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SUMMARY:Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation\, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks\, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks\, our practices of teaching and learning can and should be as transformative and revolutionary as what we teach. More than three decades ago\, not long after she finished her graduate work on this campus\, hooks offered us a roadmap to transform educational practice to be equitable\, student-centered\, relationship-rich\, and dynamically engaged. In this talk\, Jody will revisit hooks’ influence on recent efforts to reshape teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz as it takes up the challenge of being a genuinely minority-serving institution. \nAs CITL comes to the close of its seventh year\, we are marking the end of the first phase of our development. This Spring\, CITL will be merging with Online Education to create a single\, integrated Teaching and Learning Center. In June\, Founding Director Jody Greene will be stepping down to make way for new leadership for the Center in the next phase of its evolution. Please join us at 5:00pm for a reception\, followed by the lecture which will begin at 5:45pm. \nRegister to attend in person – RSVP requested by April 18\, 2023 \nRegister to attend virtually \nJody Greene came to UC Santa Cruz in 1998 and has served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. \nRecent publications include a collection\, co-edited with Sharif Youssef\, The Hostile Takeover: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood (Toronto\, 2020)\, and op-eds in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014). In 2016\, they were appointed the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and they now serve as UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. In 2021\, they were appointed Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. \nEach year\, CITL hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. This event is presented by the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liberation-pedagogy-bell-hooks-and-teaching-learning-as-emancipatory-practice-featuring-jody-greene/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Laura Jaramillo
DESCRIPTION:Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens\, New York living in Durham\, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. \n\n\n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-laura-jaramillo/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T133000
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SUMMARY:Roberta Wue - Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
DESCRIPTION:The sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20)\, these curious and vivid portraits function in a new space of intercultural commerce and exchange\, as articulated through their unusual materials\, crafting\, and authorship. \nRoberta Wue works on late Qing and early twentieth-century China\, with a particular interest in painting\, photography\, print culture\, and intermediality. Her work examines issues of audience and picturing\, while analyzing genre\, heterogeneity and hybridity\, seriality\, and movement in modern Chinese art and visual culture. She is the author of Art Worlds: Artists\, Images\, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai. \n\nFree and open to the campus community and the public. \nPresented by the Center for World History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roberta-wue-inventing-the-chinese-craftsman-amoy-chinqua-and-the-18th-century-export-portrait/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:"DOLORES" Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on April 26\, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt\, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient\, and view his film DOLORES\, which will be introduced by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. After the screening\, Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón will lead a conversation with Peter. \n \nPeter Bratt (1986 Cowell College\, Politics) is a Rockefeller Fellow\, a Peabody Award winner\, an Emmy-nominated film producer\, writer\, director\, community organizer\, and social justice activist. Born and raised in San Francisco by a strong\, indigenous\, single mother from Peru\, his family was part of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz\, the Wounded Knee stand-off\, and the Farm Workers Movement. \nPeter wrote\, produced and directed DOLORES\, a feature documentary about civil rights icon Dolores Huerta that was executive produced by legendary musician Carlos Santana. DOLORES debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and has won numerous awards\, including a 2018 Peabody Award and a Critic’s Circle Award. \nPresented by the Division of Social Sciences and the Delores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dolores-film-screening-and-distinguished-social-sciences-alumni-award/
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre
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SUMMARY:Eric Stanley - Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
DESCRIPTION:Eric Stanley in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell & FMST Grad Student Kaiya Gordon. \nPresented by the Feminist Studies Department. \nRecent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans\, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence\, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the US — a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on archives of suicide notes\, AIDS histories\, surveillance tapes\, and prison interviews\, Stanley offers a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies. Calling for trans/queer organizing and world-making beyond these forms\, they point to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures. \nJoin via zoom link here. \nEric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley\, where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eric-stanley-atmospheres-of-violence-structuring-antagonism-and-the-trans-queer-ungovernable/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies  \nIn Recording History\, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like\, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present. \nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 26\, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-silver-recording-history-jews-muslims-and-music-across-twentieth-century-north-africa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Feldman - The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg\, Felski\, and Bottomless Critique
DESCRIPTION:–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-feldman-the-reality-of-suspicion-on-blumenberg-felski-and-bottomless-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Christian Ruvalcaba
DESCRIPTION:Christian Ruvalcaba\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-christian-ruvalcaba/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:2023 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Partha Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Intense debate has recently been centered on the notion of a cosmopolitanism that arose with colonial era globalization. Cosmopolitanism naturally presupposes travel but what about those who stay at home? The migration of ideas and cross-cultural exchanges made possible by the spread of hegemonic languages and print culture created a virtual cosmopolis that has continued to our day. \nDr. Mitter’s talk will focus on the dynamics\, peculiarities and biases of this world. \n  \n \n  \nIf you are unable to attend in person\, you can join us virtually. Click here to register for the virtual event. \n  \nPartha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture\, specializing in the reception of Indian art in the West\, as well as in modernity\, art and identity in India\, and more recently in global modernism. He studied history at London University and did his doctorate with E. H. Gombrich (1970). He began his career as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College\, Cambridge (1968-69) and Research Fellow at Clare Hall\, Cambridge (1970-74). In 1974 he joined Sussex as a Lecturer in Indian History\, retiring in 2002 as Professor in Art History. He is an Adjunct Research Professor Carleton University\, Ontario\, Canada \nHis publications include Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Clarendon Press\, Oxford\, 1977: Chicago University Press Paperback\, 1992; Oxford University Press\, New Delhi\, 2013); Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations (Cambridge University Press\, 1994); Indian Art\, Oxford Art History Series (Oxford University Press\, Oxford\, 2002); The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde – 1922-1947 (Reaktion Books\, London\, Oxford University Press\, New Delhi\, 2007).  \nMitter was Radhakrishnan Lecturer at All Souls College\, Oxford in 1992 and Getty Visiting Professor at Bogazici University\, Istanbul in 2011. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton; Getty Research Institute\, Los Angeles; Clark Art Institute\, Williamstown\, Massachusetts; and CASVA\, National Gallery of Art\, Washington DC. In 2000 he was invited by the Indian Government to set up the School of Art and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.  \nIn 1982 he curated and wrote an introduction to the catalogue of an exhibition on the history of Indian photography for the Photographers Gallery\, London. At present he is Emeritus Professor in Art History\, University of Sussex\, Member of Wolfson College\, Oxford and Adjunct Research Professor\, Carleton University\, Ontario\, Canada. In 2008 he received an Honorary D.Lit. degree from the Courtauld Institute\, London University. \n \nAnuradha Luther Maitra received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University\, and has served UC Santa Cruz in many capacities: Professor of Economics\, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on International Initiatives\, UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and President. In the year 2001\, she established the Sidhartha Maitra Lecture Series on Humanism\, Reason and Tolerance in memory of her late husband “with a little bit of help from my friends”: Vikram Seth delivered the Inaugural Lecture ‘Friendship and Poetry’\, and Kiran and Arjun Malhotra provided the founding endowment. \n  \nThis premier campus event series seeks to enrich the intellectual life of the campus and the community\, and is made possible thanks to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture endowment. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-sidhartha-maitra-memorial-lecture-featuring-dr-partha-mitter/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Rosario
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Dr. Melissa Rosario (she/they)\, a mixed-race queer nonbinary femme who lives and works in Puerto Rico. Drawing on their training as an anthropologist and her own journey of self-healing\, Melissa founded and leads the Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action (CEPA). CEPA is a practice-based initiative dedicated to the decolonization of mind-body-spirit of organizers\, artists\, and healers. It is a space for diaspora and island-based Boricuas and close allies who want to co-create a culture of reclamation that transforms inheritances and patterns into collective liberation. They understand it to be a tool for healing as it allows us to create new possibilities and agreements for our future while also opening space to speak truths that have remained on the margins of our awareness. She has published in Anthropology and Humanism\, AnthroNow\, and Curriculum Inquiry and is a co-author of Decolonizing for Organizers\, a practice-based manual for activists unlearning and healing from colonization. Her first book is under review and is tentatively titled Another Country: Reclaiming Freedom in Puerto Rico. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \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/phd-workshop-voces-drafting-stages-with-melissa-rosario/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Black Sound Symposium at Indexical
DESCRIPTION:The Black Sound Symposium at Indexical is a 4-day event full of concerts\, talks\, workshops\, screenings\, and interdisciplinary dialogue rooted in Black sound and Black sonic space. The symposium aims to create and sustain community; to celebrate curiosity\, wonder\, disobedience\, collaboration\, and play in artistic work; to expand anti-racist and activist pedagogy and methodologies in and outside of our institutions; and to honor the long and rich lineages of Black virtuosity that have been diminished and erased from artistic canons and social consciousness. \n“Black studies and anticolonial thought offer methodological practices wherein we read\, live\, hear\, groove\, create\, and write across a range of temporalities\, places\, texts\, and ideas that build on existing liberatory practices and pursue ways of living in the world that are uncomfortably generous and provisional and practical and\, as well\, imprecise and unrealized. The method is rigorous\, too. Wonder is study. Curiosity is attentive.”\n-Katherine McKittrick\, Dear Science and Other Stories \nThe Black Sound Symposium is partially sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz & the Visualizing Abolition public scholarship initiative at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, UC Santa Cruz. Please visit the Black Sound Symposium website for the full symposium schedule and details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/black-sound-symposium-at-indexical/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T193000
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SUMMARY:Karina Walters - Transcending Historical Trauma: How to Address American Indian Health Inequities and Promote Thriving
