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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Virtual 2022 Conference: Dolores Huerta
DESCRIPTION:We are honored that Dolores Huerta\, Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers Union will be our keynote speaker this year. \n \nSenderos specializes in teaching Latino culture and history through the artistic expression of dance and music\, hosts an annual Guelaguetza\, and offers other performances in local and far-reaching places.  Our organization serves children\, youth and adults of all ages\, including English Language Learners and economically disadvantaged people\, free of cost. We keep alive our native cultures and languages\, represent our countries of origin with pride\, share our culture and contribute to the larger community\, promote harmony\, and break stereotypes.  We are healthy\, successful\, focused on fulfilling our dreams\, and safe from gang influence. We create a college going culture by providing tutoring\, awarding scholarships\, fostering youth leadership\, promoting bi-literacy\, and creating opportunities for community service. We work together to create a thriving\, welcoming\, family-oriented community that values all contributions\, provides help when needed\, and engages all participants in group decisions. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-virtual-2022-conference-dolores-huerta/
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Careers in Academic Publishing\, featuring Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join the 2021 cohort of the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship to hear more about their career trajectories in publishing. The six panelists will discuss topics including their experiences in graduate school\, their journeys into the academic publishing world\, and their broader experiences with careers beyond the tenure track. A moderated question and answer period will follow the panel presentation. \nChad M. Attenborough\, University of Washington Press\nChad M. Attenborough joined the University of Washington Press from Vanderbilt University\, where he is a PhD candidate studying black responses to the British abolition of the slave trade in the Caribbean. While completing his research\, Chad worked for Vanderbilt University Press as a graduate assistant where his passion for publishing developed in earnest and during which he helped process works for VUP’s Critical Mexican Studies series\, their Black Lives and Liberation series\, alongside their Anthropology and Latin American list. Chad received his MA from Vanderbilt in Atlantic History and his BA from Bowdoin College in French. His areas of interest include black diaspora studies\, imperial and intellectual histories\, global migration studies\, and critical geographies. \nFabiola Enríquez\, University of Chicago Press\nFabiola Enríquez joined the University of Chicago Press after having served as Managing Editor for the Cambridge University Press journal International Labor and Working-Class History. She received her BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Columbia University\, where she is writing a dissertation on the intersection between religion and politics in late-nineteenth century Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her interest in publishing comes as a continuation of these academic pursuits\, seeing in acquisitions editing a platform from which to facilitate the global dissemination of knowledge and rescue perspectives that have thus far been underrepresented in historical discussions. Born and raised in Puerto Rico\, she has been living in Chile for the past two years\, and is the proud human to a reformed Chilean street dog. \nSuraiya Anita Jetha\, MIT Press \nSuraiya Anita Jetha is a former contributing editor of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology’s AnthroNews column. She has extensive experience in academic programming\, most recently with the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She received a BA in Anthropology from Yale University\, an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London\, and an MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is currently writing a dissertation to complete a PhD in Anthropology and Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her research interests include anthropology\, science and technology studies\, feminist studies\, and ethnography. \nRobert Ramaswamy\, Ohio State University Press\nRobert Ramaswamy joined the Ohio State University Press from the University of Michigan\, where he is a PhD candidate in American Culture. He recently completed an internship with Michigan Publishing\, during which he worked on title selection and user access for the American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities Ebook Collection (HEB). At HEB\, he coordinated with scholars in learned societies across the humanities to include more work from scholars\, subfields\, and presses that have historically been excluded from “the canon.” His scholarly interests include feminist theory\, histories of capitalism\, and twentieth-century African American history. He lives in Ann Arbor with his partner\, Anna\, two dogs\, and nine chickens. \n\nJacqulyn Teoh\, Cornell University Press \nJacqulyn Teoh joined Cornell University Press after working as an apprentice at the Feminist Press at CUNY and a part-time acquisitions assistant at the University of Wisconsin Press\, where she was a member of UW Press’s Equity\, Justice\, and Inclusion working group and helped to prepare a demographic survey of authors as a baseline understanding of diversity\, representation\, and inclusion. She holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University\, an MA from the University of Leeds\, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation looked at the structures of the contemporary literary marketplace with a focus on Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American writing. \nJameka Williams\, Northwestern University Press\nJameka Williams is a MFA candidate at Northwestern University in poetry. She received her BA in English from Eastern University in St. Davids\, PA. After supporting herself as a pastry chef during her graduate studies\, she is transitioning into pursuing a career in book publishing\, having interned with independent publisher\, Agate\, in Evanston\, IL. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and she is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist\, published by University of Virginia Press annually. She is currently completing her first full-length poetry collection. \n\nRSVP here: \nLoading… \n  \n\n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-careers-in-academic-publishing-featuring-mellon-university-press-diversity-fellows/
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sandra Lim
DESCRIPTION:Sandra Lim is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton\, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton\, 2014)\, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück\, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press\, 2006). Her writing has appeared in a range of literary journals\, including The New York Review of Books\, Poetry\, The New Republic\, The Baffler\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others. Her poems and essays are anthologized in Counterclaims (Dalkey Archive Press\, 2020)\, The Poem’s Country (Pleiades Press\, 2018)\, The Echoing Green (The Modern Library\, 2016)\, and Among Margins (Ricochet Editions\, 2016). \nSandra’s honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness\, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell\, the Vermont Studio Center\, and the Getty Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and also serves on the poetry faculty in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz (where the authors’ books are available for purchase) \nPlease note: this event is scheduled to be in-person in Humanities Lecture Hall and the location/in-person feature is subject to change. \n \n  \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sandra-lim/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Noel Q. King Annual Lecture: "People Love Dead Jews"
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been rescheduled for March 9th\, 2022. \nThe King Lecture Series\, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King\, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year’s lecture features award-winning author Dara Horn. You are invited to join us in person or virtually this year. \n \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books and\, most recently\, an essay collection\, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, and The Jewish Review of Books. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nAbout Noel Q. King  \nNoel Q. King was a “founding father” of Merrill College. Born in India and educated in England\, he spent 14 years in Africa heading departments of religious studies before being hired to do the same at UC Santa Cruz\, where he was a prominent and beloved figure until his death in 2009. The Noel Q. King Memorial Lectures help keep religious studies\, and Noel King’s idiosyncratic spirit\, alive at UCSC. \n  \n*Please note that UC Santa Cruz has COVID-19 guidelines for in-person events. When you arrive\, please provide proof of vaccination OR a recent negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of the start of the event (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). Parking attendants will be onsite selling permits in lot 119. \nQuestions? Please contact the University Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noel-q-king-annual-lecture-people-love-dead-jews/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Joy Fowler\, Booth
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Man Booker finalist and bestselling local author Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) for a discussion of her highly-anticipated novel Booth—an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. Fowler will be in conversation with award-winning writer Elizabeth McKenzie. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. \nAll attendees must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire on the day of the event\, provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event. \nThis event is ticketed–masks and proof of vaccination are required. \n \nAbout the book: \nIn 1822\, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore\, to farm\, to hide\, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner\, celebrated Shakespearean actor\, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive\, as year by year\, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. \nAs the tenor of the world shifts\, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced\, multiple scandals\, family triumphs\, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll\, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. \nBooth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make\, and break\, a family. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels\, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, which was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \n \nElizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize and her novel\, The Portable Veblen\, was long listed for the National Book Award. She is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-joy-fowler-booth/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Erik Larson\, The Splendid and the Vile
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Erik Larson for a discussion of his #1 New York Times bestseller The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz. Larson will be in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Politics Professor Daniel Wirls. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. This event is ticketed and tickets includes entry to the event and a paperback copy of The Splendid and the Vile (publication date: February 15\, 2022). \n \nErik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers\, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill\, Family\, and Defiance During the Blitz\, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story\, No One Goes Alone\, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment\, in association with Netflix. His Thunderstruck has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series. Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife\, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters. \nDaniel Wirls is a Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1988 and has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz ever since. Dan’s research interests range across American politics\, institutions\, public policy\, and political history. His five books include The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (2021); Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama\, and The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development. Dan served as a congressional fellow in 1993-94\, working for a member of the House and the Senate\, and currently serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World\, the nation’s oldest anti-nuclear weapons political action committee. \nTickets include entry to the in-person event\, plus a paperback copy of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE (signed or with bookplate—see below)\n-This event will be hosted on the The University of California\, Santa Cruz campus\, which requires that all visitors must complete UCSC’s COVID-19 Symptom Check Questionnaire the day of the event. Attendees must also provide proof of vaccination at the door\, and remain masked for the duration of their time at the event.\nThe event is in-person only; no streaming option is available at this time and the event will not be recorded.\nBOOKS: \nBooks will become available for pickup beginning on publication date and may be picked up at Bookshop Santa Cruz prior to the event if desired\, however:\n-PLEASE NOTE that due to COVID-19 there will be no public signing line at the event; the author will be pre-signing books (with optional personalization) on the day of the event.\n-If you would like your book to be signed and/or personalized\, it cannot be collected before the event. (Indicate personalization request on the Order screen when purchasing.)\n-If you would like to collect your book ahead of time\, you’ll receive a signed bookplate\, and personalization will not be available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/erik-larson-the-splendid-and-the-vile/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Okinawa Memories Initiative\, "Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:The Okinawa Memories Initiative is pleased to invite you to our upcoming event\, “Mobilizing the Reversion: A Geo-Political Perspective\,” a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Mike Mochizuki from George Washington University and Dr. Fumi Inoue\, a recent doctoral graduate from Boston College\, in conversation with OMI Directors\, Professors Alan Christy and Dustin Wright. This is the second event in our series on Okinawan Reversion\, in which the speakers will be focusing on Reversion from a geo-political perspective\, and the politics behind the Reversion Agreement between the United States and Japan. \n \nThis year’s programming is focused on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. After 27 years of U.S. Occupation\, and 66 years of being a Japanese semi-colony\, Okinawa was formally returned to Japan on May 15\, 1972. But this was not simply a singular moment. When we say ‘Reversion’\, we envision the lived experiences of thousands of Okinawans across the country who experienced a major political\, economic and social shift. \nAt OMI\, we believe that speaking about Okinawa is to speak about the world. The political ramifications of Okinawa’s new status as a Japanese Prefecture rippled across the world’s waters. Beyond that\, the everyday lives of Okinawans changed irrevocably\, not only in large ways\, but in small ways as well. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/okinawa-memories-initiative-mobilizing-the-reversion-a-geo-political-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Digital Mapping
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 — “Digital Mapping” — on March 4 from 1-2 PM. The workshop will explore an open-source geospatial analysis tool\, Kepler.gl\, to create maps to support research and pedagogy. In the hour-long workshop\, you will get hands-on experience creating interactive maps such as line maps\, arc maps\, and cluster maps. No prior computer knowledge is required. Please see the flyer for more details or register for the event. \nWe want to hear from you! Please fill out this quick survey to let us know what digital humanities topics are of interest to you. \nThank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the workshops. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-workshop-series-digital-mapping/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: Background\, Context\, Prospects and Implications
DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022\, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine\, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent\, democratic country. Join a panel of UC Santa Cruz faculty\, PhD students\, and alumni who will discuss the historical and political context for Russia’s war in and on Ukraine\, tension with NATO\, broader Russian efforts at territorial expansion and destabilization\, and responses by Ukrainians and the global community. Topics include the geopolitical history of the region\, Russian media politics\, the legacy of Soviet ideals of multinationalism and “brotherhood\,” shifting registers of “Europeanness\,” and responses by the European Union\, other formerly Soviet republics\, and China. Speakers include Jonathan Beecher\, Rikki Brown\, Melissa L. Caldwell\, Peter Kenez\, Tanya Merchant\, Lincoln Mitchell\, Ben Read\, April L. Reber\, Daria Saprynika\, and Roger Schoenman.  \nFor more information\, please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine/ \n \nCo-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and the Arts Research Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/war-in-ukraine-background-context-prospects-and-implications/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Aslı Bâli - "From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East"
