19th amendment and pivotal figures in the Woman Suffrage movement. \n \nYou may view this event and participate in the live Q&A directly via the Festival’s website here. The countdown clock will apprise you when the event is about to begin. No registration necessary. \nRead Professor Aptheker’s article on “Suffrage and Suffering” in the Voices of the Monterey Bay publication. \nThis event is sponsored by: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-Sponsors: NAACP\, Temple Beth El\, and Women Lawyers of Santa Cruz County
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cabrillo-festival-of-contemporary-music-presents-suffrage-the-struggle-for-voting-rights/
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins - Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas\, 1619-1807
DESCRIPTION:More than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic in the slave trade\, but for many\, the forced migration was not yet over when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas\, that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them from colony to colony for resale\, often smuggling across imperial borders. This additional phase of the slave trade within the Americas was important not only for the danger it added to enslaved people’s traumatic journeys\, but also for what it reveals about the centrality of slavery to early American life. The routes of the intra-American slave trade spread the institution to virtually every colonial outpost\, and traders used the trafficking in highly valuable human beings to build their networks and establish themselves as traders of goods\, as well as people. \n \nGreg O’Malley is associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America\, received four awards: The Forkosch Prize (American Historical Association—British History); the Rawley Prize (American Historical Association—Atlantic World); The Owsley Award (Southern Historical Association); and the Goveia Prize (Association of Caribbean Historians). The project examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the Atlantic crossing. O’Malley is also co-editor (with Alex Borucki) for the Intra-American Slave Trade Database\, an online research tool that documents more than 11\,500 slave trading voyages from one port in the Americas to another. He is also conducting research for a new book\, The Escapes of David George: One Man’s Struggle with Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era\, a biography of a man\, born enslaved in colonial Virginia\, whose attempts to escape bondage led him on a remarkable odyssey. \nAbout the Slugs and Steins Lecture Series: Join us for a series of free informal lectures\, 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. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-beyond-the-middle-passage-slave-trading-within-the-americas-1619-1807/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200812T183000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours) \nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-2-3/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Karen Tei Yamashita: Sansei and Sensibility
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book\, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \n \nThis is a free event. Please consider purchasing the book through Bookshop Santa Cruz or make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz. Thank you! \n“An elegantly written\, wryly affectionate mashup of Jane Austen and the Japanese immigrant experience. . . . Yamashita’s reimagining of Austen is sympathetic and funny—and as on target as the movie Clueless.” —Kirkus\, starred review \n“Karen Tei Yamashita contends with the Western canon in this astute\, pitch-perfect\, and wryly funny short story collection. . . . A genuine pleasure to read.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This hilarious new collection of stories and essays will make you chuckle\, though underneath the humor is deft critique. Marie Kondo’s tidying up is juxtaposed with a tour of World War II internment camps. Sexist techno-orientalism and the meaning of Godzilla are reexamined. Local treasure\, UCSC professor emerita\, and acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has written a book about the Japanese American experience both entertaining and vital in this era of anti-immigration politics.” —Jason\, Bookshop Santa Cruz bookseller \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-karen-tei-yamashita-sansei-and-sensibility/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200823T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200619T163301Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley
DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. Join Dickens Project Director\, John O. Jordan\, and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member\, David Brownell for a series of virtual discussions about how one of the first historical novels may have inspired Charles Dickens. \nRSVP for a Zoom link and password for the series: \n\nJun 28: General Preface & Chapters 1-23\nJul 26: Chapters 24-47\nAug 23: Chapters 48-End\n\nFourth Sundays of the month at 2pm Pacific Time.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-waverley-3/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200826T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200617T193941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200908T221903Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed to September 2\, 2020 \nJoin actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-3-2/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200902T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200902T172542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T190148Z
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Henry VI\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/  \nHenry VI\, Full Play Synopsis: In the wake of King Henry V’s death\, the French rebel against English rule. Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) is made general of the French forces. Meanwhile\, in England\, a quarrel between two powerful lords\, the Duke of Somerset and Richard Plantagenet\, Duke of York\, consumes the court when they demand that fellow nobles pick a side by wearing either a red rose (Somerset and the house of Lancaster) or a white rose (the Duke and the house of York). The mounting tensions in the court distract the English from their goals in France\, and young King Henry VI concludes an uneasy peace. He is persuaded to marry a captured French princess\, Margaret of Anjou\, whom he has never met.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-3-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200909T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200617T194919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T190253Z
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses - Richard III
DESCRIPTION:Join actors\, scholars\, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of the works that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. As a young writer at the start of his career\, Shakespeare explored ambitions\, rivalries\, and passions that swept away the dynasty that had reigned in England for more than four centuries. Over the course of ten sessions\, we will immerse ourselves in these rarely performed plays—in Henry VI\, Parts 1\, 2\, and 3 and Richard III—and reflect on them both as points of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSchedule: The first nine sessions will last approximately ninety minutes (including an intermission) and will begin at 6:30pm PST. The final session of Richard III will last approximately two and a half hours. \nSessions are free to the public\, and participants are not obligated to attend every meeting of the program. \n*Participants reading along should expect for the first meeting about each play to cover acts one and two; the second meeting to cover acts three and four; and the third meeting to cover act five. The session focussing on Richard III will be a live reading of the entire play. \nJuly 1\, 8\, and 15: Henry VI\, Part 1 – click to view play synopsis \nwith scholars Adam Zucker (UMass\, Amherst) and Ariane Helou (UCLA) \nJuly 22\, 29\, and Aug 5: Henry VI\, Part 2 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Sean Keilen (UCSC) and Maria Frangos (SCS) \nAugust 12\, 19\, 26: Henry VI\, Part 3 – click to view play synopsis\nwith scholars Claire McEachern (UCLA) and Ashley Herum (UC Santa Cruz) \nSeptember 2: Richard III – click to view play synopsis — live reading of the full play (apx. 2.5 hours)\nwith scholar Amani Liggett (UC Santa Cruz) \nTexts available from Folger Shakespeare Library at: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/ \nPlay synopses available from Shakespeare 2020 Project at: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/ 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-undiscovered-shakespeare-the-wars-of-the-roses-richard-iii/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200911T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200911T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200902T171306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T190326Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Micah Perks & Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita\, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe Zoom room will be open by 4:30\, so come early in case you have technical difficulties. If you need assistance\, send an email to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org. Join the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links\, including for this event\, will be emailed to you.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-zoom-forward-micah-perks-karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200730T183209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T193026Z
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read | Margaret Atwood Live
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free\, live\, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program\, this event culminates months of in-depth programming and community engagement focused on Atwood’s latest Booker Prize-winning novel\, The Testaments\, a sequel to her 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale. \nRSVP TODAY\n\n\n\n\nThe 2020 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture will feature Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz (Stevenson ‘01\, Creative Writing)\, the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z . \n\n\n\nWilliam “Bro” Adams (Ph.D. History of Consciousness ’82)\, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017\, will be the event MC. \nRead Up\nBookshop Santa Cruz\, our Community Partner\, has put together a web shop of books by Margaret Atwood and Kate Schatz. Buy copies here to support a local business committed to culture and community in Santa Cruz.  \nYou can also catch up on our 4-week exploration of Atwood’s The Testaments from earlier in the year: \nWeek 1: Welcome to Gilead \nWeek 2: Feminist Intersections \nWeek 3: Toxic Bodies \nWeek 4: Atwood Answers \n\n\n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThe Deep Read is a program led by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. \nDeep Read Partners\nUC Santa Cruz \nThe Humanities Institute\nCollege Scholars Program\nCouncil of Provosts\nDivision of Student Success\nPorter College\nUniversity Library\nUniversity Relations \nCommunity\nBookshop Santa Cruz \n\n\n\nThe 2020 Deep Read Program is made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation.\n  \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by September 15th\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-margaret-atwood-live/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200924T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200903T185409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T185522Z
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SUMMARY:David Eagleman\, Livewired
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book\, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain\, during a free online event on the Crowdcast platform. “Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view\, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response to feedback is ‘quite possibly the most gorgeous phenomenon in biology\,’ and also holds exciting practical applications. Eagleman’s skill as a teacher\, bold vision\, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” —Publishers Weekly \n \nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased here at Bookshop Santa Cruz’s website. \nIn Livewired\, Eagleman reveals the many ways in which the brain absorbs experience: developing\, redeploying\, organizing\, and arranging the data it receives from external stimuli\, which enables us to gain the skills\, facilities\, and practices that make us who we are. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and also presents new discoveries from his own research: about synesthesia\, dreaming\, and wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. As only Eagleman can\, along the way we learn why people in the 1980s (and only in the 1980s) saw book pages as slightly pink; why the world’s best archer is armless; why we dream each night\, and what that has to do with the rotation of the planet; what drug withdrawal has in common with a broken heart; how a blind person can learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person can learn to hear with his skin; and how we might someday be able to read the rough details of someone’s life from the microscopic structure etched in their forest of brain cells. \nDAVID EAGLEMAN\, PhD\, teaches brain plasticity at Stanford University\, was the writer and host of the Emmy-nominated television series The Brain\, and is the CEO of NeoSensory\, a company that builds brain/machine interfaces. He is the author of seven previous books\, including the international best sellers Incognito and Sum. He lives in Palo Alto\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-david-eagleman-livewired/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200807T173638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200921T163756Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Nelson: Eisa - Drumming\, Dancing and Memory
DESCRIPTION:With the beginning of the 2020 – 2021 school term on the near horizon the OMI team is delighted to announce their next program! \nProfessor Chris Nelson (UNC Chapel Hill) will be joining OMI to discuss Eisa\, Obon\, dancing and cultural memory in contemporary Okinawa. Professor Nelson is an anthropologist who published a study of Eisa called Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance and Everyday Life in Post-War Okinawa (Duke University Press\, 2008). \nOMI Director Alan Christy will lead the conversation with Professor Nelson\, exploring his study and discussing one of Okinawa’s key cultural traditions. \n \nChristopher T Nelson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. The central theme of his research has been the transformational possibilities of everyday life. His recent book Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance\, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa takes up this question\, building on several years of fieldwork that he carried out in Okinawa\, Japan. Through ethnographic and archival research\, he explored traditional forms of social organization and genres of ritual and performance. He studied the work of ethnographic comedians\, whose performances weave Okinawan folk humor\, Japanese traditional monologues and improvisational storytelling into sophisticated critiques of everyday life. He also worked with the youth group from which these performers emerged. In particular\, he examined their eisaa—dance for the dead—and its mediation of social relationships. His book provides close readings of these performances\, focusing on modalities of mourning\, memoration and creative action. \nHis current research project is focused on creative actors who were able to struggle against the constraints of the modern world in order to carve out a moment for meaningful activity. While he remains committed to the possibilities of daily life\, he feels it is also important to consider those for whom the burden of the everyday becomes unbearable. His new project Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Life and Death in Contemporary Japan takes up this problem. It involves the study of early Okinawan ethnologists such as Iha Fuyû; an ethnography of efforts to recover the remains of the Japanese war dead; as well as a critical exploration of Okinawan photography and experimental film. He is interested in the ways in which people negotiate the vortex of local knowledge\, Japanese nativist ethnology\, western anthropology and discourses of the state.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-nelson-okinawa-memories-initiative/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200730T183631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T165740Z
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SUMMARY:Kelly Gillespie\, Asher Gamedze & Rasigan Maharajh — Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid (film screening + discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Two radical collectives in South Africa working inside and outside the academy to agitate against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on earth. This 50-minute film looks at how the promises of redistribution in the anti-apartheid liberation movement were foreclosed during the transition out of apartheid in South Africa. The film features three left economists who were active in the anti-apartheid movement but have lived through a transition in which the promise and idea of redistribution was abandoned as South Africa inserted a post-apartheid project into global processes of financialization and neoliberalization. \nWe will screen the film and then discuss it with filmmakers Asher Gamedze and Kelly Gillespie and featured economist Rasigan Maharajh. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 7th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nKelly Gillespie is a political and legal anthropologist and cultural worker with a research focus on criminal justice and abolition in South Africa. She works at the department of Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape. She writes and teaches about urbanism\, violence\, sexualities\, race\, and the praxis of social justice. In 2008 she co-founded the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC). \nAsher Gamedze is a cultural worker based in Cape Town\, South Africa\, working mainly as a musician\, student\, and writer. He is also involved\, as an organiser and an educator\, with various cultural and political collectives such as Fulan Fulan\, The Interim\, and Radical Education Network. His debut album\, dialectic soul\, was released in July 2020. \nRasigan Maharajh is an activist scholar whose research focuses on the political economy of innovation and development\, including the changing world of work\, democratic governance\, and ecological reconstruction. He is the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation based at the Tshwane University of Technology and Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation\, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T173710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201006T213241Z
