The Humanities Institute

CANCELED - Linguistics Colloquia: Argyro Katsika
2022-12-02 13:20 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 2, Room 359
Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Miriam Ellis Memorial Celebration
2022-12-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Stevenson Event Center
Join us to celebrate the life of Miriam Ellis, lecturer emerita of French, fellow of Cowell College, and founder of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP). The memorial will be held at Stevenson Event Center (SEC), where audiences have long enjoyed and will continue to enjoy performances of the MEIP. Miriam’s irrepressible joy touched the lives of many people at the university, in Santa Cruz, and beyond. The purpose of the Memorial is to bring us all together to reminisce, reflect, and share stories. As Miriam may have said, quoting Moliere, “We die only once, and for such a long time.” If you are inclined to wear your favorite special hat to the event, please do so in homage to our spirited and brilliant friend.
Parking attendants will be in the lower lot of Stevenson. Overflow parking will be at Merrill. Carpooling is encouraged. A shuttle will help guests will mobility challenges climb the hill to SEC. If you have questions or concerns, please contact the event organizer, Faye Crosby, at fjcrosby@ucsc.edu.

Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox – Discussion of Dracula (Chap. 17-End)
2022-12-04 14:00 | Virtual Event
Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox
As part of the series “Victorian Necromancies,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature.
From Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation), and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.”
Renée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies, Irish Studies, the gothic, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow.
Virtual Sessions

Book Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
October 2, 20222:00 PM PDT

Discussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)
November 6, 20222:00 PM PST

Discussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)
December 4, 20222:00 PM PST

More Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html
Registration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR

CANCELED: Faculty and Graduate Student Grants Session with UCHRI
2022-12-05 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Interested in faculty & graduate student funding opportunities from the UC Humanities Research Institute and want to know more about the advisory committee selection process? Join UCHRI Interim Director Julia Lupton, Associate Director Kelly Anne Brown, and Research Grants Manager Sara Černe for a grants presentation and Q&A. This year, UCHRI is offering up to $25,000 grants for collaborative research projects, support for projects connected to its theme of Refuge and Its Refusals, and continuing support for the UC-wide Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship.
Prospective PIs who would like to talk through a new or existing project are invited to schedule a separate 20-minute Individual Faculty Consultation with UCHRI. Please email Connie Zheng, THI’s 2022-2023 Research and Development GSR, at conniezheng@ucsc.edu to schedule and appointment

This workshop is sponsored by The Humanities Institute, Arts Research Institute, the Office of Foundation Relations, and the Office of Research Development.

Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
2023-01-08 14:00, 2023-02-12 14:00, 2023-03-12 14:00 | Virtual Event
The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens, as both a novelist and travel writer.

1/8/23, 2pm PST – Research Talk:
Representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature
2/12/23, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
3/12/23, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
The second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration, race and climate change, which will, she hopes, lead to some lively discussions.
Grace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith), Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998.
This event series is presented by the Dickens Project.

Race, Violence, and Form in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
2023-01-09 09:00 - 17:30 | Dream Inn Santa Cruz, 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This symposium will bring together invited speakers from the US and Ireland to examine how recent sea changes in the field of Victorian studies—particularly its embrace of critical race studies, strategic presentism, and new formalism—create space to rethink both Ireland’s place in 19th-century British literary studies and the pressures Irish literature and its contemporary reverberations exert on the field’s forms of expansion. The presentations will all assert the need to resituate Ireland within the networks of aesthetic innovation, economic experimentation, and identity politics that circulated freely between England, Ireland, and America in the 19th century. Yet this re-contextualization necessarily moves in both directions, showing not only how our understanding of Irish literature and culture changes when we consider it as part of a larger constellation of Victorian phenomena, but also how our understanding of Victorian culture changes when we must accommodate Ireland as an integral part of its intellectual networks. In the interest of recent calls to unsettle the geographical, racial, and periodized confines of what constitutes “Victorian,” as well as to unmoor Victorian studies from its long reliance on Anglocentric historicist methodologies, this symposium challenges Ireland’s long history in the colonial margins of the field, arguing instead that it plays an essential role in the expansion and revitalization of Victorian studies in the 21st century.
Full symposium schedule at: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/race-violence-form-in-19c-ireland.html
Many thanks to the UC Santa Cruz Literature Department, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Humanities Institute at UCSC, and the Dickens Project for sponsoring this event.

Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz
2023-01-13 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
2023-01-18 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
According to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, more festival days, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by premodern sumptuary laws, focusing on luxury as a class of things. I focus on the act of luxuriating instead, drawing out its embodied, affective, and tactical dimensions as a “structure of feeling.” I argue that a focus on luxuriating opens our thought to the political potential in the physical, sensory, and lived experience of the poor as they lay claim to enjoyment and abundance.

Dean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics, currently working on a book manuscript Luxuriating in Democracy, Abundance, and the Enjoyment of Bodies Politic. He is the author of Appeals to Interest: Language and the Shaping of Political Agency and the editor of and contributor to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Justice, and Action. His other writings have appeared in journals including Political Theory, Theory and Event, Political Research Quarterly, The New Political Science, and The Arrow.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Jane Smiley - A Dangerous Business
2023-01-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850’s, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says, “The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel, A Dangerous Business, is so outstanding. Her sentences are sublime.” This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.

“A remarkable story of the California gold rush and a pair of sex worker sleuths . . . The vivid historical details and vibrant characters bring Smiley’s setting to glorious life. This seductive entertainment is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly
Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious.
Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West–a bewitching combination of beauty and danger–as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise …
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck, Early Warning, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.

Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
2023-01-19 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea, energized by the sun, shaped by the forces of fog and fire, and influenced by the actions of people.
“We know of no other place in the world where land and sea connect in such an extraordinary way.” –Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom
Monterey Bay is the hottest hot spot for biodiversity in all of North America, according to The Nature Conservancy. It is a place of giants, from redwood forests on land to forests of kelp offshore. Monterey Bay supports iconic wildlife from secretive mountain lions to majestic blue whales. All survive in a region where far-flung migrants mix with rare local species that live nowhere else in the world.
This exhibition brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. That richness is due to a unique mix of physical features and microclimates, shaped by the powerful influence of the ocean—and by the actions of people. After the Gold Rush began, a great demand for natural resources stripped the land of trees and depleted the sea of marine mammals and fish. But that ecological collapse has been reversed in our time.
Bay of Life celebrates a remarkable recovery which shows that damaged ecosystems can be restored when people care and take action together. That may offer a model for other places at a time when we need such stories of hope as we face new challenges of resource stewardship, habitat connectivity, and impacts from climate change.
This exhibition will run from January 19–April 30, 2023 and is co-sponsored by Bay Photo Lab and the Humanities Institute.
For full exhibition information please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/bay-of-life
Project Core Collaborators: Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Watsonville Wetlands Watch
Header Image: Humpback Whales, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, photo by Frans Lanting.

Living Writers - Jaime Cortez
2023-01-19 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children” (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press), “No Straight Lines,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited 2012 by Justin Hall for Fantagraphics Press), “Street Art San Francisco” (edited 2009 by Annice Jacoby for Abrams Press), and “Infinite Cities,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco (edited 2010 by Rebecca Solnit for UC Berkeley Press). He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003.
Cortez often combines humor and tragedy to tell stories of resilient survivors who exist on the margins of the economy, the law, and social acceptability. “Gordo” is Jaime’s debut collection of short stories. Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press, is the publisher of the book.
Cortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville, two California farm towns where the stories are set. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. His website is www.jaimecortez.org.
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)

Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
2023-01-20 10:00 | Virtual Event
“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here.
Speaker:
Professor Divya Cherian, Princeton University

POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
2023-01-20 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Liora R. Halperin - The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
2023-01-20 13:30 - 15:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream, but was later integrated, albeit ambivalently, into the Zionist narrative of settlement as the First Aliyah. Treating the First Aliyah as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect, and drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies, she considers how private agriculturalists and their advocates forged the First Aliyah past as a model of private ownership, political moderature, and harmonius relations with hired rural Palestinian labor. In so doing, she sheds light on the politics and erasures of Zionist celebrations of “firstness.”

Liora R. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her recent book is The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford, 2021). She is also the author of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948 (Yale, 2015).

This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle East and North Africa.

Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
2023-01-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events
Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which remained unfinished at the time of his death.
Murder, Money, Marriage, and Mounds… of dust, of human refuse, of cultural debris, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become, in the wrong hands, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending.
Reading Schedule

Sep. 25
Book the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17, Parts I-V

Oct. 23
Book the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16, Parts VI-X

Nov. 27
Book the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17, Parts XI-XV

Jan. 22
Book the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16, Parts XVI-XX

This series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries.
More information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html
Registration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ

Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
2023-01-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual and In Person
A discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism, Left culturalism, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism makes a bold case for embracing what Wilder calls a politics of the possible-impossible.
Attentive to the non-identical character of places, periods, and subjects, insisting that axes of political alignment and contestation are neither self-evident nor unchanging, reworking Lenin’s call to “transform the imperial war into a civil war,” he invites Left thinkers see beyond inherited distinctions between here and there, now and then, us and them. Guided by the spirit of Marx’s call for revolutionaries to draw their poetry from a future they cannot fathom yet must nevertheless invent, he calls for practices of anticipation that envision and enact, call for and call forth, seemingly impossible ways of being together.
Format: In-person in Hum1 Room 420 & Zoom
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98082358956?pwd=[REDACTED]
Gary Wilder is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. He has a joint degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Chicago and works on the French empire, colonial states, historical anthropology and social/political theory, with a focus on western Africa, the Antilles, and Europe. He is the author of Freedom Time. Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press Durham and London 2015).
Presented by the History of Consciousness Department. To download the excerpts in discussion and for information on upcoming lectures, please visit The History of Consciousness website.

Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
2023-01-25 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Drawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns, metaphors, rhyme, and performance, Anansi and other insect avatars convert colonial nature into abolition ecologies. More broadly, the constellation of problems and powers associated with West Indian bugs (imperceptibility, smallness, shapeshifting, co-metabolism, environmental change), informs a situated decolonial knowledge inspired by insects’ navigation of their environments.
Monique Allewaert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works at the intersections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century hemispheric American colonialisms, the environmental humanities, literary and cultural studies, and science studies. She is the author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics (2013). Her current book project Luminescence follows insect avatars through eighteenth-century Caribbean natural history, story, riddles, song, and poetry to elaborate counter-plantation knowledges and aesthetics.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Jennifer Morton - Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
2023-01-25 16:00 - 18:30 | University Center, Bhojwani Room, CA, United States
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Jennifer Morton looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to accomplish their educational goals.
This event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, and will take place at the University Center, Bhojwani Room on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm with a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30pm.

In-Person attendance

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Jennifer Morton is Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are philosophy of action, moral philosophy, philosophy of education, and political philosophy, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Inside Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, New York Daily News, Times Higher Education, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Public Books , and Vox. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press, 2020) was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges, and Universities.
Jody Greene is the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL), UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, as well as Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy, especially the work of Spivak, Derrida, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. They have served as Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008), the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018), and, twice, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001, 2014).

Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
2023-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Event
January 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers.
This Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.

PhD+ Workshop - Wordpress Website Design
2023-01-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Teresa and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work!
Teresa Hardy is the founder of New Media-Designs, an online marketing agency specializing in solutions for small and medium technology companies. She has over 30 years of experience in engineering and marketing in high tech companies and has worked as a web developer and multimedia artist since 2005. She holds a B.S. in engineering and a master’s in multimedia arts. Her current work focuses on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, and overall online find-ability (SEO and SMM) for clients. Ms. Hardy has taught web design, branding, usability, gaming, and web development at several universities in the San Francisco Bay area and is the current program chair of Web Development Specialization at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley.
Register for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group - Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
2023-01-27 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome, as a residential scholar, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, published by Duke in 2006, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book, Pharmocracy: Knowledge, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke, 2017), elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India.
Professor Rajan will lead a reading group focused on his most recent book, Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis. We’ll be reading the Introduction and Chapter 3. Email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings.

Teach English in Spain
2023-01-31 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey, Spanish Consul in San Francisco, who will be speaking on the North American Language and Culture Program in Spain (NALCAP 2023-2024). Light refreshments will be provided.
Organized by: Spanish Studies, UC Santa Cruz Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Consulado General de España en San Francisco

Linda Garber – The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction
2023-02-01 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join us for a guided tour of the pleasures and perils of lesbian historical fiction, as Linda Garber (author of Novel Approaches to Lesbian History) introduces the thrilling and heart-wrenching adventures, trenchant theoretical insights, and critical political shortcomings of novels that establish a historical footing for contemporary lesbian identity in the face of a problematic, mostly silent, archive. She’ll cover genres ranging from westerns (Tomboys and Indians) and pirate tales (Unsafe Seas for Women) to the postmodern (Haunting the Archives) and the erotic (Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lesbian Sex), while calling for an intersectional, trans-inclusive lesbian literature and history.
Linda Garber is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University, where she teaches queer literature and film, and feminist and queer theory. Her book Novel Approaches to Lesbian History was published by Palgrave in 2021 and is now available in paperback. Her earlier books include Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory and the anthology Tilting the Tower: Lesbians / Teaching / Queer Subjects.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research
2023-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome, as a residential scholar, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, published by Duke in 2006, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book, Pharmocracy: Knowledge, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke, 2017), elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India.
Professor Rajan will give a talk on his ongoing research project on South Africa, which concerns the ways in which a politics of health in South Africa plays out through the law, consequent to the guarantee of a fundamental right to health in the South African Constitution. This talk is the presentation of an emergent research trajectory. Drawing upon an imaginary of “multisituated” research design and practice, I elaborate the (often contingent and serendipitous) development of my recent work in South Africa, which includes a research project on health and constitutionalism and a teaching- and performance-based collaboration on the politics of breath. I am still wrestling with how to structure both, how they come together and diverge, their different conceptual modalities and political stakes. This includes a consideration of the stakes of legal archival research and life-history interviews in the context of contemporary and emergent research and political situations, as well as of thinking questions of ethnographic form in concert with others who are invested in considerations of literary or musical form. How to think about transformations of research practice in the context of unsettled and unresolved macro-political transformations in uncertain and fragile times? Why might it matter?

Living Writers - K-Ming Chang
2023-02-02 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her most recent book is Gods of Want (One World/Random House, 2022). Her next books are a novel titled Organ Meats (One World) and a novella titled Cecilia (Coffee House Press). She loves folklore, vampire literature, and birdwatching in her home state of California.

Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)

POSTPONED: Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
2023-02-03 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Marc Garellek, UC San Diego
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

POSTPONED - Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
2023-02-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things, they are complex infrastructures where people, the built and natural environments, and different kinds of networks come together. Airports are also sites of accumulated power in a given region. Looking at the history of an airport, then, can provide a airport useful lens for examining some of the complex, interconnected forces that have influenced the development of its region over time. Exploring that history can also help us understand how differently positioned people in that place have abided, resisted, and otherwise negotiated the powerful forces that have shaped their lives. In this talk, Eric Porter will discuss San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as a site whose history reveals important perspectives on a wide range of phenomena that have helped to make the Bay Area. Along the way he will read excerpts from his new book, A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport.

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Eric Porter is Professor of History, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he is also affiliated with the Music and Latin American and Latina/o Studies departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history, US cultural and urban history, and jazz and improvisation studies.
Slugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you, the local community of Silicon Valley, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged.
Questions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.

PhD+ Workshop - Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking
2023-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual and In Person
This brief workshop provides an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking, including managing anxiety, key delivery techniques, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations. It will include some interactive personalized exercises. If you have your grad slam talk and one optional slide ready to practice for a preliminary divisional round, February 13-17, you may practice your talk (with your optional one PowerPoint slide) for feedback from Catherine Carlstroem at either workshop. If attending in person, bring your laptop to join the Zoom meeting to share your slide via screen share, if you have a slide.
UCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course.
Register for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees. There is an additional session on the same day from 2:00-4:00 PM, accessible in person at the Graduate Commons Fireside Lounge or via Zoom.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
2023-02-08 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City’s Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no closure of Rikers in sight? The tragic story of recent jail reform efforts in New York City is at once novel, and indicative of broader trends in “humanitarian” jail reform, growing activism big big philanthropy in the supposed reform of mass incarceration, and the evolution of non-profit organizations promoting the extension of the carceral state — all conducted under the auspices of “social justice.” Tracing the contours of this new moment of carceral boosterism, Dr. Jarrod Shanahan will present on a work in progress, Skyscraper Jails, co-authored with criminal justice scholar Dr. Zhandarka Kurti. This work draws from extensive archival research, years of collaborative scholarship, and participation in the campaign against the new jails.
Jarrod Shanahan is an activist-scholar and assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in University Park, IL. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022), co-author with Zhandarka Kurti of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System (Field Notes/Reaktion, 2022), and an editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity (Verso, 2022), a Noel Ignatiev reader.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
2023-02-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
At the midpoint of World War II, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book, War of Shadows, historian and alumnus Gershom Gorenberg (Kresge ’76, Religious Studies) will reveal the espionage affair that led to the British victory against Rommel at El Alamein – turning the tide of the war and preventing the mass murder of the Jews of Egypt, Palestine and the rest of the Middle East.

Event logistics: Bicycling, car pooling, ridesharing, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots, proceed through the main entrance to campus, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 1, 2023.
This event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.