DESCRIPTION:This seminar engages in a qualitative comparison of four experiences with decentralization in the Middle East to explore the ways in which decentralized governance arrangements might address governance crises\, identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. I argue that the failure to engage with these and other experiences in the MENA region in the growing literature on decentralization in comparative politics and law produces gaps in both the institutional design strategies available in the prescriptions derived from the literature\, and also in our accounts of the region that focus exclusively on the macro politics of authoritarianism without paying attention to experiments on the ground that have sought to formulate alternative governance strategies. \n \nAslı Bâli is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law\, where she is a core faculty member of the International and Comparative Law Program and the Critical Race Studies Programs. She previously served as the Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and\, before that\, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of International Law\, Cornell International Law Journal\, International Journal of Constitutional Law\, University of Chicago Law Review\, ICLA Law Review\, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law\, Virginia Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of International Law among others; her edited volume Constitution Writing\, Religion and Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and a second edited volume\, From Revolution to Devolution: Experiments in Decentralization in the MENA Region is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. Her current research examines questions of federalism and decentralization for the purposes of addressing identity-based conflict and self-determination demands in the Middle East. Recently\, she has served as the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School\, the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School\, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Legal Studies Seminar.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \n \nSponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:LASER Talks with Paula Arai\, Kyle Robertson\, and Ruth Murray-Clay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online LASER Talk ​featuring Buddhist scholar Paula Arai\, astrophysicist Ruth Murray-Clay\, and public philosophy scholar Kyle Robertson. The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting\, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life\, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. \n \nPaula Arai received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University\, specializing in Japanese Sōtō Zen. She is author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press)\, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals (University of Hawai’i Press)\, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra––The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo (Shambhala Publications). Her research has received a range of support\, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She trained at Aichi Senmon Nisōdō under the tutelage of Aoyama Shundō Rōshi. Arai is currently a professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University\, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. \nRuth Murray-Clay is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz who studies the formation of planetary systems\, including our solar system. Her theoretical work investigates the birth of planets in gas disks orbiting young stars\, dynamical evolution of planetary orbits\, and the evolution of atmospheres due to escape over cosmic time. Her goal is to determine the processes that shape the diversity of planetary systems we see today and to place our solar system in cosmic context. \nKyle Robertson is a lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz philosophy and legal studies departments. In 2015 he co-founded the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. An attorney\, he has a passion for all things public philosophy. He is involved with high school Ethics Bowl programs\, teaching as part of Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin State Prison\, and philosophy for children. He regularly speaks on public philosophy and publishes on the challenges of doing public philosophy. \nLeonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program bringing together artists\, scientists\, and scholars for presentations and conversations. This event is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/laser-talks-with-paula-arai-kyle-robertson-and-ruth-murray-clay/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T160000
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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 2022-2023 THI Public Fellows program on March 3\, 2022\, and learn about summer and year-long opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 25\, 2022. Final applications are due on April 14\, 2022 \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-fellowship-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T113000
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SUMMARY:Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics presents Práxedes Rabat Makambo\, Secretary of Academic Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española\, and Daniel Owono Sima\, Dean of the School of Linguistics and Information Sciences at the National University of Equatorial Guinea\, speaking on “Guineanismos y el español de Guinea Ecuatorial.” \nEcuatorial Guinea is the only country in Africa where Spanish is the official language since 1982. However\, this variety remains understudied and overlooked by L2 Spanish-language textbooks. This presentation seeks to highlight the unique features of of Equatorial Guinean Spanish\, and to bring attention to the country’s sociocultural history and sociolinguistic reality.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/guineanismos-y-el-espanol-de-guinea-ecuatorial/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T160000
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SUMMARY:Solidarities for Justice - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“We are one people\, one family\, the human family\, and what affects one of us affects us all.” ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nJohn Brown Childs \nSteve McKay \nChristine Hong \nSylvanna M. Falcón \nDaniel “Nane” Alejandrez \nChisato Hughes \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/solidarities-for-justice-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T133000
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SUMMARY:Mark Nash with Vladimir Seput - Documenta 11 revisited: Platform 6
DESCRIPTION:Following the untimely death in 2019 of curator Okwui Enwezor\, Mark Nash was charged with developing a platform for exploring the work of Enwezor’s Documenta11 (2002) for which Mark was a co-curator. This talk will present several related projects including the Platform 6 website. Vladimir Seput\, who is visiting scholar at UCSC\, is collaborating on the Platform 6 project and will also contribute to the presentation. \n \n Mark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde and world cinema. He is currently a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. Nash has taught at Birkbeck College\, University of London; the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; New York University; Harvard University; Nanyang Technological University of Singapore’s Centre for Contemporary Art; and the Royal College of Art in London. As a curator\, Nash has collaborated with Isaac Julien on numerous film and art projects. He also collaborated regularly with the late Okwui Enwezor\, including on Documenta11\, on The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa\, 1945–1994\, and most recently on The Arena project at the Venice Biennial 2015 which featured an epic live reading of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. In addition to his curatorial work\, Nash edited and contributed a critical introduction to Red Africa: Affective Communities in the Cold War. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-nash-and-vladimir-seput-documenta-11-revisited-platform-6/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T204500
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SUMMARY:Craig Haney - Media and Criminal Justice in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Craig Haney is a social psychologist and criminologist whose work leverages interdisciplinary approaches to policy theory and practice in the pursuit of justice and equity within institutions of policing and corrections. Drawing on social histories of crime and punishment\, as well as the environments of public media and representation in which opinions and beliefs and crime and justice are formed\, Haney and his students examine the personal and social histories\, the psychological effects of incarceration\, and the complex mechanisms in which criminal justice occurs. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge. \nKresge College\, the University Library\, and The Humanities Institute work together each year with an interdisciplinary group of faculty\, staff\, and students\, to build a series of conversations that help fulfill a charge of media literacy and media engagement at UC Santa Cruz. In this year’s series — celebrating Kresge’s 50th year — we focus on creative media\, the visual and aural spectacle of race and racism\, and dialogues on abolition and transformative justice. \nJoin the zoom link here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/craig-haney-media-and-criminal-justice-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220227T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220227T160000
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Project and Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork\, Bleak House. \n \nThe Dickens Project is a multi-campus research consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz and consisting of over 40 colleges and universities from across the United States and overseas. The chief goal of the Dickens Project is to promote research on the life\, work\, and times of Charles Dickens and to bring the results of this research before both a scholarly audience and the general public. The Project is also an important center for research on nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies more generally.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dickens-project-and-santa-cruz-pickwick-club-bleak-house/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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SUMMARY:Meena Kandasamy - Caste Fanaticism and Misogyny: The Hate Politics of Internet Hindutva
DESCRIPTION:Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) is an anti-caste activist\, poet\, novelist and translator. Her writing aims to deconstruct trauma and violence\, while spotlighting the militant resistance against caste\, gender\, and ethnic oppressions. She explores this in her poetry and prose\, most notably in her books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010)\, as well as her three novels\, The Gypsy Goddess (2014)\, When I Hit You (2017)\, and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her latest work is a collection of essays\, The Orders Were to Rape You: Tamil Tigresses in the Eelam Struggle (Navayana\, 2021). Activism is at the heart of her literary work; she has translated several political texts from Tamil to English including the works of Dravidian ideologue Periyar and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi leader Dr.Thol.Thirumavalavan\, and previously held an editorial role at The Dalit\, an alternative magazine documenting caste-related brutality and the anti-caste resistance in India. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, the International Dylan Thomas Prize\, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize. She holds a PhD in sociolinguistics\, and was Gallatin Global Faculty in Residence at New York University (NYU) in Fall 2018 where she co-taught a course on feminist writers from the neo-colonial world. Her op-eds and essays have appeared in The White Review\, Guernica\, The Guardian and The New York Times. \n \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/meena-kandasamy-caste-fanaticism-and-misogyny-the-hate-politics-of-internet-hindutva/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T190000
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CREATED:20220119T022415Z
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SUMMARY:Bettina Aptheker\, Julie Olsen Edwards and Dena Taylor - "Red Diaper Babies: Growing Up During the HUAC Years of the 1950s"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nGrowing up closer to home than the London scenes depicted in “Red Letter Days\,” three “red diaper babies” discuss how their lives were impacted by the McCarthy era and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). They will share some of the lessons learned that they have carried into the present. \nBettina Aptheker: Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies Department\, UCSC. Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006) and The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (2nd edition\, 1999). My book to be published in 2023 is called Communists in Closets; Queering the History\, 1930-1990s. \nJulie Olsen Edwards: Cabrillo College Early Childhood faculty (retired)\, writer\, Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves (NAEYC)\, consultant\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). \nDena Taylor: Cabrillo College Program Manager (retired)\, author\, poet. Dena’s most recent books are Tell Me the Number Before Infinity: the story of a girl with a quirky mind\, an eccentric family\, and oh yes\, a disability (co-authored with Becky Taylor) and Exclamation Points: collected poems. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bettina-aptheker-julie-olsen-edwards-and-dena-taylor-red-diaper-babies-growing-up-during-the-huac-years-of-the-1950s/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T203000
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CREATED:20220120T182517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T190049Z
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 3: February 24th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nRegister for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Yuri Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, received great critical acclaim in 2015 and was included in many Best-of-Year lists. Yuri is a political scientist\, editor and contemporary Mexican writer who teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. His prose was described as “stunning” and his novel as an entrance “to the golden gate of Mexican literature” by Elena Poniatowska. Born in Acopan\, Mexico\, Yuri resides in New Orleans\, Louisiana. \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThis event is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series Events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-yuri-herrera/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T190000
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SUMMARY:University Forum: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas\, 1619-1807
DESCRIPTION:During the American slave trade\, more than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. For many\, the forced migration didn’t end when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them from colony to colony for resale. This phase of the slave trade within the Americas not only added to enslaved people’s traumatic journeys\, it also reveals the centrality of slavery to early American life. Black History Month\, celebrated each year during February\, is a chance for Americans to learn details of their nation’s history that are far too often neglected and pushed to the wayside. This month’s University Forum is a difficult\, yet crucial\, conversation about the spread of the slave trade within the Americas and how slavery became an American institution. Join this University Forum with Professor Greg O’Malley\, moderated by Professor Vilashini Cooppan\, and followed by a question and answer period led by Professor Gina Dent and Professor Cooppan.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/university-forum-beyond-the-middle-passage-slave-trading-within-the-americas-1619-1807/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T133000
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CREATED:20220106T164111Z
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SUMMARY:Engseng Ho - Dubai and Singapore: Asian Diasporics\, Global Logistics\, Company Rule
DESCRIPTION:Dubai and Singapore are emblematic of the contemporary global moment\, embodying dizzying success\, frenetic excess\, spectacular crash. Are they global cities or port-states? Are they Asian nations or corporations descended from the East India Companies that became colonial governments? Their iconic status today as global cities is not simply a function of globalization\, but can be understood in terms of dynamic currents that shape and reshape places in the Indian Ocean\, the original Asian venue of an international economy. Dubai and Singapore are two tiny places that have seen success because they have understood those currents\, and acted in accordance with changes in their dynamics. What are these dynamics – their constants over the long term\, and their recent shifts? \n \nEngseng Ho is a professor of Anthropology and History at Duke University. He is also the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arabia Asia Studies at the Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore. He is a leading scholar of transnational anthropology\, history and Muslim societies\, Arab diasporas\, and the Indian Ocean. His research expertise is in Arabia\, coastal South Asia and maritime Southeast Asia\, and he maintains active collaborations with scholars in these regions. He is co-editor of the Asian Connections book series at Cambridge University Press\, and serves on the editorial boards of journals such as American Anthropologist\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, History and Anthropology. He has previously worked as Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Senior Scholar\, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Country and Profile Writer\, the Economist Group; International Economist\, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation/Monetary Authority of Singapore; Director\, Middle East Institute\, National University of Singapore. He was educated at the Penang Free School\, Stanford University\, and the University of Chicago. \nThis event is co-sponsored by SEACoast (Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions) \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. \nTo attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nPlease note: this event will be fully remote\, with no in-person attendance. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/engseng-ho-dubai-and-singapore-asian-diasporics-global-logistics-company-rule/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T190000
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Dante’s Mediterranean Awakening
DESCRIPTION:During Dante’s lifetime\, the maritime city-states of northern Italy consolidated their position at the center of Mediterranean transit and trade. Thanks to broader trends in the centuries before his birth – the Crusades\, increasing trade in essential foods and luxury goods\, and swift advances in naval architecture and financial supports for trade\, for instance – Genoa and Venice became important hubs for trade and travel between western Europe and the greater Mediterranean world. Florence grew dramatically during the thirteenth century\, but it wasn’t yet the dynamic financial and artistic center that it would become after Dante’s death. Dante’s exile exposed him to cultural trends and technologies reaching northern Italy from the broader Mediterranean world that were still little known in Florence. The works he wrote after his exile – especially the Commedia – reveal his fascination with the technological and intellectual innovations that he learned about as he traveled through northern Italy. This talk addresses Dante’s discovery of the material culture of the Mediterranean – like the shipyards in Venice\, which he may or may not have visited in person; paper and watermarks; dice and dice games; and carpets from the east – and intellectual trends\, like Islamic teachings and legends about the afterlife\, after his exile from Florence. \n \n  \nKarla Mallette is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily\, 1100-1250: A Literary History (2005) and European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean (2010); she co-edited A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (2013). Her most recent book\, Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval Mediterranean\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. She has directed the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Center for European Studies and is currently chair of the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-dantes-mediterranean-awakening/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Protest: Writing Amidst Chaos with poet Alan Pelaez Lopez
