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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers:  Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTerri Witek is the author of 7 books of poems\, most recently The Rattle Egg (2021); Something’s Missing in This Museum is forthcoming in 2023. Recent work has been featured in two international anthologies: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (2021)\, and in the WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry (2021). She has collaborated with Brazilian artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) since 2005–their works together include museum and gallery shows\, performance and site-specific projects featured internationally in New York\, Seoul\, Miami\, Lisbon\, Rio de Janeiro\, and Valencia. Witek holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University\, and with Lopes teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson’s low-residency MFA of the Americas. Their collaborative projects are represented by The Liminal\, Valencia Spain. terriwitek.com \nRachel Nelson\, PhD\, is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and adjunct professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California\, Santa Cruz. In her curatorial projects and research\, Nelson explores the transformative potential of art and culture. She is co-curator of the group exhibition Barring Freedom (2020-21)\, which looks at how artists engage the racialized histories and presents of the U.S. criminal legal system. Other curatorial projects include Bodies at the Borders with Carlos Motta\, Solitary Garden with jackie sumell and Tim Young\, and Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing art and education program. Nelson has also has published widely\, including in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts\, among others.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-terri-witek-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry\, Beth Au\, moderator of the panel\, and UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc\, all of whom have recently been hired by\, are currently working for\, or have recently worked for a CCC. \nRegister by November 9th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/california-community-colleges-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Patrick Radden Keefe\, Empire of Pain & Rogues
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe will visit Santa Cruz for a discussion about his most recent books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (in paperback October 18th) and Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. Empire of Pain is a grand\, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family\, famed for their philanthropy\, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Rogues is a collecton of twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue that showcase Keefe’s work of a reporter at the top of his game. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n \n“A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. It’s highly entertaining\, of course\, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe’s fascination with what makes us human even when we’re at our most imperfect.” —Los Angeles Times \n“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book\, I read it. Every time he writes an article\, I read it … he’s a national treasure.” —Rachel Maddow \nPATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain\, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize\, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review\, The Washington Post\, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal\, and was named one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly. He’s also the author of two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. His most recent book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. \nHis work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change\, an 8-part podcast series\, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and heavy metal music during the Cold War\, and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patrick-radden-keefe-empire-of-pain-rogues/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled\, please stay tuned for a future date for this event. \nAccording to premodern elites\, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages\, sustenance\, more festival days\, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by premodern sumptuary laws\, focusing on luxury as a class of things. I focus on the act of luxuriating instead\, drawing out its embodied\, affective\, and tactical dimensions as a “structure of feeling.” I argue that a focus on luxuriating opens our thought to the political potential in the physical\, sensory\, and lived experience of the poor as they lay claim to enjoyment and abundance. \n \nDean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics\, currently working on a book manuscript Luxuriating in Democracy\, Abundance\, and the Enjoyment of Bodies Politic. He is the author of Appeals to Interest: Language and the Shaping of Political Agency and the editor of and contributor to Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics\, Justice\, and Action. His other writings have appeared in journals including Political Theory\, Theory and Event\, Political Research Quarterly\, The New Political Science\, and The Arrow. \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/center-for-cultural-studies-dean-mathiowetz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED Dale Tomich - Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 15th “Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous” talk will be given by Dale Tomich from Binghamton University. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dale-tomich-capitalism-and-slavery-the-contemporaneity-of-the-non-contemporaneous/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T113000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - PhD+ Workshop - Listening\, Mentoring\, Coaching\, Advising
DESCRIPTION:Listening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half\, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base upon which to build the skills of mentoring\, coaching\, and advising. Listening well also aids your performance on a team and in any professional and personal relationship. Learn how to listen conscientiously and to mentor\, coach\, and advise with empathy. \nRegister by November 7th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/listening-mentoring-coaching-advising/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife
DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife\, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of “Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground\,” Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the African Diaspora\, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson (moderator). \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nDuriel E. Harris is a writer\, performer\, artist\, and scholar. She is author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry\, including No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat\, 2017)\, Drag (2003)\, and Amnesiac: Poems (2010). Multi-genre works include the one-woman theatrical performance Thingification\, the video collaboration Speleology (2011)\, and the sound+image project “Blood Labyrinth.” Cofounder of The Black Took Collective\, Harris is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Illinois State University and Editor in Chief of the award-winning publishing platform Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \nBakar Wilson’s poetry has appeared in The Vanderbilt Review\, The Lumberyard Radio Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology\, and The Ostrich Review\, among others. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club\, Poetry Project\, The Studio Museum of Harlem\, and the 2022 Whitney Biennial. A native of Memphis\, TN\, Bakar received his BA in English from Vanderbilt University and his MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is an Adjunct Lecturer of English and Creative Writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY. \nElizabeth Owuor is a writer\, vinyl collector\, DJ\, and freelance journalist who interrogates the archives of Black music history\, blending intimate narrative with the collective history of her people. Her nonfiction utilizes rare blues and soul music to examine cultural inheritance\, Black creative labor\, and the ways in which Blackness is constructed and consumed in the U.S. and Europe. She has spun her sounds of Black resistance on vinyl all around the globe and is co-founder of Black Rhythm Happening\, an evening dedicated to unearthing gems from the sonic vaults. A Tin House alumna\, her journalism has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. To keep the lights on\, she works as a copywriter in Silicon Valley. She pursued her Bachelors in Journalism from Emerson College and received a Master’s in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell\, Hedgebrook\, and the California Arts Council. \nfahima ife (they/she\, any or no pronoun) is a poet\, professor\, and editor based in Northern California and New Orleans. She is associate professor of Black Studies in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. In her creative/critical work and in the classes she teaches\, fahima considers 20th and 21st century experimental black aesthetics\, ecological poetry and poetics\, performance art\, intimacy\, and pleasure. fahima mostly produces poems\, lyrical essays\, and hybrid experimental works. She is author of Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press\, 2021)\, the forthcoming poetry collection\, Arrhythmia (press TBA\, 2023)\, and other works. She is at work on poems\, a music of our sensing here. She is a contributing editor at Tilted House press\, and with Ian U Lockaby\, co-edits the forthcoming journal LUCIUS. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nov-10/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In between\, lies the story of the 60s generation in the Arab world. The funeral was that of Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser. His 1970 death was just another reminder of the weighty collective defeat of “the first Arabs”: the eminent generation born after WW I\, which had defined itself by its Arab ethnicity rather than religious faith and had fought to decolonize their society. Their dream was a dignified life but their lot ended up being a dehumanizing defeat. With the ultimate aim of offering a humanizing narrative of this generation struggle for life with dignity\, in this talk I offer preliminary thoughts on one of the most complex and rich experiments in the modern history of the Middle East. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \nYoav Di-Capua is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he teaches modern Arab intellectual history. He is the author of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt (University of California Press\, 2009) and No Exit: Arab Existentialism\, Jean Paul Sartre and Decolonization (University Press of Chicago\, 2018). Supported by the Guggenheim Foundation\, he is currently at work on The First Arabs: An Intimate History of Their Struggle for Dignity and The Aftermath of Defeat.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yoav-di-capua-reconsidering-the-60s-generation-in-the-arab-world-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
DESCRIPTION:A vexing problem for academics is burnout: the experience of exhaustion\, cynicism\, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your academic vocation and the reality of your academic job. Jonathan Malesic left his job as a tenured theology professor at a small liberal arts college after undergoing burnout over the course of several years. Since then\, he has published dozens of articles on work and burnout in academic journals and general-interest publications. He has also published a book on this topic\, The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (University of California Press\, 2022). In this workshop\, he will address what burnout is\, why academic workers are so vulnerable to it\, and how building more compassionate institutions can help prevent and heal academic burnout. \nIn addition to The End of Burnout\, Malesic has written about work and burnout for the New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Inside Higher Ed\, The Hedgehog Review\, and several academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and has been the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute. His writing has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019\, 2020\, 2021) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2019). He teaches writing at Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. \nRegister by November 2nd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/preventing-and-mitigating-burnout/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Chih-ming Wang - Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels
DESCRIPTION:Examining Ha Jin’s immigrant novels in the crossfires of US-China competition\, this talk proposes post/Cold War entanglements as a critical frame for reconsidering Asian American studies today. It argues that attention to Chineseness as a political\, rather than cultural\, construct is more urgent than ever. Ha Jin’s emphasis on immigration as freedom in his novels offers an opportune occasion for examining how Cold War geopolitics persists in and through Chinese America\, and how the Chinese American immigrant subjectivity may be politicized to fuel anti-China politics today\, especially in the context of US-China rivalry. His rearticulation of diasporic Chineseness based on the principle of freedom and individualism in the shadow of Global China encourages us to grapple with the poignancy of identity as a form of coercion and to reexamine the Cold War legacy of Asian America. \n \nChih-ming Wang is associate research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute (2021-22) and a visiting research fellow at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He works in both transpacific American literature and inter-Asia cultural studies\, concerned with the interplay of literature and geopolitics\, and the colonial modernity of knowledge production in East Asia. He is the chief-editor of Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies and the author of two books: Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (UHP\, 2013) and Re-Articulation: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (Linking\, 2021). He also co-edited with Yu-Fang Cho a special issue on “The Chinese Factor” for American Quarterly (2017). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Multiple Returning: Post/Cold War Entanglements and Asian American Literature.” \nPresented by the Transnational China Research Hub.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chih-ming-wang-retelling-chinese-stories-in-the-era-of-global-china-on-ha-jins-immigrant-novels/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mark Massoud – The Power of Positionality
DESCRIPTION:What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in their scholarship? Drawing in part on Mark’s empirical research and professional experience\, this talk investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial\, gender\, class\, or other self-identifications\, experiences\, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of positionality in a research article can enhance the validity of its empirical data and its theoretical contribution. However\, such self-disclosure puts scholars in a vulnerable position\, and those most likely to reveal how their positionality shapes their research are women\, ethnic minorities\, or both. At this stage of the field’s methodological development\, the burdens of positionality are being carried unevenly by a tiny minority of researchers. Massoud invites scholars to redress this imbalance by embracing expressions of positionality. \nMark Fathi Massoud is a Politics professor and the director of the Legal Studies Program here at UCSC. He also serves as affiliated faculty with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of two books that address the interplay of law\, politics\, and religion — and he is currently editing a volume on positionality. Mark’s most recent book is Shari’a\, Inshallah (Cambridge University Press 2021). Shari’a\, Inshallah received four awards: the Hart-SLSA Book Prize from the Socio-Legal Studies Association\, the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Religion\, the Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism from American Political Science Association — and it was a Finalist for the PROSE Award for the best book in government and politics published last year\, from the Association of American Publishers. Mark is also the author of Law’s Fragile State (Cambridge University Press 2013)\, which earned awards from the American Political Science Association and the Law and Society Association. Mark holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. \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/mark-massoud-the-power-of-positionality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Slide Design Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used\, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop\, review this slide design page\, including viewing the video by Sonya. \nSonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her B.A. in English literature from Emory University\, where she also minored in anthropology. In addition to organizing professional development classes\, workshops\, panels\, and the two certificate programs\, she also organizes Grad Slam\, the Graduate Symposium\, and the Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Ceremony. \nRegister by November 1st for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slide-design-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture - Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:In 1942\, at the outset of World War II\, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year\, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire was distributed to assess “loyalty.” While many of the questions seemed innocuous\, two questions in particular\, 27 and 28\, about willingness to serve in the US military and forswearing allegiance to the Japanese Emperor\, were confusing and divisive within the incarcerated communities. The answering of these two questions created rifts within families and friends\, with traumatic divisions that resonate to this day. \nRegister to attend in person \nRegister to attend virtually \nComplimentary event parking will be available in lots 115/116. Please follow event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will help assist you. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Sansei and Sensibility\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-fall-2022-emeriti-lecture-questions-27-28-loyalty-and-japanese-american-incarceration/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanizing Technology Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:The Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is a Humanities Division initiative targeted to early career Engineering students but open to all UCSC undergraduates. The program features small class sizes and GE courses that examine the goals and impacts of technology in various ways. To earn the certificate\, students take three of the five lower-division Humanities courses listed below. There are no prerequisites\, and you can take the courses in any order you choose. Each course fulfills a different GE requirement: \nCurious about where to find GE Humanities courses about technology? Come join the Humanizing Technology Certificate Program! \nHUMN 15 Ethics and Technology Perspectives on Technology GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nThis course explores ethical\, social\, and political issues raised by existing and emerging technologies. HUMN 25 Humans and Machines Textual Analysis GE\, offered Winter and Summer 2023. This course explores the tension between humans and machines\, between people and objects increasingly resembling them.\n\nHUMN 35 Language Technology Cross-Cultural Analysis GE\, offered Winter 2023 \n\nThis course provides a comparative\, historical framing of the development of communication technologies and practices\, considering a variety of cultures and societies across human history.\n\nHUMN 45 Race and Technology Ethnicity and Race GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nThis course examines how the construction of race connects with constructs in science and technology.\n\nHUMN 55 Technologies of Representation Interpreting Arts and Media GE\, offered Spring and Summer 2023 \n\nFocusing on technologies of representation like photographs\, selfies\, and surveillance data\, this course explores how viewers and makers derive meaning from images and how power operates in their creation and circulation.\n\nFunded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Interested in learning more? See our website for details: humanities.ucsc.edu/academics/hum-tech
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanizing-technology-launch-event/
LOCATION:Crown College Plaza\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T173000
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SUMMARY:Sawyer Seminar Reading Group with Alberto Ortiz-Díaz
DESCRIPTION:This reading group is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \n \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom meeting ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-reading-group-with-alberto-ortiz-diaz/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T110000
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SUMMARY:Telling Your Research Story Through Comics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for “Telling Your Research Story Through Comics” on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. Featuring: Felicia Lopez (UCM)\, Carolyn Jennings (UCM)\, Jordan Collver\, and Pino Cao. Register here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/telling-your-research-story-through-comics/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox - Discussion of Dracula (Beginning-Chap. 16)
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victorian-necromancies-with-professor-renee-fox-discussion-of-dracula-beginning-chap-16/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Madhavi Murty Reading Group - Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
DESCRIPTION:The THI research cluster “Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” presents a reading group on Madhavi Murty’s new book “Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India.” Madhavi Murty will be in conversation with Radhika Prasad. \nStories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism; both backed by the authority of the state and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. More importantly\, the book reveals\, through its focus on India and its complex media landscape that this intersection has a narrative form\, which author\, Madhavi Murty labels spectacular realism. The book shows that the intersection of neoliberalism with authoritarian nationalism is strengthened by the circulation of stories about “emergence\,” “renewal\,” “development\,” and “mobility” of the nation and its people. It studies stories told through film\, journalism\, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture. \nMoving between mediascapes to create an archive of popular culture\, Murty advances our understanding of political economy through material that is often seen as inconsequential\, namely the popular cultural story. These stories stoke our desires (e.g. for wealth)\, scaffold our instincts (e.g. for a strong leadership) and shape our values. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP by emailing: VernacularsUCSC@gmail.com. \n“Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East” is a THI Cluster that focuses on questions of movement (both conceptual and physical) across regions. It seeks to re-imagine the vocabularies\, concepts\, and history of travel from the Global South\, centering south-south relationships and non-European languages as vessels for reflecting on the political ramifications of mobility and fixity. Co-PIs: Muriam Davis and Nidhi Mahajan. \nMadhavi Murty is associate professor in the Feminist Studies department and an affiliate of CRES and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests center on popular media\, nationalism\, globalization\, feminism\, postcolonial theory\, cultural theory\, and modalities of difference such as race\, caste\, and gender. \nRadhika Prasad is a PhD candidate in the Literature Department\, with a Directed Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her work analyzes language politics in post-independence India\, by exploring the embedment of cultural imaginaries in languages. Her dissertation contextualizes the establishment of Hindi as an official language in India within Indian nation-formation and the India-Pakistan Partition\, and examines the incommensurability of the official and literary idioms of the language.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhavi-murty-reading-group-stories-that-bind-political-economy-and-culture-in-new-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nSeating will be first come\, first served. Registration required. \nNatasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry\, Monument (2018)\, which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006)\, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000)\, which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of Conversations: Power Forged\, the Fall UCSC Living Writers course\, which features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media. \nParking information: The Merrill Cultural Center is located in Merrill College\, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. \nFor those driving from the Main Entrance\, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive\, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill\, veer right. There are ParkMobile parking spaces along the left side of the lot\, and parking for “A\,” “B\,” and “C” permits along the right. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to sell parking permits to event attendees. \nPurchase both poets works at: www.bookshopsantacruz.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee: Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Catherine Segurson\, David Sullivan\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Gary Young. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest: phren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” This years contest will be judged by Farnaz Fatemi. For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by October 27th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/natasha-trethewey-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - WordPress Website Design
DESCRIPTION:Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nJason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia\, WA\, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer\, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017. \nRegister by October 26th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T173000
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SUMMARY:Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:“Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stories-of-action-community-activism-in-the-face-of-racism-in-latin-america-with-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City\, 1920s-1940s
DESCRIPTION:Using an array of primary sources\, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor\, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital\, an insane asylum\, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist state between the 1920s and 40s. Within and across these institutional spaces\, health professionals contributed to the production of medicalized scientific knowledge and cared for and socially regulated racialized\, pathologized Puerto Ricans. Penitentiary “living dead” (incarcerated people)\, in particular\, were subjected to research and received treatment\, but also provided health labor that put them at risk while powering the sanitary city and nurturing its inhabitants. Crucially\, however\, some prisoners managed to exploit the unthinkable openness of the complex\, revealing in the process that the living dead could only be buried alive for so long. \n \nThis talk is part of the Sawyer Seminar “Race\, Empire\, and Environments of Biomedicine.” Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nThe talk will occur virtually and guests can register to join the Zoom conference ahead of the event. \nAlberto Ortiz Díaz is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas\, Arlington\, and currently a Larson Fellow at the Kluge Center\, Library of Congress. His first book\, Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean\, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in March 2023. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alberto-ortiz-diaz-carceral-care-health-professionals-and-the-living-dead-in-colonial-puerto-ricos-sanitary-city-1920s-1940s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The November 2nd “Steppe Immunity” talk will be given by Christian Sorace from Colorado College. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christian-sorace-steppe-immunity/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T140000
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SUMMARY:A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Libraries – Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker’s most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. \n \nCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \nThe Communist Party banned lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as “degenerates.” It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this 60-year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s\, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and ‘70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia\, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women’s liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \nJudith Smith is Professor of American Studies Emerita at University of Massachusetts Boston\, where she taught cultural history since 1945 and history of media and film. She is the author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist\, Public Radical (2014) and Visions of Belonging: Family Stories\, Popular Culture\, and Postwar Democracy\, 1940-1960 (2004). Her published essays explored how writers on the left addressed popular audiences on radio in the 1930s and 1940s\, live television drama in the 1950s\, and in film from the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s. She served as researcher/consultant for the recent documentary\, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry (2018). \nLive closed captioning will be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62746/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T121500
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SUMMARY:Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
DESCRIPTION:This talk describes a new book project\, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book\, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist\, in this ancient and south-centered oceanic world\, for apprehending\, narrating and imagining what lies beneath. It aims to do so by taking as a structuring framework the ocean’s five vertical zones—the sunlight\, the twilight\, the midnight\, the abyss\, and the trenches—in the context of warming planetary seas. \nCharne Lavery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Associate based at WISER\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. She explores ocean writing of the global South in a time of environmental change. Her first monograph\, Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English\, appeared in 2021. With Isabel Hofmeyr\, she co-directs the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South \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/charne_lavery/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
DESCRIPTION:Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises\, job reclassifications\, and title and responsibilities changes. \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over twelve years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as associate director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctoral degree in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \nRegister by October 25th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/interviewing-and-negotiating-the-job-offer/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:George Saunders\, Liberation Day
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book\, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power\, ethics\, and justice\, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. \nThis event is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3 and will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz. \nGuests can purchase tickets here. Each ticket includes admission to the event plus one signed hardcover copy of Liberation Day. \nGeorge Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books\, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations\, by the Way; Tenth of December\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline\, Pastoralia\, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-liberation-day/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95061
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz - “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
DESCRIPTION:This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings\, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia\, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed\, to the ilustrado-led Propaganda Movement’s political argumentation against Spain\, and to the political mobilization and organizing of the Katipunan and the First Philippine Republic. It incorporates the “periphery” into our understanding of Pan-Asianism to correct our exclusively intellectual historical and Northeast-Asia-centric understandings of Pan-Asianism. It shows that the revolutionary First Philippine Republic’s foreign collaboration represents the first instance of fellow Pan-Asianists lending material aid toward anti-colonial revolution against a Western power (rather than overthrow of a domestic dynasty) and harnessing transnational Pan-Asian networks of support\, activism\, and association toward doing so. \nOriginally from the Philippines\, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge\, in the UK\, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Prior to Cambridge\, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian and International History at Yale University. Her first book\, Asian Place\, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution\, 1887-1912\, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020\, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organising of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. Her broad research interests center on global intellectual history and Southeast Asian environmental\, cultural\, and social history. \nFree and open to the campus community and the public. This event is presented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nicole-cuunjieng-aboitiz-the-idea-asia-in-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-philippine-political-thought-and-action/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Ching Kwan Lee - Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
