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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cláudio Bueno – what we couldn’t (…) alone
DESCRIPTION:The talk will reflect on ways of (thinking/caring/moving/fighting/feeling/imagining…) together. It will address our ability to invent forms of collective engagement and debate on complex socio-environmental issues. Conversations will be triggered by the artistic practices and public programs carried out by the artist and professor Cláudio Bueno\, working collectively with social\, ecological\, and land-based movements\, cultural and educational institutions\, networks\, territories\, platforms\, and groups. \nCláudio Bueno is an artist and curator from Sao Paulo\, Brazil. He is an Assistant Professor in Social Design at the UCSC Art Department\, teaching at the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA. Bueno is also an affiliated professor of Visualizing Abolition Studies. He has engaged in several collaborative practices committed to social and environmental justice\, featuring in many international exhibitions\, artistic residencies\, awards\, and talks. More at: https://art.ucsc.edu/people/claudio-bueno \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-with-claudio-bueno-ucsc-arts/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231211T133000
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SUMMARY:Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to their third lunch meeting scheduled for December 11th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \nWe are elated to announce that Philosophy Ph.D candidate\, Dustin Gray\, will be speaking on AI consciousness at our next meeting on December 11th. Using the work of linguist and cognitive scientist\, Dr. Noam Chomsky\, as a framework\, Gray will walk us through his analysis of AI and human intelligence in his upcoming paper. \nIn addition\, we will use half of our December meeting for people to present work they are doing in a bit more detail through a series of 2 minute lightning talks. If you are interested in sharing your ideas/work in progress briefly\, please fill out a slide in this presentation before Friday\, December 8th. \nAs the principal investigator\, Professor Minghui Hu\, will be abroad for a conference in Taiwan and China\, this meeting will be hosted by Professor Pranav Anand from the Linguistics Department and faculty Director for the Humanities Institute. In the meantime\, to be notified of upcoming speakers and presentations\, you can subscribe to the Google Calendar embedded in the events tab on our website (please hit the plus sign in the bottom right corner of the calendar screen to do so). \nWe encourage you to bring your own lunch to this meeting as this is an uncatered event. Until then\, please continue to check our website for more updates on the cluster’s upcoming projects and presenters. \nFor those who prefer to schedule in advance\, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided)\, 11/6\, 12/11\, 1/8 (lunch provided)\, 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia)\, 3/4\, 4/8 (lunch provided)\, and 5/6. THI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings\, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We are honored to have Professor Davide Panagia from UCLA present on 2/12; arrangements are underway to secure another external speaker for a subsequent session. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-lunch-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T110000
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231215T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231215T103000
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Four – Beatrice’s Authority
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nElena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford\, and the Paget Toynbee Fellow and Tutor in Medieval Studies at Balliol College. She is the author of five books: The Syntax of Desire. Language and Love in Augustine\, the Modistae\, Dante (Toronto UP\, 2007)\, The Wings of the Doves. Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (McGill UP\, 2012)\, Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (Oxford UP\, 2018)\, Beatrice e le altre. Dante e l’universo femminile (Roma-LaRepubblica\, 2021)\, and Dante’s Ulisse and Other Stories (Forthcoming: 2023). She has written several articles on medieval and early modern topics and is one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Dante (Oxford UP\, 2021).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-four-beatrices-authority/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231222T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231222T103000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Five – The Sun (Paradiso 10–13) and The Body of Knowledge (Paradiso 14)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \nFilippo Gianferrari is originally from Modena\, Italy. He has received a BA and MA in Letteratura italiana from the Università degli Studi di Bologna\, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. After completing his Ph.D.\, he taught at Vassar College and Smith College. He has been part of the Literature Department at UCSC since 2019. He works on Dante\, Petrarch\, and Boccaccio\, lay education\, and political theology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is interested in the ways literature and education (particularly literacy) intersect with and inform each other. He has published mostly on the topic of Dante’s intellectual formation and he has completed a monograph titled “Dante’s Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics.” The book investigates Dante’s debts to his earliest school readings and his critical stance toward contemporary education. His attention is now devoted to the study of vernacular theories and visions of political charity and eschatology.\n \nRon Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York\, Geneseo. In addition to Geneseo\, where he continues to teach Dante\, he has taught Dante at Georgetown University\, St. John’s College in Santa Fe\, New York University\, Regis High School\, and Attica Correctional Facility. He has directed eighteen Summer Seminars for Schoolteachers through the National Endowment for the Humanities\, twelve of which were on Dante in Italy. With his colleague Bill Cook\, he teaches the Divine Comedy through a twenty- four-lecture course available through the Great Courses series produced by The Teaching Company. Together with Cook\, he was the recipient of the first CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies from the Medieval Academy of America. He has written over fifty articles and reviews on Dante\, with emphasis on Dante and the Franciscans\, and on Dante and the visual arts. The Medieval World View (Oxford University Press\, with Bill Cook)\, now in its third edition\, has been in print since 1984. With Richard Emmerson\, he is the author of The Apocalyptic Tradition in Medieval Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 1994)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-five-the-sun-paradiso-10-13-and-the-body-of-knowledge-paradiso-14/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240108T120000
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SUMMARY:Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to their first lunch meeting of the quarter scheduled for January 8th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. \nThe research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \nThe Humanities Institute (THI) will graciously cater lunch. Once we have obtained our meals\, we will gather and take our seats. 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this\, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess\, Magy Seif El-Nasr and Mark Howard will begin their presentations\, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow. \nMagy Seif El-Nasr is a professor and department chair of computational media at the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She directs the Game User Interaction and Intelligence (GUII) Lab. Dr. Seif El-Nasr earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Computer Science in 2003. Her research focuses on two goals (a) developing automated tools and techniques for authoring\, adapting\, and personalizing virtual environments (e.g.\, interactive narrative\, believable agents\, and games)\, and (b) developing evidence-based methodologies to measure the effectiveness of game environments through the development of novel process mining and visual analytics systems. During her tenure\, she worked in AI\, data science\, and HCI. She has explored the impact of AI technologies and their designs from a humanistic and social science perspective toward understanding how to design better AI systems that can be useful for users. \nMark Howard is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics and History of Consciousness departments at UC Santa Cruz. He previously studied philosophy at Macquarie University and International Relations Theory at the LSE\, and prior to that worked as a technology management consultant in the financial services industry. Disciplinary interests include political economy\, political and social theory\, critical theory\, and continental philosophy. His dissertation is a critical study of venture capital as a means\, mode\, practice and process of social reproduction and renewal. His primary concern with AI stems from current attempts (backed by venture capital) to win market dominance and monopoly over the AI space\, and how commercial tools are being framing as a part of a socially necessary future. Also of interest is how proponents of AI tools are promoting complementary facilities to deal with social dislocation\, such as a cryptocurrency-based Universal Basic Income to soften the blow of AI-induced “post-employment.” \nFor those who prefer to schedule in advance\, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided)\, 11/6\, 12/11\, 1/8 (lunch provided)\, 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia)\, 3/4\, 4/8 (lunch provided)\, and 5/6. THI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings\, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We are honored to have Professor Davide Panagia from UCLA present on 2/12; arrangements are underway to secure another external speaker for a subsequent session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-lunch-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-10/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:UCHRI Grants Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on January 10\, 2024 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for information about and a chance to workshop proposal ideas for UCHRI grants. The session will be led by Research Development Specialist for the Humanities\, Caitlin Charos and Sara Černe\, Research Grants Manager for the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nSara will give a brief introduction to UCHRI\, and Caitlin will provide an overview of UCHRI-specific best practices. Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, THI Research Programs and Communications Manager\, will provide information on how THI can support a successful proposal. \nIntroductory remarks will be followed by faculty questions and a brief workshopping of ideas. \n  \nWe hope to see you there! \nPlease register in advance here: \n \n  \n*UCHRI proposals do not need to go through OSP\, but we encourage you to reach out to Caitlin for assistance in developing your application. Proposals to the following programs are due to UCHRI on January 31\, 2024: \n\n\n\nPROGRAM NAME\nELIGIBILITY\nDEADLINE\n\n\nSupplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Care & Repair Funding\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMulticampus Faculty Working Groups\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nJr. Faculty Manuscript Workshop\, 2024-25\nUC junior faculty (tenure track but not yet tenured) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first book project\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nGraduate Student Dissertation Support\, 2024-25\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy and completed at least one chapter of their dissertation\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nFaculty Summer Research Funding\, 2024\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nEngaging Humanities Grant\, 2024–25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nConference Grant\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nUC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nSupplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nShort-Term Collaborative Research Residency\, 2024–25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMulticampus Graduate Student Working Groups\, 2024-25\nUC humanities PhD students in good standing throughout the 2024-25 academic year\, in conjunction with a faculty member who has agreed in advance to serve in the role of Principal Investigator (PI)\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMedicine & Humanities: The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship\, 2024–25\nUC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in good standing working on a medicine-focused dissertation project\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nClimate Action Training and Summer Dissertation Fellowship\, 2024-25\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nExperimental Critical Theory Seminar\, Spring 2024\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing \nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uchri-grants-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240111T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240111T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Using Generative AI for Research in the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:This informal\, practical workshop will survey how generative AI tools like GPT-4 and Claude can be used in humanistic research. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as these have a well-documented tendency to “hallucinate” information when prompted in certain ways. But if employed thoughtfully and with an awareness of their limitations\, they represent a significant new tool for researchers in the humanities. For instance\, GPT-4 is able to translate and summarize text far more accurately than the previous state of the art — and crucially\, it can do so even when presented with imperfect\, archaic\, or flawed transcriptions\, such as in the case of text pulled from photographs of archival documents or digitized premodern books. GPT-4 is also able to turn spreadsheets or other forms of quantitative data into visualizations and perform surprisingly sophisticated analysis of visual sources\, not to mention basic transcription of handwritten texts. Finally\, new AI speech recognition tools like Whisper now allow for rapid transcription of oral history interviews and other recordings. We will cover the specific use cases of translation\, summarization\, transcription\, and image analysis with an eye toward the specific ways that AI can contribute to the research goals of participants. \nPlease come with an internet-connected device\, preferably a laptop\, and sign up for both ChatGPT and Claude before the workshop (both are free). Suggested reading: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/generative-ai-for-historical-research. \n  \nBenjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization\, science\, drugs\, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My book The Age of Intoxication (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2019) explores how drug users and sellers in the British and Portuguese empires helped to shape imperialism\, global trade\, and scientific practice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It won the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine and is available in hardcover\, paperback\, and ebook formats. Trained as a historian of the early modern era\, I am currently working on two book projects (one a cultural and intellectual history of experimental drug researchers during the Cold War\, another on the entanglements between colonialism\, climate change\, and the concept of magic between 1600 and 1900).  \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more..  \n\nThis event will be held in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210.  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-using-generative-ai-for-research-in-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240112T103000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Six – Politics and Prophecy: Past\, Present\, and Future (Paradiso 15–18)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nThe Rev’d Dr Claire Honess is an ordained priest in the Church of England and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK)\, where she was until 2021 Professor of Italian Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections between Dante’s political thought\, his theological understanding\, and his poetic innovation: themes that come together in particularly interesting ways in the canti of Cacciaguida in Paradiso. She is the author of From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante (Legenda\, 2006) and the translator of four of Dante’s political letters (MHRA\, 2007) and of numerous articles on related themes. Before her ordination\, she taught at the Universities of London\, Reading and Leeds\, and served as Head of the School of Languages\, Cultures and Societies and Dean of the Doctoral College at the latter. She served as Senior Editor of the journal The Italianist\, Chair of the Society for Italian Studies\, and was a co-founder and co-director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-six-politics-and-prophecy-past-present-and-future-paradiso-15-18/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-17/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Muriam Haleh Davis – The Absent Preface: Algerian Readings of Frantz Fanon after Independence