DESCRIPTION:In this poetry reading and community conversation\, Alan Pelaez Lopez will reflect on what it means to create art in the middle of legal and political violence. They’ll read from their book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, and a manuscript-in-progress tentatively titled trans*imagination in the hope that the work can invite questions about abolition\, migrant futures\, and the radical trans imaginary. \n \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented migrants in the United States\, the Black condition in Latin America\, and the intimate kinship units that trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence. Their debut visual poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are also the author of the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement. \nThis event is organized by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/poetry-and-protest-writing-amidst-chaos-with-poet-alan-pelaez-lopez/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 2: February 17th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent session is held on Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all sessions here. \nThe Santa Cruz Shakespeare Playbill for King John may be found here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T170000
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SUMMARY:Black Liberation and Pedagogies - Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take\, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair\, more just society. “ ― John Lewis \nReady for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation and in honor of the dedication of John R. Lewis College at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the Division of Social Sciences\, Colleges Nine and Ten\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Center for Racial Justice are organizing five events centered on topics exemplified by the life of Representative John Lewis. \nFeatured Speakers: \nSavannah Shange \nDavid Henry \nAnthony III \nCat Brooks \nAndrea del Carmen Vázquez \nAt UC Santa Cruz\, we believe that the real change is us. This series will highlight the efforts of faculty\, students\, staff\, community leaders\, and alumni in their commitments to social and racial justice\, civic engagement and democracy. It is an opportunity for us all to reflect on how we can help carry John R. Lewis’ legacy forward in the future. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/black-liberation-and-pedagogies-necessary-trouble-thinking-with-the-legacy-of-john-r-lewis/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T133000
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CREATED:20220106T163656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T033729Z
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SUMMARY:Althea Wasow - Policing Blackness and Black Bodies in Bert Williams’s "A Natural Born Gambler" (1916)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/althea-wasow-policing-blackness-and-black-bodies-in-bert-williamss-a-natural-born-gambler-1916/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220110T232619Z
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King John
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute\, as we launch Undiscovered Shakespeare: King John\, the third installment of our annual virtual Shakespeare program. Over the course of three sessions (February 10\, 17\, and 24)\, we will immerse ourselves in another rarely performed play and reflect on it both as a point of departure for Shakespeare’s career and as a mirror for the times in which we live. \nSession 1: February 10th\, 2022 6:30pm-8:30pm\nWe begin with a dramatic reading of The Life and Death of King John\, before turning to a presentation by Jesse Lander\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame\, and an open discussion with Professor Lander\, director Charles Pasternak\, and the cast of the production. \nSubsequent sessions are held on Feb 17 and Feb 24\, 2022. Register for all three sessions here. \n \nKing John\, Full Play Synopsis:\nFrance threatens England with war\, claiming that King John has usurped the throne from its rightful claimant\, his nephew Arthur. Armies from both France and England seek support from the town of Angers which proposes that John’s niece marry the dauphin of France to solve the issue. The parties agree\, but the wedding and proposed peace are interrupted by the arrival of an emissary of the Pope who\, angry at John for his treatment of the church in France\, rekindles the war. France invades England and John plots to have Arthur murdered. When Arthur falls from a wall and dies\, the English lords\, convinced that John is responsible\, abandon his cause and join France. John tries to reconcile with the Church to forestall his defeat by the French\, but the Dauphin refuses to back down. The English lords\, however\, learning that the French mean to kill them after the victory\, change sides again. France sues for peace\, but the news comes too late to John\, who dies\, poisoned by a monk. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. King John is one of only two plays by Shakespeare written entirely in verse (along with Richard II). In it\, Shakespeare explores the use of political rhetoric to cloak self-serving ambitions during the reign of the king that saw the birth of the Magna Carta. \n  \nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and former Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz\, where he directs Shakespeare Workshop\, a research center of The Humanities Institute that uses Shakespeare’s writing to bring the campus and the community together in conversation about topics of shared concern. He studies Shakespeare and the history of criticism\, and is the author or editor of books and essays about early British literature and the classical tradition in England. He was educated at Williams College\, Cambridge\, and Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-life-and-death-of-king-john/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC Tolbert (he/him/hey grrrl) is a trans and genderqueer monkey-goat who never ceases to experience a simultaneous grief and deep love any time s/he pays attention to the world. S/he writes poems\, works with wood\, learns\, teaches\, and wanders. In 2019\, TC was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellowship for his work with trans\, non-binary\, and queer folks as Tucson’s Poet Laureate. Publications include Gephyromania (originally published by Ahsahta Press in 2014\, to be re-released by Nightboat Books in 2022) and five chapbooks. TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). TC lives in Tucson\, AZ where s/he is the current Poet Laureate. www.tctolbert.com \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-tc-tolbert/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T133000
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SUMMARY:Jorgge Menna Barreto - Voicescapes for the Landless
DESCRIPTION:This project expands traditional oral history methodologies by recording the voices of farmers of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) embedded in the soundscapes of the food forests they cultivate. The resulting situated multispecies voicescapes will be used in the creation of pedagogical material for students in rural schools and beyond. \n \nJorgge Menna Barreto\, Ph.D. is a Brazilian artist and educator\, whose practice and research have been dedicated to site-specific art for over 20 years. In 2014\, he worked on a postdoctoral research project at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina\, Brazil\, where he collaborated with a biologist and an agronomist to study relations between site-specific art and agroecology\, centring around agroforestry. In 2020 he completed a second postdoctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University\, England\, which led to the work presented at the Liverpool Biennial in 2021. Menna Barreto approaches site-specificity from a critical and South American perspective\, having taught\, lectured\, and written on the subject. He has translated authors from English into Brazilian Portuguese\, including Miwon Kwon\, Rosalyn Deutsche\, Hito Steyerl and Anna Tsing. Menna Barreto has participated in art residencies\, projects and exhibitions worldwide. In 2016\, he took part in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial with his award-winning project Restauro: a restaurant set up to work as a system of environmental restoration in collaboration with settlements of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement [MST]. The project travelled to the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2017\, where the artist worked with a wild edibles expert\, a botanical illustrator and local organic growers. In 2020\, as a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie\, Netherlands\, he launched a periodical called Enzyme in collaboration with artist Joélson Buggilla. In Geneva\, Switzerland\, he has collaborated on the MFA in Socially Engaged Art at HEAD – Haute École d’Arts Appliqués\, where he is working on a research project focused on ecopedagogy. In 2021\, Menna Barreto joined the Art Department of University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he also teaches at the new MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jorgge-menna-barreto-dehydrated-landscapes/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T190000
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SUMMARY:Isebill Gruhn\, "From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in the varied experiences that our area offers; and the enrichment –– culturally\, intellectually\, and emotionally –– that comes from the joy of reading! \nSetting the stage for the era in which Red Letter Days takes place\, Professor Emerita “Ronnie” Gruhn will describe world events during the 1950’s and developments leading up to current day. She will define the various “isms”(authoritarianism\, socialism\, etc) that are often misused in today’s political discussions and explore the similarities\, if any\, of the McCarthy era to today. \nProfessor Gruhn arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1969 as a member of the Political Science department and an affiliate of Stevenson College. Gruhn served in diverse capacities at UC Santa Cruz over the past four decades. She twice chaired the Political Science department (1973-1975 and 1980-1981) among other accomplishments\, and today is a regular lecturer for the Osher Lifelong Learner Institute. \n \nThis event is hosted by the Friends of the Aptos Library as part of their 2022 season of “Our Community Reads” and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isebill-gruhn-from-mccarthyism-to-today-demagoguery-then-and-now/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220106T035413Z
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SUMMARY:From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later - Reading Dante\, Seeking Freedom\, Fleeing Racism
DESCRIPTION:African American culture has been attentive to Dante Alighieri\, the man and his writing\, since the mid-19th century. Dante’s Divine Comedy has proved to be an effective primer on issues of justice for the broader community. This talk will present the work of African American authors from the 19th century to today who have turned to Dante and amplified his voice that speaks truth to power\, that calls out for justice without compromise\, that seeks a better community for us all. \n \n  \nDennis Looney served as director of the Office of Programs and director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association from 2014-2021. From 1986 to 2013\, he taught Italian at the University of Pittsburgh\, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. He was chair of the Department of French and Italian for eleven years and assistant dean of humanities for three years at Pitt. Publications include Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Wayne State UP\, 1996)\, which received honorable mention\, MLA Marraro-Scaglione Award in Italian Literary Studies\, 1996-97; and Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (U Notre Dame P\, 2011)\, which received the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (general category) in 2011. He co-edited and co-translated Ludovico Ariosto’s Latin Poetry (Harvard UP\, 2018) with D. Mark Possanza. \n  \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Literature Department\, The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, Italian Studies\, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-margins-dante-701-years-later-reading-dante-seeking-freedom-fleeing-racism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220124T213030Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Introduction to Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the first meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 to learn about what digital humanities means\, how digital tools empower humanities scholarship\, the role of technology in higher education as a tool of communication and research as well as an expressive and creative medium\, and the new opportunities and career paths that digital skills can open for humanists. The first workshop is presented by the Humanities Computing Services in partnership with the Digital Scholarship Commons and The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ series. \nThe Digital Humanities Workshop series will continue throughout 2022 with a range of sessions led by digital humanists at UC Santa Cruz who will discuss their experiences “doing DH” and their insights on how the digital environment is changing the landscape of higher education in general and humanities in particular. We will also explore together digital humanities tools that are widely used in research\, teaching and learning. Our goal is to provide as many perspectives on digital humanities as we can fit in and empower you to advance humanities through digital means. \n \nXiao Li is a historian and digital humanist. She works as the digital humanist in the Humanities Computing Service in the humanities division. Before joining UC Santa Cruz\, Xiao was a digital humanities specialist at Phillips Academy at Andover\, preserving historical archives on Asian history in the U.S.: Chinese Students at Andover (1878-2000) and was a digital humanities intern at the Smithsonian preserving the destroyed cultural heritage sites in Syria\, Mali and Bosnia. She also worked with Reuters and the Associate Press for four years on international news reporting. \nDaniel Story is a historian and digital humanist. He works as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz\, supporting and collaborating with students and faculty who seek to engage digital methods in their teaching\, research\, or learning. He is the lead producer of the ten-part documentary podcast Stories from the Epicenter\, which explores the experience and memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County\, California. He also currently serves as a consulting editor for The American Historical Review and produces the journal’s podcast\, AHR Interview. Daniel received his Ph.D. in History from Indiana University\, Bloomington. \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/introduction-to-digital-humanities/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220106T163248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T002100Z
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SUMMARY:Massimiliano Tomba - Revolutions/Restorations
DESCRIPTION:Reading revolutions through the prism of a concept of history that is not teleological or unilinear but is instead structured as a pluriverse of historical temporalities\, this talk shows how different temporalities and semantic stratification of revolution are reactivated in historical revolutionary moments. From this perspective\, the ancient notions of revolution and restoration are not erased but coexist as temporal stratifications. Tomba’s analysis is articulated through historical cases\, from the German peasant war of 1525 to the Water War in Bolivia in 2000. \n \nMassimiliano Tomba is the author of Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer: Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken (2005); La vera politica: Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia (2006); Marx’s Temporalities (2013); Attraverso la piccolo porta: Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin (Mimesis\, 2017); Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (2019). \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/massimiliano-tomba-revolutions-restorations/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220202
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220119T172741Z
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SUMMARY:"Just Futures" Opens
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. \n Just Futures\, a highly anticipated exhibition featuring the works of Arthur Jafa\, Martine Syms\, and Black Quantum Futurism\, curated by Professor T.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, opens at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery February 1- March 19\, 2022. We are excited to welcome the public back to the Sesnon Art Gallery after a nearly two-year hiatus. \nAgainst the present’s seemingly endless backdrop of deep political unrest\, environmental emergency\, and racialized injustice\, Just Futures highlights poignant creative experiments in futurity and justice\, directed at emancipatory worlds-to-come. With artworks by Black Quantum Futurism\, Arthur Jafa\, and Martine Syms\, Just Futures considers how time itself is a site of struggle and a horizon of liberation. The centerpiece of the exhibition\, Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death (2016)\, was screened simultaneously over 48 hours across art museums in 2020 as an international response to racial justice uprisings and civil unrest. Far from homogenous\, inherently progressive\, or equitable\, dominant time expresses the 24/7 chronologies of capital\, long synchronized to racialized\, gendered violence and oppression. The seemingly endless meter of production encloses people in temporal holds\, defuturing communities\, and imposing time-traps of debt and deadlines. \nThe artworks included in Just Futures powerfully reveal and challenge such temporality\, including its seeming fixity and policed regimentation. In doing so\, they build on the critical resources of Afrofuturisms of decades past—experiments in sonic and visual futurity that draw together Afro-diasporic cultures of creativity and the chronopolitics of coming liberation. Expanding horizons of the possible\, the artists presented in Just Futures reveal new singular experiments in time travel. They cultivate space agency that dismantle the “Master(s) Clock(work Universe)” (Black Quantum Futurism); present a stunning cinematic exploration of African-American image archives opposing police brutality with scenes of freedom dreams and anti-racist struggle (Arthur Jafa); and offer a “Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto” contesting the entire edifice of racial capitalism (Martine Syms). Each inclusion provokes compelling and urgent recalibrations of justice and futurity. \nThis exhibition forms part of Beyond the End of the World\, which comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of UCSC’s Center for Creative Ecologies. The project brings leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and asks how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture and administered by The Humanities Institute. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU.  \nPlease note: Exhibition includes violent imagery and content. \nVisitors must be in compliance with Covid-19 protocols. Please complete a symptom check before or upon arrival. \nJust Futures is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery\, Center for Creative Ecologies\, and The Humanities Institute. Education programming is developed by Darren Wallace\, PhD student in Film and Digital Media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/just-futures-opens/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220130T190000