PhD+ Workshop - Carole McGranahan, "Drafting Stages"
2023-02-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Join UCSC’s Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages.
In conversation with Carole McGranahan, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War (2010), co-editor of Imperial Formations (2007) and Ethnographers of U.S. Empire (2018), and editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (2020).
Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome!
Please register here.
This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism
2023-02-10 10:00 | Virtual Event
“Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here.
Speaker:
Professor Elora Shehebuddin, UC Berkeley

Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly - A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
2023-02-13 16:00 - 17:30 | University Center, Bhojwani Room, CA, United States
“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve, how do we define the public and its good, and how does and how might our study contribute to this project? Thinking critically about the tradition of research on the ancient Mediterranean, Joy’s own field, she makes the case for a planetary frame for humanistic study whose fields of activity are the global and the local. This frame resolves an intractable tension in academia today, where institutions proudly recruit students and faculty from all over the world but retain disciplinary divisions that reflect the national borders and imperial power map of two centuries ago.

In-person attendance
The lecture will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rotunda. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m

Virtual attendance
Joy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1, 2019. Previously, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16, Stanford University, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles, reviews, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum.
This event is presented by the Humanities Division and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.

ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
2023-02-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship, including fellowships, grants, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions, including digital publications, collaborative research, translation, and publicly engaged work.

Joy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1, 2019. Previously, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16, Stanford University, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles, reviews, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
This event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute, the UCSC Arts Research Institute, the UCSC Office of Foundation Relations, and the UCSC Office of Research Development

PhD+ Workshop - Psychology of Writing
2023-02-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual and In Person
Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing!
Andrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz, master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, and an all but dissertation in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature, writing, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College, where she teaches English. Andrea is the director of The Writing Center and of its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center, one of the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Graduate Pathways program (Activity 6). Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature, and her work is deeply invested in social justice.
This event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom.

This workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Amelia Glaser - Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929
2023-02-14 13:30 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events, which began with protests in Jerusalem, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the east European anti-Jewish pogrom. In this talk, Amelia Glaser will discuss how these events echoed in the transnational community of Yiddish poets, and will analyze poetry written in support of each side. The Yiddish poetry devoted to the clashes in Palestine a century ago help to illuminate how complex ideologies have long defined identity and community.
Amelia Glaser is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she holds the Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P., 2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP, 2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P., 2015) and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press, 2020). She is also a translator from, primarily, Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian. She is currently writing about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.

Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
2023-02-15 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal of reason under the pretext of law, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its lure.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies.
Keya Ganguly is Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity (2001) and Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010). She served as Senior Editor of Cultural Critique from 1998-2010, and her essays have appeared in Cultural Studies, New Formations, Race and Class, South Atlantic Quarterly, and History of the Present. Recent and forthcoming essays have explored Mahasweta Devi’s radical politics, the aesthetics of exile, and world cinema in dialectical perspective. She is currently writing a book on the revolutionary utopianism of the early Indian nationalist, Aurobindo Ghose, entitled Political Metaphysics.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

PhD+ Workshop - Identity, Belonging, and Community
2023-02-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Virtual and In Person
Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity, belonging, and community. All grads welcome!
From left to right – Lorato Anderson, Marilia Kaisar, Radhika Prasad
Lorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects, as well as providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences; her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies, in her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.
Marilia Kaisar (Lead Mentor – Arts) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Architecture Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her experimental practice uses affect theory and a feminist perspective to explore intersections of media, technology, and desire, using the body as the nexus point. Currently working on her dissertation titled “F*cking with the Virtual”.
Radhika Prasad (Lead Mentor – Humanities) “I’m a sixth year PhD candidate in the Literature department with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. My academic interests include South Asian literature and history, translation studies, language politics, and feminisms in the Global South. As a sixth year international student and a woman of color, I have found the university to be a space of immense possibility, but also great inequity. Peer mentorship programs are an important step towards bridging the knowledge gap, and making universities, classrooms, graduate programs, and research into more equitable spaces, and I am excited to contribute to this one.”
This workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
This event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions
2023-02-17 - 2023-02-18 | Virtual and In Person
“The Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions” will take place Friday, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in Humanities 2, Room 259 and virtual (Zoom: 99170004783 PW: [REDACTED] Please click here to view the full schedule.
Friday, February 17th from 3:00-5:00pm (PST)
Keynote presentation: Gramsci as a Typical Interwar Communist: The Vernacular and the War Over Language
Timothy Brennan
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
Saturday, February 18th from 9:00am-3:00 pm (PST)
Gramsci: Southern Questions Workshop
Panels and Roundtable including:
Michael Denning
Colleen Lye
Keya Ganguly
Aditya Bahl
Chris Connery
Massimiliano Tomba
Juned Shaikh
G. S. Sahota

What is Life? Conference
2023-02-18 09:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The conference addresses problems and inconsistencies in modern definitions of life by appealing to explicit and implicit definitions of life offered in ancient texts. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent as astrobiologists come closer to being able to detect biosignatures or signs of life on extrasolar planets, since the forms of life that exist on these planets may not fit within definitions of life generated by biologists for studying life on Earth. We think that ancient answers to this definitional problem may suggest fruitful directions in which contemporary, operating definitions of life could be expanded. Participants include experts on a wide array of ancient cultures whose work addresses concepts of life from a range of theoretical perspectives; we pay particular attention to speakers whose work addresses gendered and racialized views of life in antiquity. We also engage modernist scholars whose work has critiqued contemporary definitions of life. Finally—and most essentially—the conference is coordinated with UCSC’s astrobiology initiative and includes several speakers from scientific fields who can address the role of definitions in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Keynote: Carol Cleland, Philosophy (University of Colorado Boulder)
Also featuring:

Ruth Murray-Clay, Planetary Science (UC Santa Cruz)
Francesca Spiegel, Greek literature/medicine
Martin Devecka, Cultural history/Central Asia (UC Santa Cruz)
Michael Wong, Astrobiology (Carnegie Institution for Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory)
Amit Shilo, Greek literature and political theory (UC Santa Barbara)
Zac Zimmer, Latin American Literature and speculative fiction (UC Santa Cruz)
Mario Telo, Greek literature (UC Berkeley)
Tejas Aralere, Ancient science/Sanskrit (UC Santa Barbara)
Alex Purves, Greek literature (UCLA)
David Shorter, World Arts/Dance/Anthropology (UCLA)
Laurence Totelin, Ancient science/technology/medicine ( Cardiff University)
Anna Freidin Roman cultural history (University of Michigan)
Gina Konstantopoulos, Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies (UCLA)
James Porter Ancient literature and philosophy (UC Berkeley)
Giulia Maria Chesi Greek literature/history of technology
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, East Asian Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)
Karen ni Mheallaigh, Ancient science/fiction (John Hopkins Univeristy)
Colin Webster, Greek medicine (UC Davis)
Natalie Batalha, Astrobiology (UC Santa Cruz)
Maria Gerolemou, Greek Literature/History of technology (University of Exeter)
Stuart Bartlett, OOL and exoplanets (Cal Tech)

Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
2023-02-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College).
This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz.
This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html

Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
2023-02-22 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Event co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular (100 million registered users upload ~300,000 stories per day), and with their focus on user generated content and open access, promise to democratize contemporary cultural production. This talk explores how such platforms represent and accommodate Blackness, specifically examining the rise of a new genre category of writing: the #BLM story, over the past five years. Using a mixture of critical and computational methods, and drawing from critical race theory and platform studies, I ask: what textual features define this story, how do such features evolve over time, and how does this story differ from previous iterations of racial protest literature? Also: are such stories able to thrive on such platforms – what is their relationship to platform capitalism?
Richard Jean So is associate professor of English and digital humanities at McGill University. He focuses on computational and data-driven approaches to contemporary literature and culture, with a particular interest in race and inequality. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction, and he is at work on a new project called Fast Culture, Slow Justice: Race and Writing in the Platform Age. He has published in both academic journals like Critical Inquiry and PMLA and popular periodicals, such as The New York Times and The Atlantic.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

PhD+ Workshop - Accessing Campus Resources
2023-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS, Slug Support, Basic Needs, the Restorative Justice Program, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Food provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives.
This workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
This event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Living Writers - Shruti Swamy
2023-02-23 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her novel, The Archer, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and won the California Book Award for fiction. The winner of two O. Henry Awards, her work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeny’s, AFAR Magazine, and the New York Times.
She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, A Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Council, and Vassar College. She is a Kundiman Fiction Fellow, and lives in San Francisco.
Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)

Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop
2023-02-24 - 2023-02-25 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Participants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies in collaboration with the Center for Middle East and North Africa. Registration required.

Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
2023-02-24 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 2, Room 259
Junko Ito & Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
2023-02-26 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event
The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since its author died without providing a solution, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers.
Join Dickens enthusiast, writer, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes:
“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then, and still am, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know, that theory has stayed with me since, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.”
Reading Schedule
February 26: Chapters 1-9
March 26: Chapters 10-16
April 30: Chapters 17-End
Questions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree?
More Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html
Registration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg
The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.

John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
2023-02-28 15:30 - 17:00 | Stevenson College Library, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language.
This event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the event.
John R. Rickford is a member of the National Academy of Science, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow, the British Academy.

This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute, the Department of Linguistics, and the Stevenson Programs Office.