DESCRIPTION:How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal\, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk broadens the plane of analysis to argue that the Hong Kong saga is part of a larger phenomenon called “global China\,” conceptualized as a double movement. On the one hand\, Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms — economic statecraft\, patron- clientelism and symbolic domination – around the world\, including Hong Kong. On the other\, this Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa\, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. \n \nChing Kwan Lee is a professor of sociology at UCLA. She is the author of three award-winning monographs on contemporary China’s turn to capitalism: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998)\, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt  (2007)\, and The Specter of Global China: Politics\, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). Her latest publication is Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier (2022)\, an open access book from Cambridge University Press. She is working on an ethnographic and historical monograph about Hong Kong’s decolonization struggle\, with a particular focus on the 2019 uprising.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hong-kong-global-chinas-restive-frontier/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T170000
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SUMMARY:Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
DESCRIPTION:*Charla en español* “Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis.” \nThe Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis\, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima\, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st  and 2nd\, one in Spanish and one in English\, respectively\, to share her experiences as a youth activist and inspire the audience to take action against racism in Latin America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n \nNatalia Barrera Francis is an Afro-Peruvian publicist\, audiovisual producer\, model and journalist. She has more than five years of experience creating content on social media\, thanks to an antiracist audiovisual project called “Una Chica Afroperuana” (An Afro-Peruvian girl)\, in which she began documenting her experiences as a Black woman in Peru and addressing topics that affect Afro-Peruvian youth. “Una Chica Afroperuana” was the only digital space to have an Afro-Peruvian woman as content creator and protagonist\, and the first to regularly produce content about racial themes in Peru. Some of her videos have received more than half a million visits and have been widely shared\, generating constant interactions on digital platforms like Instagram\, Facebook\, and YouTube. Her work as a journalist began with the AJ+ documentary series\, “Descoloniza” (Decolonize)\, a series that reflects on inequalities not only by highlighting colonial violence and racism\, but that also aims to provide context and elevate the stories of people who are taking measures to challenge structural oppresion and historical erasure\, as well as visions of the world that colonialism imposed on Latin America. Recently\, her work has been recognized by brands such as H&M\, Converse\, Natura and in the last campaign of “Life Is Not a Spectator Sport” from Reebok Peru as well as organizations such as the United Nations\, Black Woman Disrupt\, and Lifetime\, among others. Currently\, she is finishing a bachelor’s degree in digital marketing. \n  \nCosponsors: Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Literature Department\, Porter College\, Feminist Studies Department\, Jack & Peggy Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Racial Justice\, LALS\, The Humanities Institute\, Spanish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/historias-de-accion-accion-comunitaria-frente-al-racismo-en-america-latina-con-natalia-barrera-francis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India's Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan's Nagar Palikas
DESCRIPTION:“Who Governs in India’s Small Towns” will take place on October 28\, 2022 from 10am to 12pm PST\, and is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures.  Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tariq-thachil-who-governs-in-indias-small-towns-notes-from-rajasthans-nagar-palikas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220920T201512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T214921Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers:  Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks. \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nADDIE TSAI (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at the College of William & Mary. They also teach in Goddard College’s MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, Kenyon Review\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, the New Guard Machigonne Fiction Prize and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. Micah directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info at micahperks.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-addie-tsai/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T131000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! \nAndrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz\, master’s in English literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder\, and an all but dissertation in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature\, writing\, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College\, where she teaches English. Andrea is the director of The Writing Center and of its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center\, one of the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives of the Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Graduate Pathways program (Activity 6). Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature\, and her work is deeply invested in social justice. \nRegister by October 19th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/psychology-of-writing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T190000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit\, Orwell's Roses
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit to the store for a discussion and signing of her most recent book\, Orwell’s Roses (in paperback October 18th). This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nBookshop’s head book buyer\, Melinda\, says: “The gift of Rebecca Solnit is that while she writes about Orwell and his roses\, she also writes beyond them\, touching on tangential subjects with an effortless grace that is far-ranging and ever-connecting. Coming upon the surviving roses that George Orwell planted in 1936\, Solnit writes a captivating series of essays that explores Orwell’s life\, the horticulture and literature of roses\, and somehow both remarkably and classically Solnit\, how one finds balance in the beauty and struggle of 20th century humanity and today.” \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence and the nonfiction A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rebecca-solnit-orwells-roses/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Archive as Offering  – Grace L. Sanders Johnson
DESCRIPTION:This talk names the layered applications\, quotidian quality\, and refusals of physical\, psychological\, and archival violence against Haitian women during the US occupation (1915-1934). Told alongside the story of a teenage girl’s life and death\, the talk ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives through the practice of archival offering. \nGrace L. Sanders Johnson is a historian\, visual artist\, and assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of study include modern Caribbean history\, transnational feminisms\, oral history\, and environmental humanities. Sanders Johnson has worked with various archival projects including Concordia University’s Oral History Project Histoire de Vie Haiti Group (Montreal) and was a 2020-2021 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Fellow. Her most recent work can be found in several journals including Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2022)\, American Anthropologist (2022)\, and Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (2018). She is also the author of the forthcoming book White Gloves\, Black Nation: Women\, Citizenship\, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti (University of North Carolina Press\, 2023). \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/center-for-cultural-studies-grace-l-sanders-johnson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T184510Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. \nSilvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator\, facilitator and consultant\, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections\, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation\, social change\, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College\, she developed and teaches “Building an inner sanctuary\,” that fosters the cultivation of inner/outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality\, self-leadership\, healing justice\, and fostering resilience and care in the community. \nRegister by October 18th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/disrupting-imposter-phenomenon-from-the-inside-out/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221029
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SUMMARY:All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference
DESCRIPTION:All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference \nOctober 26-28\, 2022 | Santa Cruz\, CA\nThere is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed\, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only inter-disciplinary approaches\, but recognizing the value of community-based knowledge and its potential contribution to developing solutions to pressing problems. \nJoin Us!\nWe are hosting an in-person conference and celebration of community-university partnerships on October 26-28\, 2022\, in beautiful Santa Cruz\, CA. This event is organized by the Institute for Social Transformation and URBAN\, and THI is a co-sponsor. \nBe a part of this 3-day national conference that focuses on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships\, hands-on research\, and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change. #knowledge4justice \nRegister \nUPDATE September 7\, 2022: Registration is now CLOSED. Thank you for the interest in joining us for All-In! We have now reached capacity and are looking forward to a powerful and productive conference. \nProgram Description \nVariously known as Research-Practice Partnerships\, Community-based Research\, Participatory Action Research\, or Engaged Scholarship\, the field is developing new approaches that share a commitment to creating truly equitable partnerships across all aspects of the research process. \nThe All-In conference will bring together university scholars\, community-based practitioners\, undergraduate and graduate students\, community members and organizations\, foundations\, organizers\, artists\, and activists to share stories\, strategies\, practices\, and solutions for building innovative partnerships for critical collaborative research and social change. \nWe will also discuss methods for building institutional support for collaborative research\, how to strategically leverage relations with collaborative partners\, and how to build cross-sector networks for practitioners\, students\, and early career scholars. \nSchedule & Program \nThe conference will take place over 3 days on October 26-28\, 2022\, in beautiful Santa Cruz\, CA. Click here for the schedule and program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/all-in-co-creating-knowledge-for-justice-conference/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker - Communists in Closets
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz welcome Bettina Aptheker\, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita\, for a discussion about her new book\, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s\, which explores the history of gay\, lesbian\, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. \n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. \nThe Communist Party banned LGBT people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as degenerates. It persisted in this policy until 1991 when the Party split apart in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. During this 60- year ban\, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it\, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100\,000 and tens of thousands of more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism\, anti-racist organizing\, especially in the south\, and its widely read cultural magazine\, The New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research\, correspondence\, and interviews\, Bettina Aptheker explores this history\, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and 70s. Ironically\, and in spite of this homophobia individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation\, and contributed significantly to peace\, social justice\, civil rights\, Black and Latinx liberation movements. \nThis book will be of interest to students\, scholars\, and general readers in political history\, gender studies and the history of sexuality. \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, USA. She is the author of: Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel (2006); and The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (1976; second edition 1999). \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 farm 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 October 18th\, 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-communists-in-closets/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joan Scott - The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier's Sexual Utopia
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 25th “The Professor of Desire: Charles Fourier’s Sexual Utopia” talk will be given by Joan Scott from the Institute for Advanced Study. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gianluca-bonaiuti-domesticity-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Preparing the Teaching Statement and Portfolio
DESCRIPTION:Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement\, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. \nKendra Dority\, Ph.D.\, has been an engaged member of the teaching and learning community at UC Santa Cruz since 2009\, serving as a Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant in the Literature Department and as a Lecturer at Porter College before joining the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning in 2017. With CITL\, she develops programs that build communities of practice\, support equity-minded teaching\, and promote active learning\, and she leads the Center’s professional development opportunities for graduate students. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from UCSC. \nRegister by October 17th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/preparing-the-teaching-statement-and-portfolio/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:From Levi to Dante: Redefining Humanity from the Margins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final event of From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later\, featuring Professor Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge) and Martin Eisner (Duke University). Moderated by Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz Professor and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies). \n \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. \n“Primo Levi and Dante. Cosmologies\,” by Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge): Primo Levi famously drew on Dante to map the distant and incomprehensible ‘concentrationary universe’ that he encountered at Auschwitz. Perhaps less well known is Levi’s deep fascination\, shared with Dante\, for astronomy and for the mapping of the cosmos as a tool for understanding man’s place in the wider universe\, and thus also mankind’s own history. This lecture explores Levi and Dante in parallel as two cosmologists\, both in their different ways scientists and poets of the stars. \n“Black Limbo: Dante\, Boccaccio\, and Global Ethnic Studies” by Martin Eisner (Duke University): This talk uses a fifteenth-century illumination of Dante’s limbo that portrays pagan poets with black skin to explore the relationship between medieval reflections on pagans and modern ethnic studies. Highlighting how Dante’s concern with cultural difference in both temporal and spatial terms informs Boccaccio’s elaboration of these ideas\, it shows how this accommodation of past and present pagans contrasts with earlier reflections of Augustine and Jerome\, contemporary ideas of Petrarch\, and later Fascist uses of Dante to which Primo Levi responds. \nRobert S. C. Gordon is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. He works on the literature\, cinema\, and cultural history of modern Italy. His books include a study of Pasolini\, several volumes on Primo Levi\, and a wider history of Italian cultural responses to the Holocaust. He has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is a former Senior Editor of the journal Italian Studies\, and a former trustee of the British School at Rome. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. \nMartin Eisner is Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian at Duke University. He is the author of Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature (Oxford UP\, 2021) and Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante\, Petrarch\, Cavalcanti\, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge UP\, 2013). He is currently working on a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books’s Renaissance Lives series. With a view to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death\, he continues to develop the online research project Dante’s Library. His articles on Dante\, Boccaccio\, Petrarch\, and Machiavelli have appeared in PMLA\, Renaissance Quarterly\, Dante Studies\, Mediaevalia\, California Italian Studies\, Quaderni d’Italianistica\, Annali d’Italianistica and Le Tre Corone. His research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, the American Academy in Rome\, the American Philosophical Association\, and the Fulbright Foundation. \n Nathaniel Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he holds the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and is the Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Among his other books are Inventing America’s “Worst” Family: Eugenics\, Islam\, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement\, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. \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 October 17th\, 2022. \nThis event is sponsored By: Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, The Humanities Institute\, Italian Studies\, Jewish Studies\, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-levi-to-dante-redefining-humanity-from-the-margins/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts VI-X