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SUMMARY:Watsonville is in the Heart Online Screening: Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance
DESCRIPTION:ONLINE SCREENING: Talk Story II: Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance screening\, and community discussion. \nOn Sunday\, January 30\, the Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) project team rings in 2022 with a screening of Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz’s Dollar a Day\, Ten Cents a Dance (1984). The documentary offers a portrait of Filipino agricultural workers\, who traveled to California in the early through the mid-twentieth century. \nJoin community members for a conversation between director Geoffrey Dunn\, local philanthropist and activist George Ow\, and Steve McKay\, professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and co-Principal Investigator of WIITH. \n \nThis event is part of the larger community-engaged public oral history project Watsonville is in the Heart (led by UCSC historian Kat Gutierrez and labor sociologist Steve McKay)\, in collaboration with the Tobera Project. \nFor general information\, please contact toberaproject@gmail.com. The event will be live-streamed and will be live-captioned. A recording of the event will be made available through YouTube. \nThis project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-online-screening-dollar-a-day-ten-cents-a-dance/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211209T213608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T022705Z
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SUMMARY:The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
DESCRIPTION:The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery brings you a remarkable collection of Sikh art from Narinder S. and Satinder K. Kapany. Narinder S. Kapany established an endowed chair in entrepreneurship\, the Narinder Kapany Professorship in Entrepreneurship\, based initially at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering in support of the school’s leadership in the establishment of a comprehensive entrepreneurship program for the campus. This was the second endowed chair funded by Kapany\, who was a Regents Professor at UC Santa Cruz from 1977 to 1983 as well as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee. In 1999\, he endowed the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics at the Baskin School of Engineering. Kapany\, a Sikh\, was a research scientist\, entrepreneur\, art collector and philanthropist\, he is widely acknowledged as the father of fiber optics. \nThis unique exhibit introduces both Sikh art and ethos as well as a historical look at the Sikh migration and history from Punjab to America\, and more specifically California. It is our objective to enlighten the audience as to what and who the Sikh religion and people represent and their relevance\, not just here\, but around the world. \nThe main gallery displays a rare collection of both antique and contemporary art which does well to establish the history of the Sikh religion beginning with the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak\, the first Guru (1469–1539)\, and of the nine Sikh gurus who succeeded him. Works reflect the gurus\, gurdwaras\, the Golden Temple–preeminent spiritual site of Sikhism\, rituals and religious communities. Three phulkaris\, loosely translated as  ”flower work”\, (large embroidered textiles in silk and cotton) draw inspiration from the wheat\, corn and barley farmed in much of Punjab. Lastly\, a set of intricately painted miniatures\, portraits on bone and ivory of the court and family\, often given to visiting dignitaries.\nThe Ann Dizikes Annex features a graphic timeline depicting the migration of the Sikhs in the late 1800’s to the present day. It presents a rich story of the important events and people that brought to life the current Sikh population we see today with its gurdwaras\, community\, agricultural and scientific contributions. \nThis is an exhibit not to be missed. We encourage all to come enjoy the magnificent art and the interesting\, rich culture and history of the Sikh people and their religion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-kapany-collection-sikh-art-in-america/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Cowell College\, Cowell College‎ 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
DESCRIPTION:After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nThe Living Writer Series is sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n \nKaren Tei Yamashita is an award-winning writer who was born in Oakland\, California. For many years she was Professor of Literature at University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her works\, several of which contain elements of magic realism\, include novels I Hotel (2010)\, Circle K Cycles (2001)\, Tropic of Orange (1997)\, Brazil-Maru (1992)\, and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990). Yamashita’s novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot\, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age\, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity. She has also written a number of plays\, including Hannah Kusoh\, Noh Bozos and O-Men which was produced by the Asian American theatre group\, East West Players. Her most recent book is the story collection\, Sansei and Sensibility (2020). Karen Tei Yamashita: The Complete Works is now available from Coffeehouse Press. In 2021\, Yamashita was named the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \nEric Wat’s first book\, The Making of a Gay Asian Community (2002)\, has been described as a “foundational text in queer Asian American historiography.” Almost twenty years later\, he wrote a follow-up about AIDS activism in the Asian American community\, Love Your Asian Body (2021). But his first love was fiction. In 2016\, after his grandmother passed away\, he quit the best job in the world to write his novel\, Swim (2019). He wrote Swim for queer folks whose main concern in life isn’t coming out\, for people who are dealing with addiction (or know loved ones who are)\, and for adult children who are struggling to take care of their aging parents (and in so doing are confronted by their imperfect relationships). Wat lives and writes in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-and-eric-wat/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220106T162631Z
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SUMMARY:Xavier Livermon - Safe Houses? Queerness\, Performance\, and the Land Question in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:During the height of COVID restrictions in 2020\, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B. They intended to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa\, and the particular ways that the continuation of apartheid urban planning created disproportionate vulnerabilities for Black queer folk in Cape Town. In this talk\, I will consider the political implications of joining queerness with the land question in post-apartheid South Africa through direct political action and performance. \n \nXavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/xavier-livermon-safe-houses-queerness-performance-and-the-land-question-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T181500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220124T214230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T214934Z
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SUMMARY:Pamela Z - Seminar in Composition
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, January 24\, at 4:00 PM\, for our keynote event in Pamela Z’s 2022 UC Santa Cruz residency\, jointly funded by the University Library\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Institute for Arts and Sciences’ Surge: Afrofuturism Festival. Pamela Z’s residency begins with her January 24 seminar on composition\, and culminates with a May 14 concert undertaken in collaboration with the Institute of Arts and Sciences\, and UC Santa Cruz graduate students. \nThe January lecture-seminar\, delivered remotely via Zoom\, will address a range of issues arising in her approach to composition\, including but not limited to interactions of fixed media and ‘real-time’ elements in performance\, and approaches to composition with voice and text. The lecture portion will be followed by presentations by UC Santa Cruz composers Alexander Wand and Seth Glickman\, on their new works-in-progress\, and finally by discussion and dialogue among the participants. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/pamela-z-seminar-in-composition/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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SUMMARY:Demystifying Book Publishing for FirstGen Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel with first-gen authors about their publishing experiences\, followed by a presentation and Q&A with UC Press editors about common publishing topics\, such as choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions. A recording will be made available after the event. \nSponsored by: UC Press and the UC Collaborative of Humanities Centers and Institutes \nLearn more at the UC Press FirstGen Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/demystifying-book-publishing-for-firstgen-scholars/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210920T184347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220113T192003Z
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SUMMARY:Bishnupriya Ghosh - Multispecies Distributions in the Epidemic Episteme
DESCRIPTION:Bishnupriya Ghosh teaches at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She has published two monographs\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke Up\, 2011) on global media cultures. Her current work on media\, risk\, and globalization includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge 2020) and a new monograph\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (under contract\, Duke UP). \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bishnupriya-ghosh-multispecies-distributions-in-the-epidemic-episteme/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220112T224938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220113T000752Z
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SUMMARY:Mona El-Ghobashy - "Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation"
DESCRIPTION:Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt’s 2011 revolutionary mobilization\, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos\, military communiqués\, open letters\, constitutional contentions\, protest slogans\, parliamentary debates\, and court decisions. A rich trove of political arguments\, the sources reveal a range of actors vying over the fundamental question in politics: who holds ultimate political authority. The revolution’s tangled events engaged competing claims to sovereignty made by insurgent forces and entrenched interests alike\, a vital contest that was terminated by the 2013 military coup and its aftermath. Now a decade after the 2011 Arab uprisings\, Mona El-Ghobashy rethinks how we study revolutions\, looking past causes and consequences to train our sights on the collisions of revolutionary politics. She moves beyond the simple judgments that once celebrated Egypt’s revolution as an awe-inspiring irruption of people power or now label it a tragic failure. Revisiting the revolutionary interregnum of 2011–2013\, Bread and Freedom takes seriously the political conflicts that developed after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak\, an eventful thirty months when it was impossible to rule Egypt without the Egyptians. \n \nMona El-Ghobashy is a scholar of Egyptian politics whose research focuses on law and politics\, varieties of protest\, and limited elections in contemporary Egypt. Her work brings out the dynamics of political contestation before and after the 2011 uprising. \nThis event is presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa in collaboration with the UCSC Politics Symposium.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mona-el-ghobashy-bread-and-freedom-egypts-revolutionary-situation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220106T162250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T162250Z
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SUMMARY:Caitlin Keliiaa - Occupational Risk: Sexual Surveillance and Federal Regulation of Native Women’s Bodies
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how bodily regulation unfolded on Native women domestic workers in the early 20th-century Bay Area and how sexual surveillance in the Bay Area Outing Program affected Native women. To this end\, I analyze cases of sexual surveillance\, presumed delinquency\, sexually transmitted infections and policing of Native women’s bodies. Through these intimate stories\, I demonstrate the ways in which the settler state attempted to and at times succeeded in managing and controlling Native women. \n \nCaitlin “Katie” Keliiaa is Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is an interdisciplinary feminist historian specializing in 20th-century Native experiences in the West. Her scholarship engages Indian labor exploitation\, dispossession and surveillance of Native bodies especially in Native Californian contexts. Her book project examines how Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged an early 20th-century Indian labor program based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this work\, Professor Keliiaa centers Native women’s voices uncovered from federal archives. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caitlin-keliiaa-occupational-risk-sexual-surveillance-and-federal-regulation-of-native-womens-bodies/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220110T164252Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jane Wong
DESCRIPTION:Jane Wong’s poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\, Best American Poetry 2015\, American Poetry Review\, POETRY\, AGNI\, Third Coast\, New England Review\, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Black Warrior Review\, Ecotone\, The Common\, The Georgia Review\, Shenandoah\, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.\n \nA Kundiman fellow\, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program\, Artist Trust\, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room\, 4Culture\, the Fine Arts Work Center\, Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, Willapa Bay\, the Jentel Foundation\, SAFTA\,  Mineral School\, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, and others. \nShe is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James Books (2021) and Overpour from Action Books. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. \n \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jane-wong/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20220106T161750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220112T155825Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Beaman - Suspect Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:Incidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France\, the United States\, and worldwide. Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region\, this talk argues that\, despite France’s colorblind and Republican ethos\, France’s “visible minorities” function under a “suspect citizenship” in which their full societal belonging is never granted. Beaman focuses on the growing problem of state-sponsored violence against ethnic minorities which reveals how France is creating a “bright boundary” (Alba 2005) between whites and non-whites\, furthering disparate outcomes based on race and ethnic origin. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of citizenship and belonging in France\, Beaman demonstrates the limitations of full societal inclusion for France’s non-white denizens and how French Republicanism continues to mark\, rather than erase\, racial and ethnic distinctions. \n \nJean Beaman is Associate Professor of Sociology\, with affiliations with Black Studies\, Political Science\, Feminist Studies\, Global Studies\, and the Center for Black Studies Research\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Previously\, she was faculty at Purdue University and held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence\, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration\, and state violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press\, 2017)\, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current book project is on suspect citizenship and belonging\, anti-racist mobilization\, and activism against police violence in France. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal\, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and a Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She is the Co-PI for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant\, “Race\, Precarity\, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context” for 2020-2022. \nJean Beaman’s presentation will be presented remotely\, please register here to receive the Zoom link on Wednesday\, January 12. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Winter 2022\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format\, in which some events are fully remote and others have the option of in-person attendance. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Winter colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (cult@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jean-beaman-suspect-citizenship/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211217T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211217T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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SUMMARY:Japan Circa 1972: Setting The Stage For Reversion
DESCRIPTION:Please join the conversation on Okinawa\, Japan\, and the media in the years leading up to reversion. Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss the contents of his recent book\, Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism in conversation with Drew Richardson (PhD. UCSC)\, and set the stage for a series of OMI events on the 50th anniversary of Okinawan Reversion. \nYoshikuni Igarashi is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture\, 1945-1970 (2000) and Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia\, 2016)\, and recently Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism. \nThis event is made possible by the Gilbert and Margaret Nee Fund in Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/japan-circa-1972-setting-the-stage-for-reversion/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211116T004419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211119T004050Z
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SUMMARY:Monolingualism can be cured! And what does this mean for bilingual speech?
