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SUMMARY:UCSC Free Performance Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
DESCRIPTION:FREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH\, JAPANESE\, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES FROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! \nFor its 23rd season\, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. \nFrench: Dur dur la torture (Pure Torture)\, written by the students\, directed by Renée Cailloux. \nJapanese: “きぼうのうた” (Song of Hope)\, directed by Naoko Yamamoto.\nSpanish: “Noble campaña” (A Lofty Cause)\, Based on a short story by Gregorio López y Fuentes and directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles and Sandra Malone. \nFor more information\, contact Renée Cailloux at meip@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-free-performance-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:CMENA Student Choice Lecture:  Razan Ghazzawi -Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual student choice lecture presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa:  Razan Ghazzawi\, “Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography.”  From a positionality of an exiled protestor in Europe and a former political prisoner in Syria\, this project traces the journeys of eight self-identified Syrian and Palestinian LGBTQ artists\, workers\, performers\, and refugees from their temporary exile locations in Lebanon to their refugee destinations in Europe. It explores the interlocutors’ temporal encounters with geographies of checkpoints and prisons in Syria and Lebanon\, on one side\, and racialized borders of Europe\, on the other. This project investigates narratives of what Rima Hammami calls “carceral geographies” as well as surviving checkpoints\, prisons\, and asylum journeys from Syria and Lebanon to Europe. The talk will focus on one of the book’s chapters\, which examines stories of navigating and surviving racialized borders as LGBTQ refugees of color\, and how this experience is securitized and militarized; it will also explore emotional labor and care as affective forms of protest within the context of military carceral states in Syria and Lebanon as well as Europe’s “refugee crisis.” \nDr. Razan Ghazzawi (they/them/هي\هن) is an award-winning human rights defender\, former political prisoner\, and recovering blogger. They are an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. A MESA Global Academy Fellow for 2024–2025\, Ghazzawi’s work has appeared in ARTE\, Al Jazeera English\, The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication\, and Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research. They are currently developing their first book monograph\, an ethnographic study of sexuality politics in Syria and Lebanon that examines revolution\, the “war on terror\,” and the “refugee crisis” from south–south perspectives. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Arab Students Union. Lunch will be served during the talk.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-carceral-geographies-to-racialized-borders-a-queer-feminist-ethnography/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-8/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Homer's The Odyssey Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Homer’s Odyssey is about to turn into a major motion picture. Whether you like to see movies or not\, that’s a great excuse to re-read this millennia-old story about a wet\, salty man trying to find his way home. This June\, join THI for a series of online reading groups with UCSC Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin Devecka where we’ll discuss the wild world of Odysseus and what it can teach us about the enduring value of things like being nice to strangers\, lying\, and picking a good disguise. \n \nPlease register above to attend one or more of the webinars! \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/homers-the-odyssey-reading-group/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Homer’s Odyssey is about to turn into a major motion picture. Whether you like to see movies or not\, that’s a great excuse to re-read this millennia-old story about a wet\, salty man trying to find his way home. This June\, join THI for a series of online reading groups with UCSC Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin Devecka where we’ll discuss the wild world of Odysseus and what it can teach us about the enduring value of things like being nice to strangers\, lying\, and picking a good disguise. \n \nPlease register above to attend one or more of the webinars! \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/homers-the-odyssey-reading-group-2/
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SUMMARY:2026 Dickens Universe
DESCRIPTION:The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz invites the community to the 2026 Dickens Universe\, held July 26–August 1\, a weeklong scholarly gathering devoted to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The Universe brings together scholars\, students\, teachers\, and lifelong learners for lectures\, discussion groups\, film screenings\, Victorian tea\, festive dance\, and a variety of other immersive experiences—all set among the redwoods on the UCSC campus. This retreat celebrates the power of literature to build community\, spark conversation\, and connect readers across generations. \nFor more information please visit: 2026 Dickens Universe
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-dickens-universe/
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