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\nSep. 25\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V\n\n\n\nOct. 23\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X\n\n\n\nNov. 27\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV\n\n\n\nJan. 22\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-vi-x/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers:  Tonya Foster\, Conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Tonya Foster in conversation with Ronaldo V. Wilson\, as part of the George and Judy Marcus Chair in Poetry Reading\, presented in collaboration with The Poetry Center and San Francisco State University. \n \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTonya M. Foster is a poet\, essayist\, and Black feminist scholar. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on poetry\, poetics\, ideas of place and emplacement\, and on intersections between the visual and the written. Dr. Foster is a poetry editor at Fence Magazine and a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Forthcoming publications include poetry collections—Thingifications (Ugly Duckling Presse) and AHotB (A History of the Bitch); anthologies—The Umbra Galaxy (Wesleyan University Press) (a 2-volume compendium on the Umbra Writers Workshop)\, and New Writing\, New Flesh: An Anthology (Nightboat Books)\, an anthology of experimental creative drafts. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Other Influences (MIT Press)\, New Weathers Anthology (Nightboat Books); The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (UPenn Press); the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day online journal\, Entropy Magazine\, the A-Line Journal\, Callaloo\, boundary2\, TripWire\, Poetry Project Newsletter\, The Harvard Review\, Best American Experimental Writing\, Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing\, and elsewhere. She was a member of the multi-disciplinary advisory committee for the ground-breaking exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, NY. Her essay for the exhibition’s 2021 field guide\, “Time\, Memory\, and Living in Shotgun Houses in the South of the South City of New Orleans\,” extends her meditations on place and poetics. She is a 2021 Lisa Goldberg fellow at the Radcliffe Institute @ Harvard\, a Creative Capital awardee\, a recipient of awards from Macdowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora\, and the Ford and Mellon Foundations\, among others. Dr. Foster holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She is a new resident in a decades old Emeryville artist’s co-operative. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-tonya-foster-in-conversation-with-ronaldo-v-wilson/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Catamaran 10th Anniversary Benefit
DESCRIPTION:Join Catamaran to celebrate 10 years of the literary journal at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Lite appetizers and drinks will be served with a silent auction\, followed by a program to honor 10 years of the nonprofit organization’s accomplishments. \nFor full event details and to buy tickets please visit: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2022/2022/10/10/catamaran-10th-anniversary-benefit
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/catamaran-10th-anniversary-benefit/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:RCA 30th Anniversary Celebration: Sharing Futures\, Speaking Truths
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Research Center for the Americas! \nThe distinguished honoree will be civil rights & feminist icon Dolores Huerta. \nThe keynote speaker will be Cristina Jiménez\, community organizer and co-founder of United We Dream. \nWe have more surprises in store so follow us on social media! Visit our 30th Anniversary Facebook Event Page & follow us on Instagram! \nThe empanada reception from 5 p.m.- 6 p.m. will be outdoors. \nThe program begins at 6 p.m. \nEvent highlights: \n✓Keynote address by Cristina Jiménez (link to bio)\n✓Tribute to civil rights icon Dolores Huerta (link to bio)\n✓Dancing with DJ\n✓Empanadas and desserts\n✓Interactive photo booth\n✓Special invited guests\n✓SO MUCH MORE \nTicket Prices: $35 UCSC Students (Limited Availability)* \n$75 General Admission \n*A limited number of students will be sponsored to attend the event. Please go to https://rca.ucsc.edu/…/30th-anniversary-celebration.html for more information. \nProceeds directly support RCA programs and operations. \nThis event will follow strict COVID-19 protocols to ensure a safe gathering.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rca-30th-anniversary-celebration-sharing-futures-speaking-truths/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement
DESCRIPTION:Institutions of higher learning increasingly require faculty applicants to submit a statement of contributions to diversity. Learn what belongs in this statement and how to communicate it effectively. \nJudith Estrada\, Ph.D.\, was born and raised in downtown Los Angeles\, where she became conscious of educational and social inequalities at an early age. She publishes and presents nationally on the following themes: bicultural pedagogy\, decolonizing methodologies\, cultural centers as pedagogical spaces\, working across difference\, fostering Latinx leadership and sense of belonging\, pedagogy of solidarity\, and critical bicultural pedagogy. She is the author of Consuming ‘Dora the Explorer’ with a Critical Bicultural Lens (in Darder’s Culture & Power in the Classroom\, 2012); Impacts of a Diné Decolonizing Pedagogy on Student Affairs Practitioners (in Davidson\, C.\, & Waterman\, S.\, eds.); Indigenous Education Practices in Higher Education: A series of reflections of Diné elder Larry Emerson and his Indigenizing Impact on our Participation in the Profession (in NASPA Journal). \nRegister by October 12th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crafting-the-contributions-to-diversity-statement/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T190000
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SUMMARY:Temple Grandin\, Visual Thinking
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Temple Grandin (Thinking In Pictures) for a discussion of her new book\, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures\, Patterns\, and Abstractions. This offsite\, ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3. \n \nA landmark book that reveals\, celebrates\, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers. \nA quarter of a century after her memoir\, Thinking in Pictures\, forever changed how the world understood autism\, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist from Mars\,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction\, a love of puzzles\, the ability to assemble IKEA furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker. \nWith her genius for demystifying science\, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed\, she reveals\, and a more varied one\, from the purest “object visualizers” like Grandin herself\, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving\, to the abstract\, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers\, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts\, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation\, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating\, parenting\, employing\, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world\, this important book helps us see\, we need every mind on board. \nTemple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation\, Animals Make Us Human\, The Autistic Brain\, and Thinking in Pictures\, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals as well as an outspoken advocate for the autism community. She resides in Fort Collins\, Colorado.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62129/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T150000
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SUMMARY:Postponed - Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture: John Rickford
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event has been postponed. A new date will be announced as soon as possible.  \nThis event features John R. Rickford (Member\, National Academy of Sciences\, Member\, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and Fellow\, the British Academy) \nMr. Rickford will be reading the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir “Speaking my Soul: Race\, Life and Language\,” including his journey from childhood in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor at Stanford. The memoir details the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA\, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. Signed copies of his memoir will be available for purchase during the event. Reception to follow. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Linguistics Department\, Stevenson Programs Office\, and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stevenson-distinguished-alumni-lecture-john-rickford/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dimitris Vardoulakis: Materialism and Instrumentality
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 19th “Materialism and Instrumentality” talk will be given by Dimitris Vardoulakis from Western Sydney University. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dimitris-vardoulakis-materialism-and-instrumentality/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220906T214810Z
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SUMMARY:Tahir Amin – Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health
DESCRIPTION:With billions of people in low-income countries still without Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics\, this pandemic has exposed the neo-colonial structures of the political economy of intellectual property system and the World Trade Organization (WTO). This talk will delve into an often overlooked history of  how the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into existence and the impact it has had on the global South over the 27 years it has been in force – and how it will impact future pandemic preparedness and climate change. \nTahir Amin\, LL.B.\, Dip. LP.\, is a founder and executive director of the Initiative for Medicines\, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)\, a nonprofit organisation working to address structural inequities in how medicines are developed and distributed. He has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) law\, during which he has practised with two of the leading IP law firms in the United Kingdom and served as IP Counsel for multinational corporations. His work focuses on re-shaping IP laws and the related global political economy to better serve the public interest\, by changing the structural power dynamics that allow health and economic inequities to persist. \nAmin and I-MAK have also put out a 10 point plan for the Biden-Harris administration to bring equity into the patent system\, and their work is highlighted in the New York Times Editorial Board’s recent endorsement of patent reform. He is a former Harvard Medical School Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and TED Fellow. Amin has served as legal advisor/consultant to many international groups\, including the European Patent Office and World Health Organization\, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on intellectual property and unsustainable drug price. \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/tahiramintech/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220921T213946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T184245Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Conducting an Informational Interview
DESCRIPTION:An information interview is one that you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview? \nLorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects\, as well as providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. \nLorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics\, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice\, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies\, in her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \nRegister by October 11th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conducting-an-informational-interview/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220920T182233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T233232Z
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SUMMARY:Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines
DESCRIPTION:The globalization of intellectual property in the 1980s has coincided with some of the deadliest pandemics\, epidemics and outbreaks\, from HIV\, hepatitis C\, SARS\, and recently COVID -19. Tahir Amin will take us through his and his organization’s journey over two decades fighting the ever growing intellectual property systems being pushed by the US\, EU and their pharmaceutical companies that are blocking affordable access to medicines for billions of low income populations around the world. After a brief presentation\, he will be joined by Anna Maria Barry-Jester for a conversation and Q&A. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration required. \nDoors open at 6pm\, program begins at 7pm. Kuumbwa Jazz Center’s kitchen will be open for refreshments before and during the program. \nTahir Amin\, LL.B.\, Dip. LP.\, is a founder and executive director of the Initiative for Medicines\, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)\, a nonprofit organisation working to address structural inequities in how medicines are developed and distributed. He has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) law\, during which he has practised with two of the leading IP law firms in the United Kingdom and served as IP Counsel for multinational corporations. His work focuses on re-shaping IP laws and the related global political economy to better serve the public interest\, by changing the structural power dynamics that allow health and economic inequities to persist. \nAmin and I-MAK have also put out a 10 point plan for the Biden-Harris administration to bring equity into the patent system\, and their work is highlighted in the New York Times Editorial Board’s recent endorsement of patent reform. He is a former Harvard Medical School Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and TED Fellow. Amin has served as legal advisor/consultant to many international groups\, including the European Patent Office and World Health Organization\, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on intellectual property and unsustainable drug price. \nAnna Maria Barry-Jester is a public health reporter with ProPublica\, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Previously\, she was a senior correspondent covering public health at Kaiser Health News. Her series “Underfunded and Under Threat\,” with colleagues at KHN and The Associated Press\, investigated how chronically underfunded public health departments buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. The project won awards from the Online News Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her reporting on harassment and menacing threats endured by public health officials was the basis of an episode of “This American Life\,” and PEN America later awarded its PEN/Benenson Courage Award to the officials she profiled. A multimedia journalist\, Barry-Jester has lived and worked in Latin America and Southeast Asia\, where she has reported\, photographed and filmed stories in more than a dozen countries. Before Kaiser Health News\, she was a writer at FiveThirtyEight and a producer at Univision and ABC News. She has a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University\, where she focused on epidemiology and global health. \nThis is the inaugural event of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intellectual-property-wars-the-battle-for-access-to-medicines/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Celeste Ng\, Our Missing Hearts