DESCRIPTION:In 1959\, Ferhat Abbas\, the President of the GPRA (Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic)\, refused Frantz Fanon’s request to write a preface for L’An V de la révolution algérienne. This never-written preface is emblematic of a larger silence regarding the lively Algerian debates on Fanon’s writings after independence. By foregrounding North African interpretations of Fanon’s work\, this talk asks a series of questions about the capture of revolutionary thought\, the role of national frameworks in global intellectual history\, and the possibilities of epistemological “delinking.” \nMuriam Haleh Davis is an Associate Professor of History at UCSC. Her first book\, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria\, was published by Duke University Press in 2022. She has also co-edited North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions\, and Culture\, which was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2018. Her academic writing has been published by the Journal of Modern Intellectual History\, Middle East Critique\, the Journal of Contemporary History\, Lateral\, and 20 et 21: Revue d’histoire. She has also authored pieces for the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Al Jazeera English\, Public Books\, and Truth Out. She is co-chair of the editorial committee for MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) and is co-editor of the Maghreb Page for Jadaliyya. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/muriam-haleh-davis-the-absent-preface-algerian-readings-of-frantz-fanon-after-independence/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. D. B. Maroon -  Black Lives\, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Our own UCSC alumna\, Dr. D. B. Maroon (PhD Anthropology\, 2006) will talk about her newly released book\, Black Lives\, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience. This talk will take place in the Humanities Building\, Room 210 on January 17th from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. \nD. B. Maroon is an author\, anthropologist\, and speaker. Recognized for evoking the literary and ethnographic grace of Zora Neale Hurston with a bold fusion of cultural observation and sun-woven truth-telling\, D.B. Maroon writes critical essays\, poetry\, and fiction. Her work has been published in Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry; Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay Lesbian Identity; and Publics\, Politics\, and Participation. \nD.B. Maroon’s\, Black Lives\, American Love delivers relentless truth-telling and timely discussions that will provoke and inspire you. This book is a hard-hitting personal biography of America\, Blackness\, and racial politics. From an opening essay on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement to debates on the 1619 project and the rippling impact of resurgent white nationalism\, the golden thread of each essay is a call to greater truth as the first step toward reconciliation. \nPlease contact Megan Moodie (mmoodie@ucsc.edu) for an excerpt of the book. \nThere will also be a limited-space\, in-person workshop the following day\, January 18th\, where DB Maroon will share her insights on writing and publishing beyond the academic world. This workshop is open to faculty and graduate students\, sponsored by THI\, the Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice MRPI\, and Anthropology. Graduate students and faculty can register for free via Eventbrite.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-d-b-maroon-black-lives-american-love/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Emma Wood\, Jared Harvey\, Eric Sneathen\, Connor Bassett\, Jose Antonio Villará
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\n \nC Dylan Bassett‘s first novel\, Gad’s Book\, was published in 2023. His writing has appeared in Chicago Review\, Quarterly West\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJared Joseph’s most recent writing has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Iowa Review\, and Action. His A Book About Myself Called Hell was published by Kernpunkt Press in 2022\, and his novel Danny the Ambulance was published by Outpost 19 in 2023. Jared Joseph teaches at Los Angeles City College and lives in Los Angeles where he writes\, plays music\, and drinks coffee like it’s a hot dog eating contest. \n  \nEric Sneathen is the author of the poetry collections Don’t Leave Me This Way (Nightboat 2023) and Snail Poems (Krupskaya 2016)\, as well as a number of chapbooks\, including Minor Work (MO(0)ON/IO 2022). With Daniel Benjamin\, he organized Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today and co-edited the companion volume\, The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books 2017). He also co-edited\, with Lauren Levin\, Honey Mine (Nightboat 2021)\, the collected fictions of Camille Roy. His reviews have been featured at the Poetry Foundation and SF MoMA’s Open Space\, and his dissertation—”The Future Unites Us: A Gay Poetics of San Francisco\, 1944-2019″—is being revised for publication. He lives in Alameda\, CA and works for UCSC as the Graduate Program Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies. \n  \nJose Antonio Villarán has bilingual fluency (English – Spanish) as a writer\, scholar\, translator and instructor. He is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (2006) & el cerrajero (2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences (2018); and creator of the AMLT project (http://amlt-elcomienzo.blogspot.pe)\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship. His third book\, titled open pit\, was published by AUB in 2022 and was nominated for a Northern California Book Award. \n  \nOriginally from New York City\, Emma Winsor Wood holds a BA from Harvard in Russian History & Literature and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she taught literature and poetry writing. Her recent work appears in Fence\, ZYZZVA\, jubilat\, and DIAGRAM\, and her first book\, A Failed Performance: Short Plays and Scenes by Daniil Kharms\, a collaborative translation with the poet C Dylan Bassett\, was recently published by Plays Inverse Press. Her poetry manuscript\, Preferred Internal Landscape\, has been named a finalist in the CSU\, BOAAT\, Switchback Books\, Noemi Press\, Zone 3\, and the University of Wisconsin book contests.  She currently lives\, with her husband and their two dogs\, in the Santa Cruz mountains\, where she also works as an editor for Stone Soup Magazine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-graduate-alumni-emma-wood-jared-harvey-eric-sneathen-connor-bassett-jose-antonio-villara/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CruzHacks 2024 Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:CruzHacks is the largest hackathon in Santa Cruz! Each year\, hundreds of students are invited to develop solutions to real-world problems\, pursue inclusion in tech\, and kindle the spirit of innovation. \nCruzHacks was founded in 2013 as Hack UCSC by Mark Adams\, Brent Haddad\, and Doug Erickson. In 2018\, Hack UCSC was rebranded as CruzHacks\, and became a student-led non-profit hackathon. Throughout the years\, CruzHacks/Hack UCSC has sparked innovation and creativity from attendees and has even been the source of a few start-up companies. \nCruzHacks 2024 is a three-day event where you can work with others on new software and/or hardware projects. You’ll be able to build your ideas\, network\, and show off your talent. There are hundreds of students\, mentors\, sponsors\, and judges that can help push your vision forward. The event also includes workshops geared towards students of all levels to learn and improve their technical skills.  CruzHacks 2024 starts Friday night and ends Sunday afternoon. This year\, it will take place on January 19 – 21 at Stevenson Event Center\, UCSC. \nFor more information about the event and FAQ’s visit CruzHacks. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, UCSC Humanities\, Baskin Engineering\, Cruz Foam\, UCSC Division of Student Affairs and Success\, and many more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cruzhacks-2024-hackathon/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:Stefan Tanaka: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History with Stefan Tanaka. \nThis talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. It builds from recent work on time and history that question whether the history understood and practiced over the past two centuries is still apposite for understanding our world today. \nAn increasing number of writings argue that “time is out of joint\,” we are “fatally confused\,” in “times of unprecedented change\,” or more troubling\, “in times of collapse.” My subtitle–drawing from Ariella Azoulay’s book–points to the need for other modes of historical understanding. In this essay\, I question a foundational ideas of modern history\, the separation of past from present\, and argue for pasts rather than “the past.” With this rather simple (but difficult) distinction time and space shift from absolutes within which we exist to modes by which we think; other histories become possible. \nMy goal is to explore what history (and histories) might become\, the potential of history released from the restrictions of chronology. Multiple pasts recognize variability\, situatedness\, and perspectives; history expands (or returns) to a mode of communication; and pasts require greater articulation of purpose and awareness of responsibility. \n  \nStefan Tanaka is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California\, San Diego. Throughout his career he has inquired into the uses of pasts and time in the writing of history\, especially in Japan. Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (1993)\, examines the reconfiguration of Japan’s past as foundational to the redefinition of Japan’s relations with Asia during the early twentieth century. New Times in Modern Japan (2004) is an examination of the social constitution of time in Meiji (1868-1912) Japan. His current research examines the challenge that our digital age presents for history itself. This activity ranges from the philosophical to the practical. His recent book\, History without Chronology (2019\, Open Access)\, brings out the historicity of the linear and homogenizing structure of history itself. He has also written several essays on historical narrative and digital media (for example\, “The Old and New of Digital History” 2022) and worked (especially with the Force11 community) to foster new\, more open modes of scholarly communication. \nThe event will take place in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 420 at 2:00pm PST. Guests are also welcome to visit the HISC website to join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stefan-tanaka-what-do-pasts-do-toward-potential-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Breen - Tripping on Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Benjamin Breen\, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, for a discussion and signing of his new book\, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead\, the Cold War\, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science. \nBenjamin Breen is the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade\, winner of the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is an associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Please register below so we can plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you! \n \nFar from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as\, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the ’40s and ’50s\, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture\, where they were not only legal\, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. \nAt the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster\, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion\, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work\, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson’s partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century\, linking drug researchers with CIA agents\, outsider sexologists\, and the founders of the Information Age. \nAs we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali\, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War\, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges. \nYou can purchase your own copy of Tripping On Utopia at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-breen-tripping-on-utopia/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-24/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:January 24 – Mengyang (Zoe) Zhao – Verify You Are Human: How Video Game Automation Intensifies Extraction of Platform Game Work
DESCRIPTION:Part of a broader book project on the rise of platform video game work in China\, this study examines the impact of automation fears on escalating labor extraction from gaming service workers. It reveals that platform workers are compelled to demonstrate their “pure manual” services\, amidst concerns over automated tools infiltrating the industry. Such pressures lead to practices like live streaming and performing slowness as human labor validation\, inadvertently increasing hidden labor and the risk of harassment. This study advocates for recognizing validation labor in explicating automation and labor control in the platform economy\, and underscores evolving human-machine dynamics in the global data work landscape. \nZoe Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. Their interdisciplinary research centers on digital labor\, platformization\, and social movements\, with a particular focus on new forms of work\, technology\, diaspora and labor activism under platform and venture capitalism. Their art practice leverages gamification to reimagine ways of commoning and queering the care infrastructure. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/january-24-mengyang-zoe-zhao-verify-you-are-human-how-video-game-automation-intensifies-extraction-of-platform-game-work/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate Alumna Sina Grace
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed\, and Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell. He acts as the artist for Shaun Steven Struble’s cult hit\, The Li’l Depressed Boy\, and handles art chores along with co-writing the Image Comics hit series\, Burn the Orphanage. \nGrace has also done illustrations for all-ages readers\, including Among the Ghosts\, written by Amber Benson\, and Penny Dora & the Wishing Box\, written by Michael Stock. His previous works include the slice-of-life Books with Pictures\, and the neo-noir urban fantasy\, Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic. For a time\, he acted as Editorial Director for Robert Kirkman’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics. To date\, he’s worked for Marvel Comics\, IDW\, Boom\, Dynamite\, Valiant and more. His essays have appeared on several websites\, most notably Thought Catalog. \nHe lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on whatever the next thing may be.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/68037/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T180000
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SUMMARY:Reza Aslan - An American Martyr in Persia
DESCRIPTION:In 1907\, educator and American missionary Howard Baskerville traveled to Iran in the midst of a democratic revolution led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their country. The Persian students Baskerville educated inspired him to join them in their fight. Reza Aslan speaks with Jennifer Derr about Baskerville’s story and what it might teach us about our own ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom we support. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nReza Aslan is a renowned writer\, commentator\, professor\, Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer\, and scholar of religions. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce award\, Aslan is the author of three internationally best-selling books\, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. His producing credits include the acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers and the hit CBS comedy United States of Al. He is the host and Executive Producer of CNN’s Believer and Rough Draft with Reza Aslan\, as well as co-host along with Rainn Wilson of the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake. Read Reza’s full bio here. \nPresented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nEvent 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. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 18\, 2024.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reza-aslan-an-american-martyr-in-persia/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Seven – Justice for All (Paradiso 19–21)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nAkash Kumar is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on medieval Italian literature through the lens of Mediterranean and global culture\, from the history of science to the origins of popular phenomena such as the game of chess. Recent work on a global Dante has appeared in the volume Migrants Shaping Europe\, Past and Present (Manchester UP\, 2022)\, MLN (2022)\, and the Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2020). Akash also serves as Editor of Dante Notes\, the digital publication of the Dante Society of America. \n  \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-seven-justice-for-all-paradiso-19-21/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:Ariel Chan - "Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing”\nwith Ariel Chan\, Ph.D.\nStanford University \n\nAbstract \nBilingualism is inherently a social phenomenon with variation. Sociolinguistic research (e.g.\, Chen\, 2008; Lo\, 1999; Milroy & Wei\, 1995) has demonstrated that bilinguals employ code-switching for identity construction. Meanwhile\, recent psycholinguistic research (e.g.\, Beatty-Martinez et al.\, 2020; Kaan et al.\, 2020; Treffers-Daller et al.\, 2020) has emerged to consider individual differences within interactional contexts and social networks. \nHow do sociocultural factors\, such as language experience and cultural identity\, impact bilinguals’ cognitive and language processing?  \nWhat insights about language processing can we gain from cross-disciplinary psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research? \nIn this talk\, Ariel Chan will explore these two questions by examining code-switching among three groups of Cantonese-English bilinguals with diverse language experience and cultural identity from an integrated psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspective. To begin\, she will present behavioral data from three experiments\, examining how language experience and cultural identity modulate code-switching comprehension and production within a controlled laboratory context. In the second part of the talk\, Chan will focus on naturalistic code-switching data in conversations. Using data from a map task\, she will demonstrate how variation in language experience and cultural identity is reflected in the bilinguals’ code-switching patterns. The synthesis of experimental and qualitative data highlights the significant roles of both language experience and cultural identity in shaping cognitive and linguistic processes\, underscoring the importance of incorporating sociocultural contexts into bilingualism research. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ariel-chan-bilingualism-in-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights\, Inciting Joy) and local poet Chris Mattingly for an evening of poetry\, plus a Q&A and a book signing. \nRoss Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays\, Inciting Joy\, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022. \n  \nChris 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-31/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T224238Z