Tarek El-Ariss - The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
2023-03-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image – As I was moving to a new office in October 2020, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the image, blurring the top part of the page but leaving the paragraph intact. One can surmise that the copy was taken in haste, in a doctor’s office in the late ‘90s, somewhere in Upstate NY. It was a photocopy of a page in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) describing a condition wherein patients experience parasites or insects infesting their surroundings and crawling on their skin. Patients collect what they believe to be evidence of their infestation and bring it to the doctor in search of a cure. Where did this note come from? How did it find its way to that book in particular? And was its revelation during an office move at the height of Covid an accident, a coincidence, or a message from another time and place and experience? In this talk, I investigate the provenance of this note, embarking on a journey that leads me to the birthplace of the image and photocopying technology with companies such as Xerox and Kodak in Upstate NY. It also leads me to confront the ghosts and monsters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) that crawl into suitcases and possess tightly packed books and items of clothing as they cross oceans and go up rivers and canals. In the process, I reflect on hauntology and theory more generally, questioning its potential as a system of meaning that can access the past and reveal the hidden.
Tarek El-Ariss is an author, a scholar, and the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990) and trained in philosophy, literary theory, and visual and cultural studies, his work deals with questions of displacement, modernity, and the somatic in literature and culture. He has written about disoriented travelers, outcasts, queers, hackers, and characters with complicated relations to home, tribe, nation, and power. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham, 2013) and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2019), and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA, 2018). In 2021, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a forthcoming book entitled, “Homo Belum: An Autobiography of War.”

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
This event is co-sponsored by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute, funded by the UC Humanities Network, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.

UCSC Night at the Museum - Resettlement: Chicago Story
2023-03-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
What is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War II.
The event is part of the annual Night at the Museum hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. It is also co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League and will serve as this year’s Day of Remembrance. The evening will commence with a special performance by the Watsonville Taiko Group, followed by a screening of the film, a preview of the larger web experience, and a Q&A discussion with some of the project’s core creators. Marcia Hashimoto will attend and speak to the enduring legacy of her late and much beloved husband Mas Hashimoto. The event’s panel will feature key members of the project, including the film’s director and executive producer, website creators, and UC Santa Cruz’s Dean of Humanities, Jasmine Alinder, who led the research team.

Registration required. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 22, 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League, Full Spectrum Features, and the Museum of Art and History.
Panel participants:
Jasmine Alinder is the Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and a historian of photography, race, and civil rights. Beyond her published work and university service, Dr. Alinder has supported and worked on numerous public history projects, including Full Spectrum Feature’s The Orange Story, which is the prequel for Resettlement: Chicago Story. In the creation of Resettlement: Chicago Story, Dr. Alinder acted as the project’s lead academic advisor.
Clara Bergamini is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz who specializes in the social, political, and environmental history of disaster in modern Japan and East Asia. She worked as one of Resettlement: Chicago Story’s historians and researchers.

Patrick Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently working as a highschool teacher in Kentucky where he teaches U.S. history and social studies. He worked both as a historian and researcher for the Resettlement: Chicago Story project and as an advisor for integrating the project into K-12 curriculum.

Reina Higashitani is a first generation immigrant filmmaker based in NY/LA. She is the film writer and director for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as an Assistant Professor at the New American Film School at Arizona State University.

Jason Matsumoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American producer and musician from Chicago. He is the executive producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as the executive producer of film and the Co-Executive Director at Full Spectrum Features.

Ashley Cheyemi McNeil is a public humanities scholar who is currently acting as the Director of Education and Research at Full Spectrum Features, a role that she came into after joining the team as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow. Dr. McNeil is the project manager for Resettlement: Chicago Story.

Katherine Nagasawa is a multimedia journalist who specializes in participatory, place-based storytelling. Before becoming the web producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story, she produced a number of interactive web experiences about Chicago Japanese American history, including Uprooted and Reckoning.

RJ Ramey is the web designer behind Resettlement: Chicago Story and is the founder & Creative Director of Auut Studio (findauut.com). Based in San Francisco, he started the company in 2015 to design more compelling materials for high school history teachers and museum audiences. He is known for breaking some of the rules and stale expectations for digital humanities and now teams up with other scholars to do the same. As a public historian, RJ takes an intersectional approach and centers on stories of people of color.
Celine Parreñas Shimizu is the Dean of the Division of Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a film scholar and filmmaker whose most recent work includes her book The Proximity of Other Skins (2020) and the film 80 Years Later: On Japanese American Racial Inheritance (2022). She previously worked at San Francisco State University as a professor and Director of the School of Cinema and at UC Santa Barbara as chair of the Senior Women’s Council and as a professor teaching in Asian American, Feminist, and Film and Media Studies.

Co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League, Full Spectrum Features, and the Museum of Art and History.

Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
2023-03-02 16:30 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent industry, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism by extending deliberately truncated invitations to visit Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. The book shows how Palestinian organizers, under the constraints of military occupation, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative, wrest both the capacity to invite and, in Edward Said’s words, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control.
Prof. Jenny Kelly in conversation with Prof. Nick Mitchell and Prof. Sophia Azeb
Jennifer Kelly is an Associate Professor in FMST and CRES. She graduated from UCSC with a double major in FMST and LIT, and received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin.

Presented by Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Join in person in Humanities 210, or on zoom here.

Living Writers - Sara Freeman
2023-03-02 17:20 - 18:55 | Humanities Lecture Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel, Tides, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US), Hamish Hamilton (Canada), and Granta (UK).

Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)

PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
2023-03-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages.
The invited speaker for this session is Carlos Ulises Decena, an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences and whose intellectual projects engage and blur the boundaries among critical ethnic, queer, and feminist studies and social justice. His first book, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His second book, Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean will be published in Spring 2023 by Duke University Press.

The conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

PhD+ Workshop - Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
2023-03-03 11:30 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education.
But how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications have transformed the traditional pathways of publication, prestige, and engagement. Academics – experts in so many things – need to be part of the conversation. In fact, the variety of media voices has only made expertise and authority more important.
In this workshop, journalist and historian David M. Perry will lead you through the process of getting your voice into the public sphere. He will cover pragmatic topics: the art of the pitch, finding the right venue, managing social media profiles, getting paid, making it count for tenure and promotion, and protecting yourself from trolls and harassment. He will also talk about strategies to simultaneously maintain academic authority and be accessible to the broader public.
Through it all, you’ll be working on your pitches, reading essays that embody important traits, and developing your own ideas.
Over the last five years, David – once a mild-mannered medievalist – has become a columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine, with hundreds of published pieces at venues all over the world, including the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Along the way, he’s learned a lot about how to take academic expertise and share it with a much broader audience.
Going public isn’t easy, but neither is getting into graduate school, getting a PhD, or finding an academic job, so you’ve already traveled some pretty difficult paths. This workshop will start you on your way towards the next challenge.
Please come to the workshop with an idea for an essay that you might like to write. Essays could be about your scholarly expertise, personal experience, or anything else that interests you. We will mostly focus on traditional “op-ed” essays as a structure, but will also discuss blogging (iterative essay writing on a site under your control), reported pieces, and narrative/creative non-fiction (memoir, experimental prose, features, etc.). Complimentary lunch provided to attendees.
Please RSVP using your UCSC email address:
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About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
2023-03-03 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Rajesh Bhatt, U Mass
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive
2023-03-06 16:00 - 18:30 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness.

Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the author of Ways of Being Alive (Transl. Andrew Brown, Polity Books, 2022), On the Animal Trail (Transl. by Andrew Brown, Polity Books, 2021), and most recently Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map (Transl. by Catherine Porter, SUNY Press, 2022), as well as Rekindling Life: A Common Front (Transl. Catherine Porter, Polity Books, 2022).
Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications in feminist theory and feminist science studies include Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@.FemaleMan©- Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003); and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016).

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department, with the support of Villa Albertine San Francisco.

Elena Vasiliou – Queer Pleasure, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
2023-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Queer pleasure, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley).
This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.
This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html

Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
2023-03-07 17:00 - 18:30 | University Center, Bhojwani Room, CA, United States
Join Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials, this talk follows Black families as they have journeyed from birthing rooms to burial grounds, fighting for the ability to birth and nurture healthy babies. In charting the historical landscapes of Black infant death across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr. Muigai will examine the role of cultural practices, medical theories, and communal initiatives to explain and address the causes of Black infant death. The talk considers the legacy of these ideas and efforts in ongoing struggles to preserve Black life.
Wangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book, on the history of infant death in the Black experience, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.
Parking at the University Center: Please follow the directional signs for “Fighting for Life” from the base of campus to College Nine/John R. Lewis lot 165. Parking attendants will be on site for attendees to buy parking permits. From lot 165, there will be walking directional signs to the University Center, which is above the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall.
The event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.