DESCRIPTION:Throughout history\, settler colonialism has endeavored to erase the lived experiences and histories of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. Yet\, Indigenous populations\, particularly Indigenous women\, remain strong and resilient pillars of communities. Oftentimes these [her]stories are missed in public health initiatives as a result of settler colonialism’s perpetual drive to erase and silence. In this talk\, Dr. Walters will explore the latest advances in designing culturally derived\, Indigenist health promotion interventions among American Indian and Alaska Native women. The talk will describe the indigenist methodological innovations utilized in the NIH funded Yappalli Choctaw Road to Health\, a culturally focused\, land-based obesity and substance abuse prevention program as well as the national multi-site Honor Project Two-Spirit Health Study. Consistent with tribal systems of knowledge\, both studies illustrate the importance of developing culturally derived health promotion interventions rooted in Indigenist thoughtways and land-based practices to promote Indigenous thrivance and community well-being. \n \nDr. Karina L. Walters (MSW\, PhD) is the recently appointed Director of the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institute of Health. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma\, a Katherine Hall Chambers University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work\, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health\, School of Public Health\, and Co-Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) at the University of Washington. Dr. Walters is world renowned for her expertise in developing behavioral and multi-level health interventions steeped in culture to activate health-promoting behaviors. She has written landmark papers on traumatic stress and health\, historical and intergenerational trauma\, and originated the Indigenist Stress-Coping model. She has led 22 NIH-funded studies\, is one of the leading American Indian scientists in the country\, and is only one of two American Indians (and the only Native woman) ever invited to deliver the prestigious Director’s lecture to the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) at the NIH. She is the first American Indian Fellow inductee into the American Academy of Social Welfare and Social Work (AASWSW).\n \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 April 12\, 2023. \nThis event is part of the “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” Sawyer Seminar series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karina-walters-transcending-historical-trauma-how-to-address-american-indian-health-inequities-and-promote-thriving/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Valuing Engaged Scholarship in the Tenure and Promotion Process
DESCRIPTION:Join Campus + Community in a forum with campus leaders about taking stock of engaged scholarship in the tenure and promotion process at UC Santa Cruz and across the UC system. UCSC has developed several new sets of guidelines that will help engaged scholars to talk about and elevate their teaching and research. These guidelines will also help departments\, deans\, the Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP) and senior leadership to evaluate engaged scholar files. Presenters will share the ways that campus is seeking to support engaged scholarship in the merit process and will take questions from the audience about how to move forward. \nRegister to attend virtually \nRegister to attend in person \nFeaturing: \n\nRebecca London – Faculty Direct of Campus and Community and Associate Professor of Sociology\nHerbie Lee – Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\nJasmine Alinder – Dean of Humanities\nSusan Gillman – Professor of Literature and Committee on Academic Personnel\n\nThe workshop starts at 3:30 p.m. with a reception starting at 4:30 p.m. \nFor more information\, visit the Campus and Community website. \nQuestions? Contact Campus + Community: cam_com@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valuing-engaged-scholarship-in-the-tenure-and-promotion-process/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T120000
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SUMMARY:Kristin Lawler – Surfing\, Capitalism\, and the Refusal of Work
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will examine surfing as a countercultural practice and will consider the ways in which it constitutes a lived refusal of the logic of capital. I will look at several contemporary and historical iterations of the surf image in popular culture to think through its political significance\, and will survey the state of the new field of “surf studies.” \nKristin Lawler is Professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. She is author of The American Surfer\, published in 2011\, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Roll and Flow: the Political Ontology of Surf and Skate. Her work appears in numerous edited collections\, including Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School (forthcoming); Class: the Anthology; Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory; Bohemias in Southern California; and The Critical Surf Studies Reader. She is a contributing member of the editorial board of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Radical Imagination. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristin-lawler-surfing-capitalism-and-the-refusal-of-work/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:What’s Happening in Peru? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Structural Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Peru has been in a state of political and humanitarian crisis since early December 2022 when protests erupted in the wake of former President Pedro Castillo’s unsuccessful attempt to shut down Congress to avert an impeachment. When acting President Dina Boluarte–Castillo’s former vice president—announced that elections would not be held until May 2024\, Peruvians across the country took to the streets first to demand elections and a constitutional assembly and then\, when the national police violently repressed protests\, to demand Boluarte’s resignation. Months later\, more than 60 Peruvians have died\, including 47 protestors killed by state forces\, mostly from Southern Andean regions of the country\, and Boluarte has refused to resign. \nThe current situation in Peru is the latest expression of a deep structural crisis\, rooted in historical relations of dominance since colonial times in the highly centralized country. This is reflected in the long-standing conflictive relationship between the capital\, Lima\, and the other regions\, which has polarized the public debate even more. The role of media and emerging technologies have played a crucial role in how these protests have been represented\, adding fire to this polarization. To understand this multidimensional crisis from multidisciplinary perspectives\, this round table features scholars from both the humanities and social sciences who will reflect on the historical\, social\, cultural\, economic\, and political implications of the ongoing crisis for the future of Peru. \nPanelists \nAldair Mejía (Photojournalist\, Lima) is a photojournalist based in Lima\, Peru. He currently focuses his work on political issues\, social conflicts\, portraits\, concerts\, among other events in the country. During the last years Aldair has been working as a collaborator for the EFE agency of Spain and Diario La República\, his photographs have been published by agencies such as CNN in Spanish\, EFE Agency\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. He is also a member of the Association of Photo Journalists of Peru (AFPP). Finalist in the IPYS contest\, Recognition in the 35 Awards\, Second Place in the Photojournalism category in the Entel contest\, Winner in the PhotoEspaña contest. \nCecilia Mendez (UCSB) is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. A Peruvian historian specialized in the social and political history of Peru in the national period\, she received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and numerous prestigious awards\, including the Howard Cline book prize for her book The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Her work calls the attention on the importance of late eighteenth-century\, and nineteenth-century political developments in shaping modern conceptions nationhood\, citizenship\, and “race” in Peru. She has investigated the historical relationship between the peasants and the militaries\, and the role of war and the army in the construction of the state. She is a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) currently works as an instructor and director of the Quechua Program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has two master’s degrees in Linguistics: one from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2005)\, the other from Rice University\, in Houston\, Texas (2012). He is currently finishing his doctorate in Andean Studies (Linguistics) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His studies of the Quechua languages ​​include varieties spoken in Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurimac\, and Cuzco in Peru. Since 2018\, he has coordinated the QINTI project (Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative). With his collaborators he is currently writing Ayni\, which aims to an open access manual for Southern Quechua and intended to help teachers and students of Quechua in the United States and around the world draw on the shared characteristics and diversity of Quechua varieties mutually intelligible in Peru and Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito (Universidad del Pacífico\, Lima) is a Professor of Political Science and of Discrimination and Public Policy at Universidad del Pacifico\, in Lima\, Peru. Her research agenda includes topics of gender equality\, social inclusion policies in Peru\, and how the intersection of different systems of oppression position different groups of people outside of the scope of legal protection. Most recently she is focused on exploring the effectiveness of ethnoracial legislation to promote and protect the rights of Afrodescendants in Peru. She holds a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru\, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania\, and two MA degrees in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of South Florida. Concurrently\, she has held positions in the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Culture in Peru\, and a top advisory position in the Office of Women and Equality of the Metropolitan Municipality of the City of Lima on issues of diversity and social inclusion. \nNelson Pereyra (Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, Ayacucho) is a historian\, graduated from the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, with master’s studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. In addition\, he holds a Ph.D. in History with a Mention in Andean Studies. His lines of research are related to the political participation of peasants in the formation of the Peruvian State and to regional history and culture. He has recently published the books: History\, Memory and Symbolism of Holy Week in Ayacucho\, State\, Memory and Contemporary Society in Ayacucho\, Cusco and Lima (edited together with Claudia Rosas) and Living and Active regions: Knots and Foundations of Contemporary Peru (co-authored with Susana Aldana Rivera). \nModerators \nAlejandra Watanabe Farro (LALS\, UCSC) \nAmanda Smith (Literature\, UCSC) \nCarla Hernández Garavito (Anthropology\, UCSC) \nCo-organized with Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute\, UCSC) \n \nRegistration required to receive the zoom link. \nIn Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Department of Latino and Latin American Studies\, the Spanish Studies program\, Arts Research Institute\, and the Dolores Huerta Research Center. \n\n\n¿Qué está pasando en el Perú? Perspectivas interdisciplinarias para entender una crisis estructural\nDesde principios de diciembre del 2022\, el Perú atraviesa una crisis política y humanitaria cuando estallaron las protestas a raíz del intento fallido del expresidente Pedro Castillo de cerrar el Congreso para evitar la vacancia por incapacidad moral. Cuando la presidenta en funciones Dina Boluarte –exvicepresidenta de Castillo– anunció que las elecciones no se realizarían hasta mayo de 2024\, peruanos de todo el país salieron a las calles primero para exigir elecciones y asamblea constituyente y\, cuando la Policía Nacional y el Ejército reprimieron violentamente las protestas\, exigir la renuncia de Boluarte. Meses después\, más de 60 peruanos han muerto\, incluidos al menos 47 manifestantes asesinados por las fuerzas estatales\, en su mayoría de las regiones andinas del sur del país\, y Boluarte se niega a renunciar. \nLa situación actual del Perú es la expresión más reciente de una profunda crisis estructural\, arraigada en históricas relaciones de dominio desde la época colonial en un país altamente centralizado. Esto se refleja en la conflictiva relación entre la capital\, Lima\, y ​​las demás regiones\, que ha polarizado aún más el debate público. El papel de los medios y las nuevas tecnologías ha jugado un papel crucial en la forma en que se han representado estas protestas\, agregando tensión a esta polarización. Para comprender esta crisis estructural desde perspectivas multidisciplinarias\, esta mesa redonda convoca académicos de las humanidades y ciencias sociales para reflexionar colectivamente sobre las implicaciones históricas\, sociales\, culturales\, económicas y políticas de la crisis actual para el futuro de Perú. \nPanelistas \nAldair Mejía es Fotoperiodista\, en Lima\,Perú\, cuyo trabajo se centra principalmente en coberturas de prensa. Actualmente enfoca su labor en temáticas políticas\, conflictos sociales\, retratos\, conciertos\, entre otros acontecimientos en el país. Durante los últimos años Aldair ha estado trabajando como colaborador para la agencia EFE de España y Diario La República\, sus fotografías han sido publicadas las agencias\, como CNN en español\, Agencia EFE\, New York Times\, Clarín\, La Vanguardia\, Washington Post\, etc. También es miembro de la Asociación de Foto Periodistas del Perú (AFPP). Finalista en el concurso IPYS\, Reconocimieno en los 35 Awards\, Segundo Puesto en la categoria de Fotoperiodismo en el concurso de Entel\, Ganador en el concurso de PhotoEspaña. \nCecilia Mendez es profesora de Historia en la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Historiadora peruana especializada en la historia social y política del Perú en el período nacional\, recibió su Ph.D. de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Stony Brook\, y varios prestigiosos premios\, incluido el premio del libro Howard Cline por su libro The Plebeian Republic (Duke\, 2005). Su trabajo llama la atención sobre la importancia de los desarrollos políticos de finales del siglo XVIII y del siglo XIX en la formación de las concepciones modernas de nación\, ciudadanía y “raza” en el Perú. Y han investigado la relación histórica entre los campesinos y los militares\, y el papel de la guerra y el ejército en la construcción del Estado. Es columnista del diario peruano La República. \nCarlos Molina-Vital se desempeña como instructor y responsable del Programa de Quechua en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign. Tiene dos maestrías en Lingüística: una