DESCRIPTION:It is by no means a small feat that bilinguals can speak two or more languages. In addition to acquiring a variety of components of the linguistic system\, they must have the ability to produce language-specific acoustic targets in their languages accurately and consistently\, and importantly\, they do it while inhibiting or deactivating the influence of their first or dominant language. In this talk\, I will discuss and dispel several myths about bilingualism and bilingual speech\, offer an overview of the potential cognitive benefits of being bilingual\, and conclude by providing evidence of the resourcefulness of bilinguals and multilinguals to overcome cross-language influence in their speech demonstrating the flexibility of their sound systems. \nMark Amengual is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the director of the UCSC Bilingualism Research Laboratory in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research and teaching interests focus primarily on experimental phonetics\, bilingualism\, and psycholinguistics. He has been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish–Catalan bilinguals\, Spanish– Galician bilinguals\, Spanish heritage speakers in the United States\, English heritage speakers and British immigrants in Spain\, and Spanish–Otomi (Hñäñho) bilingual speakers in Mexico. This work has been published in international venues\, such as Journal of Phonetics\, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America\, Phonetica\, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition\, International Journal of Bilingualism\, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism\, and Applied Psycholinguistics. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/monolingualism-can-be-cured-and-what-does-this-mean-for-bilingual-speech/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T001107Z
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SUMMARY:Capacity Building Workshop for UC Faculty: "Telling Your Research Story Through Film" with Case Creative
DESCRIPTION:Please note this workshop is only available to UC faculty.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/capacity-building-workshop-for-uc-faculty-telling-your-research-story-through-film-with-case-creative/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210917T183759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155854Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:The World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \n \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211104T215925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T215925Z
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine - The Wrong End of the Telescope
DESCRIPTION:The Wrong End of the Telescope is a “shape-shifting kaleidoscope\, a collection of moments—funny\, devastating\, absurd—that bear witness to the violence of war and displacement without sensationalizing it…The Wrong End of the Telescope is a gorgeously written\, darkly funny and refreshingly queer witness to that seeking.” —BookPage \nMina Simpson\, a Lebanese doctor\, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos\, Greece\, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother\, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years\, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful\, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina’s singular own\, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis. \nRABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I\, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection\, The Perv. In 2019\, he won the Dos Passos Prize. \nThe Swank Hotel is an acrobatic\, unforgettable\, surreal\, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America. \nAt the outset of the 2008 financial crisis\, Em has a dependable\, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister\, Ad\, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible\, salary-backed\, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable\, something impossible\, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed\, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic\, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. \nLUCY CORIN is the author of The Swank Hotel\, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses\, and two other books of fiction. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nFREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Award winning author Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman) and acclaimed writer Lucy Corin will read from and discuss their new work: Corin’s The Swank Hotel and Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope. \nThe featured books can be purchased on the Bookshop Santa Cruz event page.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rabih-alameddine-the-wrong-end-of-the-telescope/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210911T020702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T201747Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the VOCES Graduate Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! This workshop will be led by Andrea Seeger (Director\nVOCES Graduate Writing Center).\n \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Psychology of Writing” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nClick here to be directed to more information about this workshop on the Division of Graduate Studies’ website. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-psychology-of-writing/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211006T195657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T014640Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Bridget Copley
DESCRIPTION:About eight times 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/lingustics-colloquia-bridget-copley/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210910T172326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T191029Z
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SUMMARY:Gowri Vijayakumar - Risk and Respectability: Sexuality and the Nation in the Time of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:Gowri Vijayakumar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, affiliated with the South Asian Studies Program at Brandeis. She is the author of At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis\, published by Stanford University Press in 2021. Her articles and essays on gender\, sexuality\, transnational politics\, and the state have appeared or are forthcoming in Gender & Society\, Social Problems\, Qualitative Sociology\, Signs\, and World Development. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gowri-vijayakumar-risk-and-respectability-sexuality-and-the-nation-in-the-time-of-aids/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210914T182003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T182618Z
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 12th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading\, featuring honored guest Gary Young. Poet Danusha Laméris will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). \n \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus was the 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year and a recipient of the 2007 Gail Rich Award. Among his published works are eleven volumes of poetry\, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems\, Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants\, Moments Without Names\, Shouting Down the Silence\, Pursuing the Dream Bone and The Dark Figure In The Doorway; a novel\, The Brezhnev Memo; and a literary memoir\, Striking Through the Masks. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years\, was the co-host of the radio program\, The Poetry Show\, and was the co-host of the television film review show\, Cinema Scene. Learn more at: www.mortonmarcus.com \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Archive can be found at UCSC Special Collections. Mort’s personal papers\, manuscripts\, and recordings reflect his legacy as a poet and educator\, and his collection of poetry books\, broadsides\, literary magazines and correspondence with other poets and writers illuminate his deep involvement in\, and passion for\, the literary art of poetry. \nOrganizing Committee\nLen Anderson\, Danusha Laméris\, Donna Mekis\, Mark Ong\, Maggie Paul\, Irena Polić\, Teresa Mora\, and Joseph Stroud. \nThe Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\nphren-Z\, an online literary magazine\, whose mission is to celebrate the Santa Cruz literary community\, has established a national poetry contest\, The Morton Marcus Poetry Prize\, in honor of Morton Marcus\, “whose life and work inspired the writing of many students\, friends\, and emerging poets.” For more information visit: http://phren-z.org/poetry_contest.html \nDavid Sullivan\, a poet and faculty member at Cabrillo College\, has honored phren-Z by serving as the judge for this year’s contest. \nSupport Poetry in Santa Cruz\nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading continues to be offered free to the public. Please consider donating to the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading at thi.ucsc.edu/projects/morton-marcus-poetry-reading as well as to Poetry Santa Cruz at: http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/ \nMort was a donating member of Poetry Santa Cruz from its inception in 2001. \nThis community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by: \nBookshop Santa Cruz\nCabrillo College English Department\nCowell College\nLiving Writers Series\nOw Family Properties\nPoetry Santa Cruz\nPorter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund\nPorter College\nSanta Cruz Writes\nSpecial Collections & Archives \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by November 11th\, 2021.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-morton-marcus-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211109T193857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211117T201934Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Teaching at California Community Colleges
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges\, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni\, including: \nBeth Au\, Moderator\nDirector\nCalifornia Community Colleges Registry \nFrancesca (Chesa) Caparas\, Panelist\nM.A. Literature\nEnglish Professor and Faculty Coordinator\, Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies \nDe Anza College \nSarah Gerhardt\, Panelist\nPh.D. Chemistry\nChemistry Instructor\nCabrillo College \nElizabeth Gonzalez\, Panelist\nPh.D. Psychology\nAdjunct Faculty\nPalomar College \nBrian Malone\, Panelist\nPh.D. Literature\nEnglish Professor\nDe Anza College \nMelissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano\, Panelist\nPh.D. Education\nEthnic Studies Professor\nEvergreen Valley College \nNicholas Vasallo\, Panelist\nD.M.A.\nDirector\, Music Industry Studies\, AV Technology\, and Music Composition\nDiablo Valley College \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ workshop on “California Community Colleges” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nClick here to be directed to more information about this workshop on the Division of Graduate Studies’ website. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-teaching-at-california-community-colleges/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210922T212944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T162203Z
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SUMMARY:Nasser Zakariya - Questions on "Anthroperiphery"
DESCRIPTION:Taking recent discussions of “Copernican Forecasting” as a point of departure\, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly marginal position of humanity. A sketch of some of the genealogies of these arguments and their representations suggest how ill-fitting they might be when set against varying historical conceptions of centrality\, probability\, and forecasting. \n \nNasser Zakariya’s doctorate is in history of science\, with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies. His research interests concern science and narrative\, as well as varied topics in the history and philosophy of science. He has taught and held research fellowships at a number of institutions\, including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and New York University Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic Institute of NYU).\n \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nasser-zakariya/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210911T180449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T220443Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating Salary
DESCRIPTION:Practice Mock Interviews and Salary Negotiations. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell\, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Interviewing and Negotiating Salary” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-interviewing-and-negotiating-salary/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T204500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211013T183425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T222834Z
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SUMMARY:A.M. Darke - Games and Play as Social Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Game designer A.M. Darke frames powerful dialogue about the role of games in the shaping of power in contemporary digital culture\, and beyond. What is at stake in self-representation\, and our representations of our communities\, through gaming. How are industry representations variously coded as racial\, as gendered? How can aspiring game-makers intervene in their communities and social representations of them? A.M. Darke rejoins our series for the third time\, pivoting from panelist to core/keynote lecturer. His lecture will take shape in two parts; the first an overview of his own work\, and the second a primer on accessible platforms for game-making. \n \n  \nA.M. Darke is an artist\, game designer\, and activist designing games for social impact. He created the award-winning card game Objectif\, which explores the intersection of race\, gender\, and standards of beauty. In 2016 he became an Oculus Launch Pad fellow\, and shortly thereafter wrote An Open Letter to Oculus Founder\, Palmer Luckey in response to reports of Luckey’s alt-right affiliations. The following year\, he curated the exhibition Building Code: Developing Mixed Use Space in Virtual Reality as an artist-in-residence at Laboratory. In 2018\, Darke joined the NYU Game Center Incubator residency\, and is currently a Futurist in Residence with ARVR Women. Darke holds a B.A. in Design (’13) and an M.F.A. in Media Arts (’15)\, both from UCLA. He is an Assistant Professor of Games and Playable Media\, and Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz\, and the founding director of The Other Lab\, an interdisciplinary\, intersectional feminist research lab for experimental games\, XR\, and new media. His work has been shown internationally and featured in a variety of publications\, including Forbes\, Kill Screen\, The Creator’s Project\, and NPR. \n  \nMedia and Society is a series of lectures and public conversations on the role of media\, journalism\, popular culture narrative\, and media representation\, in the deployment of power in contemporary society. \nEach series lasts a full academic year\, but the fall quarter of the series is also a component of Kresge 1: Power and Representation\, the core course at Kresge College. The series as a whole uniquely serves the UC Santa Cruz community in a vital function of the liberal arts: to cultivate dialogue in the context of public dialogue\, and to guard our freedoms in expressing and debating that knowledge.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-m-darke-games-and-play-as-social-intervention/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T131000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210911T175233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211115T230926Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to publish scholarly work\, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian\, University Library) and Erich van Rijn (Director of Journals and Open Access\, UC Office of Scholarly Communication\, UC Press). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Publishing in Academia” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-publishing-in-academia/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210922T212507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T170516Z
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SUMMARY:Lital Levy - World Literature\, Translation\, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz\, Warsaw\, Vilna\, Calcutta\, and Tunis. A case study for Levy’s broader project on “Global Haskalah\,” it brings together Sephardic studies\, world literature and translation studies\, transnational literary history\, and Jewish literary studies. Through this project\, Levy argues for two interventions: a rethinking of the nation-centered model of world literature\, and a revision of the Eurocentric narrative of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). The novel’s history begins with a work of minor literature by a Sephardic Englishwoman about a quintessential minority topic: crypto-Jews in the Spanish Inquisition. Originally intended as a refutation of English conversionists\, by the end of the century the novel had appeared in multiple free translations into Hebrew\, Yiddish\, and Judeo-Arabic\, refashioned to instill their readers with pride in historical Jewish nobility and martyrdom. In addition to mapping the book’s journey and elucidating the cultural markers of its myriad translations\, the talk will foreground the Calcutta Judeo-Arabic edition and its social-historical context. \n \nLital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University\, where she teaches comparative literature and theory\, Hebrew literature\, Arabic literature\, and Jewish studies. Her work integrates literary and cultural studies with intellectual history and religious thought. She is the author of Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, which won the MLA Prize for a First Book and awards from the AAJR and AJS. She is currently completing The Jewish Nahda\, an intellectual history of Arab Jews and modernity. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lital-levy-world-literature-translation-and-diaspora-the-intimately-global-journey-of-grace-aguilars-the-vale-of-cedars/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211108T203237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T203237Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio
DESCRIPTION:Gain tools and tips for effectively writing a teaching statement\, a common document in faculty hiring and review processes and an opportunity to reflect on how your teaching supports student learning. We’ll also review how to select teaching portfolio materials that tell a compelling story of who you are as an educator. This workshop will be led by Kendra Dority\, Ph.D. (Associate Director for Graduate Programs\, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on the “Preparing the Teaching Statement and the Teaching Portfolio” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-preparing-the-teaching-statement-and-the-teaching-portfolio/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210923T200425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T200425Z
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SUMMARY:Precarity and Belonging Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dr. Camilla Hawthorne\, this webinar will celebrate UCSC professors and their recent publication of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press\, 2021). Precarity and Belonging looks at mobility through space and society. It examines how the movement of people and their incorporation\, marginalization\, and exclusion\, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity\, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This book brings precarity and mobility together to explore the points of contact and friction\, and\, thus\, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality\, between citizens and noncitizens.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/precarity-and-belonging-book-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211014T225722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T220155Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michelle Obama