PhD+ Workshop - Personal and Professional Wellness
2023-03-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Navigating UC health insurance and counseling services can be complicated for graduate students. Join the Graduate Student Commons for lunch and a panel with experts from our Student Health and Outreach Promotion office, UC SHIP insurance office, and Counseling and Psychological Services. You will leave with a clearer understanding of how to support your wellness in issues like referrals, bills, counseling, and more!
Food provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives.
This workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
This event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
2023-03-08 12:15 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
On the Internet, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag on the supposed ephemeral nature of online existence in the digital cloud: 1) Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press’ PGP Source Code and Internals (1995), a printed edition of the source code that forms the basis of all email cryptography; 2) William Gibson’s self-destructing cyberpoem Agrippa (1992), a literary work that uses pseudo-cryptography to subvert print culture and which, by producing an art object consumed (annihilated, even) within its reading, recovers a lyrical past against the drag of the future; and 3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s single-copy album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015), which by subverting the democratic nature of art, works against the drag of a speculative art market. The moral of each of these bookworks resides within the materiality of the object. What makes these three examples illustrative is that they all deal—in one way or another—with cryptography. In other words: the book’s secret, which is, in the end, nothing other than the book’s inescapable materiality, even in the digital era.
Zac Zimmer is Associate Professor of Literature at UCSC. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of literature, culture and technology in the hemispheric Americas. In addition to his current research on the infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC’s Astrobiology Initiative. His book First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas is forthcoming.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
2023-03-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Dr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical, methodological, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the 1990s wave of research on “minority health” and ethnic health disparities, revealing how a generation of researchers in the biological, social, and epidemiological sciences sought to elucidate the relationship between racism and health. A more recent article places that era of research, with its attention to the impact of stress on the internal environment of the body, within a longer genealogy of research on race, racism, and health. Among other threads for discussion, Dr. Muigai hopes we can consider the legacies of these concepts on contemporary scientific, medical, and popular discussions of Black health, including the Black maternal and infant health crisis.
Dr. Wangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book, on the history of infant death in the Black experience, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.
The event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.

The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
2023-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 | University Center, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The UCSC Arts Division, John R. Lewis College, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis, of the award wining graphic novel series MARCH.
Attendees will receive a free copy of the first book in the MARCH series, and can have it signed by Andrew Aydin after the show! Capacity is limited.

Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
2023-03-09 16:00 - 20:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective, present “Indigenous Border/lands,” an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, scholars and activists across the Americas.
4:00pm
Aa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero – Theresa Gregor, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, California State University Long Beach. Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian women, sovereignty, literary and cultural repatriation, and tribal cultural resiliency and revitalization.
6:00 pm
Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Empire – Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2022). Harsha Walia is a migrant justice activist whose work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change, generating mass dispossession worldwide.
This event is free and open to the public.
For anyone who would like to attend the event virtually, please register here.
On Friday, March 10, interdisciplinary scholars from across the country will gather for a day-long, closed-session symposium to consider the concept of borders and the borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Presentations across several symposium themes will result in publication of an Indigenous Borderlands journal in 2024. Please visit the Feminist Studies Department website for more info on the Friday symposium schedule. If interested in attending any or all of the panels, please contact Lisa Supple (lsupple@ucsc.edu). Seating is limited.

Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
2023-03-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Every other year since 1996, Zakir Hussain has served as curator, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, Masters of Percussion began as a platform for both popular and rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. While performing and collaborating in India for a few months every year, Hussain has sought and unearthed lesser-known folk and classical traditions which feed into the greater stream of Indian music, playing an educational role in affording them greater visibility, as well as introducing them to audiences in the West. 2023’s tour will also feature Sabir Khan, Tupac Mantilla, Melissa Hié, and Navin Sharma.
Over time, the constantly changing ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions, including jazz. The 2023 version will be no exception, presenting American audiences with extraordinary, exciting and spontaneous combinations of percussive, as well as melodic, performances. Past years have included master drummers from Central Asia, India, and the U.S.

Doors open at 6:30, performance begins at 7:30
Presented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute at UCSC

Jessica Marglin - The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
2023-03-13 12:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama’s riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews, Muslims, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional, cultural, and political borders.
Jessica Marglin is Associate Professor of Religion, Law, and History, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016) and the co-editor, with Matthias Lehmann, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2020). Her book The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.
This event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.

Elizabeth McKenzie, The Dog of the North
2023-03-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie’s highly-anticipated new novel, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
“Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last, The Portable Veblen, this is a screwball comedy worthy of a Preston Sturgis screenplay. You will be surprised, delighted, and grateful to be aboard The Dog of the North with the admirable Penny Rush as she faces every challenge her wild and crazy family can throw at her. A book that lifts the spirits.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails.
Elizabeth McKenzie, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains, a piñata, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way?
This slyly humorous, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most, we can be brought closer to our truest selves.

Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize; a collection, Stop That Girl, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World, a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts.

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone.

Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic - Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
2023-03-15 17:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium
Words whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ “cognate awareness” means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However, it is unclear if L2 learners really need to be made aware of cognateness. Another question is whether focusing on L1-L2 similarity is enough, considering that many students are learning a foreign language not as their L2, but as their L3. In this talk I will discuss whether raising “cognate awareness” indeed modulates the effectiveness of learning words in a foreign language. First, I will briefly present two classroom quasi-experiments concerning the acquisition of L2-English cognates and non-cognates by language learners with L1-Polish. Then, I will move on to a naturalistic classroom experiment on learning words in Italian as L3 by L1-Polish learners with L2-English. The talk will present robust and ecologically-valid evidence on acquiring cognates in a foreign language.

Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic, The University of Warsaw

Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
2023-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan, one of the most celebrated writers of our time, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th), her “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.
This event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”–which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others–has seduced multitudes.
In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles–from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.

Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, and The New York Magazine. Her website JenniferEgan.com.

Visit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jennifer-egan for more information.

Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
2023-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. There will also be time for you to pose any questions that you might have.
Students are invited to meet with Dr. Hamed over lunch on March 16th. Please email Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to RSVP.
Mohamed Hamed joined the University of California, Berkeley Library in 2017 as the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian. Mohamed joins the Library from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where, for the last seven years, he has been the Middle Eastern & African Studies Librarian. He has earned a BA, MA, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University. Previous professional affiliations include The American University in Cairo, Santa Monica College Library, and Arabic Language instruction at UNC Chapel Hill. Professionally Mohamed has participated in several key organizations including the Middle East Librarians Association, the Africana Librarians Council, and the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information.
This event is presented by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute, funded by the UC Humanities Network, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
2023-03-16 17:00 - 19:00 | University Center, Bhojwani Room, CA, United States
The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m.
In 1935, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism, Paul Valéry tried to identify in a lecture the origins of the crisis. Things were better, he said, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events, when “continuity reigned in the minds”. In this lecture, Juan Gabriel Vásquez will discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is in fact indispensable, for individuals and societies alike, and he will suggest that fiction –the literary imagination of the historical past– might be uniquely adept at restoring it when it is broken.
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins, which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations, a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling, a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years living in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now resides between Bogotá and New York City.
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.

Persian New Year Celebration
2023-03-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom, Zan, Zendegee, Azadee.” This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music and refreshments. Come with family and friends, everyone is welcome.
This event is presented in collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz, SILCA, UCSC ISU, and the UCSC Center for Middle East and North Africa.

Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
2023-03-17 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Marc Garellek (UC San Diego)
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

PhD+ Workshop - Community as Rebellion
2023-03-21 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, García Peña invites us—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures. She argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls “teaching in freedom”: a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge, silenced histories, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous, Black, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception, but also create alternative ways to be, create, live, and succeed through our work.
Community as Rebellion can be accessed here. Please ensure you are logged into your McHenry Library Account.
Dr. Lorgia García-Peña is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. Through her writing and teaching, Dr. García Peña insists on highlighting the knowledge, cultural, social and political contributions of people who have been silenced from traditional archives. She is the author of three books , the award-winning The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket, 2022). Additionally, her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Boston Review and Harper’s Bazaar. She has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, Univision and Telemundo and is a regular contributor to NACLA and Asterix Journals.
An engaged scholar committed to liberating education and bridging the gaps that separate the communities she comes from (Black, immigrant, working) and the university, Dr. García Peña is also a co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, a school that provides college instruction to undocumented students and the co-director of Archives of Justice a transnational digital archive project that centers the life of people who identify as Black, queer and migrant. She has been widely recognized for her public facing work: in 2022 she received the Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship, in 2021 the Margaret Casey Foundation named her a Freedom Scholar, and in 2017 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented her a Disobedience Award for the co-founding of Freedom University. Additionally, her scholarship has been supported by the Ford Foundation, The Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Future of Minority Studies Fellowship. García-Peña received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Latin American and Latino Literatures from Rutgers University. Currently, she serves as the Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department in Studies of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University.
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This event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
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Let’s talk about ChatGPT Panel
2023-03-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
ChatGPT rolled out as a disruptive and instantly polarizing new technology. Should we see it as an impediment or an asset to student learning? Should we just look to other new technologies to detect student use of ChatGPT, or could there be pedagogical applications of ChatGPT that could further learning? On campus, faculty are shaping the future of ChatGPT through their choices in the classroom. We hope you will join us on Tuesday, March 21, from 12:00-1:30 to learn about how ChatGPT works and to hear from UC Santa Cruz faculty on how they are thinking about and even incorporating ChatGPT in their course planning. Panelists include Leilani H. Gilpin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Zac Zimmer, Associate Professor of Literature; and Jennifer Parker, Professor of Art. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Humanizing Technology, Humanities Division.
To attend, join us in the Teaching and Learning Lab (McHenry Library 2359), or register by Zoom.
CITL event page with more info: https://citl.ucsc.edu/resources/chatgpt/

Taija McDougall – Plantations Derivations
2023-03-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 420, Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine).
This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.
This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html

A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
2023-03-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and local poet Chris Mattingly for a very special evening of poetry and conversation. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
Ross Gay’s newest book is Inciting Joy:
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.
In “We Kin,” Gay thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket,” he explores skateboarding’s reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying.
In an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?
Taking a clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable, transgressive, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact, it just might help us survive.