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SUMMARY:Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:The Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is\, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even though they had been aware of printing in European lands for centuries. In recent years\, there has been a new wave of scholarship exploring how Ottoman manuscript culture functioned in practice rather than dismissing it as a “lack” of print. Historians have been particularly interested in demonstrating that even a manuscript culture could support a large number of readers\, even if many of them only possessed a “partially literacy.” \nIn this talk\, Professor Shafir first introduces his larger book project on “manuscript pamphlets\,” which he argues to be one of the new developments in the manuscript culture of the Ottoman Empire. Manuscript pamphlets were short and polemical texts that circulated across to the empire addressing many of the controversial social and religious issues of the time. They also were often aimed at semi-educated or partially literate readers. To understand pamphlets’ significance\, however\, one has to explore first how Ottoman subjects read and were educated. He argues that although the notion of partial literacy has been quite helpful\, it continues to hold an unexamined ideology of reading\, in which all acts of reading in the Ottoman Empire are ultimately replicable and uniform. In the early modern Ottoman Empire however the process of reading differed drastically depending on a reader’s intellectual formation and schooling\, the genre\, and the language in which they read and wrote. The “partially literate” did not just read slowly or poorly\, they read texts in an actively different way than the educated. This was especially true in regard to the auxiliary sciences of language—that is\, grammar\, rhetoric\, logic\, and disputation—that madrasa-trained scholars had made a central part of a scholar’s training. Pamphlets lay at the intersection of these different types of reading and readers. \n \nNir Shafir is an assistant professor of history at the University of California\, San Diego. His research explores the cultural and intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire between 1400-1800. He is currently preparing his first monograph\, Pamphleteering Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Politics and Polemics in a Manuscript Culture\, which examines the social effects of manuscript “pamphlets” on the religious life of the Ottoman Empire. He is a member of the editorial team of the Ottoman History Podcast\, the most popular podcast on Middle Eastern and Islamic history\, and served as editor-in-chief of the podcast in 2018. \n  \nThis talk is presented by the Humanities Institute and the Center for Middle East and North Africa as part of the UC Junior Faculty Exchange Series\, sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and UC Humanities Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nir-shafir/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Samia Khatun — Race\, Gender & New Epistemic Grounds: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Desert Australia
DESCRIPTION:At the forefront of white nationalist border regimes\, the Australian nation-state has long operated as an Anglo imperial outpost in the Indian Ocean world. If we look at Aboriginal language archives about South Asians\, however\, we see alternative epistemic grounds and spatial imaginations on which we can situate historical storytelling about race\, gender\, and migration. This presentation will follow two Muslim men into Australian deserts\, where they encountered two Aboriginal sisters waiting for a train at a lonely railway station c.1897. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 14th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nSamia Khatun became a feminist historian because she once lost her way to a mathematics lecture at the University of Sydney. Since then\, Khatun has chased truths about the past in Sydney\, Antigua\, Kolkata\, Istanbul\, Berlin\, New York\, Dunedin\, Melbourne\, London\, and Dhaka. She researches the life-worlds of people colonised by the British Empire and her documentaries have screened on ABC and SBS-TV in Australia. She is the new Chair for the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS\, London. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T175953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T163206Z
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SUMMARY:Hispanic-Serving Institution Equity Talk with Gina Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online discussion with Dr. Gina Garcia\, moderated by Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias and Dr. Jennifer Baszile\, on how the UC Santa Cruz HSI Initiatives continue advancing student success and equity practices towards becoming a racially-just HSI. \n \nDr. Gina Garcia is editor of Hispanic-Serving Institutions(HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs(2020)\, to which the UC Santa Cruz HSI Initiatives Team contributed five chapters. \nTo learn more about Dr. Garcia’s work\, please visit her website: www.ginaanngarcia.com \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-dr-gina-garcia/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201007T014442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T211923Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Anne Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Anne Waldman: Poet\, performer\, professor\, literary curator\, cultural activist has been a prolific poet and performer for many years\, creating radical new hybrid forms for the long poem\, both serial and narrative\, as with Marriage: A Sentence\, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble\, and Manatee/Humanity\, and Gossamurmur\, all published by Penguin Poets. She is also the author of the magnum opus The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press 2011)\, which won the PEN Center 2012 Award for Poetry. She was one of the founders of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery\, and The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg and Diana di Prima in 1974. She continues to work with the Kerouac School as a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Artistic Director of its Summer Writing Program. Her forthcoming books are Bard\, Kinetic (Coffee House\, 2021) and Mesopotopia (Penguin\, 2022). \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-anne-waldman/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201006T201806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T164038Z
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SUMMARY:Stories from the Epicenter (Podcast Launch Event)
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join us for the launch of our ten-part documentary podcast\, Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County through oral history records and interviews with current residents of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. The event will include a moderated discussion with the podcast producers followed by a Q&A with the audience. Clips from the podcast will be integrated into the discussion. The first two episodes will be pre-released on October 14th\, and a trailer is available now. We encourage you to listen prior to the event. The full series will be available to stream on October 17th\, 2020. \n \n\nPanelists:
 \nDaniel Story\, Digital Scholarship Librarian\, UCSC | series producer \nThomas Sawano\, Digital Scholarship Student Assistant\, UCSC | producer and contributor \nMadeline Carpou\, UCSC Alum | producer and contributor \nMarla Novo\, Director of Exhibitions and Programs\, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History | contributor \nJennifer Hooker\, Librarian II\, Santa Cruz Public Libraries | contributor \nKathleen Aston\, On-Call Librarian at SCPL\, Collections Manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History | contributor \nModerator:
 \nKristy Golubiewski-Davis\, Director\, Digital Scholarship Department\, University Library\, UCSC \n\nStories from the Epicenter is a production of the University Library at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\, and Santa Cruz Public Libraries. For more information\, visit library.ucsc.edu/StoriesFromTheEpicenter
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-from-the-epicenter-podcast-launch-event/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T180643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201021T015530Z
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: A Conversation with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
DESCRIPTION:Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent\, noted antiprison activists\, scholars\, and educators\, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts\, visual culture\, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social\, economic\, and political worldviews that prisons promote. \n \nAngela Y. Davis\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies\, UCSC\, is a renowned activist and scholar. For decades\, Dr. Davis has been at the forefront in our nation’s quest for economic\, racial\, and gender equality and social justice. She is the author of nine books\, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom. \nGina Dent\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies\, UCSC is a committed activist\, scholar\, and educator\, Dent’s current book project\, Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and author of numerous articles on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-visualizing-abolition-a-conversation-with-angela-y-davis-and-gina-dent/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Gerald Casel - Not About Race Dance
DESCRIPTION:During this “talk\,” the artists/collaborators and Gerald Casel will share their recent recent choreographic explorations during COVID-19 based on their latest work\, Not About Race Dance. \nNot About Race Dance is a collaborative\, choreographic response to the homoraciality that haunts US American postmodern dance. The work’s title reflects its primary impetus\, Neil Greenberg’s Not About AIDS Dance (1994)\, which discursively refused the project’s central focus to underscore its appeal for public acknowledgment of the lived experiences and losses of the AIDS crisis. Not About Race Dance employs this central paradox to call attention to how whiteness historically formed the structures\, experiences\, and experiments of postmodern choreographers; whiteness is the “not race” that Not About Race Dance exposes as a durable history and dominant social structure perpetuated through modern and contemporary dance practices. \nNot About Race Dance further contests the structural endurance of white postmodernity by disidentifying with the white cube activated by Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975). The dance’s adaptations of Greenberg and Brown’s choreographic devices are intended to raise questions around the racial politics of mimesis\, or what Homi Bhabha refers to as “colonial mimicry.” Moving beyond the politics of representation\, Not About Race Dance thus poses a common conundrum faced by artists of color whose work is often positioned in opposition to or on the margins of the dominant through a false binary that simultaneously reclaims the sanctity of the center. By deliberately occupying a space that has historically been defined by white artists\, this dance asks if and how difference can be made visible through choreographic structures and processes that do not necessarily make space for brown and black bodies. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 21st to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nGerald Casel is a dance artist\, performance maker\, cultural activator\, and educator. As a queer\, immigrant\, artist of color\, he is proud to be a first-generation college graduate. He serves as the Provost of Porter College and is an Associate Professor of Dance at UC Santa Cruz. Casel is the artistic director of GERALDCASELDANCE. His choreographic research and social practice converge to complicate and provoke questions surrounding colonialism\, collective cultural amnesia\, whiteness and privilege\, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. He and his collaborators imagine alternative futures beyond the one that is being determined by our current economy and social structures of inequity. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, Casel received a Bessie award for dancing in the companies of Michael Clark\, Stephen Petronio\, Zvi Gotheiner\, and Stanley Love. His choreography has been presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church\, Dance Theater Workshop\, The Yard\, ODC Theater\, YBCA\, Dancebase Edinburgh\, Kuan Du Arts Festival Taiwan\, and has been developed in residencies at The Bogliasco Foundation\, The National Center for Choreography-Akron\, ODC Theater\, and CHIME. Dancing Around Race\, a community engagement process that interrogates racial inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond continues to grow under his leadership. Casel’s Not About Race Dance has been awarded a National Dance Project grant\, which will be in residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and will premiere at CounterPulse in 2021 with a forthcoming tour.  www.geraldcasel.com \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201015T184525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T153644Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn about warmups\, crafting your talk\, audience engagement\, and presenting online using Zoom with the owner and coach of Activate to Captivate\, Bri McWhorter. The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Public Speaking” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-speaking/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201007T212533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T212533Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Frances Richard
DESCRIPTION:Frances Richard is the author of Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics (University of California Press\, 2019)\, and co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005); she is the editor of I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School (The New School/Duke University Press\, 2019)\, and Joan Jonas is on our mind\, a volume of essays on the artist (Wattis Institute\, 2017). Her books of poems include Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003). She is senior editor at Places journal and lives in Oakland CA. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-frances-richard/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200915T213052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T222247Z
UID:10006893-1603450800-1603456200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Learn about locating fellowship opportunities\, framing your research for different funding organizations\, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch\, Irena Polić\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute)\, Holly Unruh (Arts Research Institute)\, and Matthew Tedford. We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for an important conversation on securing funding for humanities and arts research and projects. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. The workshop series is open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T181309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T203746Z
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SUMMARY:Lily Balloffet\, Argentina in the Global Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Lily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies\, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book\, Argentina in the Global Middle East\, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). \nArgentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East\, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity\, migrant–homeland ties\, and international relations \n \nLily Pearl Balloffet is a scholar of migration\, mobility\, and inter-American relations in historical context. Her current book project\, American Venom: Snakes & Our Interconnected Hemisphere bridges environmental\, medical\, and labor histories of moving people and animals in the Caribbean Basin. She has also published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies\, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of North African & Middle East Migration Studies\, Latin American Studies Association Forum\, and The Latin Americanist. Other research and teaching interests include contemporary Latin American hip hop\, and social revolutions. \nDevi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. (PhD\, History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington). Dr. Mays researches transnational Jewish networks in the Mediterranean and global contexts\, with a focus on Sephardic Jews. She is the author of Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press\, 2020) – a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. \nCo-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-lily-ballofet/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T181551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201021T015705Z