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to announce that UC Santa Cruz has been invited to participate in a special event with Michelle Obama on Tuesday\, November 9th\, 2021\, at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. This event will feature Mrs. Obama in conversation with a moderator and selected students from a small group of participating colleges\, including ours. \nOur campus community will have remote access to the free event and an opportunity to receive a free copy of Mrs. Obama’s book Becoming. \nWe will nominate one UC Santa Cruz undergraduate student to meet Mrs. Obama and participate in the in-person event at Prince George’s Community College in Largo\, Maryland. The conversation will be based on themes from her 2018 memoir\, Becoming\, with a particular emphasis on issues that are most resonant for college students. The Humanities Institute will sponsor the student’s travel and accommodation in Washington\, D.C. Applications for this opportunity were accepted until Thursday\, October 21\, at 11:59 p.m. PT. \nJoin this special conversation online by registering with your ucsc.edu email address! Please note the registration is free and is open until Friday\, November 5\, at 8:59 p.m. PT. \n \nThe Humanities Institute was thrilled to be able to offer 500 free copies of Becoming to members of the UC Santa Cruz community. At this time\, the books have all been claimed. \n  \n\nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Imagination.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michelle-obama/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211108T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211108T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211029T230242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T230242Z
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SUMMARY:Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell - Abolition and Healing
DESCRIPTION:This event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. \nWe invite students\, staff\, and faculty to join us for a live conversation about incarceration\, harm\, and healing with Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell. \nJerome Morgan was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is an entrepreneurship and organizer\, mobilizing communities to confront systems of oppression and to create spaces to heal from the traumas caused by the criminal legal system. jackie sumell is an artist and abolitionist organizer. Her public art and garden project\, Solitary Garden\, a collaboration with Tim Young\, who is currently on Death Row in San Quentin\, is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Jerome and jackie will discuss their individual approaches to mutual aid and organizing against carceral systems. They will speak about their shared work with New Orleans youth at the Ngombo Café and Sanctuary\, a café and healing space created by exonerees\, artists\, and activists which aims to “provide plant based products grown in tandem with incarcerated individuals to facilitate healing for the communities they have been accused of harming. It is through this unique collaboration that we envision a world without prisons.” \nThis event is collaboratively produced and sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, the Dean of Humanities\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nOf interest articles and writings by Jerome Morgan and collaborator:\n“Education is Improvisation: Improvisation is Art”\n“Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression” \nJerome Morgan is a native New Orleanian who was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is the Co-Founder/Programs Director of Free-Dem Foundations\, Owner/Trauma Counselor with Jerome 4 Justice\, LLC\, Graphic Designer/Writer with Park Roots Productions\, LLC\, Real Estate Developer/Investor with J & A Justice Holdings\, Inc\, Social Justice Co-Facilitator/Community Activist with Students At the Center (SAC)\, Panelist for Criminal versus Gentlemen: What Defines The Black Male Image 1 & 2\, co-author of “Unbreakable Resolve: Triumphant Stories of 3 True Gentlemen”\, published in 2017 and “Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression”\, published 2021 and has conducted workshops at universities all over the country about how he overcame injustice. Morgan is a pioneer in Formerly Incarcerated Person (FIP) entrepreneurship\, community-based business models\, FIP peer mentoring\, FIP youth advocacy and FIP literary works. \njackie sumell works at the intersection of abolition\, social practice\, and contemplative studies. She has spent the last 2-decades working directly with incarcerated folx\, most notably\, her elders Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has been the recipient of multiple residencies and fellowships including\, but not limited to\, an A Blade of Grass Fellowship\, Creative Capital\, Art 4 Justice\, Robert Rauschenberg Artist-as-Activist Fellowship\, Soros Justice Fellowship\, Eyebeam Project Fellowship and a Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship. sumell’s work invites us to imagine a landscape without prisons. She is based in New Orleans\, Louisiana where she continues to work on Herman’s House\, Solitary Gardens\, The Prisoner’s Apothecary PLUS and several other community generated\, advocacy based projects.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jerome-morgan-and-jackie-sumell-abolition-and-healing/
LOCATION:DARC 108\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211013T164401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T164401Z
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SUMMARY:Unbound: The Life and Legacy of Asian American Community Historian Judy Yung
DESCRIPTION:Through this event we aim to honor and celebrate Judith “Judy” Yung’s tremendous legacy as a UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of American Studies\, community and public scholar of Chinese American history\, pioneer of oral history methodology\, prize-winning author\, teacher\, supportive colleague\, and cherished mentor. \n \nPlease register by November 4\, 2021 \nProgram: \n\nWelcome remarks by Professor Alice Yang (UCSC)\nRemembrances by George Ow (Chinese American History Enthusiast and Philanthropist) and Buck Gee (Angel Island Foundation)\nCommunity forum: Professor Alice Yang will moderate a conversation with alumni Mana Hayakawa\, Lora Collier Chan\, Kio Tong-ishikawa\, Yukiya Jerry Waki\nAcademic forum: Professor Emerita Karen Tei Yamashita (UCSC) will moderate conversation with Professor Emerita Bettina Aptheker (UCSC)\, Professor Gordon Chang (Stanford)\, and Professor Erika Lee (U. of Minnesota)\nClosing remarks from Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder (UCSC)\n\nThis event is sponsored by: \n\nAsian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\nCenter for Racial Justice\nCowell College\nCritical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\nHumanities Division\nOakes College\n\nFor any questions or accommodations\, please contact Humanities Division Development Assistant Rafferty Lincoln\, rlincoln@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unbound-the-life-and-legacy-of-asian-american-community-historian-judy-yung/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210917T183328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155807Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of two novels I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness (Riverhead Books\, 2021) and Gold Fame Citrus (Riverhead Books\, 2015). She is also the author of the short story collection Battleborn (Riverhead Books\, 2012)\, winner of the Story Prize\, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Battleborn was named a Best Book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Globe\, Time Out New York\, and Flavorwire\, and a Best Short Story Collection by NPR.org. In 2012\, the National Book Foundation named Claire one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta\, One Story\, The Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Glimmer Train\, Best of the West 2011\, Best of the Southwest 2013\, and elsewhere. \nCathy Thomas is an Assistant Professor at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She has worked for NBC\, CBS\, Warner Bros. and in film development for Forest Whitaker. She is a script reader for Annapurna Pictures and Skydance Media. Some of her recent research is published in a chapter of Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on Toys and Their Messages; short stories and essays in Positive Magnets Journal; and a forthcoming memory project Wax on\, Wax Off. She is Managing Editor of The C.O.U.P Project\, a multi-platform dialogic journal engaged in acute critiques of power\, privilege\, domination\, and the violences they produce. She received her Ph.D. in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she was awarded a UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship and examined carnivalesque in Caribbean literature with her spec fiction novel Poco Mas. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-claire-vaye-watkins-cathy-thomas/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210922T212257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T213945Z
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SUMMARY:BuYun Chen - Making the Intangible Tangible: Craft\, History\, and the Ryukyus
DESCRIPTION:How did the global and regional circulation of resources\, techniques\, and technologies transform local ecologies\, practices\, and livelihoods? Located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean\, the Ryukyu Kingdom (?-1879; modern-day Okinawa\, Japan) was a vital entrepôt in the early modern world\, facilitating the movement of goods and people between northeast Asia and southeast Asia. This talk situates craft practices and material knowledge at the center of Ryukyu history to explore the historical entanglements of materials\, bodies\, and skills in the making and remaking of culture. \n \nBuYun Chen is Associate Professor of Asian history at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China (University of Washington Press\, 2019). Her current research explores the relationship between craft production\, statecraft practices\, and ecological change in the independent Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa\, Japan) from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/buyun-chen/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210911T014800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201857Z
UID:10006998-1635939000-1635944400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Writing the Curriculum Vitae
DESCRIPTION:Applications for academic positions require a CV\, and some alternative-academic employers also require them. Even if your post-graduate career will be outside academia\, having a CV in addition to a resume will help you realize your transferable skills. This workshop will be led by Veronica Heiskell\, Ph.D. (Associate Director of Experiential Learning and Student Employment\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Writing the Curriculum Vitae” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-writing-the-curriculum-vitae/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211104
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211025T204808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T205035Z
UID:10007029-1635897600-1635983999@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Giving Day
DESCRIPTION:THI is participating in Giving Day 2021! \nPlease considering donating to our Undergraduate Public Fellows Program!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giving-day/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211102T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211102T131000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210911T014240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201830Z
UID:10005866-1635853200-1635858600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement
DESCRIPTION:Institutions of higher learning increasingly require faculty applicants to submit a statement of contributions to diversity. Learn what belongs in this statement and how to communicate it effectively. This workshop will be led by Herbie Lee\, Ph.D. (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Crafting the Contributions to Diversity Statement” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-crafting-the-contributions-to-diversity-statement/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211029T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211029T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211006T195006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T202222Z
UID:10007018-1635513600-1635519600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Josefina Bittar Prieto
DESCRIPTION:About eight times 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/lingustics-colloquia-josefina-bittar-prieto/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210917T182558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155723Z
UID:10007006-1635441600-1635447300@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lara Vapnyar
DESCRIPTION:Lara Vapnyar moved from Moscow to Brooklyn in the 1990s. Knowing very little English\, she quickly picked up the language and soon began writing in it. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is the author of two short story collections\, There are Jews in My House (Anchor\, 2003) and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love (Anchor\, 2008) as well as four novels\, Memoirs of a Muse (Vintage\, 2006)\, The Scent of Pine (Simon & Schuster\, 2014)\, Still Here (Hogarth\, 2016)\, and Divide Me by Zero (Tin House Books\, 2019). She lives in New York City with her family. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lara-vapnyar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210922T211752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T213851Z
UID:10005882-1635336000-1635341400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Naya Jones + Jennifer Steverson — The Art of Black Ecologies: A Virtual Studio Visit & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The concept of black ecologies underscores the undue impact of climate and environmental injustice on Black diaspora communities while lifting up “insurgent” Black ecological knowledge (Roane & Hosbey 2019). Join us for a virtual studio visit and conversation on art and black ecologies with independent scholar and artist Jennifer Steverson. Steverson uses indigo dye\, textiles\, and archives to highlight Black diaspora community and resilience practices created through art\, craft\, and agriculture. She will be in conversation with arts-based geographer Naya Jones (UCSC Sociology). This event is moderated by the UCSC Black Geographies Lab and is part of the growing Black Botany Studio. \n \nNaya Jones (she/her/hers) is a UCSC Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in the Global and Community Health Program. She is a geographer and cultural worker whose solo and collaborative work foregrounds Black geographies of health\, ecologies\, and healing in North and Latin America. She practices arts-based methods\, from participatory film to ritual and botanical arts. Her current book and storytelling project focuses on African-American plant knowledge and the Great Migration. She initiated the Black Botany Studio\, a research lab\, to promote the study and art of black diaspora plant geographies. \nJennifer Steverson (she/her/hers) is an independent scholar and multi media artist based in Central Texas. Her work is informed by the cultural ecologies of the African Diaspora\, specifically by the way that Black people have crafted community and resilience practices through art\, craft\, and agriculture. She completed her undergraduate work at Eugene Lang College\, a division of the New School and her masters degree in Community and Regional Planning at UT Austin. Jennifer was a Hive Collective Artist in Residence in 2019. In 2020\, she completed a Texas Folklife Apprenticeship focused on quilting. She was a researcher on the Carver Museum’s African American Presence exhibit which opened in February 2020. Her work has appeared in the Rootwork Journal. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/naya-jones-jennifer-steverson/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T131000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210911T013836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201756Z
UID:10005865-1635248400-1635253800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Website Design\, WordPress
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to design a better website and how to use WordPress. Prior to October 26\, if you don’t already have a personal professional website\, create one. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty\, postdoctoral scholars\, and graduate students. This workshop will be led by Jason Chafin (Senior Web Developer\, University Relations). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Website Design\, WordPress” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-website-design-wordpress/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20211006T194551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T201958Z
UID:10007017-1634908800-1634914800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Mark Amengual - Phonetic interactions in multilingual speech
DESCRIPTION:About eight times 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/lingustics-colloquia-mark-amengual-phonetic-interactions-in-multilingual-speech/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161123
CREATED:20210917T182156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155636Z
UID:10007005-1634836800-1634842500@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Living Writers: Nouri al-Jarrah with translator Camilo Gómez-Rivas and Omar Pimienta with translator José Antonio Villarán
DESCRIPTION:Nouri al-Jarrah is a Syrian poet and influential poetic voice on the Arab literary scene. He has lived in exile and been publishing his poetry for nearly 40 years. His poetry draws on diverse cultural sources\, and is marked by a special focus on mythology\, folk tales and legends. A Boat to Lesbos and Other Poems (Banipal Books\, 2018)\, is Nouri Al-Jarrah’s first collection in English translation. This powerful epic poem was written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island\, and set out like a Greek tragedy\, also has editions in French\, Italian\, Turkish\, Spanish\, Persian\, and forthcoming in Greek – a truly international response to the torment of the Syrian people during these last few years. \nCamilo Gómez-Rivas and Allison Blecker are the translators of Nouri al-Jarrah’s A Boat to Lesbos and Other Poems (Banipal Books\, 2018). Gómez-Rivas is an Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He specializes in the cultures\, history\, and literatures of the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean. His book\, Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: the Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib\, analyzes a group of legal consultative texts between Cordoba and the Far Maghrib (what is today Morocco) and argues that legal institutions developed in the latter in response to the social needs of growing urban spaces and the administrative needs of the first Berber-Islamic empire. He is currently working on a second book-length project on the social and cultural history of the reception of displaced populations in the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean: a history of the refugees of the “reconquista.” In addition to translating modern Arabic literature\, he has also written on modern topics including legal reform in Morocco and Egypt. He received his PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale in 2009. After a two-year dissertation writing fellowship at Willamette University in\, Salem\, Oregon\, he spent five years teaching in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo. \nOmar Pimienta was born in Tijuana in 1978 and lives and works between San Diego and Tijuana. Pimienta has a Ph.D in Literature and an MFA from the University of California-San Diego as well as a B.A. in Latin American Studies\, San Diego State University. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; 5th Transborder Biennial with El Paso Museum of Art; MOCA Tucson. Arizona; Oceanside Museum of Art.; A Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibit; Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and the Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles\, CA. His books of poetry include\, Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press\, 2018)\, Inspección secudaria (Atrasalante Poesía\, 2017)\, El Álbum de las Rejas (Ediciones Liliputienses\, 2016)\, Escribo desde aquí (Pre-Textos\, 2010)\, La Libertad: ciudad de paso. (CECUT/ CONACULTA\, 2006; New edition\, Aullido libros\, Huelva\, España\, 2008)\, and Primera Persona: Ella. (Ediciones de la Esquina /Anortecer\, 2004; New Edition\, Littera libros\, Cáceres\, España. 2009). \nJosé Antonio Villarán is the translator of Omar Pimienta’s Album of Fences (Cardboard House Press\, 2018). He has bilingual fluency (English and Spanish) as a writer\, scholar\, translator and instructor. He is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (2006) & el cerrajero (2012). He is the creator of the AMLT project (http://amlt-elcomienzo.blogspot.pe)\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2021. Areas of focus include: Creative Writing\, Poetry/Poetics\, Cross-Genre Literature\, Literary Translation\, US-Latinx Literature\, Critical University Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. He holds an MFA in Writing from UCSD and a PhD in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration from UCSC. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nouri-al-jarrah/