Ross Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights: Essays and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.

Chris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Scuffletown (Typecast, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Louisville Review, Trigger, Lumberyard, Still, Some Call it Ballin’, and Forklift, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings, hand-made artist’ books, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.

NEH Funders Panel
2023-03-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
To watch this Zoom recording of this virtual discussion with Senior Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities, please email Caitlin Charos.

Featuring:
Jill Austin is a senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at NEH. She arrived at NEH in 2015 after two decades of work in museums and nonprofits that serve museums. Prior to her role at NEH, Austin was a curator at the Chicago History Museum for ten years. Her last exhibition, The Secret Lives of Objects, featured objects boasting mysterious pasts from the permanent collection and opened in 2015. Another major exhibition, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads, opened in 2011 and was the result of a three-year curatorial collaboration with historian Jennifer Brier of the University of Illinois, Chicago. They also co-edited and contributed to an accompanying anthology of essays of the same title on Chicago LGBT and queer history. With Brier, she also contributed a chapter to Susan Ferentinos’ anthology Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites. Previously, Austin served as a curator at Detroit Historical Museums and was an exhibition and publication coordinator at Exhibitions International, a New York-based traveling exhibitions firm that specialized in design and the decorative arts. She got her start in the museum field as an educator at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. A native of southeast Michigan, she earned a BA in history/classics from Eastern Michigan University, and received an MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh.
Julia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Julia’s graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She has published numerous articles on education, domestic service, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she was an assistant professor of history, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. In the Division of Education Programs, Julia works with all of the division’s programs and serves at the program lead for Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.

PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
2023-03-24 13:30 - 14:30 | Virtual Event
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program.
Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
Please join us for an information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 24, 2023, and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities.
All THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend the Info Session on March 24th, 2023 or meet with THI Staff by April 14th, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20, 2023.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
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2023 Latino Role Models Conference
2023-03-25 09:00 - 13:00 | Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, 95003, United States
This exciting FREE annual conference features Latino/a college students and professionals and performances inspiring students to achieve their dreams for college and career. This year, we are excited to welcome Olga Talamante as the keynote speaker! The conference is conducted in Spanish with English translation at the Crocker Theater, Cabrillo College. Please complete the registration below to ensure your spot at this year’s conference on March 25th, 2023 from 9:00-1:00 PM.
Esta emocionante conferencia anual GRATUITA presenta a estudiantes y profesionales latinos / a universitarios y representaciones que inspiran a los estudiantes a alcanzar sus sueños universitarios y profesionales. Este año, esperamos dar la bienvenida a Olga Talamante como oradora principal! La conferencia se lleva a cabo en español con traducción al inglés al teatro Crocker, Cabrillo College. Complete el registro a continuación para asegurar su lugar en la conferencia de este año el 25 de marzo 9:00-1:00 PM.

Olga Talamante is Executive Director Emerita of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003 serving in that position until she retired in March of 2018.
Ms. Talamante’s family migrated from Mexico to Gilroy, California in the early 1960’s where they worked in the farm fields for several years. Those formative years formed the basis for her activism as an organizer and supporter of the nascent United Farm Workers labor union. She is widely respected for her long-standing community activism and leadership. During the mid-seventies, she became well known for her experience as a political prisoner in Argentina. As a result of a successful grass-roots campaign, she was released after spending 16 months in an Argentine prison. After returning to the United States, she remained active in the Chicana/o, Latin American solidarity, LGBTQ and progressive political movements. She serves on several boards and currently co-chairs the Caravan for the Children, which advocates for the release, reunification and healing of the children separated at the southern border. She holds a B.A. in Latina American History from UC Santa Cruz and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. During the month of October 2022, she received the following awards: The Visionary Award from Horizons Foundation, The Rosario Anaya Community Service Award from The San Francisco Latino Heritage Committee, The History Maker Award from the GLBT Historical Society and the Distinguished Citizen award from the Commonwealth Club.
Erandi García, originally from Morelia, Mexico, has worked in various media outlets in Mexico and the United States, such as: TV Azteca Michoacán, Univision 67 and Telemundo 48 in the Bay Area. She has won the Emmy Award for excellence in news, among other distinctions. Erandi is the founder of a non-profit organization called Juntos Podemos whose mission is to inform and educate the Spanish-speaking population about public health and safety. She currently works for the Hospice Giving Foundation in Monterey, California. When she’s not working, Erandi likes to walk on the beach, hike, and plan the next adventure with her family.

PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Johnson
2023-03-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages.
The invited speaker for this session is Melissa Johnson, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies and chair of the Race and Ethnicity Studies program at Southwestern University, a small liberal arts college near Austin, Texas. Her research and writing are primarily focused on Belize’s rural Afro-Caribbean communities and the inter-relationship between ecologies, economies, and racial formations, both historically and in the present day in these communities. Along with her book, Becoming Creole: Race and Nature in Belize (Rutgers 2018), she has numerous articles in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, and several scholarly projects underway, including work on the racial history of Southwestern University.

The conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
2023-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
In Recording History, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. In doing so, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present.
Christopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation, the American Academy of Jewish Research, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Jewish Social Studies, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

C. Nadia Seremetakis – A Journey through Border Spaces of the Everyday
2023-04-05 12:00 - 13:30 | zoom, CA, United States
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
The border is the shared topos of the anthropologist, the historian, the archaeologist, the artist, the musician and the poet, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future with the present, the inside with the outside, the particular with the general, ideas with the senses. This lecture explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. Drawing on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork, writing, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic, American-trained, post-Boasian anthropologist.
C. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of cultural anthropology and the author of seven books including poetry. She is best known for her ethnographies The Senses Still, The Last Word: Women Death Divination, and Sensing the Everyday, written in two languages. Born and raised in Greece, she studied and taught in New York where she lived for more than two decades and later joined the University of the Peloponnese. She has conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world and to this day she divides her life between USA and Europe.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Legal Studies Program Annual Distinguished Lecture: Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias
2023-04-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the “most important Afro-Latina voice on civil rights today,” Hernández argues that unmasking Latino anti-Black bias is essential for fostering multiracial democracy in the United States.

This event is open to all. Copies of Racial Innocence will be available for purchase.
The UCSC Legal Studies Program and Professor Hernández are making 50 copies of the book available free to UCSC students who attend.
Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, and an Associate Director of Fordham’s Center on Race, Law and Justice. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Racial Justice, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Feminist Studies Department, History Department, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, Philosophy Department, Politics Department, Sociology Department, and The Humanities Institute

Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
2023-04-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.”
Over the course of three sessions, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere.
Virtual Sessions | Zoom Registration

April 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia
May 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere, Chapters 1-20
June 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

The first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change, including literary responses, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments.
The second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia.
Deanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA, Representations, ELH, Novel, Mosaic, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor, along with Devin Griffiths, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’

Humanities Faculty Research Forum
2023-04-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Understanding Your Research Support Ecosystem
Please join us in person for a brief presentation about the Research Cycle followed by a meet-and-greet with the team that supports your research. Breakfast will be served.

