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SUMMARY:Barbara Thompson: "Curatorial Activism: Exhibiting Arts of the 'Other'"
DESCRIPTION:In curatorial practices today\, asking the question “What is art?” leads to a clear lack of a singularly “correct” answer. Expand the question to “What is African art?” and the territory becomes even murkier in that both the terms “art” and “Africa” resist definition. The navigation toward mutual understanding becomes an almost impassable quagmire of definitions\, territorialism\, and exclusionism\, especially when expanding these questions to the exhibition of arts from various cultures around the world. \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Barbara Thompson re-examines her use of curatorial activism in exhibitions and experimental interventions curated at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College\, which not only challenged older museological practices but also fostered open dialogue about the development of new paradigms. \nReadings are available from macs@ucsc.edu \nFor more information\, please contact Lucian Gomoll at macs@ucsc.edu or visit the MACS website at http://macs.ucsc.edu/ \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Cluster\, and the History of Consciousness Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/barbara-thompson-curatorial-activism-exhibiting-arts-of-the-other-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sandra Koelle: "Intimate Bureaucracies: Roadkill\, Policy\, and Fieldwork in the Shoulder"
DESCRIPTION:Doctor Koelle researches how to develop data visualizations that represent spatial experience as subjective and relational rather than as defined through place. The goal is to map animal and human movements and constraints across the American West at different scales to facilitate an affective and aesthetic experience and provide a way to think about the politics of movement and immobility\, from habitat destruction to transit budget cuts. \n\nSandra Koelle is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at Stanford University. \n\nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sandra-koelle-intimate-bureaucracies-roadkill-policy-and-fieldwork-in-the-shoulder-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sarah Abrevaya Stein: "In Search of a Novel Archive of the Jewish Past"
DESCRIPTION:What sources are essential to the study of the Jewish past? Where can they be found? In this talk\, Sarah Abrevaya Stein discusses her on-going efforts to stretch the linguistic\, geographic\, and conceptual boundaries of the Jewish past\, offering a scholarly travelogue of novel archives of Jewish history. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the Department of History at UCLA. Co-winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for 2010\, she received her A.B. from Brown University in 1993 and her doctorate from Stanford University in 1999. Her scholarship has ranged across the Yiddish and Ladino speaking diasporas and the European\, Russian\, American\, Ottoman and wider Mediterranean settings\, but is always engaged with the reasons for and manifestations of Jewish cultural diversity in the modern period. Stein is the author of Plumes: Ostrich Feathers\, Jews\, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (Yale University Press\, 2008)\, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, and Making Jews Modern: the Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (Indiana University Press\, hardback 2004\, paperback 2006)\, winner of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies for 2003 and finalist for the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2004. \nStein is now working on three book projects. With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, she is now writing Misfits: Classifying Jews and the Persistence of Empire\, a book that explores Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Jewish encounters with evolving legal systems whose shaping accompanied the dismantling\, persistence\, and transformation of empires across the globe over the course of the twentieth century. With Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University) and the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant\, Stein is also co-editing The Sephardic Studies Reader: 1730-1950 (Stanford University Press\, forthcoming). This documentary reader will feature over 300 translated\, original sources written over the course of two centuries by or about Sephardic Jews in the heartland of modern Judeo-Spanish culture (the Balkans\, Palestine\, and Turkey under Ottoman and post-Ottoman rule) and in crucial hubs of the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. Finally\, with Aron Rodrigue\, Stein is co-editing An Ottoman Rebel: Sa’adi Besalel ha-Levi and Jewish Salonica in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, which will present an annotated translation of the first known memoir in Ladino. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein’s talk is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-stein-ucla-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jill Hoy: "Singular Dualities: Painting from Life\, Painting in the Studio"
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Humanities Presents the East Coast Distinguished Visiting Alumni lecture featuring Jill Hoy Cowell ’77. This is the inaugural talk from the East Coast Distinguished Alumni fund. Jill will present “Singular Dualities: Painting from Life\, Painting in the Studio.”  Reception to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jill-hoy-singular-dualities-painting-from-life-painting-in-the-studio-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Whose City? Labor and the Right to the City Movements