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SUMMARY:Radhika Natarajan - Post-Imperial Contractions: Asian Migration and Marriage in Deindustrializing Britain
DESCRIPTION:The talk explores how Asian women became unassimilable in social work and public discourse in 1970s Britain. In the context of decolonization and deindustrialization\, the Pakistani woman who worked for wages posed a threat to the stability of the white male working class. To keep the Pakistani woman at home\, social workers created new forms of intervention into marriages\, offered English language classes to mothers at day care centers\, and extended the hand of friendship. From this perspective\, multiculturalist policies created Asian women as non-workers who needed extensive social welfare intervention. In doing so\, these policies reproduced the working class as male and white and the Asian woman as trapped by tradition. \n \nRadhika Natarajan is assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College in Portland\, OR. Her research focuses on the remaking of imperial strategies of managing difference during decolonization. Her article “Performing Multiculturalism: the Commonwealth Arts Festival of 1965” appeared in the Journal of British Studies\, and she has also written essays on the transcolonial routes of community development and British social work intervention into Asian marriages. She is writing a book\, Empire and the Origins of Multiculturalism\, which examines encounters between British social work and migrants from the decolonizing empire during the era of the welfare state. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-natarajan/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Douglas Abrams - The Book of Hope
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Local author Douglas Abrams (The Book of Joy) will join Bookshop Santa Cruz for an online discussion of The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times\, his wonderful new collaboration with environmentalist Jane Goodall. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“Vibrant with wry humor\, scientific fact\, grassroots advances\, compassion\, and spiritual depth\, this compelling and enlightening dialogue of hope amplifies Goodall’s mantra: ‘Together we can. Together we will.” —Booklist\, starred review. \n \nThe Book of Hope will be published on October 19th and may be preordered below. \nLooking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis\, a global pandemic\, loss of biodiversity\, political upheaval— it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. \nIn this urgent book\, Jane Goodall\, the world’s most famous living naturalist\, and Douglas Abrams\, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy\, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope\, Jane focuses on her “Four Reasons for Hope”: The Amazing Human Intellect\, The Resilience of Nature\, The Power of Young People\, and The Indomitable Human Spirit. \nDrawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world\, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions\, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with moving and inspirational stories and photographs from Jane’s remarkable career\, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today. \nWhile discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs\, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope\, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time\, she shares her profound revelations about her next\, and perhaps final\, adventure. \nThe second book in the Global Icons Series—which launched with the instant classic The Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—The Book of Hope is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future. \nThere is still hope\, and this book will help guide us to it. \nDouglas Abrams is the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu\, the first book in the Global Icons Series. Douglas is also the founder and president of Idea Architects\, a literary agency and media development company helping visionaries to create a wiser\, healthier\, and more just world. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/douglas-abrams-the-book-of-hope/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T190000
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SUMMARY:"By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution" with David Talbot and Margaret Talbot
DESCRIPTION:Salon.com founder and former editor-in-chief David Talbot and his sister Margaret\, a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker\, together explore the potential landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. Based on exclusive interviews\, original documents\, and archival research\, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the 20th-century radical movement. \nJoin us for our conversation moderated by Nikki Silva as she explores with Margaret and David Talbot and our panelists Madonna Thunder Hawk\, Heather Booth\, and Bill Zimmerman\, the epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements and across race\, class\, and gender divides. \n \nAuthors \n\nDavid Talbot (Stevenson\, ’73) is a journalist\, author\, activist\, and independent historian.\nMargaret Talbot is an essayist\, non-fiction writer\, and staff writer at The New Yorker.\n\nPanel \n\nMadonna Thunder Hawk is an activist and a veteran of every modern Native occupation from Alcatraz\, to Wounded Knee in 1973\, and more recently the NODAPL protest at Standing Rock.\nDolores Huerta is a co-founder of the United Farm Workers and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; she has played a major role in the civil rights movement for over 50 years.\nBill Zimmerman is a political consultant and author\, who managed Tom Hayden’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in the 1976 California primary.\nHeather Booth is a civil rights activist\, feminist\, and political strategist and has been heavily involved in progressive causes.\n\nModerator \n\nNikki Silva (Porter\, ’73) is co-executive producer of the public radio team\, The Kitchen Sisters\, who are creators of hundreds of stories for NPR and public broadcast. Her current NPR and podcast series is the Keepers.\n\nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/by-the-light-of-burning-dreams-the-triumphs-and-tragedies-of-the-second-american-revolution-with-david-talbot-and-margaret-talbot/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T131000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Slide Presentation Design
DESCRIPTION:Students will view an instructional video by Sonya prior to class. Students will practice giving 3-minute-maximum presentations with slides about their graduate work. This workshop will be led by Sonya Newlyn (Professional Development Coordinator\, Division of Graduate Studies). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Slide Presentation Design” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-slide-presentation-design/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T120000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Career Diversity and Humanities Without Walls
DESCRIPTION:What does career diversity look like for a humanities PhD? How do we empower ourselves now to make values-driven choices about careers? What communities and resources are out there to help students and faculty think about these questions? In this workshop\, we will discuss career diversity as an approach that can transform your thinking about yourself and others as well as your research and project planning in the present and the future. We will consider career diversity very broadly\, from non-profit and foundation work to public humanities to the private sector. \nThe workshop is also an invitation to learn about the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) organization\, its programming\, and its annual summer workshop that offers humanities PhD students unparalleled exposure to career diversity possibilities as well as a stipend to fund selected students’ participation. The application to this summer’s HWW workshop\, which is scheduled to be held in person at the University of Michigan\, is now open. More information about the call for applications is available on THI’s website. \nThe panel will be led by UC Santa Cruz and Marquette University Humanities Without Walls Fellows: \nMargaret (Maggie) Nettesheim-Hoffmann is the Associate Director of Career Diversity for the Humanities Without Walls consortium based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign and is based at Marquette University. As a part of her work for the consortium\, she is responsible for guiding HWW’s career diversity programming dedicated to transforming doctoral education for consortium partner schools and beyond. She is a co-PI on a $1.3M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Marquette University in support of HWW’s career diversity work and is completing a PhD in American History in the history of American philanthropy\, capitalism\, and progressive era political discourses critical of private wealth giving to public institutions. She was a HWW Predoctoral Career Diversity Fellow in 2017. \n \n  \nMorgan Gates is a PhD student in the Literature Department\, Humanities Without Walls alum\, and THI Public Fellow. As a Public Fellow\, she has explored working with non-profits as a dramaturg\, museum curator and program manager\, archivist\, and is currently a member of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History Publications Committee at work on an exciting new history publication for children. HWW has helped her imagine even more career possibilities and helped her learn to merge these experiences with her field research. \n \n  \nAaron Aruck is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz\, where he studies how sexuality broadly defined became a critical organizing principle for public health programs\, immigration enforcement\, and border making at the midcentury US-Mexico border. He was also a THI Public Fellow at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and remains interested in public history. A HWW fellow in 2017\, Aaron enjoyed learning how his research and skills could be employed in various jobs in the non-profit and legal worlds. \n  \nThis workshop is co-presented by The Humanities Institute (THI) at UC Santa Cruz and Humanities Without Walls national consortium based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and is open to University of California faculty\, staff\, and students. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-career-diversity-and-humanities-without-walls/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Sharika Thiranagama - In Memoriam: Stories of Dissent in Sri Lanka
DESCRIPTION:Sharika Thiranagama is Associate Professor in Anthropology and President of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. Her research has focused on various aspects of the Sri Lankan civil war. Primarily\, she has conducted research with two different ethnic groups\, Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims. Her research explores changing forms of ethnicisation\, the effects of protracted civil war on ideas of home in the midst of profound displacement and the transformations in and relationships between the political and the familial in the midst of political repression and militarization. Since 2014\, Sharika Thiranagama has also carried out new work in Kerala\, South India centering on Dalit agricultural communities in Kerala\, South India. She examines how communist led political mobilization both transformed every day and political mobilization as well as reconfiguring older caste identities\, re-entrenching caste inequities into new kinds of private neighborhood life. \n \nPresented by THI’s Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharika-thiranagama-in-memoriam-stories-of-dissent-in-sri-lanka/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T200000
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SUMMARY:Plenary of the Media and Society Lecture Series at Kresge College with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Kresge College presents the keynote Plenary of the Media and Society lecture series\, featuring San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in conversation with Kresge faculty\, including Novelist-Poet Daniel Pearce (UCSC Writing Program) and Associate Professor Anjuli Verma (Politics / Legal Studies). They will discuss language and media in the history of slavery and policing\, and will including readings of Eisen-Martin’s newest works. \nThis opening event for Kresge’s lecture series is also a key feature of Kresge’s Core course\, Power and Representation\, and will offer you a glimpse into what Kresge freshman learn and discuss as they embark on a journey of critical thinking in their liberal arts education. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \n \nAmerican Book Award winning Tongo Eisen-Martin (MA\, Columbia University; Poet Laureate of San Francisco) combines incisive poetic vision with practical activism\, confronting problems of justice in sound\, word\, and dialogue. Eisen-Martin’s poetry and education work to build conscientious and intellectual energy for prison-abolition and police-defunding movements by exposing criminal justice inequity\, mass incarceration\, and police atrocities\, including the extrajudicial killing of Black people. His someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) was nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, 2017) earned him accolades\, including a shortlisting for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. \nFrom the Poetry Foundation: Griffin Prize judges cited Eisen-Martin’s as work that “moves between trenchant political critique and dreamlike association\, demonstrating how\, in the right hands\, one mode might energize the other—keeping alternative orders of meaning alive in the face of radical injustice … His poems are places where discourses and vernaculars collide and recombine into new configurations capable of expressing outrage and sorrow and love.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/plenary-of-the-media-and-society-lecture-series-at-kresge-college/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Jess Walter - The Cold Millions
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning author Jess Walter will join us online for a discussion of his bestselling novel The Cold Millions (available in paperback on September 28th). Walter will be in conversation with acclaimed local writer Karen Joy Fowler. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UCSC. \n“The Cold Millions is a literary unicorn: a book about socio-economic disparity that’s also a page-turner\, a postmodern experiment that reads like a potboiler\, and a beautiful\, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It’s funny and harrowing\, sweet and violent\, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes. Jess Walter is a national treasure.” —Anthony Doerr\, author of All the Light We Cannot See \n \nThe paperback edition of The Cold Millions will be published on September 28th and can be ordered here. \nThe Dolans live by their wits\, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home\, his older brother\, Gig\, dreams of a better world\, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great\, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. \nDubious of Gig’s idealism\, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless nineteen-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming\, threatening to overwhelm them all\, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Is it enough to win the occasional battle\, even if you cannot win the war? \nAn intimate story of brotherhood\, love\, sacrifice\, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America\, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor\, between harsh realities and simple dreams. \nJess Walter is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins\, the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets\, the National Book Award finalist The Zero\, the Edgar Award–winning Citizen Vince\, Land of the Blind\, the New York Times Notable Book Over Tumbled Graves\, and the story collection We Live in Water. He lives in Spokane\, Washington\, with his family. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of three short story collections and six novels including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. 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 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. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/57518/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T185500
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Lesley Nneka Arimah
DESCRIPTION:Lesley Nneka Arimah was born in the UK and grew up in Nigeria and wherever else her father was stationed for work. Her stories have been honored with a National Magazine Award\, a Commonwealth Short Story Prize and an O. Henry Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, GRANTA and has received support from The Elizabeth George Foundation and MacDowell. She was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 and her debut collection WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY won the 2017 Kirkus Prize\, the 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was selected for the New York Times/PBS book club among other honors. Arimah is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing. She lives in Las Vegas and is working on a novel about you.\n \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-lesley-nneka-arimah/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T131000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to craft your talk\, warm up\, deal with nerves\, and engage your audience. This workshop will be led by Bri McWhorter (Activate to Captivate\, Founder/CEO). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Public Speaking” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-public-speaking-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T133000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Serres - Reflections on Abject Victimhood and the Impossibility of Post-Islamism: The trajectory of the Rachad Movement