For those who cannot attend in person, the presentation portion of the event will be available on Zoom.
Opening Remarks
Jasmine Alinder
Dean of Humanities
John MacMillan
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
Moderated by
Irena Polić
Assistant Dean for Research and Engagement, Humanities
Featuring
Deirdre Beach
Executive Director, Sponsored Research Administration
Heather Bell
Director of Research Development
Sarah Carle
Executive Director of Foundation Relations
Caitlin Charos
Research Development Specialist, Humanities & Humanistic Social Sciences
Mayra Gonzales-Adler
Proposal Analyst, Office of Sponsored Projects
Alison Hansen
Accounting/Research Manager, Humanities
Nutan Mellegers
Associate Director, Office of Sponsored Projects
Katie Novak
Finance Director, Humanities
Caroline Rodriguez
Associate Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations

Paromita Vohra – The Lovers’ Argument: What Bollywood Songs Taught Me About Making Documentaries
2023-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
As a documentary filmmaker, working in India, and especially as one interested in political conversation and social change, you inherit a form. The documentary form ostensibly exists outside commercial mainstream Indian cinema, privileges realism, and is marked by ethical nobility and commitment, and a willingness to be a little bit bored for a political cause. Shorn of frivolity, of excess, of emotional unpredictability and most importantly of pleasure, such settled pieties of the documentary form are difficult to accept. Instead, I offer, a kind of Hindi film duet, as the basis for thinking about documentary form: the lover’s argument which invokes shared experience, seduction, dangerous knowledge, revelation and pleasure. What kind of politics might this aesthetic suggest, when the argument is made in the service of connection, not conquest?
The talk will be illustrated with clips from my work.
Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer who works with a range of forms, including film, comics, digital media, installation art and writing to explore themes of feminism, desire, urban life and popular culture. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Wellcome Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art, and screened around the world. Her films as director include the documentaries Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra? and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahanai, among others and a series of short musical films including The Amourous Adventures of Megha and Shakku in the Valley of Consent. She has written the fiction feature Khamosh Pani, the documentaries Skin Deep, Stuntmen of Bollywood, and If You Pause, the play Ishquiya:Dharavi Ishtyle and the comic Priya’s Mirror. She has published several essays on film, popular culture, love and desire as well as short stories and writes a weekly newspaper column, Paro-normal Activity in Sunday Mid-day. In 2015 she founded the Agents of Ishq, an award-winning digital platform for conversations on sex, love and desire in India and is currently its Creative Director.
This event is sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. The Center for South Asian Studies is delighted to welcome its first South Asian artist/activist-in-residence, Paromita Vohra. Paromita will be in residence at UCSC from April 10-April 24, 2023.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, April 12, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

THI Public Fellowship Information Session
2023-04-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program.
Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
Please join us for a second information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities.
All THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by April 14th, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20, 2023.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh 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.
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Living Writers - Zaina Alsous
2023-04-13 17:20 | Virtual Event
Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press, 2019), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her poetry, reviews, and essays have been published in Poetry magazine, Kenyon Review, the New Inquiry, Adroit, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the southern United States.

Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Laurie Sain Endowment, The Humanities Institute, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)

Deep Read Partner Event: Confronting Climate Change
2023-04-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
The Deep Read is partnering with Confronting Climate Change, an annual public lecture series that brings together scientists, artists, policy experts, and community members to discuss our planet’s wellbeing and share solutions for our future.
This online event will spark conversation and thought on how research in the natural and social sciences can lead to climate change solutions and preserve the overall environmental health and wellbeing of our planet.
We invite members of the community and general public to engage and participate in the Zoom-based event on Thursday, April 13, at 6 p.m.

Panel Discussion
Presenters will discuss the social and economic transformations that will be required in order to address the health impacts of climate change, and together we will think about how climate change might inspire us to work towards a more livable future.
Speakers
Julie Livingston, New York University
Matthew Huber, Purdue University
Bharat Venkat, UC Los Angeles
Moderator
Andrew Mathews, UC Santa Cruz
Learn more and register.

Paisley Currah – This Anti-Trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center
2023-04-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
The current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of (trans)gender governance.
Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the co-founder of the leading journal in transgender studies, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Currah’s book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, published last year by New York University Press, reveals the hidden logics that have governed sex classification policies in the United States in the past and shows what the regulation of transgender identity can tell us about society’s approach to sex and gender writ large.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
Please note: this is a hybrid event. To receive a link, please RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Linguistics Colloquia: Bryan Donaldson
2023-04-14 13:20 - 15:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Bryan Donaldson, UC Santa Cruz
Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world.
For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
2023-04-14 14:30 - 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons
Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support, including from national funding organizations like the SSRC.
The workshop will be led by Catalina Vallejo (Program Director for the SSRC Just Tech Program) and Sharon Kinoshita (Interim Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Literature). As part of the workshop, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications.
Catalina Vallejo is program director for the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Program. Catalina holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in cultural studies from Universidad de los Andes, and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her doctoral work focused on post-conflict in Colombia and Peru and was funded by the SSRC and the National Science Foundation. Before joining the SSRC, she worked in development consulting. She is fluent in English and Spanish, grew up in Bogotá (Colombia), and travels frequently to the region.
https://www.ssrc.org/staff/vallejo-pedraza-diana-catalina/
Sharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS, the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Academy in Berlin, and other institutions.
This event will be held in-person in the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) Fireside Lounge.
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This event is being presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Max Weiss: Revolutions Aesthetic
2023-04-17 12:30 - 14:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Please join us for a talk by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University), who will be discussing his new book on cultural production in Ba’thist Syria, Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Baʻthist Syria (Stanford University Press, 2022). Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics, authoritarianism, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources—novels, films, and cultural periodicals—Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership, gender and power, comedy and ideology, surveillance and the senses, witnessing and temporality, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state, society, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years.
Lunch will be served. Any graduate students would like a copy of his book, please contact muhdavis@ucsc.edu.

What’s Happening in Peru? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Structural Crisis
2023-04-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual Event
Peru has been in a state of political and humanitarian crisis since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment. When acting President Dina Boluarte–Castillo’s former vice president—announced that elections would not be held until May 2024, Peruvians across the country took to the streets first to demand elections and a constitutional assembly and then, when the national police violently repressed protests, to demand Boluarte’s resignation. Months later, more than 60 Peruvians have died, including 47 protestors killed by state forces, mostly from Southern Andean regions of the country, and Boluarte has refused to resign.
The current situation in Peru is the latest expression of a deep structural crisis, rooted in historical relations of dominance since colonial times in the highly centralized country. This is reflected in the long-standing conflictive relationship between the capital, Lima, and the other regions, which has polarized the public debate even more. The role of media and emerging technologies have played a crucial role in how these protests have been represented, adding fire to this polarization. To understand this multidimensional crisis from multidisciplinary perspectives, this round table features scholars from both the humanities and social sciences who will reflect on the historical, social, cultural, economic, and political implications of the ongoing crisis for the future of Peru.
Panelists
Aldair Mejía (Photojournalist, Lima) is a photojournalist based in Lima, Peru. He currently focuses his work on political issues, social conflicts, portraits, concerts, among other events in the country. During the last years Aldair has been working as a collaborator for the EFE agency of Spain and Diario La República, his photographs have been published by agencies such as CNN in Spanish, EFE Agency, New York Times, Clarín, La Vanguardia, Washington Post, etc. He is also a member of the Association of Photo Journalists of Peru (AFPP). Finalist in the IPYS contest, Recognition in the 35 Awards, Second Place in the Photojournalism category in the Entel contest, Winner in the PhotoEspaña contest.
Cecilia Mendez (UCSB) is a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Peruvian historian specialized in the social and political history of Peru in the national period, she received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and numerous prestigious awards, including the Howard Cline book prize for her book The Plebeian Republic (Duke, 2005). Her work calls the attention on the importance of late eighteenth-century, and nineteenth-century political developments in shaping modern conceptions nationhood, citizenship, and “race” in Peru. She has investigated the historical relationship between the peasants and the militaries, and the role of war and the army in the construction of the state. She is a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República.
Carlos Molina-Vital (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) currently works as an instructor and director of the Quechua Program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has two master’s degrees in Linguistics: one from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2005), the other from Rice University, in Houston, Texas (2012). He is currently finishing his doctorate in Andean Studies (Linguistics) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His studies of the Quechua languages ​​include varieties spoken in Ancash, Ayacucho, Apurimac, and Cuzco in Peru. Since 2018, he has coordinated the QINTI project (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative). With his collaborators he is currently writing Ayni, which aims to an open access manual for Southern Quechua and intended to help teachers and students of Quechua in the United States and around the world draw on the shared characteristics and diversity of Quechua varieties mutually intelligible in Peru and Bolivia.
Mariela Noles Cotito (Universidad del Pacífico, Lima) is a Professor of Political Science and of Discrimination and Public Policy at Universidad del Pacifico, in Lima, Peru. Her research agenda includes topics of gender equality, social inclusion policies in Peru, and how the intersection of different systems of oppression position different groups of people outside of the scope of legal protection. Most recently she is focused on exploring the effectiveness of ethnoracial legislation to promote and protect the rights of Afrodescendants in Peru. She holds a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania, and two MA degrees in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of South Florida. Concurrently, she has held positions in the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Culture in Peru, and a top advisory position in the Office of Women and Equality of the Metropolitan Municipality of the City of Lima on issues of diversity and social inclusion.
Nelson Pereyra (Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho) is a historian, graduated from the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, with master’s studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. In addition, he holds a Ph.D. in History with a Mention in Andean Studies. His lines of research are related to the political participation of peasants in the formation of the Peruvian State and to regional history and culture. He has recently published the books: History, Memory and Symbolism of Holy Week in Ayacucho, State, Memory and Contemporary Society in Ayacucho, Cusco and Lima (edited together with Claudia Rosas) and Living and Active regions: Knots and Foundations of Contemporary Peru (co-authored with Susana Aldana Rivera).
Moderators
Alejandra Watanabe Farro (LALS, UCSC)
Amanda Smith (Literature, UCSC)
Carla Hernández Garavito (Anthropology, UCSC)
Co-organized with Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute, UCSC)

Registration required to receive the zoom link.
In Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation
This event is presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Department of Latino and Latin American Studies, the Spanish Studies program, Arts Research Institute, and the Dolores Huerta Research Center.