DESCRIPTION:Celeste Ng\, number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere\, will be on campus for an event celebrating her new book\, Our Missing Hearts—a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Ng will be in-conversation with local writer Ellen Bass. \nThis ticketed event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and KAZU 90.3. Tickets include entry to the in-person event plus a hardcover copy of Our Missing Hearts. Guests can purchase tickets here. \nTHI will provide 15 free tickets (with a free copy of the book) to UC Santa Cruz students on a first come\, first served basis. At this time\, all of the student tickets have been claimed. \nOur Missing Hearts is an old story made new\, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power–and limitations–of art to create change\, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children\, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact. \nCELESTE NG is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel\, Our Missing Hearts\, will be published in October 2022. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, and her work has been published in over thirty languages. \nELLEN BASS’s most recent collection\, Indigo\, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar\, The Human Line\, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear  frequently in The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, The NEA\, and The California Arts Council\, The Lambda Literary Award\, and three Pushcart Prizes. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz\, California jails\, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celeste-ng-our-missing-hearts/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220912T211610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T211029Z
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SUMMARY:Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:“From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism and Decentralization in the Middle East” \nThis seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Bâli argues that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Legal Studies Program. \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. Previously\, she was on the faculty at the UCLA School of Law where she was Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights\, a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies Program and served as the Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in leading international and comparative law reviews and peer reviewed journals such as the American Journal of International Law\,  International Journal of Constitutional Law and Law & Social Inquiry; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, Identity Conflict\, Governance and Decentralization in the Middle East is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. She received her J.D. from Yale\, her M.Phil. from Cambridge University and her Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-federalism-and-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220921T213739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T184122Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Developing Your Digital Reputation
DESCRIPTION:Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet\, on social media platforms and on personal and worksite websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. \nLisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an Art Director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years\, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to fortune 500 clients\, her adventures in marketing have added up to a depth of knowledge which she likes to share. Lisa has been with UC Santa Cruz for 12 years as the marketing director and oversees a creative team of writers\, videographers\, and designers. \nRegister by October 5th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided for in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/developing-your-digital-reputation/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220929T205058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T211015Z
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SUMMARY:Gianluca Bonaiuti: Domesticity and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events\, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom\, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all talks is the same\, and can be accessed by clicking the “Join” button below. The October 12th “Domesticity and Beyond” talk will be given by Gianluca Bonaiuti from the University of Florence. \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/62389/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220906T214222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T001928Z
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SUMMARY:Louise Meintjes – Giving Voice to a Politics of Breath
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on her longterm study of Zulu song and dance\, Meintjes revisits instances of ngoma vocal performance in order to explore the idea of breath and aesthetic vitality foregrounded in popular political expression in the USA during the global turbulence of the last two and a half years. \nLouise Meintjes has worked as an ethnographer in Johannesburg and rural KwaZulu-Natal for three decades\, authoring Sound of Africa!: Making Music in a South African Studio (Duke UP\, 2003)\, and Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid (Duke UP 2017) which won the Gregory Bateson and Alan Merriam prizes. She is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University\, and Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology. \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/louise-meintjes-giving-voice-to-a-politics-of-breath/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221012T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220921T213531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T183826Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Using Twitter Professionally
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to promote your research or creative work and create a virtual community of Tweeple. \nKayla Isenberg is senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz\, where she runs the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has 16 years of experience in digital marketing and social media and has worked for a variety of organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies. In 2012\, she was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros. Records. For her work in higher education in digital marketing and social media she has won multiple CASE awards. \nRegister by September 29th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary vegan lunch provided to in-person attendees. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/using-twitter-professionally/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220921T213249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T183739Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Writing the Curriculum Vitae
DESCRIPTION:Applications for academic positions require a CV\, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume\, about hybrid CV-resumes\, what goes on a CV\, and what order to put information depending on type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position. Also\, check out the information in the website Academic Job Market Success created by retired UCSC Student Affairs and Success Assistant Vice Chancellor Gwynn Benner\, the CV Writing section\, and view the video about CV Writing created by Gwynn Benner. \nVeronica Heiskell has worked for over twelve years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as associate director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA\, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\, and her doctoral degree in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students. \nRegister by October 3rd for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-the-curriculum-vitae/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220927T182616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T183023Z
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SUMMARY:Brendan Regan – The Effect of Short-Term Study Abroad on the Production and Perception of Language- and Dialect-Specific Sounds by L2 and Heritage Spanish Speakers
DESCRIPTION:There is a growing interest in examining the effect of study abroad on language acquisition. However\, compared to other linguistic domains\, there is a lack of studies that examine phonetic acquisition in the study abroad (henceforth SA) context. Of the previous studies that have examined phonetic acquisition in the SA context\, the role of linguistic proficiency and bilingualism type (L2\, heritage) remains understudied. Building on previous studies\, this talk addresses these gaps by examining how phonetic production and perception change during a short-term SA program in Sevilla\, Spain based on bilingualism type (L2 or heritage Spanish speakers) and linguistic proficiency (advanced\, intermediate). The first study\, examines the production of language-specific [ð] and dialect-specific [∅] allophones of intervocalic /d/ by 40 speakers. The results found that those with higher proficiency (heritage and L2) with favorable attitudes towards the local variety demonstrated more gradient language-specific allophonic change overtime\, while only one L2-advanced speaker produced dialect-specific allophones. The second study\, with 57 listeners\, examines the perception of Andalusian (dialect-specific) post-consonant aspiration of word-internal /sp\, st\, sk/ (i.e.\, pasta [ˈpa.t h a]) using a binary forced-choice identification task (i.e.\, pata-pasta) in which stimuli varied on a 7-step VOT continuum. The results found that L2 and heritage Spanish listeners only showed a change in perception over time with /s.t/ realizations\, suggesting that [t h ] is more phonetically salient than [p h ] and [k h ]. There were no significant differences for proficiency level nor bilingualism type. Thus\, proficiency and bilingual type may be better predictors for phonetic production than perception in the SA context. \nThis event is presented by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. \nDr. Brendan Regan is assistant professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Texas Tech University and the Director of the Texas Tech Sociolinguistics and Bilingualism Research Lab. His research focuses on sociophonetic production and perception to better understand language variation\, change\, and acquisition as well as the social meaning of linguistic variation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brendan-regan-the-effect-of-short-term-study-abroad-on-the-production-and-perception-of-language-and-dialect-specific-sounds-by-l2-and-heritage-spanish-speakers/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220926T184832Z
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SUMMARY:Clio in India: Approaches to South Asian Pasts Conversation with G. S. Sahota
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Aurora Lecture Series\, Professor Sahota will discuss approaches to South Asian pasts on Oct. 7 at 10AM. \n \nThis event\, which can be attended in person (Humanities 1 Room 202) and on Zoom is hosted by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clio-in-india-approaches-to-south-asian-pasts-conversation-with-g-s-sahota/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221010
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220927T180614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T182106Z
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SUMMARY:Playing with Fire: A Hot Symposium
DESCRIPTION:We will explore the pleasures\, perils & politics of fire through art\, theory\, practice\, and activism.  On the UCSC campus in the DARC building\, room #108. \nThis event is organized by E.A.R.T.H Lab with support from The Humanities Institute. \nThe symposium is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. The full schedule for the Symposium is available here.  \n \nConfirmed speakers and participants include: \n\n\nBeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle\, Welcome and Intro\nRoxi Power\, Zig Zag:Fire Poems\nBecca Fenwick\, Director\, CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research: Presenting UCNRS Fire Data\nKarin Bolender\, Artist and Director of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (RAW)\nJustin Hoover\, Artist and Director of the Chinese Historical Society of America\nBrandon Smith\, Director of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRC)\nBenny Fillmore\, Washoe Elder and Former Hotshot Firefighter in conversation with Helen Fillmore\, Environmental Scientist\nLaura Smith-Fillmore\, Artist and Translator\nJulie Weitz\, Artist\, Golem: A Call to Action + Prayer for Burnt Forests\nHeather and Michael Llewellyn\, Artists and Curators of FOREST⇌FIREExhibition\nCourtney Desiree Morris\, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies\, UC Berkeley  courtneydesireemorris.com\nKim TallBear\, Professor of Native Studies\, University of Alberta\nKali Rubaii\, Professor of Anthropology\, Purdue University\nCláudio Bueno\, Professor of Art\, UC Santa Cruz\nNicole Rudolph Vallerga: Artist\nMister XX of Ceremonies: Vin Seaman as LOL McFiercen\nLauren Bon\, Artist\, Metabolic Studio. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/playing-with-fire-a-hot-symposium/
LOCATION:DARC 108\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Richard M. Eaton – The Persianate World: What Was It? How Did It Appear? Why Did It Collapse?
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Aurora Lecture Series\, Professor Eaton will deliver a talk on Oct. 6. \n \nThis event\, which can be attended in person (Humanities 1 Room 202) and on Zoom is hosted by the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/richard-m-eaton-the-persianate-world-what-was-it-how-did-it-appear-why-did-it-collapse/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220921T212726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T184725Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Proactive Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:How do you proactively promote diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student\, a researcher\, a teaching assistant\, a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. \nLorato Anderson is the Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion in Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her role centers on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects\, as well as providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English Language Learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active today. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. \nLorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics\, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice\, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies\, in her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \nRegister by September 29th for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. \n \nThis workshop is presented by the Division of Graduate Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series \nJoin us for the seventh year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grant/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/proactive-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221010
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220901T224155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T183953Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is happy to co-sponsor the 18th annual Santa Cruz Film Festival. \nFounded in 2001 by Jane Sullivan and Johnny Davis\, the Santa Cruz Film Festival has exhibited over 1\,300 independent films by national and international filmmakers\, as well as films and videos produced in the greater Santa Cruz County and Monterey Bay Areas.This year’s Film Festival includes feature-length films and shorts\, presented at venues across the Santa Cruz area like the Scotts Valley Cultural Art Center\, Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Colligan Theater. Local filmmakers\, many of whom are UC Santa Cruz alumni\, explore a wide range of themes in their productions\, such as the CZU Lightening Complex fires\, aquatic ecosystems\, and more. \nPlease visit Santa Cruz Film Festival for more information. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-film-festival/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221005T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221005T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Nidhi Mahajan – A Burning Sea: Arbitrage and a Fractured Moral Economy in the Persian Gulf
DESCRIPTION:Wooden sailing vessels or dhows have long traversed The Indian Ocean\, making it what some scholars have called “the cradle of globalization.” Today\, dhows or vahans from Kachchh in western India continue along old Indian Ocean routes as crucial intermediaries in global shipping. This talk traces how this mobile trade network is anchored or moored in specific places and economic concepts in some moments\, and unmoored in others. Focusing on arbitrage\, long a strategy used by Indian Ocean merchants\, I argue that value in the contemporary dhow trade is created through a fractured moral economy. Tracing the movement of one dhow across the Indian Ocean during the COVID-19 pandemic\, I argue that sanctions regimes\, and questions of jurisdiction at sea in the Persian Gulf have created a geopolitical climate in which value is produced at multiple scales through the intersection of these logics\, the body of the sailor becoming the site for capturing value and crafting sovereignty at sea. \nNidhi Mahajan’s research focuses on the intersection between political economy\, sovereignty\, and mobility in the Indian Ocean. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She is also an artist and has developed multi-media exhibitions in Kenya\, India\, and the UAE. Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren\, SSRC\, ACLS/Mellon\, and a fellowship at The Africa Institute\, Sharjah. Publications include work in journals such as Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East; Island Studies Journal\, and edited volumes such as Reimaging Indian Ocean Worlds and World on the Horizon. \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/nidhi-mahajan-a-burning-sea-arbitrage-and-a-fractured-moral-economy-in-the-persian-gulf/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220907T180113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T001253Z