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SUMMARY:Donna Haraway – Making Kin: Lynn Margulis in Sympoiesis with Sibling Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations \nSympoiesis is a simple word; it means “making with.” We live in a profoundly sympoietic world. This talk begins with Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)\, a multi-faceted biologist who co-founded the view of Earth as Gaia\, a planet with wildly improbable gas ratios and with sustained\, unlikely equilibria that only living beings could account for. Margulis thought that if bacteria had not already accomplished something\, it was hardly worth doing. Indebted to Margulis\, I explore the work of three contemporary biologists who together demonstrate the crucial game-changing ideas and research practices essential to partial healing on a damaged planet. The talk concludes by moving more deeply to naturecultures in the sympoiesis of the living and the dead and the vital practices of strong mourning. \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She earned her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 and writes and teaches in science and technology studies\, feminist theory\, and multispecies studies. She has served as thesis adviser for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. At UCSC\, she is an active participant in the Science and Justice Research Center and Center for Cultural Studies. \nAttending to the intersection of biology with culture and politics\, Haraway’s work explores the string figures composed by science fact\, science fiction\, speculative feminism\, speculative fabulation\, science and technology studies\, and multispecies worlding. Her books include Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016); Manifestly Haraway (2016); When Species Meet (2008); The Companion Species Manifesto (2003); The Haraway Reader (2004); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium (1997\, 2nd ed 2018); Simians\, Cyborgs\, and Women (1991); Primate Visions (1989); and Crystals\, Fabrics\, and Fields (1976\, 2004). Her books and articles are translated into many languages. Fabrizio Terravova made a feature-length film\, titled Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival\, ( 2016)\, and Diana Toucedo made Camille & Ulysse with Haraway and Vinciane Despret. With Adele Clarke she co-edited Making Kin Not Population (Prickly Paradigm Press\, 2018)\, which addresses questions of human numbers\, feminist anti-racist reproductive and environmental justice\, and multispecies flourishing.  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/january-31-donna-haraway-making-kin-lynn-margulis-in-sympoiesis-with-sibling-scientists/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T114000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Articulating linguistic prosody: representation and choreography”\nwith Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee\nUniversity of Michigan \n\nAbstract \nDuring a communicative act\, language users adeptly control and coordinate intricate movements of vocal tract organs\, including the lips\, tongue\, and larynx\, to craft linguistic messages. The spatiotemporal patterning of these vocal tract actions is systematically governed by how words are grouped into phrases and how important (prominent) words within phrases are highlighted in the language being spoken. \nIn this talk\, Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee will share insights from a series of experimental studies that leverage quantitative approaches to investigate 1) the articulatory co-expression of phrasal and segmental tone\, 2) prosodic structure in multiple modalities\, and 3) articulatory and prosodic accommodation observed in dyadic interaction. \nFindings shed light on the seamless integration of linguistic prosodic structure into multimodal speech production processes\, with broader implications for typological generalization and variation\, thereby enriching phonetic and linguistic theory. \n  \nJoin us for this in-person talk on Thursday\, February 1st at 11:40 am. \n We look forward to seeing you at the talk!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cynthia-yoonjeong-lee-articulating-linguistic-prosody-representation-and-choreography/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:Zhiying Qian - “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”\nwith Zhiying Qian\, Ph.D.\nFlorida State University \n\nAbstract \nThe influence of the properties of a first language (Mandarin\, Korean) on the comprehension of sentences in a second language (English) was investigated in a series of self-paced reading experiments. \nExperiment 1 compared advanced native Mandarin- and Korean-speaking learners of English with native English speakers on how they resolved a temporary ambiguity (e.g.\, The referees warned [that] the spectators would probably get too rowdy.). The temporary ambiguity concerned whether the noun (the spectator) following the verb (warned) was the direct object or the subject of an embedded clause. Results showed that both higher and lower proficiency L1-Mandarin learners could use verb bias cues\, but only higher proficiency L1-Korean learners could do so\, indicating that L1 word order (Mandarin SVO; Korean SOV) influences how quickly L2 learners learn word-order-dependent cues about L2 structures. \nExperiment 2 added plausibility manipulation\, and the results showed that neither native speakers nor L2 learners used plausibility cues\, challenging the claim that L2 learners rely primarily on lexical-semantic cues during real-time sentence processing. \nExperiment 3 examined how native Mandarin speakers process this type of sentence in Mandarin and showed that Mandarin speakers were sensitive to verb bias but not to plausibility\, contrasting claims that Mandarin speakers rely heavily on plausibility.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhiying-qian-verb-bias-and-plausibility/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate debut novelists Chiara Barzini & Rebecca Rukeyser
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nChiara Barzini is a screen\, fiction\, and journalism writer who was born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles\, where she became obsessed with canyons\, quartz\, and the Grateful Dead. When she moved to New York she steered her fascinations towards the discovery that a huge slab of granite beneath the city of Manhattan is the reason why nobody there is able to walk or think slowly. The absence of a mineral subterranean life and psychedelia in the city of Rome\, made her return to the homeland a bit harsh\, but opened her up to new interests including: abandoned castles and the nightlife of cattle. \nShe lives in Rome with her partner Luca\, their children Sebastiano and Anita\, two cats\, and one dog. \nRebecca Rukeyser is the author of the novel The Seaplane on Final Approach (2022; Doubleday USA/ Granta Books UK). Her work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Believer\, Granta\, The Guardian\, and Zyzzyva\, among others\, and was awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Davis\, California\, Rebecca has lived and worked in South Korea\, Japan\, Turkey and China. \nShe currently lives in Germany\, where she teaches creative writing at Bard College Berlin.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-debut-novelists-chiara-barzini-rebecca-rukeyser/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date\, 1619\, connected to the origins of American slavery\, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event. \nBut what actually happened in 1619? The essays collected in The 1619 Project and the important public conversations that followed only touch on the events of that year\, or even on the slave trade more generally. The 1619 Project focuses crucial attention on “arguing that slavery and its legacy have profoundly shaped modern American life\,” with essays on slavery’s long-term impacts on American democracy\, capitalism\, incarceration\, and even modern transportation. \nExploring these modern legacies is crucial\, but many people still have only hazy notions of why 1619 was a key turning point. \nThis public event brings three historians of slavery together—one focused on the importance of slavery to colonial empires\, one focused on captive experiences and health in the slave trade\, and one focused on the introduction of African maritime culture (and surfing!) into the Americas—to wrestle with the question: What actually happened in 1619? \nJoin Professors Elise Mitchell (Princeton)\, Kevin Dawson (UC Merced)\, and Greg O’Malley (UC Santa Cruz) as we explore this issue in a free public forum. \n \n  \nEvent Parking:\n– A valid UCSC permit -OR- ParkMobile payment is required to park in all parking spaces on campus.\n– If parking lot attendants are on site\, guests can obtain a free permit to parking in lot 126. Attendants are scheduled to be on site from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for this event. Otherwise\, purchase a permit using the ParkMobile app. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Institutes and funded by a UC-MRPI Grant.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-actually-happened-in-1619-the-origins-of-slavery-in-north-america/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160207
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SUMMARY:Before Justice: Meister's Legacies of Critique
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness Department is delighted to invite you for an upcoming celebration of Professor Robert Meister\, who has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz for 50 years! \nPlease join us on Friday\, February 2nd for an afternoon of discussion reflecting on Professor Meister’s research and teaching contributions\, to be followed by a reception at the Cowell Provost House. \nDiscussion will run from 2 to 5:30 pm and reception begins at 6:00 pm.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/before-justice-meisters-legacies-of-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T114000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
CREATED:20240221T205731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T210006Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Drew McLaughlin
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Drew McLaughlin (Basque Center on Cognition\, Brain and Language). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-drew-mclaughlin/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
CREATED:20240131T212356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T215013Z
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-07/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T225338Z
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SUMMARY:Nicole Starosielski – Socializing the Network
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Film + Digital Media \nThis talk is a story about the ways that global digital infrastructure\, especially the data centers and subsea cable networks that form the backbone of the internet\, are produced out of tight-knit relationships that can weather geopolitical transitions\, economic competition\, and corporate tensions. I describe the process of “socializing” an infrastructure project\, an essential part of the ongoing construction of a global digital network. Building a more sustainable internet\, I show\, is not only a process of technical coordination\, of describing metrics\, and of setting standards\, but working within a globally-distributed and yet intimately connected geography. \nNicole Starosielski\, Professor of Film and Media at the University of California-Berkeley\, conducts research on global internet and media distribution\, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables\, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions. Starosielski is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books on media\, infrastructure\, and environments\, including: The Undersea Network (2015)\, Media Hot and Cold (2021)\, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015)\, Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (2016)\, Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021)\, as well as co-editor of the “Elements” book series at Duke University Press. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-starosielski-socializing-the-network/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:From the Roots - Favianna Rodriguez Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition Favianna Rodriguez: Power From The Roots opening January 9 and running through March 9\, 2024. \nFavianna Rodriguez is an Oakland based activist and artist beloved for her work tied to social justice movements\, such as her iconic image of a butterfly with the text “Migration is Beautiful” mobilized in support of migrant justice. In recent years\, Rodriguez has focused on figurative work related to plants\, animals and climate justice. This exhibition asks: how do portraits of species relate to an ecology of social movements? The show is organized around local species impacted by climate change including coastal redwoods\, mountain lions\, coho salmon and butterflies\, among others. These portraits of species are in dialogue with activist posters\, demonstrating how social issues are fundamentally intertwined with environmental justice. For example\, a collaged portrait of coho salmon\, a keystone species that the Ohlone people relied on for food\, will be surrounded by posters about decolonization and food justice. Viewers will explore activism from the roots- both in terms of systemic issues impacting our world today and the actual roots of the trees that inhabit our shared local ecosystem. \nJoin us for a talk with the artist on February 7th at Stevenson Event Center. \nPresented by Cowell College. Co-Sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC HSI Initiatives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-roots-favianna-rodriguez-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Grad Slam Preliminary Round
DESCRIPTION:Come out and support Humanities graduate students competing in their Grad Slam preliminary round for a chance to advance as a finalist to Grad Slam on March 2 at the Kuumbwa! \nThis event is presented by UCSC’s Division of Graduate Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-grad-slam-preliminary-round/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T114000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Andrea Beltrama