DESCRIPTION:This presentation looks at the trajectory of former Algerian Islamists belonging to the opposition movement Rachad\, who denounce state exactions perpetrated during the civil war of the 1990s. In so doing\, the talk focuses on the notion of “abject victimhood\,” to think about the legal and political challenges faced by actors once associated with an Islamist insurgency. Moreover\, it shows how the production of abjection and that of victimhood are both entangled and conflicting\, as the former serves to restore state power\, while the latter supports revolutionary claims. This discussion also questions the possibility of a genuine form of “post-Islamism” in a context characterized by the impunity of state actors and the impossibility for those associated with political Islam to escape the vilifying discourses associated with counter-terrorism. \n \nThomas Serres is an Assistant Professor in the Politics department at UCSC. His research spans the field of Middle Eastern studies\, critical security studies and comparative politics\, and combines an ethnographic approach with a conceptual apparatus inspired by critical theory. He is particularly interested in the effects of protracted and entangled crises (popular uprisings\, “war on terror\,” refugee crisis\, neoliberalization) in North Africa and beyond. His first book\, entitled The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in Bouteflika’s Algeria\, studies Algerian politics as a system of governance based on the management of a seemingly never-ending crisis and the systematic endangerment of the political order. An updated and expanded version of this book is currently under contract with Columbia University Press\, after the French version was published with Karthala in 2019. Thomas has also published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Middle East Critique\, Interdisciplinary Political Studies and L’Année du Maghreb. Lastly\, he has also co-edited a volume entitled North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions\, Culture\, which was published by Bloomsbury Academic Publishing in 2018. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nFor Fall 2021\, the colloquium will take a hybrid format. Attendees have the option to attend in person in Humanities 210 or to watch the presentation on zoom. Those who attend in person must adhere to the campus mask mandate for all indoor activities and must complete UCSC’s symptom-check form before coming to campus. In person attendees are asked to please arrive at 12pm so that the event coordinators can verify the symptom check has been completed. To attend remotely via zoom\, please RSVP in advance\, and you will receive a zoom link on the morning of the colloquium. In most cases\, speakers will appear remotely so that they will not have to present wearing a mask. To RSVP for the full Fall colloquium series\, please use this form. If you have any questions about the colloquium\, please contact Piper Milton (pmilton@ucsc.edu). \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-serres-reflections-on-abject-victimhood-and-the-impossibility-of-post-islamism-the-trajectory-of-the-rachad-movement/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210930T180720Z
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SUMMARY:History and Modern Media - book talk with John Mraz
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Professor John Mraz\, Research Professor\, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades\, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla\, Mexico on “History and Modern Media”\, will discuss his most recent book published in 2021 by Vanderbilt University Press. John is a distinguished scholar on Mexican photo history and visual culture in Mexico. He is also the author of “Photographing the Mexican Revolution” (2012) and “Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity” (2009). Moreover\, John is a UCSC alum and obtained his Ph.D from the Department of History at UCSC in the mid-1980’s. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor Pedro Castillo\, Professor of History Emeritus\, UCSC. \n \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Humanities Division. \n***UC Santa Cruz COVID-19 protocols state that all on-site indoor events with expected attendance of 25 or more attendees will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the start of the event) for admittance. \nThese entrance requirements can be met in the following ways: \n1) Any attendee can show their CDC Vaccine Card (phone image acceptable) or digital vaccine record from the State of California. International attendees may show their translated vaccine record. \nOR \n2) Any attendee can show a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). \n***Prior to arriving for this event\, all visitors must complete a symptom check survey\, which can be accessed here: https://ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24vMSiDcxZp6VRX \nQuestions regarding this event can be directed to Pedro Castillo: pcastle@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/history-and-modern-media-book-talk-with-john-mraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210930T180318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T180318Z
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SUMMARY:Feminism in Mexico: Intergenerational and Transnational
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion will be led by Distinguished Professor Eli Bartra\, Professor of Feminist Studies at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco\, Mexico City. Professor Bartra is the author of “Feminism and Folk Art” (2018) and “Women in Mexican Folk Art” (2011)\, and is a leading activist on feminist issues in Mexico City. Also on the panel is Anna Lee Mraz Bartra\, an independent scholar from Mexico who holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico\, with a focus on women in Mexico and cross cultural social activism. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor Norma Klahn\, Professor of Literature Emerita\, UCSC. \n \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department\, Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, History Department\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Humanities Division. \n***UC Santa Cruz COVID-19 protocols state that all on-site indoor events with expected attendance of 25 or more attendees will require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the start of the event) for admittance. \nThese entrance requirements can be met in the following ways: \n1) Any attendee can show their CDC Vaccine Card (phone image acceptable) or digital vaccine record from the State of California. International attendees may show their translated vaccine record. \nOR \n2) Any attendee can show a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours (must be a lab PCR test; home tests/antigen tests are not valid). \n***Prior to arriving for this event\, all visitors must complete a symptom check survey\, which can be accessed here: https://ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24vMSiDcxZp6VRX \nQuestions regarding this event can be directed to Pedro Castillo: pcastle@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminism-in-mexico-intergenerational-and-transnational/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T131000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210911T004434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201646Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Designing a Professional LinkedIn Profile\, Using LinkedIn to Network & Job Search Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Participants will view an instructional video by former Career Center Career Coach Christina Hall prior to class. Class time will consist of Q&A and workshopping LinkedIn profiles\, using LinkedIn tools. This workshop will be led by Leezel Ramos (Associate Director of Career Engagement\, Career Success). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Designing a Professional LinkedIn Profile\, Using LinkedIn to Network & Job Search Q&A” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-designing-a-professional-linkedin-profile-using-linkedin-to-network-job-search-qa/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T185500
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210917T180243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T155437Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Giannina Braschi
DESCRIPTION:Giannina Braschi was born in San Juan\, Puerto Rico. She was a fashion model\, singer\, and tennis champion in her teen years. She studied literature in Madrid\, Rome\, London\, and Rouen before settling in New York City. With a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from State University of New York\, Stony Brook\, she taught at Rutgers University\, City University of New York\, and Colgate University. She has published on Cervantes\, Garcilaso\, Machado\, Lorca\, and Bécquer. A Literature Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Braschi has won awards/grants from Ford Foundation\, Danforth Scholarship\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, Reed Foundation\, InterAmericas\, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña\, Rutgers\, and PEN. PEN has called Braschi “one of the most revolutionary voices” in Latin American Literature today. Her work is a hybrid of poetry\, fiction\, theater\, and political philosophy. Braschi has published numerous works in Spanish\, Spanglish\, and English\, including El imperio de los sueños (Anthropos\, 1988)\, Yo-Yo Boing! (Latin American Literary Review Press\, 1998) and United States of Banana (AmazonCrossing\, 2011). Her scholarly publications include a book on Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and essays on Cervantes\, Garcilaso\, Machado\, and García Lorca. Her collected poems were translated into English by Tess O’Dwyer as Empire of Dreams (Yale University Press\, 1994). Her life’s work is the subject of Poets\, Philosophers\, Lovers: on the Writings of Giannina Braschi (Latinx and Latin American Profiles\, Pittsburgh\, 2020)\, a collection of essays edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer with a foreword by Ilan Stavans. The United States Library of Congress calls her work “cutting-edge\, influential and even revolutionary.” In recent years\, her avant-garde writings have appeared in far-ranging cultural spaces such as television comedy\, chamber music\, art and design\, theater\, and ecologic urbanism. \n \nThe World Beyond Us: A Living Writers Series – Taking advantage of our (hopefully) last virtual Living Writers this Fall\, 2021\, this series will be centered on writers working and living outside the United States\, writers who look beyond the U.S. in their work\, and writers who work in languages other than English. Due to the prohibitive cost of travel and lodging\, many of these writers would have been difficult if not impossible to bring in person. Some writers will read with their translators\, extending the conversation to the art of translation as well. Two of these translators are Literature Department professors and one a Literature Department graduate student\, highlighting the creative translation work being done in our own department. The U.S. publishes very little work in translation\, just 3% of the books published in the U.S. are translations\, compared to other countries (50% of Italy’s books are translations\, for example). Thus\, this series will expose students (as well as faculty and community members) to exciting writers\, writing and translations they very likely are not familiar with. \nThis series will also include one night of California speculative writers\, Claire Vaye Watkins and Cathy Thomas\, who will read and talk about California Futures. This California Futures evening will be sponsored by The Humanities Institute Research Cluster Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-giannina-braschi/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T131000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210824T160816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201518Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Developing A Digital Reputation
DESCRIPTION:Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape. This workshop will be led by Andrea Limas (Assistant Director of Communications\, Social Sciences Division). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Developing a Digital Reputation” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-developing-a-digital-reputation/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210910T210248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T201558Z
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to promote your research and create a virtual community of Tweeple. This workshop will be led by Kayla Isenberg\, (Senior Director of Digital Engagement\, University Relations). \nThe Division of Graduate Studies’ professional communication workshop on “Using Twitter Professionally” is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2021-2022 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate Studies are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \n \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the sixth year of The Humanities Institute’s PhD+ Workshops. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-using-twitter-professionally-2/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210818T182704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210818T182741Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Franzen\, Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to host local and award-winning author Jonathan Franzen for the launch event of his new book\, Crossroads\, which tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations\, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nClick here for tickets to this special virtual event\, which include a signed copy of Crossroads. \nBookshop Santa Cruz is exclusively able to offer personalized\, autographed copies of Crossroads. Details available with ticket purchase. \nA tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense\, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day\, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident. \nIt’s December 23\, 1971\, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt\, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church\, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife\, Marion\, who has her own secret life\, beats him to it. Their eldest child\, Clem\, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism\, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister\, Becky\, long the social queen of her high-school class\, has sharply veered into the counterculture\, while their brilliant younger brother Perry\, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders\, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. \nJonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now\, in Crossroads\, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity\, and with even greater warmth\, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. \nJonathan Franzen is the author of Purity\, The Corrections\, and Freedom\, among other novels\, and works of nonfiction including Farther Away and The Kraus Project\, all published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the German Akademie der Künste\, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/56894/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210817T173045Z
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SUMMARY:Ruth Ozeki: The Book of Form and Emptiness
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author and staff favorite Ruth Ozeki for an online discussion of The Book of Form and Emptiness\, her brilliantly inventive novel about loss\, growing up\, and our relationship with things. Ozeki will be in conversation with writer Katie Kitamura. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and Vroman’s Bookstore. \n“This compassionate novel of life\, love and loss glows in the dark. Its strange\, beautiful pages turn themselves. If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two\, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.” —David Mitchell\, Booker Prize-finalist author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue \n \nOne year after the death of his beloved musician father\, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker\, a broken Christmas ornament\, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn’t understand what these things are saying\, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant\, a gentle hum or coo\, but others are snide\, angry and full of pain. When his mother\, Annabelle\, develops a hoarding problem\, the voices grow more clamorous. \nAt first\, Benny tries to ignore them\, but soon the voices follow him outside the house\, onto the street and at school\, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library\, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There\, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret\, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet\, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. \nAnd he meets his very own Book—a talking thing—who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. \nWith its blend of sympathetic characters\, riveting plot\, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz\, to climate change\, to our attachment to material possessions\, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold\, wise\, poignant\, playful\, humane and heartbreaking. \n“Once again\, Ozeki has created a masterpiece. Her generous heart\, remarkable imagination\, and brilliant mind light up every page.” —Karen Joy Fowler \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels\, My Year of Meats\, All Over Creation\, and A Tale for the Time Being\, which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film\, Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foun­dation and teaches creative writing at Smith College\, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. \nKatie Kitamura‘s most recent novel\, A Separation\, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. It was named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications\, translated into 16 languages\, and is being adapted for film. Her two previous novels\, Gone To The Forest and The Longshot\, were both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena\, Katie has written for publications including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Granta\, BOMB\, Triple Canopy\, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-ozeki-the-book-of-form-and-emptiness/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210920
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210809T184906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210812T181107Z
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SUMMARY:Frequency: A Festival of Light\, Sound & Digital Culture
DESCRIPTION:Frequency is a new biennial festival of light\, sound\, and digital culture hosted in and around the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This 4-night downtown takeover activates the museum\, neighboring gardens and plazas with installations of site-responsive work\, live performances\, interactive technologies\, and immersive experiences from local and international artists. \nFrequency is a mostly free event. While all outdoor installations can be visited at no cost\, there is a small entrance fee to the MAH\, where some indoor artworks and programs are hosted. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/frequency-a-festival-of-light-sound-digital-culture/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210918
DTSTAMP:20260403T161124
CREATED:20210824T162749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210827T164239Z
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SUMMARY:Envisioning Careers With A Humanities PhD: A UC Humanities Virtual Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Envisioning Careers With A Humanities PhD: A UC Humanities Virtual Retreat \nSeptember 15 – 17\, 2021 | 9 AM – 12 PM (PDT) \n \n  \nJoin us for a career exploration retreat for Humanities PhD students and faculty advisors. The UC Humanities Network event will feature sessions on exploring careers in and beyond the academy\, reflecting on your skills\, and preparing for interviews. \nRegistration: bit.ly/UCCareerFutures \nDetails: bit.ly/UCCFSchedule \nMain Presenters:\nDerek Attig\, PhD (U of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign)\nAnnie Maxfield\, MS (Director of Graduate Career & Professional Development\, University of Texas at Austin)\nKatina Rogers\, PhD (University of Colorado\, Boulder). \n  \nThis virtual retreat is sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/envisioning-careers-with-a-humanities-phd-a-uc-humanities-virtual-retreat/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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