de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2005)\, la otra de la Universidad Rice\, en Houston\, Texas (2012). Actualmente está terminando su doctorado en Estudios Andinos en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Sus estudios de las lenguas quechuas incluyen variedades habladas en Ancash\, Ayacucho\, Apurímac y Cuzco en Perú. Desde 2018 coordina el proyecto QINTI (Iniciativa de Innovación y Enseñanza Quechua\, por sus siglas en inglés). Con sus colaboradores está escribiendo actualmente Ayni\, que busca ser un manual de acceso abierto para quechua sureño y destinado a ayudar a profesores y estudiantes de quechua en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo a partir de las características compartidas y la diversidad de las variedades quechua mutuamente inteligibles habladas en Perú y Bolivia. \nMariela Noles Cotito es profesora de Ciencia Política\, y Discriminación y Políticas Públicas en la Universidad del Pacífico. Es abogada por la PUCP; máster en Derecho por la University of Pennsylvania; máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos y máster en Ciencia Política\, con una concentración en Etnicidad en Países Andinos\, por la University of South Florida. Su portafolio de investigación incluye temas de derechos humanos\, igualdad de género y no discriminación\, así como el análisis de políticas públicas de inclusión en el país. Ha sido parte de equipos técnicos en el Ministerio de la Mujer\, el Ministerio de Cultura y la Gerencia de la Mujer de la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima. \nNelson Pereyra es historiador\, egresado de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga\, con estudios de maestría en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide en España. Además\, es doctor en Historia con Mención de Estudios Andinos. Sus ejes de investigación están relacionados con la participación política de los campesinos en la formación del Estado peruano y con la historia y cultura regional. Recientemente ha publicado los libros: Historia\, memoria y simbolismo de la Semana Santa de Ayacucho\, Estado\, memoria y sociedad contemporánea en Ayacucho\, Cusco y Lima (editado junto a Claudia Rosas) y Regiones vivas y activas: nudos y fundamentos del Perú contemporáneo (en coautoría con Susana Aldana Rivera).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peru/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Max Weiss: Revolutions Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University)\, who will be discussing his new book on cultural production in Ba’thist Syria\, Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Baʻthist Syria (Stanford University Press\, 2022). Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics\, authoritarianism\, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources—novels\, films\, and cultural periodicals—Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership\, gender and power\, comedy and ideology\, surveillance and the senses\, witnessing and temporality\, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state\, society\, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years. \nLunch will be served.  Any graduate students would like a copy of his book\, please contact muhdavis@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/max-weiss-revolutions-aesthetic/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T160000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support\, including from national funding organizations like the SSRC. \nThe workshop will be led by Catalina Vallejo (Program Director for the SSRC Just Tech Program) and Sharon Kinoshita (Interim Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Literature). As part of the workshop\, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications. \nCatalina Vallejo is program director for the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Program. Catalina holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia\, an M.A. in cultural studies from Universidad de los Andes\, and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her doctoral work focused on post-conflict in Colombia and Peru and was funded by the SSRC and the National Science Foundation. Before joining the SSRC\, she worked in development consulting. She is fluent in English and Spanish\, grew up in Bogotá (Colombia)\, and travels frequently to the region.\nhttps://www.ssrc.org/staff/vallejo-pedraza-diana-catalina/ \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. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) Fireside Lounge.  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nThis event is being presented by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons. \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/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Bryan Donaldson
DESCRIPTION:Bryan Donaldson\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-bryan-donaldson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T140000
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SUMMARY:Paisley Currah – This Anti-Trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center
DESCRIPTION:The current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new\, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk\, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of (trans)gender governance. \nPaisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He is the co-founder of the leading journal in transgender studies\, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Currah’s book\, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity\, published last year by New York University Press\, reveals the hidden logics that have governed sex classification policies in the United States in the past and shows what the regulation of transgender identity can tell us about society’s approach to sex and gender writ large. \n  \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. \nPlease note: this is a hybrid event. To receive a link\, please RSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paisley-currah-this-anti-trans-moment-resisting-the-right-and-the-center/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230413T200000
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Partner Event: Confronting Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is partnering with Confronting Climate Change\, an annual public lecture series that brings together scientists\, artists\, policy experts\, and community members to discuss our planet’s wellbeing and share solutions for our future. \nThis online event will spark conversation and thought on how research in the natural and social sciences can lead to climate change solutions and preserve the overall environmental health and wellbeing of our planet. \nWe invite members of the community and general public to engage and participate in the Zoom-based event on Thursday\, April 13\, at 6 p.m. \n\n\nPanel Discussion\nPresenters will discuss the social and economic transformations that will be required in order to address the health impacts of climate change\, and together we will think about how climate change might inspire us to work towards a more livable future. \nSpeakers\nJulie Livingston\, New York University\nMatthew Huber\, Purdue University\nBharat Venkat\, UC Los Angeles \nModerator\n Andrew Mathews\, UC Santa Cruz  \nLearn more and register.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-partner-event-confronting-climate-change/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Zaina Alsous
DESCRIPTION:Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press\, 2019)\, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, and the chapbook Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in Poetry magazine\, Kenyon Review\, the New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the southern United States. \n \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-zaina-alsous/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T150000
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SUMMARY:THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for a second information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \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\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T133000
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SUMMARY:Paromita Vohra – The Lovers’ Argument: What Bollywood Songs Taught Me About Making Documentaries 
DESCRIPTION:As a documentary filmmaker\, working in India\, and especially as one interested in political conversation and social change\, you inherit a form. The documentary form ostensibly exists outside commercial mainstream Indian cinema\, privileges realism\, and is marked by ethical nobility and commitment\, and a willingness to be a little bit bored for a political cause. Shorn of frivolity\, of excess\, of emotional unpredictability and most importantly of pleasure\, such settled pieties of the documentary form are difficult to accept. Instead\, I offer\, a kind of Hindi film duet\, as the basis for thinking about documentary form: the lover’s argument which invokes shared experience\, seduction\, dangerous knowledge\, revelation and pleasure. What kind of politics might this aesthetic suggest\, when the argument is made in the service of connection\, not conquest?\nThe talk will be illustrated with clips from my work. \nParomita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer who works with a range of forms\, including film\, comics\, digital media\, installation art and writing to explore themes of feminism\, desire\, urban life and popular culture. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern\, the Wellcome Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art\, and screened around the world. Her films as director include the documentaries Unlimited Girls\, Q2P\, Where’s Sandra? and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahanai\, among others and a series of short musical films including The Amourous Adventures of Megha and Shakku in the Valley of Consent. She has written the fiction feature Khamosh Pani\, the documentaries Skin Deep\, Stuntmen of Bollywood\, and If You Pause\, the play Ishquiya:Dharavi Ishtyle and the comic Priya’s Mirror. She has published several essays on film\, popular culture\, love and desire as well as short stories and writes a weekly newspaper column\, Paro-normal Activity in Sunday Mid-day. In 2015 she founded the Agents of Ishq\, an award-winning digital platform for conversations on sex\, love and desire in India and is currently its Creative Director. \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. The Center for South Asian Studies is delighted to welcome its first South Asian artist/activist-in-residence\, Paromita Vohra. Paromita will be in residence at UCSC from April 10-April 24\, 2023. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, April 12\, you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paromita-vohra-the-lovers-argument-what-bollywood-songs-taught-me-about-making-documentaries/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities Faculty Research Forum
DESCRIPTION:Understanding Your Research Support Ecosystem\nPlease join us in person for a brief presentation about the Research Cycle followed by a meet-and-greet with the team that supports your research. Breakfast will be served. \n \nFor those who cannot attend in person\, the presentation portion of the event will be available on Zoom. \nOpening Remarks \nJasmine Alinder\nDean of Humanities \nJohn MacMillan\nInterim Vice Chancellor for Research \nModerated by \nIrena Polić\nAssistant Dean for Research and Engagement\, Humanities \nFeaturing \nDeirdre Beach\nExecutive Director\, Sponsored Research Administration \nHeather Bell\nDirector of Research Development \nSarah Carle\nExecutive Director of Foundation Relations \nCaitlin Charos\nResearch Development Specialist\, Humanities & Humanistic Social Sciences \nMayra Gonzales-Adler\nProposal Analyst\, Office of Sponsored Projects \nAlison Hansen\nAccounting/Research Manager\, Humanities \nNutan Mellegers\nAssociate Director\, Office of Sponsored Projects \nKatie Novak\nFinance Director\, Humanities \nCaroline Rodriguez\nAssociate Director\, Corporate and Foundation Relations
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/facultyresearchforum/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us with Professor Deanna K. Kreisel
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Deanna K. Kreisel (University of Mississippi) who will be discussing “Ecological Utopia: From the Victorians to Us.” \nOver the course of three sessions\, we will have an opportunity to explore Victorian responses to their changing environment\, with a particular focus on William Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere. \nVirtual Sessions | Zoom Registration \n\nApril 8: Research Talk: It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\nMay 6: William Morris’ News from Nowhere\, Chapters 1-20\nJune 10: Discussion: News from Nowhere Chapters 21-32\, excerpts from Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass\n\nThe first session will consist of a presentation about my current research. I am currently working on a book entitled It’s the End of the World and We Know It: Ecological Grief and the Work of Utopia\, which is about ecological mourning and utopian thinking from the Victorian period to the present. The book begins with a discussion of the ‘utopia craze’ of the late 19th century—of which Morris’s novel was a key part—and also discusses the work of John Ruskin and other early environmentalist writers. The latter part of the book explores recent and present-day responses to ecological change\, including literary responses\, and considers our own “ecological mourning” as a legacy of Victorian thinking. It ends with a discussion of recent on-the-ground ecotopian experiments. \nThe second and third sessions will consist of an in-depth discussion of News from Nowhere. In Session Two we will discuss the first half of Morris’s novel and contemporary Victorian responses to it; in the final session we will discuss the second half of the novel alongside some short excerpts from recent writers on climate grief and ecotopia. \nDeanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of ‘Economic Woman: Demand\, Gender\, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy\,’ as well as articles on Victorian literature and culture in PMLA\, Representations\, ELH\, Novel\, Mosaic\, Victorian Studies\, Nineteenth Century Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor\, along with Devin Griffiths\, of a special Victorian Literature and Culture issue on “Open Ecologies” and the volume ‘After Darwin: Literature\, Theory\, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century.’