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nAndrea Beltrama\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \nspeaking on \nThe interface between pragmatic reasoning and social perception: Towards an integrative view of inferences in communication\n\nAbstract \nComprehenders systematically draw two varieties of inferences in linguistic communication: pragmatic inferences\, concerning the message conveyed by an utterance; and sociolinguistic inferences\, concerning the speaker’s identity – e.g.\, their demographic profile and personality traits. Both types of inference have been widely investigated in linguistics and beyond. Yet\, much remains to be seen on how they interact with one another — and in particular\, on whether\, and how\, comprehenders jointly rely on them when extracting information from linguistic utterances. \nIn this talk\, I consider two case studies\, each of which presents a novel perspective on this issue. In the first case study\, I present evidence from two social perception experiments suggesting that comprehenders track a speaker’s adherence to\, or violation of\, the maxims of Relevance and Informativeness — together with the contextual reasons underlying these violations — to form an impression of the speaker. In the second case study\, I present findings from two picture selection tasks suggesting that comprehenders reason about the speaker’s social identity to determine the precision with which they interpret numerical expressions. \nTaken together\, these findings unveil a bi-directional relationship between pragmatic reasoning and social perception\, calling for a view of the semantics/pragmatics interface which encompasses social distinctions between speakers; and highlighting the role of sociolinguistic knowledge in pragmatic reasoning. They also underline the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of inferences in linguistic communication — one that combines experimental approaches to semantics and pragmatics with insights and methods from sociolinguistics and social psychology. \n  \nJoin us in person for this special talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 11:40 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/andrea-beltrama-on-the-interface-between-pragmatic-reasoning-and-social-perception/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ying Yang - "Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context:\nThe Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”\nwith Ying Yang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison \n\nAbstract \nFace-to-face conversation is the primordial form of human interaction and language is inherently a form of social behavior. However\, spontaneous natural conversation remains one of the least explored discourse domains in linguistics. Using corpora compiled from transcriptions of spontaneous conversations\, Yang’s research program investigates how language structures and grammatical patterns can be seen as emergent from interactional exigencies of ordinary conversation. \nThis particular talk focuses on the grammar of 那na in Mandarin Chinese conversation. Based on a 416\,000-character conversational database\, Yang examines how a demonstrative can shift from marking spatial deixis to signaling speaker stance. \nThis talk proposes a new perspective on demonstratives on a novel investigation focusing on their non-referential usages. Ying Yang shows that non-referential na is routinely used by speakers to express contrastive meaning\, encode attitudinal stances that are often disaffiliative\, taking the form of disagreements\, challenges\, or criticisms. The analysis also illustrates that the non-referential usages of na\, though highly grammaticalized\, are linked to the deictic meanings of the demonstrative. In doing so\, this talk elucidates how looking at language in everyday conversation affects our understanding of the intricacies of grammar. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 5:00pm!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ying-yang-grammar-interaction-and-social-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T103000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Eight - Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nPaola Nasti is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Northwestern University. She has also taught\, as an associate\, in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on Dante’s biblical\, religious and theological culture. In addition to a monograph on the Solomonic tradition (Favole d’amore e “saver profondo”: la tradizione salomonica in Dante. Angelo Longo Editore\, Ravenna 2007) she has published numerous essays on the scriptural theme: ‘Vocabuli d’autori e di Scienze e di libri ‘(Conv. II xii 5): Dante’s wisdom paths’\, in Ledda\, G. (ed.) Dante’s Bible: Mystical experience\, prophecy and biblical theology in Dante. Centro Dantesco Onlus\, Ravenna\, 2011); ‘Dante and ecclesiology’\, in: Hoeness\, C. E. and Treherne\, M. (eds.) Reviewing Dante’s Theology\, Peter Lang\,2013)’; ‘The stigmata and the love of the poor man of Assisi: Dante’s reinterpretations of a medieval topos’\, in Christian Dante and religious culture in medieval Italy\, Ravenna\, Longo\, 2018); ‘The triumph of Christ: anti-pietism in Comedy’\, in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-eight-hierarchy-and-diversity-paradiso-3-27-29-32/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Davide Panagia: Political Theory\, Democracy\, and the Challenges of Algorithmic Governance
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will raise some challenges that political theorists face when reflecting on the political import of algorithmic governance. I do not develop normative or epistemic insights into these challenges\, and in fact suggest that such an approach is problematic. Rather\, I proceed by articulating some aspects of the political ontology of algorithms that\, I suggest\, are decidedly different from our more conventional intuitions (classically derived from Aristotle) on what a medium is and how it operates. I then proceed to suggest that the biggest challenge raised to political and democratic thought by algorithmic governance regards a critical theory adequate to the claims of the medium. On this last point\, I attempt to reconstruct what I believe are the basic conceptual elements that need to be considered in a political theory of algorithms. \nDavide Panagia is a political theorist and Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. He is a former Co-Editor of the journals Political Theory and Theory and Event. His forthcoming monograph publications include: Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press\, 2024) and Sentimental Empiricism: Politics\, Philosophy\, and Criticism in Postwar France (Fordham Un diversity Press\, 2024). \n  \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Cluster and the History of Consciousness Department. This talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. \nThe event will take place in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 11:30am PST. Guests are also welcome to visit the HISC website to join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/political-theory-democracy-and-the-challenges-of-algorithmic-governance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wei Wang - “The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence:\nListener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”\nwith Wei Wang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Houston \n\nAbstract \nThis study investigates whether classroom instruction is effective in promoting L2 Chinese learners’ interactional competence (IC) as indexed by learners’ use of listener responses (LRs). LR refers to a response produced by a non-primary speaker\, which provides information about how the just-prior utterances were understood by the listener. \nSix types of LRs are examined in this study: \na) response particle such as o\, a\, en\nb) reactive expression\, e.g. dui ‘right’\, shi ma ‘really’\nc) repetition\nd) assessment\ne) tying expression\nf) follow-up action \nThis study takes a quasi-experiment design\, with an Experimental Group (n=17) receiving a semester-long IC instruction including LRs and a Control Group (n=11) with no IC instruction. All learners were asked to video-tape two unscripted conversations with a same L1 interlocutor\, one at midterm and one at semester-end. Comparing the two groups’ changes in LR frequency\, statistical tests reveal that they differ significantly in reactive expression and follow-up action; no significant effect is observed in the other four LRs. Subsequent qualitative analyses\, guided by the conversation analysis framework\, discover that LRs produced by the Experimental Group display increased linguistic complexity and variety as well as heightened sensitivity to intersubjectivity. The quantitative and qualitative evidence combined points to a likely positive effect of classroom instruction on L2 Chinese learners’ IC development as indexed by their use of LRs. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 10:00 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wei-wang-the-effect-of-instruction-on-l2-learners-interactional-competence/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T114000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Anthony Yacovone
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nAnthony Yacovone\nTufts University / Massachusetts General Hospital \nspeaking on \nPrediction is a piece of ceke: Developmental and psycholinguistic evidence for prediction of word-forms during natural language comprehension.\n\nAbstract \nFor decades\, psycholinguists have fiercely debated the role and centrality of prediction in human language. These debates center on whether people routinely predict specific lexical items and their word-forms during comprehension. To date\, form-based prediction has been poorly replicated and only seems to emerge in the most constraining of experiments. These findings are often taken as evidence that form-based prediction is likely to be an artifact of how we study language in the lab\, and thus\, it is unlikely to play a central role in natural language processing. \nIn this talk\, I will present three studies that use electroencephalography (EEG) to assess form-based prediction during naturalistic comprehension. Study 1 asks whether English-speaking adults predict the phonological form of upcoming words while listening to a children’s story. In Studies 2 and 3\, I ask how prediction of this kind develops. I will end my talk by outlining my plans for future research and briefly discussing how this work might inform research efforts in linguistics more broadly. \n  \nJoin us in person for this special talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 11:40 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-yacovone-prediction-is-a-piece-of-ceke/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-14/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:Thenmozhi Soundarajan - The Trauma of Caste and the US Equity Movement: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship\, Healing\, and Abolition
DESCRIPTION:Thenmozhi Soundarajan is a Dalit American commentator on religion\, race\, caste\, gender\, technology\, and justice. She is the Executive Director of Equality Labs and the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship\, Healing\, and Abolition. \nThis event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of the 2023-2024 Lecture Series Crossings. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, as a part of the weekly Cultural Studies Colloquium. \nJoin us in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210\, or register to attend virtually here. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-trauma-of-caste-and-the-us-equity-movement/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture - Lisa Lowe: Histories of the Colonial Present
DESCRIPTION: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 Lisa Lowe. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:30 p.m. \nSettler colonialism\, slavery\, migration\, and imperial war have been integral to the emergence of the U.S. nation\, state\, and economy\, and the consequences of these histories continue today. In this lecture Lowe examines colonial formations and their imbricated relations\, their durability and the persistence of anti-colonial struggles against them\, and asks: In what ways does a reckoning with colonial histories unsettle and transform the way we understand modernity\, capitalism\, and the political present? If this colonial historical past is not “over\,” but is actively suppressed in national memory\, how is it possible to conceive this longue durée as something unthought yet known\, that is\, a web of relation that we may be unable to think or fully fathom\, even as we are reminded it is something we once knew? \nGuests are also welcome to join the virtual webinar via Zoom. Simply register below. Thank you! \n \n  \n \nLisa Lowe (Ph.D. ’86\, literature) is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale. A former student of Hayden White’s\, Lisa Lowe received her Ph.D. in 1986. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race\, immigration\, capitalism\, and colonialism\, the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press\, 1991)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press\, 1996)\, and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press\, 2015); she is co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press\, 1997) and New Questions\, New Formations: Asian American Studies\, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997). Before joining Yale\, Lowe taught at the University of California\, San Diego and Tufts University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim\, Rockefeller\, and Mellon Foundations\, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. \n  \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-histories-of-the-colonial-present/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T210000
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SUMMARY:Nishat Khan Sitar Performance
DESCRIPTION:A performance of Indian Classical Music with Nishat Khan (sitar) and Nitin Mitta (tabla) \nUstad Nishat Khan is one of India’s finest musicians and a virtuoso sitar player\, transcending musical barriers with his provocative expression and spellbinding technical mastery. Nishat stands at the threshold of the future of sitar and Indian music with his uniquely invigorating and contemporary approach. He is the son and disciple of Ustad Imrat Khan\, the nephew of the late Ustad Vilayat Khan and a member of one of the oldest and most prestigious musical families and schools in India – the Imdadkani Ganara of Etawah. Nishat draws on his own musical heritage that is the North Indian classical idiom as well as engages in other genres as diverse as Western classical music\, jazz\, Flamenco and Gregorian chant. He has worked with other major performers and composers such as John McLaughlin\, Philip Glass\, Paco Peña and Evelyn Glennie among many others. \nNitin Mitta is one of the most sought-after tabla players of his generation. He has performed with many of the top-notch Indian Classical Musicians worldwide. He has also collaborated with Grammy-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer and Carnatic electric guitarist R. Prasanna to produce their album titled Tirtha. Nitin’s gurus\, Pandit G.Satyanarayana and Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar\, were disciples of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan\, the legendary doyen of the Farukhabad Gharana of Tabla. Nitin has been mentoring many young tabla enthusiasts and also teaches Tabla at Brown University in Providence\, Rhode Island. Nitin has performed at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall\, at Lincoln Center\, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. \nADMISSION \n\nGeneral admission\nTickets available online via Eventbrite\nDoors scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n\nPARKING \n\nLot 126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nParking is by UCSC permit\, Park Mobile\, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant in Lot 126\nMore visitor information here\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by the Music Department and co-sponsored by the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nishat-khan-2024/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T114000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Caroline Andrews
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Caroline Andrews (University of Zurich). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-caroline-andrews/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240220T203000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Joe Garcia and Kate McQueen
DESCRIPTION:Kresge’s Media & Society Series Presents\, in Partnership with the Humanities Institute: \nAn Evening with Joe Garcia and Kate McQueen\nJournalist Joe Garcia\, whose viral essay “Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison” was published in the New Yorker last year\, will be in conversation with writer\, editor\, and UCSC lecturer Kate McQueen. Garcia and McQueen will be discussing their major investigative piece about California’s parole process\, which was recently published in Alta Magazine. (Because Garcia is presently incarcerated\, he will be participating via phone.) \nJoe Garcia is a journalist and Prison Journalism Project correspondent incarcerated in California. Garcia was previously a staff writer and the chair of the Journalism Guild for San Quentin News. In addition to prison publications\, his work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, and the Sacramento Bee. \nKate McQueen serves as the managing editor of Prison Journalism Project’s print newspaper\, PJPxInside\, and as an editorial advisor to Wall City\, San Quentin’s prisoner-run quarterly magazine. McQueen is a writer and lecturer at University of California Santa Cruz\, specializing in literary journalism\, with a focus on narratives of crime and justice. \nFor any needs or accommodations\, please email dapearce@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evening-with-joe-garcia-and-kate-mcqueen/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T110000
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-21/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T133000
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SUMMARY:Jun Borras – Land struggles and scholar-activism