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Bryan Stevenson - Memory and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition\, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art\, culture\, and activism. \n \nBryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has\, over the last two decades\, tirelessly worked to challenge the racial and economic injustices of mass incarceration in the United States. Stevenson has also been at the forefront of the creation of two cultural sites\, The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. For Visualizing Abolition\, Stevenson will discuss how those institutions relate to his legal social justice initiatives. The wide-ranging conversation with Professor Dent will focus on the role images\, art\, and culture can have in how people see and understand the legacies of history\, as well as how re-envisioning history can enliven contemporary struggles against racial inequality and the criminal justice system. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-bryan-stevenson-memory-and-justice/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200730T191145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T174718Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Tsing - Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:A collection of maps\, a game\, an archive\, an analysis\, a meditation on life on Earth: Feral Atlas is the cumulation of a five-year curatorial project involving more than a hundred scientists\, humanists\, poets\, and artists. Stretching the concept of the map\, the atlas shows how imperial and industrial infrastructures have had world-ripping effects on the ways humans and nonhumans live together. A diversity of observers\, from Indigenous elders to research scientists\, bring us beyond transcendent terror and hope into the present. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 28th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)\, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005)\, and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (1994). Tsing is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Niels Bohr Professorship for a multi-year project on the Anthropocene. She is interested in multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; globalization; feminist theory; and multi-sited ethnography. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201021T021810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T195254Z
UID:10005771-1603893600-1603900800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Fascism and Organized Violence Symposium
DESCRIPTION:This symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism\, white supremacy\, racial capitalism\, imperialism\, heteropatriarchy\, and settler colonialism\, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black\, Indigenous\, and other racialized subjects across the planet. \n \n\nSpeakers \n\nJohanna Fernández\, Associate Professor\, History\, Baruch College/City University of New York\nAllan E. S. Lumba\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Virginia Tech University\nAnne Spice\, Acting Assistant Professor\, Geography & Environmental Studies\, Ryerson University\n\nModerators \n\nAlyosha Goldstein\, Professor\, American Studies\, University of New Mexico\nSimón Ventura Trujillo\, Assistant Professor\, Latinx Studies\, English Department\, New York University\n\nPresented by UCSC Center for Racial Justice and the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fascism-and-organized-violence/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201015T192136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T153722Z
UID:10005768-1603985400-1603990800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Publishing Scholarly Works\, Copyright
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to publish scholarly work\, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright with Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian\, UC Santa Cruz Library). The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Publishing Scholarly Works\, Copyright” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-publishing-scholarly-works-copyright/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T181132Z
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SUMMARY:Usha Iyer: Folded Corporeal Histories of the Hindi Film Dancer Actress in the 1950s and 1960s
DESCRIPTION:Usha Iyer\, Assistant Professor\, Film and Media Studies\, Stanford University\, is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, which examines constructions of gender\, stardom\, sexuality\, and spectacle in Hindi cinema through women’s labor\, collaborative networks\, and gestural genealogies to produce a corporeal history of South Asian cultural modernities. Her essays have appeared and are forthcoming in Camera Obscura\, South Asian Popular Culture\, Figurations in Indian Film\, The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory\, and the Women Film Pioneers Project\, among others. \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-dr-usha-iyer/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T190000
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CREATED:20201007T213015Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Khary Polk
DESCRIPTION:Khary Oronde Polk is the author of Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, 1898-1948 (UNC Press\, 2020). A child of an African American military family\, his new book examines how the movement of Black soldiers and nurses around the world in the early-to-mid twentieth century challenged U.S. military ideals of race\, nation\, sexuality\, and honor. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, and the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. His work has also appeared in a number of queer and queer of color anthologies\, including If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, and Think Again. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts\, where he teaches courses on race & the American imagination\, military history\, Black sexuality\, and queer theory. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-khary-polk-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T133000
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SUMMARY:Gina Dent\, Debbie Gould & Savannah Shange - The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. presidential election is on Nov 3. We will gather as a community the morning after to process the preceding night (and preceding years) and to think together about the weeks\, months\, and years to come. Gina Dent\, Debbie Gould\, and Savannah Shange will start off the conversation. And if it makes more sense to take to the streets on this Wednesday\, then that’s what we’ll do. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, November 4th to receive Zoom link and password. \nFrom Fair Fight: for voters who plan to vote by mail\, you should request your ballot now so that you have plenty of time to receive and return it\, by going to www.vote.org. If your state offers ballot tracking\, you will be able to track your application and ballot from vote.org. You can find information on how to return your ballot\, including drop boxes and other methods\, on vote.org. \nIf you plan to vote in person\, Fair Fight strongly recommends that you vote early if your state offers early voting. To make your early vote plan\, visit https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/. If your state does not offer early voting\, visit https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ to find your Election Day polling location. \n\nGina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She writes and teaches on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art\, and her current book project — Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge — grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. \nDebbie Gould is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against Aids (2009)\, and works on political emotion and affect\, social movements and contentious politics\, and feminist and queer theory. She was involved in ACT UP/Chicago for many years and was a founding member of the research/art/activist collaborative group\, Feel Tank Chicago\, most famous for its International Parades of the Politically Depressed. \nSavannah Shange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race\, place\, sexuality\, and the state. She is author of Progressive Dystopia: Abolition\, AntiBlackness\, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019) and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness\, ethnographic ethics\, Afro-pessimism\, and queer of color critique. \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-5/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T160000
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SUMMARY:Fascism and Regimes of Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:This symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism\, white supremacy\, racial capitalism\, imperialism\, heteropatriarchy\, and settler colonialism\, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black\, Indigenous\, and other racialized subjects across the planet. \n \n\nSpeakers \n\nNadia Abu El-Haj\, Professor\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Professor & Director\, Social Justice Institute\, University of British Columbia\nMacarena Gómez-Barris\, Professor & Chair\, Social Science & Cultural Studies\, Pratt Institute and Director\, Global South Center\nCynthia A. Young\, Associate Professor\, African American Studies and Women’s\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Penn State University\n\nModerators \n\nAlyosha Goldstein\, Professor\, American Studies\, University of New Mexico\nSimón Ventura Trujillo\, Assistant Professor\, Latinx Studies\, English Department\, New York University\n\nPresented by UCSC Center for Racial Justice and the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fascism-and-regimes-of-knowledge/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T190000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: sidony o'neal
DESCRIPTION:sidony o’neal (b. 1988) is an artist and writer based in Portland\, OR. Recent exhibitions include Sculpture Center\, Fourteen30 Contemporary\, and the Institute for New Connotative Action. Performances as a part of non-band DEAD THOROUGHBRED have been presented at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art\, Kunstverein Düsseldorf\, Volksbühne Berlin\, Performance Space New York\, and If I Can’t Dance (Amsterdam). O’neal’s writing has been published at Arts.Black and the journal of Women & Performance. A chapbook\, LYFE IN A BOTTLE TREE BOTTLE\, is forthcoming from House House Press. O’neal is the recipient of the Oregon Art Commission’s 2020 Joan Shipley Award and is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary\, Portland. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sidony-oneal/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Dust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons\, she will demonstrate how to make delicious beverages from the Victorian era. \n \nLiz Pollock first came to Santa Cruz in 1975 to visit some friends at the UC Santa Cruz campus for the “Valentine’s Day Waltz” at Cowell College. As soon as she could\, she transferred from Cal State LA to UCSC and majored in comparative literature. She met her husband at Adolph’s Italian Family Restaurant\, where she bartended for five years. Liz has owned and operated the Cook’s Bookcase since 2007 and lives with her family in a restored 1914 California Craftsman bungalow in beautiful Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-kitchens-cocktails/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Sylvanna M. Falcón: The Evolving Practice of Human Rights Accountability
DESCRIPTION:Sylvanna M. Falcón\, founder of UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas\, will explain how human rights accountability has shifted in the digital realm and the ways in which a new generation of human rights activists are needed with critical digital literacy skills in search for the truth. \nDr. Falcón founded Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas in September 2019. The Lab’s social justice mission is to track and monitor ongoing humanitarian\, environmental and socio-political crises throughout the Americas by using open source investigative methods to promote justice and achieve accountability for communities adversely affected by human rights violations. The lab offers digital verification support to non-governmental organizations\, news outlets\, and other advocacy partners. \n \n\nSylvanna M. Falcón\, Associate Professor\, Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) at UC Santa Cruz.\nAs Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, her research and teaching interests are in human rights\, transnational and decolonial feminism\, racism and antiracism\, open source investigations\, and transitional justice in Peru. She is a former United Nations consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. Dr. Falcón authored the award-winning book Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activists inside the United Nations\, [University of Washington Press\, 2016 – awarded the National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Award] and the co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship [under contract with Rutgers University Press] and New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights [Routledge\, 2011]. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals\, including International Journal of Transitional Justice\, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies\, Feminism.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-evolving-practice-of-human-rights-accountability-the-new-terrain-for-justice/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T133000
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SUMMARY:Book talk and conversation: Peter Limbrick\,  Arab Modernism as World Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss his new book Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi in conversation with Professor Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College). \nArab Modernism as World Cinema (University of California Press\, 2020) explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi\, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Examining Smihi’s oeuvre\, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures\, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. \n \nPeter Limbrick is Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to Arab Modernism as World Cinema\, he is the author of Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the U.S.\, Australia\, and New Zealand (Palgrave\, 2010) and articles on postcolonial and transnational cinemas. \n  \nTarek El-Ariss is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (2013) and Leaks\, Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (2019)\, and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (2018). \n  \nOrganized by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-limbrick-arab-modernism-as-world-cinema/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T170000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to promote your research and create a virtual community of Tweeple in Twitter! Learn the basics\, including how to set up your page\, use hashtags\, use best practices\, and more with Kayla Isenberg (Senior Director\, Digital Engagement\, University Relations at UC Santa Cruz). The Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Using Twitter Professionally” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-using-twitter-professionally/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Manan Ahmed: The Loss of Hindustan
DESCRIPTION:Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor for History of South Asia at Columbia University. He specializes in the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. He is the author of A Book of Conquest (2016) and The Loss of Hindustan (2020) \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series. \nOrganized by The Center for South Asian Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manan-ahmed-the-loss-of-hindustan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker - Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nGary Young is the author of many volumes of poems and translations\, and has edited several anthologies and poetry textbooks\, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place. His most recent books are Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese published by White Pine Press (2018)\, and That’s What I Thought\, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books (2018). His book No Other Life won the William Carlos Williams Award\, and in 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at the UC Santa Cruz. \nMorgan Parker is a poet\, essayist\, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a Pushcart Prize\, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations\, Live! at the Ace Hotel. She co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles. \nView and purchase Morgan Parker’s books at: https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/morganparker \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee\nLen Anderson\, Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Irena Polić\, Jory Post\, Teresa Mora\, Joseph Stroud\, and Gary Young. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\nphren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nDennis Maloney\, editor and publisher of White Pine Press has honored phren-Z by serving as the judge for this year’s contest. \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading as well as to Poetry Santa Cruz at: http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/ \nMort was a donating member of Poetry Santa Cruz from its inception in 2001. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 5th\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-morgan-parker-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T090000