DESCRIPTION:A one-day conference at the University of California Santa Cruz\nSponsored by the Center for Labor Studies & Urban Studies Research Cluster \nThe right to the city is…far more than a right of individual access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city more after our heart’s desire. It is\, moreover\, a collective rather than an individual right since changing the city inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power over the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake ourselves and our cities is…one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. – David Harvey\, 2008 \n\nWorkers\, environmentalists\, and urban social movements have recently converged under a new banner: “the right to the city.” The phrase refers to the right of city dwellers—now the world’s majority—to democratically control development and resources in the cities in which they live .  In today’s global economy\, this “right” is profoundly challenged.  Social divisions are experienced increasingly in spatial terms—through gentrified housing markets and polarized job markets; unequal access to green space and unequal exposure to environmental risk; new modes of segregation and policing public space. Against this backdrop\, the process of urbanization itself has become a site of political contestation\, and the fight for the “right to the city” both a critique and call to organize. Bringing together leading scholars\, practitioners\, and activists from across California and the U.S.\, “Whose City?” will provide an opportunity to think critically and creatively about these emerging coalitions—from their historic roots to their possible futures\, from their major challenges to their major victories\, from their local to their global manifestations. \nPanels & Speakers\nKeynote: Whose City?\nDavid Harvey\, Distinguished Professor\, City University of New York \nI. Cities for People or Profit? Wage\, Housing\, and Economic Justice Campaigns\nUrban development is now a primary engine of economic growth and profit-making across the U.S. and globally. Yet the benefits of this growth are not equally shared. Rather\, cities have become centers of extreme inequality. Rents and property values soar in some cities\, waves of foreclosure devastate others. Wages\, subsidized housing\, unionized jobs\, and city services are cut across the board. In response\, urban social movements and labor groups turn to battles for living wages\, community benefits agreements\, and housing rights. \nGilda Haas\, Founder\, Strategic Action for a Just Economy; Co-Founder Right to the City national alliance: “Beyond Campaigns: Inequality\, Popular Education\, and Transformation” \nNari Rhee\, Associate Academic Specialist\, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research & Education: “What Does Labor Bring to the Politics of Place?  Unions and the Right to the City movement in Silicon Valley”   \nStephanie Luce\, Associate Professor of Labor Studies\, Murphy Institute\, CUNY: “From Just Economics to Economic Justice: Taking Wage Campaigns to the Next Level” \nGretchen Purser\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Syracuse University:  “The Spectre and Spectacle of Eviction: Rethinking America’s Housing Crisis” \nII. Cities of Nature: From Environmental Justice to Green Jobs\nUrban growth transforms nature; the forces of nature reshape the city.  Rampant urban development has made this age-old dynamic increasingly unsustainable\, contributing to global warming\, species extinction\, water scarcity\, and toxic pollution. Meanwhile\, these conditions exacerbate inequalities of race and class\, in the US and globally.  Through coalitions of labor\, urban\, and green movements\, these conditions have also become the target of campaigns for environmental justice\, sustainable development\, and green jobs. \nJon Zerolnick\, Research Director\, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE): “The Clean and Safe Ports Campaign: False dichotomies and the Underground Economy versus Coalition-building and the Power of Local Government” \nJeff Rickert\, National Policy Director\, Green For All and former Director\, AFL-CIO Center on Green Jobs: “A Brief History of the Green Jobs Movement” \nKevin Danaher\, Co-Founder of Global Exchange\, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Producer of the Green Festivals: “The Green Economy is the Future”  \nMelissa Checker\, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies\, Queens College\, City University of New York: “What Do You Mean by Green?’: Green Jobs in a Greed Economy\,” \nIII. Rights to the Global City: Race\, Class\, Gender and Citizenship across Borders\nImmigrant rights\, as well as racial\, ethnic\, and gender equality\, have long been central issues of urban justice\, and today only more so.  From day laborers to low paid service workers\, the men and women who sustain the global economy and build our cities are often marginalized by immigration status\, language\, culture\, and identity. This has motivated creative alliances between immigrant rights\, human rights\, and labor movements\, highlighting links between identity\, citizenship\, and the right to the city. \nFaranak Miraftab\, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning\, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: l“Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and What it Means for the Right to the City Movements:Observations in a Transnational Packing Town in the Midwest.” \nJoshua Bloom\, PhD Candidate in Sociology\, UCLA: “Ally to Win: Black Community Leaders and SEIU’s LA Security Unionization Campaign.“  \nGihan Perera\, Director\, Miami Worker Center\, co-founder RTTC national alliance \nGerardo Dominguez\, Organizer\, United Food and Commercial Workers\, Local 5: “Immigrant Mercado Workers’ Struggle to Bring Justice to the Workplace” \nFor more information: http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu/events/whose-city/ \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/labor-the-right-to-the-city-building-coalitions-transforming-urban-futures-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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