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) \nThe talk will argue that land struggles as framed by agrarian\, food and environmental justice movements have regained academic and political importance in recent years\, but that in the era of fragmented working classes and environmental/climate crisis\, these require rethinking and reframing. Mapping contemporary land issues of working classes\, the talk will emphasise the need to look into the changing social dynamics in rural-urban\, agriculture-nonagriculture continuum/corridor and production/social reproduction\, and land/labour entanglements as useful reference points to think about political struggles around land and labour\, livelihoods and ecological sustainability along class and intersecting axes of social differences (race/ethnicity\, gender\, generation). The talk will explore the small but important role played or ought to be played by scholar-activists in these political struggles. The talk will mobilise insights from Southeast Asia country cases (and by extension\, southern China)\, and from some African countries and Colombia where I have ongoing field research. \nJun Borras is a Filipino migrant worker currently working as professor of agrarian studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in The Hague\, Netherlands. He is a long-time agrarian movement activist in the Philippines and internationally. He was a member of the International Coordinating Committee of the La Via Campesina during its formative years\, in 1993-1996. He is a recipient of the European Research Council Advanced Grant\, enabling him to study how land rushes shape global social life\, and does fieldwork for this in Southeast Asia and China\, Ethiopia and Colombia. He works in the tradition of\, and at the same time studies\, scholar-activism. He was Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years until 2023. He co-organizes the regular International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism meant for PhD researchers and early career scholars from/in the Global South. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jun-borras-land-struggles-and-scholar-activism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kuumbwa Jazz Presents: American Patchwork Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Feburary 21\, 2023 at 7:00PM! \nJoin the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet’s mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. \nTickets available for purchase here: American Patchwork Quartet – Kuumbwa Jazz \nAmerican Patchwork Quartet (APQ)\, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross\, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication\, country twang\, West African hypnotics\, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation\, transcending culture\, politics\, and ideology. \nA southern-born roots music aficionado\, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ\, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah\, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist\, Yasushi Nakamura\, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist\, and Clarence Penn\, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. \nAPQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that\, from a collage of varied backgrounds\, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned. Mirroring America’s cultural mosaic\, APQ stitches together a story that’s both intricate and resilient. The fabric of their music is genuine—it neither feigns tolerance nor presents an overly-embellished image of unity. Instead\, each carefully chosen piece dives deep into America’s patchwork soul and shares the joys\, sorrows\, and unwavering hope of a nation crafted by shared dreams and diverse histories. \nPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz. Sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-patchwork-quartet/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Jed Pizarro-Guevara
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Jed Pizarro-Guevara (University of Massachusetts). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jed-pizarro-guevara/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Poets Sarah Ghazal Ali and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nSarah Ghazal Ali is a poet\, teacher\, and editor. She is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Stadler Fellow and recipient of The Sewanee Review poetry prize\, her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Kenyon Review\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series\, and other publications. She is the poetry editor for West Branch and an incoming Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski (it / xe / them) is a poet and country singer\, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012)\, and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). Julian is a 2023 Bagley Wright lecturer\, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow\, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Its poems were recently included in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat 2020). With its band Juan & the Pines\, it released an EP Glittering Forest in 2019; Julian’s first full-length album\, It’s Okay Honey was released in August 2023.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-poets-sarah-ghazal-ali-and-julian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Maryana Iskander - Humans in the Loop: Wikipedia’s Future in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:What role will humans play in shaping the future of the internet\, especially given the meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT? Wikipedia is tech-enabled\, but very human-led. Each month\, it receives more than 15 billion visits as people search for information online. The CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation\, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia\, will share more about how Wikipedia is doubling down on humans in a world of machine-generated content. Learn more about how we should all be preparing for the future of knowledge. \nRegister here to join us in person. \nRegister here to to join us virtually. \nThe lecture will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session. Guests are welcome to join us in person at 5:30 for a reception in the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn before the event begins or join the webinar via Zoom. \nMaryana Iskander is the Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. She has dedicated her career to breaking down systemic barriers of access to opportunity and education. Previously\, she spent ten years as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator\, a non-profit social enterprise focused on building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment\, and received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019. Maryana also served as the COO of Planned Parenthood\, the Advisor to the President of Rice University\, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Maryana holds a BA magna cum laude from Rice University\, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and a JD from Yale Law School\, where she received a Distinguished Alumna Award. \nThis lecture series is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n\nThe 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peggy-downes-baskin-ethics-lecture-with-maryana-iskander/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Nine – Language (Paradiso 26)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n Heather Webb (PhD Stanford 2004) is Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (Yale\, 2010)\, Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, and Dante\, Artist of Gesture (Oxford University Press\, September 2022). With Zygmunt Baranski\, she is editor of Dante’s ‘Vita Nova’: A Collaborative Reading (Notre Dame University Press\, December 2023). With George Corbett\, she is editor of Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy\, 3 vols (Open Book Publishers\, 2015\, 2016\, 2017). With Pierpaolo Antonello\, she is editor of Mimesis\, Desire\, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (Michigan State Press\, 2015). She is Senior Editor of Italian Studies for pre-1700 material. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-nine-language-paradiso-26/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Dustin Chacón
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Dustin Chacón (University of Georgia). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-dustin-chacon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charles Duhigg - Supercommunicators
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Charles Duhigg (The Power of Habit) for a reading and signing of his new book\, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection\, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. \nCharles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College\, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences\, National Journalism\, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and other publications\, was previously a senior editor at The New York Times\, and occasionally hosts the podcast How To! \nThis free event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries\, and fails\, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators\, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. \nCommunication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak\, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?)\, emotional (How do we feel?)\, and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having\, you’re unlikely to connect. \nSupercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation\, and how to hear the complex emotions\, subtle negotiations\, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences\, our values\, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves\, and others—shape every discussion\, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book\, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard\, and to hear others\, so clearly. \nWith his storytelling that takes us from the writers’ room of The Big Bang Theory to the couches of leading marriage counselors\, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the tips and skills we need to navigate them more successfully. In the end\, he delivers a simple but powerful lesson: With the right tools\, we can connect with anyone.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-duhigg-supercommunicators/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-02-28/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kailani Polzak – Voyage Visuality: European Representations of Oceania at the Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Racial Theory and Artistic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Amid discussions about universal rights\, contestations over land\, and debates over the morality of chattel slavery\, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly sought to codify social hierarchy in observable physical differences. This project depended upon and spurred the production of circulatable pictures of bodies in the form of prints. At the same time\, recent encounters between European and Pacific Islanders disrupted previously accepted human divisions based on a four-continent model. This talk will analyze prints made after European voyages in Oceania to consider how these works give form to interactions between different visual practices and ways of knowing. Though images made during the so-called “voyages of discovery” are often treated as mere illustrations\, this talk will indicate how they do not simply replicate European racialist theories but rather reveal uncertainties and shifts in the visual epistemologies of race. \nKailani Polzak is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in early-modern European visual culture\, focusing on questions of intercultural contact\, race\, and colonialism in representations of the Pacific. Polzak’s current book project examines the graphic and printed works created about the circumnavigatory expeditions conducted by Britain\, France\, and Russia in Aotearoa New Zealand\, Australia\, and Hawaiʻi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and traces how these pictures were mobilized in constructions of racial difference and geographical space. Her current research and publications emphasize the methodological questions raised by writing about and curating colonial histories from multiple perspectives. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kailani-polzak-voyage-visuality-european-representations-of-oceania-at-the-intersection-of-eighteenth-century-racial-theory-and-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Abdelaziz: Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Photogrammetry and Computer Graphics in archaeology: application on some terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites in the city of Alexandria\, Egypt \nIn Alexandria-Egypt\, CEAlex (Centre d’etudes Alexandrines) conducted the first scientific underwater excavations in 1994 on the submerged site of the remains of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria near Qaitbey fort. In 2014\, for the first time in Egypt\, the center launched a 3D underwater photogrammetry data-gathering program to obtain a Digital Surface Model of the submerged site of the lighthouse\, and a 3D model of some of its artifacts. \nIn this talk\, digital heritage specialist and digital archaeologist Mohamed Abdelaziz will present the result of land- and underwater-based 3D reconstruction and documentation projects by the Center\, including the capturing of entire archaeological sites\, the virtual anastylosis (re-erection) of sculptural fragments of statues recovered from the sea\, and new methods for viewing visible and (previously) invisible details of archaeological objects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mohamed-abdelaziz-photogrammetry-and-computer-graphics-in-archaeology/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn 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. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Caitlin Charos (Research Development Specialist\, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences). Clara Bergamini (PhD candidate in History) will discuss her role as Research Development GSR and how to set up a meeting to discuss funding opportunities. 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. \n  \nPranav Anand\, professor of the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz\, is THI’s new Faculty Director. Anand was awarded the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities\, and earlier this year served as co-principal investigator on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create a certificate program for engineering students to better understand the impact of technology on the world. \n  \n  \nCaitlin Charos grew up in Stockton\, California and earned degrees from University of Pennsylvania (B.A.\, English)\, University of York\, U.K. (M.A.\, Cultures of Empire\, Resistance\, and Postcoloniality)\, and Princeton University (M.A.\, A.B.D.\, English). While pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton University\, Caitlin established herself as a researcher\, teacher\, and persuasive grant writer\, and was awarded a fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for scholarship on global migration. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures\, particularly literatures from southern Africa\, gender and sexualities\, race and ethnicity\, and the novel. Caitlin began her career in research development as a fellow in Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations\, where she helped connect faculty members to foundation funders with shared missions. She has supported faculty in securing significant grants from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and University of California Office of the President. She is a member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Caitlin loves talking with faculty about their research and is dedicated to applying her experience in support of humanities and social sciences research at UCSC. \n  \n \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute (THI). In her role\, she manages research projects\, graduate and undergraduate student programs\, communications\, and public humanities initiatives at the institute. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Research Advisor for the UCSC Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas. Before moving to UCSC\, she was an inaugural research affiliate at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and yearlong National Science Foundation fellow at the Center for Conflict\, Displacement\, and Peacebuilding at the University of Cartagena\, Colombia. Alongside her scholarship\, she has directed Global Youth Connect’s Colombia Human Rights Delegation\, worked at the International Peace and Security Institute’s The Hague Symposium on Post-Conflict Transitions and International Justice\, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga. \n  \n\nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate in history and Research development GSR at UC Santa Cruz. She is working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster.” My research centers around how people’s experiences with and memories of crises and catastrophes shape society over time through moments of memory-making. Specifically\, my research focuses on how the annual anniversaries of the 1923 Great Kantō Disaster and other disasters were used for various political and social programming during Japan’s imperial period. \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his new novel\, Wandering Stars. The eagerly awaited follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-finalist breakout bestseller There There—winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award\, the John Leonard Prize\, the American Book Award\, and one of the New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2018—Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting in There There. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. His first book\, There There\, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nJoin us for this ticketed offsite event! \nPurchase your tickets here. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tommy-orange-wandering-stars/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
