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SUMMARY:The Deep Read - A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, public conversation with British mycologist and author\, Merlin Sheldrake\, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 31\, 2026. He’ll discuss his New York Times bestseller\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures with Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep Read community. Together\, we’ll explore the dependence of all life—human\, plant\, animal\, and beyond—on fungal networks and how the resulting interconnections provoke us to reconsider our understanding of existence\, identity\, intelligence\, and more. \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-merlin-sheldrake/
LOCATION:Quarry Amphitheater
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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. \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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