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SUMMARY:Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC\, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard\,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology\, tools\, and instructions that ensure a meaningful assignment for your students\, including how such assignments should be evaluated. \nThis workshop will inspire you to design new assignments\, develop your own multimedia materials\, and consider new pedagogical possibilities. \nBring your lunch.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brown-bag-workshop-teaching-with-film-and-video-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, Room 1350
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T160000
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CREATED:20160113T203533Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
DESCRIPTION:In our introductory Winter Seminar\, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment. \nThe first half of the meeting\, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as a category of social critique and its intersections with our work. In the second half of the meeting\, we intend to engage in a discussion of Paul Lafargue’s short piece The Right to be Lazy as a productive departure point for some of the directions listed above. \nSome questions we hope to explore might include: \n\nWhat differentiates labor and leisure and how have theses categories been historically constructed through racialized\, gendered\, heteropatriarchal\, class\, and/or colonial hierarchies?\nWhat social and economic practices figure an activity as work\, play\, nonwork\, or leisure?\nHow does the formal category of “leisure” itself act to discipline desires?\nIn what ways does the production and appropriation of excess enable cultural and political forms of participation and belonging?\n\n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-leisure-studies-winter-seminar-introduction-the-right-to-be-lazy-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160209T180000
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SUMMARY:Anna Björk: "Ex-hombres\, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature"
DESCRIPTION:  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-bjork-3/
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:20160210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T133000
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SUMMARY:B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich.\n\nRuby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly\, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman. \n\n\n  \n\nWinter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: \nJanuary 13- Elena Gapova: “Suffering and the Soviet Man’s Search for Meaning: The “Moral Revolutions” of Svetlana Alexievich”\nJanuary 20- Nicholas Mitchell: “On Afropessimism; or\, The People Critique Makes”\nJanuary 27- Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”\nFebruary 3- Jonathan Beecher: “Visions of Revolution: European Writers ad the French Revolution of 1848”\nFebruary 10- B. Ruby Rich: “The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming”\nFebruary 17- Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People\, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”\nFebruary 24- Beléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”\nMarch 2- Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity”\n\n\n\n  \nStay tuned for more information about guest speakers.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
DESCRIPTION:Literature graduate students\, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.\n  \nKatie Trostel\,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”  \nThis digital mapping project centered on Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004) stems from larger questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC; the group has undertaken the project of thinking through the meaning of the ghetto in the context of its 500th anniversary. Through digital mapping\, I trace the complexity of ways in which Jewish spaces\, including that of the ghetto\, are revisited\, re-inscribed\, entangled\, and recycled in Agosín’s poems\, as she simultaneously works through her experience of exile in the period of the Chilean post-dictatorship. The space of the ghetto\, as well as globalized Jewish spaces as a broader category\, are ways of thinking through the more expansive themes of exile\, displacement\, national belonging\, and exclusion. Through her prose-poems\, Agosín complicates the idea of a static geography\, weaving personal place-based memories into a complex web of Jewish sites of global significance. Reflecting upon her travels across four continents\, she explores both the category of exile and a certain longing for home. I use this work to think about the re-inscription of meanings of place\, and how sites of memory can come to embody overlapping stories that span both space and time. I question: How do these sites of memory travel? How can a digital representation of literary space help to visualize and make deeper the layers of history and tangled webs of place-based belonging encoded in the pages of Agosín’s text? \n  \nErica Smeltzer\, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague” \nThis project uses a digital mapping platform to represent the many spatial characteristics attributed to Jewish experience: exile\, sequestration\, and diaspora. Beginning with the Jewish ghetto in Prague\, the “Story Map” will begin with Egon Erwin Kisch’s Tales from Seven Ghettos\, following the reportage as it describes place\, space\, and history in the Jewish quarter. This project evolved from the larger theoretical and comparative questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC. The group considers the Venice Ghetto “a memory space that travels.” In this spirit the digital map attempts to represent the intersections between stories of the ghetto\, their reiterations\, and the dispersal of their authors. In this way the mapping project begins with Egon Erwin Kisch\, but it does not end with him. The map slowly expands as his text touches on different nodes (legends\, landmarks\, and histories) and begins to oppose a purely insular vision of the ghetto through a specialized and expanding network of intertext.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mapping-liminal-spaces-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
DESCRIPTION:Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo. \nUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:\nLeading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker\nBranwen Okpako\nFilm Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama\nWednesday\, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm\nNickelodeon Theatre\, Santa Cruz\n \nLiving Writers Talk\n Thursday\, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm\n Humanities Lecture Hall\, 206\n \nBoth events are Free and open to the public \nBranwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University\, England\, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy\, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992)\, Frida Film (1993)\, Vorspiel (1994)\, Landing (1995)\, Market Forces (1996)\, Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998)\, The 3 screen installation\, Sehe ich was\, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?\, 2002)\, for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle\, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000)\, she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion\, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen\, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005. \nFor her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary\, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012)\, and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project\, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea)\, a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf\, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.\n  \nJoin the Discussion\nKUSP Film Review\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/branwen-okpako-the-education-of-auma-obama-2/
LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T160000
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SUMMARY:Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
DESCRIPTION:This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control\, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation\, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation\, which have been regarded as central both in the traditions in which the practices arose and in the scientific literature on meditation. I analyze them in terms of their characteristic intentions\, distingush them from concentration and mindfulness in general\, and examine the relations between them. Concentration involves keeping the mind focused on a single object\, while mindfulness requires noticing whatever mental states occupy the focus of one’s consciousness. In the course of the investigation I examine the role of phenomenology and volition in the activity of meditating\, and how they change as meditative capacities develop. \nAbout: \nNoa Latham is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Interests: Ethics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Action\, Philosophy of Mind
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/noa-latham-meditation-and-self-control-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T194500
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SUMMARY:Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
DESCRIPTION:UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents:\nLeading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker\nBranwen Okpako\nFilm Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama\n Wednesday\, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm\n Nickelodeon Theatre\, Santa Cruz\n \nLiving Writers Talk\nThursday\, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm\nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206\n \nBoth events are Free and open to the public \nBranwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She studied political sciences at Bristol University\, England\, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy\, Berlin. Her films include the shorts Probe ( 1992)\, Frida Film (1993)\, Vorspiel (1994)\, Landing (1995)\, Market Forces (1996)\, Searching for Taid (1997) and Love Love Liebe (1998)\, The 3 screen installation\, Sehe ice was\, was du nicht siehst? (Do I see something you don’t?\, 2002)\, for which she received the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle\, Germany. For the feature documentary Dirt for Dinner(Dreckfresser) (2000)\, she won the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion\, the German Next-Generation-First-Steps Award for Best Documentary Film and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. The fiction feature Valley of the Innocent (Tal der Ahnungslosen\, 2004) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film festival in 2003 and went on to compete in the feature film competition at FESPACO 2005. \nFor her film The Education of Auma Obama Okpako received the 2012 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary\, the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles (both in 2012)\, and the Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival (2011). Her most recent project\, The Curse of Medea (Fluch der Medea)\, a docu-drama about the life of the late German writer Christa Wolf\, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. \nJoin the Discussion\nKUSP Film Review\nFacebook\n#ihrevents \n  \n  \n  \n\nWinter 2016 Living Writers Series: \nCreative Work & Critical Play features contemporary writers and artists who expose and explore the space between critical discourse and the creative imagination. Through the work of making art and the play in ideation\, they mine issues of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class through several genres and media\, to include poetry\, fiction\, critical prose\, performance\, sonic and visual art\, memoir\, as well as hybrid forms. \nJanuary 14: Alex Rivera\nJanuary 21: Vikram Chandra\nJanuary 28: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales\nFebruary 4: Charles Yu\nFebruary 11: Branwen Okpako\nFebruary 18: Nnedi Okorafor\nFebruary 25: Chang-rae Lee\nMarch 3: Jeremy Love\nMarch 10: Samuel Delany \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/branwen-okpako-nigerian-filmmaker-3/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T140000
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
DESCRIPTION:Andrei Tcacenco \n“Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home” \nMy talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the Soviet period. I will engage with official ideology while also showing how Soviet citizens shaped political discourse from the bottom-up by writing letters to local newspapers\,television journals and local local radio stations. \n\n  \nFriday Forum Winter 2015 Schedule \nFridays\, 12:30 – 2:00pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 202 \nA weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nJanuary 15- James Beneda\, Politics\nJanuary 22- Alex Moore\, HAVC\nJanuary 29- Whitney Devos\, Literature\nFebruary 5- Sophia Magnone\, Literature\nFebruary 12- Andrei Tcacenco\, History\nFebruary 19- Amanda Reyes\, History & Consciousness\nFebruary 26- Keith Spencer\, Literature\nMarch 4- Laura Harrison\, Sociology\nMarch 11- Bristol Cave La-Costa\, History
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-for-graduate-research-andrei-tcacenco-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T210000
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CREATED:20151209T222418Z
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SUMMARY:Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King\, Jr Memorial Convocation
DESCRIPTION:The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality\, freedom\, justice\, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. \nPlease join us\n• Speaker: Alicia Garza\nSocial Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement\, #BlackLivesMatter\n• Date: 7 p.m.\, Friday\, February 12\, 2016\n• Location: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium\n• The event is free and open to the public. \nThe 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation will feature Alicia Garza\, Social Activist and Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement\, #BlackLivesMatter. \nSocial activist Alicia Garza prompted activism nationwide when she introduced the world to the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter along with movement cofounders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. The hashtag evolved into the banner under which this generation’s civil rights movement marches. \nGarza\, special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, previously served as executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights\, where she led the charge on significant initiatives\, including organizing against the chronic police violence in black neighborhoods. \nCommitted to challenging society to recognize and celebrate the contributions of all individuals\, specifically black people and queer communities\, Garza’s activism is rooted in organizational strategies and visions to connect individuals and emerging social movements. Her work has earned her various honors\, including two Harvey Milk Democratic Club Community Activist Awards for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San Francisco’s largest remaining black community. \nDelivering powerful perspective on the adversities inflicted by social injustice and discrimination\, Garza educates and inspires audiences to organize and stand together to transform society into a world where the lives and contributions of all individuals are recognized equally. \nTony Hill Memorial Award\nMembers of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate outstanding individuals for the Tony Hill Memorial Award. The recipient will be recognized at the convocation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mlk-convocation-with-alicia-garza-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
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