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SUMMARY:Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:A global event\, taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, Night of Ideas invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. First introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French Embassy\, Night of Ideas is a nationwide phenomenon today\, drawing tens of thousands of people to events across the country\, for a nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates\, performances\, readings\, and more. \nOn March 1\, 2024\, the first official Night of Ideas will be brought to the public in Santa Cruz! \nCome think with us on the evening of March 1 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences building\, designed for vibrant possibility. Choose among rooms with synchronic presentations and performances\, led by poets\, philosophers\, scientists\, and artists. Muse with us\, ponder with us\, and talk with one another\, as together each of us travels across\, moves around and outside the many lines we draw in our world\, among us\, and between nature and humanity. \nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy\, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute and Cowell College\, partnering with Villa Albertine. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. \n \n  \n\nNight of Ideas 2024 Schedule\nMAIN HALL\n5:15pm: El Sistema/Estrellas de Esperanza – Music and Dance Performance\n5:45pm: Welcome Remarks\n6:30pm: Exhibition Walkthrough with IAS Director and Curator Rachel Nelson\n7:30: Jay Afrisando – Do you think music is only for persons with ‘normal’ ears? I don’t.\n8:20: Kalie Granier – Manji’o Cho’o \nCONFERENCE ROOM (Room 1)\n6pm: Ed Shanken – Technoshamanism: Towards Hybrid Techniques of Aesthetics and Healing\n7pm: Terri Peszle – Outside the Lines: The Bhagavad Gita\n8pm: Ana Pedroso – Breaching Faultlines: Playfulness with M. Lugones and F. Schiller \nWEST ROOM (Room 2)\n6pm: Juan Ruiz Cortes – Undocumented-everything\, everywhere\, all at once!\n7pm: Luna HighJohn-Bey – Imagination\, Liberation\, & AI\n8pm: Somreeta Paul – You are in my Mind – A Cartesian Nightmare \nONGOING\n“Ask a philosopher a question” booth\nEngage in conversation with other participants\, guest speakers of members of the public.\nScreening of Manji’o Cho’o\, by Kalie Granier\, in IAS Gallery Screening Room \n\nGuest Speakers and Performers\n \nEl Sistema Santa Cruz/Pajaro Valley and Estrellas de Esperanza are two organizations giving the children of Watsonville/Pajaro Valley the keys to claim their cultural heritage and the tools to build their creative and social legacy through music and dance education. \n  \n  \n\nJay Afrisando is a composer\, multimedia artist\, researcher\, and educator. He works on aural diversity\, acoustic ecology\, and cultural identity\, focusing on disability and environmental justice\, arts and accessibility\, and decolonizing arts practices. He shares vital experiences and disseminates knowledge through various media and methods. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nTo read more about all guests and performers visit: Night of Ideas — Institute of the Arts and Sciences
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240302T210000
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SUMMARY:Grad Slam 2024
DESCRIPTION:Grad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division that is open to all graduate students\, except those who have won 1st place in a previous Grad Slam. (Currently enrolled graduate students who have won 2nd or the people’s choice in a prior Grad Slam may enter again.) Participants have a maximum of three minutes to explain their graduate research or artistic endeavor to a general audience. \nPrizes are $3000 to the winner\, $1500 to the runner-up\, $750 to the people’s choice (the last decided by text message voting\, one vote per audience member\, both those in person and watching the live-stream). \nEvery UC holds a Grad Slam\, and the ten UC Grad Slam champions compete in the UC Office of the President Grad Slam in early May in San Francisco! \nFor more information about the Grad Slam visit: https://graddiv.ucsc.edu/calendar/grad-slam/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/grad-slam-2024/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T120000
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SUMMARY:Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday\, March 4th at 12pm in HUM 210. This meeting will have a hybrid attendance option on Zoom. Please join at noon to attend virtually. \nPresenting their work on Machine Translation (MT) with Large Language Models (LLMs)\, Minghui Hu\, Olayinka Iyinolakan\, Michaela Barker\, Johnny Li\, Napat Srichan\, Korben Tompkin and William Zhao will explore the integration of LLMs (Language Model Models) into translation engines. Our focus will be on how this integration can benefit academic translations and help to make low-resourced languages more accessible on the internet. Our translation engines are being tested on both OpenAI and the open-source LLM mistral. We will present our work-in-progress and welcome feedback as we continue with our research. \nTo learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers\, please consult our website the events tab. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \nAttendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We will gather with our meals and take our seats. The first 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this\, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess\, speakers will commence their presentations\, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow. \nFor those who prefer to schedule in advance\, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided)\, 11/6\, 12/11\, 1/8 (lunch provided)\, 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia)\, 3/4\, 4/8 (lunch provided)\, and 5/6. \nTHI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings\, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-lunch-meeting-5/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with the Humanities Institute and City on a Hill Press \nKresge’s Media & Society Series Presents:\nAn Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman \n\nPrize-winning Associated Press coauthors Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman will be speaking about journalistic collaboration and their groundbreaking investigation into the US Marine who abducted an Afghan child. \nMartha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman are Associated Press investigative journalists and frequent coauthors. A UCSC alumna\, Mendoza is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes\, as well as an Emmy for her work on the Frontline–PBS collaboration Kids Caught in the Crackdown. Linderman’s work has been recognized with several awards\, including honors from The Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-martha-mendoza-and-juliet-linderman/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160208
CREATED:20240131T212356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T215013Z
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T133000
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CREATED:20240111T231630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T231630Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Connery – China and the Mutations of Neoliberalism: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture
DESCRIPTION:China’s economic and social development over the last 25 years has featured significant elements from the neoliberal playbook–ideologies of competition and human capital\, market metrics\, efficiency\, suppression of labor rights\, and more–coexisting with severe state limitations on private property\, impediments to the formation of a capitalist class\, and\, especially in the last ten years\, an expansion of state-owned enterprises and party control of the economy. This talk argues for the continued relevance of neoliberalism to an understanding of China today\, and suggests that China’s particular and limited neoliberal character offers insights into the nature of contemporary capitalism\, and of its antagonists. \nChristopher Connery is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. He has published on early imperial Chinese literati culture (Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China); the oceanic mythos in early and late capitalism (“Pacific Rim Discourse”\, “The Oceanic Feeling”\, “Sea Power”\, et al); the global 1960s (The Asian Sixties \, The Sixties and the World Event\, “The World Sixties”\, “The End of the Sixties”); and contemporary Chinese intellectual politics and culture. Since 2010 he has been a member (writer\, performer\, political consultant) of Shanghai-based\, Chinese-language theater group Grass Stage\, which has performed throughout China\, as well as Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Japan\, and North America. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-connery-china-and-the-mutations-of-neoliberalism-thoughts-on-the-current-conjuncture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T180000
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SUMMARY:Humanists in Tech Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:EVER WONDERED HOW YOUR HUMANITIES DEGREE CAN LEAD TO AN AWESOME CAREER IN TECH? \nJoin us for a lively discussion with successful Humanities alumni who have paved their way in the tech industry. They’ll share their stories\, insights\, and tips to help you navigate your own journey. This is a great opportunity to learn about possible career pathways in tech from Humanities Alumni who are in the field. \nThis event will take place in Merrill College Provost House on Wednesday\, March 6th at 4:00PM. Appetizers and refreshments will be served. \nWho’s Invited: \n\nAll Humanities undergraduate and graduate students\nParticipants in our Humanizing Technology Certificate Program\n\nThis is not your average event; it’s a chance to connect\, learn\, and get inspired! See below for more information about our alumni. \n  \nPlease RSVP by Monday\, March 4th to let us know you will be joining us! \n \nThank you\, we can’t wait to see you there! \n  \n\nTHE ALUMNI LINEUP \n \n  \nDavid Gleason\, History & Literature B.A.\nHealthcare Data – Anthem \n  \n  \n \n  \nLily Ng\, Linguistics B.A.\nTechnical Program Manager – Grammarly \n  \n  \n \n  \nDr. Sarah Papazoglakis\, Literature PH.D.\nSenior Trust Strategist – META’s Reality Labs \n  \n  \n \n  \nRyan Pittington\, Literature B.A.\nGlobal Head of User Operations – Asana \n  \n  \n \n  \nEmily Sloan-Pace\, Literature PH.D.\nProfessor in Residence – Zoho Corporation \n  \n  \n \n  \nJake Vincent\, Lingusitics PH.D.\nLanguage Engineer – Amazon Web Services \n  \n  \nYou can read more about our outstanding Alumni here: Alumni Bios – Hum Tech Panel \n\n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanists-in-tech-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000
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SUMMARY:Moor Mother and James Gordon Williams in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Institute\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Institute of Arts and Sciences \nAudiences are invited to explore Black Quantum Futurism and Ubuntu philosophy in this collaborative performance featuring Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother)\, an American poet and composer\, and pianist and composer James Gordon Williams\, an assistant professor of music at UC Santa Cruz. \nJoin us at 6:30 PM prior to the performance to enjoy a complimentary cup of tea or coffee and a treat in the lobby. \n\nADMISSION \n\nSelf-service tickets available only on Eventbrite starting February 27.\nReminder: there is no ticket window at the event.\n\nPARKING \n\nLot 126 is the closest lot to the event\nParking is by UCSC permit\, Park Mobile\, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant\nMore visitor parking information available here\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician\, poet\, visual artist\, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work speaks to many genres from electronic to free jazz and classical music. Camae’s work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum\, The Met\, Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Hall\, Documenta 15\, the Berlin Jazz Festival\, and the Glastonbury Festival. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism the art she makes is a statement for the future\, as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes. \nJames Gordon Williams is a dynamic composer\, pianist\, and cultural theorist. He has worked with artists Crystal Z. Campbell\, Maria Gaspar\, Fred Moten\, Cauleen Smith\, and Suné Woods. He has performed with pianist/composer Anthony Davis\, bassist Mark Dresser\, Joseph Jarman\, Gregory Porter\, George E. Lewis\, Mark Dresser\, Greg Osby\, Charenée Wade as well as other musical luminaries. He held the piano chair for several years in the late Charli Persips’ Supersound band. \nFor more information visit the UCSC events calendar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moor-mother-and-james-gordon-williams-in-concert/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, the UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: Henry VIII\, the fourth installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. \nRegister for all sessions here: \n \nAbout Henry VIII:\nEarly in its first run in 1613\, Henry VIII (1613) set the world on fire – if by “world” we mean The Globe\, the theater in which Shakespeare’s company had performed since 1599. A stage canon set alight the building’s thatch roof and supporting timbers. \nThe play focuses on the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey\, Henry’s closest advisor\, on Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn\, and on the first stirrings of the English Reformation under Thomas Cranmer\, the Archbishop of Canterbury who gave us the Book of Common Prayer\, before it culminates in the birth of Elizabeth I. In part\, this play is about Henry’s effort to emerge from the shadow of his courtiers and determine his own fate as a king. In part\, it is about the way that it feels to be on the losing end of history’s epoch-making struggles and how the theater might help us to acknowledge and commemorate those losses so that they don’t come back to haunt the future. \nThis is a most unusual play\, unlike Shakespeare’s earlier meditations on the history of the English monarchy. Despite being very popular through the nineteenth century\, Henry VIII is rarely seen in performance today\, despite the current interest in television programs\, films\, and novels about the Tudor dynasty. This three-part\, virtual reading\, (February 21 and 28 and March 6) which is the fourth installment Undiscovered Shakespeare\, a collaboration between Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, brings Shakespeare’s last history play alive again. \nCome one\, come all\, for live theater and for lively conversation with actors\, scholars\, and each other! \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nEpisode 1: February 21\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nBuckingham (Prologue through Act 2\, Scene 1)\nThe play opens in the summer of 1520. Henry VIII has just returned from France\, where he was attending The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a diplomatic summit and extravagant display of wealth\, organized by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to make peace between Henry and the French king\, Francois I. The Duke of Buckingham and other English nobles resent the favor that Henry bestows on Wolsey\, a commoner. Among themselves\, they accuse the Cardinal of usurping the King’s sovereign powers\, but soon it is Buckingham who finds himself on trial for treason. Queen Katherine warns Henry that excessive taxes\, attributed to Wolsey’s influence at court\, have brought his subjects to the brink of rebellion. \nEpisode 2: February 28\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nKatharine and Wolsey (Act 2\, Scene 2 through Act 3\, Scene 2)\nWhen Anne Boleyn enters King Henry’s life\, he begins to search for valid reasons to annul his marriage to Queen Katherine\, who has been his wife for twenty-four years. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk blame Henry’s change of heart on Wolsey. The Queen defends her marriage before the Pope’s legate\, but the union is dissolved. Norfolk and Suffolk reveal the Cardinal’s enormous private wealth to the King. Wolsey understands his goose is cooked and reflects philosophically on his impending fall from grace with Thomas Cromwell\, his loyal servant. \nEpisode 3: March 6\, 2024\, 7:00pm-9:00pm\nCranmer (Act 4\, Scene 1 through Epilogue)\nAfter Wolsey’s fall and death\, King Henry finds a new spiritual advisor in Thomas Cranmer\, the reformist Archbishop of Canterbury. He also appoints Thomas Cromwell\, Wolsey’s servant\, as his personal secretary and member of the Privy Council. Off stage\, Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen\, while Katherine dies of a broken heart before our eyes. Stephen Gardiner\, the Bishop of Winchester and the enemy of Queen Anne\, plots the downfall Cranmer and Cromwell\, her allies\, but King Henry outmaneuvers him\, foiling the plot and demonstrating his superiority to his advisors. As the play ends\, the year must be 1533\, because the Queen gives birth to a daughter\, Elizabeth. Cranmer prophesies a golden future for England that\, by the time Shakespeare wrote this play\, already belonged to England’s past.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-henry-viii-ep3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky - Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present on his book\, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press\, 2024)\, which reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Between the 1850s and World War I\, the Ottoman Empire welcomed about a million Muslim refugees from Russia.  Empire of Refugees\, examines how Circassian\, Chechen\, Dagestani\, and other refugees transformed the late Ottoman Empire and how the Ottoman government managed Muslim refugee resettlement. North Caucasians established hundreds of villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans\, Anatolia\, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today\, including what is now the city of Amman. Empire of Refugees demonstrates that the Ottoman government created a refugee regime that predated refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. It offers a new way to think about migration and displacement in the Middle East. Grounded in archival research in ten countries\, this book examines the migration of about a million Muslim refugees from Russia to the Ottoman Empire and rewrites the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nDr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press\, 2024). Based on research in over twenty archives in ten countries\, the book explores the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir is currently writing a new book\, which is a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East\, Central Asia\, and South Asia since 1850. His articles appeared in Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Slavic Review\, and Kritika. He received a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/refugee-migration-in-the-ottoman-middle-east/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Former Professors Peter Gizzi & Nathaniel Mackey