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SUMMARY:Era of Gold\, Era of Empire: In the World of Ramses 'the Great'
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area’s De Young Museum is one of the stops on the US tour of the spectacular Egyptian art show ‘Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs\,’ on view now through February 12\, 2023. In this talk at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\, Dr. Elaine Sullivan\, an Egyptologist and Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, will outline the larger political and religious world of Pharaoh Ramses II\, as well as introduce some of the other major historical figures museum visitors will encounter when visiting the show – including the powerful women of his reign (such as his ‘great royal wife’ Nefertari and the king’s mother Tuya) and the master craftsman Sennedjem who decorated the royal tombs of Ramses and his father Sety\, and whose own gorgeous painted wooden coffin is in the show. \n \nProfessor Sullivan’s talk is free and open to the public. \nThe talk is organized by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and UC Santa Cruz Special Collections. \nPhoto Credit: Michael Newman\, Ramesses II (The Luxor Temple) \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/era-of-gold-era-of-empire-in-the-world-of-ramses-the-great/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221002T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220910T000911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T005037Z
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SUMMARY:Renée Fox – The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Necromancies with Professor Renée Fox \nAs part of the series “Victorian Necromancies\,” Professor Fox will lead three sessions that offer the Friends an opportunity to explore the Victorian gothic\, one of her favorite genres of 19th-century literature. \nFrom Professor Fox: “The first session will be a presentation on my forthcoming book\, The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\, and the second two sessions will be discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Although I don’t write about Dracula very much in my book\, I chose it for these sessions for a few reasons: as an Irishman living in London for much of his adult life\, Stoker has always been important to my work on the intersections between Irish and British writing at the end of the 19th century\, and Dracula is a deeply weird novel that I think everyone should read and talk about. I’m also really interested in adaptation (I think about it as a form of reanimation)\, and Dracula offers a fantastic opportunity not just to talk about the text’s many adaptations across the last 125 years\, but also to talk about the novel’s own investments in questions of originality and reproduction.” \nRenée Fox is an assistant professor in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches classes in Victorian Studies\, Irish Studies\, the gothic\, and popular culture. She is the 2022 Autumn Friends of the DickensProject Faculty Fellow. \nVirtual Sessions \n\n\n\nBook Talk: The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature\nOctober 2\, 20222:00 PM PDT\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Beginning to Chapter 16)\nNovember 6\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Dracula (Chapter 17 to End)\nDecember 4\, 20222:00 PM PST\n\n\n\n\nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/friends-faculty-fellows/victorian-necromancies.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf–hpz8rEtTZRTrhuGsHGRsIQJSVlahR
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/renee-fox-the-necromantics-reanimation-the-historical-imagination-and-victorian-british-and-irish-literature/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220930T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220920T180809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T171512Z
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SUMMARY:The People Revolt: Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION:The People Revolt: Sri Lanka\,” will take place on September 30\, 2022 from 12pm to 2pm PST\, and is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies as a part of their 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. This event is co-organized by the Center for South Asian Studies and Stanford University. \n \nPanelists: \n\nFarzana Haniffa Professor (Department of Sociology\, University of Colombo)\nSwasthika Arulingam (Human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist)\nMarisa De Silva (Feminist activist\, Coordinator for the People’s Alliance for Right to Land)\n\nModerators: \n\nSharika Thiranagama (Stanford University)\nAnjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-people-revolt-sri-lanka/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220925T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220925T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220910T004348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220910T005108Z
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts I-V
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  \nOur Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens \nSept. 25\, Oct. 23\, Nov. 27\, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events \nCharles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 to November 1865. It was the fourteenth and final novel in his vast corpus of novels\, only to be followed by The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)\, which remained unfinished at the time of his death. \nMurder\, Money\, Marriage\, and Mounds… of dust\, of human refuse\, of cultural debris\, of industrial by-production. These are the grand themes and objects this novel’s world spawns\, with such horrible inevitability you will think its Thames river-mud could foster spontaneous generation. For the world of Our Mutual Friend is a dirtied and cynical place. Here\, even literacy and education–the “power of knowledge” that give heart and decency to Pip and Biddy in Great Expectations–may become\, in the wrong hands\, mechanical instruments for self-aggrandizement. And the good may need all the wiles of the bad to manufacture a happy ending. \nReading Schedule \n\n\n\n\nSep. 25 \n\n\nBook the First: The Cup and the Lip – Chapters 1-17\, Parts I-V \n\n\n\n\n\nOct. 23 \n\n\nBook the Second: Birds of a Feather – Chapters 1-16\, Parts VI-X \n\n\n\n\n\nNov. 27 \n\n\nBook the Third: A Long Lane – Chapters 1-17\, Parts XI-XV \n\n\n\n\n\nJan. 22 \n\n\nBook the Fourth: A Turning – Chapters 1-16\, Parts XVI-XX \n\n\n\n\n\nThis series of discussions is presented by the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club / Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship with support from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/index.html \nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-mppjsuHd3RdY9mqMeH-FloGyFbM-MQ
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/our-mutual-friend-discussion-series-parts-i-v/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220802T014512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T190359Z
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SUMMARY:Sandra Cisneros\, Woman Without Shame: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling and award-winning author Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) will be coming to campus for an in-person event to celebrate the release of her brave new collection\, Woman Without Shame: Poems. This ticketed event\, which will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, is cosponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of Woman Without Shame. \nPlease note that this event is now SOLD OUT \nIt has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems\, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs\, elegies\, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory\, desire\, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros\, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart. \nSANDRA CISNEROS is a poet\, short story writer\, novelist\, essayist\, performer\, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, national and international book awards\, including the PEN America Literary Award\, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently\, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship\, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature\, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing\, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: Macondo Writers and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico\, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sandra-cisneros-woman-without-shame-poems/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220926
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20221021T180413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T180413Z
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SUMMARY:CommonGround: A Festival of Place-Inspired\, Outdoor Work
DESCRIPTION:CommonGround is a new biennial festival of place-inspired\, outdoor work hosted in locations throughout Santa Cruz County\, from downtown plazas and nearby waterways to forested hillsides and local landmarks. \nFocused on temporary and performative public art projects in rural\, urban\, and architectural space\, the 10-day event features site-responsive installations and interventions across the area’s natural and built environments\, connecting people\, stories\, and landscapes. \nCommonGround is a mostly FREE event. While the majority of works can be visited at no cost\, some festival performances are ticketed and there is a small admission fee to the MAH to view supporting exhibitions and installations. \nFor full event information\, please visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/commonground
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/commonground-a-festival-of-place-inspired-outdoor-work/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz County\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220902
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20221021T175435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T175450Z
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SUMMARY:The Land of Milk and Honey Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:The Land of Milk and Honey is a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program focused on the ideological concept of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Drawing inspiration from John Steinbeck’s portrayal of the region as a corrupted Eden\, the biennial presents works that question ethical\, cultural and regional practices related to foodways\, and the venture from seed to table. The biblical reference of a “land of milk and honey” first became associated with California as a tool for promoting the state as a land of opportunity; a destination for those in search of a better way of life – a terra firma that would provide sustenance and abundance. This boosterism also served as an ethos that fueled “Manifest Destiny” and resulted in land grabs\, labor exploitation\, ecological destruction\, and social injustices. \nThis inaugural exhibition explores artists’ views around multi-layered topics associated with agriculture including environmental impacts\, cultural culinary traditions\, identity and migration\, regional histographies\, and familial and mythical connections to food. The exhibition will run from September 1–December 31\, 2022. \nHeader Image: Fernando Armenghol\, Sol2Soul Art Collective (2016)\, La Cosecha Sagrada\, digital photograph.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-land-of-milk-and-honey-exhibition-opens/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220810T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220812T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220614T222143Z
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SUMMARY:Center for Racial Justice Summer Institute 2022
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice presents:\nSummer Institute 2022: Political Education and Liberatory Knowledge \nDates: August 10-12\, 2022\nTime: 10:00am–2:00pm PT \nClick below to register:\nDay 1 (August 10th)\nDay 2 (August 11th)\nDay 3 (August 12th) \nCheck crjucsc.com for more detailed information to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-racial-justice-summer-institute-2022/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220807
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220601T171553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T191251Z
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SUMMARY:Weekend With Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures\, discussions\, and demonstrations about the 2022 Season’s main stage productions\, Twelfth Night and The Tempest. \nThe Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series is free\, however seating is limited! Please email Rebecca Clark\, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Education Coordinator\, at rebecca@santacruzshakespeare.org\, to reserve your spot. \nWeekend with Shakespeare is sponsored in partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nLecture Series on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Friday\, August 5 \n\n12-12:15 Welcome\n12:15-1:15 Q&A with actors from Twelfth Night\, moderated by Mike Ryan\, Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\n1:15-1:30 Break\n1:30-2:30 In conversation with Amani Liggett and Michael Warren\, Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\n2:30-3:00 Break with refreshments\n3:00-4:00 Presentation on Twelfth Night by Julia Reinhard Lupton\, Professor of English and Director\, New Swan Shakespeare Center (UCI)\n\nFor those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of Twelfth Night: \n\n7:00-7:15 Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Julia Reinhard Lupton\n8:00 Performance of Twelfth Night at The Grove.\n\nLecture Series on Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Saturday\, August 6 \n\n12-12:15 Welcome\n12:15-1:15 Presentation by Mike Ryan\n1:15-1:30 Break\n1:30-2:30 In conversation with Ashley Herum\, dramaturg of The Tempest\, and Dr. Michael Warren\, Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\n2:30-3:00 Break with refreshments\n3:00-4:00 Presentation on The Tempest by Sean Keilen\, Professor of Literature and Director\, Shakespeare Workshop (UCSC)\n\nFor those who have purchased a ticket to see the evening performance of The Tempest: \n\n7-7:15 Pre-performance discussion of ‘5 Things to Look Out For’ with Sean Keilen\n8:00 Performance of The Tempest at The Grove\n\nJulia Lupton is Professor of English at UC Irvine\, where she co-directed the New Swan Shakespeare Center. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare\, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018). Her scholarship has been funded by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. An award-winning teacher\, Julia frequently leads seminars and reading groups for the community. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the Founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop there. He studies Shakespeare’s engagements with pagan and Christian authors\, as well as the history and theory of literary criticism. His research has been supported by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Humanities Center\, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. An award-winning teacher\, he is dedicated to community education\, a long-standing partnership with Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, and the exploration of literature as a resource for life.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/weekend-with-shakespeare-4/
LOCATION:UCSC Arboretum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music: Let Me See The Sun
DESCRIPTION:Four composers will join you in the audience for our second night as Maestro Măcelaru leads the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in the West Coast premiere of Iván Enrique Rodríguez’ A Metaphor for Power—reflecting on our ideals of equality in America\, as seen through the lens of the composer’s Latinx experience. \nIván Enrique Rodríguez: A Metaphor for Power (WCP)\nStacy Garrop: The Battle for the Ballot (WCP | Festival Commission)\n(Texts from seven suffragists; Valerie Joi\, narrator)\nPaola Prestini: Let Me See the Sun (Lara Downes\, piano)\nJohn Harbison: The Great Gatsby Suite (WCP) \n \nStacy Garrop’s The Battle for the Ballot was commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival in 2020 to commemorate the centenary of women’s suffrage in America and incorporates the words of seven prominent Black and white suffragists\, read by narrator Valerie Joi. It receives its West Coast premiere performance tonight\, after a spectacular virtual premiere in 2020. \nA second work celebrates voting rights and the passage of the 19th Amendment: Paola Prestini’s piano concerto Let Me See the Sun\, which features trailblazing pianist Lara Downes. Prestini is hailed by the New York Times as an “imaginative composer\,” as Let Me See the Sun demonstrates with an infusion of folk music\, virtuosity\, dissonance\, and vocal simplicity. The concerto is about the human impulse to remain hopeful\, structured as a dialogue between piano and orchestra\, at times contentious and at times unified. \nPulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison is an 84-year old American master who has yet to be featured at Cabrillo Festival—until now. Harbison’s music is “rich with lyrical outpourings” (New York Times) that are filtered through his “rigorously crafted language” (Strings Magazine). The Great Gatsby Suite—adapted from his opera\, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald—abounds in cakewalks\, ragtime and jazz\, and includes saxophones and banjo. Composed in 2007\, the work receives its West Coast premiere tonight. \nCovid-19 public health and safety guidelines will be followed\, including requiring proof of full vaccination for all audiences\, staff\, and artists. Masking will be required indoors at all times. Read our full Covid Policy here. \nConcert sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cabrillo-festival-of-contemporary-music-let-me-see-the-sun/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220724T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220724T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