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SUMMARY:Idan Landau: A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Idan Landau\, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Israel\, speaking on A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control. \nZoom Information will be emailed on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 \n\nNonfinite adjuncts display a non-uniform control distribution: While all adjuncts accept control by the local matrix subject (Obligatory Control\, OC)\, only some accept other controllers (non-obligatory control\, NOC). For example\, the rationale clause in (1a) allows NOC by the stimulus clause in (1b) does not. \n1a). Mary has made up her mind. Bill would present the speakers [in order PRO to give him the opportunity to practice their names]. \n1b).Mary giggled. Bill smiled [PRO to see her/him in underwear]. \nThe question which adjuncts fall in which category\, and why\, has rarely been addressed (see Green 2-18\, 2019 for an exception). \nFollowing Landeau 2015\, I propose that control operates via prediction (a property-denoting clause) or logophoric anchoring (a propositional cause). The (possibly null) prepositional head of Strict OC adjuncts (as in (1b)) s-selects a property\, while that of alternating OC/NOC adjuncts (as in (1a)) s-selects either a property or proposition. This selectional distinction is independently detectable by testing whether the adjunct accepts a lexical subject\, providing us with a reliable predictor of its control behavior. In this talk\, I will examine 10 different types of adjuncts in English ad demonstrate how this system derives their control patterns. It is further shown that purely configurational theories\, that posit complementarity between OC and NOC\, are empirically inadequate. Finally\, I address the question of why the predictive variant of nonfinite adjuncts is available by default (within and across languages)\, whereas the propositional variant is not. The explanation hinges on the principle of Economy of Projection\, which favors the smaller\, predictive variant over the propositional one. The dual analysis of adjunct control offers insights into puzzling language-internal facts as well as typological generalizations\, so far unrelated in the theory of control. \nOrganized by the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/idan-landau-a-selectional-criterion-for-adjunct-control/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Impassioned Online Teaching: Empathy\, Embodiment and Radical Pedagogy in Practice
DESCRIPTION:How do we\, as educators\, create virtual experiences that are inclusive\, engaging\, and impactful for our students? How can we make remote conditions more intimate\, accessibility more equitable\, and our classrooms more collaborative? What do design strategies grounded in compassion and creativity look like? From decolonizing the syllabus to somatic abolitionism and interactive storytelling\, this workshop will offer practical techniques for learning and liberation. Please join us as we reimagine the possibilities of a mindfulness-based approach to teaching in the digital age. \nThis workshop is co-presented by The Humanities Institute (THI) and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at UC Santa Cruz and open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. \nPanel led by UC Santa Cruz’s 2020 National Humanities Center GSSR Fellows: \n\nKristen Laciste (History of Art & Visual Culture)\nAlexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku (History)\nAlexandra Moore (History of Art & Visual Culture)\nFrancesca Romeo (Film and Digital Media)\nMeleia Simon-Reynolds (History)\nMatthew Tedford (History of Art & Visual Culture)\nKirstin Wagner (Literature)\n\n  \nLeft to right and top to bottom: Meleia Simon-Reynolds\, Kirstin Wagner\, Francesca Romeo\, Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku\, Matthew Tedford\, Kristen Laciste\, Alexandra Moore\n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-creating-meaningful-online-learning-experiences/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200911T193935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201106T231817Z
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SUMMARY:Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips: Black Quantum Futurism
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition is Moor Mother—a Philadelphia artist praised as part of “a new generation of visionary black storytellers” (The New York Times—premieres a new video followed by a discussion of Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice with her collaborator Rasheedah Phillips. Weaving through haunting slave narratives as dystopian allegory\, negro spirituals\, and Black ritual\, Moor Mother’s work points to a liberated future through Black Quantum Futurism\, a project in partnership with author Rasheedah Phillips. Through a time of ecological and social disaster\, she says\, “I’m not saying\, this is the end\, we’re all doomed\,” but rather that “I believe there is another way. So it’s about trying to get the audience to understand another way of digesting the truth.” \n \nThe events are co-organized with T.J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies at UC Santa Cruz as part of the UCSC Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar’s Beyond the End of the World research project\, Indexical\, and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences with the collaboration of The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz Center. \nCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a nationally- and internationally-touring musician\, poet\, visual artist\, and workshop facilitator\, and has performed at numerous festivals\, colleges\, galleries\, and museums around the world\, sharing the stage with King Britt\, Roscoe Mitchell\, Claudia Rankine\, bell hooks\, and more. Her most recent album\, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes\, is the culmination of all of her earthly experiences merged with all of her cosmic ones. On Analog Fluids\, haunting slave narratives are presented as dystopian allegory and negro spirituals are flipped\, remixed\, and recaptured\, only to be digitized into a symbiotic bio-morph program for the post-thumb drive age. It’s a record rich with the noise and chaos that affirm Moor Mother’s punk roots\, yet it is also anchored in earthiness via the constant injection of Black ritual\, poetry\, and drums programmed to vibrate through the listener’s mitochondria. \nBlack Quantum Futurism Collective is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Camae Ayewa (Rockers!; Moor Mother) and Rasheedah Phillips (The AfroFuturist Affair; Metropolarity) exploring the intersections of futurism\, creative media\, DIY-aesthetics\, and activism in marginalized communities through an alternative temporal lens. BQF Collective has created a number of community-based events\, experimental music projects\, performances\, exhibitions\, zines\, and anthologies of experimental essays on space-time consciousness. BQF Collective is a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow\, 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange\, and had their experimental short\, Black Bodies as Conductors of Gravity\, premiere at the 2015 Afrofuturism Now! Festival in Rotterdam. BQF Collective frequently collaborates with other Black Futurists\, Joy KMT\, Irreversible Entanglements\, Thomas Stanley\, Ras Mashramani\, Alex Smith to produce literature\, present workshops\, lectures\, and performances.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/52537/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T160000
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SUMMARY:Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Dust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen. In subsequent lessons\, she will demonstrate how to make delicious beverages from the Victorian era. \n \nLiz Pollock first came to Santa Cruz in 1975 to visit some friends at the UC Santa Cruz campus for the “Valentine’s Day Waltz” at Cowell College. As soon as she could\, she transferred from Cal State LA to UCSC and majored in comparative literature. She met her husband at Adolph’s Italian Family Restaurant\, where she bartended for five years. Liz has owned and operated the Cook’s Bookcase since 2007 and lives with her family in a restored 1914 California Craftsman bungalow in beautiful Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-kitchens-cocktails-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Getting Hired at a California Community College
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges\, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni\, including: \nBeth Au\, Moderator\nDirector\nCalifornia Community Colleges Registry \nFrancesca Caparas\, Panelist\nM.A. Literature\nEnglish Professor and Faculty Coordinator\, Jean Miller Resource Room for Women\, Genders\, and Sexuality\nDe Anza College \nSarah Gerhardt\, Panelist\nPh.D. Chemistry\nChemistry Instructor\nCabrillo College \nElizabeth Gonzalez\, Panelist\nPh.D. Psychology\nInterim Director\, Metas Center\nSan José City College \nBrian Malone\, Panelist\nPh.D. Literature\nEnglish Professor\nDe Anza College \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Panelist\nPh.D. Education\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College \nNicholas Vasallo\, Panelist\nD.M.A.\nDirector\, Music Industry Studies\, AV Technology\, and Music Composition\nDiablo Valley College \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Getting Hired at a California Community College” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n*Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops will be held virtually until further notice. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-getting-hired-at-a-california-community-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T170201Z
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations - Nicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray\, and Nicholas Mirzoeff
DESCRIPTION:The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray\, and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques of film\, television\, advertisements\, and other media to ask how dominant visions of the world—and the visual regimes that regulate what people see and what remains hidden from view—are materialized in the prison industrial complex. \n \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-visuality-and-carceral-formations-nicole-fleetwood-herman-gray-and-nicholas-mirzoeff/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Vicente Rafael & Jorgge Menna Barreto - Authoritarianism in the Philippines and Brazil
DESCRIPTION:This dialogic colloquium enjoins us to learn about and reflect on authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil.  In each of these democracies\, what histories and dynamics have contributed to these figures’ rise\, and how is their appeal connected to the place of each country in global economies of material and cultural capital? How should we understand their contemporaneity and connection? How have they approached the pandemic’s necropolitical possibilities and challenges? The session will begin with brief opening remarks from Vicente Rafael on Duterte’s Philippines and Jorgge Menna Barreto on Bolsonaro’s Brazil. We will then open to a broader conversation among participants. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, November 18th to receive Zoom link and password. \nPlease Note: colloquium participants will be expected to have completed brief readings by Vicente Rafael and Jorgge Menna Barreto before the event. \n\nVicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works mainly on the cultural politics of the Philippines and occasionally on the United States\, focusing on such topics as colonialism\, nationalism and postcoloniality; language and religion; translation and technology; and race and empire. His books include Motherless Tongues (2016); The Promise of the Foreign (2005); White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (2000); and Contracting Colonialism (1988). \nJorgge Menna Barreto is a Brazilian artist and educator who works at the intersection of art and agroecology\, focusing on agroforestry. Since 2015\, Menna Barreto has been a professor at UERJ\, Rio de Janeiro\, and he is presently on postdoctoral leave in Europe. In January 2021\, he will begin as Assistant Professor in Environmental Art at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the translator of Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World into Brazilian Portuguese\, to be launched next year. \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \nThis session is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast). \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-6/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T133000
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SUMMARY:Pascha Bueno-Hansen: Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes - Transitional Justice Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with Research Center for the Americas\, Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict\, political repression\, and authoritarian regimes in Peru\, Ecuador and Colombia. Dr. Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and earned her PhD in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice. This event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Social Transformation and is free and open to the public; advance registration is required to access the Zoom link. \n \nPascha Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. Her first book Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice was just published in Spanish Derechos Feministas y Humanos en el Perú: Decolonizando la Justicia Transicional by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. She has various articles and book chapters on gender-based violence\, sexuality\, race\, human rights\, transitional justice\, and social movements. Her current book project Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes examines the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict\, political repression\, and authoritarian regimes in Peru\, Ecuador and Colombia. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nThe RCA is collaborating with campus partners\, specifically The Humanities Institute and the Institute for Social Transformation\, to offer webinar programming on the theme of “Memory Studies in the Americas” to inspire sustained cross-border dialogues that tie the region.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-pascha-bueno-hansen-dissident-genders-and-sexualities-in-the-andes-transitional-justice-otherwise/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201007T213722Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Dawn Lundy Martin
DESCRIPTION:Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood\, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life\, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE\, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering\, and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1\, The New Yorker\, Ploughshares\, The Believer\, and Best American Essays 2019. Martin is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. \n \n\nLIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-dawn-lundy-martin/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Beyond the End of the World: Manifesta 13 Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:War ecologies call forth not just mutuality but collapse\, survival within violence. Conflict involves corporate extraction and militarised assaults on environments and environmentalists\, while multispecies life and coexistence fall under grave threat. In its curatorial presentation\, the Center for Creative Ecologies offers two artistic case studies asking what kind of pluriverse is possible in the face of different kinds of socioecological violence? The first study addresses the criminalisation of nonhuman life in Putumayo\, southern Colombia by Hannah Meszaros Martin; the other considers sci-fi surrealism and extinction in Mar Menor\, a saltwater lagoon in southeastern Spain\, by Isabelle Carbonell. These comprise part of the Center’s ongoing research project Beyond the End of the World\, which seeks out spaces of hope emerging from geographies of despair. War ecologies identify not only neoliberal enterprises using climate breakdown to introduce authoritarian politics\, but also struggles – human and more-than-human – for ways to transcend the forces of socio-economic inequality and politico-environmental calamity. \nPlease join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with the Center for Creative Ecologies artist and curatorial team Isabelle Carbonell\, Hannah Meszaros Martin\, and T.J. Demos. The team will be discussing their latest exhibition at Manifesta 13 Marseille the European Nomadic Biennial. \n \nHannah Meszaros Martin is an artist\, writer\, and recent PhD graduate of the Centre for Research Architecture\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. She is a researcher in Forensic Architecture\, a European Research Council funded project\, which she has been a member of since 2012. With Forensic Architecture\, she has exhibited at the House of World Cultures (Berlin)\, MACBA (Barcelona) and MUAC (Mexico City)\, and contributed to the book FORENSIS (Sternberg\, 2014). She has exhibited solo work in Medellín\, London\, and documenta(13). She has published with Open Democracy\, Third Text and Different Skies\, a publication that she co-founded in 2012. \nIsabelle Carbonell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a PhD Candidate at the University of California\, Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media\, thinking through a cinema of the anthropocene\, and how we think on multiple possible futures in this time of ecological crisis. Her work lies at the intersection of expanded documentary\, environmental justice\, invasive species\, eco-disasters\, and experimental ethnography. Her scholarship has been published in the Internet Policy Review\, Conexión Journal\, and the Cultural Anthropology Journal. Recent completed film works include: The River Runs Red (2018)\, The Blessed Assurance (2018) and\, The Camel Race (2019). \nThis event is part of the Beyond the End of the World symposium through the Center for Creative Ecologies in collaboration with The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-the-end-of-the-world-manifesta-13-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T132000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Donka Farkas: Canonical and non-canonical speech acts