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ecological-utopia-from-the-victorians-to-us-with-professor-deanna-k-kreisel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T140000
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SUMMARY:Legal Studies Program Annual Distinguished Lecture: Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the “most important Afro-Latina voice on civil rights today\,” Hernández argues that unmasking Latino anti-Black bias is essential for fostering multiracial democracy in the United States. \n \nThis event is open to all. Copies of Racial Innocence will be available for purchase.\nThe UCSC Legal Studies Program and Professor Hernández are making 50 copies of the book available free to UCSC students who attend. \nTanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law\, and an Associate Director of Fordham’s Center on Race\, Law and Justice. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, Feminist Studies Department\, History Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, Philosophy Department\, Politics Department\, Sociology Department\, and The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/legal-studies-program-annual-distinguished-lecture-coming-to-understand-latino-anti-black-bias/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:C. Nadia Seremetakis – A Journey through Border Spaces of the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology  \nThe border is the shared topos of the anthropologist\, the historian\, the archaeologist\, the artist\, the musician and the poet\, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future with the present\, the inside with the outside\, the particular with the general\, ideas with the senses. This lecture explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. Drawing on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork\, writing\, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology\, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native\,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic\, American-trained\, post-Boasian anthropologist. \nC. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of cultural anthropology and the author of seven books including poetry. She is best known for her ethnographies The Senses Still\, The Last Word: Women Death Divination\, and Sensing the Everyday\, written in two languages. Born and raised in Greece\, she studied and taught in New York where she lived for more than two decades and later joined the University of the Peloponnese.  She has conducted fieldwork in various parts of the world and to this day  she divides her life between USA and Europe. \n  \n\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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/c-nadia-seremetakis-a-journey-through-border-spaces-of-the-everyday-2/
LOCATION:zoom\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
DESCRIPTION:In Recording History\, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\, and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa once sounded like\, Silver will introduce the UCSC community to a world of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into our present. \nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press. \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. \nRSVP by 11 AM on the day of the colloquium\, and you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-silver-recording-history-jews-muslims-and-music-across-twentieth-century-north-africa/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Melissa Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Melissa Johnson\, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies and chair of the Race and Ethnicity Studies program at Southwestern University\, a small liberal arts college near Austin\, Texas. Her research and writing are primarily focused on Belize’s rural Afro-Caribbean communities and the inter-relationship between ecologies\, economies\, and racial formations\, both historically and in the present day in these communities. Along with her book\, Becoming Creole: Race and Nature in Belize (Rutgers 2018)\, she has numerous articles in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals\, and several scholarly projects underway\, including work on the racial history of Southwestern University. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \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/phd-workshop-voces-drafting-stages-with-melissa-johnson/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/march_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:2023 Latino Role Models Conference
DESCRIPTION:This exciting FREE annual conference features Latino/a college students and professionals and performances inspiring students to achieve their dreams for college and career. This year\, we are excited to welcome Olga Talamante as the keynote speaker! The conference is conducted in Spanish with English translation at the Crocker Theater\, Cabrillo College. Please complete the registration below to ensure your spot at this year’s conference on March 25th\, 2023 from 9:00-1:00 PM. \nEsta emocionante conferencia anual GRATUITA presenta a estudiantes y profesionales latinos / a universitarios y representaciones que inspiran a los estudiantes a alcanzar sus sueños universitarios y profesionales. Este año\, esperamos dar la bienvenida a Olga Talamante como oradora principal! La conferencia se lleva a cabo en español con traducción al inglés al teatro Crocker\, Cabrillo College. Complete el registro a continuación para asegurar su lugar en la conferencia de este año el 25 de marzo 9:00-1:00 PM. \n  \n \n  \n \nOlga Talamante is Executive Director Emerita of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003 serving in that position until she retired in March of 2018. \nMs. Talamante’s family migrated from Mexico to Gilroy\, California in the early 1960’s where they worked in the farm fields for several years. Those formative years formed the basis for her activism as an organizer and supporter of the nascent United Farm Workers labor union. She is widely respected for her long-standing community activism and leadership. During the mid-seventies\, she became well known for her experience as a political prisoner in Argentina. As a result of a successful grass-roots campaign\, she was released after spending 16 months in an Argentine prison. After returning to the United States\, she remained active in the Chicana/o\, Latin American solidarity\, LGBTQ and progressive political movements. She serves on several boards and currently co-chairs the Caravan for the Children\, which advocates for the release\, reunification and healing of the children separated at the southern border. She holds a B.A. in Latina American History from UC Santa Cruz and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. During the month of October 2022\, she received the following awards: The Visionary Award from Horizons Foundation\, The Rosario Anaya Community Service Award from The San Francisco Latino Heritage Committee\, The History Maker Award from the GLBT Historical Society and the Distinguished Citizen award from the Commonwealth Club. \nErandi García\, originally from Morelia\, Mexico\, has worked in various media outlets in Mexico and the United States\, such as: TV Azteca Michoacán\, Univision 67 and Telemundo 48 in the Bay Area. She has won the Emmy Award for excellence in news\, among other distinctions. Erandi is the founder of a non-profit organization called Juntos Podemos whose mission is to inform and educate the Spanish-speaking population about public health and safety. She currently works for the Hospice Giving Foundation in Monterey\, California. When she’s not working\, Erandi likes to walk on the beach\, hike\, and plan the next adventure with her family.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2023-latino-role-models-conference/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 24\, 2023\, and learn about Summer 2023 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend the Info Session on March 24th\, 2023 or meet with THI Staff by April 14th\, 2023. Final applications are due on April 20\, 2023. \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\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T123000
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SUMMARY:NEH Funders Panel
DESCRIPTION:To watch this Zoom recording of this virtual discussion with Senior Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, please email Caitlin Charos. \n  \nFeaturing: \nJill Austin is a senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at NEH. She arrived at NEH in 2015 after two decades of work in museums and nonprofits that serve museums. Prior to her role at NEH\, Austin was a curator at the Chicago History Museum for ten years. Her last exhibition\, The Secret Lives of Objects\, featured objects boasting mysterious pasts from the permanent collection and opened in 2015. Another major exhibition\, Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads\, opened in 2011 and was the result of a three-year curatorial collaboration with historian Jennifer Brier of the University of Illinois\, Chicago. They also co-edited and contributed to an accompanying anthology of essays of the same title on Chicago LGBT and queer history. With Brier\, she also contributed a chapter to Susan Ferentinos’ anthology Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites. Previously\, Austin served as a curator at Detroit Historical Museums and was an exhibition and publication coordinator at Exhibitions International\, a New York-based traveling exhibitions firm that specialized in design and the decorative arts. She got her start in the museum field as an educator at the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh. A native of southeast Michigan\, she earned a BA in history/classics from Eastern Michigan University\, and received an MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. \nJulia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Julia’s graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South\, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She has published numerous articles on education\, domestic service\, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi\, where she was an assistant professor of history\, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. In the Division of Education Programs\, Julia works with all of the division’s programs and serves at the program lead for Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges\, Hispanic-Serving Institutions\, Historically Black Colleges and Universities\, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neh-funders-panel/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:A Reading with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and local poet Chris Mattingly for a very special evening of poetry and conversation. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRoss Gay’s newest book is Inciting Joy:\nIn these gorgeously written and timely pieces\, prize winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other\, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy\, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection\, and also\, crucially\, how we can expand it. \nIn “We Kin\,” Gay thinks about the garden (es­pecially around August\, when the zucchini and tomatoes come in) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket\,” he explores skateboard­ing’s reclamation of public spaces; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw\,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. \nIn an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace\, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together\, to what we love? \nTaking a clear-eyed look at injustice\, political polarization\, and the destruction of the natural world\, Gay shows us how we might resist\, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild\, unpredictable\, transgressive\, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact\, it just might help us survive. \n  \n \n  \nRoss Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights: Essays and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard\, a non-profit\, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/in-store-event-a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Taija McDougall  – Plantations Derivations
DESCRIPTION:Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taija-mcdougall-plantations-derivations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Let’s talk about ChatGPT Panel
DESCRIPTION:ChatGPT rolled out as a disruptive and instantly polarizing new technology. Should we see it as an impediment or an asset to student learning? Should we just look to other new technologies to detect student use of ChatGPT\, or could there be pedagogical applications of ChatGPT that could further learning? On campus\, faculty are shaping the future of ChatGPT through their choices in the classroom. We hope you will join us on Tuesday\, March 21\, from 12:00-1:30 to learn about how ChatGPT works and to hear from UC Santa Cruz faculty on how they are thinking about and even incorporating ChatGPT in their course planning. Panelists include Leilani H. Gilpin\, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Zac Zimmer\, Associate Professor of Literature; and Jennifer Parker\, Professor of Art. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Humanizing Technology\, Humanities Division. \nTo attend\, join us in the Teaching and Learning Lab (McHenry Library 2359)\, or register by Zoom. \nCITL event page with more info: https://citl.ucsc.edu/resources/chatgpt/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lets-talk-about-chatgpt/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T113000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Community as Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections\, García Peña  invites us—in particular Black\, Indigenous\, Latinx\, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott\, abolition\, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures. She argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university\, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls “teaching in freedom”: a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge\, silenced histories\, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous\, Black\, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom\, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception\, but also create alternative ways to be\, create\, live\, and succeed through our work. \nCommunity as Rebellion can be accessed here. Please ensure you are logged into your McHenry Library Account. \nDr. Lorgia García-Peña is a writer\, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. Through her writing and teaching\, Dr. García Peña insists on highlighting the knowledge\, cultural\, social and political contributions of people who have been silenced from traditional archives. She is the author of three books \, the award-winning The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race\, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke\, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke\, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket\, 2022). Additionally\, her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, The Boston Review and Harper’s Bazaar. She has appeared on CNN\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Univision and Telemundo and is a regular contributor to NACLA and Asterix Journals. \nAn engaged scholar committed to liberating education and bridging the gaps that separate the communities she comes from (Black\, immigrant\, working) and the university\, Dr. García Peña is also a co-founder of Freedom University Georgia\, a school that provides college instruction to undocumented students and the co-director of Archives of Justice a transnational digital archive project that centers the life of people who identify as Black\, queer and migrant. She has been widely recognized for her public facing work: in 2022 she received the Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship\, in 2021 the Margaret Casey Foundation named her a Freedom Scholar\, and in 2017 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented her a Disobedience Award for the co-founding of Freedom University. Additionally\, her scholarship has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, The Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Future of Minority Studies Fellowship. García-Peña received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Latin American and Latino Literatures from Rutgers University. Currently\, she serves as the Mellon Professor and Chair of the Department in Studies of Race\, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. \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/phd-workshop-community-as-rebellion/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek (UC San Diego) \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-marc-garellek/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T200000
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SUMMARY:Persian New Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Persian New Year Celebration\, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring\, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan “Woman\, Life\, Freedom\, Zan\, Zendegee\, Azadee.” This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music and refreshments. Come with family and friends\, everyone is welcome. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz\, SILCA\, UCSC ISU\, and the UCSC Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/persian-new-year-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T190000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vásquez – Restoring Continuity: Notes on History and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:00 p.m. \nIn 1935\, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism\, Paul Valéry tried to identify in a lecture the origins of the crisis. Things were better\, he said\, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events\, when “continuity reigned in the minds”. In this lecture\, Juan Gabriel Vásquez will discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is in fact indispensable\, for individuals and societies alike\, and he will suggest that fiction –the literary imagination of the historical past– might be uniquely adept at restoring it when it is broken. \nClick here to register to attend this event in person \nClick here to register to attend this event virtually \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels\, including The Shape of the Ruins\, which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations\, a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling\, a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years living in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now resides between Bogotá and New York City. \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/juan-gabriel-vasquez-restoring-continuity-notes-on-history-and-fiction/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources\, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. There will also be time for you to pose any questions that you might have. \nStudents are invited to meet with Dr. Hamed over lunch on March 16th. Please email Muriam Davis (muhdavis@ucsc.edu) to RSVP. \nMohamed Hamed joined the University of California\, Berkeley Library in 2017 as the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian. Mohamed joins the Library from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where\, for the last seven years\, he has been the Middle Eastern & African Studies Librarian. He has earned a BA\, MA\, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University. Previous professional affiliations include The American University in Cairo\, Santa Monica College Library\, and Arabic Language instruction at UNC Chapel Hill. Professionally Mohamed has participated in several key organizations including the Middle East Librarians Association\, the Africana Librarians Council\, and the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information. \nThis event is presented by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mohamed-hamed-arabic-language-resources-in-the-uc-system-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T203000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, The Candy House