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nPeter Gizzi is the author of Now It’s Dark (Wesleyan\, 2020)\, Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet\, UK 2020)\, Archeophonics (Wesleyan\, 2016)\, In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011 (Wesleyan\, 2014)\, Threshold Songs (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, The Outernationale (Wesleyan\, 2007)\, Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan\, 2003)\, Artificial Heart (Burning Deck\, 1998)\, and Periplum (Avec Books\, 1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks\, folios\, and artist books. \nHis honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry (1993)\, The Rex Foundation (1993)\, Howard Foundation (1998)\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999)\, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). He has twice been the recipient of The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at The University of Cambridge (2011\, 2015-16). In 2018 Wesleyan published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi. \nHe has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont\, Un Bureau Sur L’Atlantique\, the Centre International de Poesie Marseille (cipM)\, and Tamaas. \nHis editing projects have included o·blēk: a journal of language arts (1987-1993)\, The Exact Change Yearbook (Exact Change/Carcanet\, 1995)\, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan\, 1998)\, and with Kevin Killian\, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan\, 2008). For several years he was the Poetry Editor for The Nation. Since 2003\, he has been a contributing editor to the journal\, Conjunctions. \nHe has been on the faculty at Brown University (1993-95)\, the University of California\, Santa Cruz (1995-2001)\, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Program at Naropa (1998\, 2007)\, The University of New Orleans Summer Program in Madrid (2004)\, Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg (2006)\, The Writer’s Workshop at The University of Iowa (Fall 2008)\, and the University of Cambridge (2010-11 and 2015-16). He currently works at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. \nBorn in Miami and raised in Southern California\, poet\, novelist\, editor\, and critic Nathaniel Mackey earned his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from Stanford University. Mackey is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Blue Fasa (2015)\, Nod House (2011)\, the National Book Award-winning Splay Anthem (2006)\, Whatsaid Serif (1998)\, and Eroding Witness (1985)\, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series. He has published several book-length installments of his ongoing prose work\, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate\, beginning with Bedouin Hornbook in 1986. David Hajdu described the prose project as “not simply writing about jazz\, but writing as jazz” in a 2008 New York Times Book Review piece on the fourth volume in Mackey’s series\, Bass Cathedral (2007). Hajdu characterized the movement of language in the volumes as “kinetic and also contemplative\, elegiac and mercurial\, sometimes volatile.” The first three volumes of Mackey’s series were published together by New Directions in 2010. A recording of Mackey’s work Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 was released in 1995 by Spoken Engine Company\, with musical accompaniment by Royal Hartigan and Hafez Modirzadeh.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-former-professors-peter-gizzi-nathaniel-mackey/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michele Norris - Our Hidden Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris for a discussion of her new book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity—a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America\, unearthed through Norris’s decade-long work at The Race Card Project. \nNorris will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan\, Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis is event is cosponsored by NAACP Santa Cruz County. This special event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is free to attend thanks to the support of The Humanities Institute. Please register if you plan to join us! Your registration helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you! \n \n\nThe prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. \nThe answers\, though\, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question\, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor\, spanning the full spectrum of race\, ethnicity\, identity\, and class. Even at just six words\, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch\, revealing\, fear\, pain\, triumph\, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege\, enjoy it\, earned it. Lady\, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient. \nMany go even further than just six words\, submitting backstories\, photos\, and heirlooms: a collection much like a scrapbook of American candor you rarely get to see. Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories\, richly reported essays\, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest\, if sometimes uncomfortable\, conversation about race and identity\, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts\, private discussions\, and long submerged memories. \nThe breadth of this work came as a surprise to Norris. For most of the twelve years she has collected these stories\, many were submitted by white respondents. This unexpected panorama provides a rare 360-degree view of how Americans see themselves and one another. \nOur Hidden Conversations reminds us that even during times of great division\, honesty\, grace\, and a willing ear can provide a bridge toward empathy and maybe even understanding. \nYou can purchase your own copy of Our Hidden Conversations at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n\nMichele Norris is one of America’s most trusted voices in journalism\, earning several honors over a long career\, including Peabody\, Emmy\, Dupont\, and Goldsmith awards. She is a columnist for The Washington Post Opinion Section\, the host of the Audible Original Podcast\, Your Mama’s Kitchen\, and from and from 2002 to 2012 she was a cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered. \nVilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC. She teaches and writes about comparative and world literature\, the memory and legacies of colonial and racial violence\, and literary theory. She is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing (Stanford UP\, 2009)\, numerous journal articles and book chapters\, and has co-edited the forthcoming volume Autotheories: Transdisciplinary Experiments in Self-Theorizing.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michele-norris-our-hidden-conversations/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Ten – A Drama of Choice at the Extremity of the Universe (Paradiso 27–30)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n Alison Cornish is Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Reading Dante’s Stars (Yale\, 2000)\, Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Cambridge\, 2011) a commentary on Dante’s Paradiso\, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett\, 2017)\, and Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction (Cambridge\, 2022). as well as a number of essays on Dante\, Petrarch and Boccaccio. During the seventh centenary of the poet’s death\, she organized a crowd-sourced series of video conversations between members of the Dante Society of America\, entitled “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time.” \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-ten-a-drama-of-choice-at-the-extremity-of-the-universe-paradiso-27-30/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Queer Religiously & Other Companion Stories
DESCRIPTION:Omar Kasmani is a guest-lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universitaet\, Berlin. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion\, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP\, 2022) and the editor of Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP\, 2023). \n \nMore info on this event here. This event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of the 2023-2024 Lecture Series Crossings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queer-religiously-other-companion-stories/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture:  Professor James Laine
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Winter Aurora Lecture featuring Professor James W. Laine\, Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies\, Macalester College. \nJoin Professor James Laine for a lecture\, entitled “Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: Steps on the Road to an Idea of Religious Tolerance” with discussants Anna Bigelow – Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University and G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. \nProfessor James Laine will be presenting the lecture on March 11th\, as well as leading a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History on March 12th. \nFor more information about the book discussion visit: Aurora Lecture Book Discussion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2024-aurora-lecture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Pranav Anand
DESCRIPTION:Pranav Anand joins Slugs and Steins to deliver his talk titled “Language Models: A Selective History and Notes on the Future.” Drawing on the Humanities Division’s Humanizing Technology curriculum\, will highlight some of the history of language models now ascendant in systems like ChatGPT. We will wend our way from early cryptography through the beginnings of machine translation\, and into the data-rich present of large language models. Along the way\, we will contemplate the ways that developments in technology have been driven by historical backdrop\, and leverage that understanding to contemplate what the near future will look like. \nPranav Anand is a Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and Faculty Director of the Humanities Institute\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics\, particularly in the study of context-dependence\, perspectival expressions\, and subjectivity. His work\, which leverages linguistic fieldwork\, logical analysis\, philosophy of language\, and computational linguistics\, has examined affect and sentiment\, debate and persuasion\, narrative\, ellipsis and fragments\, and modality and knowledge. \nRegister for the Zoom Webinar below: \n \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-pranav-anand/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Border Tech\, Embodiment\, and Gender
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCSC Feminist Studies Department for the Border Tech Event: a roundtable conversation on Border Tech\, Embodiment\, and Gender with Diana J. Montaño (Washington University in St Louis)\, Irina Córdoba Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico)\, and Iván Chaar López (University of Texas at Austin)\, moderated by USCC Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. These three authors will give lightning talks on their recently published/forthcoming books. Lunch will be served following the event. \nIván Chaar López’  forthcoming book\, The Cybernetic Border: Drones\, Technology\, and Intrusion shows how U.S. borders\, since the 1970s\, are more than walls or fences; they are regimes of datafication and racialization.\nIrina Córdoba Ramírez’ book\, Desarrollo agrícola y acuerdo políticos en el norte de México: Los centros de contratación de programa bracero\, 1947-1964\, considers how agricultural development in Northern Mexico affected internal migratory flows of Mexican actors before the Bracero Program shaped Mexico-U.S. migratory relations.\nDiana J. Montaño’s book\, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (2023) explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and political evolution\, especially investigating how inventions and adaptations served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space\, body and self\, the national and the foreign. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Peggy and Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Feminist Studies Department\, the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, UC Santa Cruz\, Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas\, and The University of Texas at Austin Department of American Studies. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/border-tech-embodiment-and-gender/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Book Discussion with Professor James Laine
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor James Laine for a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (2014) in conversation with G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. \nProfessor James Laine will also be presenting the Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture on March 11th. For more information about this event\, please visit Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-book-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T110000
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rahel Jaeggi: Progress and Regression
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin) \nThis talk is part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. Guests are invited to join us in-person in HUM 1\, Room 420 at 2:00 pm PST\, or join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\nAbout Progress and Regression\nMy paper deals with a question which has repeatedly preoccupied contemporary philosophical discussion and which seems to me to be indispensable for a critical theory of society in the tradition of left-Hegelian critique in particular—namely\, the question of progress and regression. So what does it mean to understand social change as a movement of progression\, or\, respectively\, regression? How can the concept of progress help us to understand\, as Wendy Brown says “where we have come from and where we are going”\, if where we are trying to go is towards emancipation – or at least away from the multi-crisis we are currently in? And in which respect does it prevent us from understanding this? How can we (and can we?) distinguish regressive from progressive or emancipatory movements? Read more \nAbout Rahel Jaeggi\nRahel Jaeggi is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on Political Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018 she is also director of the University’s Centre for Social Critique. She has researched and taught as a visiting professor at Yale University\, Fudan University\, and as Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School for Social Research. Jaeggi was also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is a prominent representative of critical theory\, has received numerous awards\, and is the author and co-editor of numerous books\, including Alienation (2015)\, Critique of Forms of Life (Harvard University Press\, 2018) and Fortschritt und Regression\, which is about to be translated and will appear in English in 2025. She is currently a fellow at the Thomas Mann Haus in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rahel-jaeggi-progress-and-regression/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-03-20/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPublic 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. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2024 THI Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2024 opportunities and hear from previous THI Public Fellows. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 21st\, 2024. Final applications are due on April 15\, 2024. \nThe workshop will be led by Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, THI Research Programs and Communications Director\, and include a panel with recent Public Fellows\, Rafael Franco-Flores (who worked with the GLBT Historical Society) and Wesley Viebahn (who worked with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History) \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the eighth 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. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-public-fellowship-information-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode 11 - The End of Imagination (Paradiso 33)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nWilliam Franke is a Dante scholar\, a philosopher of the humanities\, and a professor of comparative literature at Vanderbilt University. He has also been professor of philosophy at University of Macao (2013-2016); Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology (2005-06); and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung research fellow (1994- 95). His book Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection received the Hermes Award: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics from The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH)\, 2021 and he became Honorary Professor (Profesore Honoris Causa) of the Agora Hermeneutica. \nIn addition to six monographs on Dante\, Franke’s critical theory books include Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language (Stanford University Press\, 2009) and A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities (Cascade\, 2017). These works follow up on books tracing prophetic poetry from Homer and Virgil to Dante (The Revelation of Imagination\, Northwestern University Press\, 2015) and then forward from Dante through Chaucer\, Shakespeare\, Milton\, Blake\, Leopardi\, to more recent modern classics including Baudelaire\, Dickinson\, and Yeats (Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante\, Ohio State University Press\, 2016). \nIn conjunction with his work on prophetic poetry\, Franke has developed what he calls A Philosophy of the Unsayable (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2014) reconstructing the apophatic tradition in On What Cannot Be Said (Notre Dame\, 2007\, 2 vols.). His Apophatic Paths from Europe to China (SUNY\, 2018\, Chinese Philosophy series) extends this project into an intercultural philosophy. His The Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking (Notre Dame\, 2020) explores applications of this philosophy to media studies\, postmodern identity politics of race and gender\, and cognitive sciences in their struggle with the humanities. \nDante monographs by William Franke\nDantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies – New York: Routledge\, 2023 (forthcoming) Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture\nThe Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation – Cambridge\, UK: Cambridge University Press\, 2021 (304 + xx pages)\nDante’s Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation – Cambridge\, UK: Cambridge University Press\, 2021 (299 + xix pages)\nDante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection – New York: Routledge\, 2021 (334 + xxii pages) Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series\nDante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’ – London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic]\, 2013 Invited for New Directions in Religion and Literature Series\, edited by Mark Knight and Emma Mason (200 + xv pages)\nDante’s Interpretive Journey – Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 1996 (242 + xi pages) Religion and Postmodernism series\, edited by Mark C. Taylor \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dante-episode11/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-5/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: NYC Salon