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Donka Farkas speaking on Canonical and non-canonical speech acts. \nZoom Information will be emailed on Thursday\, November 19\, 2020. \n\nAbstract\nThe general issue addressed in this talk is how best to characterize canonical and non-canonical speech acts. The framework I will use is rooted in Farkas and Bruce (2010) and Farkas and Roelofsen (2017). The speech acts I concentrate on are assertions and questions. \nThe first part of the talk focuses on canonical assertions and questions. Pretheoretically\, canonical\, or typical\, assertions are informing speech acts whereby a knowledgeable speaker informs her addressee of the truth of the proposition she expresses. Canonical\, or typical\, questions request information\, i.e.\, an ignorant speaker requests her addressee to resolve the issue she raises. The question addressed in this part of the talk is why should canonical assertions and questions have these properties? I will attempt to answer it by showing that these properties follow from a context structure view based on Farkas and Bruce (2010) and the basic conventional discourse effects (CDE) declaratives and interrogatives are assigned in Farkas and Roelofsen (2017). CDE are defined as functions from the denotation of sentences and input context structures to output context structures. These functions affect the discourse commitments of the speaker\, the conversational table and the future states of the conversation the move projects. \nThe second part of the talk considers ways in which assertions and questions can be non-canonical\, i.e.\, ways in which declaratives and interrogatives can be used in contexts that override the canonical default assumptions discussed in the first part. It will be argued that such non-default cases can be either unmarked (as in the case of `quiz’ questions in English) or marked for various types of particular deviations from the canonical case\, such as markers of bias in questions\, which signal a departure from the speaker neutrality assumption in questions\, or markers of non-categorical commitment\, which signal departures from speaker knowledgeability in assertions. It will be argued that a promising way of treating\nsome of the linguistic means used in non-canonical speech acts is to treat them as force modifiers\, i.e. as contributing special CDE\, treated formally as functions from contexts C to contexts C’\, where C is the result of applying the basic CDE of the sentence to its input context (see Faller\, 2002; Murray\, 2010). \nFor questions please email Maria Zimmer.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/donka-farkas-canonical-and-non-canonical-speech-acts/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Ta-Nehisi Coates: Special post-election conversation
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to welcome Ta-Nehisi Coates\, one of our country’s best thinkers and writers\, for a virtual conversation about the state of our country post-election\, truth telling\, and the idea that stories and mythology can persuade and change attitudes when facts alone cannot. Coates’ novel\, The Water Dancer\, will serve as a starting off point for his conversation with Adam Serwer\, staff writer at The Atlantic. \nHosted by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz and Marcus Bookstores in Oakland. \nWe’re excited to offer free event access and copies of Coates’ novel to the first 500 UCSC students who register. \nTicketing Information\nAll tickets include one paperback copy of THE WATER DANCER plus entry to the event. \n\nIn-store pickup: $22 (plus Eventbrite fees)\nShipped-to-You: $27 (plus Eventbrite fees)\nFree book and event access available to the first 500 current UCSC students who register. Sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Student ID required at registration (Thank you\, students! Free tickets have now sold out. General admission tickets are still available for purchase).\n\n \n\n“What if memory had the power to transport enslaved people to freedom?’ . . . The most moving part of The Water Dancer [is] the possibility it offers of an alternate history. . . . The book’s most poignant and painful gift is the temporary fantasy that all the people who leaped off slave ships and into the Atlantic were not drowning themselves in terror and anguish\, but going home.”—NPR \n\nThe Humanities Institute is exploring the theme of Memory this year\, and this event is sure to provide substantive insight at a moment when we’re interrogating the past and trying to move forward as a country. We encourage everyone—current students\, alumni\, staff and community members—to join us for what will be an insightful and timely event. \nTa-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle\, We Were Eight Years in Power\, and Between the World and Me\, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. \nAdam Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and is the author of the forthcoming essay collection\, The Cruelty Is the Point: Essays on Trump’s America\, which can be pre-ordered through Bookshop Santa Cruz here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ta-nehisi-coates-special-post-election-conversation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Dust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons\, she will demonstrate how to make delicious beverages from the Victorian era. \n \nLiz Pollock first came to Santa Cruz in 1975 to visit some friends at the UC Santa Cruz campus for the “Valentine’s Day Waltz” at Cowell College. As soon as she could\, she transferred from Cal State LA to UCSC and majored in comparative literature. She met her husband at Adolph’s Italian Family Restaurant\, where she bartended for five years. Liz has owned and operated the Cook’s Bookcase since 2007 and lives with her family in a restored 1914 California Craftsman bungalow in beautiful Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-kitchens-cocktails-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201201
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening "Lessons of the Hour"
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing Abolition series. The ten-screen immersive film installation exploring the life of Frederick Douglass is on view at McEvoy Arts Oct 14\, 2020–Mar 13\, 2021. \n \nA link to the screening will be sent out November 30 at 4 pm to everyone who is registered for the event with Isaac Julien and Robin Kelley. To register for the event (and receive the link)\, please click the button above. \nLessons of the Hour\, a ten-screen film installation by British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien\, is on view at the McEvoy Foundation of the Arts October 2020-March 2021. A limited online version of the immersive exploration of the life of the visionary African American writer\, abolitionist\, statesman\, and freed slave Frederick Douglass will be available for a limited online viewing. Incorporating excerpts from Douglass’ speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus\, the film offers a contemplative\, poetic journey into Douglass’ zeitgeist and a forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist’s hour have yet to be learned. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-film-screening-lessons-of-the-hour/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T120000
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Abolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien\, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, is the next event in Visualizing Abolition. \n \nAbolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison industrial complex. This event coincides with the presentation of Julien’s Lessons of the Hour\, 2019\, a ten-screen film installation that explores the legacy of Frederick Douglass and his vision for abolition in relationship to contemporaneity\, at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. A composite version of that moving and monumental artwork will be screened for 24-hours online prior to the event. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art late October 2020-March 21\, 2021. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/52619/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T120000
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SUMMARY:In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:IN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind\, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island – Productions on Vimeo. \nJoin the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film\, In Vitro\, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. \nIn Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi film filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse\, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. \nIn the hospital wing of the underground compound\, the orchard’s ailing founder\, 70-year-old Alia\, played by Hiam Abbass\, is lying in her deathbed\, as 30-year-old Alia\, played by Maisa Abd Elhadi\, comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild. \nThe talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory\, exile and nostalgia. Central to their discussion is the intricate relationship between past\, present and future\, with the Bethlehem setting providing a narratively\, politically and symbolically charged backdrop. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, December 2nd to receive Zoom link and password. \n \n______________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLarissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem\, Palestine\, and studied fine arts in London\, New York and Copenhagen. Central to her work is the dialectics between myth and historical narrative. In her recent works\, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film\, Sansour also produces installations\, photos and sculptures. \nSansour’s work is shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. In 2019\, she represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern\, MoMA\, Centre Pompidou and the Istanbul Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark\, Bluecoat in Liverpool\, Bildmuseet in Umeå and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Sansour currently lives and works in London\, UK. \nSoren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author\, artist\, director and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy\, Lind wrote books on mind\, language and understanding before turning to art\, film and fiction. He has published novels\, shorts story collections and several children’s books. \nLind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include Copenhagen Contemporary (DK)\, MoMA (US)\, Barbican (UK)\, Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK)\, Berlinale (D)\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK). He lives and works in London. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-7/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T190000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE\, WRITING\, ART features contemporary poets\, cultural critics\, performance and visual artists interrogating rage\, its call and possibilities\, rendered across an array of works (text\, installation\, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances\, effects\, and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and interdisciplinary modes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T132000
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SUMMARY:Adrian Staub - Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Adrian Staub of the University of Massachusetts speaking on word frequency and predictability effects in reading: some outstanding puzzles \nAbstract:  \nA word’s context-independent frequency and its context-dependent predictability both influence eye fixation durations in reading. In this talk I’ll discuss recent work investigating some questions about relationship between these two effects. One question is why manipulations of the two variables demonstrate strictly additive effects on fixation duration measures. A possibility is that they influence separate processing stages; predictability may facilitate early visual and orthographic processing\, while frequency influences a later stage of lexical retrieval. If so\, the two effects should show different patterns of interaction with effects of stimulus degradation\, e.g.\, visual contrast. However\, two large experiments show that frequency and predictability demonstrate similar patterns of near additivity with effects of visual contrast and font difficulty\, providing no support for the two-stage hypothesis. A second question is whether there is a correlation\, at the level of individual readers\, between the size of frequency and predictability effects. Evaluating correlations between by-subject slopes in Bayesian mixed-effects models reveals that the answer is scale-dependent: Effects of the two variables on raw gaze duration show a positive correlation\, but effects on log gaze duration do not. This is probably because the correlation is due primarily to a relationship between reading speed and effect size\, which is neutralized by the log transformation. I’ll discuss how these results constrain our understanding of how the two variables influence lexical processing. \n\nAdrian Staub works in psycholinguistics\, which focuses on the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension and production. He is interested in how we analyze the grammatical structure of sentences in the course of language comprehension\, how we recognize words\, and how these processes work together. In many of his experiments\, participants’ eye movements are monitored as they read sentences in which syntactic structure has been manipulated; he directs the UMass Eyetracking Laboratory. His personal web page\, including a list of publications\, is here. \nZoom information will be emailed on Thursday\, December 3\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adrian-staub-word-frequency-and-predictability-effects-in-reading-some-outstanding-puzzles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T100000
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SUMMARY:Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture – Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in Frayed Democracy \nWe’re all impacted by this deeply polarized moment. How do we navigate life while political and cultural divisions are dangerously amplified and the world’s oldest democracies are under threat? \nThe Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is honored to announce a trans-Atlantic political dialogue for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture. We’ve invited two of our top cultural and political thinkers—Ezra Klein and William Davies—to help us grapple with how we got here\, why we live in such fraught times\, ways the US and UK are analogues in this fractious moment\, and where we might go from here. \nRegister \n  \nZoom link provided upon registration \n\nEzra Klein is the editor-at-large and founder of Vox\, the host of the award-winning podcast\, The Ezra Klein Show\, and the author of the best-selling book\, Why We’re Polarized. Before that\, he was columnist and editor at the Washington Post\, a policy analyst at MSNBC\, and a contributor to Bloomberg. He’s written for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, and (most importantly) is a UC Santa Cruz alumnus. \nWilliam Davies is Professor of Political Economy at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is author of several books\, most recently This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain and Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and The Guardian\, and has also written for The New York Times\, New Republic and The Atlantic. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ezra-klein-and-will-davies-living-in-frayed-democracy/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T132000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Tollan: Competing Argument Privileges in Niuean
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Rebecca Tollan from the University of Delaware speaking on competing argument privileges in Niuean. \nAbstract:  \nGrammatical “subjects” have long been shown to have a privileged linguistic status\, as compared\nwith other arguments\, in the processing of long-distance dependencies (e.g.\, Holmes & O’Regan\,\n1981)\, in the resolution of ambiguous anaphoric pronouns (Gordon et al.\, 1993; Grosz et al.\,\n1995\, a.o.) and in formal syntactic operations (cf. Keenan & Comrie\, 1977). In this talk\, I unpack\n“subjecthood” into two components: semantic agentivity (connected with structural superiority in\nthe thematic domain of the syntax) and case unmarkedness (defined as the case with the widest\nsyntactic distribution)\, and show how these two factors can independently influence the outcome of syntactic and pragmatic operations. This focus is on two experimental studies of the ergative-\nabsolutive Polynesian language Niuean. The goal of these studies is to investigate operations in which the “subject” of a sentence has previously been shown to be privileged\, based upon\nfindings from nominative-accusative languages in which agentivity and unmarkedness align:\nfirst\, the “subject advantage” in the processing of long-distance dependencies and second\, the\npreference for subject antecedents in the interpretation of anaphoric pronouns. Niuean reveals\nthat\, in the formation of long-distance dependencies – where the task is to link a filler with a gap\nsite and form the relevant dependency – syntactic information about argument distribution (i.e.\,\nunmarkedness) is most crucial because it maximizes chances of correctly locating the gap site.\nMeanwhile\, in the resolution of ambiguous anaphoric pronouns\, agentivity plays a more\nprominent role: the more agentive argument of a preceding clause is preferred as the referent of a\npronoun as compared with a less agentive one. These studies demonstrate the underlying factors\nwhich often cluster together to derive the grammatical function of “subject”. \nZoom Information: Will be emailed on Thursday\, December 10\, 2020
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-tollan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T171500
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SUMMARY:Christmas with Dickens
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, December 13th at 4 pm for a performance you won’t want to miss! \nCharles Dickens just wants to talk about his book\, A Christmas Carol\, but what happens when spirits begin to show up? Is Dickens being guilt-tripped by his estranged wife\, Catherine; haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Present; regretting his portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge? And what is Queen Victoria doing there? It’s full of chaos\, confusion\, conflict\, and complaints\, just like a typical holiday gathering. \n \nThe UCSC Dickens Project presents\, via Zoom\, an original readers’ theater piece written by JoAnna Rottke and directed by Karen Schamberg. Readers will be Andrew Davids\, Frank Widman\, Martha Rabin\, Sarah Kauffman Michael\, Chris Rich\, and Mark Messersmith. A Q&A session will follow the performance. \n\nJoAnna Rottke spent her best years as Assistant Director of the Dickens Project\, a research program at UCSC devoted to the life and works of Charles Dickens. She knows more about Dickens than she’d like to admit. JoAnna now works as an Adoption Counselor for the Santa Cruz SPCA and is a huge fan of tiny dogs.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christmas-with-dickens/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201214T183000