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Jennifer Egan\, one of the most celebrated writers of our time\, who will discuss The Candy House (in paperback March 7th)\, her “inventive\, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. \nThis event will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus\, and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton\, whose company\, Mandala\, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty\, with four kids\, restless\, and desperate for a new idea\, when he stumbles into a conversation group\, mostly Columbia professors\, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade\, Bix’s new technology\, “Own Your Unconscious”–which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had\, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others–has seduced multitudes. \nIn the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination\, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders\,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles–from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices\, an epistolary chapter\, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling\, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection\, family\, privacy\, and love. \n  \n \n  \nJennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach\, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Magazine. Her website JenniferEgan.com. \n  \nVisit https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jennifer-egan for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-the-candy-house/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T180000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic - Do L2 and L3 learners benefit from training their awareness of cross- linguistic similarity?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium \nWords whose form is similar across languages: cognates (formally and semantically similar) and false cognates (formally similar) are claimed to be learned differently than non-cognates. Raising learners’ “cognate awareness” means consciously focusing their attention on cross-linguistic similarity between L1 and L2 words. However\, it is unclear if L2 learners really need to be made aware of cognateness. Another question is whether focusing on L1-L2 similarity is enough\, considering that many students are learning a foreign language not as their L2\, but as their L3. In this talk I will discuss whether raising “cognate awareness” indeed modulates the effectiveness of learning words in a foreign language. First\, I will briefly present two classroom quasi-experiments concerning the acquisition of L2-English cognates and non-cognates by language learners with L1-Polish. Then\, I will move on to a naturalistic classroom experiment on learning words in Italian as L3 by L1-Polish learners with L2-English. The talk will present robust and ecologically-valid evidence on acquiring cognates in a foreign language. \n  \nDr. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic\, The University of Warsaw \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-agnieszka-otwinowska-kasztelanic-do-l2-and-l3-learners-benefit-from-training-their-awareness-of-cross-linguistic-similarity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McKenzie\, The Dog of the North
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-PERSON EVENT: Acclaimed local writer Elizabeth McKenzie will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about McKenzie’s highly-anticipated new novel\, The Dog of the North. This event is cosponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Even funnier\, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last\, The Portable Veblen\, this is a screwball comedy worthy of a Preston Sturgis screenplay. You will be surprised\, delighted\, and grateful to be aboard The Dog of the North with the admirable Penny Rush as she faces every challenge her wild and crazy family can throw at her. A book that lifts the spirits.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of Booth \nPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. \nElizabeth McKenzie\, beloved novelist of California and its idiosyncrasies\, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North\, an old van with gingham curtains\, a piñata\, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother\, and what is “the scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? \nThis slyly humorous\, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs\, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most\, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. \n  \n \n  \nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize; a collection\, Stop That Girl\, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World\, a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel\, The Jane Austen Book Club\, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64326/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jessica Marglin - The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1873\, Nissim Shamama\, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia\, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno\, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama’s riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs\, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean\, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional\, cultural\, and political borders. \nJessica Marglin is Associate Professor of Religion\, Law\, and History\, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean\, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press\, 2016) and the co-editor\, with Matthias Lehmann\, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press\, 2020). Her book The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nThis event will be held on November 14th from 12:00pm-1:30pm and is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/61836/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T213000
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SUMMARY:Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion at the Rio Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Every other year since 1996\, Zakir Hussain has served as curator\, conductor and producer to bring the very cream of Indian music and world percussion to tour America and Europe with his series\, Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. Growing out of his renowned international tabla duet tours with his father\, the legendary Ustad Allarakha\, Masters of Percussion began as a platform for both popular and rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. While performing and collaborating in India for a few months every year\, Hussain has sought and unearthed lesser-known folk and classical traditions which feed into the greater stream of Indian music\, playing an educational role in affording them greater visibility\, as well as introducing them to audiences in the West. 2023’s tour will also feature Sabir Khan\, Tupac Mantilla\, Melissa Hié\, and Navin Sharma. \nOver time\, the constantly changing ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions\, including jazz. The 2023 version will be no exception\, presenting American audiences with extraordinary\, exciting and spontaneous combinations of percussive\, as well as melodic\, performances. Past years have included master drummers from Central Asia\, India\, and the U.S. \n \nDoors open at 6:30\, performance begins at 7:30 \nPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies and The Humanities Institute at UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/64071/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Border/lands Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy and Jack Baskin Presidential Chair of Feminist Studies\, in collaboration with the Indigenous Border/lands Collective\, present “Indigenous Border/lands\,” an exploration of the border/lands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples\, scholars and activists across the Americas. \n4:00pm\nAa‘a Mat Tipaay Ak’wee\, Bringing Her/Voice Back to the Land: Incomplete Repatriations in The Autobiography of Delfina Cuero  – Theresa Gregor\, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies\, California State University Long Beach. Dr. Gregor is Kumeyaay from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and also Yoéme. Her research focuses on California American Indian women\, sovereignty\, literary and cultural repatriation\, and tribal cultural resiliency and revitalization. \n6:00 pm\nAbolish Border Imperialism: Migration\, Racial Capitalism and Empire – Harsha Walia\, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2022). Harsha Walia is a migrant justice activist whose work addresses how current migrant and refugee crises are the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change\, generating mass dispossession worldwide. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nFor anyone who would like to attend the event virtually\, please register here. \nOn Friday\, March 10\, interdisciplinary scholars from across the country will gather for a day-long\, closed-session symposium to consider the concept of borders and the borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Presentations across several symposium themes will result in publication of an Indigenous Borderlands journal in 2024. Please visit the Feminist Studies Department website for more info on the Friday symposium schedule. If interested in attending any or all of the panels\, please contact Lisa Supple (lsupple@ucsc.edu). Seating is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/indigenous-borderlands-symposium/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T210000
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SUMMARY:The MARCH Continues\, An Evening with Andrew Aydin
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Arts Division\, John R. Lewis College\, and The Humanities Institute present: The MARCH Continues\, An Evening with Andrew Aydin. Co-Author with John R. Lewis\, of the award wining graphic novel series MARCH. \nAttendees will receive a free copy of the first book in the MARCH series\, and can have it signed by Andrew Aydin after the show! Capacity is limited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-march-continues-an-evening-with-andrew-aydin/
LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T173000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Wangui Muigai Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Wangui Muigai will be leading a reading group exploring three distinct frameworks (theoretical\, methodological\, and analytic) for understanding the causes of racial health disparities. Two articles take us back to the 1990s wave of research on “minority health” and ethnic health disparities\, revealing how a generation of researchers in the biological\, social\, and epidemiological sciences sought to elucidate the relationship between racism and health. A more recent article places that era of research\, with its attention to the impact of stress on the internal environment of the body\, within a longer genealogy of research on race\, racism\, and health. Among other threads for discussion\, Dr. Muigai hopes we can consider the legacies of these concepts on contemporary scientific\, medical\, and popular discussions of Black health\, including the Black maternal and infant health crisis. \nDr. Wangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-wangui-muigai-reading-group-mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T133000
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SUMMARY:Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
DESCRIPTION:On the Internet\, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag on the supposed ephemeral nature of online existence in the digital cloud: 1) Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press’ PGP Source Code and Internals (1995)\, a printed edition of the source code that forms the basis of all email cryptography; 2) William Gibson’s self-destructing cyberpoem Agrippa (1992)\, a literary work that uses pseudo-cryptography to subvert print culture and which\, by producing an art object consumed (annihilated\, even) within its reading\, recovers a lyrical past against the drag of the future; and 3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s single-copy album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015)\, which by subverting the democratic nature of art\, works against the drag of a speculative art market. The moral of each of these bookworks resides within the materiality of the object. What makes these three examples illustrative is that they all deal—in one way or another—with cryptography. In other words: the book’s secret\, which is\, in the end\, nothing other than the book’s inescapable materiality\, even in the digital era. \nZac Zimmer is Associate Professor of Literature at UCSC. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of literature\, culture and technology in the hemispheric Americas. In addition to his current research on the infrastructure of technosystems\, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group\, part of UCSC’s Astrobiology Initiative. His book First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas is forthcoming. \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/zac-zimmer-an-internet-built-of-books/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Personal and Professional Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Navigating UC health insurance and counseling services can be complicated for graduate students. Join the Graduate Student Commons for lunch and a panel with experts from our Student Health and Outreach Promotion office\, UC SHIP insurance office\, and Counseling and Psychological Services. You will leave with a clearer understanding of how to support your wellness in issues like referrals\, bills\, counseling\, and more! \nFood provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives. \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \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/phd-workshop-graduate-student-wellness/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America\, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials\, this talk follows Black families as they have journeyed from birthing rooms to burial grounds\, fighting for the ability to birth and nurture healthy babies. In charting the historical landscapes of Black infant death across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, Dr. Muigai will examine the role of cultural practices\, medical theories\, and communal initiatives to explain and address the causes of Black infant death. The talk considers the legacy of these ideas and efforts in ongoing struggles to preserve Black life. \nWangui Muigai is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University in the departments of History\, African & African American Studies and the Health: Science\, Society\, and Policy Program. Dr. Muigai was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and selected as a Class of 2025 Fellow in the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. Her first book\, on the history of infant death in the Black experience\, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. \nParking at the University Center: Please follow the directional signs for “Fighting for Life” from the base of campus to College Nine/John R. Lewis lot 165. Parking attendants will be on site for attendees to buy parking permits. From lot 165\, there will be walking directional signs to the University Center\, which is above the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall. \nThe event is part of the year long Mellon Sawyer Seminar series Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fighting-for-life-race-and-the-limits-of-infant-survival/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T150000
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SUMMARY:Elena Vasiliou  – Queer Pleasure\, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Queer pleasure\, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.  \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elena-vasiliou-queer-pleasure-resistance-and-pain-in-ex-prisoners-narratives/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T183000
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SUMMARY:Baptiste Morizot\, Ways of Being Alive
DESCRIPTION:Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway\, Professor Emerita\, History of Consciousness. \n \n  \nBaptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures\, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the author of Ways of Being Alive (Transl. Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2022)\, On the Animal Trail (Transl. by Andrew Brown\, Polity Books\, 2021)\, and most recently Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map (Transl. by Catherine Porter\, SUNY Press\, 2022)\, as well as Rekindling Life: A Common Front (Transl. Catherine Porter\, Polity Books\, 2022). \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications in feminist theory and feminist science studies include Primate Visions: Gender\, Race\, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians\, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@.FemaleMan©- Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997)\, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs\, People\, and Significant Otherness (2003); and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016). \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department\, with the support of Villa Albertine San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baptiste-morizot-ways-of-being-alive/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
DESCRIPTION:Rajesh Bhatt\, U Mass \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-rajesh-bhatt/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
