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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick: "How Did the Grim Reaper's Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit's Plot?"
DESCRIPTION:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit \nThe Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel\, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. \n  \nSanta Cruz Pickwick Club meets every second Sunday of each month from January – May 2018 at 2pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. \nSchedule: \nJanuary 14th: Introduction of the Novel\nFebruary 11th: Little Dorrit in Historical Context\nMarch 11th: Victorian Colonialism\nApril 8th: “How Did the Grim Reaper’s Swift Scythe Sharpen Little Dorrit’s Plot?”\nMay 13th: The Dickens Universe \nMore information\, including schedule can be found by visiting: https://goo.gl/zFQq2M. \n  \nBook club is free and open to the public.\nRegistration requested. \nQuestions? Contact Courtney at (831)459-2103 or dpj@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-grim-reapers-swift-scythe-sharpen-little-dorrits-plot/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez Smith & giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry\, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009)\, the full-length collection Odalisque in Pieces (2009)\, and the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (2010). Her most recent book\, Milk and Filth (2013)\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets (1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). Giménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces\, New Mexico. \ngiovanni singleton is a native of Richmond\, Virginia\, a former debutant\, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Her debut poetry collection\, Ascension (Counterpath Press)\, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane\, received the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop\, Napa Valley Writers Conference\, and Cave Canem. singleton regularly consults and gives presentations on writing\, editing\, graphic design\, and publishing at high schools\, colleges\, and conferences. Her work has appeared in What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America\, Best American Experimental Writing\, Inquiring Mind\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology\, and elsewhere\, and has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum\, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival\, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has taught poetry at the de Young Museum\, CalArts\, Naropa University\, and Sonoma State University. She was the 2015-16 Visiting Assistant Professor in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and currently coordinates the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. A new book\, American Letters: works on paper\, was published by Canarium Books in 2018. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-carmen-gimenez-smith-giovanni-singleton/
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SUMMARY:Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute’s Public Fellows program on Tuesday\, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows\, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations. \nIn addition\, we are launching a new public fellows program that will allow students to work as public fellows during the school year (we will cover tuition\, fees\, and stipends for selected applicants). \nThese fellowships provide the opportunity for doctoral students in the humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \nThe 8 fellows below will share with us their summer experiences and will be able to help serve as mentors for those of you who are considering applying for the program going forward: \nDanielle Crawford\, Literature\, Project: “Planning and Conservation League”\nAndrew Hedding\, Linguistics\, Project: “Senderos”\nRyan King\, Feminist Studies\, Project: “Digital NEST”\nAmani Liggett\, Literature\, Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare\nPriscilla Martinez\, History\, Project: “Tucson Chinese Cultural Center”\nJason Ostrove\, Linguistics\, Project: “Barra Heritage Centre”\nKirstin Wagner\, Literature\, Project: “Catamaran Literary Reader” \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-institute-public-fellows-info-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities VizLab Open House
DESCRIPTION:If you’ve never tried VR before\, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. \nWe invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset\, Samsung Gear VR\, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. \nCosponsored by the IDEA Hub and the Digital Scholarship Commons.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/vizlab-open-house/
LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry  Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T120000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Smith: "Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them"
DESCRIPTION:Amanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures smoothed by homogenizing processes of spatial integration. In this talk\, she addresses the stakes of such a spatial reading by exploring the legacy of misreading in contemporary Amazonia. \nSmith is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures\, working across the fields of Indigenous studies and the spatial humanities\, with emphasis on the Andean and Amazonian regions. Her current project\, tentatively titled Novel Maps\, examines how literature and cartography have both overlapped and clashed in transforming Amazonia into a landscape of extraction. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-amanda-smith/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Hecht - "Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene"
DESCRIPTION:“Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene” \nThis talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century\, piles of mine waste have defined Johannesburg’s topography. Today\, corporations and individuals continually revisit these piles – at very different scales – in the eternal hope of extracting further value. Particles from these mine wastes seep into water supplies\, infiltrating bodies with heavy metals\, solvents\, and radioactive particles. Violence results from entanglements between human\, corporate\, geological\, (post)colonial\, and chemical time. New sacrificial topographies emerge continually\, as the “new South Africa” demands that some people give up immediate personal aspirations for the sake of the collective good\, engaging in its own forced relocations in the name of development\, moving people onto valueless land – excess earth\, contaminated by radioactive debris\, chemicals\, and heavy metals. \n  \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabrielle-hecht-residual-governance-mining-afterlives-molecular-colonialism-south-african-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T100000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex"
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”\nLecture at 10am \nAre sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of sex anymore? Is it hopelessly retrograde\, a category that has run its course and has rightly been replaced by the endlessly more flexible category of gender? “In Defense of Sex” will put forward a concept of sex as embodying a different materiality than gender\, one that can form in tension with gendered embodiments and identifications and that asserts its own forms of agency\, resistance\, and refusal. It will do so by drawing on intersex theory\, gender theory\, trans* theory\, and a range of different materialist theories. A robust and nonreductive account of gender\, sexuality\, identification\, and subjectivity needs to retheorize sex. This talk will begin the work of retheorizing sex for the present. \nChristopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University\, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory\, American literature 1900 to the present\, American popular culture\, literature and culture in a global context\, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000. \nSponsored by the Department of Literature\, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/defense-sex-post-phd-path/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Breu: "The Post-PhD Path"
DESCRIPTION:The Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career\, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing\nRSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu) \nChristopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University\, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory\, American literature 1900 to the present\, American popular culture\, literature and culture in a global context\, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000. \nSponsored by the Department of Literature\, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-breu-post-phd-path/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
DESCRIPTION:Originally from White Cone\, Arizona\, on the Navajo Reservation\, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry\, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is Diné of the Todí­ch’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan)\, born for the Tlizí­laaní­ (Many Goats Clan) and holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and a BA from University of Arizona in Tucson. His recent honors include a 2011 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a 2011 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship. He is also the recipient of 2010 PEN Open Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui has published his poems in Narrative\, Black Renaissance Noir\, American Poet\, The Iowa Review\, LIT\, and elsewhere. \nSteeped in Native American culture\, mythology\, and history\, Bitsui’s poems reveal the tensions in the intersection of Native American and contemporary urban culture. As an ecopoet\, his poems are imagistic\, surreal\, and rich with details of the landscape of the Southwest. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/41740/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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