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins: Reading Dickens Today with Professor John Jordan
DESCRIPTION:These days\, 150 years after his death in 1870\, it is nearly impossible for a week to go by without coming across some reference to Dickens in a news article\, movie review\, magazine essay\, or crossword puzzle clue. The adjective “Dickensian” has entered common parlance throughout the English-speaking world as a way of characterizing certain kinds of people\, places\, and social problems. Film\, television\, and theatrical versions of Dickens’s novels continue to appear with surprising frequency\, most recently the 2019 film adaptation of David Copperfield\, directed by Armando Ianucci and featuring a multi-racial cast. Dickens\, it seems\, is still very much alive in 2020. In his UCSC Alumni Association talk\, Professor John Jordan speculates about the reasons for Dickens’s enduring afterlife and explores some of the ways in which Dickens remains important and relevant for 21 st -century audiences. \n \n\nJohn Jordan is a Research Professor of Literature at UCSC and Director of the Dickens Project\, an international multi-campus research consortium headquartered at Santa Cruz. He has edited or co-edited several books on Dickens and is the author of Supposing Bleak House (2010).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-reading-dickens-today-with-professor-john-jordan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201215T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201215T130000
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SUMMARY:Demystifying the Book Publishing Process & Connecting with UC Colleagues
DESCRIPTION:UC Press editors will offer insight into the academic book publishing process. The presentation will include: choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. \nThe session is intended to be interactive and questions are welcome. \nFollowing the presentation\, we will host breakout rooms with editors based on field interests. This is also an opportunity to connect with faculty and graduate students who share similar intellectual interests. When you sign up\, please select a breakout room. If your area is not represented in the breakout session\, please let us know your specialization. \n \nPresenters:\nRaina Polivka\, Editor\nKate Marshall\, Editor\nArchna Patel\, Associate Editor\nBeth Digeser\, Professor of History (UCSB) and Chair of UC Press Editorial Committee \nBreakout Sessions:\nRaina Polivka (Music\, Cinema\, Media Studies)\nNiels Hooper (History\, American Studies\, Middle East Studies)\nKate Marshall (Anthropology\, Food Studies\, Latin American Studies)\nArchna Patel (Art History)\nReed Malcolm (Asian Studies\, Open Access) \nDon’t see your field? Let us know about your interests: https://bit.ly/UCPublishingMentoring \nCo-Sponsors:\nUC Press\nUC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities\,\nUC Davis Humanities Institute\nUC Irvine Humanities Center\nUC Los Angeles Humanities\nUC Merced Center for the Humanities\nUC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society\nUC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\nUC Santa Cruz The Humanities Institute\nUC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/demystifying-the-book-publishing-process/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T180000
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SUMMARY:Revisiting The Koza Uprising in Global Perspectives/ オンラインセミナー「コザ騒動を世界の視点で」
DESCRIPTION:Fifty years ago this December\, Okinawan protests against US military rule turned violent for the first and\, so far\, only time. On the anniversary\, the Okinawa Memories Initiative will host a public discussion about the “Koza Riots\,” featuring an eyewitness photojournalist\, an American army veteran who had been stationed in Okinawa and two Okinawan American scholars reflecting on race and the meaning of the event fifty years on in the days of Black Lives Matter. \n \nThe event will kick off with remarks from Alan Christy\, Director of the Okinawa Memories Initiative. We will then journey to Okinawa\, where we will hear from Kazuo Kuniyoshi\, who will discuss Mr. Kuniyoshi’s experience on the streets of Koza as a photojournalist and resident of the city on the night of December 20\, 1970. Their conversation will feature photographs taken by Mr. Kuniyoshi that night as well as a tour of the district as it is today. The conversation will continue between Stan Rushworth and Dustin Wright\, Associate Director of OMI\, who will discuss Mr. Rushworth’s experiences as an American soldier stationed in Okinawa during the Vietnam War. Finally\, we will hear from Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku and Wesley Ueunten who will discuss the meaning of the Koza Riot/Uprising from the perspective of the global Okinawan diaspora. The program will also feature music by Wesley Ueunten\, Francis Wong and Scott Oshiro as interludes between interviews. \n50年前の12月、沖縄には怒りが溢れていたといいます。そして、その感情は、交通事故という小さなきっかけからコザ“暴動”へと膨れ上がりました。 \nオキナワ・メモリーズ・イニシアティブでは、コザ暴動が起きてちょうど５０年となる１２月20日、朝９時半から１１時までオンラインでイベントを開催します。コザ“暴動”を実際に取材した写真家國吉和夫さん、沖縄に駐留した経験のある退役米軍人、沖縄系アメリカ人の研究者など多彩なゲストを招き、コザ“暴動”が起きた背景、その後の沖縄への影響、さらに、コザ“暴動”を通して、ブラック・ライヴズ・マター（Black Lives Matter）など現在世界に波及する人種差別抗議運動についても考えます。ぜひご参加ください。 \nオンラインセミナー参加には登録が必要です。 \n以下のフォームにお名前、メールアドレスを入力し、提出ください。 \n後日、登録されたメールに参加に必要なリンクをお送りします。 \n当日は、そのリンクをクリックしてください。 \n参加は、議論をただ聞いていただくのでもいいですし、質疑応答も受け付けます。 \n\nStan Rushworth was born during WW2\, and served in the military in Okinawa during the early years of the Vietnam War. He has lived and worked in highland Guatemala\, Hawaii\, and has been teaching English in Northern California for the last 30 years\, with focus on Indigenous issues. He is the author of Sam Woods American Healing (1991)\, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain (2014)\, and Diaspora’s Children (2020). He is a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache Nation\, is married\, and is a grandfather. \nDustin Wright is a historian (UC Santa Cruz\, 2015)\, co-director of the Okinawa Memories Initiative\, and assistant professor in the School of World Languages and Cultures at California State University\, Monterey Bay. His work has been published in Gastronomica\, The Japan Times\, The Sixties\, Critical Asian Studies\, and Sekai (世界). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Protest Nation: Anti-Base Struggle and the Fight for Peace in Modern Japan. \nAlexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku is a PhD student in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz and serves on the leadership team for the Okinawa Memories Initiative. Lex is a mixed-race Shimanchu from San Diego and her research focuses on the politics of formal Indigenous people’s recognition for the Shimanchu (Ryukyuan) people by the government of Japan and the United Nations. She has a forthcoming article in The Avery Review about the July Fourth party outbreak of the coronavirus in Uchinaa as framed through the UN Declaration on the Rights on Indigenous Peoples. \nPlease stay tuned for  Kazuo Kuniyoshi\, Tomoko Kubota\, and Wesley Ueunten bios coming soon. \n\nThe Humanities Institute is exploring the theme of Memory. We encourage everyone—current students\, alumni\, staff and community members—to join us for what will be an insightful and informative event. \nOrganized by the Okinawa Memories Initiative and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/revisiting-the-koza-uprising-in-global-perspectives/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Alma Heckman\, The Sultan's Communists
DESCRIPTION:Alma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in modern Jewish history of North Africa and the Middle East with an interest in citizenship\, political transformations\, transnationalism\, and empire. Her first book is The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Press\, 2021). Additionally\, she is working on a co-edited volume examining Jews in radical politics in a comparative framework. She has held fellowships with Fulbright\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has published her work in a number of journals and edited volumes. \n \n“The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco’s national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan\, Edmond Amran El Maleh\, Abraham Serfaty\, Simon Lévy\, and Sion Assidon)\, Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and ‘60s\, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tolerance. The figures at the center of Heckman’s narrative stood at the intersection of colonialism\, Arab nationalism\, and Zionism. Their stories unfolded in a country that\, upon independence\, from France and Spain in 1956\, allied itself with the United States (and\, more quietly\, with Israel) during the Cold War\, while attempting to claim a place for itself within the fraught politics of the post-independence Arab world. The Sultan’s Communists contributes to the growing literature on Jews in the modern Middle East and provides a new history of twentieth-century Jewish Morocco.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-alma-heckman-the-sultans-communists/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T133000
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SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla -  An Unthinkable State: Puerto Rico\, the United States and the Aporias of U.S. Empire
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of Hurricane Maria\, unprecedented attention turned to the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico and its enduring colonial relationship with the United States. This presentation will examine the rising popularity and shifting strategies of the Puerto Rican statehood movement\, with a focus on how and why annexation has come to be imagined as a form of anti-colonial politics. Over the last decades the statehood movement has grown steadily as the Puerto Rican territory has experienced an unprecedented economic crisis\, with failing infrastructure\, a seemingly unpayable public debt\, and historic levels of out-migration. Within this context many residents envision annexation as the only way of safeguarding what is currently viewed as a precarious and unguaranteed place within the nation. In this talk\, I offer an ethnographic analysis of how statehood is imagined and defended by its supporters and show how this movement uniquely articulates the very contradictions and power asymmetries that structure Puerto Rico’s relationship to the US. \nYarimar Bonilla is a Professor in the Department of Africana\, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment(2015); co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019); and a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus Project. Bonilla also writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día and is a regular contributor to The Washington Post\, The Nation\, Jacobin\, and The New Yorker\, and a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s Democracy Now! Her current research—for which she was named a 2018-2020 Carnegie Fellow —examines the politics of recovery in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and the forms of political and social trauma that the storm revealed. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 13th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThis colloquium is co-sponsored by Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)\, the Research Center for the Americas (RCA)\, and the Anthropology Department. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloqium-yarimar-bonilla-hunter-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:An evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie - Talking about chronic illness\, care\, and Covid
DESCRIPTION:Join Sundance Award winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness\, the global crisis of care\, and Covid-19. \nAs the numbers of the chronically ill grow rapidly worldwide due to what is being called “long Covid\,” there is much to be learned from the experience of those who were grappling with the effects of difficult-to-diagnose\, understudied\, and invisibilzed diseases long before the appearance of the novel coronavirus. What do the experiences of the chronically ill teach us about how to survive – not just physically\, but emotionally and socially – in the face of huge knowledge gaps and medical disbelief? How can patients separated by vast distances and often unable to engage in traditional political organizing join together to demand answers and treatment? What do patient voices tell us about how the organization of medicine needs to change in order to better serve the well-being of us all? \n \nRegistrants will receive a link to pre-screen Brea’s 2017 film “Unrest” at no cost (the film is also available to view on Netflix and Amazon Prime)\, as well as be invited to pre-submit questions to these two medical justice advocates. Please email thi@ucsc.edu for the no cost link to screen the film. Audience members will also be invited to submit questions and participate in the discussion in real time during the event. \n\n \n\n  \nJennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and was a PhD student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath\, she rediscovered her first love\, film. Her Sundance award-winning feature documentary\, “Unrest\,” has screened in over 30 countries and had its US national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. She is also co-creator of Unrest VR\, winner of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Award. An activist for people with disabilities and chronic illness\, she co-founded a global advocacy network\, #MEAction and is a TED Fellow. \n“Unrest\,” her film debut\, was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Paley Center for Media’s DocPitch competition and is supported by the Harnisch Foundation\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, BRITDOC’s Good Pitch\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Fledgling Fund and the Sundance Institute. You can read more about her at jenbrea.com or @jenbrea on twitter \nMegan Moodie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz where she teaches about feminist theory\, disability studies\, and creative ethnography. A writer of essay\, fiction\, film criticism\, and drama\, Moodie’s work has appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Film Quarterly\, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. Megan regularly communicates with broad audiences in and beyond anthropology; her writing on topics such as disability\, genetic illness\, motherhood\, film\, art\, and daily strategies for survival has appeared in MUTHA Magazine\, Film Quarterly\, SAPIENS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others\, and her 2018 essay “Birthright” (Chicago Quarterly Review (26)) was named a “Notable Essay of the Year” by Best American Essays 2019. \nRead more: \n\nFeature article on “Unrest” from The Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-jennifer-brea-unrest-documentary-20170929-story.html\nMoodie’s July 2020 essay on the aftermath of “Unrest” and the challenges of relapsing/remitting illness here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/\n\nPresented by the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster and the Institute for Social Transformation. \n\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 4\, 2021. The event will include closed captioning and ASL translation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-jennifer-brea-and-megan-moodie-talking-about-chronic-illness-care-and-covid/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Sofia Samatar
DESCRIPTION:Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories\, the short story collection\, Tender\, and Monster Portraits\, a collaboration with her brother\, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received several honors\, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches Arabic literature\, African literature\, and speculative fiction at James Madison University in Virginia.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sofia-samatar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor\, Tufts University).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/migrant-futures-south-asia-and-the-middle-east-i-sound-into-form/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T173000
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SUMMARY:Prisons\, Histories and Erasures: Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar and Kelly Lytle Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:For the next Visualizing Abolition event\, Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar\, and Kelly Lytle Hernández join us to discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of prisons\, jails\, and detention centers in the United States. Together\, these influential artist and historians will talk about what is made visible when the settler colonial politics that sustain the prison industrial complex come into focus. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nJoanne Barker is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians). She is professor and chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently serving on The Segora Te Land Trust Board and The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Board. Barker is the author of Native Acts: Law\, Recognition\, and Cultural Authenticity\, and the editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. \nMaria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify\, mobilize\, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Through installation\, sculpture\, sound\, and performance\, Gaspar’s practice situates itself within historically marginalized sites and spans multiple formats\, scales\, and durations to produce liberatory actions. Gaspar’s projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund\, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship\, the Creative Capital Award\, the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant\, and the Art Matters Foundation. Maria has received the Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Mexican Art\, and the Chamberlain Award for Social Practice from the Headlands Center for the Arts. Gaspar has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston\, TX; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL; the African American Museum\, Philadelphia\, PA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, NY. \nKelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History\, African American Studies\, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History. She is also the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race\, immigration\, and mass incarceration\, she is the author of the award-winning books\, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press\, 2010)\, and City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press\, 2017). \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prisons-histories-and-erasures-joanne-barker-maria-gaspar-and-kelly-lytle-hernandez/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210120T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210120T133000