DESCRIPTION:There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves\, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education. \nBut how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications have transformed the traditional pathways of publication\, prestige\, and engagement. Academics – experts in so many things – need to be part of the conversation. In fact\, the variety of media voices has only made expertise and authority more important. \nIn this workshop\, journalist and historian David M. Perry will lead you through the process of getting your voice into the public sphere. He will cover pragmatic topics: the art of the pitch\, finding the right venue\, managing social media profiles\, getting paid\, making it count for tenure and promotion\, and protecting yourself from trolls and harassment. He will also talk about strategies to simultaneously maintain academic authority and be accessible to the broader public. \nThrough it all\, you’ll be working on your pitches\, reading essays that embody important traits\, and developing your own ideas. \nOver the last five years\, David – once a mild-mannered medievalist – has become a columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine\, with hundreds of published pieces at venues all over the world\, including the New York Times\, the Guardian\, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Along the way\, he’s learned a lot about how to take academic expertise and share it with a much broader audience. \nGoing public isn’t easy\, but neither is getting into graduate school\, getting a PhD\, or finding an academic job\, so you’ve already traveled some pretty difficult paths. This workshop will start you on your way towards the next challenge. \nPlease come to the workshop with an idea for an essay that you might like to write. Essays could be about your scholarly expertise\, personal experience\, or anything else that interests you. We will mostly focus on traditional “op-ed” essays as a structure\, but will also discuss blogging (iterative essay writing on a site under your control)\, reported pieces\, and narrative/creative non-fiction (memoir\, experimental prose\, features\, etc.). Complimentary lunch provided to attendees. \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \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/phd-workshop-david-perry-going-public-a-workshop-on-public-writing-for-academics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T190000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
DESCRIPTION:Drafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nThe invited speaker for this session is Carlos Ulises Decena\, an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences and whose intellectual projects engage and blur the boundaries among critical ethnic\, queer\, and feminist studies and social justice. His first book\, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men\, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His second book\, Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean will be published in Spring 2023 by Duke University Press. \n \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse\, Professor in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC. This event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n  \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/phd-workshop-drafting-stages-with-carlos-decena/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Sara Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia\, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel\, Tides\, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US)\, Hamish Hamilton (Canada)\, and Granta (UK).\n \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sara-freeman/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T173000
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SUMMARY:Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides\, organizers\, community members\, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent industry\, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism by extending deliberately truncated invitations to visit Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. The book shows how Palestinian organizers\, under the constraints of military occupation\, and in a context in which they do not control their borders or the historical narrative\, wrest both the capacity to invite and\, in Edward Said’s words\, “the permission to narrate” from Israeli control. \nProf. Jenny Kelly in conversation with Prof. Nick Mitchell and Prof. Sophia Azeb \nJennifer Kelly is an Associate Professor in FMST and CRES. She graduated from UCSC with a double major in FMST and LIT\, and received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin. \n  \n  \n  \nPresented by Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies \nJoin in person in Humanities 210\, or on zoom here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/invited-to-witness-a-book-talk-with-prof-jenny-kelly/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T210000
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Resettlement: Chicago Story
DESCRIPTION:What is it like to be forced to leave your home\, deny your heritage\, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, a new short fictional film and educational website\, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War II. \nThe event is part of the annual Night at the Museum hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. It is also co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League and will serve as this year’s Day of Remembrance. The evening will commence with a special performance by the Watsonville Taiko Group\, followed by a screening of the film\, a preview of the larger web experience\, and a Q&A discussion with some of the project’s core creators. Marcia Hashimoto will attend and speak to the enduring legacy of her late and much beloved husband Mas Hashimoto. The event’s panel will feature key members of the project\, including the film’s director and executive producer\, website creators\, and UC Santa Cruz’s Dean of Humanities\, Jasmine Alinder\, who led the research team. \n \nRegistration required. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 22\, 2023. This event is co-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nPanel participants: \nJasmine Alinder is the Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz and a historian of photography\, race\, and civil rights. Beyond her published work and university service\, Dr. Alinder has supported and worked on numerous public history projects\, including Full Spectrum Feature’s The Orange Story\, which is the prequel for Resettlement: Chicago Story. In the creation of Resettlement: Chicago Story\, Dr. Alinder acted as the project’s lead academic advisor. \nClara Bergamini is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz who specializes in the social\, political\, and environmental history of disaster in modern Japan and East Asia. She worked as one of Resettlement: Chicago Story’s historians and researchers. \n  \n  \n \nPatrick Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently working as a highschool teacher in Kentucky where he teaches U.S. history and social studies. He worked both as a historian and researcher for the Resettlement: Chicago Story project and as an advisor for integrating the project into K-12 curriculum. \n  \nReina Higashitani is a first generation immigrant filmmaker based in NY/LA. She is the film writer and director for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as an Assistant Professor at the New American Film School at Arizona State University. \n  \n  \nJason Matsumoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American producer and musician from Chicago. He is the executive producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story and works as the executive producer of film and the Co-Executive Director at Full Spectrum Features. \n  \nAshley Cheyemi McNeil is a public humanities scholar who is currently acting as the Director of Education and Research at Full Spectrum Features\, a role that she came into after joining the team as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow. Dr. McNeil is the project manager for Resettlement: Chicago Story. \n  \nKatherine Nagasawa is a multimedia journalist who specializes in participatory\, place-based storytelling. Before becoming the web producer for Resettlement: Chicago Story\, she produced a number of interactive web experiences about Chicago Japanese American history\, including Uprooted and Reckoning. \n  \nRJ Ramey is the web designer behind Resettlement: Chicago Story and is the founder & Creative Director of Auut Studio (findauut.com). Based in San Francisco\, he started the company in 2015 to design more compelling materials for high school history teachers and museum audiences. He is known for breaking some of the rules and stale expectations for digital humanities and now teams up with other scholars to do the same. As a public historian\, RJ takes an intersectional approach and centers on stories of people of color. \nCeline Parreñas Shimizu is the Dean of the Division of Arts at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a film scholar and filmmaker whose most recent work includes her book The Proximity of Other Skins (2020) and the film 80 Years Later: On Japanese American Racial Inheritance (2022). She previously worked at San Francisco State University as a professor and Director of the School of Cinema and at UC Santa Barbara as chair of the Senior Women’s Council and as a professor teaching in Asian American\, Feminist\, and Film and Media Studies. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Japanese American Citizens League\, Full Spectrum Features\, and the Museum of Art and History.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/resettlement-chicago-story-film-screening-and-panel/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T133000
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SUMMARY:Tarek El-Ariss - The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
DESCRIPTION:The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image – As I was moving to a new office in October 2020\, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the image\, blurring the top part of the page but leaving the paragraph intact. One can surmise that the copy was taken in haste\, in a doctor’s office in the late ‘90s\, somewhere in Upstate NY. It was a photocopy of a page in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) describing a condition wherein patients experience parasites or insects infesting their surroundings and crawling on their skin. Patients collect what they believe to be evidence of their infestation and bring it to the doctor in search of a cure. Where did this note come from? How did it find its way to that book in particular? And was its revelation during an office move at the height of Covid an accident\, a coincidence\, or a message from another time and place and experience? In this talk\, I investigate the provenance of this note\, embarking on a journey that leads me to the birthplace of the image and photocopying technology with companies such as Xerox and Kodak in Upstate NY. It also leads me to confront the ghosts and monsters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) that crawl into suitcases and possess tightly packed books and items of clothing as they cross oceans and go up rivers and canals. In the process\, I reflect on hauntology and theory more generally\, questioning its potential as a system of meaning that can access the past and reveal the hidden. \nTarek El-Ariss is an author\, a scholar\, and the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990) and trained in philosophy\, literary theory\, and visual and cultural studies\, his work deals with questions of displacement\, modernity\, and the somatic in literature and culture. He has written about disoriented travelers\, outcasts\, queers\, hackers\, and characters with complicated relations to home\, tribe\, nation\, and power. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham\, 2013) and Leaks\, Hacks\, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton\, 2019)\, and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA\, 2018). In 2021\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a forthcoming book entitled\, “Homo Belum: An Autobiography of War.” \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. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Arabic Colloquium at The Humanities Institute\, funded by the UC Humanities Network\, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tarek-el-ariss-the-fallen-note-a-journey-to-the-birthplace-of-the-image/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
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SUMMARY:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:John R. Rickford\, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race\, Life and Language. \nThis event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM\, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the event. \nJohn R. Rickford  is a member of the National Academy of Science\, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and Fellow\, the British Academy. \n  \n  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Linguistics\, and the Stevenson Programs Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-r-rickford-stevenson-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
LOCATION:Stevenson College Library\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
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SUMMARY:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series\nFebruary 26\, March 26\, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event \nThe next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work\, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel\, since its author died without providing a solution\, Drood has challenged and intrigued the imaginations of generations of readers. \nJoin Dickens enthusiast\, writer\, and Friends of the Dickens Project board member\, Carl Wilson for a series of discussions about this book. Wilson notes: \n“I first read Drood in 1980 when Leon Garfield published his completion of the novel. I was fascinated then\, and still am\, by his theory that Dickens would have presented Jasper as a divided self\, anticipating Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde by almost twenty years. Although no one will truly know\, that theory has stayed with me since\, and I would suggest that first-time readers pay close attention to Dickens’s various descriptions of Jasper throughout the five completed and sixth partially completed monthly numbers.” \nReading Schedule\nFebruary 26: Chapters 1-9\nMarch 26: Chapters 10-16\nApril 30: Chapters 17-End \nQuestions to consider for the first session: The opening chapter reads like almost nothing else that Dickens wrote. What is the purpose of such tortuous writing? What is the result of Dickens choosing to write much of the opening pages in present tense? Wilkie Collins thought that Drood was “the melancholy work of a worn-out brain.” Do you agree? \nMore Information: https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/pickwick-club/2023-02-edwin-drood.html\nRegistration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOmurTgjGdIQ0pyOjIhtspXltHg3huWg \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feb_26_edwin_drood/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
DESCRIPTION:Junko Ito & Armin Mester\, UC Santa Cruz \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-junko-ito-armin-mester/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230226
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230127T210626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T215630Z
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SUMMARY:Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia\, the Middle East\, and North Africa Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Participants: Dolly Kikon\, Nour Joudan\, Aomar Boum\, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa\, R. Benedito Ferrao\, Maisnam Arnapal\, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh \nThe Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25\, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies in collaboration with the Center for Middle East and North Africa. Registration required.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-and-the-indigenous-south-asia-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230104T184203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T184203Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION:Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize\, the LA Times First Fiction Award\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her novel\, The Archer\, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and won the California Book Award for fiction. The winner of two O. Henry Awards\, her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeny’s\, AFAR Magazine\, and the New York Times. \nShe is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, A Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University\, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, the San Francisco Arts Council\, and Vassar College. She is a Kundiman Fiction Fellow\, and lives in San Francisco. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-shruti-swamy/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230217T054033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T183504Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Accessing Campus Resources
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS\, Slug Support\, Basic Needs\, the Restorative Justice Program\, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend! \nFood provided for in-person attendees. Register in advance to declare food preferences and dietary restrictions or to submit questions for resource representatives. \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \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/phd-workshop-accessing-campus-resources/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230108T012635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230221T213018Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Event co-sponsored with Kresge College\, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \nNew online writing platforms\, like Wattpad\, are massively popular (100 million registered users upload ~300\,000 stories per day)\, and with their focus on user generated content and open access\, promise to democratize contemporary cultural production. This talk explores how such platforms represent and accommodate Blackness\, specifically examining the rise of a new genre category of writing: the #BLM story\, over the past five years. Using a mixture of critical and computational methods\, and drawing from critical race theory and platform studies\, I ask: what textual features define this story\, how do such features evolve over time\, and how does this story differ from previous iterations of racial protest literature? Also: are such stories able to thrive on such platforms – what is their relationship to platform capitalism? \nRichard Jean So is associate professor of English and digital humanities at McGill University. He focuses on computational and data-driven approaches to contemporary literature and culture\, with a particular interest in race and inequality. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction\, and he is at work on a new project called Fast Culture\, Slow Justice: Race and Writing in the Platform Age. He has published in both academic journals like Critical Inquiry and PMLA and popular periodicals\, such as The New York Times and The Atlantic. \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/richard-jean-so-how-blm-became-a-story-black-fiction-in-the-age-of-platform-capitalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230204T044242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T174857Z