¿Qué está pasando en el Perú? Perspectivas interdisciplinarias para entender una crisis estructural
Desde principios de diciembre del 2022, el Perú atraviesa una crisis política y humanitaria cuando estallaron las protestas a raíz del intento fallido del expresidente Pedro Castillo de cerrar el Congreso para evitar la vacancia por incapacidad moral. Cuando la presidenta en funciones Dina Boluarte –exvicepresidenta de Castillo– anunció que las elecciones no se realizarían hasta mayo de 2024, peruanos de todo el país salieron a las calles primero para exigir elecciones y asamblea constituyente y, cuando la Policía Nacional y el Ejército reprimieron violentamente las protestas, exigir la renuncia de Boluarte. Meses después, más de 60 peruanos han muerto, incluidos al menos 47 manifestantes asesinados por las fuerzas estatales, en su mayoría de las regiones andinas del sur del país, y Boluarte se niega a renunciar.
La situación actual del Perú es la expresión más reciente de una profunda crisis estructural, arraigada en históricas relaciones de dominio desde la época colonial en un país altamente centralizado. Esto se refleja en la conflictiva relación entre la capital, Lima, y ​​las demás regiones, que ha polarizado aún más el debate público. El papel de los medios y las nuevas tecnologías ha jugado un papel crucial en la forma en que se han representado estas protestas, agregando tensión a esta polarización. Para comprender esta crisis estructural desde perspectivas multidisciplinarias, esta mesa redonda convoca académicos de las humanidades y ciencias sociales para reflexionar colectivamente sobre las implicaciones históricas, sociales, culturales, económicas y políticas de la crisis actual para el futuro de Perú.
Panelistas
Aldair Mejía es Fotoperiodista, en Lima,Perú, cuyo trabajo se centra principalmente en coberturas de prensa. Actualmente enfoca su labor en temáticas políticas, conflictos sociales, retratos, conciertos, entre otros acontecimientos en el país. Durante los últimos años Aldair ha estado trabajando como colaborador para la agencia EFE de España y Diario La República, sus fotografías han sido publicadas las agencias, como CNN en español, Agencia EFE, New York Times, Clarín, La Vanguardia, Washington Post, etc. También es miembro de la Asociación de Foto Periodistas del Perú (AFPP). Finalista en el concurso IPYS, Reconocimieno en los 35 Awards, Segundo Puesto en la categoria de Fotoperiodismo en el concurso de Entel, Ganador en el concurso de PhotoEspaña.
Cecilia Mendez es profesora de Historia en la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara. Historiadora peruana especializada en la historia social y política del Perú en el período nacional, recibió su Ph.D. de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Stony Brook, y varios prestigiosos premios, incluido el premio del libro Howard Cline por su libro The Plebeian Republic (Duke, 2005). Su trabajo llama la atención sobre la importancia de los desarrollos políticos de finales del siglo XVIII y del siglo XIX en la formación de las concepciones modernas de nación, ciudadanía y “raza” en el Perú. Y han investigado la relación histórica entre los campesinos y los militares, y el papel de la guerra y el ejército en la construcción del Estado. Es columnista del diario peruano La República.
Carlos Molina-Vital se desempeña como instructor y responsable del Programa de Quechua en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign. Tiene dos maestrías en Lingüística: una de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2005), la otra de la Universidad Rice, en Houston, Texas (2012). Actualmente está terminando su doctorado en Estudios Andinos en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Sus estudios de las lenguas quechuas incluyen variedades habladas en Ancash, Ayacucho, Apurímac y Cuzco en Perú. Desde 2018 coordina el proyecto QINTI (Iniciativa de Innovación y Enseñanza Quechua, por sus siglas en inglés). Con sus colaboradores está escribiendo actualmente Ayni, que busca ser un manual de acceso abierto para quechua sureño y destinado a ayudar a profesores y estudiantes de quechua en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo a partir de las características compartidas y la diversidad de las variedades quechua mutuamente inteligibles habladas en Perú y Bolivia.
Mariela Noles Cotito es profesora de Ciencia Política, y Discriminación y Políticas Públicas en la Universidad del Pacífico. Es abogada por la PUCP; máster en Derecho por la University of Pennsylvania; máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos y máster en Ciencia Política, con una concentración en Etnicidad en Países Andinos, por la University of South Florida. Su portafolio de investigación incluye temas de derechos humanos, igualdad de género y no discriminación, así como el análisis de políticas públicas de inclusión en el país. Ha sido parte de equipos técnicos en el Ministerio de la Mujer, el Ministerio de Cultura y la Gerencia de la Mujer de la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima.
Nelson Pereyra es historiador, egresado de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga, con estudios de maestría en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide en España. Además, es doctor en Historia con Mención de Estudios Andinos. Sus ejes de investigación están relacionados con la participación política de los campesinos en la formación del Estado peruano y con la historia y cultura regional. Recientemente ha publicado los libros: Historia, memoria y simbolismo de la Semana Santa de Ayacucho, Estado, memoria y sociedad contemporánea en Ayacucho, Cusco y Lima (editado junto a Claudia Rosas) y Regiones vivas y activas: nudos y fundamentos del Perú contemporáneo (en coautoría con Susana Aldana Rivera).

Kristin Lawler – Surfing, Capitalism, and the Refusal of Work
2023-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
In this talk, I will examine surfing as a countercultural practice and will consider the ways in which it constitutes a lived refusal of the logic of capital. I will look at several contemporary and historical iterations of the surf image in popular culture to think through its political significance, and will survey the state of the new field of “surf studies.”
Kristin Lawler is Professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. She is author of The American Surfer, published in 2011, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Roll and Flow: the Political Ontology of Surf and Skate. Her work appears in numerous edited collections, including Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School (forthcoming); Class: the Anthology; Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory; Bohemias in Southern California; and The Critical Surf Studies Reader. She is a contributing member of the editorial board of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Radical Imagination.

The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.
RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM.
Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.

Valuing Engaged Scholarship in the Tenure and Promotion Process
2023-04-19 15:30 - 17:30 | Rachel Carson College Red Room, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Join Campus + Community in a forum with campus leaders about taking stock of engaged scholarship in the tenure and promotion process at UC Santa Cruz and across the UC system. UCSC has developed several new sets of guidelines that will help engaged scholars to talk about and elevate their teaching and research. These guidelines will also help departments, deans, the Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP) and senior leadership to evaluate engaged scholar files. Presenters will share the ways that campus is seeking to support engaged scholarship in the merit process and will take questions from the audience about how to move forward.
Register to attend virtually
Register to attend in person
Featuring:

Rebecca London – Faculty Direct of Campus and Community and Associate Professor of Sociology
Herbie Lee – Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Jasmine Alinder – Dean of Humanities
Susan Gillman – Professor of Literature and Committee on Academic Personnel

The workshop starts at 3:30 p.m. with a reception starting at 4:30 p.m.
For more information, visit the Campus and Community website.
Questions? Contact Campus + Community: cam_com@ucsc.edu

Karina Walters - Transcending Historical Trauma: How to Address American Indian Health Inequities and Promote Thriving
2023-04-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Cowell Ranch Hay Barn, Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Throughout history, settler colonialism has endeavored to erase the lived experiences and histories of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. Yet, Indigenous populations, particularly Indigenous women, remain strong and resilient pillars of communities. Oftentimes these [her]stories are missed in public health initiatives as a result of settler colonialism’s perpetual drive to erase and silence. In this talk, Dr. Walters will explore the latest advances in designing culturally derived, Indigenist health promotion interventions among American Indian and Alaska Native women. The talk will describe the indigenist methodological innovations utilized in the NIH funded Yappalli Choctaw Road to Health, a culturally focused, land-based obesity and substance abuse prevention program as well as the national multi-site Honor Project Two-Spirit Health Study. Consistent with tribal systems of knowledge, both studies illustrate the importance of developing culturally derived health promotion interventions rooted in Indigenist thoughtways and land-based practices to promote Indigenous thrivance and community well-being.

Dr. Karina L. Walters (MSW, PhD) is the recently appointed Director of the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institute of Health. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a Katherine Hall Chambers University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, and Co-Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) at the University of Washington. Dr. Walters is world renowned for her expertise in developing behavioral and multi-level health interventions steeped in culture to activate health-promoting behaviors. She has written landmark papers on traumatic stress and health, historical and intergenerational trauma, and originated the Indigenist Stress-Coping model. She has led 22 NIH-funded studies, is one of the leading American Indian scientists in the country, and is only one of two American Indians (and the only Native woman) ever invited to deliver the prestigious Director’s lecture to the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) at the NIH. She is the first American Indian Fellow inductee into the American Academy of Social Welfare and Social Work (AASWSW).

Event logistics: Bicycling, car pooling, ridesharing, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. If you drive to the event, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or 116. To reach these lots, proceed through the main entrance to campus, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here.
If you have disability-related needs, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by April 12, 2023.
This event is part of the “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