DESCRIPTION:Meet Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder and UCSC faculty members for a special evening to learn about the Deep Read\, this year’s featured book\, and how you can get involved. The Deep Read\, hosted annually by THI\, invites curious minds to delve deeply into books guided by the expertise of UC Santa Cruz scholars. This year\, we’re reading and thinking about Trust\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Hernan Diaz. \nOur evening will feature light bites and a limited selection open bar. The first 50 guests will receive a copy of Trust to take home. \nDon’t miss this chance to connect with fellow Slugs\, engage with literature\, and participate in this year’s Deep Read. Everyone is invited. \n \n\nParticipants\nHumanities Dean Jasmine Alinder  \nJasmine Alinder is the Humanities Division’s academic leader\, the PI for the Mellon Foundation grant which supports her Employing Humanities Initiative\, and a historian of photography and the incarceration of Japanese Americans. \nProfessor Pranav Anand \nPranav Anand is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute. He is a Professor of Linguistics focused on semantics\, pragmatics\, syntax\, and computational linguistics. \nTHI Founding Director Irena Polić\nIrena Polić has co-directed The Humanities Institute since 2008\, serves as the Assistant Dean for Research and Engagement for the Humanities Division\, and is the founding director of the Deep Read. \nAssociate Professor Zac Zimmer \nZac Zimmer is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature\, culture\, and technology in the hemispheric Americas and serves as a faculty lead for this year’s Deep Read. \n\nAbout The Deep Read\nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Now in its fifth year\, we invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-nyc-salon/
LOCATION:Lot 15 inside Black Tap\, 45 W 35th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10016
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SUMMARY:Gail Hershatter: Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary
DESCRIPTION:The Emeriti Association presents their annual Emeriti Faculty Lecture with Gail Hershatter who will give her lecture\, “Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary.” \nThe event will take place in UCSC’s Music Recital Hall at 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. \n \n\nNotes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary with Gail Hershatter\nXu Ming had many identities: coddled son of an elite family\, patriotic activist\, underground Communist organizer\, Clark University graduate student\, New York-based journalist\, land reform organizer\, Korean War negotiator\, diplomat\, politically disgraced Rightist\, rural laborer\, small-town junior high basketball coach\, globe-trotting government economic advisor\, eyewitness to the 1989 Tiananmen suppression. This lecture explores what we can learn from the life of a single individual about a canonical event of Big History—the Chinese Communist revolution. \nAbout Gail Hershatter\nGail Hershatter is Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at UC Santa Cruz\, and a former President of the Association for Asian Studies. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin (1986)\, Personal Voices: China Women in the 1980s (1988\, with Emily Honig)\, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997)\, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2004)\, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011)\, and Women and China’s Revolutions (2019).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emeriti-association-lecture-with-gail-hershatter/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Twelve – Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \nFlower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso (Par. 23 and 31-33) \nIn lines of sublime beauty that fuse the fin’amor image of the rose with the ancient Marian type of the flos Iesse (Isa. 11:1)\, Dante tells us that Paradise itself\, the candida rosa (Par. 31.1)\, is generated from the warmth of Mary’s womb: ‘Nel ventre tuo si raccese l’amore\, / per lo cui caldo ne l’etterna pace così è germinato questo fiore’ (Par. 33.7-9). She is the termine fisso (3)\, the fixed point\, upon which God’s plan of salvation turns. Without her fiat (Luke 1:28)\, Paradise would be a sterile bloom\, deprived of the Love that breathes life into all things. Just so\, it is her words that set Dante’s own journey in motion (Inf. 2.94-114) and it is she who mediates his final vision. Without her\, one could argue\, there would be no Commedia. \nIt is essential to recognize this centrality of the Virgin if one is to come to a proper understanding of her role in the Paradiso. Taking as its starting point the Prayer to the Virgin (Par. 33.1-39)\, this chapter will explore the multiple ways in which Mary is present in the third cantica (and more broadly of the poem as a whole)\, whether as a source of hope and grace\, mediatrix\, supreme example of humanity fulfilled\, icon of the Church\, or prophetic sign of the New Creation (Rev. 21.1). Ultimately\, reading the poem in a Marian key\, we may conclude that it is she\, synthesis and apex of creation in all its beauty\, who leads Dante (and possibly the reader too) into the heart of the Trinity where\, become fully Christ\, we too may glimpse something of the presence of God beneath all things. \n \nBrian K. Reynolds teaches in the Italian Department and the Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature of Fu Jen Catholic University\, Taipei\, specializing in Medieval Italian Literature and in Mariology. He received his primary degree from University College Dublin in Italian and history and went on to carry out his postgraduate studies at UCD and Trinity College Dublin. He also taught in both of these institutions and in the Università degli Studi\, Bari prior to moving to Taiwan. Reynolds has written and spoken widely on Dante Alighieri and on Italian courtly and religious literature of the Middle Ages. At present he is mid-way through a project to produce a hypertext of the Divine Comedy. \nReynolds is also a recognized expert on Patristic and Medieval Mariology having published a major study\, Gateway to Heaven\, on Marian doctrine and devotion as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently completing the second volume of his Gateway to Heaven series\, on Marian typological imagery. Reynolds is on the board of several journals including Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture and Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. He is the founder and convenor of the Dante in East Asia Network and is a member\, specializing in Mariology\, of the International Interdisciplinary Abba School\, based in the Sophia University Institute. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-twelve-radical-belonging/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Linguistics Colloquia: Karlos Arregi
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nKarlos Arregi\nUniversity of Chicago \nspeaking on\nThe relation between head movement and periphrasis \n\nAbstract \nIn joint work with Asia Pietraszko\, I’ve been investigating the relation between head movement and the synthesis-periphrasis distinction in the verbal domain. We use the term “synthesis” to refer to verbal expressions in which the lexical verb bears all the verbal inflection in a clause (e.g. “rode” in English). In contrast\, a periphrastic verbal expression additionally contains an auxiliary verb (specifically\, “be” or “have”)\, and verbal inflection is distributed between the lexical verb and the auxiliary (e.g. “had ridden”). \nWe argue for two crosslinguistic generalizations: T-V Optionality and *V-Aux. According to T-V Optionality\, languages vary as to whether T is in a head-movement relation with a verb. *V-Aux states that in periphrasis\, the lexical verb and the auxiliary cannot be related by head movement. Existing analyses of periphrasis can account for one or the other generalization\, but not for both. \nWe further argue that this tension between the two generalizations is resolved if we adopt the hypothesis that both head movement and periphrasis are tied to selection. More specifically\, we propose that head movement is parasitic on a selectional relation (following Svenonius 1994\, Julien 2002\, Matushansky 2006\, and Preminger 2019) and that auxiliaries are merged as specifiers selected by functional heads such as T (Pietraszko 2017). \n  \nJoin us for this in-person talk on Friday\, April 5th at 1:20 pm. We look forward to seeing you there! \nFor accessibility issues\, please contact Sarah Amador (samador@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-karlos-arregi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deppe Memorial Lecture with Professor Emily Gowers
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture\, taking place this Friday\, April 5 at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow). \nThis year\, Professor Emily Gowers (University of Cambridge) will be giving a talk titled “Sallust’s Salient Snails.” \nThe lecture will focus on a brief episode in Sallust’s Jugurtha\, where a soldier’s encounter with some tiny snails and a tree in the African desert changes the course of history. Gowers will read it for its unusually detailed style of narrative\, and ask what it tells us about the role of small things in historiography\, as well as about Sallust’s conception of time and space and his own contribution as a historian. \nAll are welcome to attend this event. We hope to see you there! \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deppe-memorial-lecture-with-professor-emily-gowers/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday\, April 8th at 12pm in HUM 210. This month’s meeting will feature guest speakers Theresa Hice-Fromille (Ohio State University) and Sarah Papazoglakis (Lit PhD\, ’18) on Afrofuturism for Tech: Creative Approaches to Design and Policy. \nThe Speculative Fictions and Futures Project was initiated in 2022 by Sarah Papazoglakis and Theresa Hice-Fromille. With an initial archive of 39 speculative fiction texts\, the first stage of the project identified 10 common themes for an inclusive metaverse. The Afro-\, Latinx-\, Indigenous-\, and Asian-futurist texts analyzed explore many marginalized perspectives on the hopes\, fears\, and challenges brought forth by emerging technologies. The project’s 25 recommendations provide builders (digital artists\, computer scientists\, linguists\, policy experts\, etc.) with concrete suggestions and real-life examples to implement in metaverse construction. The focus of this presentation is on the ways the project data can be used to creatively consider a pressing issue: the ethical codes that will shape the construction and use of emerging technologies. Incorporating lessons from diverse speculative texts encourages cultural inclusivity in ways that solely focusing on existing legal frameworks cannot. \n\nSPEAKER BIOS \nTheresa Hice-Fromille (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University with a PhD in Sociology and designated emphases in CRES and Feminist Studies from UC Santa Cruz. In 2022 she completed a summer THI public humanities fellowship with Meta’s Reality Labs where she co-developed a diverse speculative fictions archive that critically taxonomizes the technologies and futures portrayed in Afro-\, Indigenous-\, Asian-\, and Latinx-futurist cultural productions. Throughout 2022 and 2023 she led presentations and equity workshops for developers that draw on insights garnered from this archive to inspire equitable and conscientious technological innovation. She is currently extending this work to include youth participatory action research (YPAR) and workshops for young people in the so-called “Silicon Heartland.” \nSarah Papazoglakis holds a PhD in Literature from University of California\, Santa Cruz and is currently a Trust Strategist at Meta’s Reality Labs. In this role\, she builds privacy and responsible innovation frameworks for emerging VR technologies and bridges the gap between AI research and consumer product use. Sarah draws from her humanities PhD to help product and engineering leaders imagine and define positive social impacts of future technologies and scope the requirements needed to build privacy- and trust-by-design into foundational product architectures. \n\nThe research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. To learn more about current cluster projects and further information about upcoming speakers visit: https://thi.ucsc.edu/clusters/humanities-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/ \nThe Humanities Institute (THI) will graciously cater lunch for this meeting. Once we have obtained our meals\, we will gather and take our seats. The first 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this\, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess\, speakers will commence their presentations\, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow. \nFor those who prefer to schedule in advance\, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided)\, 11/6\, 12/11\, 1/8 (lunch provided)\, 2/12\, 3/4\, 4/8 (lunch provided)\, and 5/6. \nTHI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings\, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-lunch-meeting-6/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Feminist Studies and Faculty for Justice in Palestine present Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine with panelists: Lila Adib Sharif (Arizona State University)\, Jennifer Lynn Kelly (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University); the editorial collective of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine. \nJoin us for this panel discussion with excerpts from Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine (Forthcoming\, Duke University Press) on Monday\, April 8th at 3:00 PM. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine showcases how Palestinians across Palestine and in the diaspora reshape forms of tourism to their homeland in order to lay claim to it in the midst of Israel’s settler-colonial project. \nFor more information visit: https://fjpucsc.org/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/detours-a-decolonial-guide-to-palestine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History with Dr. Shamam Waldman
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies will be given by Dr. Shamam Waldman. \nJoin us on April 9th at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn for Dr. Waldman’s lecture titled:\n“What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History?” \n \nDoors will open at 5:30PM. The talk will begin promptly at 6:00PM. \n\nThe study of population genetics\, and specifically ancient DNA\, can now offer new insights into Jewish history. One profound example is in our understanding of the origins and early history of Ashkenazi Jews. Scholars in a variety of disciplines have\, for years\, debated the topic\, proposing different theories. Recent genetic analysis and research is helping to shed light on this long-standing puzzle. Another example of how population genetics can offer new insights concerns the genetic connections between the Bronze – Age Levant and present-day Jewish and Middle Eastern populations. \nIn this talk Dr. Shamam Waldman will share her perspective on these questions and the implications of new research based on ancient DNA. Dr. Waldman will present findings from two recent articles in Cell that she co- led: one analyzing DNA from 14th century Jews in Erfurt Germany which showed that the medieval Ashkenazi Jewish population was much more heterogeneous than the one today\, and the other on the genomic history of the people of the Bronze-Age Southern Levant which showed migrations from the Caucasus and Iran into this region between about 2500-1000 CE. \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nShamam Waldman completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of population genetics\, and she is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Reich Lab at Harvard University. Dr. Waldman developed computational and statistical methods to analyze ancient DNA. She used these methods to study the genetic connections between Canaanites and present-day Middle Eastern populations\, as well as the genetic origins of Ashkenazi Jews. As a postdoctoral researcher she continues to study ancient DNA of Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages as well as hunter-gatherers from the Mesolithic period.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-can-genomics-teach-us-about-jewish-history/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-04-10/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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