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SUMMARY:Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
DESCRIPTION:Of all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years\, probably the least known are the Croatians of the Dalmatian Coast. Often identified as Austrians\, Slavonians\, or Dalmatians\, they came from a glorious background of international traders\, sailors\, and political thinkers few people in America knew about\, and brought with them knowledge that would change the way the United States did business. At the same time\, they transported their customs and beliefs to their new home and established a way of life that was vibrant and rich in traditional folkways. Join the authors of Blossoms into Gold for a discussion of this community’s fabled past and economic innovations in the Pajaro Valley. \nDonna F. Mekis holds degrees in both Anthropology and Education from UC Santa Cruz. She had a forty-year career in higher education\, working at both UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College. At Cabrillo\, Donna developed and directed both the Transfer Center and the Honors Transfer Program. Recently\, she served as the President of UCSC’s Alumni Association and is currently a Trustee on the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board. \nKathryn Mekis Miller did her undergraduate and graduate work at UC Berkeley. She and her husband Marshall Miller opened their first retail store in Santa Cruz in 1971. They have developed a number of successful businesses under the umbrella name Sun Shops\, which has now become a second-generation Santa Cruz business. In 2009\, Sun Shops were honored as the Business of the Year by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce. \nFor more information\, please visit Blossoms into Gold. \nFree with museum admission. Sponsored by UC Santa Cruz University Library and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/blossoms-into-gold-the-croatians-in-the-pajaro-valley-2/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220731
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SUMMARY:Dickens Universe: Iola + David
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars\, teachers\, students\, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. \nIn 2022\, the Dickens Universe will pair one of the best-known novels of Dickens\, David Copperfield\, with the most famous of all nineteenth-century African-American novels\, Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy or\, Shadows Uplifted. Reflections on how personal histories of coming of age play out through and against the mysteries and brutalities of history; confrontations with the claims of familial and community loyalties\, as these come to be fractured\, exposed\, and reconfigured: through these and other ways of reading\, Universe participants will explore what happens when the novels of these two extraordinary novelists\, reformers\, orators\, poets\, and journalists are brought into conversation. \nNow in its 41st year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, anyone who loves to read and who enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some of the things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe range of activities—formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nView the preliminary schedule. \nQuestions? Call (831) 459-2103 or email dpj@ucsc.edu for assistance. \nWe are thrilled to offer discounts to all Dickens Fellowship members. In the registration form\, please provide your branch affiliation. Enter FELLOWSHIP50 for $50 off virtual registration in the discount code field\, or FELLOWSHIP100 for $100 off in-person options (registration with housing and commuter). \nWe can’t wait to see you this summer! \n \nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \nThe Dickens Project is a Multi-campus Research Unit (MRU) of the University of California. Its research activities have been supported by extramural grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the U.S. Department of Education\, the California Council for the Humanities\, the California Arts Council\, the Exxon Education Foundation\, dues from member schools\, and private gifts. Activities for the general public are supported in part by contributions to a private\, non-profit organization\, the Friends of the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dickens-universe-iola-david/
LOCATION:UCSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220622T202956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220622T202956Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022: Virtual & Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022. Learn how to use AR/VR for your projects to enhance your user’s experience. This event covers available game engines\, software\, and services; using VR/AR for exhibits or teaching; and a demonstration on how to create an interactive\, digital environmentNo prior experience is necessary to attend this event.  \nSpeaker: Yuri Cantrell\, Humanities UX/Digital Media Specialist \nSponsored by the Humanities Division\, The Humanities Institute\, Information Technology Services (ITS)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-2022-virtual-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220619T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220619T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220614T221731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220614T221731Z
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SUMMARY:Historias de Cultura presents Lenguas Indígenas
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URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/historias-de-cultura-presents-lenguas-indigenas/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220616T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220616T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220602T165628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220602T165628Z
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SUMMARY:2022 CART Fellows Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the opening reception for this year’s exhibits in the Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART)  \nThese exhibits\, curated by the 2022 CART Fellows\, feature the following new acquisitions to Special Collections & Archives: \nthe Miriam C. and Raymond Rice Papers exhibit curated by Sienna Ballou and Joseph Finkel and the Yamashita Family Papers exhibit curated by Anny Mogollón and Jacob Stone. \nPlease RSVP by June 13\, 2022. Refreshments will be served \nParking Information.  \nPlease note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. Visitors must complete the UCSC Visitor COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire prior to entering the campus. \nWe strongly recommend indoor masking regardless of an individual’s vaccination status. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2022-cart-fellows-exhibit/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220613T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220613T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220519T171611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220603T214334Z
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SUMMARY:Slugs & Steins: Jennifer Lynn Kelly - Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her research on solidarity tours in Palestine\, Jennifer Kelly shows how solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy\, and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism to the region by extending deliberately truncated invitations to tourists to come to Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. She shows how Palestinian organizers both extend and redefine this invitation to witness\, as well as intervene in tourist demands for evidence and desire for performances of trauma by asking tourists to instead confront the violence of their own desire in Palestine. She also details the conditions that have led Palestinians to make their case through solidarity tourism in the first place\, describing the ways in which tourists travel to Palestine to see the effects of Israeli occupation for themselves despite the volumes of literature Palestinians have produced on their own condition. In this way\, Kelly shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \n \nJennifer Lynn Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism\, U.S. empire\, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. Her first book\, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press\, Spring 2023)\, is a multi-sited interdisciplinary ethnographic study of solidarity tourism in Palestine. In it\, she analyzes the ways in which solidarity tourism has emerged in Palestine as an organizing strategy that is both embedded in and working against histories of sustained displacement. Her next project\, co-edited with Somdeep Sen (Rothskilde University) and Lila Sharif (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine\, an edited volume in the Detours Series at Duke University Press.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-steins-jennifer-lynn-kelley-invited-to-witness-solidarity-tourism-across-occupied-palestine/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220526T175343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220602T163848Z
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SUMMARY:Japanese Cultural Fair
DESCRIPTION:Since its founding in 1986\, the fair has provided an opportunity for members of the Santa Cruz County community to increase their awareness and understanding of Japanese culture\, both traditional and contemporary. Through the arts\, crafts\, and culture of Japan\, the fair has brought together thousands of people\, improving their understanding of our Pacific Rim neighbor\, as well as enriching community life. \nTandy Beale was among the first collaborators to bring the idea of a Japanese themed cultural fair to Santa Cruz. Since then\, The JCF has increased the activities and events it provides to the community and continues to do so\, transforming itself\, through the support of our community\, from a minor cultural gathering to the annual event we know today. \nView the Fair’s schedule here. \nThe JCF is currently working in collaboration with the Aptos Public Library in a monthly meeting of the Origami Club\, the first Saturday of every month from 1-3 pm. All are invited to attend. All are encouraged to have fun. Whether you are a beginner or a master at the art of origami\, you are invited. \nThe Covid-19 Pandemic brought a major halt to normal life worldwide. It was with great sadness and trepidation\, and the first time in our history\, the Fair could not be presented to the Santa Cruz Community. Although operations halted\, and fear for the future of the Fair presented itself\, community support and the loyalty of its support network will allow for the return of the Fair in 2022. \nWe urge our participants\, and anybody who has enjoyed the fair in the past\, to support the Fair. Through the continuing support of our community\, both voluntary and financial\, the Japanese Cultural Fair will continue! We strive to improve every year and will continue doing so. \nOur volunteers are a major reason the festival has succeeded in becoming what it is today. Please consider being a part of that tradition. Volunteer today! \n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/japanese-cultural-fair/
LOCATION:103 Emmett Street\, Santa Cruz\, 103 Emmett Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220524T163611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T163611Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Spring Awards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe 2021–22 Spring Awards ceremony will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn or via Zoom. Friends and family are welcome. \nWe will join together to honor the outstanding accomplishments of our students and faculty with remarks from Chancellor Larive\, Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder\, and the 2022 Humanities Distinguished Undergraduate Alumni Awardee. \nWherever you’re celebrating\, join us in congratulating our exceptional scholars! \n \n\n\n\nPlease contact Sadie Lynn via sklynn@ucsc.edu with questions.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-spring-awards/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220510T191851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T184937Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Research Development
DESCRIPTION:Research Development \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. \nThe workshop will be led by Sharon Kinoshita (Professor\, Literature). Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Program Manager)\, Hannah Jasper (Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute)\, and Eric Sneathen (THI Research Development GSR). \nSharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature. She co-directs the mediterraneanseminar.org and has been PI or co-PI for a five-year UC Multicampus Research Project\, a UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group\, and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes in Mediterranean Studies. She has served as first- or final-round fellowship reviewer for the ACLS\, the Stanford Humanities Center\, the American Academy in Berlin\, and other institutions. \nSaskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Program Manager at THI. She joined THI in 2019 to manage the Mellon-funded Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics project. This project supports graduate student success and public scholarship through a range of events\, workshops\, and initiatives. Saskia is a humanistic social scientist and holds a PhD in sociology from UCLA. \nHannah Jasper is a Research Development Analyst for the Arts Research Institute. She is an arts administrator\, curator\, researcher\, and writer who has worked for the last ten years helping to preserve and uplift critically important and yet unexamined stories. Hannah has contributed to developing new and ongoing projects at many distinguished arts and cultural organizations throughout the United States\, including the University of Chicago\, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events\, The Children’s Museum of Art and Social Justice\, The Ed Paschke Art Center\, and Culture Saving. \nEric Sneathen is the Arts and Humanities Research and Development GSR for 2021-2022. He is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. From 2019-2020\, he was a THI Public Fellow working with the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to complete the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project\, funded by California Humanities. His writing and scholarship have been supported by a number of grants and fellowships from UCSC\, UC San Diego\, and the University of Buffalo. In June he’ll be graduating with a PhD in Literature\, with a concentration in Creative-Critical Studies. \n  \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/research-development/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220527T193840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220527T193840Z
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SUMMARY:The Center for Racial Justice Presents: War Against Our Schools: Film Screening and Collaborative Viewing Guide Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of La Guerra Contra Nuestras Escuelas/ War Against our Schools\, a documentary project exploring the short and long term impact of school closings and privatization in Puerto Rico. After the screening\, we will unveil the collaborative viewing guide created by Defend Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Syllabus to accompany the film. The guide features a microsyllabus exploring topics from the film\, teaching tools\, and advocacy resources that can be used in educational and community settings. Together\, the film and viewing guide explore and historicize threats to public education in Puerto Rico and provide avenues for action needed to defend our schools. \n \nFeatured Speakers: \n\nMarisol Lebron\nYarimar Bonilla\nIsabel Guzzardo\nMikey Cordero\nSarah Molinari\nFrances Medina\n\nBilingual Interpretation Provided By: Babilla Collective
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-center-for-racial-justice-presents-war-against-our-schools-film-screening-and-collaborative-viewing-guide-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220323T194103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220323T194103Z
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SUMMARY:Ronaldo V. Wilson and Gina Athena Ulysse - choose to begin/from the ground up/literally:
DESCRIPTION:“choose to begin/ from the ground up\, literally:” is a conversation whose title is borrowed from Ulysse’s mixed-media assemblage\, “Woodswork/Rasanblaj\,” digital photos—tree roots\, exposed by sun\, open field\, capturing frey of feeling\, living and striated bark— and poetry\, where—“No One Could/Save me but you.” This presentation operates between urgencies\, where Ronaldo V. Wilson will reflect on and with Gina Athena Ulysse’s meditations\, work that leads and pulls from the earth into what Ulyssee describes as the “ancestral imperative\,”—here: material forms\, sonic lineages\, and images begin. \n \nGina Athena Ulysse is based in Santa Cruz\, California where she is professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC. A photographer\, poet\, chanteuse\, and a cultural anthropologist who is always writing something\, she has presented her works in numerous colleges\, and universities nationally and internationally. She has also performed in artistic venues including: The Bowery\, Brecht Forum\, The British Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Court Theatre\, Gorki Theatre\, House of World Cultures in Berlin\, LaMaMa\, Lyric Stage Theatre\, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall\, MoMA Salon\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney\, Australia among others. In 2020\, she was invited to the Biennale of Sydney. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, is the author of: Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2008)\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other (Counterpath Press\, 2014)\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72 (1913 Press\, 2018). His latest books are Carmelina: Figures (Wendy’s Subway\, 2021) and Virgil Kills: Stories (Nightboat Books\, 2022). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, Wilson is also an interdisciplinary artist. A recent\, MacDowell\, and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellow\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at UC Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ronaldo-v-wilson-and-gina-athena-ulysse-choose-to-begin-from-the-ground-up-literally/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220330T205924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220403T230214Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Gina Athena Ulysse
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing.  This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nGina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies. In her ongoing crossings and dialogues between the arts\, humanities\, and the social sciences\, she engages in a practice of rasanblaj– the gathering of ideas\, things\, people\, and spirits. Her last book\, Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti\, me & THE WORLD (2017) was long-listed for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award and received the 2018 Best Poetry Connecticut Center for the Book Award. She was the invited editor of “Caribbean Rasanblaj\,” a double issue of e-misférica journal. Her articles\, essays\, and creative work have been published in Feminist Studies\, Gastronomica\, Interimpoetics\, Liminalities\, Meridians\, Third Text\, etc. She has also performed at The Bowery\, The British Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Gorki Theatre\, LaMaMa\, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall\, MoMA Salon\, and the MCA. In 2020\, she was an invited artist to the Biennale of Sydney\, Australia. More info on: ginaathenaulysse.com \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-gina-athena-ulysse/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220528
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220426T163933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220519T211401Z
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SUMMARY:Socialist World Cultures Conference
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Lecture: Monica Popescu\, McGill University – “Cold War Internationalism and Frayed Alliances\,” Thursday\, May 26\, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. \nJoin us virtually at by clicking here. \nClick here to download the Socialist World Cultures Conference Program. \nMonica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of At Penpoint: African Literatures\, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War (2020)\, South African Literature beyond the Cold War (2010) and The Politics of of Violence in Post-Communist Films (1999). \nHosted by The Humanities Institute (THI) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/socialist-world-cultures/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220318T211000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220519T170237Z
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SUMMARY:Barbara McCullough in Conversation with Lior Shamriz
DESCRIPTION:A native of New Orleans\, Barbara McCullough has spent most of her life in southern California. Her initial interest was in photography but the moving image\, immediacy\, and possible forum for ideas set her on a path of exploration. McCullough’s work progressed to examining the creative process of artists but always maintaining a fascination with experimental film and video. McCullough sees herself as part of the continuum of African American storytellers whose aim is to preserve knowledge by capturing the essence of her culture — its life\, spirit\, and magic. She states\, “I am dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of the African American artist/cultural worker by documenting her/his achievements for future generations to keep the music and visual poetry alive.” Her work has been shown in galleries\, museums\, and film festivals nationally and internationally and she is associated with UCLA filmmakers known as the LA Rebellion. \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/barbara-mccullough-in-conversation-with-lior-shamriz/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T112759
CREATED:20220330T202422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220519T170011Z
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
DESCRIPTION:Please join us The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies\, which promises to be a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli\, award-winning author of the new book\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel\, and Nathaniel Deutsch\, Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Taking place on May 24th at 6:00 PM. \nRSVP to attend virtually here. \nTwelve Tribes explores tribalism in Israel and Palestine by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life\, revealing the land’s extraordinary\, polyphonic diversity as well as its volatility. An American Jew with close family in Israel\, Michaeli used his background and language skills to gain access to Israelis and Palestinians of all sectors during his travels across the country over four crucial years. Michaeli met with the aging revolutionaries who founded Israel’s kibbutz movement and the young people working for the country’s booming Big Tech companies\, Ethiopian Jews and ultra-Orthodox Haredim. Twelve Tribes examines Israeli-Palestinian relations at the grassroots level with portraits of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in the territory ruled by the Palestinian Authority\, as well as Israeli settlers and soldiers\, illuminating how the conflicts there have global consequences. The book also explores the rapidly changing relationship between Israel and the United States\, whose political interactions are increasingly fraught even as their military industries and even legal systems are more enmeshed. \nEthan Michaeli is an award-winning author\, educator and publisher whose latest book\, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel (Custom House\, 2021)\, was praised by The New York Times Book Review\, which noted that “…illuminating conversations with a wide variety of ordinary people — ultra-Orthodox Jews\, Holocaust survivors\, aging kibbutzniks\, Ethiopian and Russian immigrants\, Arab citizens of Israel\, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank — fill the pages of this richly descriptive book.” The New York Times applauded Ethan’s first book The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America\, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2016) as “a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.” The Defender was named a Notable Book of 2016 by The New York Times\, The Washington Post and Amazon\, awarded the Best Non Fiction of 2016 prizes from the Chicago Writers Association as well as the Midland Authors Association\, and placed on the short list for the Mark Lynton Prize. \n\nThis event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-a-conversation-with-ethan-michaeli/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice presents a conversation on The Celine Archive with Filmmaker and Arts Dean Celine Parreñas. \nIn 1932\, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community of Filipino Americans in northern California. Filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu\, finding kinship with Navarro’s long-lost story\, exhumes her tragic life story while trying to unravel the mystery of her murder. This documentary paints a vivid portrait of the early Filipino migrant community\, creating space not just for a reckoning with the haunting violence of Navarro’s murder\, but also belated community grief. \n \nPlease view the film in advance. After registering\, you will receive two links that will enable you to do the following: \n\nView The Celine Archive (available from 5/12-5/26)\nJoin the May 24 webinar\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conversation-on-the-celine-archive/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220522T150000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It is the story of the French Doctor Manette\, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris\, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story details the conditions that led to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. \nIts central themes–cultural and historical difference\, the nature of political revolution and change\, the identity and narration of the self\, sacrifice\, secrecy heroism–find expression through an often weird or gothic concern with bodies and their doubles\, split identities\, and the uncertain boundaries of life and death. \nJoin Wayne Batten and the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship for a series of discussions about Dickens’s most enduring–and shortest!–novels.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-dickens-fellowship-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220521T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220521T153000
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SUMMARY:Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with abolitionist scholars Angela Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie as they discuss their new book\, Abolition. Feminism. Now. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Free tickets available online. Tickets and admission details to be announced. Please familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission. \nAs a politic and a practice\, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usually queer\, anti-capitalist\, grassroots\, and women of color—organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated from vibrant community based organizing\, Abolition. Feminism. Now. surfaces necessary historical genealogies\, key internationalist learnings\, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and futures. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is available for purchase online or in person at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThis conversation is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, Feminist Studies\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of the Andrew W. Mellon funded Visualizing Abolition initiative UC Santa Cruz. \nAbout the Speakers: \nAngela Y. Davis\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, is a renowned activist and scholar. The author of numerous monographs\, including most recently\, Freedom is a Constant Struggle\, 2015\, for decades Davis has been for decades at the forefront of research and activism on prison abolition and the related intersections of race\, gender\, and class. \n  \nGina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. The editor of Black Popular Culture\, and a prison abolition activist for more than 25 years\, Dent is also the director of UC Santa Cruz’s groundbreaking public scholarship initiative\, Visualizing Abolition\, an art and education project aimed at shifting the social attachment to prisons. \n  \nErica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and author most recently of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State\, 2016. Meiners has collaboratively started and works alongside a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation\, particularly movements that involve access to free public education for all\, including people during and after incarceration\, and other queer abolitionist struggles. \n  \nBeth E. Richie is Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy\, and Professor of Black studies and criminology\, law\, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richie’s most recent publication\, Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation\, 2012 demonstrates the emphasis of both her scholarly and activist work on how race/ethnicity and social position affect women’s experience of violence and incarceration\, focusing on the experiences of African American battered women and sexual assault survivors. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/abolition-feminism-now-with-angela-davis-gina-dent-erica-meiners-and-beth-ritchie/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
DESCRIPTION:Cowell College\, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 20th season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XX)\, May 20\, 21\, and 22\, 2022 at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC.\nSeveral fully-staged theater pieces in different languages (TBA)\, with English supertitles\, performed by Language students and directed by their instructors.\nNo admission charge; parking in adjacent lots is $5.00. \nInterested in participating? Contact us:\nRenée Cailloux\, co-producer and director of the French Play: rcaillou@ucsc.edu\nSakae Fujita\, co-producer and director of the Japanese Play: sakaefuj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-5/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 UCSC Festival of Monsters is a weekend of scholarship\, social events\, and art focused on monsters and their hidden meanings. Anyone interested in monsters\, those tantalizing creatures that lurk in our collective cultural psyches\, will enjoy this investigation and celebration of the strange and macabre. Scholarly presentations are framed by a film screening\, a play reading\, a horror writing contest\, and a fabulous Halloween-in-May Monsters’ Masquerade Ball. \nFor more information and tickets\, please visit: https://www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/festival \nThe Festival of Monsters is presented by the UCSC Center for Monster Studies and made possible through the support of The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Performance\, Play & Design\, Oakes College\, Porter College\, and the generosity of James Gunderson and Peter Coha. Special thanks to the staff of the Center for Monster Studies – Labris Willendorf\, David Crellin\, and Jen Mahal. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading
DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-senior-projects-reading/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220518T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220518T163000
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SUMMARY:Madhavi Murty - Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book by Feminist Studies Prof. Madhavi Murty\, in conversation with Prof. Gina Dent. \nStories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (Rutgers University Press) examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism backed by the authority of the state\, and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. Through its focus on India and its complex media landscape\, the book reveals that this intersection has a narrative form\, which Prof. Murty labels “spectacular realism.” Studying stories told through film\, journalism\, and popular non-fiction\, Murty argues that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberalism are conjoined\, and that consent for this political economy project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture. \n \nAttendance is hybrid and can be in-person in Humanities 1 210 or virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madhavi-murty-stories-that-bind-political-economy-and-culture-in-new-india/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220518T121500
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SUMMARY:Adom Getachew - Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:From the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth\, Africa for the Africans was the banner under which a range of pan-Africanists imaginaries and political projects were articulated. This lecture charts the transformations of this pan-African motto\, examining in particular the shifting conceptions of “Africa” in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. Please note: this event is fully remote\, with attendance only via Zoom. \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. \nFor Spring 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, with the option of in-person or virtual attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Spring colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adom-getachew-africa-for-the-africans-a-history-of-self-determination-before-decolonization/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T113000
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SUMMARY:The Stories of Pilipino Migrant Labor in San Jose: Challenging the Neoliberal Export Labor Policy of the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:Pilipinx Historical Dialogue: The purpose of this course is to foster an interactive conversation and space of political education amongst participants regarding Pilipinx history\, diaspora\, organizing\, and culture. \n \nPresented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-stories-of-pilipino-migrant-labor-in-san-jose-challenging-the-neoliberal-export-labor-policy-of-the-philippines/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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