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SUMMARY:Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
DESCRIPTION:Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christina-heatherton-making-internationalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230209T180312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T191158Z
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SUMMARY:What is Life? Conference
DESCRIPTION:The conference addresses problems and inconsistencies in modern definitions of life by appealing to explicit and implicit definitions of life offered in ancient texts. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent as astrobiologists come closer to being able to detect biosignatures or signs of life on extrasolar planets\, since the forms of life that exist on these planets may not fit within definitions of life generated by biologists for studying life on Earth. We think that ancient answers to this definitional problem may suggest fruitful directions in which contemporary\, operating definitions of life could be expanded. Participants include experts on a wide array of ancient cultures whose work addresses concepts of life from a range of theoretical perspectives; we pay particular attention to speakers whose work addresses gendered and racialized views of life in antiquity. We also engage modernist scholars whose work has critiqued contemporary definitions of life. Finally—and most essentially—the conference is coordinated with UCSC’s astrobiology initiative and includes several speakers from scientific fields who can address the role of definitions in the search for extraterrestrial life. \nKeynote: Carol Cleland\, Philosophy (University of Colorado Boulder) \nAlso featuring: \n\nRuth Murray-Clay\, Planetary Science (UC Santa Cruz)\nFrancesca Spiegel\, Greek literature/medicine\nMartin Devecka\, Cultural history/Central Asia (UC Santa Cruz)\nMichael Wong\, Astrobiology (Carnegie Institution for Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory)\nAmit Shilo\, Greek literature and political theory (UC Santa Barbara)\nZac Zimmer\, Latin American Literature and speculative fiction (UC Santa Cruz)\nMario Telo\, Greek literature (UC Berkeley)\nTejas Aralere\, Ancient science/Sanskrit (UC Santa Barbara)\nAlex Purves\, Greek literature (UCLA)\nDavid Shorter\, World Arts/Dance/Anthropology (UCLA)\nLaurence Totelin\, Ancient science/technology/medicine ( Cardiff University)\nAnna Freidin Roman cultural history (University of Michigan)\nGina Konstantopoulos\, Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies (UCLA)\nJames Porter Ancient literature and philosophy (UC Berkeley)\nGiulia Maria Chesi Greek literature/history of technology\nMark Csikszentmihalyi\, East Asian Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley)\nKaren ni Mheallaigh\, Ancient science/fiction (John Hopkins Univeristy)\nColin Webster\, Greek medicine (UC Davis)\nNatalie Batalha\, Astrobiology (UC Santa Cruz)\nMaria Gerolemou\, Greek Literature/History of technology  (University of Exeter)\nStuart Bartlett\, OOL and exoplanets (Cal Tech)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-is-life-conference/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230219
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230130T210636Z
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SUMMARY:Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions
DESCRIPTION:“The Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions” will take place Friday\, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday\, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in Humanities 2\, Room 259 and virtual (Zoom: 99170004783 PW: gramsci). Please click here to view the full schedule. \nFriday\, February 17th from 3:00-5:00pm (PST)\nKeynote presentation: Gramsci as a Typical Interwar Communist: The Vernacular and the War Over Language\nTimothy Brennan\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\nCultural Studies & Comparative Literature \nSaturday\, February 18th from 9:00am-3:00 pm (PST)\nGramsci: Southern Questions Workshop \nPanels and Roundtable including:\nMichael Denning\nColleen Lye\nKeya Ganguly\nAditya Bahl\nChris Connery\nMassimiliano Tomba\nJuned Shaikh\nG. S. Sahota
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-workshop-gramsci-southern-questions/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230214T041919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T184240Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Identity\, Belonging\, and Community
DESCRIPTION:Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity\, belonging\, and community. All grads welcome! \nFrom left to right – Lorato Anderson\, Marilia Kaisar\, Radhika Prasad\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. Lorato has worked on campus for six years and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences; her previous roles include Graduate Program Advisor and Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics\, as well as Undergraduate Advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice\, as well as empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies\, in her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \nMarilia Kaisar (Lead Mentor – Arts) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Architecture Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her experimental practice uses affect theory and a feminist perspective to explore intersections of media\, technology\, and desire\, using the body as the nexus point. Currently working on her dissertation titled “F*cking with the Virtual”. \nRadhika Prasad (Lead Mentor – Humanities) “I’m a sixth year PhD candidate in the Literature department with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. My academic interests include South Asian literature and history\, translation studies\, language politics\, and feminisms in the Global South. As a sixth year international student and a woman of color\, I have found the university to be a space of immense possibility\, but also great inequity. Peer mentorship programs are an important step towards bridging the knowledge gap\, and making universities\, classrooms\, graduate programs\, and research into more equitable spaces\, and I am excited to contribute to this one.” \nThis workshop is presented by the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2022-2023 PhD+ series. The Graduate Student Commons workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on Zoom. \n \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/phd-workshop-identity-belonging-and-community/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230108T010212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T212503Z
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SUMMARY:Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players\,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal of reason under the pretext of law\, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its lure. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies. \nKeya Ganguly is Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity (2001) and Cinema\, Emergence\, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010). She served as Senior Editor of Cultural Critique from 1998-2010\, and her essays have appeared in Cultural Studies\, New Formations\, Race and Class\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and History of the Present. Recent and forthcoming essays have explored Mahasweta Devi’s radical politics\, the aesthetics of exile\, and world cinema in dialectical perspective. She is currently writing a book on the revolutionary utopianism of the early Indian nationalist\, Aurobindo Ghose\, entitled Political Metaphysics. \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/keya-ganguly-reason-and-the-image-on-satyajit-rays-shatranj-ke-khilari-the-chess-players/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20221209T223102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T182829Z
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SUMMARY:Amelia Glaser - Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine\, 1929
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1929\, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events\, which began with protests in Jerusalem\, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the east European anti-Jewish pogrom. In this talk\, Amelia Glaser will discuss how these events echoed in the transnational community of Yiddish poets\, and will analyze poetry written in support of each side. The Yiddish poetry devoted to the clashes in Palestine a century ago help to illuminate how complex ideologies have long defined identity and community. \nAmelia Glaser is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego\, where she holds the Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P.\, 2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP\, 2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P.\, 2015) and\, with Steven Lee\, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press\, 2020). She is also a translator from\, primarily\, Yiddish\, Ukrainian\, and Russian. She is currently writing about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amelia-glaser-angry-winds-jewish-leftists-and-the-challenge-of-palestine-192/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20230210T181338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T181338Z
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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. \nThis event will be held in Graduate Student Commons Room 204 and on 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/phd-workshop-psychology-of-writing-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20221214T205121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T231809Z
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SUMMARY:ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
DESCRIPTION:Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship\, including fellowships\, grants\, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She will also discuss recent and emerging scholarly directions\, including digital publications\, collaborative research\, translation\, and publicly engaged work. \n \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThis event is sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the UCSC Arts Research Institute\, the UCSC Office of Foundation Relations\, and the UCSC Office of Research Development
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/acls-workshop-with-joy-connolly/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125632
CREATED:20221130T191004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T181128Z
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SUMMARY:Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly - A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
DESCRIPTION:“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture\, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve\, how do we define the public and its good\, and how does and how might our study contribute to this project? Thinking critically about the tradition of research on the ancient Mediterranean\, Joy’s own field\, she makes the case for a planetary frame for humanistic study whose fields of activity are the global and the local. This frame resolves an intractable tension in academia today\, where institutions proudly recruit students and faculty from all over the world but retain disciplinary divisions that reflect the national borders and imperial power map of two centuries ago. \n \nIn-person attendance\nThe lecture will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception in the Rotunda. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m \n \nVirtual attendance \nJoy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1\, 2019. Previously\, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University\, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16\, Stanford University\, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world\, as provost at the Graduate Center Joy secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles\, reviews\, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Division and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joy-connolly-a-connected-planet-scholarship-for-the-global-good/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20221209T221616Z
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SUMMARY:Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in “Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing\, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore.” The three sessions will offer the Friends a chance to examine Victorian responses to the environment\, with a particular emphasis on Australia. The first session will involve a presentation on Professor Moore’s current research\, which is on representations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. The project is informed by both the environmental humanities and emotions theory and she will talk a little about these approaches. As part of this session\, she will introduce some of the work she has done on Anthony Trollope’s travels (especially his representations of fire and environmental issues). We will also spend some time thinking about how Trollope positioned himself as a successor to Dickens\, as both a novelist and travel writer. \n \n1/8/23\, 2pm PST – Research Talk:\nRepresentations of bushfires and wildfires in nineteenth-century settler literature\n2/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters I-VI Harry Heathcote of Gangoil\n3/12/23\, 2pm PST – Discussion: Chapters VII-XII Harry Heathcote of Gangoil \nThe second and third sessions will be discussions of Trollope’s wonderfully melodramatic Christmas story Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874). The novella is set in Australia and draws on Trollope’s own experiences down under. It’s a remarkable work for the depth of emotions that it conveys\, but also for how it captures the uncanny and threatening qualities that settlers saw in the Australian bush. Professor Moore has chosen Harry Heathcote because it presents an aspect of Trollope’s writing that is often forgotten\, but also because it raises a number of fascinating issues including migration\, race and climate change\, which will\, she hopes\, lead to some lively discussions. \nGrace Moore is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago\, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Dickens and Empire and The Victorian Novel in Context\, and her edited works include (with Michelle Smith)\, Victorian Environments. Grace’s most recent publication is a special issue of the journal Occasion\, entitled Fire Stories. She first attended the Dickens Universe as a graduate student in 1998. \nThis event series is presented by the Dickens Project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-trollope-down-under-travel-writing-bushfires-and-australian-ecology-with-professor-grace-moore-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
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SUMMARY:Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh\, Third World Solidarity\, and the Global Politics of Feminism
DESCRIPTION:“Bangladesh\, Third World Solidarity\, and the Global Politics of Feminism” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Elora Shehebuddin\, UC Berkeley
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elora-shehebuddin-bangladesh-third-world-solidarity-and-the-global-politics-of-feminism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230209T182105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T182105Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Carole McGranahan\, "Drafting Stages"
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSC’s Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions\, inspirations\, and methods\, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. \nIn conversation with Carole McGranahan\, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet\, the CIA\, and Memories of a Forgotten War (2010)\, co-editor of Imperial Formations (2007) and Ethnographers of U.S. Empire (2018)\, and editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (2020). \nGraduate students from all disciplines are welcome! \nPlease register here. \nThis event is presented by GANAS Graduate Pathways and VOCES and is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-carole-mcgranahan-drafting-stages/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20221130T174054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T174744Z
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SUMMARY:Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:At the midpoint of World War II\, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book\, War of Shadows\, historian and alumnus Gershom Gorenberg (Kresge ’76\, Religious Studies) will reveal the espionage affair that led to the British victory against Rommel at El Alamein – turning the tide of the war and preventing the mass murder of the Jews of Egypt\, Palestine and the rest of the Middle East. \n \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 February 1\, 2023. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and made possible by the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gershom-gorenberg-the-secret-war-against-the-nazis-for-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230108T005541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230108T005624Z
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SUMMARY:Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