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SUMMARY:Inaugurating Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Melanie Yazzie and Michelle Daigle
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. President’s Inauguration is on January 20th. We use that date as an occasion to think about alternative futures and political possibilities not beholden to colonial and capitalist dispossession\, U.S. sovereignty\, and the nation-state form\, focusing in particular on Indigenous pathways to alternative political-ethical futures. Melanie Yazzie (University of New Mexico) and Michelle Daigle (University of Toronto) will be in conversation with Gina Dent (UCSC) and Caitlin Keliiaa (UCSC) to discuss methods of resurgence and freedom premised on abolitionist\, decolonial\, and feminist praxis. \nMelanie K. Yazzie (Diné) is an Assistant Professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico. She is also the national chair of the Red Nation\, a grassroots organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism. She does historical research at the intersections of Indigenous studies\, feminist and queer studies\, carceral studies\, Diné (Navajo) studies\, and environmental studies. She also does public intellectual and activist work on Native women’s rights\, LGBTQ2 rights\, environmental justice\, policing and incarceration\, Indigenous housing justice\, urban Indigenous issues\, and international solidarity. \nMichelle Daigle is Mushkegowuk (Cree)\, a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9\, and of French ancestry. She is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Indigenous Studies and the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research examines colonial capitalist dispossession and violence on Indigenous lands and bodies\, as well as Indigenous practices of resurgence and freedom. Her current research project is on extractive geographies in Mushkegowuk territory. Her writing has been published in Antipode\, Environment & Planning D\, and Political Geography. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 20th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-8/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T131500
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SUMMARY:Dina Danon: Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora - The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir
DESCRIPTION:Dina Danon (Binghamton University) will speak in HIS 74B on her book titled The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press\, 2020). This lecture will tell the story of a long-overlooked Ottoman Jewish community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material\, the lecture will also offer a new read on Jewish modernity. Across Europe\, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? What happens when there is no “Jewish Question?” Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites\, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors\, rabbis and housewives\, this lecture will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class\, not Judaism\, that most significantly framed this Sephardi community’s encounter with the modern age. \n \nDina Danon is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. She holds a doctorate in History from Stanford University. She is the author of The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press\, 2020). She was recently a fellow at the Katz Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, where she began work on new project on the marketplace of matchmaking\, marriage\, and divorce in the eastern Sephardi diaspora. \nHIS 74B “Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History\, 1500-2000” surveys modern Jewish history from Morocco to Iran\, 1500-2000. Studying these populations through original documents\, scholarly works\, and literature imparts a unique perspective on both modern Jewish history and that of the region\, challenging and complementing standard narratives of each. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dina-danon-the-jews-of-ottoman-izmir-a-modern-history/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T183000
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SUMMARY:Nick Estes and Melanie K. Yazzie\, of The Red Nation
DESCRIPTION:Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux) and Melanie Yazzie (Diné) of The Red Nation\, respond to the prompt: What lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how can we cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing? \nWelcomed by Chairman Valentin Lopez (Amah Mutsun) \nModerated by Mayanthi Fernando and T. J. Demos \n \nNick Estes is Kul Wicasa from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico\, the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Resistance (Verso\, 2019)\, and the host of The Red Nation Podcast. \nMelanie K. Yazzie\, PhD\, is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in Navajo/American Indian history\, political ecology\, Indigenous feminisms\, queer Indigenous studies\, and theories of policing and the state. She also organizes with The Red Nation\, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism. \nValentin Lopez has been the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band since 2003\, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun\, Awaswas\, Chumash and Yokuts. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the documented descendants of Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Valentin Lopez is a Native American Advisor to the University of California\, Office of the President on issues related to repatriation. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit beyond.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54222/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Book Talk - Christine Hong: A Violent Peace: Race\, US Militarism\, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book Talk and celebration of Christine Hong’s (Assoc Prof Lit and Director of CRES) new book A Violent Peace: Race\, US Militarism\, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford U Press\, 2020) with respondents: Neel Ahuja (Assoc Professor\, FMST and CRES) and Alyosha Goldstein (Professor\, American Studies\, University of New Mexico).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-christine-hong-a-violent-peace-race-us-militarism-and-cultures-of-democratization-in-cold-war-asia-and-the-pacific/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Prisons and Poetics: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Craig Haney
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and The Humanities Institute are pleased to present a poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and renowned social psychologist Craig Haney\, moderated by Professor Gina Dent. The event is part of the IAS Visualizing Abolition Series and The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nReginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet\, memoirist\, and teacher. His work in public defense\, his years of advocacy\, and Betts’s own experiences as a teenager in maximum security prisons uniquely positions him to speak to the failures of the current criminal justice system and present encouraging ideas for change. Betts often gives talks about his own experience\, detailing his journey from incarceration to Yale Law School and the role that perseverance and literature played in his success. In addition\, he has given lectures on topics ranging from mass incarceration to contemporary poetry and the intersection of literature and advocacy. \nCraig Haney is a social psychologist and a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation. Haney has published five books\, numerous research articles\, entries in law reviews\, and articles for the Huffington Post about the psychological impacts of incarceration\, advocating for prison reform. He has served as an expert witness in several influential United States Federal Court cases related to the prison environment and punishment. Moreover\, Haney’s work was influential in the United States Supreme Court 5-4 ruling of Brown v. Plata (2011)\, which upheld a lower court ruling that the California prison population be reduced. \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prisons-and-poetics-reginald-dwayne-betts/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Aomar Boum: Seeing as Memory - Graphic Memoir as Historical Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Aomar Boum (UCLA) will speak in HIS 185O about his upcoming graphic novel collaboration recounting the story of European Jewish refugees in Morocco during the Second World War. In the last decade\, graphic memoirs and novels have emerged as a significant form of historical (re)writing of past narratives and events. The medium of comics and its use of chronologically ordered panels allows the reader to create meanings through the combination of image and text. I argue for the use of graphic memoirs to reconstruct the history of Saharan Vichy camps. I contend that in the larger context of an anthropology of genocide and the Holocaust\, graphic memoirs could be seen retroactive ethnographic accounts where witnessing takes place through seeing guided by the archive. In this talk I present a collaborative graphic narrative based on a unique style of art highlighting the impact of WWII outside of Europe through the story of a German refugee in North Africa. Hans\, the main character\, is a composite representing the experiences of several historical figures. I note that the use of images as a form of Holocaust writing\, starting with Maus\, is a call to seeing and therefore remembering through witnessing the trauma of detainees of labor and internment Vichy camps in the Sahara between 1940 and 1945. \nAomar Boum is associate professor in the Department of anthropology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How\nMuslims Remember Jews in Morocco and co-editor of The Holocaust and North Africa. \n \nHIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources\, films\, and novels\, students consider WWII and the Holocaust as they intersect with colonial and Jewish histories in the Arab world. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/his-185o-with-aomar-boum/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201209T222338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T183432Z
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SUMMARY:Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan – The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop and Gendered Aspirations in Urban India
DESCRIPTION:In the last decade\, access to digital communication technologies has created opportunities for young people on the margins of the national imaginary in India to take part in transnational media worlds. In his recently published book\, Dattatreyan uses the ‘globally familiar’ as an analytic to engage with the recursive effects of online media consumption\, production\, and circulation amongst young migrant men in Delhi who invest their energies in the Black aesthetics of hip hop. In this talk\, he reflects on how\, eight years after he first started fieldwork with these young men\, the social and economic opportunities that have emerged for them as a result of their online/offline hip hop play continue to shape their gendered aspirations in and through circuits of late capitalism. \nEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths\, University of London. His research engages with the ways in which digital media consumption\, production\, and circulation shape understandings of migration\, gender\, race\, and urban space. His first book\, The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop\, Masculinity\, and Urban Space in Delhi\, was published by Duke University Press in 2020. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, January 27th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloqium-e-gabriel-dattatreyan-goldsmiths-college-university-of-london/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis: The Senses Still
DESCRIPTION:The THI Sense Memory Cluster presents on Thursday\, January 28\, 10-12\, Professor C. Nadia Seremetakis\, author of The Last Word\, The Senses Still\, and Sensing the Everyday. She will discuss her practice of sensory ethnography\, her theory of sense memory\, and “the third stream of anamnesis” in the contemporary spread of little memorials in Greek urban space. \n \nProfessor C. Nadia Seremetakis is a cultural anthropologist and author of several books in both English and Greek\, including poetry. She is best known for The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity (Univ. of Chicago Press)\, The Last Word: Women\, Death and Divination (Univ. of Chicago Press)\, and Sensing the Everyday (Routledge). She has lived and taught in New York for more than two decades\, conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world\, served as advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of Health and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture\, and taught at the University of the Peloponnese\, in her native area\, for the past ten years. Full bio: www.seremetakis.com \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-the-senses-still/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T172000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House\, 2020). More of her writing can be found online at kmingchang.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-k-ming-chang/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20210121T174448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210121T175032Z
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SUMMARY:“Coded Bias” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The award winning documentary Coded Bias explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-\, race-\, and gender-based inequities. \nWhile working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software\, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm couldn’t detect her face — until she put on a white mask. As she recounts in the documentary “Coded Bias\,” Buolamwini soon discovered that most such artificial-intelligence programs are trained to identify patterns based on data sets that skew light-skinned and male. “When you think of A.I.\, it’s forward-looking\,” she says. “But A.I. is based on data\, and data is a reflection of our history.” “Coded Bias” tackles its sprawling subject by zeroing in empathetically on the human costs. \n“Coded Bias” examines algorithmic bias as a modern civil rights issue\, and sheds light on privacy and equity issues related to increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. \n \nRegistration required. A link to view the film will be sent out starting 1/25 which will be available to view anytime until 1/28. \nPanelists Bios: \nProfessor Neda Atanasoski of the Humanities Institute Center for Racial Justice \nProfessor A.M. Darke of Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) \nProfessor Jody Greene of Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) \nWatch the trailer: https://www.codedbias.com/about \nFilm screening (1h 30m) and panel discussion sponsored by UCSC’s Privacy Office and Office for Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54595/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201015T022600Z
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SUMMARY:Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist\, Simone Browne\, and Ruha Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Next in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist\, Simone Browne\, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Dr. Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nAmerican Artist (b. 1989 Altadena\, CA\, lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY) is an artist whose work considers black labor and visibility within networked life. Their practice makes use of video\, installation\, new media\, and writing. Artist is a resident at Red Bull Arts Detroit and a 2018-2019 recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship. They are a former resident of EYEBEAM and completed the Whitney Independent Study program as an artist in 2017. They have exhibited at the Museum of African Diaspora\, San Francisco; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, and Koenig & Clinton\, New York. Their work has been featured in the New York Times\, Artforum\, and Huffington Post. They have published writing in The New Inquiry and Art21. Artist is a part-time faculty at Parsons The New School and teaches at the School for Poetic Computation. \nSimone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her first book\, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness\, was awarded the 2016 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize by the American Studies Association\, the 2016 Surveillance Studies Book Prize by the Surveillance Studies Network\, and the 2015 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research. Simone is also a member of Deep Lab\, a feminist collaborative composed of artists\, engineers\, hackers\, writers\, and theorists. \nRuha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University\, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab\, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019)\, among numerous other publications. Benjamin writes\, teaches\, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power\, race and citizenship\, health and justice. \n\nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/surveillance-and-cinematics-american-artist-simone-browne-and-ruha-benjamin/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
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SUMMARY:HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
DESCRIPTION:Edith Kulstein\, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria\, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences. \n \n  \nHIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources\, films\, and novels\, students consider WWII and the Holocaust as they intersect with colonial and Jewish histories in the Arab world. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/his-185o-with-edie-kulstein/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201209T222456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T183552Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites from Algiers to Berlin to Tokyo\, they also pictured the world anew\, whether framing a street scene in Alexandria or offering a close up on a passing face in Jerusalem. The Lumière Brothers’ broader vision was to bring the world to the world\, and they imagined a global network of films easily circulable beyond the constraints of language and literacy. Engaging the implications of cinematic versus literary capture\, Allan’s talk explores the stakes of world literature in the age of the world picture. \nMichael Allan is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon and editor of the journal Comparative Literature. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton 2016\, Co-Winner of the MLA First Book Prize). His current research focuses on the travels of the Lumière Brothers film company across North Africa and the Middle East. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 3rd; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-9/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20200921T164637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T173851Z
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan - Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
DESCRIPTION:Radhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington\, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography\, environmental anthropology\, the anthropology of religion\, South Asian Studies\, and political anthropology. Her award-winning book Animal Intimacies is an ethnography of multispecies relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India. \n \n  \nPart of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-govindrajan-labors-of-love-on-the-ethics-and-politics-of-attachment-in-indias-central-himalayas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T172000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201112T212338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210106T180857Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff is the author of five books\, most recently Fates and Furies\, a novel\, and Florida\, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L’héroïne\, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.  Her next novel\, Matrix\, is slated for publication by Riverhead in September 2021.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lauren-groff/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20210201T190500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210201T235934Z
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SUMMARY:Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 5th\, 12-1 pm\, Faculty Associate Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) will present a paper at the Legal Studies workshop entitled “‘Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers:’ Abdallah Laroui’s Critique of Colonized Subjectivity.” Professor Megan Thomas (Politics) will serve as the discussant. Please email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for the paper. Click To join. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yasmeen-daifallah-legal-studies-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201015T023146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T011454Z
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SUMMARY:Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
DESCRIPTION:Sandord Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social\, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event\, Biggers will be joined by visual culutre theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art\, materiality\, violence\, and possibility. \n \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \n\nSanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative\, perspective and history that speaks to current social\, political and economic happenings and the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history. Biggers’ has exhibited work in galleries including the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, the Tate Modern\, London\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York. \nLeigh Raiford is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley\, where she teaches and researches about race\, gender\, justice and visuality. She also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies\, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Raiford received her PhD from Yale University’s joint program in African American Studies and American Studies in 2003. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press\, 2011)\, which was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Prize and her work has appeared in numerous academic journals\, including American Quarterly\, Small Axe\, Qui Parle\, History and Theory\, English Language Notes and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; as well as popular venues including Artforum\, Aperture\, Ms. Magazine\, Atlantic.com and Al- Jazeera.com. \n\nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/material-and-memory-sanford-biggers-and-leigh-raiford/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201209T222558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T183658Z
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SUMMARY:Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies\, Covid-19\, and Healing Futures
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining cultural healing ways is central to healing justice\, Black Lives Matter\, and other contemporary movements. However\, “moving from race to culture to creation\,” as Resmaa Menakem puts it\, takes work. This talk engages in this work by centering epistemologies of Black/African-American traditional medicine\, often reclaimed as “conjure.” Drawing on short stories by Zora Neale Hurston and interviews\, Jones will consider how Black “knowings” of health\, healing\, and biomedicine continue to be both racialized and mobilized – and the urgency of taking other(ed) knowledge seriously in this pandemic moment (and beyond). \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 10th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nNaya Jones (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in the Global and Community Health Program at UCSC. As a geographer and cultural worker\, she especially studies Black geographies of community health and healing in North and Latin America (African-American and Afro-Latinx). Often in partnership with community-rooted organizations\, she engages a range of storytelling\, embodied\, and arts-based methods. She is a former Culture of Health Leader (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\, 2017-2020) and a recent recipient of the Anne S. Chatham Fellowship for Medicinal Botany (Garden Club of America). \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloqium-naya-jones-ucsc/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T131500
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20210107T222022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210115T220322Z
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SUMMARY:Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran - Patriotism\, national belonging\, integration\, and identity
DESCRIPTION:Daniella Farah (Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University) will speak in HIS 74B about the effects of the Second World War on Jews in Iran and how this period shaped their political subjectivities. Jews have lived in Iran for over 2\,500 years\, with a population of 100\,000 at their height in 1945. Today\, Iran contains the largest number of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel. During the twentieth century\, Iranian Jews experienced rapid upward mobility\, migrated within the country and abroad\, and participated in Iran’s major political and social movements. Yet\, despite this rich history\, it is only in the last ten years that scholars have started giving Iranian Jewish History serious academic attention. In this talk\, Daniella will offer a broad survey of Iranian Jewish history from the mid-1940s to the early 1980s. She will focus on these themes: the socioeconomic mobility of Iranian Jews\, identity formation\, proclamations of loyalty and belonging to the nation\, Jewish-Muslim interactions\, and the intersection of education and integration. \n \nDaniella Farah is a PhD Candidate in Jewish History at Stanford University and is the daughter of Iranian Jewish emigres. She specializes in the sociocultural histories of the Jews of the modern Middle East\, with a specific geographic focus on Iran and Turkey. Her work is situated at the intersection of Modern Jewish History\, Middle Eastern History\, Education History\, and Transnational Studies. Her article\, “‘The school is the link between the Jewish community and the surrounding milieu’: Education and the Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s\,” is forthcoming with the journal of Middle Eastern Studies. \nHIS 74B “Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History\, 1500-2000” surveys modern Jewish history from Morocco to Iran\, 1500-2000. Studying these populations through original documents\, scholarly works\, and literature imparts a unique perspective on both modern Jewish history and that of the region\, challenging and complementing standard narratives of each. \nThis course is supported by the Humanities Institute\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, and The Neufeld Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/his-74b-with-daniella-farrah/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T172000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201112T212608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210106T181233Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea\, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus Prize\, and the Booker Prize.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-valeria-luiselli-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210212T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20201103T001905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201120T224659Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Podcasting and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Interested in podcasting and the different ways you can engage this medium as a scholar? This session will focus on how podcasting might fit into your academic and career goals\, including approaches for developing your own podcasting project\, building scholarly and community networks with podcast interviews\, preparing to be interviewed on a podcast\, and the intersection of podcasting with public humanities work writ large. \n \n  \nDaniel Story is a historian and digital humanist. He works as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz\, supporting and collaborating with students and faculty who seek to engage digital methods in their teaching\, research\, or learning. He is the lead producer of the ten-part documentary podcast Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County\, California. He also currently serves as a consulting editor for The American Historical Review and produces the journal’s podcast\, AHR Interview. Daniel received his PhD in History from Indiana University\, Bloomington. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the fifth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. *Note that all 2020-2021 PhD+ workshops are open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students\, and will be held virtually until further notice. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-podcasting-and-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210216T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T120438
CREATED:20210202T002638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210202T003021Z
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SUMMARY:#StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era\, with Fatema Ahmad
DESCRIPTION:In 2014\, the Obama administration launched Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)\, a grant program that funneled federal money to police\, universities\, and nonprofit organizations in the name of combating terrorism. Although CVE and other “anti-radicalization” programs target Muslims and political activists\, they have enjoyed support from some liberals who view anti-radicalization as a softer\, more humane form of policing. Revised and expanded during the Trump years under the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program\, such surveillance initiatives are embedded in at least nineteen municipal police departments across the United States. In this conversation with Fatema Ahmad of the Muslim Justice League\, we will discuss the history and impacts of CVE and consider the prospects for such programs under the Biden/Harris administration. \n \nFatema Ahmad (she/hers) is the Executive Director at Muslim Justice League\, where she leads MJL’s efforts to dismantle the criminalization and policing of marginalized communities under national security pretexts. She joined as Deputy Director in 2017 and increased MJL’s focus on organizing within and collaborating across impacted communities to resist and subvert surveillance. That included growing the Building Muslim Power collective\, a group that shifts power through creative actions. Fatema also leads the national StopCVE network\, spearheads MJL’s research\, and is a leader in the Donor Advised Funds campaign of the Public Good Coalition. \nIn conversation with Neel Ahuja\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nPresented by the Center for Racial Justice and co-sponsored by UCSC Department of Feminist Studies and the Humanities Institute Memory of Forgotten Wars Cluster
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/54833/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Neferti Tadiar — A Physics Lesson: Notes on a Cultural Genealogy of Human Mediatic Forms
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is\, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel\, El Filibusterismo\, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals\, indios into free citizen-subjects\, Tadiar explores practices and relations of humans as media in Philippine cultures and the transformation of such persistent forms of life into vital components of today’s global capitalist platform economy. \nNeferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004). Her current book\, Remaindered Life\, a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of global empire\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. \n \nRSVP by 11 AM (PST) on Wednesday\, February 17th; you will receive Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather online at 12:10 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-neferti-tadiar-barnard-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\, a Conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Alma Heckman as they discuss Professor Stein’s book Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family\, Lived History\, and Personal Letters. \n \nStein will discuss her recent\, award winning book\, Family Papers\, which traces the story of the Levy family of Salonica through the arc of the 20th century and the breadth of the globe. Through this one family\, across multiple generations\, Stein offers a glimpse into the global history of Sephardic Jews marked by the end of empire\, the Holocaust\, and diaspora. \nThe Levys wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets\, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce\, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed\, Stein discovers\, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief\, but papers. With meticulous research and care\, Stein uses the Levys’ letters to tell not only their history\, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century. \nThis event is a part of The Humanities Insitute’s yearlong exploration of the theme Memory\, we’ll ask: What can a family’s letters\, photographs\, and fragments tell us about the history of nations that don’t exist and families that have migrated to many continents? What is the relationship between individual memory\, collective memory\, and history? \nPlease join us for a thought-provoking conversation about lived history\, memory\, and family. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History\, Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA\, and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.  A former Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, she is the author or editor of nine books\, many of them award-winning.  Stein’s most recent book\, Family Papers:  a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2019)\, was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and Mosaic Magazine\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, and was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \n  \nAlma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in modern Jewish history of North Africa and the Middle East with an interest in citizenship\, political transformations\, transnationalism\, and empire. Her first book is The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Press\, 2021). \n  \n  \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/family-papers-a-conversation-about-a-sephardi-jewish-family-lived-history-and-personal-letters-with-professor-sarah-abrevaya-stein/
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