DESCRIPTION:How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City’s Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city\, with no closure of Rikers in sight? The tragic story of recent jail reform efforts in New York City is at once novel\, and indicative of broader trends in “humanitarian” jail reform\, growing activism big big philanthropy in the supposed reform of mass incarceration\, and the evolution of non-profit organizations promoting the extension of the carceral state — all conducted under the auspices of “social justice.” Tracing the contours of this new moment of carceral boosterism\, Dr. Jarrod Shanahan will present on a work in progress\, Skyscraper Jails\, co-authored with criminal justice scholar Dr. Zhandarka Kurti. This work draws from extensive archival research\, years of collaborative scholarship\, and participation in the campaign against the new jails. \nJarrod Shanahan is an activist-scholar and assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in University Park\, IL. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso\, 2022)\, co-author with Zhandarka Kurti of States of Incarceration: Rebellion\, Reform\, and America’s Punishment System (Field Notes/Reaktion\, 2022)\, and an editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity (Verso\, 2022)\, a Noel Ignatiev reader. \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/jarrod-shanahan-skyscraper-jails/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230206T212133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230206T212133Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grad Slam Presentation Prep: Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:This brief workshop provides an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking\, including managing anxiety\, key delivery techniques\, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches\, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations.  It will include some interactive personalized exercises. If you have your grad slam talk and one optional slide ready to practice for a preliminary divisional round\, February 13-17\, you may practice your talk (with your optional one PowerPoint slide) for feedback from Catherine Carlstroem at either workshop. If attending in person\, bring your laptop to join the Zoom meeting to share your slide via screen share\, if you have a slide. \nUCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching\, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees. There is an additional session on the same day from 2:00-4:00 PM\, accessible in person at the Graduate Commons Fireside Lounge or via Zoom. \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/phd-workshop-grad-slam-presentation-prep-public-speaking/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230121T004055Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
DESCRIPTION:For many people\, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long\, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things\, they are complex infrastructures where people\, the built and natural environments\, and different kinds of networks come together. Airports are also sites of accumulated power in a given region. Looking at the history of an airport\, then\, can provide a airport useful lens for examining some of the complex\, interconnected forces that have influenced the development of its region over time. Exploring that history can also help us understand how differently positioned people in that place have abided\, resisted\, and otherwise negotiated the powerful forces that have shaped their lives. In this talk\, Eric Porter will discuss San Francisco International Airport (SFO) as a site whose history reveals important perspectives on a wide range of phenomena that have helped to make the Bay Area. Along the way he will read excerpts from his new book\, A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. \n \nOrder A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport online and save 30%. Use source code SAVE30 at checkout. \nEric Porter is Professor of History\, History of Consciousness\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, where he is also affiliated with the Music and Latin American and Latina/o Studies departments. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history\, US cultural and urban history\, and jazz and improvisation studies. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-can-we-learn-from-the-airport-with-professor-eric-porter/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230203T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20220927T191539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T200245Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Linguistics Colloquia: Marc Garellek
DESCRIPTION:Marc Garellek\, UC San Diego \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230104T182855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T183218Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers - K-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House\, 2020)\, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021\, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her most recent book is Gods of Want (One World/Random House\, 2022). Her next books are a novel titled Organ Meats (One World) and a novella titled Cecilia (Coffee House Press). She loves folklore\, vampire literature\, and birdwatching in her home state of California.\n \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230119T213331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T213559Z
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SUMMARY:Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases\, Life Histories\, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome\, as a residential scholar\, Kaushik Sunder Rajan\, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine\, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life\, published by Duke in 2006\, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book\, Pharmocracy: Knowledge\, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke\, 2017)\, elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India. \nProfessor Rajan will give a talk on his ongoing research project on South Africa\, which concerns the ways in which a politics of health in South Africa plays out through the law\, consequent to the guarantee of a fundamental right to health in the South African Constitution. This talk is the presentation of an emergent research trajectory. Drawing upon an imaginary of “multisituated” research design and practice\, I elaborate the (often contingent and serendipitous) development of my recent work in South Africa\, which includes a research project on health and constitutionalism and a teaching- and performance-based collaboration on the politics of breath. I am still wrestling with how to structure both\, how they come together and diverge\, their different conceptual modalities and political stakes. This includes a consideration of the stakes of legal archival research and life-history interviews in the context of contemporary and emergent research and political situations\, as well as of thinking questions of ethnographic form in concert with others who are invested in considerations of literary or musical form. How to think about transformations of research practice in the context of unsettled and unresolved macro-political transformations in uncertain and fragile times? Why might it matter? \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethnographic-trans-formations-cases-life-histories-and-other-entanglements-of-emergent-research/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230111T064339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T064424Z
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SUMMARY:Linda Garber – The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a guided tour of the pleasures and perils of lesbian historical fiction\, as Linda Garber (author of Novel Approaches to Lesbian History) introduces the thrilling and heart-wrenching adventures\, trenchant theoretical insights\, and critical political shortcomings of novels that establish a historical footing for contemporary lesbian identity in the face of a problematic\, mostly silent\, archive. She’ll cover genres ranging from westerns (Tomboys and Indians) and pirate tales (Unsafe Seas for Women) to the postmodern (Haunting the Archives) and the erotic (Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lesbian Sex)\, while calling for an intersectional\, trans-inclusive lesbian literature and history. \n Linda Garber is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University\, where she teaches queer literature and film\, and feminist and queer theory. Her book Novel Approaches to Lesbian History was published by Palgrave in 2021 and is now available in paperback. Her earlier books include Identity Poetics: Race\, Class\, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory and the anthology Tilting the Tower: Lesbians / Teaching / Queer Subjects. \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/linda-garber-the-present-in-our-past-reading-lesbian-historical-fiction/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230119T225449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T225449Z
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SUMMARY:Teach English in Spain
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey\, Spanish Consul in San Francisco\, who will be speaking on the North American Language and Culture Program in Spain (NALCAP 2023-2024). Light refreshments will be provided. \nOrganized by: Spanish Studies\, UC Santa Cruz Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Consulado General de España en San Francisco
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/teach-english-in-spain/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230119T203218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T213126Z
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SUMMARY:Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group - Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race\, Empire\, and the Environments of Biomedicine” will welcome\, as a residential scholar\, Kaushik Sunder Rajan\, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan’s first two books focused on the global political economy of the life sciences and biomedicine\, with an empirical focus on the United States and India. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life\, published by Duke in 2006\, is a multi-sited ethnography of genomics and post-genomic drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. His second book\, Pharmocracy: Knowledge\, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (Duke\, 2017)\, elucidates the political economy of global pharmaceuticals as seen from contemporary India. \nProfessor Rajan will lead a reading group focused on his most recent book\, Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis. We’ll be reading the Introduction and Chapter 3. Email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for a copy of the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mellon-sawyer-seminar-on-race-empire-and-the-environments-of-biomedicine-kaushik-sunder-rajan-reading-group/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20230118T013845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T013845Z
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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 Teresa and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! \nTeresa Hardy is the founder of New Media-Designs\, an online marketing agency specializing in solutions for small and medium technology companies. She has over 30 years of experience in engineering and marketing in high tech companies and has worked as a web developer and multimedia artist since 2005. She holds a B.S. in engineering and a master’s in multimedia arts. Her current work focuses on HTML\, CSS\, JavaScript\, PHP\, WordPress\, and overall online find-ability (SEO and SMM) for clients. Ms. Hardy has taught web design\, branding\, usability\, gaming\, and web development at several universities in the San Francisco Bay area and is the current program chair of Web Development Specialization at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley. \nRegister for in-person attendance in Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204. The event will also be accessible virtually via Zoom. Complimentary lunch provided to in-person attendees. \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/phd-workshop-wordpress-website-design/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230120T214333Z
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SUMMARY:Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
DESCRIPTION:January 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. \nThis Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tobera-project-talk-story-1930-anti-filipino-watsonville-race-riots/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125633
CREATED:20221208T172140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T174656Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Morton - Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
DESCRIPTION:Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class\, low-income\, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work\, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds\, Jennifer Morton looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends\, the severed connections with former communities\, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to accomplish their educational goals. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning\, and will take place at the University Center\, Bhojwani Room on Wednesday\, January 25\, 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm with a reception to follow from 5:30-6:30pm. \n \nIn-Person attendance \n \nVirtual attendance \nJennifer Morton is Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are philosophy of action\, moral philosophy\, philosophy of education\, and political philosophy\, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic\, Inside Higher Education\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Nation\, New York Daily News\, Times Higher Education\, Princeton Alumni Weekly\, Public Books \, and Vox. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press\, 2020) was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges\, and Universities. \nJody Greene is the founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)\, UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning\, as well as Special Advisor to the CP/EVC for Educational Equity and Academic Success. Their research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature; non-dualist Western philosophy\, especially the work of Spivak\, Derrida\, and Nancy; human rights and international law; queer studies; and the history of literary discourse and literary institutions. They have served as Professor of Literature\, Feminist Studies\, and the History of Consciousness at UCSC. They are the recipient of the UCSC Humanities Division John Dizikes Teaching Award (2008)\, the Disability Resource Center Champion of Change Award (2018)\, and\, twice\, of the UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2001\, 2014).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-morton-moving-up-without-losing-your-way/
LOCATION:University Center\, Bhojwani Room\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935\, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns\, metaphors\, rhyme\, and performance\, Anansi and other insect avatars convert colonial nature into abolition ecologies. More broadly\, the constellation of problems and powers associated with West Indian bugs (imperceptibility\, smallness\, shapeshifting\, co-metabolism\, environmental change)\, informs a situated decolonial knowledge inspired by insects’ navigation of their environments. \nMonique Allewaert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works at the intersections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century hemispheric American colonialisms\, the environmental humanities\, literary and cultural studies\, and science studies. She is the author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations\, Personhood\, and Colonialism in the American Tropics (2013). Her current book project Luminescence follows insect avatars through eighteenth-century Caribbean natural history\, story\, riddles\, song\, and poetry to elaborate counter-plantation knowledges and aesthetics.  \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/monique-allewaert-ground-has-eye-anansi-and-animist-multinaturalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T153000
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SUMMARY:Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book\, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism\, Left culturalism\, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism makes a bold case for embracing what Wilder calls a politics of the possible-impossible. \nAttentive to the non-identical character of places\, periods\, and subjects\, insisting that axes of political alignment and contestation are neither self-evident nor unchanging\, reworking Lenin’s call to “transform the imperial war into a civil war\,” he invites Left thinkers see beyond inherited distinctions between here and there\, now and then\, us and them. Guided by the spirit of Marx’s call for revolutionaries to draw their poetry from a future they cannot fathom yet must nevertheless invent\, he calls for practices of anticipation that envision and enact\, call for and call forth\, seemingly impossible ways of being together. \nFormat: In-person in Hum1 Room 420 & Zoom\nZoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98082358956?pwd=b2kxZEgvSU9wNGtlaEROTDdKQjJqQT09#success  \nGary Wilder is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. He has a joint degree in Anthropology and History from the University of Chicago and works on the French empire\, colonial states\, historical anthropology and social/political theory\, with a focus on western Africa\, the Antilles\, and Europe. He is the author of Freedom Time. Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press Durham and London 2015). \nPresented by the History of Consciousness Department. To download the excerpts in discussion and for information on upcoming lectures\, please visit The History of Consciousness website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/concrete-utopianism-with-gary-wilder/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T150000
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SUMMARY:Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
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-xvi-xx/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T133000
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SUMMARY:Liora R. Halperin - The Oldest Guard: Landowners\, Local Memory\, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
DESCRIPTION:Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream\, but was later integrated\, albeit ambivalently\, into the Zionist narrative of settlement as the First Aliyah. Treating the First Aliyah as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect\, and drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies\, she considers how private agriculturalists and their advocates forged the First Aliyah past as a model of private ownership\, political moderature\, and harmonius relations with hired rural Palestinian labor. In so doing\, she sheds light on the politics and erasures of Zionist celebrations of “firstness.” \n \nLiora R. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her recent book is The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021). She is also the author of Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015). \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liora-r-halperin-the-oldest-guard-landowners-local-memory-and-the-making-of-the-zionist-settler-past/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T150000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:Fernanda Ferreira\, UC Davis \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-fernanda-ferreira-uc-davis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
DESCRIPTION:“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series\, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor Divya Cherian\, Princeton University
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/divya-cherian-caste-and-time-notes-from-early-modern-india/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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